NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders, who were summoned as accused in a criminal defamaiton case filed against them by Union Minister Arun Jaitley, were today granted bail by a Delhi court. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass granted the relief to Kejriwal and AAP leadersRead More

GUWAHATI: Fighting perhaps the toughest electoral battle in his life, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi apprehends division of secular votes in the absence of an understanding with parties like the Left with whom he is not averse to having a post-poll tie up. However, he ruled out any post-poll tieRead More

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: Tension prevailed at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar on Wednesday, a day after police baton-charged non-local students injuring two dozen of them, with authorities deploying five companies of paramilitary forces inside the campus and a three-member team Union Human Resource Development (UHRD) team arriving at SrinagarRead More

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday visited BJP leader L.K. Advani’s residence here to pay tribute to his wife Kamla Advani who passed away a day earlier. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also visited the Advani residence on Thursday. Kamla Advani here died on Wednesday followingRead More

NEW DELHI: “There is an attempt to mess everything up on the Pakistani side,” quipped a senior government officer immediately after a Pak media report quoting Pakistani unnamed member of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) termed the Pathankot terror attack at the Air Force base ‘a drama staged by India toRead More

DEHRADUN: The Nainital High Court on Wednesday will hear Uttarakhand Chief Minister’s Harish Rawat’s plea against the incumbent President’s rule in the state today. The High Court will hear the case today and tomorrow as well. Today the court will possibly give a verdict in regard with the Governor ruleRead More

Mumbai : Rapping the BCCI and cricket associations in Maharashtra and Mumbai over water wastage when the State is reeling under severe drought, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said ideally Indian Premier League (IPL) matches should be shifted elsewhere, where there is no water crisis. “Only if water supplyRead More

NEW DELHI: Hyderabad university professors Tatagatha Sengupta and KY Ratnam, who were arrested on charges of vandalism in connection with protests over Rohith Vemula issue today shared their “ordeal” with students at JNU and said HCU vice chancellor Appa Rao Podile’s return on campus was a planned move. The twoRead More

SRINAGAR: An unidentified militant was killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. The ultra was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Sheikhpura area of Lalpora, 100 kms from here, an army official said today. He said the operation was in progress whenRead More

HYDERABAD: Private sector employee Sudhakar (name changed) had one bottle of beer at a party, got into his car, and drove out of the parking lot, hoping to be home for dinner. As he approached the Moazzam Jahi Market intersection, he was flagged down by a police party and submittedRead More