JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been on hunger strike for a week at the campus, was hospitalised here on Thursday after his health deteriorated, a fellow student said. "Kanhaiya is in a bad situation. He is in a semi-conscious state. There is a possibility of internal damage to (his) organs," Umar Khalid, his friend in the Jawaharlal Nehru Unive...
The Congress on Thursday hit back at BJP MP Subramanian Swamy wanting to know how he got access to "sensitive" documents that he had quoted in the AgustaWestland debate in the Rajya Sabha a day ago, and stated that he has not submitted them to the house. "There were certain sensitive documents from the Ministry of Defence, CBI and ...
As many as 272 Indian fishermen are in jails in four countries, the government said on Thursday. Of these, 220 are prisoners in Pakistan, 34 in Sri Lanka, 10 in Bangladesh and eight in Iran, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha. Stating that the government attached the highest priority to the safety and security of fishermen, she sa...
Nearly 50 percent of the electorate had voted by noon in 25 constituencies in Cooch Behar and East Midnapore districts in the sixth and final phase of the West Bengal assembly polls on Thursday. The balloting began at 7 a.m. in the nine constituencies of Cooch Behar and 16 in East Midnapore. In the 51 erstwhile enclaves in Cooch Behar, over 9,000...
A special women's court here on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment four youths charged with killing two men who tried to prevent the molestation of their women friends five years ago, a top legal official said. The convicts - Jitendra Rana, Sunil Bodh, Satish Dulgaj and Dipak Tival - had attacked Keenan Santos, 24, and his friend Rueben F...
Title: The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi; Author: Makarand R. Paranjape; Publisher: Random House India; Pages: 331; Price: Not mentioned....
The former US presidents George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) and George W. Bush (2001-2009) has ruled out the possibility of supporting Donald Trump for the presidency of the US....
Polling began at 7 a.m. for 25 constituencies covering the Cooch Behar and East Midnapore districts in the sixth and final phase of the staggered month-long polling for the West Bengal assembly elections on Thursday....
US Ohio state governor John Kasich is suspending his bid for the White House, leaving New York billionaire Donald Trump uncontested in the Republican presidential race, multi networks reported on Wednesday. ...
They insisted that criminal defamation suites were preventing journalists, researchers and social and civil activists from carrying out their activities, generally perceived as threats by the corporates and the governments. ...
