Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to start withdrawing the "main part" of its forces in Syria from Tuesday....
Poll-bound West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Monday faced an embarrassment after several of its leaders were allegedly caught on camera accepting bribes. With the opposition coming out all gun blazing, the Trinamool rubbished the claims calling the videos "doctored" and part of a "smear campaign" against it...
In a jolt to the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, its senior leader and former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal was on Monday night arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with corruption cases lodged against him. The NCP claimed Bhujbal was innocent while the ruling BJP welcomed the arrest. ...
In the wake of a sting operation claiming several leaders of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress purportedly accepting bribe, the opposition Left Front on Monday demanded the Election Commission to initiate suitable action in the matter. ...
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Former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Monday passed the buck in the Vijay Mallya issue to the then NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2002-03, saying "nobody accuses that prime minister of being behind the loans". ...
A high-level inquiry committee, constituted by the Jawaharlal Nehru University to investigate the February 9 happenings on the campus, on Monday found 21 students guilty of violating rules and norms in the JNU....
Police on Monday detained four of the suspects accused of hacking to death a young Dalit man who married an upper caste girl, who herself narrowly survived the brutal assault in a Tamil Nadu town. ...
Mumbai, March 14 The BJP's election promise of making Maharashtra 'toll tax-free' is taking a serious toll on the state's finances with a whopping Rs.8,798.79 crore to be paid as compensation to road builders in lieu of toll tax till 2039, an RTI query revealed here on Monday. ...
The Ethics Committee of the Rajya Sabha on Monday took cognizance of the issue of Vijay Mallya, an Independent member of the upper house and business tycoon accused of defaulting on bank loans totalling Rs.9,000 crore. ...
