Samajwadi Party candidate Nagendra Singh Patel was on Wednesday elected to the Lok Sabha from Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, defeating his nearest BJP opponent by 59,613 votes, an Election Commission official said....
The BJP's shocking performance in the three Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar prove the "electorate is very angry against the BJP and will vote for the non-BJP candidate most likely to win". "Congratulations to the winning candidates in today's by-election," Gandhi tweeted, as it became clear that the Samajwadi Party was set to defeat the BJP in the Go...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday congratulated Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati and RJD leader Lalu Prasad as the opposition took big leads over the BJP in Lok Sabha by-elections. "Great victory. Congratulations to Mayawatiji and Akhileshji... The beginning of the end has started," the Trinamool Congress leade...
A special CBI court on Wednesday discharged DMK leader and former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother and Sun TV group head Kalanithi Maran and five others in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case. The seven had filed a discharge petition which the court allowed on the grounds of lack of prima facie material aga...
London/New Delhi, March 14 Renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who shaped modern cosmology and inspired millions despite suffering from a life-threatening condition, died on Wednesday. He was 76. His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday confirming his death at his home in Cambridge. "We are deeply s...
Three unidentified charred bodies were found on board the container ship Maersk Honam which had caught fire on March 6 in the Arabian Sea near the Agatti Isles, an official said here on Wednesday. "Maersk has informed that three bodies (out of the four missing persons including an Indian), have now been found on board the ill-fated container s...
The proceedings of the Rajya Sabha were adjourned till 2 p.m. on Wednesday amid vociferous protests by the members of the TDP, AIADMK and some other opposition parties over various issues. As soon as Zero Hour began, members from the Telegu Desam Party and the AIADMK trooped near the Chairman's podium holding placards and shouting slogans. Chairma...
Hailed as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Albert Einstein, Professor Stephen Hawking never won a Nobel Prize. This is because his theories about the Black Hole and the Big Bang -- though accepted in theoretical physics -- were never verified. According to Timothy Ferris, author of 'The Science of Liberty' in National Geographic m...
President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Science Minister Harsh Vardhan have condoled the demise of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who passed away earlier on Wednesday. Known for his ground-breaking work with black holes and relativity, Professor Hawking was the author of several popular science books including "A Brief History of Time". He died...
Diagnosed with a debilitating condition when barely out of his teens, he was given just two years to live. But Stephen Hawking went to live on a further half-century....
