New Delhi: Benares Hindu University is holding an “international seminar” on the role of ‘RSS in Nation Building’ but the central university’s vice-chancellor – who calls himself “a man of RSS” – says he will take action against the Faculty of Social Sciences for including his name as ‘chief patron’Read More

New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday directed cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to face trial for seeking assistance of a government servant during the 2009 general elections while partially dropping charges of corrupt practice and submission of false return on election expenses. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and A MRead More

Islamabad: For the second day in a row, Pakistan on Wednesday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner and lodged a strong protest over alleged “unprovoked firing” by Indian forces along the Working Boundary and Line of Control. It was second day in succession that Indian envoy J P Singh was summonedRead More

New Delhi: In what is a relief for daily commuters, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday declared the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) Flyway, to be toll-free. The DND Flyway connects Delhi on the west bank of the Yamuna with Noida and East Delhi. Earlier, it had witnessed numerous protests and demonstrations demandingRead More

Patna: Authorities at Bihar’s Patna Railway Station have blocked access to porn sites in its free Wi-Fi service at the station, officials said on Wednesday. “We have acted after it was found that free Wi-Fi service was used for opening porn sites at Patna railway station and also in viewRead More

New Delhi: A Delhi court has ordered lodging of a perjury case against a woman for levelling false rape charges against three men, observing that she had caused humiliation to the accused and made a mockery of the judicial system. The court pulled up the woman, a mother of twoRead More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court judgment of 1995 in Manohar Joshi vs. N.B. Patil, 1995 ( see online ) was one of the most disgraceful judgments delivered by the Indian Supreme Court, and ranks along with the MISA judgment ( ADM Jabalpur vs. Shivakant Shukla ) as a huge stainRead More

Chennai: Almost a month after she was hospitalised, Apollo Hospitals on Friday for the first time said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa “is interacting”, a key indicator of improvement in her physical condition. “The Honourable Chief Minister is interacting and progressing gradually,” Director of Medical Services, Apollo Hospitals, DrRead More

Jammu: The Border Security Force on Friday said it had killed seven personnel of Pakistani Rangers and a terrorist while retaliating to a ceasefire violation on the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in which one BSF jawan was injured. The Pakistani army, however, said none ofRead More

New Delhi: Barely an hour after Rita Bahuguna Joshi switched to the BJP, and pictures of her with Amit Shah went viral, the mood in the Congress was mixed. While party spokespersons were asked to go strong on Rita and call her an “opportunist” belonging to a “family of betrayers”,Read More