In a major blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its allies in Uttar Pradesh -- Apna Dal and the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) -- have decided to stay away from events to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. Ashish Patel, the state unit chief of Apna Dal, said his party was "immensely ...
About 70 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers were allegedly detained in Haryana late on Friday night for calling Manohar Lal Khattar "a Chief Minister of Punjabis", the party claimed on Saturday. The AAP claimed the workers were detained allegedly for their Facebook posts ...
Dense fog claimed seven lives when an unidentified heavy vehicle hit two cars on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway in Haryana early on Saturday, police said. The victims belonged to Chandigarh and included three women, two minors and their driver. Three others were injured in the accident and rushed the Civil Hospital in ...
A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Davao Oriental province in the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. No damage has been reported by the Philippine government yet. ...
Himachal Pradesh on Saturday witnessed a sunny but chilly day with temperature in many areas staying below freezing point, the Met Office said. "It was a bright, sunny day across the state with chances of rain and snow at some places in the state from January 1," an official of the meteorological ...
US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the southern border amid an ongoing partial government shutdown, resuming his push for the funding of a long-promised US-Mexico border wall....
President Donald Trump on Friday said that the US will eliminate all economic assistance to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in retaliation for the caravans of Central American migrants arriving at the southern border....
A postal stamp dedicated to Nabin Chandra Das, inventor of Rasogolla, West Bengal's spongy, syrupy round-shaped sweet, was launched on Friday on the inaugural day of the three-day festival marking the 150th year of its invention....
It was a year Congress President Rahul Gandhi came into his own as a campaigner and strategist, emerging as a powerful voice in the opposition against Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
The Syrian Army entered the key city of Manbij on Friday for the first time in six years and raised the national flag on it following the withdrawal of Kurdish militia, according to the state TV. ...
