Three-time Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit dead, tributes pour in

New Delhi (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday at a private hospital here following cardiac arrest. She was 81.

According to the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute,…

Modi-Xi summit will take bilateral ties to new heights: Chinese envoy

Beijing (IANS) The informal summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this year will take the bilateral relations to new heights but at the same time the two countries cannot let "individual"…

18 Indians aboard tanker seized by Iran; India trying to secure their release

New Delhi/Tehran (IANS) Eighteen Indians, including the ship's captain, are among 23 crew members of a British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions in the Gulf. India said on Saturday it is in touch…

Corruption in NRC process, government wants to engage senior officers for re-verification

New Delhi (IANS) The process of preparing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam has been rigged due to corruption, believes the government which now wants to engage senior officers for re-verification of the exercise aimed at identifying…

Sidhu's resignation accepted; Punjab CM holds Power portfolio

Chandigarh (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday accepted state Power Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation.

The Chief Minister forwarded the one-line resignation to Governor V.P. Singh Badnore for formal acceptance,…

Priyanka ends dharna, leaves for Delhi

Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) (IANS) "I am now leaving because my purpose of meeting the families of the victims has been fulfilled. But I will return very soon. I had come here on the instructions of my brother Rahul Gandhi."
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Security at Taj Mahal to beef up after Shiv Sena threat

Agra (IANS) The district administration of Agra has agreed to beef up security outside the Taj Mahal at the request of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), following Shiv Sena's threat of performing 'aarti' at the monument on…

Home Ministry working to expand scope of NRC across India

New Delhi (IANS) While the finalization of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is at an advanced stage in Assam, the Home Ministry is working on modalities to implement across the country the exercise to identify illegal immigrants for deportation.

How bureaucrats cheated tribals, turning Sonebhadra into a den of corruption

Several thousand acres of land belonging to poor tribal farmers in Sonebhadra were usurped by land mafia in an unholy nexus with bureaucrats. Wednesday's carnage in Sonebhadra's Ghorawal tehsil, in which 10 tribal farmers were killed, was…

Militants kill Mehbooba kin's guard in J&K

Srinagar (IANS) Militants on Friday shot dead the security guard of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's cousin and decamped with his service rifle in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said.

Militants fired at constable…