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

New Delhi: The information technology (IT) ministry on Tuesday asked Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp to take appropriate measures to curtail the spread of fake and provocative messages through its platform while complying with Indian laws. These include setting up a corporate entity to

Thiruvananthapuram: Heartbroken on finding his class twelve certificates destroyed in the devastation caused by the deadly monsoon in Kerala, a 19-year-old boy, committed suicide, police said on Monday. With his house fully waterlogged in the downpour, the boy, Kailash, and his parents, hailing f

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to explain in four weeks why Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should not be prosecuted for an alleged hate speech he gave in Gorakhpur in 2007. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud i

Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel was on Sunday arrested by the police in Ahmedabad ahead of the hunger strike called by the Patidar leader. According to the police, Patel was organising the protest and hunger strike without prior permission from the authorities. A total

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday said it had arrested a person from Aurangabad in Maharashtra who was one of the suspected gunmen involved in the August 2013 murder of Narendra Dabholkar, who fought against superstition and espoused rationalism. Dabholkar was murdered in Pune

Thiruvananthapuram: As Kerala is struggling to cope with the flood fury, 21-year-old college student, who was viciously trolled for selling fish to meet her educational needs, has contributed Rs 1.5 lakh towards the Chief Minister's Disaster Relief Fund. Hanan, a college student from Kochi, said

New Delhi: As Kerala battles one of its worst floods, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, after a review of the situation, announced financial assistance of Rs 500 crores to the state. Modi undertook an aerial survey of flood-hit parts after holding a meeting with chief minister Pinarayi Vijay

PATNA: A professor at Motihari Central University in Bihar was allegedly beaten up by a group of people on Friday for his comments on social media that appeared to criticise former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The professor, Sanjay Kumar, said he was dragged out from his third-floor flat