New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Monday after paying tributes to Hukum Singh, BJP MP from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, who died on Saturday. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan read the condolence message for Hukum Singh, after which she adjourned the House for the day as a mark of respect. Earlier, two new members who won bypolls in Rajastha...
A youth was injured on Monday in Army firing in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district after protesters pelted stones at a patrol party. Arif Ahmad Lone was injured in Hawoora village after some youth pelted stones at the army patrol party following which the soldiers opened fire, police sources said. "The injured youth has been hospitalised. The exact details ar...
A door of a religious place in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj district was set ablaze by some persons on Monday in an attempt to disrupt the communal harmony in the area singed by violence, police said. The incident occurred near Sabzi Mandi, a police officer said. Senior district and police officials lead by District Magistrate R.P. Singh and Superinten...
Senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader and former Minister Ajit Singh Kohar has passed away in Jalandhar following a heart attack, family sources said on Monday. Kohar was 78. He was the sitting legislator from Shahkot assembly seat in Jalandhar district. Family sources said that Kohar felt uneasiness after having dinner and was rushed to a private hospital ...
BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday joined disgruntled party leader Yashwant Sinha's sit-in in Narsinghpur. ...
Hundreds of thousands of people of all ages came out in protest in the Greek capital Athens on Sunday over a long-running dispute with a neighbouring country whose official name includes the word "Macedonia"....
All efforts are being made to trace the merchant ship that went missing near west Africa with 22 Indians onboard, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday. ...
Four Indian soldiers, including an officer, were killed and four other persons were injured on Sunday in Pakistani firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri and Poonch districts, defence officials said....
The Congress-led UDF is trying to get the Kerala Congress-Mani back into the opposition combine ahead of a by-election in the state....
Bringing the rift in the CPI-M into the open, some party leaders from Kerala slammed General Secretary Sitaram Yechury at a meet here on Sunday, a day after he confirmed that a complaint has been received against State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan's son for alleged fraud. ...
