Taking a cue from Uttar Pradesh, the Gujarat government has now expressed its interest in renaming Ahmedabad as Karnavati. The government Tuesday said it’s keen on rechristening Ahmedabad as Karnavati if there are no legal hurdles. The development comes after the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government r

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala BJP president PS Sreedharan Pillai has landed in a row after he reportedly said the Sabarimala issue was a “golden opportunity” for the party. In a purported audio clip, Pillai can be heard claiming that the chief priest of the Sabarimala Temple consulted him over closi

Ekana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow was Monday renamed after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, just a day before it is scheduled to hold its first international T20 match between India and West Indies. The dream project of Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former ch

New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Sunday said people who practice bachelorhood should be bestowed with a special honour and those who give birth to more than two children should be made to give up their voting rights. Addressing a gathering at Patanjali Yogpeeth, the 52-year-old said while the

India on Monday declared that its indigenous nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine INS Arihant has completed the first deterrence patrol, indicating that the nation's nuclear triad is complete. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi received today the crew of Strategic Strike Nuclear Submarine (SSBN

Ahead of chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s visit to Ayodhya on November 6, the state government has initiated steps to select the architect and the design consultant for the ‘world’s tallest statue’ of Lord Ram, which will be installed on the bank of the River Saryu in the temple town, an official sa

Mumbai Police on Friday arrested eight people allegedly involved in cheating US citizens by promising to supply banned drugs including Viagra from a call centre in suburban Kurla, police said. Police raided the call centre and arrested the manager, sales executives and tele-callers the official sai

A man-eater tigress named Avni that had allegedly killed at least 13 villagers in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal over the last one-and-a-half years, was shot dead near Borati-Warud area late on Friday night after a massive hunt that involved over 200 personnel. The six-year-old tigress and her two cubs w

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) took out a protest march in New Delhi on Saturday to seek justice for the families of those killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The march, which began from Gurudwara Pratapganj and ended outside Parliament street police station, was led by party president Sukhbir Singh Bada

Three days after a school teacher was shot dead in outer Delhi’s Bawana, police claimed to have solved the case with the arrest of the woman’s husband Manjeet, 38, and his alleged partner, Angel Gupta, a model by profession. The third person arrested in the case was Angel’s father Rajeev, the pol

Hyderabad: The Congress will contest 95 seats in the coming elections to the 119-member Telangana assembly, leaving the remaining to partners of the proposed grand alliance, AICC incharge of the state RC Khuntia said on Thursday. The list of the party candidates will be released on November 8 or

India has shot up by 23 spots to reach the 77th position among 190 nations in World Bank's Ease of Doing Business ranking. The advance - the second big jump in a row - marks a huge step forward in Narendra Modi government's efforts to ease processes, project a business-friendly environment, and draw

More than 100 passengers on a Doha-bound Qatar Airways aircraft had a narrow escape at the international airport in West Bengal’s Kolkata early on Thursday when a water tanker hit the plane minutes before take off. The accident took place at about 2:20 am when passengers were boarding the plane a

Devender Kumar, the CBI officer arrested in the corruption case against the agency’s special director Rakesh Asthana, was granted bail by a Delhi court on Wednesday. The court order came after the CBI lawyer did not oppose release on bail but only asked that “strict conditions” be imposed for his

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday morning unveiled the world’s tallest statue, the Statue of Unity, in Kevadiya in Gujarat’s Narmada district. The 182m-tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was inaugurated to coincide with the 143rd birth anniversary of Patel, India’s first home minister.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed all southern India states to burst crackers for two hours on Diwali morning. The top court added that if the states want they can scatter the timings but must not breach the 2-hour window. The order came on a petition by the Tamil Nadu government requesting

“I saw my colleague fall in front of me,” says Dheeraj Kumar, a 37-year old journalist who survived in the Maoist attack near Sameli in Dantewada on Tuesday morning. Two police personnel and a cameraman of Doordarshan were killed in the ambush. The deceased were ASI Rudra Pratap, constable Manglu

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday mocked at BJP President Amit Shah, saying his “strength” wont be enough to pull down the Kerala government led by the CPI-M. On Saturday, Shah warned Vijayan not to play with the Sabarimala issue and warned that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not