The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh split on Friday between party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav who was expelled from the party following a rift over the selection of candidates for the assembly elections due next early next year....
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday expelled his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav from the party for six years for "indulging in anti-party activities". He said the party would now elect a new Chief Minister in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh....
Queues were short and crowds thin here on Friday, the 50th day of demonetisation -- the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi's self-imposed deadline for normalisation of situation kicked in. ...
The Shiv Sena on Friday likened Wednesday's comments of Goa Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao about the Church guiding Catholics to vote right in the upcoming state elections, with the 'fatwa' issued by the imam of Jama Masjid ahead of polls. Speaking to reporters in Panaji, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that his party would file a complaint agai...
Kolkata, Dec 30 Trinamool MP Tapas Paul was on Friday arrested by the CBI in the Rose Valley chit fund scam, an official said. "He has been arrested for further interrogation over his involvement in the financial exchanges in Rose Valley case," an agency official said. The Bengali cine star, who was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ...
Alleging police inaction and improper investigation, the distraught family of a teenaged girl who was allegedly raped and murdered by her friend in Haryana's Sonipat district last month, has sought permission from President Pranab Mukherjee for self-immolation. The family has written a letter to the President, highligh...
Russias Foreign Ministry on Friday proposed expelling 35 American diplomats in response to the recent sanctions imposed by Washington. "Russia's Foreign Ministry and their colleagues from other agencies have proposed that President Vladimir Putin proclaim 31 employees of the US Embassy in Moscow and four diplomats from the US Consulate service in...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched an Aadhaar-based mobile payment application at Digi Dhan Mela here to promote and make digital transactions easier. The app is called BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) -- a re-branded version of UPI (Unified Payment Interface) and USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data). Speaking on ...
Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal, who was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation three days ago, presented himself at the investigation agency's regional office here, a CBI official said. According to the official, Pal was involved in "financial transactions" with the Rose Valley chit fund organisation. "Pal would be interrogated re...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologise to the na...
