Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s nephew was arrested by the Delhi's Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) in in north-west Delhi on Thursday. According to sources in the anti-graft body, the accused, identified as Vinay Bansal, was placed under arrest for his involvement in the scam relating to the constr

Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has said the youth in Kashmir must not get “carried away unnecessarily” and understand “azadi” is not possible as the security forces will always fight those who want to secede, the Indian Express said on Thursday. Gen Rawat told the Indian Express in an inte

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi "not to ridicule" Congress President Rahul Gandhi who announced his name for the country's top post if his party is voted to power in 2019. In a sharp reaction to PM Modi's criticism of Mr Gandhi and terming his statement "sheer

A poster with ‘Maharana Pratap Marg’ written on it was on Wednesday found pasted on an Akbar Road signboard in Lutyens’ Delhi, with the police later removing it. The road on which residences of several Union ministers, BJP chief Amit Shah as well and the Congress office are situated, falls under

NEW DELHI:  Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the second most senior judge in the Supreme Court, has refused an invite to his farewell by the top court's bar association. The 65-year-old retires on June 22. Office bearers of the Supreme Court Bar Association met the judge at his home today for an hour b

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday said that some people in the central government have the same arrogance as the Mughals had and are not allowing the AAP dispensation to work. Invoking Maharana Pratap on his birth anniversary, Sisodia said the Delhi government was working to

A 28-year-old woman from Shahjahanpur has accused a BJP legislator and his son of raping her in 2011, drawing parallels with the Unnao case and putting the ruling party on the defensive yet again. The woman staged a protest in front of the Shahjahanpur collectorate on Monday to demand the immedia

A 30-year-old gym owner was stabbed to death by a DJ — after his friend had a scuffle with the accused over playing a Punjabi song at a bar in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh on Sunday night. A 23-year-old woman was injured as a piece of a broken glass hit her during the scuffle. The incident, recorded on

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government for its “disastrous policies” and “economic mismanagement”, and also accused his successor of trying to “polarise” society in the Karnataka assembly elections. Singh attacked the government o

Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami and deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam on Monday laid the foundation stone for a memorial of late J Jayalalithaa in Chennai, abutting her burial site on the Marina beachfront. The memorial, modelled on a phoenix, with two lion statues at the entrance and

KATHUA, JAMMU:  Hang the accused or shoot us, the mother of the Kathua eight-year-old, whose rape and murder outraged the country and sparked global condemnation, told NDTV.  "If there is no justice, shoot all four of us," she said, two days ahead of the Supreme Court's decision on whether the trial

Lucknow: Days ahead of the Congress-BJP slugfest in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, rumours of Congress President Rahul Gandhi's marriage with Raebareli MLA Aditi Singh began doing the rounds. Soon after the speculations, pictures of MLA Aditi Singh and Rahul Gandhi went viral on socia

The standoff between the government and the Supreme Court over the appointment of judges saw a two-judge bench question the Attorney General Friday about the status of Collegium recommendations for High Courts. The Attorney General, in turn, said the number of recommendations being made by the Colle

Police on Saturday arrested 14 of the 18 people charged in connection with the alleged gang-rape and burning alive of a 16-year-old girl at Raja Kendua village in Chatra district of Jharkhand the previous day. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act has been invoked agains

The buckle on a belt, which bore the name of the school an eight-year-old boy attended, helped police catch a man who allegedly killed him and his mother at their home in south Delhi’s Okhla last week. Babloo Kumar Mondal, 29, had allegedly planned the murder days before he slit the throats of th

In the wake of the Jinnah portrait controversy, Internet services have been suspended in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). This decision by the district magistrate was taken as students decided to go on a protest for five days against the police inaction. As mentioned in ANI, at least 40 people, incl

Patna: A 14-year-old girl in Jharkhand was burnt alive inside her home in Jharkhand today, allegedly by men who had gang-raped her last night. The incident took place in the Naxal-affected Chatra district of the state. The girl's family says the four men, allegedly drunk, kidnapped her last nigh

The Railways slapped a vending contractor with a fine of Rs 1 lakh after a video, which went viral, suggested that water from a train toilet was mixed to prepare tea and coffee, the South Central Railway (SCR) told PTI. In the video, which has been widely circulated on social media, a vendor is s