Politics

Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 fleeing Rohingya camps for Malaysia

The navy stopped the boat on Sunday and detained the 93 people, who said they had come from the Thae Chaung camp in the Rakhine State capital of Sittwe.

Nov 27, 2018

Sabarimala activist Rehana Fathima arrested for hurting Hindu sentiments in Facebook post

Fathima has been charged under Section 295 A (outraging religious feeling and creating enmity between different communities) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Nov 27, 2018

Telangana elections LIVE updates: PM Modi says KCR has adopted Congress' style of governance

Modi will be addressing another rally later today at Mahabubnagar after his address at Nizamabad.

Nov 27, 2018

Telangana: BJP only real alternative to people, says MP Narasimha Rao

Narasimha Rao alleged that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the "grand alliance", comprising the Congress, Telugu Desam Party, CPI, and Telangana Jana Samiti, were engaged in a "friendly contest."

Nov 27, 2018

Maratha quota: Maharashtra Assembly adjourned twice over the issue

The Opposition Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have been demanding since last week that the report be tabled in the Legislature.

Nov 27, 2018

Telangana polls: PM Modi seeks people's blessings for BJP ahead of elections

According to state party leaders, Modi will visit Telangana on December 3 to address a rally in Hyderabad.

Nov 27, 2018

Campaigning concludes as Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram prepare for elections

The Prime Minister, who addressed three election rallies in Rajasthan on Monday, refrained from campaigning in Madhya Pradesh on the last day.

Nov 27, 2018

Voting underway for fourth-phase of Jammu and Kashmir panchayat polls

Polling for the fourth of the nine-phased elections is being held at 2,618 polling stations, including 639 in the Kashmir division and 1,979 in the Jammu division, they said.

Nov 27, 2018

Telangana: Congress leader Vanteru Pratap Reddy attempts suicide after police raid

Vanteru Pratap Reddy tried to commit suicide after the police raided his house on information that he was involved in some illegal activity of distributing liquor and money.

Nov 27, 2018

Who is Sunil Arora? 2019 general polls to be conducted under new Chief Election Commissioner

While a formal announcement has not been made, reports state that President Ram Nath Kovind made the decision on Monday.

Nov 27, 2018

26/11 anniversary: US stands with India in its quest for justice, says President Trump

In the barbaric attack unleashed on November 26, 2008 by 10 LeT fedayeen from Pakistan, 166 people, six of whom were US nationals, were killed.

Nov 27, 2018

China eats into world's largest natural gas reserve as Total exits Iran's South Pars

Total, whose footprints are writ large in the oil exploration history of the Middle East, was the first western firm to invest in Iran, following the lifting of US sanctions in 2015.

Nov 26, 2018

Kerala Water Resources Minister Mathew Thomas resigns; replaced by K Krishnankutty

With Thomas submitting his resignation to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan earlier in the day, he became the fourth minister to quit the Vijayan cabinet since it assumed office in 2016.

Nov 26, 2018

Right-wing activists gather in Ayodhya; high security in temple town and Ram Janmabhoomi site

Vishwa Hindu Parishad's 'Dharma Sabha' is being touted as the largest congregation of 'Ram bhakts' in Ayodhya since the 1992 'kar seva', with the Hindu outfit claiming a large number of people will attend it.

Nov 25, 2018

CK Jaffer Sharief dead: Veteran Congress leader passes away at 85 in Bengaluru

The former Union minister was undergoing treatment for age-related illness for the past few weeks. He breathed his last at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Sunday morning.

Nov 25, 2018