Prayagraj: An MP/MLA court in Prayagraj Tuesday awarded a life sentence to gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, and two others -- Dinesh Pasi and Shaukat Haneef -- in the 2006 kidnapping of Umesh Pal, the prime witness in the BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case. Earlier in...
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a fervent appeal to President Droupadi Murmu to protect the Constitution of the country and save it from a disaster. At a civic reception hosted in honour of the President here, Mamata Banerjee lauded Droupadi Murmu as...
New Delhi: Congress-led Opposition members Monday protested outside Parliament by taking out a march wearing black clothes and shouting slogans, seeking probe in the Adani matter. Former UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi also participated in the protests outside Mahatma Gandhi's statue. Congress MPs were wearing black...
Kathmandu: Nepal's aviation authority has banned pilots of an Air India flight from flying in Nepali airspace after they brought down their airplane to 15,000 feet Friday without the permission of the Air Traffic Controller (ATC), nearly causing a mid-air collision with a Nepal Airlines...
Kathmandu: A major tragedy was averted Friday when an Air India and a Nepal Airlines aircraft came close to collision mid-air but the warning systems alerted the pilots whose timely action prevented the disaster, authorities said here Sunday. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN)...
New Delhi: The Congress Sunday began a day-long "Sankalp Satyagraha" at Delhi's Rajghat in support of Rahul Gandhi following his disqualification from the Lok Sabha. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, senior leaders KC Venugopal, P Chidambaram and Salman Khurshid were among...
New Delhi: A combative Rahul Gandhi Saturday said he would continue to defend democracy in the country even if he is disqualified from Parliament for life or jailed and claimed that a "panic-stricken" government has handed the Opposition a "big weapon" by disqualifying him. Addressing...
New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav Saturday joined the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe here in connection with the land-for-job case. Tejashwi reached the CBI headquarters in the national capital at around 10.40 am. He had earlier skipped three CBI summons....
New Delhi: The Congress Saturday announced its first list of 124 candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka with former chief minister Siddaramaiah being fielded from his Varuna seat. Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar will contest the elections from his Kanakapura assembly constituency,...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said he is fighting for the voice of India and is ready to pay any price, hours after he was disqualified from Lok Sabha. In a tweet in Hindi, the 52-year-old former Congress president said, "I am fighting...
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s second visit to India has ruffled quite a few feathers in New Delhi....
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By Aakar Patel The three democratic tools available to us are the vote, the court and protest. The only one...
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By Dilip Cherian Appointing Gaurav Yadav as regular Director General of Police in Punjab settles a question that should never...
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Defeat in Ayodhya in 2024, where the Ram temple was built with much pomp, appears to have deeply shaken the...
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