Meerut: Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati on Monday claimed that cow slaughter and export of beef have increased since BJP came to power at the Centre. “Slaughtering of cows is on the increase since BJP came to power. The export of beef has also increased under the BJP government,” Swaroopanand, whoRead More

New Delhi: Sharing concern over many issues in various parts of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ talked about efforts to clean Ganga and Yamuna rivers, hoping that these will show results in some time. He delved on education, emphasising that theRead More

Kolkata: Polling for the fourth phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, which will decide the fate of several Trinamool Congress ministers, began this morning with unprecedented security arrangements. Voters were seen lining up before 12,500 polling stations in 49 seats in North 24 Parganas district, including Bidhan Nagar, and HowrahRead More

Lucknow: Two persons — a student and a former student — were killed in a clash between two groups at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) late Saturday night. The angry students set the proctor’s office on fire and burnt two cars and half a dozen motorcycles parked near the vice-chancellor’s lodgeRead More

Hyderabad: A six-year-old child was electrocuted when he touched an electricity cable hanging from a transformer near his house in Nacharam on Sunday. G. Ganesh was following a bird when the incident occurred. Locals said the insulation of the cable had been damaged a week ago. Police is likely toRead More

Hyderabad: The Osmania University is a perfect example of the dwindling groundwater situation in Hyderabad. The university, spread over 1,300 acres, is a small town in itself with nearly 30,000 regular inhabitants, including around 10,000 hostellers in 16 hostels and residents of the university’s staff quarters. A large number ofRead More

Kolkata: The CPI(M) claimed on Saturday that violence has been “unprecedented” in West Bengal with seven of its party workers “killed” since the onset of the Assembly elections, and said it will not succumb to such “politics of terror” and will put up greater resistance. “The violence has been unprecedentedRead More

Mumbai: Seeking bail for former media baron Peter Mukerjea arrested in Sheena Bora murder case, his lawyer on Friday argued in a court here that mere calls between him and his wife and prime accused Indrani Mukerjea during the period when the crime took place did not make him aRead More

Varanasi, It is rightly said that ‘where there is a will, there is a way.’ In order to fulfill an age-old dream of his father, a groom in Sathava village of the Sarnath area in Varanasi arrived in a helicopter for his wedding procession. Akhilesh Singh, the groom, the sonRead More

New Delhi: SpiceJet showed pink slip to a pilot for allegedly harassing an air hostess aboard a Bangkok bound flight. The pilot allegedly locked himself inside the cockpit along with the air hostess and asked her to sit on his seat without any rhyme or reason on both legs ofRead More