The Bahujan Samaj Party, which won 10 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh May this year, has been handed a washout by the voters in the Assembly bypolls. Of its 11 candidates, five candidates could not even open their accounts in the bypolls, and six lost their deposits....
After a blanket ban on firecrackers by the Supreme Court in October 2018, workers and firecracker manufacturers were fearing for their livelihood and business. However, the industry was saved after the announcement of 'green crackers', but it is yet to reach Tamil Nadu's Sivakasi, the manufacturer of 90 per cent of ...
India's family planning profile is unique among many nations for different reasons, feels Professor Amy O. Tsui from the US based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institute. However, the country still battles with certain challenges such as desire for ...
Former Intelligence Bureau Director and Centre's interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma, was on Friday appointed the Administrator of the Union Territory of Lakshwadeep, an official statement said. The Home Ministry statement said Sharma's tenure would start from the day he...
A lawyer for senior scribe and former Union Minister M.J. Akbar on Friday asked journalist Priya Ramani's friend, who was deposing in the defamation case against her, if she was a "ghost in the room" to remember the scene of an alleged sexual harassment so vividly....
A day after he was trounced in the Lok Sabha bypolls to the prestigious Satara constituency, Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale confidently said he is not 'finished yet'. A descendent of the Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Bhosale said in tweets on Friday: "Have lost today, but haven't stopped. Haven't won,...
The brother of Geetika Sharma, an air hostess who was allegedly driven to suicide by then Haryana MLA Gopal Goyal Kanda in 2012, on Friday hit out against the prospect of the BJP joining hands with the tainted politician for forming a government in Haryana. ...
Expenditure Secretary Girish Chandra Murmu was Friday appointed the new Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, replacing Governor Satya Pal Malik who has been shifted to Goa, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said....
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Friday dismissed reports that it has hiked visa fees, and said that it has instead restructured its visa system for Haj and Umrah pilgrims as well as others, fixing it at Saudi Riyal 300 each or Rs 5,600 approximately....
The BJP-led NDA's march towards a majority in the Rajya Sabha is likely to be hit in view of the Assembly election results from Haryana and Maharashtra....
