Arch rivals for over 25 years, the BSP and SP announced on Saturday that they will contest the coming Lok Sabha polls together in Uttar Pradesh sharing 38 seats each of the 80 in the state, while leaving Rae Bareli and Amethi for Congress, which has been kept out of the alliance. ...
BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday said although the party lost in the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh Assembly polls, it has not been defeated yet. Addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party National Council on the second day of its session, Shah said: "In 2014, people gave full majority to the BJP. And since ...
A 31-year-old Indian man was sentenced to 13 years in jail and 12 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to one charge of sexual assault of a minor and two charges of attempted statutory rape, the media reported. Udhayakumar Dhakshinamoorthy, a minimart worker courted a 12-year-old girl with...
Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling on Saturday launched the 'One Family, One Job' scheme that envisions jobs to a member of every family which does not have a government job in the state. The longest serving Chief Minister in Independent India personally handed out...
Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday called Congress President Rahul Gandhi "Gabbar Singh" and accused the party of standing with Pakistan, saying they were traitors. Speaking at the second day of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National...
Owing to a rise in humidity and light winds, the overall air quality of the national capital slipped to the 'severe' zone on Saturday, despite the authorities predicting it would remain in the 'very poor' category. "Calm winds along with a spike in humidity levels because of an induced Cyclonic ...
A low intensity earthquake measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale hit Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, with no reports of casualties or damage, an official said. The tremors were felt in several parts of Chamba district at 12.31 p.m., a meteorological department official told IANS here....
The President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Maria Fernanda Espinosa, will visit Pakistan from January 18 to 22, her spokesperson said. According to spokesperson Monica Grayley, this will be Espinosa's first official visit to the Asia Pacific since she took office in September. ...
Rallying the BJP workers ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday asked them to create awareness about the government's achievements, especially that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has provided "corruption-free" five years and that no major ...
The BJP on Saturday hit out at the opposition alliance, saying their coming together was because of the "fear" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed that the saffron party was the real "kingmaker" behind the "mahagathbandhan"....
