New Delhi, Aug 28: With rains in some parts of the national capital on Tuesday morning, the minimum temperature settled at 26 degrees Celsius, the season's average.The Met Office predicted few spells of rains and thundershower to occur during the day. There will be a generally cloudy sky during the day with moderate rainfall and...
Lucknow, Aug 27: The Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati demanding a CBI probe into an alleged land scam.Petitioner Sandeep Bhatt had alleged that the former UP chief minister had got a vast stretch of land allotted in her family's name...
Srinagar/New Delhi, Aug 27: An Indian Army officer who was caught with a woman in a Srinagar hotel on May 23 is likely to face court martial after he was indicted by a court of inquiry.According to Army sources, orders have been issued to initiate disciplinary action against Major Leetul Gogoi on two accounts. For...
New Delhi, Aug 27: Congress President Rahul Gandhi will visit flood-hit Kerala on Tuesday and Wednesday.I will be in Kerala tomorrow (Tuesday) and the day after, visiting flood-hit areas and relief camps. I will also meet fishermen, volunteers and others who have been working tirelessly and selflessly to help those in need, said Gandhi...
Chandigarh, Aug 27: The Punjab Cabinet on Monday approved an amendment to the Punjab Police Act of 2007 to facilitate setting up of a state police commission to select the Director General of Police (DGP) in compliance with an apex court order.The Punjab Police (Amendment) Bill, 2018 will be tabled in the ongoing Vidhan...
New Delhi, Aug 27: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterating demand for full statehood to Delhi and also staged a rally here on the issue.Labour Minister and AAP leader Gopal Rai, who wrote to Modi, urged him to meet AAP legislators and respect the feelings of...
Chandigarh, Aug 27: A report submitted by the Justice Ranjit Singh (retd) commission into sacrilege incidents and subsequent police firing in 2015 in Punjab was tabled in the Assembly on Monday, with its supplementary report pointing a finger at then Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for police action against anti-sacrilege protesters.The five-page supplementary report,...
Madurai, Aug 27: Ahead of M.K. Stalin's election as the DMK President, late leader M.K. Karunanidhi's son M.K. Alagiri on Monday warned the party of consequences if it did not take him back into it.If they don't take me back, then they have to face consequences, he told reporters after holding consultations with his...
New Delhi, Aug 27: Against the backdrop of intense criticism from Congress leaders including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, that government was seeking to dilute Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy by changing the character of the Nehru Memorial Museum Library, its Director on Monday rejected the charge, saying the aim was to upgrade the memorial.We are...
