It was a misty and cold Saturday morning in the national capital as the minimum ...
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in its maiden foray into the civil polls in Uttar Pradesh, made an impressive entry and won 19 Nagar Panchayat member seats, two Nagar Panchayat chairman seats and 15 Nagar Palika Parishad members. ...
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday visited senior party leader A.K. Antony, who has been hospitalised following a minor brain haemorrhage, and inquired about his health....
Pope Francis on Friday met a group of Muslim Rohingya refugees here and referred to Myanmar's persecuted minority by name for the first time on his Asia tour....
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set for a massive win in the civic polls in Uttar Pradesh, with its mayoral candidates taking an unassailable lead in 13 of the 16 municipal corporations....
As a debate rages over growing intolerance in the country, former US President Barack Obama on Friday disclosed that he had privately told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India must not split on sectarian lines and that it must cherish the fact that Muslims here identify themselves as Indians. "Particularly in a c...
President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said a solution to the decades-old Naga insurgency is near. On August 3, 2015, the Modi government and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM) signed a Framework Agreement. The separatist group has been in talks with New Delhi since 1997 after signing a ceasefire agreement. "I am confident that a fina...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday took a dig at the Congress and said the party which was daydreaming of winning the Gujarat Assembly polls has failed to even open an account in the UP municipal corporation polls. "Jo gujarat jeetne ka sapna dekh rahe hain unka yahan amethi mein bhi soopda saaf ho gaya hai," he ...
Candidates of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK and the main opposition DMK on Friday filed their nomination papers for the December 21 by-election to the R.K. Nagar Assembly constituency. The AIAMDK nominee is Presidium Chairman and former minister E. Madhusudhanan and the DMK's Marudhu Ganesh. Sidelined AIADMK leader T.T.V. Dinakaran a...
A week after the Centre entrusted the CBI with the probe into the alleged irregularites in the Rs 1,500-crore Gomti River Front project, the agency said on Friday that it had booked eight engineers in the case. Those booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday are the then Chief Engineers Gulesh Chandra, S.N. Sharma and Qazim Ali,...
