Barabanki (Uttar Pradesh): Twelve persons have died after consuming spurious liquor in this district of Uttar Pradesh with four of the victims belonging to one family. Official sources, however, put the death toll at six. The incident took place in Raniganj of Ramnagar area. Nearly...
Kathmandu: Another mountaineer has died after summiting Mount Everest, bringing the death toll for the 2019 climbing season to 11 people, a Nepal government official confirmed Tuesday. American lawyer Christopher John Kulish, 62, died Monday after reaching the top of Everest on the Nepalese side...
Party’s gamble to field six Rajya Sabha members in general elections seems to have backfired Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal's (BJD) plan to field as many as six Rajya Sabha members in the 2019 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha appeared to have had...
Bhubaneswar: Governor Ganeshi Lal Sunday invited Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik, who led the party to an emphatic victory in both Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Odisha, to form the next government in the state. Set to be sworn in as the...
New Delhi: With Zakir Musa’s death, security forces have recorded an extremely important kill in the battle against Islamic fundamentalism in the Jammu and Kashmir valley. The jungles of south Kashmir are now being used to train local youth. Musa, a byproduct of ‘Generation X’,...
New Delhi: Narendra Modi was elected the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parliamentary party at a function in Central Hall of Parliament Saturday. "I am happy to announce that the BJP parliamentary party has unanimously elected Narendra...
Ministers make hay riding on Modi wave New Delhi: Riding the Modi wave, a record number of Union Ministers marched to Lok Sabha, although former bureaucrats and senior cabinet ministers Hardeep Puri and KJ Alphons failed to make it. Among thos who have so far...
New Delhi: The Home Ministry Wednesday put out a nation-wide alert to states about possible eruption of violence in different parts of the country in connection with the counting of votes. The Centre’s advisory comes just a day after former Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha threatened...
New Delhi: The government is learnt to have cleared the names of four judges for their elevation to the Supreme Court, sources said here, Wednesday. They are justices Aniruddha Bose, AS Bopanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant Once the appointments formally come through, the top...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday signed off on a resolution meant to serve as a blueprint for an NDA-2 government. The resolution is built around the three themes that are expected to get it the overwhelming mandate...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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