Jammu, Pakistani troops violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir injuring six civilians including two women, to which India retaliated. According to an Army officer, Pakistani troops resorted to heavy firing by small arms and automatic weapons and shelling of 81 mm mortarRead More

Pune, An 18-year-old college girl was allegedly raped by a man here when she approached him to seek directions after she lost her way, following which the accused has been arrested, police said on Thursday. The girl, a student of a reputed college here, who was new to the cityRead More

Kolkata, President Pranab Mukherjee flagged off the Sachch Bharat Mission at Kirnahar and Birbhum District of West Bengal by administering pledge to the students and others at Kirnahar Shib Chandra High School and joining hands with the students of the school in cleanliness drive. The President also paid floral tributesRead More

Mumbai: Amid accusations that his party could go with the BJP after the Maharashtra Assembly elections, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday asserted his support for secular parties. “NCP has always stood by the secular parties and will do the same in future,” Pawar told mediapersons. Taking a jibe atRead More

New Delhi, Just two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in New York that Person of Indian Origin (PIO) cardholders would get lifetime visas and be exempt from police reporting in India, his government has walked the talk and formally notified the two measures. The Union home ministry, inRead More

New Delhi, The stay on summons issued by a trial court against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald assets case was, on Wednesday, extended till November 3. The Delhi High Court adjourned the hearing on a petition moved by them against the trialRead More

New Delhi, India had cancelled the deal with AgustaWestland for 12 helicopters in January, citing a breach of integrity related to alleged corruption. That was then. But twenty months after it started probe into the Rs.3,600-crore chopper scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is yet to file a chargesheetRead More

New Delhi,  Anant Geete, Shiv Sena’s lone member in the Union Cabinet, today said he will not resign as Heavy Industries Minister after his party decided to ontinue in NDA despite parting ways with BJP for Maharashtra polls. Asked whether he will resign, Geete said, “Certainly not”. “It (the alliance)Read More

Chandigarh, Congress, seeking a third term in a row in Haryana, on Wednesday released its election manifesto for the October 15 polls, attempting to woo farmers and other sections, even as Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda promised to put the state on higher growth trajectory. Seeking mandate in the nameRead More

New Delhi, Dawood Ibrahim, the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai blasts, and his financial network are now for the first time the target of india and the United States following their agreement to dismantle safe havens for terrorists and criminal networks, including those of the D-company. Prime Minister Narendra ModiRead More