Bihar Elections: Amit Shah Says Pakistan Will Celebrate Diwali If BJP Loses
RAXAUL, Bihar -- BJP President Amit Shah today said if BJP loses in Bihar, Diwali will be celebrated in Pakistan, a statement his rivals called was an attempt to communalise the elections. "If BJP...
View ArticleRajnath Singh Criticises Writers Returning Awards
PATNA, Bihar -- Home Minister Rajnath Singh today came down on writers and some prominent persons returning their Padma and Sahitya Akademi awards terming it as a political conspiracy and wondered what...
View ArticleKerala Bhavan Beef Row: Second Right-Wing Activist Arrested, Chandy Writes To...
NEW DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM -- A day after arresting Hindu Sena chief Vishu Gupta, Delhi Police today nabbed his aide Mohit Rajput for breaching peace and tranquility by calling police claiming that...
View ArticleWest Bengal Man Hit By Bullets Drives Himself, Fiance 15 Kilometres To Hospital
ALIPURDUAR, West Bengal -- Shot at by a snatcher in the ribcage, a man drove his two-wheeler and took himself and his injured would-be wife to a hospital 15 km away. Police said the incident occurred...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Modi Elides Nehru At Indo-Africa Summit; Forensics Say Fire...
The Morning Wrap is HuffPost India's selection of interesting news and opinion from the day's newspapers. Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning. Essential HuffPost Pushpa...
View ArticleKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Says No One Can Stop Him From Eating Beef
In a scathing attack that is sure to raise the hackles of the anti-beef lobby, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah yesterday said nobody could stop him from eating cow meat if he so wished. He also...
View ArticleMAMI Day 1: Glitches, Confusion, And Disappointment
The Mumbai Film Festival isn’t something cinephiles take lightly. For many, it’s an annual pilgrimage. On the first day, like every year, I met and spoke to people who had taken leave from work to...
View ArticleIndia Offers To Airlift Aviation Turbine Fuel To Nepal
NEW DELHI -- In the wake of China agreeing to supply oil to Nepal, India on Friday offered to airlift Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) to the Himalayan country to beat the ongoing blockade on the border...
View ArticleShiv Sena Threatens To Pull Out Of Alliance With 'Arrogant' BJP In Maharashtra
A municipal corporation poll may be the undoing of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra. The strained relationship between the two parties ran into more trouble yesterday after Sena chief Uddhav...
View ArticleMan Who Set Himself On Fire To Protest Denial Of Special Category Status To...
RAJAHMUNDRY, Andhra Pradesh -- A 50-year-old man who set himself ablaze in August to protest denial of special category status to Andhra Pradesh today died in a hospital at Eluru in adjoining West...
View ArticleBJP Chief Amit Shah Defends 'Firecrackers In Pakistan' Remark, Says It Isn't...
BJP president Amit Shah defended his 'firecrackers in Pakistan' comment by saying it was not 'communal'. On 29 October, while addressing a rally in Bihar's East Champaran district, Shah had said that...
View ArticleAfter Writer Sudheendra Kulkarni, Shiv Sena Workers Now Blacken Face Of RTI...
MUMBAI -- Shiv Sena workers on Friday assaulted and blackened the face of a Right to Information activist at Latur in Maharashtra's Marathwada region, after he "exposed" an illegal construction case....
View ArticleStudents Islamic Movement Of India Member Found Guilty Of Killing ATS Cop
BHOPAL -- A special court here on Friday found a Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) man Abu Faizal guilty of killing a police constable of the Madhya Pradesh Police. He had killed constable of...
View ArticleVenkaiah Naidu Says Sardar Patel Should Have Been India's First Prime Minister
NEW DELHI -- Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister, M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday paid tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 140th birth anniversary and said that things would have been different...
View ArticlePM Modi Flags Off Run For Unity, Says Peace And Harmony Key To India's...
NEW DELHI -- Invoking Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's work for national integration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said "unity, peace and harmony" was the first condition if India has to move...
View ArticleThere's Considerable Fear Among The Minorities In India, Says Narayana Murthy
Setting the BJP up for major embarrassment, business leader and Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy has now joined the chorus against intolerance and backed the protesting writers, scientists,...
View ArticleViolent Protests Ensue As 2 Kashmir Villages Clash To Claim LeT Terrorist's Body
SRINAGAR -- Residents of two villages of Kashmir clashed with each other today over the right of burial of the body of Pakistani terrorist Abu Qasim, a top commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit, who was...
View ArticleTolerance Means Not Being Insecure About One's Ideas, Says RBI Chief Raghuram...
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan today emphasised the need for tolerance to aid development and progress in the country. He was speaking at the convocation ceremony of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),...
View ArticlePM Modi Announces New Initiative For Cultural Understanding Among States
NEW DELHI -- Government is working on a novel initiative under which every state will choose one state each year to promote its culture and language. Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that...
View ArticleThis Is The Documentary On Beef That The Government Didn't Want Us To Watch
Recently, the ministry of information and broadcasting, headed by Arun Jaitley refused to grant clearance to Caste on the Menu Card, a documentary film made by the students of the Tata Institute Of...
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