The PM's choice of ministers is interesting, to say the least, says Jyoti Punwani.
Top-ranked India were held to a 1-1 draw by the brisk-moving South Koreans in the round-robin league encounter of the fourth Asian Champions Trophy hockey, in Kuantan, Malaysia, on Saturday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is merely replicating our agenda, which show the bankruptcy of ideas, credibility and leadership in the party, Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh tells Rediff.com's Upasna Pandey.
The Central Bureau of Investigation special court will on Tuesday decide on the bail plea of former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, who was arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The hearing in the court of CBI Judge G K Upadhyay was adjourned on August 11 following a request for adjournment by Shah's lawyer Mitesh Amin on the grounds that their senior counsel Ram Jethmalani was unable to be present that day.
Polling for the 144-seat Kolkata Municipal Corporation is underway amid tight security arrangements.
World Boxing Champion M C Mary Kom has expressed her desire to represent Jharkhand at the forthcoming 34th National Games to be held February from 12 to 26.
RBI seen cutting repo rate 25 bps on Sept 29, says a poll
The aim behind the arrest of former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case was to target Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his counsel Ram Jethmalani said in an Ahmedabad court.
Secretary of the Legal and Human Rights Department of the Congress party KC Mittal confirmed the development, stating that a complaint will be filed over the PM's "deplorable" statement during his address.
The hearing on the bail plea of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, arrested in connection with the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, was adjourned till August 17 by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
If the apex court agrees to hear the petitions challenging the removal of Article 370, it would be interesting to see if there is an immediate status quo on further proceedings or if it will decide after hearing all the petitions, reports Aashish Aryan.
A day after the assembly elections in Delhi the BJP will hold a review meeting this evening to discuss the political situation.
Chintan Upadhayay, the estranged husband of artist Hema Upadhyay, plotted the murder of his wife as he apparently wanted to get rid of the court cases that he was fighting with her, the police said on Wednesday.
The special court for MCOCA cases on Saturday rejected the bail application of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a key accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
Defending champions India continued their unbeaten run as they beat South Korea 5-3 in the Pool A match to storm into the semi-finals of the men's hockey competition at the 18th Asian Games.
The Congress is quietly dropping an All India Congress Committee session planned in New Delhi on December 28, to kick off the year-long celebrations of the party completing 125 years.
A terrible fire engulfed the prestigious Stephen's House building near Park Street in the heart of Kolkata on Tuesday afternoon.
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The bench refused Purohit's request for staying the proceedings in the trial court, noting that in the past, both the Supreme Court and the Bombay HC had passed orders directing the trial court to expedite the hearing in the case.
Rera's implementation is patchy across states, and the powers of the regulator to enforce its orders are also limited.
The Central Reserve Police Force on Thursday said it has ordered an inquiry into the shocking recovery of uniforms, suspected to be that of troopers martyred in a recent Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh, in a garbage dump near a hospital in state capital Raipur.
A local court in Ahmedabad acquitted 29 persons on Tuesday, accused in a 2002 riot case in Abasana village of Detroj taluka of the district, where six people of minority community were killed.
The petition sought directions for taking steps to promote brotherhood and national integrity in the country.
The induction of Shiv Pratap Shukla, a Brahmin face in the BJP, is being seen as a well-calculated move to keep the upper caste in good humour.
A total 95 deaths deaths were reported since Friday morning, of which 37 in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, nine in West Bengal, seven in Madhya Pradesh, four each from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, three from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and two from Delhi and one each from Punjab and Haryana.
For Ashok Upadhyay, a taxi driver from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, who makes his living in Mumbai, there are concerns more pressing than the Budget.
The Rail Budget is full of hollow promises, the Congress leader said.
The arrest came barely a few hours after a Bhagalpur court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Shashwat against whom an arrest warrant was issued on March 24.
India lead South Africa 2-0 after the first quarter in their opening Pool C match of the 2018 Hockey World Cup at the Kalinga stadium, Bhubaneshwar, on Wednesday.
Seventeen persons were killed and 22 injured when a Delhi-bound public bus from Pithoragarh fell into a deep gorge in Almora district on Saturday afternoon.
Changing the names of Uttar Pradesh cities has accelerated into a movement ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election, notes Ranjita Ganesan.
The Indian men's hockey team will have to guard against complacency when it takes on lower-ranked Russia, while a tricky contest awaits their female counterparts against United States in the two-legged Olympic qualifiers.
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and another person, arrested for their alleged involvement in the September 29 Malegaon blast, were subjected to narco-analysis tests in Mumbai on Monday.The Sadhvi and Sameer Kulkarni underwent the scientific tests conducted by officials of the Forensic Science Laboratory in a hospital in south Mumbai, Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad officials said.The tests on former army officer Ramesh Upadhyay is likely to be conducted on Wednesday.
Three accused in the September 29 Malegaon blast on Saturday underwent polygraph tests at the Kalina Forensic Science Laboratory.
Nashik-based Bhonsalal Military School (BMS) on Friday said no meeting took place in the institution among retired major Ramesh Shivji Upadhyay, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and a serving lieutanant Colonel, who have been interrogated in connection with the Malegaon blasts.
The 15% invested every month in equity would be allotted to subscribers in the form of units.
Tytler, who remains sidelined in the party, was seated along with other party leaders including Dikshit on the stage where the function took place at the Delhi Congress office.
Kalinga Lancers displayed rampaging form as they decimated Punjab Warriors 7-0 to seal a semi-final berth in the fifth edition of the Hockey India League, in Chandigarh, on Saturday.
