India

Thrissur, Aug 6: Jayaraman, a priest at Chirakkal Bhagavathi Temple in Kerala's Thrissur , was arrested after he allegedly called up the police control room and threatened to assassinate President Ram Nath Kovind. Soon after receiving the call, a police team traced the details and took Jayaraman into custody. According to Thrissur Superintendent of Police (SP), MP Dinesh, the temple priest was

Mumbai, Aug 5: The Uttar Pradesh government wants to bring madrasas into the mainstream education system, Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mohsin Raza said today. The Uttar Pradesh minister also favoured introducing a "new dress code" for students at madrasas (Islamic schools) across the country and added that he will take up the issue with the Centre. However, Raza did not elaborate on what

New Delhi, Aug 5: As many as 21 public sector banks and three major private sector lenders collected a whopping Rs 5,000 crore from customers for non-maintenance of minimum balance in their accounts in 2017-18, according to banking data. India's largest lender State Bank of India, which suffered a staggering net loss of Rs 6,547 crore during 2017-18, led the pack in penalising its customers for

Chandauli, Aug 5: BJP chief Amit Shah today dared the Congress to clear its stand in the Rajya Sabha on the amended OBC bill, saying it will expose whether the party was really for the backward communities. At the same time, he charged the opposition with playing vote bank politics on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue. The Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017, commonly known as

New Delhi, Aug 5: Pitching for a "formidable front" against the BJP, former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda has said he is not averse to projecting TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the Opposition's prime ministerial face for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The remark by Gowda, 85, comes against the backdrop of reports that the Congress and other opposition

Nainital, Aug 4: The Uttarakhand High Court has come to the rescue of a government servant who was denied maternity leave for her third child, terming a state government rule to this effect "unconstitutional". Hearing a writ petition by Haldwani resident Urmila Manish, the single judge bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma said denial of maternity leave to women for their third child under the Second

New Delhi, Aug 4: A man armed with a knife attempted to barge inside Kerala House here on Saturday at a time when Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan was present inside the premises. He was brought down by cops. According to news agency ANI, police officials said the man screamed as he attempted to enter the main building and that he had a knife on him. He was taken down by several security personnel and

Jammu, Aug 4: A man was gunned down by security personnel on Saturday when he tried to forcibly enter former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah's residence here. As per the police, the man, who entered in an SUV, sped past the security personnel at the VIP gate of Abdullah's residence, and got into a scuffle with the officers on duty, barged into his residence and vandalised his

New Delhi, Aug 4: If India remains committed to achieving 100 per cent coverage in terms of safe sanitation services by October 2019, as many as 3,00,000 deaths caused due to diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014 can be averted, the World Health Organisation highlighted. Results tabulated from a WHO modelling study on

New Delhi, Aug 4: Two weeks after self-proclaimed spiritual leader Swami Agnivesh was attacked in Jharkhand's Pakur district, the activist demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the matter. "It has been 15 days and no arrest has been made. There has been no investigation. It indicates that matter is being brushed under the carpet. I have no option but to go to the Supreme Court and