Narsingpur (Madhya Pradesh), April 16 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Minister Gopal Bhargava has courted controversy by saying that the maximum officers and other staff in the government should be from his Brahmin community since they were…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The CBI on Monday said it has filed a charge-sheet against former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and others in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the 2006 IRCTC…
Gandhinagar, April 16 (IANS) A 24-year-old man, who was on run after raping and sodomising a 9-year-old girl in Gujarat’s Rajkot district, has been arrested, police said on Monday. According to a complaint filed by…
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Healthy macro-economic data, along with expectations of robust quarterly corporate earnings, led the key Indian equity indices to close on a higher note for the eighth consecutive session on Monday. According…
Washington, April 16 (IANS) Former FBI Director James Comey, in his first interview since being fired last May, said that Donald Trump is “morally unfit” to be US President, a “serial liar” who treated women…
Latur (Maharashtra), April 16 (IANS) Shortly after a Hyderabad court acquitted five accused in the 2007 Mecca Mosque bomb blast case, former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil here on Monday denied having ever used the…
Hyderabad, April 16 (IANS) Nearly 11 years after a bomb blast killed nine worshippers at the historic Mecca Masjid here, a special NIA court on Monday acquitted all five Hindu activist accused, inviting strong criticism…
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) A group of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists on Monday afternoon vandalized the offices of the proposed Nanar refinery project coming up in Ratnagiri district with Saudi Arabian collaboration, police said. Around…
Surat/Gandhinagar, April 16 (IANS) The Gujarat Police have scanned the data of as many as 8,000 missing girls to identify a nine-year-old girl in Surat whose body was found with 86 injury marks, including on…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Deflating food prices softened India’s wholesale price-indexed (WPI) inflation to 2.47 per cent in March from 2.48 per cent reported for the previous month, official data showed on Monday. According…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Top cyber security experts on Monday criticised the government’s reported proposal to install chips in new television set-top boxes, stressing that such a move would infringe on people’s right to…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday set aside an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that declared a “silence zone” in front of the ice stalagmite resembling the “Shivalinga” at…
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Industrialist Anand Mahindra’s offer to “execute rapists and murderers of young girls” in the country has elicited a huge response on social media on Monday, with many more openly volunteering to…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for Sweden on the first leg of his three-nation tour of Europe that will also see him going to Britain and Germany. This…
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Fortis Healthcare on Monday said that its Board will meet sometime this week to “look at all eligible options” that the company has received. “The Fortis Board will be meeting this…
Lucknow, April 16 (IANS) Ten candidates of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and one member of their ally Apna Dal on Monday filed their nominations for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council polls, scheduled for…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday ordered adequate security to the Kathua rape victim’s family, their lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat and others and sought the Jammu and Kashmir government’s response to…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of “defaming” the Hindu religion by coining the term “saffron terror” and demanded apologies from Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. Bharatiya Janata Party…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its second list of 82 candidates for elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly. The names were finalised by the party’s Central Election…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) India is set to get a normal monsoon this year, with average rainfall likely to be 97 per cent, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on Monday. The prediction stands…