Thirty three people were killed when a bus carrying 34 people to Mahabaleshwar on a picnic fell into a deep gorge off Ambenali Ghat in Raigad district on Saturday. Raigard collector Vijay Suryawanshi confirmed the death toll. Only one person, Prakash Sawant Desai, survived as he jumped out of

Lucknow: At least 27 people were killed as heavy rains wreaked havoc in different parts of Uttar Pradesh, a government spokesperson said on Friday in Lucknow. Thundershowers are likely to continue at many places across the state, the MET office said. Widespread rains in different parts of the state

KOLKATA: The West Bengal Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday to rename the state as 'Bangla' in three languages -- Bengali, English and Hindi. The move is aimed at climbing the alphabetical sequence of state names in which West Bengal appears last in the list now. The state will have to wai

NAVI MUMBAI: With the worst violence during the Maratha agitation on Wednesday erupting in Koparkhairane here in the evening and the area remaining tense even on Thursday, mobile internet and messaging services were cut, most likely for the first time, in the satellite city. The services, curtail

New Delhi: Eight months ago, billionaire Anil Ambani wrote to Congress President Rahul Gandhi refuting allegations of his Reliance Group lacking experience to get the Rafale fighter jet deal and said the government had no role in French Group Dassault picking up his company as a local partner. In

Irked at the Uttar Pradesh government for filing a draft report of the vision document on protection of Taj Mahal, the Supreme Court Thursday asked: “Are we supposed to vet it?” The apex court also expressed surprise why the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which is responsible for the protecti

Thiruvananthapuram: A special CBI court here on Wednesday awarded capital punishment to two constables convicted in the 2005 custodial death of Udayakumar. Constables K Jithakumar and S V Sreekumar were awarded the death sentence while the other three accused, Former fort assistant commissioner T

New Delhi: The body of a newborn baby was found on an AirAsia flight to Delhi from Imphal via Guwahati on Wednesday, the police said. The baby appeared to have been delivered on board in the toilet and had toilet paper stuffed in its mouth. The mother appears to be an underage girl coming from

ALWAR: One of the policemen accused of taking three hours to take a critically wounded mob attack victim to hospital in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday admitted today to the inexplicable delay and said, "I made a mistake". Assistant sub-inspector Mohan Singh has been suspended and two constable have

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Rwanda on the first leg of his three-nation Africa tour as part of India’s outreach to the resource-rich continent, becoming the first Indian premier to visit the East African country. The Prime Minister’s aircraft landed at the Kigali Internation

Weeks after a report unearthed the rampant sexual abuse in the shelter homes of Bihar, a court ordered excavation is being carried out in one such institution to find the remains of a woman inmate. The woman is believed to have been killed and buried in the premises. The court ordered excavation

MUMBAI: Drawing a parallel between the FIFA World Cup final and the no-confidence motion, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have emerged victorious like France, but Congress chief Rahul Gandhi won many hearts like runners-up Croatia. "In the football World Cup fina

JAIPUR: Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje will be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming assembly elections in the state, party president Amit Shah said on Saturday. "The assembly election will be contested under her leadership and she will again become the chief minister wi

NEW DELHI: Four BJP lawmakers have submitted a privilege notice against Congress President Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of "misleading" Parliament by making "false" allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman BJP Members of Parliament Nishikant Dubey, An

The body of a 1968 Indian Air Force plane crash victim was found during a cleanliness drive organised by Indian Mountaineering Foundation, 50 years after the mishap occurred in Lahaul and Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh. The corpse was spotted by a member of the mountaineering team at the Chandr

NEW DELHI: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government defeated the Opposition's No-Confidence Motion in the Lok Sabha, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said that "Bharatiya Janata Party has betrayed" the state yet again. Naidu, who will be travelling to New Delhi

A mob suspected a man to be a cow smuggler and beat him to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar district Friday midnight, days after the Supreme Court warned against “mobocracy” and “vigilantism”. Akbar Khan, who was in his thirties, belonged to Kol Gaon village in Ferozepur Jhirka tehsil of Mewat district

New Delhi: All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) on Friday launched the first of its proposed three-part agitation at Parliament Street here, with hundreds of farmers marching and raising slogans against the minimum support price (MSP) offered by the government for their crops.