New Delhi: After tearing into the BJP-led government in his speech during the no-confidence motion on Friday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi walked across to the ruling benches and hugged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, taking everyone in the Lok Sabha by surprise. "I have not an iota of hatred or

At least 13 people were killed and sixteen injured when a bus of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation fell into a deep gorge near Suryadhar in Uttarakhand’s Tehri district on Thursday. The bus skidded off the Rishikesh-Gangotri Highway and fell into the 250-metre deep gorge. Around 30 people were tr

New Delhi: Criticising the proposed amendment to the RTI Bill that will render it "useless", Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, July 19 slammed the BJP for believing only in keeping the truth hidden. "Every Indian has the right to know the truth. The BJP believes the truth must be hidde

SHIMLA: An Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed in Patta Jattiyan in Jawali subdivision of Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Wednesday. The fighter pilot of the aircraft was killed in the crash. The aircraft had taken off from Punjab's Pathankot earlier in the day. A search

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Gujarat on July 20 had been cancelled following heavy rains in the coastal Saurashtra and southern Gujarat. The Prime Minister was scheduled to inaugurate several projects in Valsad, Junagadh and Gandhinagar but all events had been cancelled. “Pri

New Delhi: A six-year-old homeless girl was brutally raped by a 24-year-old man in central Delhi, a police official told news agency PTI today. The accused is also homeless and stayed on the same footpath as the minor girl. On July 14, the girl was allegedly kidnapped by the accused while she

New Delhi: A three-judge Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Tuesday said that "horrendous act of mobocracy can't be allowed” and asked the Centre to make ‘lynching’ a separate offence and bring in a law. This ruling from the top court comes just a day before the Monsoon sessi

New Delhi: Attempting to set the agenda for the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying Women’s Reservation Bill be taken up on a priority for passage. Extending his party’s “unconditional support” to the bill pend

New Delhi: A 39-year-old air-hostess has committed suicide by jumping off the terrace of her home in south Delhi's Hauz Khas on Friday. The family of Anissia Batra, who was working Lufthansa Airlines, said they suspect foul play. According to reports, days before, Anissia’s father, a retired Majo

Six people are still missing after a boat carrying around 30 passengers capsized in Gautami River in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district on Saturday evening. The AP State Disaster Management Authority said 26 passengers of the boat were rescued but two of them were hospitalised with injuries.

Bareilly: In a horrific incident, a 35-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by five men and later burnt alive in the yagyashala of a temple near her house in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district. According to reports, the woman had dialled the police helpline 100 before she was burnt alive. Howeve

Hyderabad: BJP President Amit Shah on Friday said that construction of a grand Ram temple at Ayodhya will begin before the 2019 elections. Mr Shah told a meeting of party leaders in Hyderabad that steps will be taken to clear the decks for launching construction of the temple before the polls.

Greater Noida, July 14: A 45-year-old woman allegedly hired three contract killers to kill her 22-year-old son, as the latter had objected to his mother’s illegitimate relationship with a self-styled godman. The woman, Suresh Devi, had hired the contract killers for a sum of Rs. 35,000 to get rid

Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam spent their first night in the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi with “B” class facilities, media reports said today, a day after their arrest. B Class prisoners in Pakistan get better facilities than regular inmate

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday took a strong note of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data, observing that it will be "like creating a surveillance state". The top court said the government wants to tap citizens' Whats

Guwahati: The Assam government on Wednesday banned import and sale of fish imported from Andhra Pradesh and other states for a period of 10 days following the presence of cancer causing chemical formalin content in the imported fish. Minister of state for health and family welfare Pijush Hazarika

All Congress leaders must choose their words carefully to reject the BJP’s hatred, the main opposition party said on Thursday following Shashi Tharoor’s comment that India will become a Hindu Pakistan if the saffron outfit regains power next year. “Modi Govt thrives upon an unprecedented atmosphe