India

Imphal, May 22: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and five jawans of Assam Rifles were today killed in an ambush by militants in Chandel district of Manipur near the Indo-Myanmar border. An Assam Rifles convoy was attacked by heavily armed militants around 1 PM in Joupi Hengshi area of Chandel when the security personnel were returning after inspecting a landslide site in the interior tribal

London, May 22: Legal proceedings in India against beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya has now come to haunt his US-based brewery firm, which is banking on USD 1 million bridge loan promised by his holding firm for survival. "Vijay Mallya, the company's Chairman and indirect majority shareholder, is presently subject to certain legal proceedings in India, which may impair the company's ability to

New Delhi, May 22: Linking the intense heatwave and drought to environmental degradation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a strong pitch for a mass movement to save forests and conserve "every drop" of water during the upcoming Monsoon season. Modi, who has been reviewing drought situation with Chief Ministers recently, said a number of states have taken some good initiatives towards water

Chandigarh, May 22: Three Haryana Civil Service officers and 10 DSP rank officers were suspended today, a week after a government-appointed Committee report found "deliberate negligence" on part of 90 officials, including IAS and IPS officers, during the Jat quota agitation in February. The three civil service officers who have been suspended are Sub Divisional Magistrate (Jhajjar) Pankaj Setia

New Delhi, May 21: Security officials were sent into a tizzy after they received a call from a man, who claimed to have planted bombs at the residences of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal this afternoon. The call later turned out to be hoax. A senior police official said the call was received around 12.30 PM at the control room of the National Investigation

New Delhi, May 21: Seeking to lift the party's morale after the electoral debacle, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today asserted that "no failure is permanent". "A success achieved by discarding basic principles does not stay for long. If one sticks to principles, no failure is permanent," she said addressing party workers at a programme to commemorate the 25th death anniversary of her husband

Guwahati, May 21: Sealing of the borders with Bangladesh will be completed in two year's time to put an end to infiltration, Assam's Chief Minister-to-be Sarbananda Sonowal said today. A product of the student movement of the 80s during the anti-foreigners agitation, Sonowal, who steered the BJP to victory in the elections, has put the issue of infiltration and attempts to check them as his

Lahore, May 21: LeT operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and six others accused in the 2008 Mumbai attack case will be individually charged for the abetment to murder of each of the 166 people who died in the carnage, a Pakistani anti-terrorism court ruled on Saturday. "The seven suspects will be charged individually for the abetment to murder of each victim of Mumbai attack case," a senior

New Delhi, May 20: Amid questions over Rahul Gandhi's leadership after poll debacle, Congress today signalled that the national leadership is not washing off its hands even as it insisted that the party Vice President took no decision on his own and that he would be "more active" in the future. After senior leader Digvijay Singh stirred the hornet's nest by talking about the need for "major

Kolkata, May 20: Mamata Banerjee was today unanimously elected as the leader of the Trinamool Congress legislature party at its meeting here. TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee, who was re-elected from Behala Paschim seat, proposed her name which was seconded by all the newly-elected MLAs of the party. Banerjee later met Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi at Raj Bhavan to stake claim to form the