India

Belagavi, Jan : Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and National Congress Party (NCP) chief, Sharad Pawar has unveiled a statue of the Chatrapathi Shivaji in the outskirts of the city here on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Pawar hailed that Shivaji, who never aspired to establish dynastic rule, instead strived hard to create a Hindavi swaraj in the country. Stating that Shivaji, was used to

Thrissur, Jan 12: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday urged those in power to accept ideas based on scientific and physical appearance, while refraining from propagating ideas based on 'disbeliefs'. Inaugurating the Vigyan Sagar Park, a science and technology park here, Mr Vijayan decried the attempts to keep away the scientific temper and induce many disbeliefs in the society. "We

Lucknow, Jan 12: Once-arch rivals Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announced Saturday their tie-up in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, sharing 38 seats each and keeping the Congress out of the alliance. The parties, however, said they would not field candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi

Guwahati, Jan 12: A day after protests were banned in parts of Guwahati, former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said on Friday he would violate the prohibitory order and court arrest if the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was not withdrawn by the Centre. Addressing a press conference, Gogoi added that if protests or disturbances continue in the state, youths are likely to get attracted towards

Panchkula, Jan 11: A CBI court Friday convicted self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati 16 years ago. The quantum of sentence for the Dera Sacha Sauda chief and the others will be pronounced by the special CBI court Judge Jagdeep Singh on January 17. The 51-year-old sect head appeared before the court through video conference

New Delhi, Jan 11: Industrial output growth dropped to a 17-month low of 0.5% in November last on account of contraction in the manufacturing sector, particularly consumer and capital goods. Factory output, as measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had grown by 8.5% in November 2017, as per data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on January 11. The previous low

Alappad, Jan 11: Abandoned homes, deserted school, heaps of sand, a lone temple and dried up mangroves. These are the remnants of a once green Ponmana village under the coastal Alappad panchayat in Kollam district in southern Kerala where locals are up in arms against beach sand mining, blaming it for sea erosion eating up their lands. They claim hamlet after hamlet was 'disappearing' from the map

New Delhi, Jan 11: Former CBI director Alok Verma, who was ousted from the agency by a high-powered selection committee on Thursday, has said that he was transferred on the basis of "false, unsubstantiated and frivolous allegations" made by only one person, who was inimical to him. Verma who was transferred as the Director General Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards, two days after

New Delhi, Jan 11: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge submitted a dissent note before the High Powered Committee, which decided the ouster of Alok Verma as the CBI Director, questioning the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) findings against Verma. Kharge, the lone dissenting voice in the high-powered selection committee in his note argued, why Verma should be restored with "full extent and

Shillong, Jan 11: Multi-agencies personnel used high-powered pumps to drain out 28 lakh litres of water from the main shaft, where 15 miners got trapped, but Navy divers Thursday found no change in the water level in the rat-hole mine to resume search operation, officials said. Rescuers using pumps from Coal India Ltd, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd and the Odisha Fire Service have managed to pump out 2.1