British MPs are set to vote on Tuesday whether to support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal and set the country on its final road to leaving the EU on March 29 or vote against it, leaving the Parliament and the country in a state of limbo it has inhabited for two-and-a-half years....
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has gone to the US for what is believed to be a medical check-up relating to his kidney ailment. Jaitley, 66, who had undergone a renal transplant surgery on May 14 last year, left on Sunday. There was no word on when he is likely to return but some ...
The Thai police have arrested an Indian man and 27 Thai women in connection with a fake-marriage registration scam that enabled Indians to get residential visas in the country. The Indian man, Wikrom Layerhi, was arrested on charge of being a broker to ...
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday said that the opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar was united and strong and will soon announce its decision on seat sharing for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. "We will smoothly decide the seat sharing and will soon make it public," he ...
In a jolt to the seven-month-old Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka, two Independent legislators, R. Shankar and H. Nagesh, on Tuesday said they were withdrawing support. "I had extended support to the JD-S-Congress coalition expecting good governance, ...
More than 16 lakh devotees took a holy dip here at the Sangam, the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna rivers and the mythical Saraswati, on the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti marking the onset of the Kumbh Mela. "We were expecting about 10 lakh to come for the dip in the first half of the ...
The CPI-M on Tuesday urged the government to stop the merger of three nationalized banks, saying it will weaken all three post unification. The CPI-M said it was "deeply concerned at the un-seemly haste with which the government has been going ahead with the merger/amalgamation process of Vijaya ...
With one of the judges from the bench on medical leave, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said it may not take up hearing on January 22 petitions seeking review of the judgment permitting women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala shrine. "Justice Indu Malhotra is on leave due to medical reasons," said Chief Justice ...
India on Tuesday strongly condemned the terror attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday in which four people, including an Indian national, were killed and scores injured. "India strongly condemns the horrific terror attack in which an Indian national...
A court here on Tuesday set January 19 for considering a chargesheet filed against former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a sedition case after some students shouted "anti-national slogans" in February 2016. ...