Pune,5 October 2017: Ishwari Singh Vishwakarma is on cloud nine as she has become mother of a baby boy. However, what makes the experience unique is that the baby was born in an Ola cab on the way to hospital on the morning of October 2. In addition to this, there is another reason for the 21-yea

Second day in a row, BJP chief Amit Shah will not be attending party's ambitious Janaraksha Yatra in Kerala on Thursday. The Kerala unit of the party announced that Shah won't be attending the padayatra, instead he will be in Delhi to attend important meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and F

The government has named Rajnish Kumar as the new chairman of the State Bank Of India (SBI), the country's biggest lender, for three years. Outgoing chief Arundhati Bhattacharya's term ends on Friday. Rajnish Kumar is currently a managing director at SBI. He has been with the bank for the last 37

Can India protect a large section of humanity comprising Rohingya women, children, the sick and the old who are “really suffering”? This is the question the Supreme Court wants the government to answer. The government, meanwhile, said the crisis over its move to deport 40,000 Rohingya was not

BENGALURU: In a major breakthrough, the Special Investigation Team(SIT) has managed to identify the killers of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy informed on Monday. The minister didn’t give any further details saying that it would hamper investigations.

New Delhi: Bowing to public pressure, the government today cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre to moderate the relentless rise in fuel prices witnessed for the last three months. “Govt of India has reduced Basic Excise Duty rate on petrol and diesel [both branded and unbranded]

New Delhi [India]: The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to hear the petition filed by Rohingya Muslims challenging the government’s stand to deport them back to Myanmar on October 13. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra will hear the petitions. The bench, also comprising Ju

United Nations: 'The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela is that they were exemplars of the fundamental belief that the drivers of conflict are all amenable to non-violent solutions,' India's Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin said on the International

Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world that draws millions of tourists to the country has been dropped from the list of tourist destinations published by the government of Uttar Pradesh. The new booklet issued by UP Government has removed Taj Mahal and instead carries the name of temples f

LAS VEGAS: A gunman killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 200 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down rapid fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police. The death toll, which police emphasized was prelimina

New Delhi: In the third steep increase in fuel rates since August, Jet fuel or Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) price on Sunday hiked by 6 percent on firming international rates. Whereas the cost of an LPG cylinder is raised by ₹1.5. According to a price hike notification by Indian Oil Corp, ATF will

New Delhi: Having assailed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over the “mess” in the economy, BJP veteran leader Yashwant Sinha attacked the government on the Kashmir imbroglio, insisting “India has lost people of the valley emotionally” In an interview to ‘The Wire’ recorded on Friday, the former Uni

BENGALURU: At least three lakh doctors from across the country under Indian Medical Association (IMA) will participate in a dawn-to-dusk fast, from 6am to 6pm on October 2, asking for several of their demands to be addressed.The IMA, through the peaceful protest, will call for a strong central legis

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi may take over as the Congress president shortly after Diwali, Rajasthan leader Sachin Pilot+ said on Sunday, stressing that the time had come for the party vice president to lead from the front. The Gandhi confidant also said the last names of leaders should not be treated

The Bombay High Court has said that looking at a child with sexual intent falls under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, and is punishable, Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. The court was hearing a petition filed by two men from Daman seeking to quash a First Information Repor

A retired army officer has been branded as a Bangladeshi immigrant by Assam police, asking him to prove his citizenship in a bizarre twist to the contentious issue of illegal migrants in the northeastern state. Mohd Azmal Hoque, who retired as a junior commissioned officer (JCO) last year, after

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police came across social media visuals which showed that miscreants had looted the dead victims of Mumbai stampede. When people were being crushed down to death, these robbers did not hesitate from doing the shameful act. The Mumbai Police said visuals show miscreants stealing