Actor Prakash Raj will be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as an independent, the actor made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday night. However, he is yet to decide on a constituency from where he would fight. The actor signed off saying “Ab ki baar Janatha ki SARKAR in Parliament t

Ahmedabad: Students of Gujarat schools will answer roll calls with 'Jai Hind' or 'Jai Bharat' instead of the current 'yes sir' and 'present sir' from January 1 in order to foster patriotism, a notification issued on Monday stated. The notification, issued by the Directorate of Primary Education a

The government has appointed Sudhir Bhargava as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), along with four information commissioners, all of whom were bureaucrats, in the Central Information Commission. Mr. Bhargava was Information Commissioner in the CIC. The panel was functioning with three members

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday announced renaming of three islands of Andaman and Nicobar archipelago as a tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The Ross Island was renamed as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep, the Neil Island as Shaheed Dweep and the Havelock Island as Swaraj Dweep, Modi sa

Noida (UP): A man was arrested for allegedly impersonating an IAS officer to get work of his relatives and friends done, police said Saturday. Mani Tyagi, in his late 20s, had recently called up the Gautam Buddh Nagar (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal and said that he is an IAS offi

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a comprehensive pension management software SAMPANN to facilitate pensioners of the telecom department. SAMPANN, an acronym for System for Accounting and Management of Pension, will help in timely disbursement of pensions, he said at a p

New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Friday approved amendments to strengthen the Pocso Act and included the death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children, besides providing stringent punishments for other crimes against those below 18 years of age. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said ch

India will send a three-member team into space for up to a week when it launches its first manned mission expected in 2022, the government announced Friday. Indian ministers approved a budget of $1.4 billion (roughly Rs. 9,700 crores) to provide technology and infrastructure for the programme, ac

A taxi driver was on Thursday arrested for allegedly killing a police inspector while he was trying to disperse a mob protesting against alleged cow slaughter in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district on December 3. The mob had attacked the police and set their vehicles and a post afire in a three-hou

The Goods and Services Tax department Thursday said it has attached the bank accounts of Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu to recover service tax dues from him. According to a press release issued by the Hyderabad GST Commissionarate, Mahesh Babu has not paid the Service Tax during 2007-08 for the tax

Two Navy sailors were killed on Thursday after one of the hangar doors of the Indian Naval Air Squadron 322 collapsed at INS Garuda in Kochi. A Board of Inquiry has been ordered into the cause of the accident. Naveen, EAA3 and Ajeet Singh, EAAR3 — both from the Aviation electrical branch — were p

The services of three employees of the government hospital in Sivakasi have been terminated for the transfusion of HIV-infected blood to a pregnant woman in Sattur town government hospital. Criminal charges will be pressed against them for negligence of duty. After meeting the 23-year-old woman,

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday arrested 10 people after they conducted searches at 17 locations across Meerut, Lucknow, Hapur, Amroha and Seelampur in connection with its probe into a new Islamic State-inspired module, ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’. The group was under NIA surveillance

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday said the country needs a law to control the growing population, which is impeding progress and harmony in society, PTI reported. “For development and social harmony in the country, controlling the population is important,” he said. The minister of state for

New Delhi: The three popular islands of Andaman and Nicobar — Ross Island, Neil Island and Havelock Island — are likely to get new names before the New Year. PM Modi is expected to announce the decision on the 75th anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's visit to Port Blair, where the latter ho

New Delhi: Delhi pollution levels have hit their worst this year in the past two days—earning a “severe” to “emergency” rating for the city’s air quality and indicating conditions that can spark a public health crisis. Christmas Day in the Indian capital is also forecast to be bleak. Senior gover

The Supreme Court Registrar on Monday denied early hearing in the PIL against the government notification allowing 10 agencies to conduct surveillance, saying “there is no urgency in the case”, ANI reported. The PIL was filed in the apex court challenging the government’s notification authorising 10

Eight people were killed after their car collided with a truck on the Rohtak-Rewari highway in Haryana’s Jhajjar district, leading to a massive pileup involving 50 vehicles on Monday. Confirming the deaths, Jhajjar SP Pankaj Nain told The Indian Express that eight others were also injured in the inc