Veteran activist Kisan Baburao Hazare alias Anna Hazare on Wednesday launched a fresh hunger strike at his Ralegan-Siddhi village seeking Lokpal and Lokayuktas as promised by the government. An aide said that carrying the tricolour, Hazare, 81, went around in a ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Karti Chidambaram to travel to the UK and Spain in February and March adding a stern rider directing him to co-operate with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its probe into his alleged role in the INX Media and Aircel Maxis case....
President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday paid their tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary. "On Martyrs' Day, we gratefully remember Mahatma Gandhi and the countless ...
The Enforcement Directorate has issued a show-cause notice to Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for alleged violation of foreign exchange rules involving Rs two crore, officials said on Wednesday. The notice, issued on Monday, has been served in a case that pertains to the...
The hills of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday saw a marginal rise in temperatures due to a dry spell, but the Met has forecast rain and snowfall over the next two days till Friday. "There are chances of rainfall and snow till February 1," Meteorological Office...
Minimum temperatures improved throughout Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday due to a nightlong cloud cover as the 40-day long period of harsh winter cold 'Chillai Kalan' ended. The Met forecasts moderate snowfall in the valley beginning later in the day....
As reported earlier by IANS, Dubai billionaire Rashid Al Habtoor had made a bid of Rs 4,200 crore for the stressed asset. With four top-of-the-line properties -- Delhi's Chanakyapuri, Bangalore, Chennai and Udaipur nestled along Lak Pichola's banks -- up for grabs, the race is getting murky. ...
A number of websites are under the scanner of security agencies for propagating Salafism and the ultra-conservative practice of Islam known as Wahhabism as part of what is being seen as a carefully-crafted strategy to spread radical Islam in India. ...
The Sahitya Akademi on Tuesday recommended four distinguished Indian writers as its fellows: Jayant Mahapatra, Padma Sachdev, Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari and Nagen Saikia. ...
CBI Superintendent of Police T. Rajah Balaji, who filed a plea in the Supreme Court on Monday against his transfer order, called the agency's interim Director M. Nageswara "not a man of honour" in a strongly worded letter to him and expressed hope that he would "redeem humanity"....
