Rishi Kumar Shukla, 1983 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, was on Saturday appointed as the new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The appointment came almost a day after the second meeting of the PM Narendra Modi-led selection committee was inconclusive. “The Appointmen

Two weeks after deposed CBI Director Alok Verma told the Department of Personnel and Training to consider him retired, the Ministry of Home Affairs replied to him a day before his superannuation as Director, asking him to join office as DG, Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guards immediately.

New Delhi: In a major operation carried out on Tuesday, a police inspector and three journalists were arrested from Noida for taking bribe worth Rs 8 lakh. The arrested policeman, identified as Manoj Pant, was the station house office (SHO) of Sector 20 police station in Noida. The three journali

Chennai: In an appalling case reported from Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, 15 minor girls were rescued from a shelter home following complaints of sexual abuse against their in-charge. The owner of the shelter home has been arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Ralegan Siddhi (Maharashtra):Social activist Anna Hazare began a hunger strike on Wednesday over "non-fulfilment" of assurances by the Centre and the Maharashtra government on the appointment of Lokpal and passage of the Lokayukta Act in the state. Hazare offered prayers at the Padmavati Temple i

BENGALURU: A day after Union minister Anantkumar Hegde sparked an uproar by urging fellow Hindus to “chop off” the hands of those who touch a Hindu girl, he courted further controversy on Monday by launching a personal attack on Karnataka PCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, berating him for marrying a M

CHANDIGARH/JIND: Officials of State Bank of India (SBI) have alleged that data of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been misused. Logins and bio-metrics of their Aadhaar operators have been misused to generate unauthorized Aadhaar cards, bank officials informed UIDAI. Counteri

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Jaguar fighter plane crashed in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar on Monday. The fighter plane crashed in a non residential area of Kushinagar. No causality has been reported. Both the pilots were able to eject safely. IAF’s Jaguar fighter plane had taken off from the Gorakh

Meerut: In an encounter in Amroha, a district in Uttar Pradesh, a police constable and a history-sheeter lost their lives. The constable and the alleged history-sheeter lost their lives on Sunday evening in an encounter that saw rounds being fired from both sides. The alleged history-sheeter had ove

NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev has lamented that no one from the saint community has been chosen for the country's highest civilian award - 'Bharat Ratna' - in the past 70 years. Demanding 'Bharat Ratna' for the 'sanyasis' (seers), the renowned yoga guru said that ''it is unfortunate that no one fro

New Delhi: Two days before the Supreme Court is set to commence the hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath threw a challenge to the apex court, saying that it if the top court cannot resolve the matter, it should “hand it over to

Following the attack on director Priyanandan over a controversial Facebook post on Sabarimala, Kerala cops arrested a 25-year old RSS worker on Friday. The accused has been identified as Sarovar, a native of Vallachira in Thrissur. He was nabbed by the Cherpu police in Kodungallur town on Friday eve

Late actor Kader Khan, cricketer Gautam Gambhir, senior advocate HS Phoolka, scientist Nambi Narayanan, late journalist Kuldip Nayar, mountaineer Bachendri Pal and southern actor Mohanlal are among the 112 personalities selected for the Padma awards announced this evening ahead of India's 70th Repub

Following intense pressure from civil society and tourism industry stakeholders, the Goa cabinet, which met on Thursday evening, approved amendments to the Tourist Trade Act, imposing a fine of Rs 2,000 on errant tourists who cause ‘public nuisance’. Announcing this, minister for tourism Manohar

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