Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir joins BJP

New Delhi (IANS) Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Friday joined the BJP in the presence of Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad ahead of the coming Lok Sabha elections.
 

'Yeddy Diaries': Congress demands Lokpal probe

New Delhi (IANS) Days ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, a political controversy erupted on Friday after a media report titled 'The Yeddy Diaries' published by news magazine 'The Caravan' alleged that former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.…

Hurriyat leader Geelani booked under FEMA

New Delhi (IANS) Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Geelani, who advocates Jammu and Kashmir's merger with Pakistan, has been booked under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) for illegally possessing foreign exchange of US $10,000, the…

India government bans Yasin Malik-led JKLF

Srinagar (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) led by Muhammad Yasin Malik was declared a banned organisation on Friday by the central government.

"The JKLF outfit has been banned for promotion of secessionist activities…

CBDT says Yeddy papers of 'doubtful nature'

New Delhi (IANS) The Central Board of Director Taxes (CBDT) has said that the diary pages and the loose papers given to the team that raided D.K. Shivakumar's premises in 2017 were "not original" . Shivakumar told the investigators that…

CRPF trooper kills 3 colleagues, shoots himself

Jammu (IANS) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper shot dead three colleagues before shooting and seriously wounding himself in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district, police said on Thursday.

CRPF Constable Ajit Singh killed his…

9 sentenced to life in Dinakaran arson attack case

Chennai (IANS) The Madras High Court's Madurai bench on Thursday sentenced, to life imprisonment, nine people convicted in the 2007 Dinakaran newspaper burning case which left three persons dead.

The court also sentenced seven…

Soldier killed in Pakistan firing on LoC

Jammu (IANS) An Indian soldier was killed on Thursday in Pakistani firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.

Defence Ministry sources said the Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked shelling…

Three gunfights on in Valley, 1 militant killed

Srinagar (IANS) A militant was killed and two policemen and a civilian injured on Thursday as security forces and militants battled each other in three places in the Kashmir Valley, authorities said.

While the first gunfight erupted in Sopore…

Modi stays with Varanasi, Shah's LS bid from Gandhinagar

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from his Varanasi constituency while BJP President Amit Shah will make his debut in Lok Sabha polls from Gandhinagar, BJP leader J.P. Nadda announced on Thursday.

The Gandhinagar…