Chennai,  A day after BJP announced its decision to face the September 18 bypolls to various local bodies, the party on Tuesday ensured the support of its ally, the Vaiko-led MDMK. MDMK, along with DMK, had announced its decision to boycott the bypolls, even as BJP had set in motionRead More

Jammu, The security forces on Tuesday killed three dreaded terrorists belonging to militant outfit  Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) after a fierce gunbattle in the Pulwama district of south Kashmir. Top JeM commander Altaf Rather is among those who have been killed in the encounter. The JeM terrorists were holed up in a house inRead More

Agra,  A community in Uttar Pradesh has imposed a ban on the use of mobile phones by school girls in order to save them from falling prey to ‘love jihad’. As per a report in an English daily, the diktat has been issued by an influential committee of vaishyas, called the Akhil Bharitiya VaishyaRead More

New Delhi – Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday underwent a successful laparoscopic procedure at a hospital here. “Arun Jaitley underwent a planned elective laparoscopic procedure fordiabetes management under Pradeep K. Chowbey at the Max Super Specialty Hospital, Saket, today (Tuesday),” a statement from the hospital said. “The procedure has been performed successfully,” it added. Jaitley wasRead More

Tokyo – India is no more a land of snake-charmers, in fact it has revolutionised the world of computer technology, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he addressed the Indian community in Tokyo, a day ahead of wrapping up his five-day Japan visit. “My computer engineer friend had superstitious image about India. I told him nowRead More

New Delhi,  Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives his ministerial colleagues all the freedom and encourages them to take decisions, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday while remarking that “policy paralysis” had come to an end under the new regime. “He gives us so much freedom and has only oneRead More

New Delhi,  Congress has secured chairmanship of five Parliamentary Standing Committees after failing to get the Leader of the Opposition post in the Lok Sabha. Its members M Veerappa Moily, Shashi Tharoor and P Bhattacharya will now head the important committees on Finance, External Affairs and Home respectively. The mainRead More

New Delhi, The central government has decided to go ahead with the appointment of former Chief Justice of India P Sathasivem as the Governor of Kerala, say sources, despite the fears expressed by lawyer bodies, said sources. The Ministry of Home Affairs has forwarded the proposal to appoint Justice SathasivamRead More

* 2 months extension to Mudgal committee New Delhi,  Supreme Court on Monday gave two months extension to Justice Mudgal committee to complete its final probe in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing and betting scandal. In fact, the special SC bench, headed by Justice TS Thakur gave a big set backRead More

New Delhi, The CBI Monday filed its final status report in the Delhi High Court on its probe into allegations that Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, during his earlier tenure as CM and Union Minister, was involved in graft, MONEY laundering and forgery. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R SRead More