Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP for alleging that the Congress had tried to "suppress" B.R. Ambedkar's contributions, saying though the BJP is "desperate" to embrace the Dalit icon, his life and work "reject what the BJP stands for". "BJP may be desperate to embrace Babasaheb ...
The government on Friday extended the deadline for linking Aadhaar with PAN by three more months, till March 31, 2018. The earlier deadline was December 31, 2017. "It has come to notice that some of the taxpayers have not yet completed the linking of PAN with Aadhaar. Therefore, to facilitate the process of linking, it has been deci...
The Delhi Police has busted a fake education board operating as the Board of Higher Secondary Education Delhi and arrested six persons including its chairman, a senior officer said on Friday. The chairman, Shiv Prasad Pandey was running the fake board and lured students by showing its website bhsedelhiboard.net and defrauded them of huge amounts...
Stressing that Adivasis in Gujarat were in bad condition, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi "where did Rs 55,000 crore meant for Vanbandhu scheme go?". This was Gandhi's 10th question as part of a Congress strategy wherein he would put one question daily to Modi ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four rallies in election-bound Gujarat's Bhabhar, Kalol, Himmatnagar and Nikol regions on Friday, where polling is scheduled for the second phase on December 14. "Will address rallies in Bhabhar, Kalol, Himmatnagar and Nikol," Modi tweeted. The counting of votes will take place on December 18. On Thursday, Mo...
A day after the Kumbh Mela mass Hindu pilgrimage was inscribed on Unesco's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday described it as a matter of immense joy and pride for the country. "A matter of immense joy and pride for India," Modi tweeted. On Thursday, the External Affairs Min...
Another US Congressman has announced his resignation after being put under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for suggesting surrogacy to two of his female staffers. "I do want to take full and personal responsibility for the ways I have broached a topic that, unbeknownst to me until very recently, made certain individuals un...
The death toll in a boat capsize off the coast of Pakistan's Thatta district has increased to 21 with several others still reported missing, police said on Friday. According to district officials, there were about 70 people on-board when then accident took place on Thursday evening, reports Dawn news. Thatta Deputy Commissioner (DC) Nasir Baig said 20 ...
The US Congress has approved a stopgap budget that averts, for now, a partial government shutdown, which had been a strong possibility due to the failure of Republican and Democratic lawmakers to agree on a more comprehensive bill....
Two students were killed when a gunman opened fire at a northern New Mexico high school on Thursday morning, law enforcement officials said....
