Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah had offered to make Home Minister Rajnath Singh the chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh, informed sources said on Saturday....
All seven candidates of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) won the Rajya Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, state assembly officials announced....
Rightwing activist Virendra S. Tawde, nabbed on Friday for alleged involvement in the 2013 murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, was on Saturday sent to CBI custody till June 16....
Afghanistan and India on Saturday continued their efforts to secure the release of an abducted Indian woman aid worker but her whereabouts remain unknown....
Aspiring to cross the glorified figure of Rs 100 crore at the box office is proving to be a "poison" for the Indian film industry, says acclaimed veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah, who believes making content-based movies more economically will be a step in the right direction....
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday appealed to pilgrims going on the annual Kailash Mansarovar Yatra not to do anything that might tarnish India's image. “This Yatra goes through the territories of two countries,†Sushma Swaraj said while flagging off the first batch of this year's Yatra here. “When w...
With assembly polls due in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP leadership will brainstorm here on June 12-13 to chalk out a strategy to take power in the country's most populous state next year. The broad idea is to highlight the achievements of the Narendra Modi government in the last two years and the alleged corruption of the Samajwadi Party gover...
As the Department of Posts is gearing up to set up a payments bank, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday wrote to its employees saying India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) will serve the cause of Antyodaya -- serving the last man standing. "I earnestly appeal to all employees of department and the Grameen Dak Sevaks to ...
The BJP government in Jharkhand is getting arrest warrants issued against opposition legislators to prevent them from voting in the Rajya Sabha elections, the Congress said on Saturday. The Raghubar Das government "is trying to strangle democracy by issuing warrants against legislators who have a right to vote", Congress spokesman Ajay Kuma...
With the meterological department expecting the monsoon to hit the city within a week, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is working on a war footing to prevent water-logging and mosquito-borne diseases during the rainy season. Having spent almost Rs 30 crore, the KMC is confident that the advanced and upgraded machinery along with extensiv...
