The magic figure for simple majority was 105, equivalent to the strength of the BJP, which also commanded the support of an Independent.
Medha Patkar was on Monday arrested when she tried to stage a demonstration outside the Secretariat in Mumbai demanding implementation of rehabilitation package for people in Maharashtra affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project.
A policeman was killed on Tuesday morning in a blast in North Kashmir Baramulla town. A senior police officer said an explosive device went off inside the joint interrogation centre (JIC) in Baramulla town Tuesday morning, killing constableRamesh Kumar of the 4th battalion of the India Reserve Police (IRP) on the spot.
'It would have made (Producer) Ramesh Taurani very happy if I taken two Bombay stars, but the reason why I kept mentally rejecting the regular sort of casting was to discover this excitement, you know, can I crack it?'
In its complaint against Shah, the Congress told the EC that the home minister claimed in a speech in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon on October 16 that "...Bhupesh Baghel's government, for appeasement politics and vote bank politics, lynched Chhattisgarh's son Bhuneshwar Sahoo and got him killed..."
The Diwali parties have started in Bollywood with a big dhamaka, with Producer Ramesh Taurani kicking off the festivities.
Wrestling Federation of India president M S Malik is confident that more wrestlers in the Greeco-Roman would qualify for Athens.
Reader Ramesh Kumar sings Yaad Naa Jaaye as a tribute to Mohammad Rafi.
Star Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar on Saturday qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics after winning a silver medal in the Asian Athletics Championships.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi concluded the hearings of the rebel MLAs, the Speaker and Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.
A non-Gandhi is set to become the Congress president after 24 years.
Housing Minister M T B Nagaraj and K Sudhakar handed over their resignations at the Speaker's chamber in Vidhana Soudha.
Pawar did not entertain requests from members of the opposition INDIA alliance to not share stage with Modi.
As many as 200 Hindu pilgrims, most of them from India, were overwhelmed with emotions as they prayed at the 100-year-old renovated Maharaja Paramhans Ji temple in Pakistan on Sunday amidst tight security, a year after the temple was demolished by a mob belonging to a radical Islamist party.
A few days after Satish Kaushik's sudden passing on March 9, a prayer service was held at his residence in Andheri, northwest Mumbai.
India won the first ever kabaddi World Cup with a convincing 55-27 victory over Iran in the final.
Congress leader and All India Congress Committee (AICC) in charge of Karnataka Randeep Surjewala said on Sunday that the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) has unanimously passed the resolution and the observers will seek the opinions of all MLAs and convey it to the party high command.
Unheralded Abha Khatua equalled the women's shot put national record of 18.06m while winning silver in a surprise performance.
Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
SunRisers Hyderabad has the biggest purse while Kolkata Knight Riders has the slimmest purse.
The Patna High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the Bihar government's petition challenging the acquittal of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi in a disproportionate assets case.
Governors must be impartial, fair, and above narrow politics to uphold the values and spirit of the Constitution. But in a rapidly changing political culture where the unstated rule is to crush the Opposition, such values have no meaning. At stake are Constitutional values, federalism and governance, asserts Ramesh Menon.
LSG are sitting in second place with 14 point thanks to a stupendous show by Rahul
In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, Sukanya Verma looks back at Madhubala and Kishore Kumar's Half Ticket (1962).
Guilty of making too many changes at the top, Kolkata Knight Riders will be looking to find a winning combination against Rajasthan Royals and snap their five-match losing streak in the IPL, at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, on Monday.
Delhi Capitals will look to put the 'no-ball' controversy behind and gain much needed momentum against another side seeking course correction, the Kolkata Knight Riders, in the Indian Premier League.
'I came to politics accidentally. I became the chief minister accidentally. God gave me the opportunity to become the chief minister twice'
Indian defender Surender Kumar will not play any role in the ongoing fourth Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament after being suspended for two matches following a deliberate foul during the game against Malaysia.
Three Indians have won the 2005 Ashden Awards, considered the Green Oscar, for their outstanding and innovative projects.
A formal letter in this regard was sent by the state government on Tuesday requesting the Centre to relieve six senior IAS officers, including G B Patnaik, Anoop Mishra, J N Chamber and R Ramesh Kumar, official sources in Lucknow said.
While the return of pace spearhead Anrich Nortje, who had been nursing an injury, bolstered the bowling unit, the South African, who hasn't bowled since the T20 World Cup in November, looked understandably rusty.
Ramesh said he would file a case against Thakur in the apex court as the police in Karnataka would not act against the BJP MP.
IOA's ad-hoc committee, tasked with conducting the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections, on Monday called five disputed state bodies for a hearing on June 21.
India easily defeated Malaysia in the quarter-finals to make the grade.
Kolkata Knight Riders will have their task cut out as they take on a determined Royal Challengers Bangalore in their IPL 2022 league match on Wednesday.
Acting swiftly on the controversy regarding illegal drug-coated stents, the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has asked all stent manufacturers and importers to get valid licenses within the next two months from the Drugs Controller General of
The Akhil Bharatiya Tirath Purohit Mahasabha and the Mathur Chaturved Parishad pleaded to be made respondents in the case. They said the suit for the removal of the mosque should not be allowed as it is detrimental to communal harmony in the country, according to their counsels.
Her eldest son Ramesh Kumar, 80, said Devi had never leaked the name of the candidate she had voted for.
A welcome news for India fans will be Ravichandran Ashwin is doing fine and although he sustained a painful blow from a Jofra Archer short ball during the Indian second innings and needed immediate attention from the physio Nitin Patel.
Modi to receive Lokmanya Tilak National Award, constituted by Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust in 1983, to honour the legacy of Lokmanya Tilak
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