India

New Delhi, Mar 9: Discounted fares have helped airlines bring in new flyers this lean travel season and get assured seat fills. There is a strong demand on the key leisure destinations like Goa and Kerala, say airline officials, and bookings have more than doubled in recent days. "Such offers add to the abysmally small flyer base in the country. The lower the fares, wider is the flyer-base. When a

Visakhapatnam, Mar 9: One worker was killed and three others seriously injured in an accident at the Ship Building Center on the premises of the Eastern Naval Command on Saturday, where indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant was built, and its two follow-on nuclear submarines are being built. This is the third accident involving the Indian Navy in the last two weeks. The deceased was identified

Muzaffarnagar, Mar 8: BSP MP Kadir Rana, two party MLAs and former UP minister Saeed-uz-Zama of Congress are among 10 persons chargesheeted by the SIT probing the Muzaffarnagar riots for provoking communal tension with inflammatory speeches during a Muslim community panchayat. The charge sheet was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Narender Kumar by the Special Investigation team

New Delhi/Patna, Mar 8: In a jolt to RJD, senior party leader Ram Kripal Yadav today quit from all party posts over denial of ticket from Patliputra Lok Sabha seat and said he was keeping all his options open. Yadav, a close aide of RJD chief Lalu Prasad whose daughter Misa Bharti has been given Patliputra seat, accused the party of being more interested in serving "family justice" than social

Lucknow, Mar 8: Samajwadi Party's Agra candidate Sarika Singh Baghel was stripped of the party ticket because of her husband Devendra Baghel's undoing. In a video grab with a local news channel, Devendra was seen using unsavoury words against none other that the SP chief. Expectedly, the clipping reached the party headquarters and Sarika lost her ticket. Devendra was sacked from the party. The

New Delhi, Mar 7: Congress today sought to make an issue of Narendra Modi not giving an appointment to Arvind Kejriwal by accusing the Gujarat Chief Minister of dishonouring the tradition of the state of welcoming guests. “In our culture, guest is god. Kejriwal has been a guest of Gujarat and it is a tradition of the state that whoever is the chief minister, meets leaders and chief ministers from

New Delhi, Mar 7: A naval officer has been killed in an accident on board in yet to be operational warship, in a sensation new twist to Navy's ongoing tryst with accidents. Sources said a commander rank officer of the Kolkata class destroyer was killed around 1pm on Friday in the accident. Sources said he was killed because of possible malfunctioning of the firefighting system in the engine room

Ahmedabad, Mar 7: An FIR was lodged against AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct by using loud speaker at a public meeting at Gandhidham in Kutch district of Gujarat on Thursday, police said. "Kejriwal addressed a public rally today at Rishabh Circle of Gandhidham where he used loudspeaker without Election Commission's permission. This is a breach of Model

Gurgaon, Mar 7: According to reports, Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s wife delivered a baby girl at Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon, India, early on Tuesday morning. Afghan ambassador to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali, quoted by India media agencies said, “The baby girl was born around 9.30 am on Tuesday. Both the mother and her baby daughter are doing quite well.” Abdali further

Chennai, Mar 7: Miffed over ruling AIADMK’s “approach” in finalising seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, CPI (M) and CPI on Thursday called off their month-old alliance with the Jayalalitha-led party. The leaders of the two Left parties went into a huddle in Chennai in the wake of dilly dallying by AIADMK to reach a consensus on the seat allotment issue and decided to end