Chennai hotel offers 50% off in food bill for voters

Chennai (IANS) City-based Clarion Hotel President announced on Thursday that it was offering a 50 per cent off on the food bills of people who have voted in the polls for the 38 Lok Sabha seats and 18 Assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu.

Voting muted in Srinagar, brisk in Udhampur

Jammu/Srinagar (IANS) Voters kept away from polling stations in Srinagar city but voted in large numbers in Kathua, Reasi and Udhampur as balloting was on in the Srinagar and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.

There…

ED Special Director transferred

New Delhi (IANS) In an unusual move, the tenure of Special Director in Enforcement Directorate Vineet Agarwal has been curtailed by the government with immediate effect.

The government order issued on Tuesday said Vineet Agarwal,…

SC seeks response on women's entry in mosques

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre, the Central Waqf Council and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board on a plea seeking the entry of women in mosques.

A bench of Justice S.A. Bobde…

No mention of Ram temple in Congress manifesto: Thackeray

Amravati (Maharashtra) (IANS) Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday hit out at the Congress for not mentioning the Ram temple at Ayodhya in its 2019 election manifesto.

Addressing an election rally here, he reiterated that…

Sitharaman visits Tharoor in hospital

Thiruvananthpuram (IANS) Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday visited Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in hospital where he was admitted after suffering a freak accident a day earlier.

Tharoor was performing a ritual at a temple…

LS polls phase II: Farm distress, development, nationalism take lead

New Delhi (IANS) Western Uttar Pradesh will be a test case in the second phase of the general elections on April 18 when polling will be held for 97 Lok Sabha seats. There are serious farmers issues at stake there, yet they could be subsumed by the…

Congress candidates hit back at Mamata's RSS jibe

Kolkata (IANS) Hitting back at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for trying to link two of its candidates to the RSS, the Congress on Monday accused her of trying to sow the seed of suspicion among the minorities about the Congress, and reminded…

Pawar lying about my father, says Parrikar's son

Panaji (IANS) A day after NCP supremo Sharad Pawar claimed that Manohar Parrikar quit as Defence Minister because of disagreements over the Rafale fighter jet deal, the late Goa Chief Minister's son accused him of lying for political gain.

IMD predicts near-normal moonsoon this year

New Delhi (IANS) Monsoon will near-normal this year with an expected rainfall of 96 per cent, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday

"India is going to have a near-normal monsoon in 2019 as the south-west monsoon is likely…