India

Sriharikota, Apr 1: ISRO's PSLV C-45 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here on Monday, carrying India's EMISAT satellite along with 28 nanosatellites of global customers. As the 27-hour countdown concluded, the nearly 50-metre tall rocket, a new variant of ISRO's trusted workhorse PSLV-QL, blasted off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 125 km from here

Apr 1: The accused in the Dadri lynching case were seen sitting in the front row of a BJP rally addressed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Bishahra village of Dadri area on Sunday. Mr. Adityanath was campaigning for Union Minister and BJP candidate Mahesh Sharma who is contesting from Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. On September 28, 2015, 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq was

New Delhi, Mar 31: Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who has announced that he is quitting the BJP, on Sunday said he decided to go with the Congress as it was a national party in the "true sense" and family friend Lalu Prasad also advised him to do so. He said leaders such as Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national

New Delhi, Mar 31: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will also contest the Lok Sabha election from Wayanad in Kerala, apart from Amethi in UP. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Congress leader A K Antony announced that Rahul Gandhi has given his consent to contest from two seats. Speculations about Rahul Gandhi contesting from a second seat had been doing rounds for some time now. To a

Kashmir, Mar 31: Raising “doubts” over the February 14 Pulwama suicide bombing in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district that killed 40 CRPF soldiers, regional National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday asked why didn’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit the families of slain jawans? “Many Indian soldiers were killed in Chhattisgarh, but Modi ji never went to meet their families. And

Kochi, Mar 30: Father Anthony, an alleged close aide of Kerala nun rape case accused Franco Mulakkal, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The arrest by the ED reportedly comes after unaccounted cash was recovered from his residence in Partappura near Jalandhar. According to reports, Father Anthony has not produced any proof accounting for the seized cash. Franco Mulakkal has been

New Delhi, Mar 30: Sonakshi Sinha, a prominent Bollywood actress and daughter of Shatrughan Sinha, who recently quit the BJP to join the Congress, has accused the saffron party of not respecting her father and other senior members, including LK Advani. Speaking to news agency ANI, Sonakshi said that he (Shatrughan Sinha) was little late and that he should have resigned long back. “Being a party

New Delhi, Mar 30: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation on the successful test-firing of an anti-satellite missile did not violate provisions of the model code of conduct, the Election Commission said on Friday night. The poll panel took the decision based on the report of a committee of officers which concluded that the Prime Minister's address did not violate the provisions for

New Delhi, Mar 29: On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a television interview that all economic offenders will have to face law, fugitive businessman Nirav Modi, main accused in the Punjab National Bank fraud case was on Friday denied bail plea by a London court. Sources said here during the court proceedings, the UK government's Prosecution alleged that 48-year-old fugitive billionaire

New Delhi, Mar 30: The Supreme Court Friday asked the Gujarat government to take disciplinary action in two weeks against the erring police officials, including an IPS officer, convicted by the Bombay High Court in the sensational Bilkis Bano gang rape case during the 2002 riots in the state. Besides, Bano in a plea before the top court sought exemplary compensation from the state government