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 […]
50 Alumni students of prestigious Indian Institute Technology quit their fancy jobs and formed a political party . A group of 50 IITans across the country have quit their jobs and formed their own political party to fight for the rights of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. The group have submitted their […]
NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that the latter’s new slogan will be ‘Beti Bachao, BJP ke logon se bachao‘ (Save the daughter, save them from the BJP’s people). The Gandhi scion said this while addressing the launching event of ‘Save The Constitution’ […]