India

Patna, Oct 31: Voting will be held in 55 seats tomorrow in the penultimate phase of Bihar election, with stakes high for BJP as it had along with its then ally JD(U) bagged majority of seats in last Assembly polls. BJP had won 26 out of 55 seats spread across seven districts of Muzaffarpur, East Champaran, West Champaran, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Gopalganj and Siwan in 2010 Assembly polls. Its then

Thane, Oct 30: BJP-Shiv Sena ties today hit a new low with Uddhav Thackeray threatening to pull out of NDA if BJP "continues with its arrogance" even as one of his party ministers in Maharashtra government offered to quit, but it was dismissed as "drama" by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Sena Minister Eknath Shinde, who holds Public Undertaking portfolio, made the offer to resign at a civic

Ranchi, Oct 30: The RSS today hit back at those who have returned their awards, saying it was a "politically motivated" move by a "handful of pseudo-secularists" who were using the Sangh as a 'punching bag' out of frustration. "A handful of people returning awards are losing ground... It is indeed a political, desperate, frustrated act of these people to keep their shop running...They feel they

Mumbai, Oct 30: A special women's court here today awarded death sentence to Chandrabhan Sanap, prime accused in the rape and murder of a Andhra Pradesh-based software engineer in suburban Kurla here last year. "The case falls under the category of the rarest of rare, hence the accused is awarded death sentence...he must be hanged by his neck till he is dead," said Special Women's court judge

New Delhi, Oct 30: Mahatma Gandhi and former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi today came in for fulsome praise by many top African leaders as they recalled the historic ties Africa shared with India. South African President Jacob Zuma and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe were among those who mentioned, during their speeches at India-Africa Forum Summit here, the

New Delhi, Oct 30: In a move which may further fuel the debate over slaughtering of certain bovines in the country, the defence ministry has asked the army to stop the practice of ritual killing of buffaloes carried out by some of its units. According to an ET report on Friday, the ministry has instructed the army to put an end to the practice of beheading a male buffalo (Rango) during Dussehra

Mumbai, Oct 29: Kalvari, the first ship of Scorpene class submarines being manufactured at Mazgaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), was set afloat in the Mumbai naval dockyard on Thursday, setting the stage for its sea trials, and eventual commissioning on schedule in Sept 2016. The submarine mounted on a pontoon was moved out of submarine yard at the MDL on Tuesday, and it was set afloat in the naval

Lucknow, Oct 29: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sacked eight cabinet ministers and withdrew portfolios of nine ministers in a major shake-up of his ministry. The move is being seen as a precursor to the cabinet reshuffle scheduled for October 31 when some new faces are likely to be included in the 43-month-old Samajwadi Party government. The ministers who have been removed

New Delhi, Oct 29: India today offered a concessional credit of USD 10 billion to Africa over the next five years and a grant assistance of USD 600 million even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for deeper ties in key areas of counter-terrorism, climate change and UN reforms. Addressing the inaugural session of the 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) describing it as a "meeting

Srinagar, Oct 29: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Abu Qasim, the mastermind of the Udhampur attack on a BSF bus on August 5, has been killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday. "Abu Qasim, the operational commander of the LeT, was killed during the night in an ambush by the security forces in Khandaypora village of Kulgam district," a police officer said here. Security