In a series of crucial appointments ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP on Wednesday appointed election incharges for 17 states and notably assigned Gordhan Zadafia -- who was the Gujarat Home Minister during the 2002 riots -- the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 MPs to the lower House of Parliament....
Banking services at branches of state-run banks across the country were hit on Wednesday following the strike by unions against the proposed merger of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda, even as they promised to step up pressure on the government if the decision is not withdrawn....
The NIA on Wednesday nabbed 16 persons, including a group leader of a newly-traced Islamic State module "Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam" that was allegedly planning attacks in north India, especially Delhi, following raids conducted at 17 places here and in Uttar Pradesh, officials said. ...
An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy has died in the US government's custody in New Mexico state, immigration authorities said, in a second case this month of an immigrant child dying while being detained after crossing the US-Mexico border. Representative Joaquin Castro, chairman-elect of the Congressional Hispanic ...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not offering the necessary help to rescue a group of miners trapped in a Meghalaya coal mine for the past two weeks. "15 miners have been struggling for air in a flooded coal mine for two weeks...
The Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) has decided to file a petition in the Supreme Court in case the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre brings in an ordinance paving way for the construction of a grand Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, an office-bearer said on Wednesday. He said the BMAC took th...
Security forces on Wednesday busted a militant hideout in a forest area close to Hizbul commander Riyaz Naikoo's village, during a cordon and search operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said. The search operation was launched earlier in the day in the Badriwan forests of ...
The NIA on Wednesday carried out searches at 16 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in connection with a new Islamic State module 'Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam' and detained five persons, including one said to be the leader of the group, officials said. The searches started at different location earlier and were still under...
Enormous icicles surfaced in large parts of the Himachal Pradesh capital with the minimum temperature remaining close to sub-zero on Wednesday, the Met said indicating the onsst of a harsh winter ahead. The weathermen also forecast crystal clear skies with chilly nights till the ...
South and North Korea on Wednesday held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for an inter-Korean project to modernise and reconnect roads and railways across their heavily armed border. Officials from the UN and neighboring countries, including Russia, China and...
