National Award-winning actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui talks about his journey in the film industry.
15 more persons lost their lives due to persistent cold wave conditions in Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll in the state this winter to 107.
'Sukh Pal Singh is not very rich where money is concerned, but his heart is rich.'
Raising the communal temperature in riot-affected western Uttar Pradesh going to polls on Monday, Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah has spoken of the current election being an opportunity to take "revenge for the insult" during the violence in Muzaffarnagar last year.
The Congress party is thinking of ways to counter the BJP in Lok Sabha constituencies is it unlikely to win, reports Renu Mittal.
Dynasts and turncoats in Uttarakhand and Hindutva champions in Uttar Pradesh - BJP names 64 candidates for Uttarakhand and 149 for UP.
Congress strategist and Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN has said that the 2014 general elections are not a battle between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
The magnificent Jat community has taken his tears to its heart, observes Sudhir Bisht. In Tikait, they see their late leader's son, the son of their doughty farm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, says Dr Sudhir Bisht.
Amid efforts to form a Third Front, several regional parties including the Left, the Janata Dal-United, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Bharatiya Janata Dal and United Progressive Alliance ally Nationalist Congress Party on Wednesday came together at a convention in New Delhi with their leaders pitching for unity among them to defeat the "threat" from fascist and communal forces.
Wearing garlands, the farmer leaders, who had called for observing 'Sadbhavana Diwas' (Harmony Day) on Saturday after the immense outrage over violence by protesters during their Republic Day tractor rally, sat on the dais during the fast, as crowds of supporters swelled, especially in Gazipur where the Bharatiya Kisan Union is leading the protest.
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by three persons, including a Bahujan Samaja Party MLA's son, police said.
The Election Commission on Monday granted four days more time to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi to reply to its notice for Model Code violation over his remark that Pakistani's Inter Services Intelligence was in touch with Muzaffarnagar riot victims.
Perpetrators of communal riots in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district will be given the strictest punishment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.
The children were taken ill soon after eating the mid-day meal, which consisted of rice and 'kadhi', police said.
Proceedings in Parliament were paralysed for the third day running over a number of issues, including Telangana and death of 40 children in Muzaffarnagar relief camps, preventing the notices for a no-confidence motion from being taken up on Wednesday.
The youth took the woman at gunpoint to a nearby field when she was returning from the market and raped her, police said.
'It shows that they cannot manage the situation with the forces in their hand.'
'All the bride's beleaguered parents wanted, they said, was a simple wedding without any unnecessary problems.'
Pakistanis eat from India and then backstab us, said the controversial MLA from UP.
In a shocking incident, a complainant was allegedly asked by policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district to shine their shoes to get his complaint filed at the police station.
He said there was no report of any untoward incident from anywhere in the state.
A 26-year-old woman was allegedly drugged and gangraped in Muzaffarnagar by five youths, including son of a Sub-inspector, police said on Sunday.
'Charging that some main political parties are trying to "dangerously" disturb the communal harmony in Uttar Pradesh ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday warned such forces of stringent action.
'When Nawazuddin Siddiqui -- one of India's finest actors -- was told not to perform in a Ramleela, I realised how much Hinduism has been hijacked by Hindutva forces in the last 30 years,' says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The principal allegedly threatened the students of dire consequences if they disobeyed her command.
Amid raging controversy over Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's claim -- that those living in relief camps in Muzaffarnagar were political activists and not riot victims -- his party went into fire fighting mode on Wednesday, saying his statement had been twisted.
Controlled communal tension is useful in ensuring continued Muslim support. Fear of the BJP is a requirement for both, the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, to keep their Muslim vote bank in line, says Saeed Naqvi.
The body of farmer leader and Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Mahendra Singh Tikait, who died after prolonged battle with bone cancer, was on Monday cremated at his birth place Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday replied to the Election Commission notice over alleged model code violation with controversial remarks that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence was in touch with Muzaffarnagar riot victims, denying the charge.
Investigators were on Sunday looking into what caused one of the deadliest train accidents in recent times as rescue operations continued
A young girl was brutally beaten to death, while her boyfriend is struggling for survival after being attacked in the name of 'family honour' in Soran village of Muzaffarnagar district near Lucknow.
In a seeming bid to preempt any move by yoga guru Baba Ram Dev to stage a demonstration in Uttar Pradesh, the UP administration clamped Section 144 of CrPC in all districts falling under the national capital region late Monday evening. Under this section, assembly of four or more persons at any public place is banned.
Tikait (76), who was president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, had been suffering from bone cancer since last year and breathed his last at the residence of his son and BKU general secretary Rakesh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar, family sources said
The Congress on Saturday complained to the Election Commission against Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah over his "provocative hate speech", demanding that he be arrested and banned from campaigning for "creating animosity between communities" in riot-hit western UP.
To repeated questions, the SP chief asserted that the Congress was 'very much in the alliance'.
The Khap Council heads in this meeting, that began on Saturday in Soran village, opposed same gotra marriages and said such relations "will not be tolerated by the caste councils".
Popular farmers' leader and founder president of Bhartiya Kisan Union Mahendra Sigh Tikait, who died of bone cancer on Sunday morning in Muzaffarnagar, had led over a dozen major movements in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, fighting for the cause of farmers.
The National Human Rights Commission is adopting a tough posture against illegal police actions as outlined in three cases in which big amount of monetary relief has been recommended by the panel and paid by the state governments concerned.
This crisis requires political sophistication and governance skills. This BJP has neither, observes Shekhar Gupta.
A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Navla village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh the police said on Monday.
