India

Karnal, Nov 19: Haryana's cow protection law has come into force with effect from today after President Pranab Mukherjee's assent, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said here while praising three Muslim legislators for supporting the Bill in the Assembly. With the issuance of notification of the Bill today, cow slaughter in Haryana will now attract a rigorous imprisonment ranging from three years

New Delhi, Nov 19: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the country's economic policy has "no sense of direction" after the Modi government decided to scrap the Planning Commission. Singh also dismissed as "malicious" propaganda that no development had taken place during previous Congress regimes. "Economic policy has no sense of direction and this is largely because Planning

New Delhi, Nov 19: Even as a heated debate on "rising intolerance" continues in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that one of India's "tremendous social strengths" is its pluralism. "India has tremendous social strengths, including pluralism..." Modi writes in a column in an upcoming, special issue of The Economist magazine. The cover story of the 30th edition issue of the magazine is

Satara (Maha), Nov 19: Hundreds of people from all walks of life today converged at a small village here as the mortal remains of Colonel Santosh Mahadik, who laid down his life battling militants near LoC in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, were consigned to flames with full military honours. The 39-year-old martyr's body was brought to Pogarwadi village in Maharashtra's Satara district this

New Delhi, Nov 18: 3000 additional government jobs and 6,000 transit accommodations will be provided to Kashmiri migrants in the Valley, according to a decision of the Union Cabinet which also enhanced monetary assistance for people displaced from the hilly areas of Jammu region. Giving details of the two Cabinet decisions, Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh said additional 3000 jobs in

Patna, Nov 18, 2015: Bihar Chief Minister designate Nitish Kumar today extended invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the oath ceremony of his new government on Friday. Kumar talked to the PM over telephone and extended his invitation for the oath function at Gandhi Maidan at 2 PM on November 20, sources in the Chief Minister's office said. With the four-day Chhath festival ending this

New Delhi, Nov 18: Pushing for "targeted economic sanctions" to disrupt fund flows for terrorists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the dastardly attacks in Paris were a grim reminder that terrorists have shown remarkable flexibility in arranging finances. Modi said the terrorists derive funding from a variety of criminal activities which include smuggling of narcotics, bank robbery

Patna, Nov 18: Launching a frontal attack on the party leadership, BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha today said those with "vested interests" are refusing to learn lessons from the Bihar debacle and asserted that no one has the guts or DNA to tick him off, an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Siding with veterans' demand for fixing accountability for the loss, Sinha said the "camouflage" of

New Delhi, Nov 17: The Muslims should declare a jihad (holy war) against terrorism as radicals and zealots have unleashed a reign of terror that challenges the basic tenets of Islam, which propagates and promotes peace and harmony, an Islamic scholar said on Tuesday. "Waging a jihad is a positive act intended to root out evils from society. Killing of innocents can never be accepted as an act of

Chennai, Nov 17: The Army and Air Force have been deployed for rescuing stranded citizens in Kancheepuram district, where torrential rains have left residents marooned, even as rain water inundated a large part of suburban Tambaram locality here. There have been no fresh rains in the city today. Personnel from the Madras 4 Regiment of the Indian Army have been pressed into service at Mudichur in