In a blow to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, Delhi Police on Monday charged the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member with abetting his wife Sunanda Pushkars suicide in 2014. The chargesheet that Tharoor called "preposterous" was filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh here. It mentions that the body of Pushkar bor...
With the resumption of dynamic pricing system for transport fuels on Monday by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), petrol prices in the national capital shot up to Rs 74.80 per litre. Opposition slammed this price rise as "poll-politics". The IOC had suspended dynamic pricing system for transport fuels for 19 days to "avoid c...
At least 18 Palestinians in Gaza were shot dead by Israeli troops on Monday after bloody clashes erupted on the border before the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, which has infuriated Palestinians. A 14-year-old boy was among those killed and more than 900 people were injured, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Palestinia...
At least six people were killed on Monday in West Bengal as violence and clashes between supporters of different parties in several districts marred voting for the rural bodies....
The Modi government hasnt scored too well on farmers issues, jobs and prices of essential commodities at the end of its four years in power, according to an online survey that also found a substantial number of people calling its performance "below expectations". The survey done by LocalCircles, a community social media ...
Higher inflation data and caution ahead of Karnataka election results kept the key Indian equity markets subdued on Monday afternoon. India's wholesale inflation rate rose to 3.18 per cent in April from 2.47 per cent in the previous month, official data showed here on Monday. According to market observers, heavy selling was wi...
As Karnataka readies on Tuesday to count votes polled on Saturday in the 222 assembly constituencies, the Congress, BJP and JD-S are sitting on an edge over the verdict that is likely to have a bearing on their fortunes in the 2019 general elections. A day after a record 72.13 per cent of 5.06-crore electorate voted on a hot weekend, ...
Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday booked another person for posting abusive comments on the microblogging site, Twitter. On Sunday the state police had booked a hate mail monger for spreading hatred and anger against Kashmiri women on his Twitter handle. The police also said it would request the Twitter India authorities to block such users and would ...
Kolkata, May 14 In the wake of violence surrounding the West Bengal rural polls, a CPI-M activist and his wife were burnt to death in their house allegedly by a group of miscreants backed by the Trinamool Congress in South 24 Parganas district's Namkhana, the Left party said on Monday. Police also confirmed that the couple died in...
After a hectic fight between the lawyers backed by the BJP and the CPI-M, the advocates supported by the saffron party for the first time won the majority seats in the 15-member Tripura Bar Association (TBA), an official said here on Monday. "Of the 382 voters, 343 voted on Sunday to elect a new 15-member Tripura Bar Association. Lawyers supported by...
