22nd batch of Amarnath pilgrims leaves for Kashmir Valley

Amid tight security arrangements, the 22nd batch of Shri Amarnathji pilgrims consisting of 1,141 pilgrims left for Kashmir Valley from Jammu this morn...

Arun Jaitley releases National Trade Facilitation Action Plan

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday released the National Trade Facilitation Action Plan. Speaking after releasing the NTFAP in New Delhi, the min...

West Bengal CID freezes bank accounts of three top GJM leaders

West Bengal CID has frozen bank accounts of top Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)leaders, including its president Bimal Gurung. The agency alleged that the...

Ludhiana court issues fresh summons to Punjab CM Amarinder Singh in an income tax case

A court in Ludhiana has issued fresh summons to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in an income tax case. Chief Judicial Magistrate ordered issuing...

Kovind's election matter of pride for UP: Governor Ram Naik

Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik congratulated Ram Nath Kovind for his victory in the presidential election and said he was the first person from the s...

190 women hostels proposed all over India

New Delhi :  190 more hostels have been proposed for all over the country during year 2017-18 to 2019-20 for benefit of about 19000 working women...

BSF to use capsicum-based teargas for crowd control

After trying out PAVA shells, security forces have now turned to capsicum gel-based teargas to quell mobs in the Kashmir valley and other places.A sen...

Two dead after car hits Hyderabad Metro Rail pillar

Hyderabad: In yet another accident involving a Metro Rail pillar, two persons were killed and four injured, one critically, after a car rammed a Metro...

Right to privacy: On Day 2 petitioners tell Supreme Court to lay down broad contours

Hearing on right to privacy before the nine-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court continued for the second consecutive day today. The petition...

School girls in UP forced to strip: 12 staffers dismissed

The district administration has dismissed 12 staffers of a residential school where 70 girls were allegedly forced to strip by the principal who wante...

Kerala news channel introduces 'period leave' for women employees

Thiruvananthapuram: In a first of its kind in Kerala, leading media group Mathrubhumi has introduced 'period leave' for women employees in its TV News...

Private nurse stir ends in Kerala ;Govt to ensure Rs 20,000 minimum salary

In a relief to striking nurses, the Kerala government today said it would implement the Supreme Court directive of Rs 20,000 minimum salary to nurses ...

Bus falls into gorge near Rampur in Himachal Pradesh ;28 dead

At least 28 people died and nine injured in Himachal Pradesh's Rampur after a private bus rolled down a gorge in the hill state on Thursday morning, p...

No sympathy for perpetrators of violence: Jaitley on lynchings

No sympathy will be shown to perpetrators involved in mob lynchings, Finance minister Jaitley said adding that the government is fully committed to pr...

So many Ram Nath Kovinds in the country today, says emotional Ram nath Kovind

Describing his election as the "greatness of democracy", President-elect Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday could not help but remember his own days spent in...

Differences should not become disputes: MEA on Dokalam standoff

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Gopal Baglay told reporters here that New Delhi has been in "close contact" with the Bhutan government on th...

PM Modi congratulates Kovind for becoming 14th President of India

New Delhi , Jul 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday congratulated Ram Nath Kovind for winning the Presidential elections and becoming the 14...

Kerela HC reserves orders on actor Dileep's bail plea

The Kerala High Court today reserved its orders on the bail plea of Malayalam actor Dileep, arrested for allegedly plotting the February 17 abduction ...

EPS and OPS from Tamil Nadu congratulates Kovind

The two warring factions of AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, which pledged support for NDA Presidential candidate, on Thursday congratulated Ram Nath Kovind on h...

Friends of TRS are involved in Telangana drug racket says Digvijaya Singh

Ram Nath Kovind elected India's 14th President, to take oath on July 25

Giving India its second Dalit president, former Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind today won the presidential election with a comfortable margin against O...

Hooda misused position in AJL case, ED tells High Court

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda allegedly misused...

HC asks police to file status report in Sunanda Pushkar case

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the city police to file a status report with regard to the ongoing probe into the death of Congress MP Shashi T...

Kejriwal's reallocates Sisodia's portfolios

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has reallocated his deputy Manish Sisodia's portfolios, a move intended to sharpen focus on the AAP government's ...

Muslim neighbours help Hindu family carry body to crematorium

A Hindu family at a remote village in West Bengal's Nadia district had no money to take the body of their father to the creamatorium for the last rite...

LK Advani receives Lifetime Achievement award

Veteran BJP leader LK Advani received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions as a Lok Sabha member. JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav got the Li...

Sachin offers worships at Tirupati temple

Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar today offered worship at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here.He arrived here with his wife...

15 killed as bus falls into gorge in Shimla, HP

Fifteen passengers were killed and nine injured as a bus rolled into a 700-metre deep gorge in Rampur area of Shimla on the Hindustan-Tibet National H...

CBI summons Karti Chidambaram for questioning

Karti Chidamabaram, son of former finance minister P Chidamabaram, has been summoned by the CBI on July 21 in connection with an alleged corruption ca...

Cloudburst hits J-K's Doda, casualties feared

Flash floods triggered by a cloudburst wreaked havoc in Thathri town of Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir this morning, inundating vast areas along t...