The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Friday took a grim view of the state-level Yash Bharti awards given to 46 persons and sought the Uttar Pradesh government's response on the issue. Hearing a petition filed by Indian Police Service officer Amitabh Thakur, a bench of Justice A.P. Sahi and Justice A.R. Masudi asked the government...
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday gave his nod to an ordinance authorising expenditure beyond April 1 in Uttarakhand which is under central rule, official sources here said. "The president signed the ordinance yesterday (Thursday)," a union home ministry official told IANS. The union government approved an ordinance on Wednesday to...
A petition was filed on Friday at the Calcutta High Court for a court-monitored probe into the flyover tragedy here that has claimed 24 lives so far. Filed before the bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur, the PIL (public interest litigation) seeks a CBI investigation as well as a panel of experts from IIT Kharagpur to probe the caus...
At least 59 Indian fishermen were arrested in Pakistan for poaching in the country's waters, the media reported on Friday. “The Indian fishermen were arrested by the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) on Thursday while they were fishing in the Pakistani limits of the Arabian Sea,†said a senior official. Most of the arrested fishermen, h...
As leaders from over 50 nations gathered here to discuss nuclear terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a call to drop the notion that terrorism is someone else's problem and that "his" terrorist is not "my" terrorist. ...
India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday attributed their shocking seven-wicket loss against West Indies to the dew factor saying that it made life difficult for spinners to grip the ball while defending which eventually made the difference between the two sides. ...
India is set to become a central point in Albert Einstein's recently proved gravitational waves theory following an agreement signed between India's department of atomic energy and the US's National Science Foundation on Thursday. ...
The Election Commission on Thursday banned exit polls between April 4 and May 16 during which polling will be held for assemblies of Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry....
Star batsmen Lendl Simmons smashed an unbeaten 83 alongside Johnson Charles's 52 as a spirited West Indian side chased down a challenging total to outclass India by seven wickets in the second semi-final at the Wankhede Stadium here on Thursday to enter the final of the World Twenty20 cricket tournament. ...
The Election Commission on Thursday banned exit polls between April 4 and May 16 during which polling will be held for assemblies of Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry....
