New Delhi With the Karnataka Assembly election 2018 fast approaching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a campaign blitzkrieg in the poll-bound southern state, to add heft to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) efforts to unseat the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government. In the first of his three rallies scheduled for Tuesday, the prime minister addressed the public in the Chamarajanagara […]
New Delhi A fortnight before Karnataka goes to polls, PSU oil firms have stopped revising petrol and diesel prices This is despite the benchmark international rate for petrol going up from USD 78.84 per barrel, which was used for raising the price to Rs 74.63 a litre on April 24, to USD 80.56 now, according […]
NEW DELHI: RJD workers protested outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi against the hospital’s decision to move their corruption-convicted leader Lalu Prasad to a hospital in Ranchi. Lalu is presently in the middle of a sentence after his conviction four separate cases in the Bihar Fodder Scam. AIIMS released […]
New Delhi Delhi Police on Friday arrested two Kashmiri students from Punjab who were involved in hacking over 500 Indian websites, including those of the government, police said. The accused have been identified as Shahid Malla, a CSE student at Aryan Group of College in Punjab’s Rajpura and Adil Hussain Teli, a BCA final year […]
New Delhi At the favourite holiday spot of Mao Zedong in Wuhan in central China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met China’s President Xi Jinping for the first time since the Doklam border crisis in what is being described in Chinese state media as a “surprise diplomatic initiative”. The two leaders met at Hubei Provincial Muslim where Xi was waiting to welcome the […]
New Delhi Lawyer Indu Malhotra will be the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a Supreme Court judge. The law ministry has okayed the recommendation of the Supreme Court’s collegium to appoint the senior lawyer to the bench but has decided to hold back its approval to the elevation of the Uttarakhand Chief Justice KM Joseph for now. […]
Gorakhpur At least 13 children, aged between 7 and 11, were today killed when a train rammed into their school van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar area, around 50 km from Gorakhpur. Eight other children were injured in the accident that occurred early this morning, Principal Secretary (Information) Awanish Awasthi said. The children, students of Divine Public School, […]
Jodhpur A Jodhpur court on Wednesday convicted Asaram, two others in 2013 rape case on all the charges under the POCSO Act and Juvenile Justice Act and sentenced Asaram to life imprisonment. The other two convicts- Shilpi and Sharad, have been awarded a 20-year sentence. Two of the five accused were acquitted by the court. Speaking […]
New Delhi Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury on Tuesday said that the casting couch culture was not just restricted to the film industry and that Parliament too was affected by it. The remark comes hours after ace choreographer Saroj Khan said that casting couch culture was a way of “livelihood” in the film industry. “It’s not […]