NEW DELHI: As election fever grips the country, the Opposition is looking at a possible realignment. However, JD(U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s plan of forming an anti-BJP front, has been ridiculed by the ruling BJP, which is approaching its second year in power. The saffron party saidRead More

AGRA: Eco-activists here today floated hundreds of paper boats in Yamuna, seeking to remind Union tranport and shipping minister Nitin Gadkiri of his promise made in Decemeber 2014 that people soon would be able to sail from Delhi to Agra in the river. Hundreds of paper boats were floated inRead More

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said she would have “given a thought” before choosing her party candidates for the ongoing Assembly elections, if the Narada sting operation tapes had been “telecast earlier”. “It is election time, that is why these videos (Narada sting)Read More

NEW DELHI: Police have arrested two persons in connection with a death threat to JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, conveyed through a letter which was recovered with a loaded gun in a bus operating on a route between an ISBT and the varsity’s campus. “We have arrested twoRead More

NEW DELHI: Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s UB Group today “strenuously denied” the allegation by the Enforcement Directorate that he siphoned off nearly Rs 430 crore from the loan extended to Kingfisher Airlines by IDBI bank for acquiring property abroad. Rejecting the charge that he diverted Rs 430 crore forRead More

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today directed the police to cite the law under which they have detained the girl, who was allegedly molested by a soldier in Handwara on Tuesday which led to violent protests resulting in the death of five persons. Taja Begum, mother of the 16-year-oldRead More

NEW DELHI: The second edition of odd-even car rationing scheme in the national capital witnessed tough crackdown on those flouting norms. The Delhi transport department issued 427 challans, while the Delhi police issued a total of 884 challans on the first day. All seven air quality monitoring systems of theRead More

NEW DELHI: A day after an attempt was made to attack the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar in Nagpur, a country-made pistol and a threat letter were recovered from a bag in a DTC bus plying to and from the JNU campus. The Delhi Police have steppedRead More

NEW DELHI: Hitting out strongly, India on Friday termed as ‘factually incorrect and misleading’ the references made by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Kashmir during its 13th summit in Turkey and asked it to refrain from making such statements in future. The OIC, in its communique, had affirmedRead More

NEW DELHI: Civil defence volunteers, who were deployed at over 200 locations in the city, today took to ‘Gandhgiri’ by offering roses to those violating the odd-even car-rationing scheme being implemented for 15 days to bring down pollution level in the national capital. The government has deployed 5,000 civil defencevolunteersRead More