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...

Chandigarh court rejects abortion plea of 10-year-old rape survivor

The district court of Chandigarh on Tuesday refused the abortion plea of a 10-year-old rape survivor after they confirmed that she was 26 weeks pregna...

Car catches fire on Andheri flyover in Mumbai

A car caught fire on Andheri flyover in Mumbai on Wednesday morning. There are no reports of anyone injured. The vehicles went up in flames as soon as...

This is how Niti Aayog, Health ministry plans privatisation of urban health centres

Concerned over the rise in non-communicable diseases in urban India, the Centre is working on a policy that will increase the role of private hospital...

Navi Mumbai : 2 arrested by Police for stopping tempo carrying buffalo meat

Five people have been booked and two of them arrested by Navi Mumbai Police for stopping a tempo which was carrying meat despite the fact that the dri...

EMU hits platform buffer at Sealdah station, 21 injured

At least 21 passengers were injured after an EMU local hit the buffer of a platform at the Sealdah terminal station in Kolkata on Wednesday, said repo...

Pakistan violates ceasefire in Bhimber Gali sector

Rajouri : The Pakistan Army on Wednesday violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC0 in the Bhimber Gali sector of Jammu and Kashmir. ...