Vijayawada, April 16 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a physically challenged Dalit woman was gang raped in Vijayanagaram district of Andhra Pradesh, police said on Monday. An auto-rickshaw driver and his two accomplices allegedly raped…
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) Nitish Rana cracked a fine half century while Andre Russell blasted a 12-ball 44 to propel Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to 200/9 in 20 overs against Delhi Daredevils in an Indian…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Congress on Monday said that neither its President Rahul Gandhi nor any other party functionary had ever used the term “saffron terror” and that its political rivals were levelling…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the provision for pension and other allowances to former parliamentarians and their spouses as it dismissed a plea by NGO Lok Prahari challenging the…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) India needs to create more than 8 million jobs a year to maintain its employment rate which has been declining over the past decade, according to the latest World Bank…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The CBI on Monday filed a charge-sheet against former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav, a top Railway Board official, RJD MP P.C. Gupta and…
Hyderabad, April 16 (IANS) A decade after a bomb blast killed nine worshippers at the historic Mecca Masjid here, a NIA court on Monday acquitted all five Hindu activists accused. Within hours, the judge who…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the release of regional film “Nanak Shah Fakir” based on the life of the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev, saying the…
New Delhi/Bengaluru, April 16 (IANS) The BJP on Monday released its second list of 82 candidates for the May 12 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, including G. Somashekar Reddy who is the younger brother…
Srinagar, April 16 (IANS) A soldier who had gone missing earlier this month in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district has joined militant ranks, police said on Monday. While there has been no confirmation from the…
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said India should not limit itself to any “isms” like capitalism or communism for the success of its economic policies. “For making any policy a…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The CBI on Monday filed a charge-sheet against former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav, a top Railway Board official, RJD MP P.C. Gupta and…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Veteran journalist and editor S. Nihal Singh, a trenchant critic of the Emergency in the mid-seventies and equally of the Modi government, died on Monday following illness. He was 88….
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking to change the date of the re-examination of the Class 12 economics paper, which the CBSE has decided to conduct…
Hyderabad, April 16 (IANS) Hours after acquitting all five right-wing Hindu activists accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid bomb blast case, special NIA court judge K. Ravinder Reddy on Monday tendered his resignation. Reddy, who…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Nabakumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand, acquitted by a NIA court on Monday in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, now faces trial only in the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast…
Kozhikode (Kerala), April 16 (IANS) A shutdown called by a section of social media users against the rape and murder of a girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua hit normal life in several parts of…
Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu), April 16 (IANS) A woman professor who allegedly tried to lure her students to extend sexual favours to top officials of a leading university in Tamil Nadu was on Monday arrested after…
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday refused to interfere with a single bench order staying the West Bengal Panchayat election process, but asked the judge to hear…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday directed the CBI’s SIT to file a supplementary FIR naming the officers involved in the alleged extra-judicial killings and staged gunfights by the Army, Assam…