Politics

Demand for SC/ST quota in India cricket will reach BCCI and PM Modi: BJP's Udit Raj

BJP MP Udit Raj says he will write to Anurag Thakur-led BCCI to have SC/ST players in IPL 2017 teams and also India cricket team.

Dec 29, 2016

UP Assembly elections 2017: Feud between SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and CM Akhilesh Yadav may help one party the most

Akhilesh will reportedly announce his own list of 167 candidates after his father announced a list of 325 candidates sans Akhilesh's loyalists.

Dec 29, 2016

News Roundup: India could still be in NSG, doubts over Jayalalithaa's death, Pink welcomes second baby, and more

Read about Japan's Fukushima disaster's nuclear leak affecting the US, and new theory claiming there is a Nazi UFO base under Antarctic ice.

Dec 29, 2016

Air India pilot hits out at aviation minister for "lagging in commitment" remark

Ashok Gajapathi Raju had said that there was something "lagging" in the commitment shown by Air India pilots compared to pilots of private airlines.

Dec 29, 2016

Election Commission puts poll-bound states at the ready: Will UP vote in 7 phases?

The EC has issued a 33-page letter for voting in Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to the state poll panels.

Dec 29, 2016

India could still get NSG membership, but so could Pakistan

A draft proposal by NSG Ambassador Rafael Mariano Grossi could allow India access to the elite nuclear group.

Dec 29, 2016

John Kerry savages Israels settler agenda

US Secretary of State John Kerry laid out his plans for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on 28 December. In a speech just weeks before the Obama administration hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump, Kerry gave a strong speech criticising both Palestine and Israel in the conflict, especially Israels settlement expansion policy. The US Secretary of State also defended the decision to allow for the passage of a U.N. resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements.

Dec 29, 2016

Jayalalithaa death mystery: Madras High Court raises questions, asks why her body cannot be exhumed

The Central government and the Tamil Nadu government have been sent a notice in this regard following a PIL filed by an AIADMK activist.

Dec 29, 2016

Sasikala Natarajan chosen as interim general secretary of AIADMK

The meeting began on Thursday with a homage being paid to late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

Dec 29, 2016

LeT's Al-Muhammadia student wing is a terrorist organisation, says US

The US also put sanctions on two of LeT's senior leaders.

Dec 29, 2016

UP Assembly elections 2017: Is it with these 25 railway projects that BJP wants to win over voters?

With both Congress and SP pocket boroughs targeted by the move, it now remains to be seen if the gamble pays off for the BJP.

Dec 28, 2016

BJP did not orchestrate online campaign over Aamir Khan's 'intolerance' remark: Ex-IT cell chief

The trolls targeted Aamir Khan to the extent that he was dropped as e-commerce giant Snapdeal's brand ambassador.

Dec 28, 2016

News Roundup: New fine on old demonetised notes, Sunburn Pune under a cloud, Emily Ratajkowski's nude Christmas card, and more

Read about Iraq saying it will kick out ISIS in three months, and ammonia being detected in Earth's atmosphere above India and China.

Dec 28, 2016

SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav says no alliance for UP Assembly elections; here is how it is bad news for Congress

Mulayam also put out his party's first list of 325 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, which will be held next year.

Dec 28, 2016

AIADMK succession war: Sasikala Pushpa's husband, lawyer attacked outside party office in Chennai

Pushpa lashed out at Sasikala Natarajan, who is expected to be elected as party chief on December 29, saying Natarajan and her family will ruin the AIADMK.

Dec 28, 2016