India

Shimla, Dec 23: A local resident has been booked for making derogatory remarks against Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Vadra on Facebook, the police said Saturday. A first information report has been registered against Ranbir Singh Negi on the basis of a complaint by Himachal Youth Congress president Manish Thakur, Shimla Deputy Superintendent of Police Pramod Shukla said

Pune, Dec 23: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said party leadership should own up to defeat and failures, adding that nobody is willing to take responsibility of failure, unlike success. The cryptic remark of the Union Minister came after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost three 'Hindi heartland' states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh — in the recently-concluded Assembly

Ahmedabad, Dec 23: A mid-air medical emergency on board an Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai to Myanmar's Yangon forced the aircraft to divert to the city airport in Ahmedabad today. The aircraft contacted the Ahmedabad Air Traffic Control (ATC) this afternoon after a five-year-old British national on board the flight developed medical complications, the airport authorities said in the statement

Kozhikode, Dec 22: The Kerala State Haj Committee has welcomed the decision of the GST council, which met in the National Capital on Saturday, for reduceing the tax levy on Haj Pilgrimage from the present 18 to 5 percent. Speaking to UNI, Committee Chairman Mr C Mohammed Faizy said the Committee is thankful to the Union Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley and the GST Council for taking the decision.

New Delhi, Dec 22: Umaiyah Khan, a student of Jamia Islamia University who is currently pursuing her Master of Business Administration (MBA), has alleged that she was not allowed to appear for University Grants Commission -National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) exam for wearing Hijab. Speaking to ANI, she said, "I went for NET exam last week in Rohini area. I reached the exam centre but did not get

New Delhi, Dec 22: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested James Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in Augusta Westland VVIP Chopper deal case. The designated Special court allowed the probing agency to interrogate Michel inside the court room for 15 minutes after the agency sought his custodial interrogation. The Central probe agency arrested Michel under Prevention of Money

Chennai, Dec 22: Makkal Needhi Maiam chief (MNM) Kamal Haasan on Saturday announced that he will contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. Addressing a press conference here after the party's executive meeting to discuss parliamentary elections, the actor said the MNM is willing to form a single-minded alliance in the parliamentary elections."Our members have given me the chance to take decisions

Dec 21: A BJP MLA Thursday criticised former bureaucrats who have sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s resignation over the Bulandshahr mob violence, saying they were concerned only with the death there of two men and not of “21 cows”. MLA Sanjay Sharma, who represents Anupshahr assembly constituency in Bulandshahr, also said only the people have the power to remove a chief

Kolkata, Dec 21: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Friday quashed a single bench order that had allowed BJP’s ‘Rath Yatra’ in West Bengal and asked it to hear the case afresh to consider intelligence inputs by state agencies. The single-judge bench of Tapabrata Chakraborty was asked to dispose the matter expeditiously after considering whether there were adequate materials to arrive at

Bengaluru, Dec 21: Saying that flawed implementation of GST regime and ill-effects of demonetisation will remain in the people’s mind for a long period, Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the two processes initiated by the NDA government had severely damaged the Indian economy and they will be major factors influencing the outcome of the 2019 Lok Sabha