Patna, The 23-year-old woman, who was set on fire after a failed rape bid in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on December 7, died here on Monday night. She was undergoing treatment in Patna’a Appolo hospital after receiving 80 per cent burns. The victim’s kin said the woman died around 11.40 pmRead More

New Delhi, Ahead of Union Budget 2020-21, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday held pre-Budget consultations on agriculture and related issues with farmers groups and stakeholders from across the country. Farmers’ organisation Bharat Krishak Samaj recommended promoting backyard poultry through sourcing eggs from such units for mid-day meals, a statutoryRead More

New Delhi A Delhi court on Tuesday sent 10 people, arrested in connection with the protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) near Jamia Millia Islamia University here, to judicial custody till December 31. Metropolitan Magistrate Kamran Khan earlier sent six of the 10 arrested people — Mohammad Hanif, Danish aliasRead More

Srinagar The Army on Monday here celebrated the 48th anniversary of the 1971 India-Pakistan war that culminated in the creation of Bangladesh. Corps Commander Lt General KJS Dhillon led officers and other ranks of the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps in paying tribute to the martyrs by laying a wreath at theRead More

New Delhi No refugees belonging to Hindu and other five communities coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given Indian citizenship automatically but only after fulfilling the necessary criteria, a senior Home Ministry official said on Monday. The clarification on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act came amidst widespread protests inRead More

New Delhi Seven years after Nirbhaya’s gruesome gang-rape sent shock waves across the country, the bus stand in south Delhi from where the 23-year-old woman boarded a bus remains a dark spot where women still encounter unwelcome remarks and stares. On the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012, Nirbhaya boardedRead More

Mumbai With the Shiv Sena criticising Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comments on Savarkar, the Maharashtra unit of the BJP is moving to exploit the differences between the two parties which are part of the government in the state. Former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told reporters in Nagpur on Sunday thatRead More

New Delhi, December 15 Protesters agitating against the amended Citizenship Act clashed with police on Sunday and set afire DTC buses and a fire tender in New Friends’ Colony in southeast Delhi leaving a cop and two fire personnel injured, police said. A Delhi Fire Services official said four fireRead More

Giridih/Baghmara (Jharkhand), December 14 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused the Congress of stoking violence over the amended Citizenship Act, as protests blaze in several parts of the county over the contentious law. Shah, addressing election rallies at Giridih and Baghmara Assembly seats, said the passage of theRead More

Kanpur Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the first meeting of the National Ganga Council here on Saturday and said that rejuvenation of the river should be a shining example of cooperative federalism. He also reviewed the progress of works under the ambitious Namami Gange project in the stretch of theRead More