India

New Delhi, Jan 13: A day after it was virtually left out being part of an anti-BJP alliance formed by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, the Congress on Sunday declared it will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats from the state on its own. However, the grand old party of India has kept the doors of a possible alliance open saying if any secular party which is competent to fight the BJP

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi has stood by his remark he made against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for using Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to defend the former, saying that he would have made “a very similar comment if it had been a man”. Addressing a press conference in Dubai, Rahul maintained that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have defended himself in the Lok Sabha over

Guwahati, Jan 13: Congress leader Debabrata Saikia on Saturday asked Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal to quit the BJP and form a new government with his party's support, while the AGP said it may restore its alliance with the saffron party if the Citizenship Amendment Bill is scrapped. Saikia, the leader of Opposition in Assam Assembly, talking to a local TV news channel here said, "In view

Belagavi, Jan : Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and National Congress Party (NCP) chief, Sharad Pawar has unveiled a statue of the Chatrapathi Shivaji in the outskirts of the city here on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Pawar hailed that Shivaji, who never aspired to establish dynastic rule, instead strived hard to create a Hindavi swaraj in the country. Stating that Shivaji, was used to

Thrissur, Jan 12: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday urged those in power to accept ideas based on scientific and physical appearance, while refraining from propagating ideas based on 'disbeliefs'. Inaugurating the Vigyan Sagar Park, a science and technology park here, Mr Vijayan decried the attempts to keep away the scientific temper and induce many disbeliefs in the society. "We

Lucknow, Jan 12: Once-arch rivals Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announced Saturday their tie-up in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, sharing 38 seats each and keeping the Congress out of the alliance. The parties, however, said they would not field candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi

Guwahati, Jan 12: A day after protests were banned in parts of Guwahati, former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said on Friday he would violate the prohibitory order and court arrest if the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was not withdrawn by the Centre. Addressing a press conference, Gogoi added that if protests or disturbances continue in the state, youths are likely to get attracted towards

Panchkula, Jan 11: A CBI court Friday convicted self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati 16 years ago. The quantum of sentence for the Dera Sacha Sauda chief and the others will be pronounced by the special CBI court Judge Jagdeep Singh on January 17. The 51-year-old sect head appeared before the court through video conference

New Delhi, Jan 11: Industrial output growth dropped to a 17-month low of 0.5% in November last on account of contraction in the manufacturing sector, particularly consumer and capital goods. Factory output, as measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had grown by 8.5% in November 2017, as per data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on January 11. The previous low

Alappad, Jan 11: Abandoned homes, deserted school, heaps of sand, a lone temple and dried up mangroves. These are the remnants of a once green Ponmana village under the coastal Alappad panchayat in Kollam district in southern Kerala where locals are up in arms against beach sand mining, blaming it for sea erosion eating up their lands. They claim hamlet after hamlet was 'disappearing' from the map