A body was extracted on Thursday from the flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where 15 miners were trapped inside since December 13. The recovery, made 43 days after the accident, has raised hopes of locating the other miners, dead or alive. District officials said an und

New Delhi: Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, a former militant-turned-soldier who laid down his life during an anti-terror operation at Batagund village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian in November, will be awarded India’s highest peacetime gallantry medal, the Ashoka Chakra. “Lance Naik Wani epitomised

Signalling that Arun Jaitley’s return from the US, where he is undergoing treatment, could be delayed, President Ram Nath Kovind has temporarily allocated the Finance Ministry to Piyush Goyal, who is currently Minister of Railways and Coal. In a communique issued on Wednesday, Rashtrapati Bhavan

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Subhash Chandra Bose museum at Red Fort on Wednesday to mark the leader's 122nd birth anniversary. Modi will also visit the Yaad-e-Jallian Museum, (museum on the Jallianwala Bagh and World War I) and the Museum on 1857- India's first war

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the sister of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, has finally taken the plunge into politics, just months ahead of the national election due by May. Often dubbed the "Brahmastra" or the mythical ultimate weapon of the Congress, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will debut as the party's gene

The Border Security Force on Tuesday handed over the 31 Rohingya Muslims, who were stranded on the India-Bangladesh border for three days, to the Tripura police, ending a standoff with its counterpart, the BGB, on the issue, officials said. They said the border guarding force signed papers and ha

The brother of an Indian Police Service officer was among three terrorists killed on Monday in an encounter in South Kashmir's Shopian district. The security forces stormed their hide-out during a pre-dawn raid, officials said. The forces also destroyed an underground bunker, which was found near an

In a country where corruption is a harsh and running reality, the least we can expect is for the authorities responsible for eradicating such problems, to be cooperative and helpful. Or wait. Do we really can? A video of a police officer from Lucknow, which is going viral, says otherwise. In t

Kolkata: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has said that people of the country were totally "disappointed" with the administration of Narendra Modi and heaped praise on his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, saying she is a "good administrator" and has all capabilities of leading the cou

A record-breaking jallikattu event held at Viralimalai near Pudukkottai on Sunday saw the participation of 1,353 bulls and 700 tamers. During the event, two spectators were also gored to death and nearly 40 bull-tamers were injured. The victims were identified as Ramu, 32, of Illupur in Pudukotta

New Delhi, Jan 20: Railways is working towards railway station upgrade. There are reports that around eleven railway stations under the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) will be upgraded to airport-like standard soon. The 11 stations include five in Assam. The upgradation is part of the Indian Railwa

BJP president Amit Shah, who was undergoing treatment for swine flu at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, was discharged Sunday. Shah tweeted later saying he was completely healthy and thanked people for their good wishes. “By the grace of god, I am completely healthy now and today

BARWANI, MADHYA PRADESH: Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Manoj Thackeray was found dead in an open field in Barwani today. He is the second BJP leader, who was murdered in less than a week in the state. Former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accused the Congress government of making the "death of BJP

Taking potshots at the Opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) has been formed by people who got infuriated by his actions against corruption. “My stand on corruption has made some people angry as I prevented them from looting public m

Panna (Madhya Pradesh): The head of a 56-year-old woman was smashed and severed after hitting an electric pole when she leaned out of the window of a rashly-driven bus to vomit here in Madhya Pradesh on Friday, police said. The incident took place near Diamond crossing and the victim was identifi

SHILLONG: Thirty-six days after 15 miners got trapped inside an illegal rat-hole mine in Meghalaya, Navy personnel on Thursday morning were able to spot the floating body of one of them with the help of a remotely operated vehicle. “The body has signs of decomposition and efforts are on to retrie

New Delhi: Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna were sworn in on Friday as judges of the Supreme Court. They were administered oath by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi. This takes the number of sitting judges of the Supreme Court to 28, falling 3 short of the sanctioned strength

Four people died and six were trapped under snow after an avalanche in Ladakh’s Khardung La pass on Friday morning. Rescue operations are underway and sources say some vehicles are also trapped. Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing heavy snowfall in the past few days. The Met department on Thurs