Two groups of lawyers on Wednesday scuffled within the Patiala House court complex here while supporting or opposing students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who have been booked on the charge of raising anti-India slogans. The showdown took place in the court premises before JNU Students Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar was to be p...
Senior BJP leader and union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said his party legislator in Delhi O.P. Sharma "should not have taken law into his own hands and not resorted to violence" ahead of a court appearance of JNUSU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been charged with sedition. ...
Five suspected terrorists of banned outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who had escaped from a ajil in Madhya Praddesh, have been arrested in Odisha's Rourkela city, police said on Wednesday. The five terrorists, including a woman, were absconding from Khandwa Jail in Madhya Pradesh and were nabbed late Tuesday from a house in steel city of ...
No lessons appear to have been learnt from the investigations into the 2008 Mumbai attacks, an influential Pakistani daily said Thursday, nonetheless pinning hopes on Pakistan-India talks. An editorial "India-Pakistan talks" in the Dawn on Wednesday said that the start of the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue (CBD) has now been delayed ...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday urged the central government to announce the location of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the state soon....
The 1,000 MW nuclear power plant at Kudankulam stopped generation due to instrumentation deficiency, Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. (POSOCO) said. ...
Amid the row over anti-India slogans at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, slogans eulogising parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru and demands for "azadi" echoed in Jadavpur University here on Tuesday....
The Congress on Tuesday urged President Pranab Mukherjee not to accept any recommendation from the government to revoke President's Rule in Arunachal Pradesh, saying Governor J.P. Rajkhowa intends to swear in a rebel leader of the party as chief minister even though former chief minister Nabam Tuki had a majority in the assembly...
Former United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali died at a hospital here on Tuesday, officials said. He was 93. UN chief Ban Ki-moon hailed him as a "respected statesman" and a "memorable leader who rendered invaluable services to world peace and international order". ...
BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday hailed the victory of NDA candidates in seven of the 12 assembly by-elections across eight states as a "victory of politics of development" over vote bank ...
