India

Lucknow, Nov 7: Children continue to die at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, the native city of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. As many as 55 children have died at the hospital in the past four days, according to official sources. Of these, 29 died in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) alone. Sources said the children died of encephalitis and other diseases

New Delhi, Nov 6: The Income Tax Department has picked 20,572 tax returns for "detailed scrutiny" suspecting discrepancies in incomes before and after demonetisation, official sources said today. Separately, they said, the department has identified one lakh "high risk" cases of alleged tax evasion for detailed investigation. According to the sources, 20,572 tax returns have been selected for

New Delhi, Nov 6: A transgender, who had undergone sex change three years ago, today moved the Supreme Court challenging Air India's decision to deny her a job as a cabin crew. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice and sought responses from Air India and Civil Aviation Ministry in four weeks. She claimed that to pursue her dreams, she had

Lucknow, Nov 6: Recent remarks by a few artistes against Hindutva extremism and terrorism seem to have sparked a political storm as now Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has jumped into the discourse and branded individuals talking about intolerance and Hindu terrorism as anti-nationals. “Those who market their intellectual wisdom for making money talk about intolerance in the country

Chennai, Nov 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said editorial freedom must be used wisely in public interest and the media should make an "extra effort" to maintain credibility. "The freedom to write does not include the freedom to be factually incorrect," the Prime Minister said in Chennai, addressing a function to mark the 75th anniversary of Tamil newspaper Daily Thanthi at the Madras

Beijing, Nov 6: China on Monday objected to Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's first visit to Arunachal Pradesh, saying her tour of the "disputed area" is not conducive to the peace and tranquillity in the region. On Sunday, Sitharaman visited forward army posts in remote Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh bordering China to take stock of the defence preparedness. "As to Indian Defence

Una, Nov 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at the Congress, saying it had "run away" from the Himachal Pradesh electoral battle, which he described as a contest being fought by the people of the state. Campaigning for the third day in a row in the state that goes to the polls on November 9, he said the election was not being fought by his party, the BJP, but the people of the state who

Lucknow, Nov 5: BJP has fielded around 25 Muslim candidates in the first phase of local body polls in Yogi Adityanath ruled Uttar Pradesh. The number is all set to go up significantly for the second and third phase of polls which will cover most of west UP districts. The party has given tickets to five Muslim candidates for Lucknow's Malihabad nagar panchayat. In Amethi, BJP has fielded Muslims

New Delhi, Nov 5: Air India is looking to raise loans worth $535 million to finance acquisition of three Boeing planes, including two aircraft that will be used for ferrying VVIPs, a senior airline official said. However, the disinvestment-bound carrier has reduced the required loan amount by around $20 million in less than three weeks after floating a tender where it had sought loan up to $555

Lucknow, Nov 5: The Uttar Pradesh government today sought to allay fears that introduction of NCERT books in madrassas in the state will disturb the course structure of the Islamic educational institutions. At the same time, the government maintained that "dakiyanusi" (conservative) education system cannot ensure "progress of an individual, a state or the country". "The Uttar Pradesh government