India

Lucknow, Nov 25: Uttar Pradesh has already given India its first woman Governor and Chief Minister but Lucknow is set to make history on Sunday by electing its first woman Mayor in 100 years. A woman has never before been elected as head of the municipal body after the Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act came into existence. This time, however, the Lucknow mayoral seat has been reserved for women

Mayurbhanj, Nov 25 : A different condition of a government school came to light in Odisha's Mayurbhanj, where a teacher allegedly made the students work in her fields. As per information, the teacher, named Sangita Sarita Munda, made three girls work in her fields for three-day and in return she paid each of them Rs. 100 per day. The girls, who belonged from the tribal community, used to stay in

Chandigarh, Nov 25: The Haryana government has suspended mobile Internet services in 13 districts for three days, apprehending law and order problem in view of two public rallies by a Jat body and ruling BJP's Kurukshetra MP on November 26. MP Raj Kumar Saini, who was opposing quota for Jats, had announced a "Samanta Maha Sammelan" in Jind while All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti national

Chennai, Nov 25: The Madras High Court on Friday directed the police to register an FIR against actor Kamal Haasan if a cognisable offence is made out against him over his alleged comments on "Hindu terrorism" in a Tamil magazine. Justice M S Ramesh passed the order on a petition by G Devarajan, a registered advocate clerk in the high court, seeking a direction to the police to register the FIR

New Delhi, Nov 25: The Congress on Friday held Prime Minister Narendra Modi "solely responsible" for creating a "mess" of the economy, after Standard & Poor's kept its sovereign rating for the country unchanged. Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said the government was taking shelter under these "dubious" certificates from rating agencies. Rating agency Moody's had on last Friday raised India's

New Delhi, Nov 25: Delhi Metro lost over three lakh commuters a day after a steep fare hike came into effect on October 10, an RTI query has revealed The metro's daily average ridership came down to 24.2 lakh in October from 27.4 lakh in September, translating to a fall of around 11 per cent The Blue Line, considered the metro's busiest, lost over 30 lakh commuters, according to data shared by the

New Delhi, Nov 24: The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs today recommended that the Winter Session of Parliament be held from December 15 to January 5. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh today met here to decide on the dates of the Winter Session. "We request and seek cooperation from all parties, including the opposition, for smooth

Kolkata, Nov 24: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama lauded India for its "spirit of religious tolerance" and for carrying different traditions together while addressing a press conference after a spritiual discourse at Yid-Ga-Choezin ground, in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday. "Religious tolerance is very important... although there are problems sometimes due to politicians who

Lucknow/New Delhi, Nov 24: Three persons were killed and at least nine injured after the Vasco Da Gama-Patna Express derailed in Chitrakoot district in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. The train 12741 derailed on platform number two in Manikpur in the early hours of Friday, at 4:14 am, a police spokesperson said. One bogey of the train had "half-tilted in the derailment, police said

New Delhi, Nov 23: As many as 592 people, including four promoters of private medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh, have been named as accused in a charge sheet filed by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in a Vyapam case, officials of the probe agency said today. Those listed included J N Choksey, chairman of L N Medical College; S N Vijaywargiya of People's Medical College; Ajay