The number of farmer suicides has declined in the last five years, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, blaming successive Congress governments for the present plight of farmers in the country. ...
A Dubai-based Indian expat's savings worth 1 million dirhams ($272,242) had been blocked following his wife death as the couple had joint accounts with various banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the media reported on Thursday. Following Narendra Gajria's wife Heena's death, Dubai Courts, as part of the ...
Networks representing over 7,000 higher education institutions from across the world on Thursday declared a climate emergency and agreed to undertake steps to address the crisis. In a joint letter, they talked about a three-point plan that includes going carbon neutral by 2030 or 2050 at the latest, mobilising more resources for...
Congress members on Thursday walked out of the Lok Sabha over the political situation in Karnataka and Goa where many of its MLAs have either quit the House or joined the BJP. The House was plunged into uproar when a Congress request to raise the issue during Zero Hour was not allowed by Speaker Om Birla....
Eight people, including two children, were crushed to death and over half a dozen persons were injured by a truck in Bihar's Lakhisarai district, police said on Thursday. This incident took place late on Wednesday night near the Halsi block when all...
Raided and ravaged thrice in two years by the ruling BJP, the Congress in Goa, now left with only five MLAs in the 40-member Assembly, has hope of revival, former Chief Minister and party MLA Digambar Kamat said on Thursday. On Wednesday, 10 of the 17 Congress MLAs, led by Leader of Opposition...
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over corruption and expressed grief over a man who killed himself after being allegedly tortured by a junior engineer of the electricity department. Neeraj Kumar ended his life at the Collectorate camp office in Bijnor on July 9....
Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Anand Sharma on Thursday staged a protest in Parliament against the government over the political crisis in Goa and Karnataka where many of its MLAs have resigned. The protest took place in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue in the Parliament ...
The CBI on Thursday searched the residence of senior Supreme Court lawyer Indira Jaising and her husband Anand Grover here and in Mumbai for alleged violation of FCRA norms, officials said. The action came almost a month after the CBI registered a case against Mumbai-...
Indrani Mukerjea, now lodged in a Mumbai jail, was on Thursday produced before a CBI Court here in the INX Media case involving former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and his son and MP Karti Chidambaram. Mukerjea, the former director of INX Media, appeared before Special CBI Judge...
