India

New Delhi, Dec 2: Posting this year's biggest single-day rise of Rs 840, gold today regained the Rs 27,000 per ten gram level after a gap of over one month in the national capital, tracking rebounds in global markets. In addition, pick-up in domestic demand from jewellers and retailers for the wedding season also buoyed sentiment. After losing Rs 730 in last six sessions after the RBI eased

New Delhi, Dec 2: Prime Minister Nanrendra Modi’s aide and union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti on Tuesday expressed regret and apologized for her abusive and unconstitutional remarks in the Indian Parliament. The Opposition party created a ruckus in both the Houses of Parliament over the controversy, forcing repeated adjournments. The Congress party even demanded her resignation. The newly

New Delhi, Dec 2: Parliament today witnessed uproar over alleged controversial remarks made by Union ministers Niranjan Jyoti and Giriraj Singh, with opposition forcing brief adjournments of both the Houses. As soon as Lok Sabha met for the day, Leader of Congress Mallikarjun Kharge reminded Speaker Sumitra Mahajan of the adjournment notices given by him and his party colleagues over the reported

Ranchi, Dec 2: Polling began today at 7 am in 20 Maoist-affected constituencies amid tight security in the 2nd phase of Assembly election to the Jharkhand Assembly, with polling personnel airdropped in the remote parts of the state. An electorate of 44,31,900, including 21,72,982 women, is eligible to vote in 5,048 polling stations across seven districts to elect 223 candidates, said Jharkhand

New Delhi, Dec 1: A Catholic church in Delhi was gutted under mysterious circumstances Monday, police said. The caretakers of the church have alleged the involvement of some unidentified men in the fire. Police have not ruled out any possibility and have begun a probe. The blaze was noticed around 7.15 a.m. at the Saint Sebastian's Church in east  Delhi's Dilshad Garden area by a chowkidar (guard

Raipur, Dec 01: Thirteen CRPF personnel, including two officers, were today killed while an equal number were injured in an encounter with Maoists in the Naxal hotbed of Sukma in Chhattisgarh. According to preliminary reports reaching the force's headquarters here, a squad of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel was undertaking operations in Kasanpara village of the district in the south

Srinagar, Dec 1: Out of the 175 candidates in fray in 18 constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir which are going to polls in the second phase on Tuesday, 97 or more than 50 per cent are not graduates and nine have criminal cases against them. The affidavits submitted by the candidates along with their nomination papers suggest that nine of them are illiterate while 28 are school drop-outs, according

Chandigarh, Dec 1: After Sant Rampal, Gurmeet Ram Rahim of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect has come under the scanner. While hearing a case relating to Rampal, the Punjab and Haryana High Court observed on Friday that activities of the Sirsa-based sect should be monitored periodically by the top brass of Haryana, including government and police. The court also observed that there was a need to carry out

New Delhi, Dec 1: Eight non-metro airports modernised using public money have no scheduled flights operating there, leading them to incur a total loss of about Rs. 82 crore in the last three years. As government pushes for air connectivity in remote areas, official figures show that these eight airports have jointly incurred a total loss of over Rs. 25 crore in 2011-12, over 27 crore in 2012-13

Coimbatore, Dec 1: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka account for 3.6 lakh HIV cases, about 50% of the patients in the country. The southern states are also among the top four in the country, with Tamil Nadu alone having 80,685 HIV affected people of the total 7.7 lakh as on May 2014. Andhra Pradesh (including Telengana) tops the list with 1.7 lakh HIV affected people, followed by