India

Gandhinagar, Sep 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited his mother Hiraba here and took her blessings on his 66th birthday. Modi reached the residence of his brother Pankaj Modi in Raysan area of state capital here, where his 97-year-old mother is staying. The Prime Minister sought her blessings and spend around 25 minutes with her. He later drove off to Raj Bhavan where he is put up

Itanagar, Sep 16: The Congress today lost its government in Arunachal Pradesh when 43 of its MLAs led by Chief Minister Pema Khandu defected wholesale and merged with the People's Party of Arunachal, just two months after it had regained power. Khandu, who had replaced Nabam Tuki following a dissident campaign in July, paraded 42 MLAs before Assembly Speaker Tenzing Norbu Thongdok, who accepted

Chennai, Sep 16: A dawn-to-dusk bandh called by several farmers and traders bodies over the raging Cauvery dispute evoked mixed response across Tamil Nadu with Opposition parties, including the DMK, supporting it. DMK leader and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, oppposition leader Stalin and four DMK MLAs courted arrest in Chennai. MDMK leader Vaiko was arrested in Trichy after he attempted to stage rail

Lucknow, Sep 16: In a significant development, Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav resigned from Uttar Pradesh Cabinet and also stepped down as state party chief on Thursday. Shivpal, who had met UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today, submitted his resignation late tonight to SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. Shivpal's wife Sarla also resigned from the post of District Cooperative Bank

Chennai, Sep 16: Political parties and trade organisations in Tamil Nadu will go ahead with the general strike on Friday to condemn the attacks on Tamilians in Karnataka over the Cauvery water release issue. The call for strike has got support from various quarters amid the Supreme Court rapping the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka governments for permitting agitations to challenge a judicial order passed

New Delhi, Sep 15: The families of those on board the missing AN-32 aircraft of the IAF have been informed that their relatives are "presumed dead" as the search operations for the ill-fated aircraft continued. There were 29 people on the transport plane which had vanished over the sea after it took off from Chennai for Port Blair on July 22. "The Court of Inquiry, upon very careful scrutiny of

New Delhi, Sep 15: Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain reiterated on Thursday, that Chikungunya cannot cause deaths, according to the information that is available on Google. "People of Delhi have no need to panic. All people need to do is to take precautions and go to the hospital", Jain said. Jain had made a similar statement on Monday. "chikungunya medically cannot cause death and therefore

Lucknow, Sep 15: Amid the raging feud in Mulayam Singh Yadav's family, Samajwadi Party leader Ramgopal Yadav today said the leadership had committed a "mistake" by removing Akhilesh Yadav as party's UP president and that "differences" had arisen due to some "misunderstanding". Ramgopal, SP national general secretary and Mulayam's cousin, met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav here in a

New Delhi, Sep 15: The External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday that two Indian teachers who were abducted in Libya over a year ago have been rescued. "I am happy to inform that T Gopalakrishna and C BalaramKishan who were captive in Libya since July 29, 2015 have been rescued," she tweeted. Gopalakrishna and C BalaramKishan were abducted on their way to Tripoli airport to return to

Geneva, Sep 15: Raising the issue of Balochistan for the first time before the UN, India today accused Pakistan of widespread human rights violations there as well as in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). In a scathing attack on Pakistan during the 33rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council here, India said the main reason for disturbances in Kashmir is the cross-border terrorism sponsored by