India

Paralakhemundi, Apr 1: BJP president Amit Shah Monday lashed out at the Congress, accusing the grand old party of trying to "defame" Hindus by giving them a terror tag. "Rahul (Gandhi) Baba's party attempted to link Hindu community with terrorism. It was a bid to defame Hindus across the world," Shah said, addressing a rally in Paralakhemundi under the Berhampur Lok Sabha constituency, which will

New Delhi, Apr 1: Facebook Inc said on Monday it was removing 687 pages and accounts linked to India's main opposition Congress party, just days before voting begins in a general election, because of "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" on the social media platform. The announcement marks a rare action from Facebook against a prominent political party in a country where it has more than 300 million

New Delhi, Apr 1: Had it not been for Khalid Khan Bachcha, Dawood Ibrahim would not have been Dawood; he would have perished in obscurity long ago, killed either by his rivals or the police, says a new book. "Dawood's Mentor: The Man Who Made India's Biggest Don" chronicles how Dawood meets Khalid and they eventually forge an unlikely friendship. Together they defeat and neutralise every mafia

Sriharikota, Apr 1: ISRO's PSLV C-45 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here on Monday, carrying India's EMISAT satellite along with 28 nanosatellites of global customers. As the 27-hour countdown concluded, the nearly 50-metre tall rocket, a new variant of ISRO's trusted workhorse PSLV-QL, blasted off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 125 km from here

Apr 1: The accused in the Dadri lynching case were seen sitting in the front row of a BJP rally addressed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Bishahra village of Dadri area on Sunday. Mr. Adityanath was campaigning for Union Minister and BJP candidate Mahesh Sharma who is contesting from Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. On September 28, 2015, 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq was

New Delhi, Mar 31: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who has announced that he is quitting the BJP, on Sunday said he decided to go with the Congress as it was a national party in the "true sense" and family friend Lalu Prasad also advised him to do so. He said leaders such as Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national

New Delhi, Mar 31: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will also contest the Lok Sabha election from Wayanad in Kerala, apart from Amethi in UP. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Congress leader A K Antony announced that Rahul Gandhi has given his consent to contest from two seats. Speculations about Rahul Gandhi contesting from a second seat had been doing rounds for some time now. To a

Kashmir, Mar 31: Raising “doubts” over the February 14 Pulwama suicide bombing in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district that killed 40 CRPF soldiers, regional National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday asked why didn’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit the families of slain jawans? “Many Indian soldiers were killed in Chhattisgarh, but Modi ji never went to meet their families. And

Kochi, Mar 30: Father Anthony, an alleged close aide of Kerala nun rape case accused Franco Mulakkal, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The arrest by the ED reportedly comes after unaccounted cash was recovered from his residence in Partappura near Jalandhar. According to reports, Father Anthony has not produced any proof accounting for the seized cash. Franco Mulakkal has been

New Delhi, Mar 30: Sonakshi Sinha, a prominent Bollywood actress and daughter of Shatrughan Sinha, who recently quit the BJP to join the Congress, has accused the saffron party of not respecting her father and other senior members, including LK Advani. Speaking to news agency ANI, Sonakshi said that he (Shatrughan Sinha) was little late and that he should have resigned long back. “Being a party