New Delhi Most women commuters on Tuesday hailed the Delhi government’s move to provide free ride to them in DTC and cluster buses, saying it will encourage them to take public transport, ensure their safety and help them save money at the same time. There was, however, a section ofRead More

New Delhi India has taken up Pakistan’s denial of use of its airspace to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flight with the International Civil Aviation Organisation, government sources said on Monday. Modi is travelling to Saudi Arabia later in the day on a bilateral visit. India has sought overflight clearance fromRead More

New Delhi Ahead of the expected Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed government, political parties and the civil society helped keep down tensions after the Allahabad High Court’s 2010 ruling on the disputed land in Ayodhya. He described it as an example of howRead More

Mumbai The Shiv Sena has put a question mark over a second term for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis with the party staking claim for the top job. “Shiv Sena will surely have its Chief Minister,” Member of Parliament Anil Desai said after a meeting with party chief Uddhav Thackeray atRead More

Coimbatore Nonagenarian yoga exponent V Nanammal died at her residence near here on Saturday, her family sources said. The 99-year-old Nanammal, popularly known as yoga grandma, had a fall from the cot a week ago and since then she was not keeping well, the sources said. She was conferred theRead More

New Delhi, October 25 India has been ranked 57th among 195 countries in a global health security index, which also shows that most of the countries are unprepared for any major infectious disease outbreak. Only 13 countries in the list, which is topped by the US, have a high score.Read More

Patna Barely five months after its stupendous performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the NDA suffered a setback in Bihar Assembly bypolls winning just one of the five assembly seats whose results were announced on Thursday. The results gave the once mighty RJD a reason to smile as it wonRead More

Jaipur The ruling Congress party on Thursday raised its tally in the Rajasthan Assembly to 108 by winning the Mandawa seat while NDA’s sole partner Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLTP) won the Kheenvsar seat. Rita Choudhary won the Mandawa assembly bypoll by defeating BJP’s Sushila Sigara by a margin of 32,666Read More

Chandigarh Haryana on Thursday ended up with a hung assembly with the ruling BJP emerging as the largest party with 40 seats, but still six short of the halfway mark needed to form the next government. The Congress won 31 seats, the Jannayak Janta Party 10, the Indian National LokRead More

Chandigarh Eight Haryana ministers lost the assembly elections, which saw just two of the 10 ministers fielded by the ruling BJP returning to the state assembly. Cabinet minister and five-time MLA Anil Vij retained his traditional bastion of Ambala Cantonment, whereas minister of state Dr Banwari Lal emerged victorious fromRead More