Hijab row: Teargas fired in Karnataka college campus, curfew in one more dist

Davanagere (Karnataka) (IANS) Amid the Karnataka High Court hearing the hijab matter, more incidents of violence were reported from an educational institute in the state on Tuesday.

The police fired teargas shells and carried out a baton charge…

NIA files UAPA case against Dawood, D-company

New Delhi (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a case against underworld don Dwaood Ibrahim and others under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

Now the elite probe agency will look into the…

Ahead of Punjab polls, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Ram Rahim gets furlough

Chandigarh (IANS) Just ahead of the Punjab polls, self-styled jailed godman and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is undergoing a 20-year sentence for raping his two disciples, was granted furlough for 21 days on Monday by the BJP-led…

'Don't harass petitioners': SC to Tripura Police on sending notice despite its order

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday pulled up the Tripura Police for sending notice to people for posts on social media over the alleged communal violence, despite its interim order restraining the state authorities.

A bench of Justices…

Mamata likely to sever ties with PK's I-PAC

Kolkata (IANS) Recently in an interview Trinamool Congress All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in a way admitted that he has differences with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The admission comes just a couple of days after Trinamool…

BJP set to retain UP albeit with a much reduced majority

New Delhi (IANS) The final opinion poll results of the C-Voter ABP News were released in the evening on February 7, three days before the first round of polling in Uttar Pradesh on February 10.

According to the poll, the BJP led by Chief Minister…

ISI-funded mosques, madarsas on India-Nepal border raise serious security concerns

New Delhi (IANS) The rising number of mosques and madarsas in the last three years along the Indo-Nepal border adjoining Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal is a matter of serious security concerns, intelligence agencies have warned in a latest report.

3 Pak smugglers killed by BSF at border in Jammu's Samba sector

Jammu (IANS) Three Pakistani smugglers have been neutralised on the International Border (IB) in the Samba sector of Jammu and 36 packets of narcotics were recovered from them, BSF said on Sunday.

"In the early hours of 6 Feb, the alert troops…

PM leads nation in mourning the passing of 'Lata Didi'

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation in mourning the death of the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, who succumbed to multiple organ failure after 28 days of hospitalisation at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, on Sunday.

As Bengal's debt piles up, state govt applies brakes on spending

Kolkata (IANS) Recently West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed all the departments to cut down unnecessary expenditure beyond the approved budget and not to take any new project without the approval of the Chief Secretary or the finance…