India

Mumbai, Oct 11: Invoking the legacy of B R Ambedkar on the eve of the first phase of Bihar polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today categorically ruled out scrapping the reservation system and assailed "a group of liars" for the false propaganda that it is under threat. "Every time when a BJP government is in power, a group of liars spreads the malicious propaganda that we are out to scrap

New Delhi, Oct 11: As many as 62 pilots of Jet Airways and Air India have flown out of the two airlines in a little over one year to join other carriers, with a majority of them boarding the Rahul Bhatia-promoted IndiGo. While private carrier Jet Airways has lost 30 pilots in 15 months to budget carrier IndiGo, state-owned Air India has seen the migration of 32 pilots in the past one year

New Delhi, Oct 11: Terming Emergency as the biggest blow to democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said its memories should be kept alive to further fortify the democratic structure as the struggle against it gave birth to a new generation of leaders and a new kind of politics in the country. "Emergency was the biggest blow to democracy. The kind of crisis that hit the country during that

Mainpuri (UP), Oct 10: After Dadri, tension now prevails in this district where rumours of cow slaughter triggered violence with protesters targeting police vehicles and setting afire shops, leaving seven policemen injured. Twenty-one people have been arrested for yesterday's violence even as the circle officer has been suspended for alleged laxity. The violence started after some persons spread

Dadri/Lucknow, Oct 9: Dadri's Bishada village in Uttar Pradesh was today slowly limping back to normalcy after days of tension over the lynching of a man over rumours of eating beef even as the political blame game continued. The 52-year-old lynching victim Mohammad Iqlakh's son Sartaj, who is a corporal with the Indian Air Force, meanwhile, has been provided an accomodation in Delhi, Defence

New Delhi, Oct 9: Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity may shut down thirteen orphanages run by them as the government is planning to derecognise them. These orphanages had refused to give its children to single and separated people for adoption. Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Thursday, Missionaries of Charity has refused to comply with the provisions related

Patna/New Delhi, Oct 9: Ten days after a man was lynched in Dadri for apparently consuming beef, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Hindus and Muslims should be fighting poverty and not each other. Modi’s message is an answer to the criticism he is facing for being silent despite the BJP and other Hindutva leaders attempting to polarise the situation in Dadri where one Mohammad Akhlaq

Lucknow, Oct 8: Breaking his silence over the Dadri lynching incident, SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today claimed it was a "pre-planned" conspiracy hatched by three persons of a particular party and that they were also behind the 2013 riots in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district. Upping the ante over the lynching of 52-year-old Iqlakh over rumours of beef consumption in Dadri in UP's Greater

New Delhi, Oct 8: Latest data provided by the Department of Atomic Energy shows that 11 nuclear scientists died in mysterious circumstances in the country during 2009-13. Eight scientists and engineers working in laboratories and research centres of the department died in a blast or by hanging or drowning in the sea. In its RTI response to Haryana-based Rahul Sehrawat dated September 21, the

Munger, Oct 8: Wading into the beef controversy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked RJD supremo Lalu Prasad over his 'Hindus also eat beef remark', saying he has insulted people of Bihar and particularly his community "Yaduvanshis" who had brought him to power. Addressing a poll rally here, Modi, who has been silent on the lynching of a man in Dadri over rumours of eating beef despite