India

New Delhi, Feb 12: Three persons have been arrested in connection with the theft of Nobel Prize replica, citation and ornaments from Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi's house in southeast Delhi's Kalkaji area. Rajan, Sunil and Vinod were arrested and the stolen Nobel replica, citation and other jewellery items recovered, said a senior police officer. Further details were awaited. Two other houses

Srinagar, Feb 12: Four militants and two army jawans were today killed in a fierce encounter in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, officials said here. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Frisal area of Kulgam district in the wee hours following information about presence of a large number of militants in the area, a police official said. He said as the security forces were

Kochi, Feb 12: A 55-year- old brain dead woman from West Bengal has become Kerala's first organ donor from outside the state by giving a new lease of life to two Malayalis after her family decided to donate her kidneys. Kolkata resident, Kajori Bose, had come on a holiday with her family to Alappuzha, when she suddenly felt breathless and collapsed inside a houseboat. She was shifted to a private

Chennai, Feb 11: Irked over the ‘delay’ by Tamil Nadu Governor Vidyasagar Rao in swearing her in as chief minister, AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala on Friday sought an appointment with him to parade MLAs in the Raj Bhavan. This comes even as more party leaders switched loyalties to rival O Panneerselvam. In a meeting with her party MLAs, Sasikala said the delay in inviting her to form the

Jaipur, Feb 12: Following completion of polling in Punjab and Goa, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now shifted its focus to Rajasthan, where it intends to contest the Assembly polls in 2018 from all the 200 seats. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is in-charge of AAP’s affairs in Rajasthan, visited the State capital on Saturday and announced the party’s plans to strengthen its presence

Lucknow, Feb 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won all three MLC seats in Kanpur, Gorakhpur, and Bareilly. While the polling for the first phase of Assembly Elections 2017 was underway in Uttar Pradesh, the results of the Legislative Council have given the BJP a reason to cheer up. The polling for the same was held on February 03. Allahabad and Kanpur also went for Teachers MLC elections

Lucknow, Feb 11: Taking a swipe at Narendra Modi for his "raincoat in bathroom" barb at Manmohan Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said the Prime Minister was more interested in "peeping into bathrooms of people". The Congress Vice President also said that the Prime Minister will get a "jolt" once the results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are out. "Modi likes to read janampatri

Lucknow, Feb 11: Amid tight security, polling began this morning for the first of the seven phases of the high-stake Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections with voters queueing up to cast their ballots in 73 constituencies spread over 15 districts of western UP. A total of 2.60 crore voters, including over 1.17 crore women and 1,508 belonging to third gender category are eligible to cast their ballots

Chennai, Feb 10: Hours after he was expelled from AIADMK, pro-Panneerselvam leader E Madusudanan today claimed he infact had sacked party interim general secretary V K Sasikala and continued to be the party's Presidium Chairman. "Before that (his sacking), I expelled her (Sasikala) from the party," he told reporters tonight when asked about his removal from all party posts, including Presidium

Chennai, Feb 10: The Madras High Court today sought the Tamil Nadu government's response to allegations that AIADMK MLAs were being illegally detained in a resort near here and 20 of them were on a fast. Referring to claims by the counsel for habeas corpus petitioners that the 20 MLAs were on a fast protesting their illegal detention, a division bench of justices C T Selvam and T Mathivanan said