Jaipur: Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot Tuesday exuded confidence that the party will form the government in the state and Rahul Gandhi, as well as the party’s MLAs, will decide on who will be the chief minister. He said the Congress was marching towards victory in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh a

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday has issued guidelines that the media organisations and law-enforcement agencies cannot reveal the identity of sexual assault survivors, even if the victims are dead. The apex court has laid down a number of guidelines in this regard. The Court further added

A day after a video went viral of a delivery agent from food aggregator Zomato eating food meant for delivery, the person has been removed from the company’s services. According to the company, Zomato conducted a thorough investigation as soon as they discovered the food tampering incident and fo

New Delhi: RBI Governor Urjit Patel has decided to step down with immediate effect just few days ahead of the crucial RBI board meeting on December 14 citing personal reasons. "On account of personal reasons, I have decided to step down from my current position effective immediately. It has been

A farmer from Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district has sent a money order of Rs 6 to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to mark his protest against crashing prices of onions and paltry returns. The farmer Shreyas Abhale told PTI Sunday that after selling 2,657 kg onions at the rate of Rs 1 per kg at t

Union minister and RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha has resigned from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of minister on Monday, reports ANI. The move comes a day ahead of the Winter Session, capping months of sparring between Kushwaha and the BJP over seat sharing in Bihar for the Lok Sabha polls.

Union minister Ramdas Athawale Sunday blamed police for an incident in which a man tried to slap him at a public event in Maharashtra’s Thane district claiming it had failed to provide him adequate security. The Republican Party of India (Athawale) chief was in Ambernath town to address a rally l

Kannur: Kerala has become the first state in the country to have four international airports with the inauguration of the Kannur airport on Sunday. Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan jointly flagged off the inaugural Air India Express flight, carrying 186 passe

Ahmedabad: A court in Banaskantha district of Gujarat on Friday rejected a bail application filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. Additional sessions judge of Palanpur court P S Brahmbhatt refused to grant relief to Bhatt, who is behind bars since September this year in connection with a 22-y

The BJP Friday approached the Election Commission demanding action against the Congress and its president Rahul Gandhi for his interview published in an English daily on Thursday, claiming it is a “shining example” of paid news. A delegation including Union ministers J P Nadda, Mukhtar Abbas Naqv

An army soldier who is accused of killing a police inspector in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr was handed over by his unit of the Rashtriya Rifles to the UP Police on Saturday for further investigation. Jeetendra Malik alias Jeetu Fauji was handed over by his unit based in Kashmir to the team invest

The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a PIL raising allegations against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of plundering the capital reserve of the Reserve Bank of India. The apex court also imposed a penalty of Rs 50,000 on advocate M L Sharma, who had filed the public interest litigation. The

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday finally broke his silence on the death of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh during the mob violence in Bulandshahr after four days. He described it as an accident. Singh was shot in the head on Monday. The mob, which according to

Moments after the Congress went on the offensive against the BJP, accusing it of weaving a “web of lies” in the AgustaWestland case, the party was left red-faced when a lawyer from its youth wing appeared in the CBI court for Christian Michel James, the alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600-crore choppe

NEW DELHI: The government and the Chief Vigilance Commission today confronted questions in the Supreme Court over the sudden, overnight order to send the CBI's top two Alok Verma and Rakesh Asthana on leave after "tolerating" their fight since July. Yesterday, the government's lawyer, KK Venugopa

Union Minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday said she won’t contest the next Lok Sabha election. The senior BJP leader’s announcement came days after her Cabinet colleague Sushma Swaraj said she would not contest the poll too. Ms. Bharti said she will instead concentrate on the issues of Ram temple in

Hours after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj discussed the extradition of Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland chopper deal, with her counterpart in the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Michel was extradited to India Tuesday night, th

A police inspector, who had probed the Akhlaq lynching case initially, and a youth died of gunshot injuries on Monday as a rampaging mob protesting alleged illegal cow slaughter torched a police post here and clashed with cops, officials said. Additional Director General (Meerut zone) Prashant Ku