India

Shimla, Nov 8: Over Rs 1.3 crore cash and more than 2.35 litres of liquor have been seized ahead of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections since July, state Chief Electoral Officer Pushpinder Rajput said on Wednesday. "Over Rs 1.3 crore cash and more than 2.35 litres of liquor are seized till now. Our efforts have always been that electoral process be free, fair, transparent and inclusive where

Hyderabad, Nov 8: The Hyderabad Police has prohibited begging on the city's roads, saying it causes nuisance and danger to vehicular traffic and pedestrians. The order comes ahead of the three-day eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2017, to be held here from November 28, which is likely to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has reportedly decided to nominate former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan to the Rajya Sabha. His name is being considered for one of the three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi, which will fall vacant in January 2018. According to reports, Rajan’s name was discussed in a meeting of top AAP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind

Nov 8: The image of an elephant and her calf fleeing a mob of jeering men that sent them on fire has been awarded a Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Award. The image, titled Hell is Here, was captured by photographer Biplab Hazra in eastern India. Hazra was awarded Wildlife Photographer of the Year by Sanctuary Asia, India's leading wildlife and conservation magazine. Hazra's caption on the image

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Union government on Wednesday urged Delhi and the surrounding northern states to immediately tackle dangerous levels of pollution in the national capital that forced schools to close and sparked criticism of authorities. Thick smog swathed Delhi, where pollution readings in some places peaked at 500, the most severe level on the government’s air quality index measuring the

New Delhi, Nov 8: Congress leader P Chidambaram launched a scathing attack on the Centre and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the anniversary of the note ban decision today, asking whether it was "ethical" to heap misery on millions of people. No one could deny that lives and jobs were lost due to the note ban, the former Union finance minister said on "demonetisation Black Day". A day after

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Enforcement Directorate today approached a Delhi court seeking to declare beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender in a case of allegedly evading summons in a FERA violation matter. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Shehrawat is likely to take up the matter today itself. Special Public Prosecutor N K Matta, appearing for the ED, told the court that the

New Delhi, Nov 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tweeted in support of demonetisation and asked the people to take a survey to tell him what they felt about the note ban. A year ago, the central government scrapped old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000. What eventually came to be seen as the biggest decision taken by the Narendra Modi government, became the centre point of discussions in

New Delhi, Nov 8: Days after ace shuttler P V Sindhu complained about rude behaviour by IndiGo employees, the airline has more bad news in store as a video of its staff manhandling a passenger at the Delhi airport tarmac has gone viral. The incident took place on October 15 when Rajeev Katiyal landed in Delhi airport from Chennai and was waiting for the ferry bus taking passengers to the terminal

Mumbai, Nov 8: Five years after a fatal Delhi bus rape, more Indian women are reporting attacks but are often humiliated by police and medics or intimidated to withdraw cases, activists said on Wednesday. A study by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found the outlawed "two-finger test" - which involves a doctor inserting fingers into a rape victim's vagina to determine if she is sexually active - being