India

New Delhi, May 14: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to China, Congress hoped that it would not have to fly anyone to the foreign soil to correct any "misrepresentations" by him. The opposition party was miffed as the Prime Minister, during his Canada visit last month, had accused the previous governments of creating a "mess" in the country. "We are hoping that we will not have to fly

Aurangabad, May 12: With the worsening drought situation in the region, farmer suicides continue unabated this year. About 300 farmers have taken their lives since January this year. The highest number (83) of farmer suicides has been reported from Beed district, followed by Nanded with 55 deaths and Osmanabad with 50 cases. Last year, a total of 569 farmers in the region had taken their lives

Kolkata, May 12: At least 17 people were injured after a low-intensity blast on the Sealdah-Krishnanagar local train in Kolkata on Tuesday. The blast took place at 3:55 am after the train left Titagarh. According to police, passengers travelling in the fifth bogey hurled bombs at each other after a scuffle. The injured have been admitted to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Top police officials

Hyderabad, May 11: A metropolitan sessions court here today granted bail to Satyam Computers founder B Ramalinga Raju and nine others and suspended their seven-year rigorous imprisonment sentence in the multi-crore rupee accounting fraud in the erstwhile IT firm. They had been taken into custody barely a month ago after the conviction in the trial court. M Laxman, special judge for economic

Bengaluru, May 11: Giving a clean chit to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, the Karnataka High Court today held that the judgement and finding recorded by the trial court convicting her and three others suffers from infirmity and it is not sustainable in law. Acquitting Jayalalithaa and three others of "all the charges levelled against them", the single bench judge Justice C R

Bengaluru, May 11: Jayalalithaa was today acquitted by the Karnataka High Court in the disproportionate assets case that came as a huge relief to the AIADMK chief that will enable her stage a political comeback and return to the Chief Minister's post. Pronouncing the verdict in a jam-packed court, Justice C R Kumaraswamy also acquitted AIADMK's chief close aide Sasikala Natarajan and her relatives

New Delhi, May 11: Stating that he doesn't care about media, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said that if election is held in the national capital today, Aam Aadmi Party would poll 72 per cent votes. "Whatever comes in the media, but I conduct a survey every 15 days of my party in Delhi. If elections are conducted in the national capital, then we are ought to get 72 per cent votes

Burnpur (West Bengal), May 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated to the nation the upgraded IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), that houses the country's largest blast furnace and has been modernised by the central government at a cost of Rs.16,000 crore. After modernisation, the plant's production capacity has increased from 0.85 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 2.9 mtpa. "With immense joy

New Delhi, May 10: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today came under sharp attack for his government's controversial circular threatening action against the media for any defamatory news, with Congress and BJP accusing him of being a "hypocrite" and "anti-democratic". "When there is criticism of the government, when the wrongdoings of his government is exposed by the media, the Chief Minister

New Delhi, May 10: Despite India's declining child sex ratio, as many as 30 states and union territories have not convicted even a single person for pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic between 2011 and 2013, raising concerns about the poor implementation of the PCPNDT Act. The five states which have worst child sex ratio (CSR) - Daman and Diu (618 girls per 1,000 boys), Dadra and Nagar Haveli