Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Thursday rejected a petition filed by Zakia Jafri that challenged a clean chit given by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then-chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi and other top politicians and bureaucrats. Jafri, whose husband

October 3, New Delhi India’s first female combat aircraft pilots are likely to fly supersonic fighter jets after they finish the last leg of their training later this month, Indian Air Force officials told Hindustan Times on Tuesday. Three women are currently training on British Hawk advanced je

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the 2018 polls to the Legislative Assembly will be the last election he will contest in his lifetime. Mr. Siddaramaiah had declared that he would be shifting from Varuna to Chamundeshwari constituency in the next Assembly polls. Addressing a party workers’ conv

After the announcement of the inaugural T10 tournament later this year at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, organisers are planning to hold matches in countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh as well as Sri Lanka. The upcoming 10-overs-per-side cricket tournament has received support from the likes of S

An expat employee can now bring family members to Oman if he is earning OMR300 per month, thanks to a new amendment. Earlier, the minimum salary required for such a visa was OMR600, a Times of Oman report says. "The visa condition for family members joining an expatriate employee has been amen

October 2, New Delhi For seventy years, Mahatma Gandhi’s statue, which has found a home in hundreds of locations across the country and the world, wasn’t seen at one important venue: his Samadhi at Rajghat in the national capital. Here the nation’s founding father was remembered only through t

Mumbai: Opener Shikhar Dhawan and veteran pacer Ashish Nehra made a comeback to Virat Kohli-led Indian side as the selectors announced squad for the three Twenty20s against Australia. While Nehra made a comeback, Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina were not picked in the squad. Dinesh Karthik, meanwhil

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

آسٹریا : یورپی ملک آسٹریا میں مکمل چہرے کے نقاب پر پابندی کے قانون ’برقعہ بین‘ کا اطلاق آج یکم اکتوبر سے کر دیا گیا ہے۔ آسٹریا میں اس ماہ کی پندرہ تاریخ کو عام انتخابات کا انعقاد ہو رہا ہے۔ رائے عامہ کے جائزوں کے مطابق ان انتخابات میں مہاجرین مخالف جماعتوں کی جیت کا امکان ہے اور یہ جماعتیں مخلوط

Lahore: Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has slapped a Rs 100-million defamation notice on Pakistan foreign minister Khawaja Asif for calling him the “darling of the United States”. Asif, while speaking at the Asia Society forum in New York on Tuesday, acknowledged that Saeed, the Haqq

Syria’s war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said today, in the deadliest month of the conflict this year. “More than 70 per cent of the civilians were killed in the regime and Russian air strikes, or in air raids of t

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

Bengaluru: The Income Tax Department raids on Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) retail chain since Thursday found Rs 650 crore concealed income from the documents seized, said an official on Sunday. “Documents seized from the search operations at 25 places of Cafe Coffee Day and its group companies in Karnat

September 29, New Delhi Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday asked why there is an outcry over deaths due to encephalitis only now when it’s been occurring for the past 40 years. The chief minister’s remarks come nearly a month after over 60 children lost their lives in state-ru

28 September Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s mother, Mehroonisa Siddiqui, has featured in top 100 inspirational and innovative women list of 2017 prepared by the BBC. The annual list is a step to support women throughout the world who speak for the welfare of other women. This year’s lis

ماسکو: روس نے سماجی رابطے کی ویب سائٹ فیس بک کو خبردار کیا ہے کہ اگر مقامی صارفین کے ڈیٹا کو محفوظ کرنے کے حوالے سے قانون پر عملد درآمد نہیں کرایا گیا تو فیس بک کو 2018 تک بند کردیا جائے گا۔ روس میں انٹرنیٹ کی نگرانی کرنے والی ٹیلی کام کمپنی کے سربراہ الیکزینڈر نے فیس بک انتظامیہ کو خبردار کرتے ہوئ

Mumbai, September 29 At least 22 people were killed in a stampede on Friday as commuters pushed and jostled on a Mumbai railway bridge during the morning rush hour. The cause of the stampede was not immediately known. Deadly stampedes are common at the country’s pilgrimages and religious festival

26 September,  Mumbai The Bombay High Court today granted bail to retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Accepting Upadhyay’s plea on the ground of parity – since the other prime accused in the case have been granted bail by the high court and the ape