The BJP on Monday announced its sixth list for the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, declaring 34 candidates. The party has repeated most of the sitting MLAs and also given tickets to some senior members. The most noteworthy is the ticket given to Congress rebel MLA Tejashreeben Patel to contest from Viramgam, the constituenc...
A CRPF constable was killed and two of his colleagues injured when Maoists opened fire on a joint team of the paramilitary forces and Maharashtra Police in Gadchiroli district, an official said on Monday. The attack took place on Sunday around 7.50 p.m. in the Talwargarh area. Constable Manjunath Jakkanavar, 31, a resident of Dharwad in ...
North Korea has fortified a part of its border with South Korea from where one of its soldiers defected to Seoul earlier this month, a media report said on Monday. A photograph posted on Twitter by Acting US Ambassador to South Korea Marc Knapper showed a small group of civilian workers, monitored by North Korean soldiers, digging a deep trench at th...
The Supreme Court on Monday asked a batch of petitioners to mention next week their plea for extension of interim relief on linking bank accounts and mobile numbers with the Aadhaar scheme. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud asked senior counsel Shyam Diwan to mention the matter next...
Reporters working inside Myanmars Rakhine state to document the Rohingya crisis have gone missing, raising fears that they have been deliberately targeted by the military, a media report said on Monday. Young Rohingya volunteers had been secretly reporting on persecution of the Muslim minority in Myanmar since 2012, sending photos, videos ...
China should continue to upgrade public toilets as part of its "toilet revolution" aimed at developing domestic tourism, President Xi Jinping said. "The construction of clean toilets is an important part of pushing urban and rural civilisation, and more efforts should be made in both cities and rural areas to upgrade public toilets to improve people's qual...
Owing to onset of fog, the North Eastern Railways (NER) has suspended eight trains from December 1 to February 13, an official said on Monday. These trains include the Agra Intercity, 12179 Lucknow Junction-Agra Cantt Express, 15209 Saharsa-Amritsar Express, 14674 Amritsar-Jainagar Shaheed Express and Lucknow-Anand Vihar Express. NER Ch...
A man was killed and his wife and two children critically injured when their car fell from a bridge in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur, police said on Monday. The incident took place on the Dhaniamau bridge around midnight on Sunday. A container coming from behind also fell from the bridge on the car below, smashing it completely. Two JCB's wer...
The Ngurah Rai International Airport on the Indonesian island of Bali suspended operations on Monday due to an increased alert level of the Agung volcano on the island. ...
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir imposed restrictions in many areas here on Monday to prevent separatist-called protests....
