Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: BJP’s vote share crosses half-way mark in several states, close to 50% in UP In its landslide victory, the BJP has seen its vote share soar past 50 per cent in at least 13 states and Union territories, a feat which the rival Congress could manage only in Puducherry. In […]
A UK court Wednesday denied bail to Nirav Modi for the third time, saying the fugitive diamond merchant who is the main accused in the Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case amounting to up to USD 2 billion would fail to surrender. Dressed in a light blue shirt and trousers, the 48-year-old appeared […]
NEW DELHI: A high-velocity dust storm hit the national capital and the NCR region late on Monday, the weatherman said.The storm, with a wind speed of 70 kilometres per hours, hit Delhi around 11.20pm, an official at the Safdarjung observatory said. At least 124 people killed and 300 injured due to dust storms and thunderstorms […]
An Indian pop star, Daler Mehndi, has been sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling migrants abroad. Mehndi and six others were accused in 2003 of cheating people of large sums of money by falsely promising to take them to Western countries. The singer was convicted on Friday in the northern state of Punjab. […]
A special CBI court on Monday sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. The dera chief was convicted of rape on August 25. Before CBI judge Jagdeep Singh read out the sentence, dera followers burnt two cars in Sirsa. Last week, 38 people were killed in the […]
Chandigarh: The 10-year-old rape victim, whose abortion plea was turned down by the Supreme Court, on Thursday delivered a girl child at Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32 here. The girl’s condition is stable. The delivery took place through Cesarean surgery. The minor girl became pregnant after she was allegedly raped by her uncle […]
Karva Chauth is a one-day festival celebrated by Hindu women in many countries in which married women fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands. The fast is traditionally celebrated in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab. The festival falls on […]
New Delhi/Patna: With the Lalu Prasad Yadav-Nitish Kumar combine having gained the upper hand in the bypoll held for 10 seats in Bihar, all eyes are now on the changing political dynamics ahead of the big battle in 2015, when assembly elections would be held in the state. Though the ‘grand alliance’ managed to win only […]
