A day ahead of a critical by-election here, sidelined AIADMK leader T.T.V. Dinakaran's faction on Wednesday triggered a major row by releasing a video clip of the late J. Jayalalithaa purportedly on her hospital bed, forcing the Election Commission to tell TV channels not to telecast it. The ruling AIADMK cried foul and asked the poll pan...
India and China will hold the annual meeting of their Special Representatives on their border row here on Friday, it was announced on Wednesday. The External Affairs Ministry said that while National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will be India's Special Representative at the 20th Meeting of the Special Representatives, China will be represented...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked BJP leaders not to get distracted by the Congress questioning his credibility and told them to start preparing for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Modi addressed the BJP Parliamentary group here in which he dedicated the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly election victories to the p...
The Apollo Hospital should confirm whether the room in which late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was seen getting admitted in a video actually exists or not, a former AIADMK MP said on Wednesday. Reacting to the video clip showing Jayalalithaa in the hospital room after she was shifted from the intensive care unit (ICU), K...
The Rajya Sabha saw repeated disruptions on Wednesday and was adjourned till 2 p.m. amid sloganeering by Congress members demanding an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks against his predecessor Manmohan Singh. The Congress members want Modi to apologize for alleging at an election rally in Gujarat that Manmohan Singh and others...
Former Calcutta High Court judge C.S. Karnan was released from prison on Wednesday after serving six months of imprisonment for contempt of Supreme Court, his counsel Mathew J. Nedumpara said. "Justice Karnan has been released from Presidency Jail," Nedumpara said. The 62-year-old judge was on May 9 handed out the prison term by the apex court. After remain...
Former Indian Air Force chief S.P. Tyagi on Wednesday appeared before a court here in the multi-million dollar AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal case. Apart from Tyagi, the former chief's cousin Sanjeev alias Julie, former Air Marshal J.S. Gujral and advocate Gautam Khaitan also appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Spe...
Maoists attacked a railway station in Bihar, killing one person and abducting two officials to enforce a shutdown they have called, police said on Wednesday. Armed Maoists attacked the Masudan railway station on Jamalpur-Kieul rail section late Tuesday night. According to an Eastern Railway official, the attack took place at about 11.25 p.m. T...
The Lok Sabha was again disrupted on Wednesday over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Pakistan jibe at his predecessor Manmohan Singh during the just concluded Gujarat election campaign. The House was adjourned within minutes after it met. Congress members trooped near the Speaker's podium raising slogans asking the Prime Minister demanding an apology from Modi. Spe...
Disgruntled Janata Dal-United leader M.P. Veerendra Kumar on Wednesday resigned from the Rajya Sabha, days after rebel JD-U leaders Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar were disqualified from the Upper House. The 80-year-old, also a Kerala media baron, submitted his resignation to Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday morning, Arun Kumar Shrivastava, also...
