As cliched as it may sound, but there are no shortcuts to success. And that saying is grounded in reality because people have shown time and again that through perseverance and determination we can achieve anything. A few months ago, a ragpicker’s son cleared the AIIMS entrance exam because he wante

Dehradun: In a tragic incident, at least three people have died and eight others are feared trapped under the debris after their houses collapsed due to landslides in Uttarakhand on Wednesday. According to initial reports, the incident took place in the Kot village near Buda Kedar this morning.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Tuesday claimed in a special court that five recently arrested sympathisers of the Hindu right-wing group Sanatan Sanstha (it has distanced itself from them and said they are not its members) planned to plant explosives at last year’s edition of Sunburn,

The Congress said on Monday it has not received any invite for its president Rahul Gandhi to attend an RSS event in Delhi next month and would respond to questions on the matter only after an invitation is received. “I do not answer hypothetical, speculative questions... This is purely imaginary

PATNA: In yet another shocking incident from Bihar, a video of a schoolgirl being stripped and groped by a group of men on the road has come to fore. According to reports, the horrifying incident took place in Bihar's Saharsa in which some unidentified men were caught on camera molesting a school

DMK Working President M.K. Stalin is set to become the party President unopposed as he is the only person who has filed the nomination for that post on Sunday, the last day for filing of nominations, said a party official. Similarly senior leader and the Principle Secretary of the DMK Dur

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala is looking to raise a World Bank loan to rebuild public infrastructure that has been ravaged by the worst floods in over a century, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said in an interview. Vijayan did not disclose the amount of money the state plans to raise from the multilat

The Unnao police on Saturday exhumed the body of Yunus Khan, a key witness in the alleged murder of Unnao rape victim’s father in April this year, amid strong opposition from the family. Superintendent of police, Unnao, Harish Kumar said the entire process was carried out in his presence and reco

New Delhi: The Consortium of Indian Petroleum Dealers (CIPD) has alleged that they are being coerced by state-owned oil marketing companies to display banners, bearing the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in their outlets. It was reported that the petrol pump owners were given a verbal advisor

New Delhi: Protest over the alleged rape of a girl in Delhi's Vasant Kunj area had turned violent with demonstrators damaging cars and pelting stones at police personnel, forcing them to use "mild force" to disperse the crowd, during which 10 policemen were injured. Police said they have detained

Vijaywada: A woman was killed and another seriously injured when a car belonging to Andhra Pradesh BJP MP ran them over at Kolanukonda of Tadepalli Mandal in Guntur district on Friday. BJP Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) G.V.L. Narasimha Rao was travelling in the car at the time of the acciden

There will be no re-election for over 20,000 rural seats in Bengal that were won uncontested by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in May, the Supreme Court said today, in a huge reprieve for the state's ruling party. The court, however, left room for petitions from candidates wh

New Delhi: In the wake of Kerala floods, a disaster management sub-committee to monitor the water level of Mullaperiyar Dam on Thursday asked Tamil Nadu to keep water limit of the reservoir 2-3 feet below the 142-feet FRL mark till August 31, a senior official in the Water Resources Ministry said.

After a gap of over three months since his kidney transplant surgery, Arun Jaitley resumed charge as the Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs on Thursday. All finance ministry secretaries, except Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg and DIPAM Secretary Atanu Chakraborty who are

A man was killed in an explosion at an office of the Trinamool Congress in West Midnapore district today, the police said. Five others were injured in the blast at the office of Mamata Banerjee's party at the West Bengal district, 130 km from Kolkata. Photos of the explosion site show twisted met

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) constituency president Shabir Ahmad Bhat’s body was recovered from Pulwama on Wednesday morning. Bhat,26,was abducted by unidentified gunmen while he was on way to his home in Pulwama from Srinagar on Tuesday evening. Bhat, who lived in a rented accommodation in Srina

Thiruvananthapuram: Soon after flood-hit Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday announced that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has promised an assistance of USD 100 million (about Rs 700 crore) for the state’s reconstruction, sources said the Central government has decided to decline all

Less than two months after Mandsaur town and many other cities in Madhya Pradesh erupted in anger over the gangrape of a seven-year-old girl, second Additional District and Sessions judge Nisha Gupta Tuesday sentenced the two accused to death. Irfan, 20, and Asif, 24, had abducted the victim from