New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Top BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday decided on an aggressive strategy to counter the opposition in parliament on JNU row and the suicide by a Dalit…
New Delhi: People participate in a march organised from Ambedkar Bhawan to Jantar Mantar to condemn the “institutional killing” of 26-year-old scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), Rohith Vemula; in New Delhi, on Feb…
Delhi Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi addresses during annual press conference in New Delhi on Jan.3, 2014. (Photo: IANS) Panaji, Feb 23 (IANS) The Congress in Goa on Tuesday accused Delhi Police chief B.S. Bassi…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) BJP veteran L.K. Advani and Congress president Sonia Gandhi chatted away on the front row of the Central Hall before President Pranab Mukherjee began his address to the joint session…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he believes in freedom of expression, and hence a protester should be allowed to…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The BJP on Tuesday criticised Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for addressing a protest march organised by various student organisations to condemn the…
Aligarh, Feb 23 (IANS) India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad opposed partition till his last breath, experts said here on Tuesday. “Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was not only a great writer, thinker, freedom…
Bengaluru, Feb 23 (IANS) The ruling Congress on Tuesday won more seats in elections to Karnataka’s local bodies spanning zila panchayats (ZPs) and taluk panchayats (TPs), leaving the opposition BJP and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S)…
Chandigarh, Feb 23 (IANS) With his party in a buoyant mood in Punjab, AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will begin a five-day visit to the state from Thursday. “Kejriwal will try to…
Rohtak: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar meet people who had been affected during Jat agitation, in Rohtak on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Gurgaon, Feb 23 (IANS) The Jat Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday thanked…
Patna: Left parties stage a demonstration to show solidarity with JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar in Patna, on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Patna, Feb 23 (IANS) A ‘bandh’ (shutdown) called on Tuesday by the…
Rohtak: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar meet people who had been affected during Jat agitation, in Rohtak on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Rohtak/Chandigarh, Feb 23 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar made…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joins protest to condemn the “institutional killing” of 26-year-old scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), Rohith Vemula at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on Feb 23, 2016….
Patna, Feb 23 (IANS) The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday formally approved a proposal to hold 10-phased elections for the 2.58 lakh panchayat posts in the state in April-May. “The state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister…
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Mohd. Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) Former Maharashtra inspector general of police S.M. Mushrif on Tuesday accused the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of being hand-in-glove with right-wing extremists and called for a ban on the RSS describing it…
Congress Leader Ashwani Kumar (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The presidential address to the joint sitting of parliament was utterly uninspiring and completely directionless, former union minister and Congress leader Ashwani Kumar said…
Hyderabad, Feb 23 (IANS) A day after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy moved the Supreme Court seeking construction of Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, an All India Muslim Personal Law Board member on…
Tokyo, Feb 23 (IANS) Two Japanese major opposition parties on Tuesday said they were merging to form a new party ahead of the upper house election this summer in a move to better challenge the…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday demanded a law against discrimination of people from weaker sections in educational institutions across the country. “What happened to Rohith (Vemula) has not happened to him…