Shimla: Raising objections to the construction of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s house, Suresh Bhardwaj, BJP’s Shimla MLA, has written to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for cancelling the permission granted to her by the state government, saying it is being built close to ‘The Retreat’, the President’s guest house in Shimla.Read More

Srinagar: Eighty four security camps and bunkers were removed in Jammu and Kashmir since January 2009 with the highest number of 22 such structures vacated in 2010, the year when the Valley witnessed a massive agitation leaving over 120 persons dead. Most of the camps and bunkers were removed fromRead More

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party on Friday accused BJP and Congress of bending the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act to provide facilities to its councillors thus leaving them bereft of any “moral right” to question AAP on the issue of office of profit. The party said the standing committees of theRead More

New Delhi: Use of force can be legitimate if children see their parents being assaulted, the Supreme Court has said while acquitting two brothers accused of hitting their neighbours who had beaten up their parents, causing the death of their father later. “The appellants can legitimately claim right to useRead More

Ahmedabad: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) court here on Friday awarded life imprisonment to 11 of the 24 persons convicted in the Gulberg Society massacre of 69 people, including former Lok Sabha member of the Congress Ehsan Jafri, in the 2002 post-Godhra violence. Twelve of the convicts were sent toRead More

Bhopal/Jabalpur: One person was stabbed to death and five others injured after two groups of Congress workers clashed in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh following a dispute over sharing caricature of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on a WhatsApp group, police said on Thursday. The incidentRead More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked the tax officials to remove fear of harassment from the minds of taxpayers and focus on five pillars of administration — revenue, accountability, probity, information and digitisation (RAPID). Inaugurating the two-day Rajasva Gyan Sangam here, Prime Minister asked the officials toRead More

Arni, Maharashtra: Punjab Congress in-charge Kamal Nath resigned as he did not want the “genuine issues” plaguing the poll-bound state to get diverted amidst the politically-motivated allegations levelled by the opposition parties, AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh said on Thursday. Nath, who was assigned the responsibility as the General SecretaryRead More

New Delhi, Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit is a frontrunner for the post of Congress general secretary in charge of Punjab with sources saying an official announcement would follow soon. The three-time Delhi CM, Dikshit will replace Kamal Nath who quit as the general secretary in charge of PunjabRead More

New Delhi: Taking strong objection to Hindutva leader Sadhvi Prachi’s recent statement calling for a “Muslim-free” India, the All India Imams Council on Thursday staged a protest demanding an FIR against the VHP leader. Known for courting controversies, Sadhvi had recently claimed the mission of a Congress-free India has alreadyRead More