Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:58:43
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today extended her "full support" to former Union minister Yashwant Sinha in his fight for the cause of farmers and said she was concerned about the BJP veteran, who was detained by Maharashtra Police.
She said she was sending Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi to meet Sinha, who was detained at Akola in Maharashtra last evening while protesting alo
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:56:45
As many as 39 people have perished and 167 fishermen were still missing after cyclone Ockhi hit Tamil Nadu and Kerala coasts while 809 others were swept away to Maharashtra, the Union Home Ministry said today.
Joint Secretary in the ministry Sanjeev Kumar Jindal also said the cyclone is slowing down and would have no impact in Gujarat, where the first of the two-phased assembly elections is due
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:34:23
The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to hear the civil appeals filed by various parties challenging the 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute on February 8.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S A Najeeb also asked the Advocates on Record of appeals to sit together and ensure that all the required documents ar
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:24:21
The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted all petitions relating to deportation of Muslim Rohingya refugees for detailed hearing on January 31.
The Rohingya immigrants, who fled to India after violence in the Western Rakhine state of Myanmar, have settled in Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Rajasthan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:20:02
Office of the Chief Electoral Officer-Karnataka (OCEO) has published the draft electoral list for the 2018 Assembly polls on its website and will also be launching a special voters' enrolment drive later this month.
Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on Monday Chief Electoral Oofficer Sanjeev Kumar said the draft electoral rolls of all the 224 Assembly constituencies in the state have b
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:12:38
Members of the DYFI Dakshina Kannada unit have demanded strengthening government hospitals, a government medical college in Dakshina Kannada and control of private hospitals.
The members staged a protest in front of DC's office in Mangaluru, on Monday.
The protesters also demanded measures to check and control private hospitals in the state. A memorandum was submitted to Chief Minister Sidd
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:08:36
The Allahabad High Court has directed the release of a murder convict who served 26 years of his life imprisonment, of which 22 years was in a mental hospital.
The convict is still undergoing treatment and is in a critical condition.
Expressing deep anguish over the delay in disposal of the convict's appeal, the court, while upholding the conviction, confined his life imprisonment to only 2
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:04:09
India hurtled towards their ninth successive series victory as they left Sri Lanka precariously placed at 31 for three and staring at another humiliation in the third and final Test here today.
The visiting Lankans were set an improbable victory target of 410 to level the three-match series. It will be a miracle if Sri Lanka manage to make it.
The 16 overs that they batted during the final 8
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Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:02:00
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said his government will not allow communal violence in the state even if the BJP tried hard for the same ahead of the assembly polls.
His comments come in the wake of the arrest of BJP MP Pratap Simha near Mysuru, ahead of a Hamnuman Jayanti procession yesterday. Simha is out on station bail.
"We will not allow any communal violence in our state,
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