Vasundhara to lead BJP in Rajasthan poll, be CM again: Amit Shah

The BJP will fight the forthcoming Rajasthan assembly elections under the leadership of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who will retain the post as the party would come back to power with a big maj

Sprinter Muhammed Anas sets new national record in 400 metres

 India's star sprinter Muhammed Anas reset the national record on his way to the gold medal in the men's 400 metre category at the Cena Noveho Mesta nad Metuji meet here on Saturday.

Birla group's Orient Cement plans to invest Rs 2,000 cr for expansion

Orient Cement Ltd, a part of C.K. Birla Group, plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore to expand the capacity of its plant in Telangana, the state government said on Saturday. The company wil

BJP-Congress war over Rahul hugging PM intensifies

Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took a dig at Congress President for "unwanted hug" during the no confidence motion in Parliament by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, t

Fognini, Gasquet enter Swedish Open final

Italian third seed Fabio Fognini and fourth-seeded Richard Gasquet of France advanced to the final of the Swedish Open here on Saturday. Fognini defeated fifth seed Fernando Verdasco

Cell towers, mobiles unlikely to harm humans: Official

 Current scientific evidence do not support any "harmful effect" on the human body by electromagnetic field radiation of cell phone or its towers, said a Department of Telecommunicat

One killed, 3 injured in wall collapse in Noida

A 4-year-old boy was killed and three others, including his parents, both labourers, injured when the basement wall of an under construction building collapsed here, police said on Saturday.

This wearable sensor can detect stress level from sweat

 Scientists have developed a waterproof wearable patch, which when applied directly to the skin, absorbs sweat and within seconds assesses how much cortisol -- stress hormone -- a person is pr

Chandan Mitra, 4 Bengal Congress lawmakers join Trinamool

Former BJP leader and two-time Rajya Sabha member Chandan Mitra and four Congress lawmakers in West Bengal on Saturday joined Trinamool Congress at its Martyrs' Day rally here. Mitra,

Remains of 1968 aircraft crash victim recovered

A mountaineering expedition has located the wreckage and mortal remains of a victim who, along with 98 army personnel and four crew members, was killed in an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft crash i

Festival of South Asian documentaries comes to Delhi

Documentary films about people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be screened as part of a movie festival here next month. Documentary Bears Witness: Tra

Trump taped by lawyer on payment to ex-Playboy model

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly recorded a conversation between the two men prior to the 2016 election about paying a former Playboy model who said she had an a

'Sanitary napkins to be exempt from GST'

Sanitary napkins will be exempt from GST, Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said on Saturday after a meeting of the GST Council. Sanitary napkins are taxed 12 per cent tax u

BJP minister says Alwar lynching done to defame Modi

Union Minister and senior BJP leader Arjun Ram Meghwal sparked a controversy on Saturday, saying the Alwar lynching incident was related to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rising popularity and

Rajnath rolls out 'Student Police Cadet' project in Gurugram

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday here rolled out the 'Student Police Cadet' (SPC) programme, under which high school students across the country will be taught to become much m

I want to uphold my tribal culture: First Santhal RJ Shikha Mandi

 She almost took up an engineering job and would love to teach farming to village youth. Fate willed otherwise. Meet Shikha Mandi, 24, the first Indian radio jockey (RJ) to host a programme in

Man suspected of cow smuggling lynched in Rajasthan, 2 nabbed

A 28-year-old man has been beaten to death by suspected cow vigilantes in Rajasthan's Alwar district, police said on Saturday. Two persons have been arrested. Chief Minister Vasu

Chandrababu Naidu vows to make Andhra 'innovation valley' of India

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said his government was taking steps to make the state Indias "innovation valley" with its capital Amravati housing nine &qu

Bollywood reacts to Rahul's 'jaadu ki jhappi' to Modi

Congress President Rahul Gandhi's 'jaadu ki jhappi' moment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the parliament drew mixed reactions from the Indian film fraternity, who found the "

Kerala flood fury: Many areas waterlogged, political squabbles begin

 Amid flood fury in Kerala's worst-affected districts of Kottayam and Alappuzha, political sqaubbles have broken out with the Congress-led opposition slamming the Pinarayi Vijayan governme