India

Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh): The BJP won the by-election in Gola Gokarannath Assembly seat in Lakhimpur Kheri with a margin of over 30,000 votes, defeating his rival, Vinay Tiwari of the Samajwadi Party. The Gola Gokarannath seat had been won by the BJP in 2017 and the seat became vacant following the death of the […]

New York: There are eight Indian-Americans running for the House of Representatives in the midterm elections — four of them sitting Democratic Party members, and three Republicans and a Democrat aspiring to join them in the “Samosa Caucus”. All the four Representatives who gave themselves the nickname “Samosa Caucus” stand a strong chance of being […]

Bengaluru: A 9-year-old girl died after allegedly being punished at a school in Karnataka’s Bengaluru, according to the police on Sunday. The police registered a case after the family alleged that their child was allegedly hit at her school. “We have booked a case under CRPC 174 after the family alleged that their kid allegedly […]

Colombo: The Sri Lankan Navy arrested 15 Indian fishermen who were allegedly poaching in the northern waters of the Island nation and seized two trawlers on Saturday evening. The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) said that the arrests were made during “a special operation in seas north of Talaimannar to chase away Indian poaching trawlers from […]

New Delhi: Counting of votes is underway on Sunday in the by-election to seven assembly constituencies in six states including former chief minister Bhajan Lal’s family bastion Admapur in Haryana. Bhajan Lal’s grandson Bhavya Bishnoi, who contested on a BJP ticket, and RJD’s Neelam Devi, whose husband Anant Singh’s disqualification necessitated the by-election in Bihar’s […]

New York: India at United Nations voted in favour of Russia’s draft resolution on “Combating glorification of Nazism.” Amid the spirited debate, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly approved a draft resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism by a recorded vote of 105 in favour to 52 against, with 15 abstentions. […]

Hyderabad: After criticism from across the country over rising platform ticket rates, the Railways Ministry has withdrawn powers delegated to Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) for revising platform ticket rates with immediate effect. Orders to this effect were issued on Friday. According to reports, the order issued by Ministry of Railways said “It has been decided […]

Impressed with Telangana’s welfare and development programmes for farmers, the farming community in Tamil Nadu is demanding implementation of similar programmes in their State.

Padmashali Sangham has decided to launch a campaign demanding zero GST on handlooms in the Gujarat elections to be held next month.

Hyderabad: Southern Regional Power Committee chairperson D Prabhakar Rao has advised all Southern region states to plan well in advance for the ensuing summer and rabi season. Presiding over the 44th Southern Region Power Committee meeting in Kochi on Saturday, Prabhakar Rao, who is also the Chairman and Managing director of TSTRANSCO & TSGENCO, stated […]

The campaign, conducted by the Telangana NRI forum in collaboration with the Indian Embassy in Riyadh at King Fahd Medical Complex (KFMC) on Friday, saw NRIs largely from the Telugu States, taking part.

The former Union minister said with the ongoing foot march "the countdown has started" for Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in Telangana and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.

A bench of Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Bela M Trivedi's suggestions came while disposing of a contempt petition filed by the mother of two young children who have been victims of sexual abuse by their own father and his friends.

Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 431 on Saturday morning, according to data from the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), on Saturday, conducted raids on Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders' residences in Mysuru, Hubballi and Dakshina Kannada districts in connection with the killing of BJP activist Praveen Kumar Nettare.

In the wake of Delhi's worsening air quality condition, Delhi BJP spokesman Tajindar Bagga on Saturday put up a poster comparing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Abbas Ansari, the son of ganster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case, officials said on Saturday.

Touching several villages en route his yatra, Gandhi walked across Andole-Jogipet twin towns.

Videos and photos of the same are going viral on social media, with one video in fact showing a man immediately plucking off the sticker from inside the car.

The polling for the by-polls will take place on December 5 and the votes will be counted on December 8, coinciding with the result dates of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections.

The Ministry further said that the Indian Army is already progressing with 43 ongoing projects under the Make II procedure of Capital Acquisition.

Shyam Saran Negi, 106, the first voter of independent India who cast his 34th vote for the forthcoming Assembly polls three days ago, passed away at his native place Kalpa in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, his family said.

Hyderabad: TRS (now BRS) President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is all set to launch a nation-wide movement against the BJP and expose its conspiracies to topple the democratically elected State governments, destabilise rival political parties and create hurdles for development. He will kickstart the journey by campaigning against the BJP in Gujarat and […]

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine on Monday a plea by three persons arrested by the Telangana police for allegedly trying to poach MLAs