MUMBAI: Exactly a week after the controversial shooting of an alleged man-eater tigress Avni (T1), the centre and state announced two separate expert committees to probe the incident, officials said on Friday. While the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) set up its own committee, Mahara

BJP MLA Raja Singh on Thursday triggered a fresh row after he said that he would work towards renaming the city of Hyderabad as ‘Bhagyanagar’ if the BJP was voted to power in the state in the upcoming Telangana elections. Speaking to ANI, Raja Singh said, "Earlier, Hyderabad was Bhagyanagar and i

The Delhi Police rescued two businessmen who were kidnapped on Sunday and also recovered a ransom amount of Rs. 25.50 lakh from the accused. The accused, identified as Azim Khan, 31, and Kamran Khan, were arrested. On November 6, the police received a call regarding the kidnapping of the busin

The Maoists carried out a blast on a bus in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, killing at least four people. According to news agency PTI, a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, the bus driver, conductor and cleaner were those killed in the explosion. At least two CISF

Close on the heels of the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to rename Allahabad and Faizabad as Prayagaraj and Ayodhya, the Shiv Sena on Thursday mounted pressure on Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and asked when will the state government rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad. Taking a j

Lucknow: Ayodhya Deepostav 2018, an event organised to mark Diwali celebrations in Ayodhya town - has entered Guinness Book of World Records on Tuesday. The record is for lighting 3,01,152 earthen lamps on the bank of River Sarayu. The event also witnessed some important announcements. Uttar Prad

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