New Delhi/Tokyo – Japan and India agreed on Monday to strengthen strategic ties as Asia’s second and third biggest economies keep a wary eye on a rising China, and agreed to accelerate talks on the possible sale of an amphibious aircraft to India’s navy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe andRead More

New Delhi, Dismissing the bail plea of Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, a special court here, Monday, ordered his arrest in connection with the Tatra trucks bribery case. The court passed the order after taking cognisance of CBI’s chargesheet against Tejinder Singh for allegedly offering Rs 14 crore bribe toRead More

New Delhi, Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani on Monday rubbished reports about the government planning to celebrate ‘Teachers Day’ as ‘Guru Utsav’, saying a deliberate attempt is being made to distort certain facts. She said ‘Guru Utsav’ is an essay competition being organized for students bothRead More

Pune,   A crowd of more than 50 people came together in Pune , lift a bus and free two college students, who were trapped underneath. This picture, now circulating on social media, captures the moment the crowd came to the rescue of the two youth. The speeding bus ranRead More

Lucknow -Samajwadi Party on Monday demanded the Election Commission to impose a ban on BJP MP Yogi Adityanath from campaigning of bypolls to 11 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, slated for September 13 next, for his alleged remarks on “love jihad”. “The party has already writtenRead More

New Delhi,  State-run United Bank of India on Monday became the first lender to declare debt-ridden KingfisherAirlines and its promoter Vijay Mallya as wilful defaulters. “We have declared Vijay Mallya and three other directors of Kingfisher Airlines as wilful defaulters,” United Bank of India executive director Deepak Narang said. The Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) ofRead More

New Delhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said the NDA government has freed the nation of policy paralysis and bad governance. Naqvi further said that the strong steps taken by the government in the first 100 days have yielded positive results. “It is clearly visibleRead More

New Delhi, The Home Ministry on Monday dismissed reports that Rajnath Singh has plans to meet his Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the SAARC conference in Nepal scheduled to be held later this month. The Home Minister’s office said in a tweet that Singh was of the firm opinionRead More

New Delhi, The Delhi High Court Monday sought response of CBI on the pleas of 14 suspended Uttarakhand cops, who have challenged their conviction and life imprisonment for killing a 22-year-old MBA student in a fake encounter in Dehradun in 2009. The trial court on June 9 had awarded lifeRead More

New Delhi – Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday rubbished rumours about cracks emerging in the alliance between his party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “Just because the BJP’s alliance with Kuldeep Bishnoi in Haryana has collapsed, it doesn’t hold truth in the case with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. ThisRead More