Lucknow, April 25 (IANS) A police sub-inspector was on Monday killed in an exchange of fire with criminals in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh, police said. A police team, led by sub-inspector Akhtar Khan, was…
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) BJP’s star candidate Roopa Ganguly on Monday faced angry protests by Trinamool Congress activists in her constituency during the fourth phase of the West Bengal assembly polls. The actress-turned-politician contesting from…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Pandemonium and slogan shouting against the imposition of President’s Rule in Uttarakhand marred the first day of the Lok Sabha on Monday as opposition members flayed the government for its…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) A Bharatiya Janata Party member on Monday demanded in the Lok Sabha a ban on comments by judges while hearing a case. BJP member and chief whip of the party…
Mumbai, April 25 (IANS) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) must allow women to become its members, Trupti Desai, who has been leading a campaign for women’s right to worship in temples, said on Monday. “The…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was disrupted on Monday as Congress members raised the imposition of President’s Rule in Uttarakhand, raising slogans against the Narendra Modi government. As soon as the house…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the plea of Congress leader Jairam Ramesh who has challenged the propriety of the government introducing the Aadhaar law as a money…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Nine newly-elected members, of them five from the Congress, were administered their oath of membership of the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The members from Congress include Anand Sharma, who won…
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) Some 42 percent of 1.08 crore electorate voted in the first four hours in phase four of the West Bengal assembly election on Monday in 49 constituencies of Howrah and North…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed ruckus over the Uttarakhand crisis but Speaker Sumitra Mahajan presided over the question hour without adjourning the house. As the house met, Congress members…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) BJP’s parliament member and Bollywood actor Paresh Rawal on Monday apologised to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for violating the odd-even motor vehicles scheme and said it was a “serious blunder”….
Mumbai, April 25 (IANS) The unfulfilled election promises of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emboldened even a ‘tinpot’ like JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar to criticise him, the Shiv Sena said on Monday. “Modi…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) After a period of uncertainty, India and Pakistan are to hold talks again when their foreign secretaries meet here on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia conference….
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) India has cancelled the tourist visa issued to a dissident Chinese Uyghur activist based in Germany to attend the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in Dharamsala. Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa has…
Srinagar, April 25 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was arrested on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing his wife in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. Police said Ghulam Hassan Chowhan, a trooper of the…
By Preetha Nair Dehradun, April 25 (IANS) Hindutva is a brand of fundamentalism and the Hindu right wing is distorting what Hinduism stands for, says renowned author Nayantara Sahgal who was among one of the…
Patna, April 25 (IANS) Eighteen people, including seven children and four women, died and about 2,500 houses were destroyed since Sunday in various incidents of fire in Bihar with heat wave playing its part, officials…
Jammu/Srinagar April 25 (IANS) As sweltering heat torments residents in other parts of the country, Kashmir continued to remain cool at 20 degrees Celsius, a weather official said on Monday. Most locals in the Valley…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2 p.m., minutes after it convened, when the opposition started raising slogans and trooped to the chairman’s podium demanding a discussion on the Uttarakhand…
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) A whopping 1,000 polling personnel were moved via boats in Sandeshkhali and Hingalganj islands of the Sundarbans mangroves spanning North 24-Parganas district in West Bengal where the fourth phase of polls…