India

Shanghai, Jan 16: More than 20 people were missing today after a tugboat sank on a trial voyage on the Yangtze, China's longest river, state media and authorities said. The newly built vessel was undergoing testing with 25 people aboard in the eastern province of Jiangsu on Thursday afternoon when the accident happened, state media said. Three people had been rescued, state broadcaster China

Mumbai, Jan 16: Security was stepped up at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport after another terror message was discovered by cleaning staff in a washroom in Terminal 1A. The message warned of an Islamic State (IS) attack on January 26th.The incident is being probed by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). A similar message was discovered on January 7 with the words, 'ATTECK

Meerut, Jan 16: Forgotten by most and out in the cold, quite literally, 25 people have died of chill this winter in the Muzaffarnagar camps that continue to house a little over 3,500 riot refugees. Last year, though, had a different story to tell. In January 2014, Mohd Irfan would sit outside his tent in the relief camp at Loi village and count the number of politicians visiting those who were

New Delhi, Jan 16: Delhi Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the death of Sunanda Pushkar, on Thursday questioned the crew of a flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi in which former Union minister Shashi Tharoor and his wife had allegedly fought on January 15, 2014. The SIT may also question a senior Congress leader, who was on the same flight, about what was the fight all about

New Delhi, Jan 15: Former Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today joined BJP and will contest the February 7 Delhi Assembly polls, a move seen as the party's effort to contain Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital. The 65-year old former IPS officer was inducted into the party fold in the presence of BJP President Amit Shah and Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Harsh Vardhan, triggering speculation

New Delhi, Jan 15: Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday. Bedi, India's first female IPS officer, was a member of Team Anna, a core group of activists who worked closely with Anna Hazare when he launched his campaign to demand a bill to appoint a lokpal against corruption. Arvind Kejriwal, who too was a member of the team, had a

Patna, Jan 15: Family members of the Dalits who were killed in 1999 in Bihar's Arwal district, allegedly by the outlawed, upper -caste militia Ranvir Sena men, are disheartened and devastated over the release of all the accused. Etwaria Devi, in her late 50s, lost her husband Ganga Paswan and another relative Nanhu Paswan in the massacre of 22 Dalits Jan 25, 1999, at Shankar Bigha village. A court

Mumbai, Jan 15: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates on Thursday by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent in a surprise inter-meeting cut, yielding to growing signs of slowing inflation and a flagging recovery. The wholesale price index for December, released on Wednesday, rose just 0.11 percent year-on-year compared with a 0.6 percent jump forecast by economists in a Reuters poll

Rampur, Jan 14: A local court today sent Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to one year in jail for violating prohibitory orders during the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Judicial magistrate Manish Kumar held Naqvi guilty under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of IPC, 7 Criminal Law Amendment Act and Section 144 of CrPC. Eighteen others were also

New Delhi, Jan 14: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said there was no controversy in the sacking of Avinash Chander as DRDO chief and it was he who recommended that the position should be held by someone from a "slightly younger generation" and not by someone on contract. Noting that the tenure of Chander had ended in November, he said it was extended on contractual basis due the previous