At least 14 persons were killed and 35 injured in a car-bomb explosion in Baghdad on Monday, a source said. A booby-trapped car detonated in the Shia neighbourhood of Sadr city, Xinhua news agency quoted the source as saying. The blast destroyed several shops nearby and many stalls at an outdoor market and set fire to many vehicles, the source said. ...
Accusing the Samajwadi Party and BSP of doing politics at the cost of development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged the people of Uttar Pradesh to vote for the BJP to change the state's fortunes. Addressing a huge rally here, Modi said it was imperative for Uttar Pradesh to develop for India to progress in every sense. "We want India t...
Religious organisations across the ideological divide welcomed the Supreme Court's ruling on Monday barring political parties and candidates from seeking votes in the name of religion, caste, community, race or language. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad said that the politics based on caste, community and religion has harmed the country. "We welco...
The Islamic State (IS) terror group on Monday claimed responsibility for the New Year attack on a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people, while a manhunt for the lone gunman continues. The group in a statement said the attack was carried out by "a heroic soldier", the BBC reported. At least 600 revellers were celebrating in the early ...
BJP President Amit Shah on Monday sought the support of the people of Uttar Pradesh to bring about a "parivartan" in the state in the coming assembly elections. Addressing the 'Maha Parivartan' rally at Ramabai Sthal here, Shah said the state had been ruined by both the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party. The time had come to change the ...
The opposition members on Monday walked out of Jammu and Kashmir legislative council during obituary references after creating ruckus in the house over last summer's unrest in the Kashmir Valley. As obituary references were being read out in the upper house of the bicameral state legislature here, the opposition members from regional National Conf...
A leopard, possibly from adjoining Bihar, entered Raiganj town and injured several persons in West Bengal on Monday, an official said. According to a forest department official, attempts were on to tranquilize the animal which has been trapped inside a house in Uttar Dinajpur district. "We are anticipating that the leopard is from Bihar because there a...
With the Samajwadi Party split, neither faction may get the 'cycle' symbol ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said on Monday. "Both sides will give affidavits and evidence in support of their claims along with signatures of their supporters to prove they enjoy majority support," Quraishi told I...
Three lakh schoolchildren in Kerala will, in two years time, come under the ICT Club, the largest students' IT network in the country managed by the state owned IT@School Project. The club will focus on areas like animation, multimedia, hardware, electronics, language computing and internet and cyber safety. Education Minister C. Ravind...
Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Monday said he had been with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and will remain with him. ...
