What is the need of Parliament? Lok Sabha Speaker

"Let us abolish this House. What is the need of Parliament." These observations were made by Speaker Somnath Chatterjee in the Lok Sabha Wednesday, exasperated over the demands for suspending the......

Kerala nuns arrested in Durg for 'trafficking, conversion', Rahul protests

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed two Catholic nuns were jailed in Chhattisgarh for their faith and alleged that a 'systematic persecution' of minorities was taking place wherever the......

Phase 2 of Lok Sabha polls concludes with 68% voting

A 67.84 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the second phase of Lok Sabha polls on Thursday in 95 seats spread in 11 states and a Union Territory, the Election Commission said. Barring sporadic......

Air India crash orphans travel-loving couple's teen daughter

Neeraj Lavania and his wife Aparna were among the 241 souls onboard flight AI-171 from Ahmedabad to London who died when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff on June 12. The couple shared a......

E-ticketing for Taj Mahal to begin soon

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will soon begin e-ticketing at the three gates of the Taj Mahal. Zero-value tickets would also be issued to children under 15 years of age, ASI......

MPs who heckled Sitharaman were first to rush to her

It is a tribute to India’s democracy, however flawed, that the very same MPs who had harangued her intermittently from Opposition benches now surged towards her, anxiety writ large on their......

Laying of 1 km high speed train track to cost over Rs 100 cr

Construction of one kilometre of high speed railway track will cost Rs 100-140 crore (Rs 1-1.4 billion) and the country will need a total of Rs 80,000 crore (Rs 800 billion) to lay the......