India

Ahmedabad, Aug 5: Vijay Rupani will take over as the new chief minister of Gujarat. Nitin Patel will be the deputy chief minister of Gujarat. The oath taking ceremony will take place on Sunday, 7 August, 2016. Rupani was picked for the state's top job by party MLAs at a meeting on Friday. The meeting saw the participation of BJP president Amit Shah and senior leader Nitin Gadkari as observers

New Delhi, Aug 5: At least 12 people were killed in a terror attack in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Friday, the state’s top police officer told news agency ANI. There are reports that three militants opened fire in the Balajan Tiniali market area, a few kilometres away from Kokrajhar town to which the security forces responded. One militant was gunned down in a subsequent gun battle. Police

New Delhi, Aug 5: The Supreme Court will now hear together the Delhi Government's civil suit seeking a declaration that the national capital is a state and its petition against the order of the High Court which held that the city is a Union Territory with Lt Governor as its administrative head. This was stated by a bench of Justices A K Sikri and N V Ramana today after the Arvind Kejriwal

Mahad, Aug 5: The Mahad tragedy is turning out to be huge one with 14 bodies having been recovered from Savitri river so far during search operations launched after two buses and some private vehicles got swept away following collapse of a British-era bridge on Tuesday night. Chief Minster Devendra Fadnavis, however, said in the Legislative Assembly that 8 bodies were recovered so far and 42

Islamabad, Aug 5: India on Thursday asked Pakistan to stop encouraging terror groups and the “glorification” of terrorists, and also called for strongest action against those nations supporting terrorism. Amid strains in the Indo-Pak relations, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said mere condemnation of terrorism and terrorists is not enough and that there are “no good terrorists or bad terrorists”

Ahmedabad, Aug 4: In a setback to BJP Government in Gujarat ahead of the leadership change, the High Court here today quashed the ordinance providing 10 per cent quota for the economically backward among the unreserved category, promulgated to pacify the agitating Patel community. The state government said it will challenge the High Court decision. The HC stayed the order for two weeks on the

Kolkata, Aug 4: A Hawk advanced jet trainer today crashed soon after take off from Air Force Station, Kalaikunda in West Midnapore due to a "technical snag" but both the pilots ejected safely. IAF sources said that the aircraft developed a technical problem at about 1100 hours, minutes after taking off from Kalaikunda air station in West Bengal, where another Hawk had crashed in June last year

Islamabad, Aug 4: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said Pakistan is committed to jointly working with SAARC member countries for fighting terrorism, corruption and organised crimes. Addressing the inaugural session of the SAARC Interior/ Home Ministers' Conference here, Sharif cited Pakistan's anti-terror operations in restive tribal areas and National Action Plan to emphasise "the government's

New Delhi, Aug 4: In a huge setback for the Arvind Kejriwal Government, the Delhi High Court today held that the LG is the administrative head of National Capital Territory and the AAP Government's contention that he is bound to act on the advice of Council of Ministers was "without substance". The decision comes after months-long turf war between LG Najeeb Jung and Kejriwal for the reins of Delhi

New Delhi, Aug 4: In the biggest tax reform since Independence, the national sales tax or GST Bill was Wednesday approved by the Rajya Sabha to replace a raft of different state and local taxes with a single unified value added tax system to turn the country into world's biggest single market. The 66-year-old Constitution, which gives power to Centre to levy taxes like excise, and empowers states