India

New Delhi, Dec 5: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's daughter slammed the approval of the Citizenship Amendment Bill by the Union cabinet on Wednesday, terming it as an indication that the country's BJP-led central government discriminates against those from the Muslim community. "India - No country for Muslims," a message posted through the Peoples Democratic Party chief's

Lucknow, Dec 5: A 23 year-old-rape victim from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly set ablaze by five men, including one who was accused in the crime, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Thursday morning when the accused, out on bail, attempted to burn the woman by dousing her with kerosene in fields outside the village, News18 reported. She was on her way to Rai Bareilly for a

New Delhi, Dec 5: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that Inder Kumar Gujral's advice to then home minister Narsimha Rao would have prevented the 1984 massacres, if later had heard and acted over it. Speaking at an event organised to remember former Prime Minister IK Gujral on his 100th birth anniversary, Singh said, "When the sad event of 1984 took place, Gujral ji that very

New Delhi, Dec 4: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's 106-day incarceration was vengeful and vindictive, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday, hours after the Supreme Court granted bail to the former finance minister in the INX-Media money laundering case. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice R Banumathi, granted bail to Chidambaram. The 74-year-old Congress leader has been in

New Delhi, Nov 4: P Chidambaram will finally walk out of Tihar Jail after over 100 days as the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to the former finance minister in the INX Media case. The court granted bail on a bond of Rs 2 lakh with two sureties each and asked Chidambaram not to leave the country without permission. The former Union minister also cannot make public statements or press

Hapur, Dec 3: At least 10 children were hospitalised on Tuesday after they were fed 'dal' which had a dead rat in it during the midday meal in a government school. The meal, meant for students between Class 6 and 8, had been prepared by an NGO called Jan Kalyan Sanstha Committee which is based in Hapur. A teacher who consumed the food along with the children has also been hospitalized. All the

Mumbai, Dec 3: With the new Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in power, NCP President Sharad Pawar and veteran Congressman Digvijaya Singh have favoured reopening of the case involving the mysterious death of Judge BH Loya. With the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government headed by Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray coming into power in Maharashtra, several old cases are being reexamined. At the time

New Delhi, Dec 3: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Spokesperson Amit Malviya and industrialist, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw were on Monday locked in a fiery argument whether she funds the Independent Public Spirited Media Foundation (IPSMF), which in turn supports anti-Modi propaganda. As panelists on a TV debate, Malviya and Shaw were part of a heated argument on Shaw funding this new age media which is a

New Delhi, Dec 3: Depositors in failed and liquidated banks will get only up to ₹1 lakh as insurance cover, regardless of the amount in their accounts, according to the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India. This covers savings, fixed, current and recurring accounts, the DICGC, which insures all bank deposits, said in

Guwahati, Dec 3: A young Congress MLA cut his left palm and wrote on a banner with his blood in the entrance of Assam Assembly's main hall on Tuesday morning to stage a protest against the BJP-led government's move to hand over two paper mills, a tea garden, and a fertilizer firms to private companies. The MLA, Rupjyoti Kurmi, who represents Mariani constituency took to the extreme way of protest