Chennai A 25-year-old woman who was travelling alone in the ladies compartment of a local train in Chennai was saved from the middle of a sexual assault by an alert Railway Protection Force constable. The incident happened around 11:45 pm on Monday on an MRTS train, according to local media reports. The RPF constable, K […]
New Delhi The Congress party Tuesday announced it would back the JD(S) to form an alliance in its bid to retain power in Karnataka, despite the BJP emerging as the single largest party. The JD(S) confirmed the alliance saying its leader HD Kumaraswamy would meet the Governor later this evening. In a letter to the […]
New Delhi The Delhi Police filed a chargesheet in the Sunanda Pushkar death case on Monday, more than four years after Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s wife was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Delhi hotel room. The chargesheet concluded that Pushkar killed herself and hence no one has been charged with murder. The chargesheet […]
Kolkata At least 10 people have been killed in poll-related violence even as voting continues in West Bengal panchayat election. A CPM worker and his wife were killed in 24 South Parganas when suspected Trinamool Congress supporters set their house on fire. In North 24 Parganas, another CPM worker was killed in a blast during […]
New Delhi Karnataka assembly elections is a high-stakes battle that could change the course of the state’s political history, and even rewrite the national political discourse. For BJP, winning an election in Karnataka will open the gateway to south India. For Congress, a decisive win in Karnataka will help it put a halt to BJP’s […]
New Delhi The Delhi Police has registered a case against unidentified persons for pasting posters containing images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the tagline “The Lie Lama”. The posters were found pasted on a wall in Mandir Marg’s J-Block area on Thursday. A local policeman while on his patrolling duty saw the posters and […]
Kathmandu Netizens of Nepal slammed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, currently visiting the Himalayan nation, reminding him of the 2015 border blockade and asking him to apologize. Hashtags like #BlockadeWasCrimeMrModi and #ModiNotWelcomed-InNepal were trending as the Indian leader kicked off his two-day Nepal visit on Friday. Some users reminded Modi of the border blockade enforced by India […]
New Delhi They are billed as smart coaches, and Indian Railways will soon roll out these modern train compartments equipped with black boxes and coach information and diagnostics systems. The black boxes, a first for the railways, will have a powerful multi-dimensional communication interface to provide all kinds of information on coach condition and also passenger-related […]
New Delhi A relative of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested this morning in a corruption case, police said. Vinay Bansal, son of Kejriwal’s brother-in-law, was arrested by Anti-Corruption Bureau in connection with the PWD scam, a senior police official said. Three FIRs or first imformation reports, including one against a company run by […]
New Delhi Lalu’s son Tej Pratap Yadav last month got engaged to former minister and senior RJD leader Chandrika Rai’s daughter Aishwarya Rai. The wedding is to take place on May 12. Aishwarya is also the grand-daughter of former Chief Minister Daroga Prasad Rai. All seven daughters and both sons — Tej Pratap Yadav included […]