India

Ranchi, Jan 8: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda resigned Tuesday after the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) formally withdrew support to his government. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader met Governor Syed Ahmd just before noon and handed over his resignation. The Munda government was Monday reduced to a minority after the JMM announced that it was pulling out of the coalition ministry. The

Hyderabad, Jan 8: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi Tuesday went for medical tests at a government-run hospital here on the directions of police to ascertain if he was fit to face questioning in a hate speech case. The legislator with tight police security left his house in Banjara Hills for Gandhi Hospital at 10.30 a.m. after a team of police officials from Nirmal town

New Delhi, Jan 7: Spiritual Guru Asaram Bapu has landed himself in a controversy over his remark that the December 16 Delhi gang rape victim is as guilty as those responsible for the barbaric sexual assault on her. "Only 5-6 people are not the culprits. The victim daughter is as guilty as her rapists... She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop... This could have

Mumbai, Jan 7: The death toll in Dhule police firing has mounted to four even as the situation in the northern Maharashtra town, which witnessed violent clashes between two communities, is under control, police said. According to police, four persons, including a teenager, were killed while 200 others injured. Seven of the injured are in a critical condition. "Four persons, including an 18-year

Indore, Jan 7: Malegaon blast suspect Dhan Singh, who is in custody of National Investigation Agency (NIA), has claimed that a goof up in setting timings of the bombs had led to lesser numbers of casualties in the blasts in 2006. Singh told NIA that on September 8, 2006, he and his associates had planted bombs on two bicycles inside and outside a cemetery and they were meant to go off in the night

New Delhi, Jan 6: In a desperate bid to escape punishment, two of the six accused in the Delhi gangrape case today told a court that they want to become witnesses on behalf of the state while two others pleaded for legal aid. Out of four accused, who were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Jyoti Kler inside her chamber after expiry of their 14-days of judicial remand, Pawan Gupta and Vinay

New Delhi, Jan 6: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has once again attacked Biharis by blaming them for the growing number of rape cases in the country. Addressing a rally in Mumbai, Thackeray said that while so many people are talking about the brutal rape of a girl in Delhi, nobody is trying to ask where these rapists came from. He further said that many cases were slapped against

New Delhi, Jan 6: A brother of the Delhi gang-rape victim has lambasted politicians for their controversial remarks and analyses of a spurt in rape cases and added that such absurd comments will only encourage rapists. “The remarks reflected that the politicians and leaders also think like policemen. The police also ask a number of questions when someone approaches them to lodge a report of rape

New Delhi, Jan 6: After creating a furore with his India-Bharat remark on increasing rapes in the country, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has once again kicked up a controversy by saying that women must restrict themselves to household work. In a speech in Indore, Bhagwat said that a husband and a wife are bound by a social contract where the wife has to take care of the household

New Delhi, Jan 6: Domestic consumers may have to wait longer for the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders to be raised from six to nine. The Petroleum Ministry has been pressing for a relaxation, but the Finance Ministry has expressed serious reservations. “Lack of revenue and a wide fiscal deficit may not make it possible this year to extend such subsidies,” a senior official in the Finance Ministry