New Delhi: The Chief Ministers of the Congress-led states are likely to skip the meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Land Acquisition Bill, ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Media reports have speculated that the move is aimed at building more pressure on the Centre aheadRead More

New Delhi/Lucknow: Senior IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, who was suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government on Monday night, has said that he will move court against the decision. Thakur, who had accused Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh of threatening him, said, “All charges against me are unfounded; all I haveRead More

Rajahmundry: Twenty nine people have died in a stampede during Godavari Pushkaram festival in Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. Several others have been injured in the incident and the death toll is likely to rise. Police is trying to divert the devotees from the ghats to control the crowd.Read More

Srinagar: The flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir has intensified with heavy rains lashing the state. Following days of heavy rainfall, more than 100 people residing in villages of Ramgarh sector in Samba district of Jammu have been moved to safer places after the Bastar river breached the safety mark.Read More

New Delhi: India is going to work with Pakistan according to the joint statement issued after the Narendra Modi-Nawaz Sharif meeting in Ufa, in Russia, and “will not judge by the airwaves” of what Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz has said in Islamabad, sources said on Tuesday. According toRead More

Washington: Manmohan Singh told his team to “call off” the Indo-US civil nuclear deal a night before its scheduled announcement by President George Bush after Americans came with a killer proposal to let India have just two of its nuclear reactors out of the international safeguards, a top aide ofRead More

Bhopal: Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has said that the `acche din` promised by his political organisation will take 25 years to be achieved, adding that a mere five-year rule by the party cannot take the country to the top of the world. According to reports, Shah said thatRead More

Amritsar, July 14- Realizing the plight of the distressed peasantry in the country, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today urged the Government of India (GoI) to immediately constitute a sub group of the Chief Ministers from the predominantly agrarian states to address the issues related to themRead More

Amritsar: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Tuesday emphasized on the need for quality education in the country, saying that an education system must enable students to face the challenges of competitive world. “The future of the country lies in quality education. It is must to enable students to compete inRead More

Badal stresses upon the need of quality and purposeful education Amritsar, July 14: Union Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley today exhorted students to achieve academic excellence and contribute in the nation’s growth to make india a developed country. Delivering his speech at the 108th convocation of 123 year old KhalsaRead More