India

New Delhi, Dec 10: Authorities at the Arthur Road prison here have kept a high security cell ready for liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya if he is extradited from UK in connection with loan default cases against him in India, an official said Monday. Mallya, wanted in India on charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to around Rs 9,000 crore, is set to appear before the Westminster Magistrates'

New Delhi, Dec 10: RLSP president Upendra Kushwaha resigned from the Union council of ministers and walked out of the BJP-led NDA on Monday, a day before Parliament's Winter Session begins. Kushwaha, in his resignation letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said he was "dejected" and "betrayed" by the PM's leadership, according to party sources. RLSP Chief Upendra Kushwaha: After observing

New Delhi, Dec 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is staring at election losses in big heartland states, polls show, suggesting that farm distress and a lack of jobs for growing numbers of young people could prove stumbling blocks for his re-election bid in May. India counts votes on Tuesday from five states that chose new assemblies over the past month, but exit polls show Modi's ruling Bharatiya

Lucknow, Dec 10: Soon after the poll results of five state assemblies on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch his aggressive election campaign for 2019 from Rae Bareli — the parliamentary constituency of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on December 16. Though the PM's visit will be to flag off the 900 newly-built coaches at Modern Rail Coach Factory at Lalganj in the district, senior

Aurangabad, Dec 10: In view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, All India Students Federation (AISF) vice president and JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar has said that the Ram temple issue is being raked up in a bid to divert the attention of people from Rafale Scam. While addressing to a rally 'Save Constitution and Save Country's at Aam Khas maidan on Sunday night here, the AISF vice president

Mumbai, Dec 9: Union minister Ramdas Athawale has been slapped by a man at a public event in Maharashtra's Ambernath town, police said. The incident took place Saturday night as the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment was coming down from the stage, a police official said. The accused has been identified as Pravin Gosavi. He was later beaten up by Athwale's supporters. Gosavi has

Datia, Dec 9: As the exit polls predicted a tight race with the Congress, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday expressed confidence that the BJP would win a comfortable majority in the Assembly election to form a government for the fourth consecutive time. “I am the biggest surveyor [pollster] as I remain in the midst of the public all day long. The BJP is set to romp

New Delhi, Dec 9: Amid raging controversy over the revised economic growth numbers, former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian has called for an investigation by experts to clear doubts and build confidence while noting that the "puzzle" about the data needs to be explained. He stressed that institutions that do not have technical expertise in calculating the GDP data should not be involved

Lucknow, Dec 8: Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Krishna Bahadur Singh and two other police officials have been transferred in connection with the mob violence in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district in which two people including a cop were killed. Sitapur Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary has been appointed as Bulandshahr SSP replacing Singh, who has now been

Baran, Dec 8: Two officials have been suspended after a ballot unit was found lying on road in Shahabad area of Kishanganj Assembly Constituency in Baran district of Rajasthan on Friday. District Election Officer and Collector S P Singh issued the suspension order after taking cognisance of the fact-finding report of the returning officer, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Kishanganj in connection