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

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