Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues and opposition leaders including Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on Saturday cast their votes to elect the country's next Vice President. The voting, which began at 10 a.m, saw 761 members casting their votes out of the 785 members of the electoral college till 3 p.m. - register...
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing leader was arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's car when he was visiting north Gujarat's flood-affected Banaskantha district on Friday. The action comes after 18 hours of night-long dharna and demonstration by Congress leaders and scores of ...
The UN Security Council will vote on a resolution on Saturday over new sanctions on North Korea in response to its recent inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests. According to the organisation, the vote will take place at 3 p.m. The 15 countries of the Security Council will have before them a text written by the US, which proposes a significant tig...
Pakistan's disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has "smartly deprived" his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif of an opportunity to become premier, PML-N members in Punjab province believe. Many Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders believe the Chief Minister of Punjab has missed or made to miss a "golden opportunity" to succe...
A court here on Saturday sent Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Delhi Cantonment, Surender Singh, to judicial custody for defacing public property. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg remanded Singh to judicial custody till August 17 over his non-appearance in the case despite repeated summons. Singh is accused of putting up posters and hoar...
Condemning the "potentially fatal" attack on party Vice President Rahul Gandhi's cavalcade in Gujarat, the Congress on Saturday said it won't be cowed down by the "cult of violence and intimidation" that the followers of Nathuram Godse espouse, referring to the RSS and BJP. Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said that theirs was a 130...
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has asked the Election Commission to take action against YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy for his controversial remark that "there is nothing wrong if (Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister) N. Chandrababu Naidu is shot dead on the road". Irrigation Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao on Saturday said the ...
Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday, police said. The terrorists were killed in Amargarh area in an operation jointly conducted by police, Army and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), police spokesman Manoj Pandita said here. Javaid Ahmad Dar, a resid...
By adopting a "hard line stance" towards China, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing his country into war and "gambling" with the destiny of its people, a Chinese daily said. An editorial in the state-run Global Times said Modi should be aware of the "overwhelming" strength of the People's Liberation Army which is capable...
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party for the attack on his convoy in Gujarat, saying that it was "the style of politics pursued by the BJP and RSS". "Yesterday (Friday) such a large stone was thrown by the BJP workers. It hit one of my PSOs (Personal Security Officer) and he was hurt. ...
