The AAP on Tuesday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the rejection by President Pranab Mukherjee of a bill for approving 21 MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries in Delhi. "The central government is discriminating against our government in Delhi," Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh told a press conference here. "The Modi government shou...
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday confirmed that the person killed in a firing incident in Kud town of Udhampur district was a militant who had fired at the security forces. Minister Ghulam Nabi Hanjura, who belongs to the PDP, told the assembly that the person killed at Karnal Nallah in Kud town on Monday had been identi...
When lakhs of the devout took a dip in the Yamuna at ghats in Vrindavan, Mathura and Agra on Ganga Dussehra on Tuesday, they had a "face to face interaction" (sakshaat darshan) of the Kali Nag (evil serpent) in the form of pollution that has reduced the river to a sewage canal. Ganga Dussehra, symbolising the peaking of summer "and th...
Thousands of people rallied in the US city of Orlando on Monday night for the first official vigil to commemorate the victims in deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub that left 50 people killed and 53 injured on Sunday...
With potatoes 60 percent dearer in bulk markets and pulses costlier by 36 percent over the past year, India's annual wholesale inflation rose for the second month in May to 0.79 per cent from 0.34 per cent in the month before, official data showed on Tuesday. ...
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is attending a meeting of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers here on Tuesday to nudge the states to arrive at a consensus on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill. ...
Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai, who is facing corruption charges, has resigned, official sources said on Tuesday....
Pope Francis on Monday decried starvation in the world, saying it is being used as a weapon of war in conflict zones, in violation of international law. ...
A Romanian head-butted his pregnant wife, breaking her nose, allegedly because he found her resting with her feet up instead of putting the shopping away, police said on Monday. ...
Astronomers using the US Kepler Space Telescope said on Monday they have found the largest planet yet discovered that orbits a pair of binary stars. ...
