India

Ahmedabad, Oct 25: A sessions court in Gujarat’s Visnagar issued non-bailable warrants against Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Pateland Sardar Patel Group (SPG) leader Lalji Patel for not appearing in court for the hearings. Lalji Patel said that while he had missed only the last hearing, Hardik was not present for past three hearings. “Probably for the first time in the country

New Delhi, Oct 25: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced that the BJP will celebrate November 8 as 'anti-blackmoney day', countering the opposition which has declared that it will observe 'black day' on the first anniversary of demonetisation. Addressing a press conference, Jaitley said this would be a "priority programme" for the BJP and senior party leaders as well as Union

Hassan, Oct 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken all institutions under his control, and an undeclared Emergency was in effect in the country, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda has said. He told presspersons here on Wednesday that the Prime Minister has got an officer from Gujarat cadre to the Election Commission. “Not only Election Commission, almost all institutions including the CBI

Hyderabad, Oct 25: The ISRO has started flight integration activity for its next lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 and scientists are currently carrying out tests for the lander and the rover that will explore the moon. Officials said the spacecraft launch, on board GSLV-Mk II, is planned for March and many new technologies have been developed indigenously to achieve the mission requirements

New Delhi, Oct 25: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that she will not link her phone with Aadhaar. "I will not link Aadhaar with phone, if they want to disconnect my phone, let them (do so)," Mamata Banerjee said. "They (Centre) are interfering with people's rights and privacy. Aadhaar number should not be linked with mobile phone. I will not link my Aadhaar number with my

New Delhi, Oct 25: Assembly elections in Gujarat will be held in two phases on December 9 and 14, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. The counting will be held on December 18. With this, the Model Code of Conduct comes into effect immediately. Chief Election Commissioner A K Joti said that the poll process will begin on November 14 after the gazette notification is issued for the first

New Delhi, Oct 25: Large personal electronic devices (PED) like laptops may soon be disallowed from check-in bags because of fears that their battery fire would go undetected, leading to possible catastrophes. In hand bags, on the other hand, cabin crew are now trained to handle PED fires as soon as anyone notices smoke emitting from the bag they are kept in. Just last week, a mobile phone caught

New Delhi, Oct 24: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today urged the Delhi High Court to stop journalist Arnab Goswami and his news channel Republic TV from "misreporting" his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death, saying his "right to be left alone" and "right to silence" must be respected. The submission was made before Justice Manmohan, who reserved the verdict on Tharoor's plea seeking to restrain Goswami and

Ayodhya, Oct 24: The controversy over Taj Mahal refuses to die down any time soon, and now BJP leader Vinay Katiyar has asked the authorities to rename the iconic historic monument located in Agra as Taj Mandir. The firebrand BJP MP on Tuesday said that nothing is wrong in it as the whole compound belongs to Lord Shiva. It was a temple earlier, Katiyar added. Katiyar made these remarks after some

New Delhi, Oct 24: Stepping up his attack against the government over GST, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today took the Gabbar Singh analogy further by referencing the Bollywood villain's dialogue to say it was a tax that coveted people's earnings. Gandhi, who had yesterday described the goods and services tax as "Gabbar Singh Tax" during a rally in Gujarat, today recalled a much quoted