India

New Delhi, Apr 24: Unhappy with the marriage, Apporva Shukla Tiwari smothered her husband Rohit Shekhar Tiwari to death while he was drunk, said the police after arresting her on Wednesday. "She was unhappy with the marriage, Apoorva smothered him while Rohit was drunk. She committed the crime herself without any help. She will be produced in the court soon," officials of the Delhi Police Crime

New Delhi, Apr 23: Rouse Avenue court on Tuesday issued non-bailable warrants against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Swaraj India founder Yogendra Yadav in connection with a defamation case. Lawyer Surender Sharma had filed the defamation complaint against these leaders. The petitioner had pleaded that his candidature from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was

Lucknow, Apr 23: Samajwadi Party candidate (SP) from Rampur Azam Khan on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi government would have hanged him by now from Qutub Minar, had he done anything wrong. Khan, who has 10 pending criminal cases against him, told media here, "My life is very transparent. If I would have done anything wrong in my entire life, the Modi government would have hanged me long time back

Bhiwani, Apr 23: A trailblazer inside the boxing ring, Olympic bronze-medallist Vijender Singh says he will draw inspiration from Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao in his political innings which start with the Congress in the ongoing general elections. The 33-year-old from the cradle of Indian boxing -- Bhiwani in Haryana -- was on Monday nominated from the South Delhi constituency by the Grand Old

Mumbai, Apr 23: People are in a mood to change the Modi-led government but manipulation of EVMs is the "only worrying factor", NCP chief Sharad Pawar said here on Tuesday. He was speaking at a joint media interaction addressed by leaders of the Congress, NCP, TDP, Trinamool Congress, AAP CPI(M), CPI and DMK. "EVMs are vulnerable to programming errors," TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu said. The BJP

New Delhi, Apr 23: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Gujarat government to pay a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to Bilkis Bano who was gangraped during the Gujarat riots in 2002. The court also directed the state government to provide Bilkis Bano a government job and accommodation after learning she leads a nomadic life and has no home. Bano had also sought exemplary compensation from the

New Delhi, Apr 23: India will stop importing crude oil from Iran following the US move to end sanction waivers, and will use alternate supply sources such as Saudi Arabia to make up for the lost volumes, top officials and industry sources said Tuesday. The Trump administration on Monday decided not to renew waiver that let countries like India buy Iranian oil without facing US sanctions. "Until

New Delhi, Apr 23: Hindi cinema actor Sunny Deol joined the BJP here on Tuesday in the presence of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. Mr. Deol met BJP president Amit Shah at Pune airport briefly last week. “The way my father (veteran actor Dharmendra) was attached with Atalji (Atal Bihari Vajpayee), today I have come to join Modiji (Narendra Modi). Whatever I

Ahmedabad, Apr 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday cast his vote in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections at a booth here and appealed to people to come out in large numbers to exercise their franchise. He said the "voter ID" (identity card) was much more powerful than the "IED" (improvised explosive device) of terrorists. Modi arrived at the polling station set up in Nishan High School

New Delhi, Apr 22: A Delhi court on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to supply statement of witnesses and documents about the closure report to Fatima Nafees, the mother of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed. The court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Naveen Kumar Kashyap also observed that there cannot be a half-hearted approach and effective opportunity be given to Nafees