BJP replaces 25 sitting MPs in second Lok Sabha list

The Bharatiya Janata Party replaced at least 25 sitting MPs with new faces as the party released its second list of 72 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday. IMAGE: Prime......

27 killed in lightning strikes as rain batters Gujarat

At least 27 people have been killed in multiple lightning strikes in Gujarat as widespread unseasonal rainfall battered the state, damaging homes and standing crops, officials said on Monday.......

Immigration agent held as 9 US-bound persons from Gujarat go missing

An immigration agent was arrested by the police in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district on Thursday after nine persons, including two women, went untraceable during their journey from India to the United......

Remnants of Cyclone Biparjoy bring very heavy rains in north Gujarat

Parts of north Gujarat received extremely heavy rains in the last 24 hours as the intensity of Cyclone Biparjoy gradually reduced from a very severe cyclonic storm to a 'depression', officials said......

PepsiCo offers out-of-court settlement to potato farmers

Firm had sued them for buying seeds and selling a potato variety used for making Lays chips, It has been suggested that the farmers give an undertaking that they would never buy and sow the......

What BJP MP Paresh Rawal's interest in bank NPAs reveals

Under the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government, NPAs zoomed from Rs 309,399 crores as on March 31, 2015, to Rs 728,740 crores as on March 31, 2017, a sharp 135 per cent growth.......

A day in the life of Cashless India

Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore reports from Akodara village that went cashless and digital on January 2, 2015. The foot soldiers of Modi's cashless India IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

A message for Modi from India's crisis-hit farmers

Farmer interest groups predict that unless the government corrects its agricultural pricing and procurement policy, it will face a political blowback, notes Aditi Phadnis. Image: NDA needs to......

ICC WC: Rain likely to disrupt India-Pak match in Ahmedabad

IMAGE: Isolated showers are expected around the Moteraarea in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Photograph: ANI/Files Rain might play spoilsport during the cricket match between India and Pakistan in......