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

MUMBAI: An onion-grower from Maharashtra who had to sell his produce for little over Rs. 1 per kg has sent his earnings to the Prime Minister to mark his protest. Sanjay Sathe, resident of Niphad tehsil in Nashik district, was among the handful of 'progressive farmers' selected by the Union agric

Hyderabad: "India is my father's country. Nobody can force me flee." This was AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi’s response to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's comment that if BJP comes to power in the Telangana, Owaisi will have to flee. "It is my religious belief that Prophet Adam w

After demitting office as Supreme Court judge, Justice Kurian Joseph, who was one of the four judges to go public against the functioning of then Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, said that the top court was not going in the right direction under Misra, reports ANI. On January 12, Justices J Ch

New Delhi: India will buy locally-manufactured BrahMos supersonic missiles as a part of its Rs 3,000 crore ($431 million) defence-spending plan. A panel chaired by defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman also approved buying armoured recovery vehicles, or ARVs, for its battle tanks, according to a st

New Delhi: As the 2019 Lok Sabha elections approach, opposition leaders on Friday united to lend their support to the farmer agitation in Delhi. Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Nationalist Congress party chief Sharad Pawar, Loktantrik Janata Dal’s Sharad Yadav,

PUNE: A 27-year-old woman has lodged a police complaint alleging that her doctor husband administered her an HIV-infected saline a year ago. According to the police, the woman claimed that her husband, a homoeopathic doctor, and his parents were harassing her for dowry since the couple got marrie

RAJASTHAN: As Rajasthan is just a week from voting for a new government, BJP's national president Amit Shah went all out in his attack on the Congress, which is hoping to snatch the state from the BJP on the back of anti-incumbency sentiment, during a rally in Rajasthan today. Mr Shah targeted Ra

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government’s decision to award 16 per cent reservation to Marathas has led to demands of quota from other communities. On Friday, Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) said it would move court demanding quota for Muslims in education and governm

A senior Delhi police officer died on Thursday after allegedly jumping from the police headquarters building at Central Delhi’s ITO area. Prem Ballabh Kumar, a 55-year-old ACP rank official, jumped to his death on Thursday morning at around 10am. “Preliminary enquiry has revealed that the ACP

The Maharashtra Assembly Thursday unanimously passed a legislation granting 16 per cent reservation to the Maratha community under the socially and educationally backward category. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had tabled the Bill along with an Action Taken Report (ATR) on Maharashtra State Backw

Patna: In a shocking case reported from Bihar's Saran district, the Government Railway Police (GRP) men arrested a suspected corpse smuggler and recovered 50 human skeletons at Chapara railway station on Tuesday. The accused was identified as Sanjay Prasad and he was travelling via Baliah-Sealdah

NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha apologised to a specially-abled woman who alleged that she was forcefully lifted from her wheelchair by CISF personnel for security checks. Asking for an inquiry to be initiated in the case, he tweeted: "Really sorry for the suffering that