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India's Oldest Performing Musician Dies At 107
KOLKATA -- The oldest performing musician of the country Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, a descendant of Tansen, passed away yesterday, family members said. The Padma Bhushan awardee was 107 and is survived...
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Jat Protests: Haryana CM Calls For Meeting To Discuss Demands Of Leaders
ROHTAK -- With tensions rising in Rohtak due to ongoing protest by the Jat community over their demands of reservation, the administration on Friday blocked the mobile internet services in Jhajjar and...
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India Calls Pakistan's Statement On Afzal Guru's Hanging 'Unacceptable'
NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD -- India today hit back at Pakistan for its statement on the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, saying Jammu and Kashmir is an internal issue and its "gratuitous...
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Four Naxals Killed, Two CRPF Jawans Injured In Encounter In Jharkhand
RANCHI -- At least four Naxals were killed and two CRPF jawans were injured following an encounter with security forces in Taimara Ghati on NH-33 in Ranchi on Friday morning. The injured jawans have...
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Set Your House In Order First, Congress Snubs Pakistan's Concern Over JNU Row
NEW DELHI -- Reacting to Pakistan's concern over the unrest in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Congress Party on Friday said Islamabad should first set their own house in order and mind...
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Hardik Patel Goes On Indefinite Hunger Strike In Jail
AHMEDABAD -- Patel quota stir spearhead Hardik Patel yesterday launched an indefinite hunger strike at the Lajpore Jail in Surat, where he is lodged since September in two sedition cases, demanding...
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Kanhaiya Kumar's Medical Reports Contradict Police Claims, Shows He Was...
NEW DELHI -- JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's medical examination report showed that he received external injuries during the attack on him at the Patiala House court complex, which contradicts claims...
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Child Sexual Abuse On A Rise In Mumbai
In Mumbai--considered one of the safest cities in the country--two children under 12 years of age get sexually abused every day. Data collected from the police and four hospitals authorised under...
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PM Modi's 'Make In India' Fair Closes With $222 Billion In Investment Pledges
MUMBAI -- A week-long "Make in India" fair closed on Thursday with $222 billion in investment pledges, but thin attendance by foreign firms at the event launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi means...
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Read Tim Cook's Letter To Apple Customers About FBI's ‘Backdoor' Request
Apple CEO Tim Cook has written a strongly worded letter to customers about the importance of privacy, following the company’s decision to appeal a court order to unlock and access the data of an...
View ArticleDream On Dream Big
We all have dreams-some realistic and some straight out of our fantasy world. Some dreams are big, some small, whatever be the size, things are just perfect in our dreams. One snap and we are forced to...
View ArticleSAR Geelani's Bail Plea Denied By Patiala House Court
NEW DELHI -- Former Delhi University SAR Geelani was denied bail by the Delhi High Court on Friday. Earlier this week, Geelani was arrested on the charges of sedition, criminal conspiracy and unlawful...
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Lawyers Defy SC Warning To Lead March In Delhi Against 'Anti Nationals'
A group of lawyers, led by a Delhi advocate who assaulted a man at the Patiala House Court this week, took out a march to the heart of the national capital on Friday, chanting slogans of ‘Vande...
View ArticleBJP's OP Sharma Faces Expulsion From Delhi Assembly For Sexist Slurs Against...
BJP MLA Om Prakash Sharma, who was recently caught in the act of thrashing a Communist Party of India (CPI) minority wing leader outside a Delhi court and then brazenly defending his actions, seems to...
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The Sedition Debate In Posters
Even as the debate on the JNU sedition debacle continues, students across the nation have come together in support of Kanhaiya Kumar, protesting against his arrest. The president of JNU’s students'...
View ArticleOne Dead, 21 Injured As Jat Protestors Set Haryana FM's House On Fire
Protests by Jats turned violent on Friday with agitators setting the house of Haryana Finance Minister Captian Abhimanyu on fire and disrupting rail and road traffic, forcing the state government to...
View Article'Seriously Concerned': IIT Delhi Faculty Expresses Solidarity With JNU
Adding to the growing chorus of voices from across the country expressing support for Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and its students, the faculty at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi on...
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Gujarat Village Diktat: No Mobile For Unmarried Women
In a diktat, the head of Suraj village in Narendra Modi’s native district Mehsana in Gujarat has banned unmarried women from using mobile phones, even as the country’s prime minister continues to...
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Akshay Kumar Supports Decision Of Hoisting National Flag In Universities
MUMBAI -- Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is in favour of central universities hoisting the the national flag in their campuses. Human Resource Development Ministry led by Smriti Irani recently said that...
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Kalikho Pul Sworn In As Arunachal Pradesh CM
ITANAGAR -- Dissident Congress leader Kalikho Pul was tonight sworn in as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh after more than two months of political crisis, shortly after the Supreme Court paved the...
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