India

Chennai, Oct 3: A PIL was filed in the Madras High Court today seeking a detailed report from the government on the health condition of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and releasing of photographs of the meeting she is said to have had with her cabinet colleagues and officials in the hospital, where she is admitted. The petitioner "Traffic" Ramaswamy, a social activist, submitted that the people of

Lucknow, Oct 3: The Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party on Monday raked up another controversy after the party gave a ticket to 2002 Madhumita murder case accused Amarmani Tripathi's son in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Earlier today, the ruling Samajwadi Party declared the candidates for nine Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh besides changing the candidates of 14 constituencies

New Delhi, Oct 3: Supreme Court today asked the Karnataka government to apprise it by tomorrow afternoon whether it has released water to Tamil Nadu as directed by it on September 30. The Centre also moved the apex court seeking modification of its earlier order asking it to constitute the Cauvery Water Management Board (CWMB) by Tuesday. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Centre

New Delhi, Oct 3: The Supreme Court on Monday sentenced Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav convicted in the sensational 2002 Nitish Katara murder case to 25 years in jail. Sukhdev Pehalwan, an associate of the Yadavs was sentenced to 20 years in jail. The trio had appealed in the top court against a Delhi High Court order, which had in February last year sentenced them to 25 years in jail

Srinagar, Oct 3: One BSF jawan was killed while another injured when terrorists tonight carried out a 'fidayeen' (suicide) attack on a BSF and adjoining army camps in Baramulla, barely four days after the Indian Special Forces smashed seven terror launch pads during a surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC). The terrorist, who ganied entry into the 46 RR camp through an adjoining BSF camp

Bengaluru, Oct 2: The Supreme Court's direction to form the Cauvery Water Management Board (CWMB) latest by Wednesday has left Bengaluru in a difficult situation. The formation of the board is likely to deprive the city of its share of Cauvery water as Bengaluru was never recognised as a part of the Cauvery basin.The state government has called for an emergency meeting of the Bangalore Water

New Delhi, Oct 2: The nation today remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 147th birth anniversary, with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders paying floral tributes to him at his memorial here. Vice President Hamid Ansari, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior BJP leader L K Advani also paid tributes to the Father of the Nation. "Gandhiji made this world a

New Delhi, Oct 1: As much as Rs 65,250 crore of blackmoney was declared during the four-month compliance window -- the Income Declaration Scheme -- that ended on September 30, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. Jaitley said 64,275 declarations were made in the four- month window and this figure could go up once all the declarations filed online and manually are compiled. The money declared

Udhampur, Oct 1: Army chief Dalbir Singh on Saturday visited the Northern Command headquarters in Udhampur and took stock of the operational preparedness along the border in the wake of heightened tension with Pakistan following India's surgical strikes against terror camps across the Line of Control. “Gen. Singh arrived at the Northern Command headquarters this morning and chaired a high-level

Jammu, Oct 1: Violating the ceasefire again, Pakistani troops today targeted Indian posts and civilian areas with mortar bombs and heavy machine guns along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Akhnoor tehsil. There was no loss of life or injury to anyone in the firing, which started at 0330 hours and ended at 0600 hours. Indian troops guarding the border retaliated effectively, defence sources said.