BJP leaders visit Amit Shah at AIIMS after reports of him being infected by Swine Flu

New Delhi (IANS) Several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including party media coordinator Anil Balooni and Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwani Choubey, on Thursday visited AIIMS here where party President Amit…

NIA searches 7 places in UP, Punjab; detains 4

New Delhi (IANS): The NIA on Thursday raided five places in Uttar Pradesh and two in Punjab in its probe into a new Islamic State (IS)-inspired module Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam and detained four men, officials said.

The National Investigation…

Ravi Shankar Prasad discharged from AIIMS

New Delhi (IANS): All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) authorities said on Thursday that Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was discharged from the hospital earlier in the day, where he was admitted in the Pulmonary Medicine Department.

Falsehoods being manufactured to attack Modi government: Jaitley

New Delhi (IANS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday hit out at the opposition parties specially the Congress and the Left saying a new class of "compulsive contrarians" has emerged in the political system who "manufacture"…

Robbery in Jammu-Delhi Duronto Express

New Delhi (IANS): At least five unidentified assailants barged into the Jammu-Delhi Duronto Express on Thursday when it stopped due to a signal problem, a passenger said, with the Railways saying they have some lead in the case.

In the complaint,…

Government proposes new Emigration Bill

New Delhi (IANS): The government has proposed to introduce a new Emigration Bill to replace the existing Emigration Act 1983 in view of a paradigm shift in the nature, pattern, directions and volume of migration over the last 35 years.

According…

Plea against acting CBI chief's appointment to be heard on Monday

New Delhi (IANS): The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday a plea by NGO Common Cause challenging the appointment of M. Nageswara Rao as the acting Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after the ouster of Alok Verma.

A…

33,000 lamps lit at Kumbh daily for construction of grand Ram temple

Prayagraj (IANS): A group of seers are lighting 33,000 diyas everyday at the ongoing Kumbh Mela for the early construction of a grand Ram temple at the disputed Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya.

They said they would light 11 lakh diyas this month,…

Ex-VHP chief Vishnu Hari Dalmia dead

New Delhi (IANS): Former Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) President Vishnu Hari Dalmia, one of the three major exponents of the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation, died on Wednesday at his residence here, a statement said. He was 91.

A renowned industrialist,…

2 Independents withdraw support to Karnataka's JD-S-Congress government

Bengaluru (IANS): In a jolt to the seven-month-old Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka, two Independent legislators, R. Shankar and H. Nagesh, on Tuesday said they were withdrawing support.

"I had extended support…