A day after Rahul Gandhi announced his resignation as Congress President owning responsibility for the party's Lok Sabha election rout, former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Thursday quit as General Secretary. A party source told IANS: "Rawatji has stepped down from the post of General...
US officials continue to search for a two-year-old Brazilian girl who fell into the Rio Grande as she was trying to illegally cross the river into the US with her mother. On Monday, Border Patrol officials detained a woman shortly after she crossed ...
The UN has said the airstrike on a migrant detention center near Tripoli that killed at least 44 people and injured more than 130 could constitute a war crime. The UN-recognised Government of National Accord blamed the bombing in the early hours of Wednesday morning on forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar, head of ...
On the directive of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Bihar legislature is holding a special debate on the state's water crisis on July 13....
A Mumbai Magistrate on Thursday granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on a personal bond of Rs 15,000 in connection with a defamation case filed by an RSS worker, a party leader said. The surety amount was provided by former Mumbai MP Eknath Gaikwad who ...
Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad will introduce the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday to replace an ordinance issued in March this year. The Bill seeks to impose strict penalties for violation of norms for the ...
In a set back to Tamil Nadu government's industrialisation development plans, the Madras High Court has quashed all the land acquisition by the state government since September 2013 under three laws. The three legislations are -- the Tamil Nadu Acquisiton of Land for Industrial...
First batch of 304 Hajj pilgrims left Srinagar on Thursday for Saudi Arabia to perform this year's Hajj pilgrimage. Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik came to see off the pilgrims at the Srinagar International Airport....
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) seem to be on the verge of collapse, as more than two-thirds of party MLAs have approached the state BJP leadership in Andhra Pradesh. After a major defection in the Rajya Sabha, where four out of six TDP MPs defected to the BJP, the developments in Andhra Pradesh seems set to deliver a ...
A day after Congress President Rahul Gandhi stepped down from the party post issuing his resignation on a public platform owning responsibility for the party's national election debacle, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted: "Few have the courage that you do"....
