Saradha Group

Saradha group chit fund scam: Sudipta Sen sent to judicial custody

Sudipta Sen, the chairman of the Saradha Group which allegedly defrauded thousands of small investors, was today sent to judicial custody by a Bidhanangar court as the police did not seek his further ......read more

Education

Doon girl Bhuvanya Vijay tops ICSE board exams with 99 per cent marks

Bhuvanya Vijay, a girl from Dehradun, has done Uttarakhand proud by emerging the all India topper this year in ICSE class XII board examinations with 99 per cent marks. Ecstatic over her results decl......read more

BCCI, IPL should be brought under RTI Act: Congress

The BCCI and the Inidan Premier League (IPL) should be brought under the purview of RTI Act, Congress national secretary Pankaj Sharma demanded today. Sharma said that an inquiry should be held into t......read more

Infiltration bid foiled near LOC, two army men die in ambush

Army today foiled an infiltration bid in North Kashmir’s Machil sector. Two army men including an officer were killed in the encounter that is still in going on. This is the first infiltration that ha......read more

Girl from Doon tops ICSE Board with 99% marks

Bhuvanya Vijay, a girl from Dehradun, has done Uttarakhand proud by emerging the all India topper this year in ICSE class XII board exminations with 99 per cent marks. Ecstatic over her results declar......read more

Protests in parts of Karnataka over denial of ministership

Protests broke out in parts of Karnataka today as supporters of Congress leaders who failed to get berth in Cabinet expansion effected by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah gave vent to their anger. In the d......read more

Crimes Against Women

Man held for indecent acts and obscene dance near nursing college hostel

A 33-year old man was arrested today for alleged indecent acts and obscene dance near a government nursing college hostel. The accused had scaled the compound wall of the hostel and stripped himself b......read more

Digvijay says many letters sent to MP CM not even acknowledged

Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has lamented that many of the letters written by him to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan were not even acknowledged. Digvijay Singh, in a l......read more

Political unifier: After Gadkari, Cong MLA Renu Jogi undergoes weight reduction surgery

Weight loss surgery, it seems, can be a political unifier. Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari had undergone a much-publicised operation to reduce his weight some time back. Now it is the turn of Renu ......read more

Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi: India losing sheen as agricultural nation

India would not have lost its sheen as a country of farmers if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been the first Prime Minister, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said today, ruing the "poor" national ag......read more

Food Security Bill

Rahul Gandhi slams opposition for 'stalling' Food Security Bill at Kerala rally

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today launched a scathing attack on the opposition parties for stalling the Food Security Bill in Parliament, and asserted the UPA government was determined to enact the l......read more

Cong talks options to push food Bill, takes no decision

A day after Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP and other opposition parties of creating roadblocks in passage of the Food Security Bill in Parliament, the Congress top leadership on Friday deliberated on th......read more

Crime against Women

5 differently abled orphan girls beaten, raped in Jaipur residential school

Five differently abled orphan girls were allegedly raped and beaten by staff at a residential school run by an NGO in Kanota area here. Four persons, including the director of the NGO 'Awaaz Foundati......read more