India

New Delhi, Feb 7: The finance ministry has told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that it does not have information about the loans given to industrialist Vijay Mallya, prompting the transparency panel to remark that the response was "vague and not sustainable as per law". Chief Information Commissioner R K Mathur, while hearing the matter of one Rajiv Kumar Khare, told the finance ministry

Hyderabad, Feb 6: Rahul Gandhi has emerged as "more than a match" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the aspiration of the party and youth is to see him as the country's PM, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily said here. Asked about media reports suggesting that senior leaders like NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, both of whom were earlier in the Congress

New Delhi, Feb 6: A policeman was killed today and another injured as militants staged a daring attack outside a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital to free a Pakistani terrorist from police custody, police said. The Pakistani terrorist, who was brought to the SMHS hospital for treatment, managed to escape with the assailants, a police official said. The ultras opened firing on the

New Delhi, Feb 6: Twenty two Indians on board a ship, which went missing in the waters in West Africa last week, have been freed by pirates, according to the shipping company. A Hong Kong-based firm which appointed the Indian sailors on the ship said pirates hijacked their their crew on February 1. The sailors were released reportedly after a ransom was paid. The "Marine Express" oil tanker was

Lucknow, Feb 6: A fact-finding team of 13 activists and journalists claimed on Monday that the violence in Kasganj on Republic Day was not a spontaneous incident but a “planned move to create polarization and violent confrontation”. Releasing a report here under the banner of ‘United Against Hate’, the team — which visited Kasganj on February 2 — also accused the Uttar Pradesh police of partisan

New Delhi, Feb 6: India today expressed concern over the recent political developments in the Maldives and asked its nationals to defer all non-essential travels to the Indian Ocean nation until further notice. In an advisory, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Indian expatriates in Maldives are also alerted to the need for heightened security awareness, and urged to exercise due caution

Unnao, Feb 6: At least 21 people have been infected with HIV in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao allegedly after a quack used a common syringe to administer injection, an official said on Monday. A case has been registered against the quack, he said. Chief medical officer Dr SP Chaudhary said the matter came to light after the health department launched an investigation following reports of "high number of

New Delhi, Feb 6: A child was who brazenly abducted from his school bus in east Delhi a day before the Republic Day by two unidentified bike-borne men, was rescued in the wee hours of Tuesday after a fierce gunfight with the kidnappers, the police said. The shootout started soon after the kidnappers fired at the Delhi Police's crime branch officials, who were raiding a flat in an apartment complex

New Delhi, Feb 5: The AAP government on Monday defended in the Delhi High Court a law criminalising possession and consumption of beef in the national capital, saying the state was obligated under the Constitution to protect cows and other milch and draught animals from slaughter. The Department of Animal Husbandry of the Delhi government made the submission on an affidavit filed before a bench of

New Delhi, Feb 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a historic visit to Palestine starting Saturday. During his visit, he will hold a meeting with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Apart from visiting Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the prime minister will also go to the Palestinian capital, Ramallah. In July 2017, he was on a three-day visit to Israel on a special invitation