The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday demanded a CBI probe into the gang-rape in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. ...
Authorities continued curfew and restrictions on Tuesday as Kashmir remained shut for the 25th consecutive day. ...
A Special MCOCA Court on Tuesday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba operative and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack plotter Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal and six others to life imprisonment till death in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case. Two others have been sentenced to life imprisonment and three others were awarded eight years jail term. All th...
Congress President Sonia Gandhi arrived to a rousing welcome here on Tuesday, with party workers lining up both sides of the road from the airport and raising slogans hailing her. After reaching the Babarpur airport, she spent some time in the VIP lounge and then drove off for her scheduled road show. On way, as her cavalcade emerged out of the ...
The much-awaited Spanish-made Talgo high-speed train reached the Mumbai Central Terminus from New Delhi on its third and final trial run, an official said on Tuesday. The train, which left New Delhi on Monday evening, completed the trial run despite delays on account of heavy rains which flooded railway tracks in the Gujarat-Maharashtra border area. Th...
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for about 15 minutes on Tuesday during question hour when Telugu Desam Party (TDP) members protested demanding special status for Andhra Pradesh. As the disruption continued, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she would allow a discussion only under relevant rules and provided there was prior notice. Trinamool Congress leader Sudip...
A day-long shutdown called by opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday to demand special status to the state evoked near total response. Buses of the state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corp (APSRTC) went off the roads while shops, businesses and educational institutions remained closed in most parts of all the 13 districts. ...
The father of the slain Muslim US soldier at the centre of a controversial feud with Donald Trump said on Monday he had no desire to escalate the conflict and that it's time to "join hands with good Muslims", even as the Republican presidential candidate attacked him again on Twitter....
As India said it will try to bring back over 10,000 Indians rendered jobless in the Gulf, the Indian diplomatic mission in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia is working on a mechanism to retrieve the pending arrears of the retrenched Indian workers from their Saudi employers....
Terming the offer by Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel to quit as a "cosmetic change", Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said this was meaningless in the context of the recent incident of flogging of Dalits by cow vigilantes in the state....
