Water will be released from the dam into the neighborhood for the next 10 to 15 days, Turner said at a news conference on Friday, adding that this is a voluntary evacuation of homes, including apartment buildings, of the already flooded properties in the area, Xinhua news agency reported....
Desh Deepak Verma, an IAS officer of the UP cadre, on Friday was appointed Secretary General of Rajya Sabha, an official statement said....
With her dreams of becoming a doctor dashed owing to a low score in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), S. Anitha, who fought against the common entry test for medical colleges, committed suicide on Friday, said police citing her family....
The stage is set for a reshuffle and expansion of the Union Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday with two ministers having resigned and nine others understood to have been asked to quit to pave the way for entry of new faces....
Acclaimed film actor Kamal Haasan on Friday hinted that he may form a political party but made it clear he won't ally with "saffron" -- the Hindu Right....
The Supreme Court will hear, in November, the plea by senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh challenging the propriety of the Narendra Modi government to bring the Aadhaar Act as a money bill before Parliament and Lok Sabha Speaker allowing the same....
The CBI on Friday filed a chargesheet in Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case against former Indian Air Force chief S.P. Tyagi and nine others....
The Supreme Court has appointed a supervisory panel comprising two of its former judges - Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan - to examineTh the justification for closure of 241 anti-Sikh riot cases probed by the SIT. ...
The stage is set for a reshuffle and expansion of the Union Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday with two ministers having resigned and nine others understood to have been asked to quit to pave the way for entry of new faces....
Expressing its anguish over the death of renowned gastroenterologist Deepak Amarapurkar in the Mumbai deluge, the Bombay High Court on Friday ordered the BMC and other respondents to file replies on open manholes in the city. ...
