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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah. (Photo: PTI)

'Tunnels and roads can't resolve Kashmir issue', assert separatists,...

Farooq Abdullah said that the tunnel was not an alternative to political initiative which, he insisted, was need of the...

2 April 2017 9:41 PM IST

AAP leader Sanjay Singh. (Photo: PTI)

Stopped from raising corruption issue, woman party worker slaps AAP...

'I slapped Sanjay Singh as all my attempts to raise the issue of alleged corruption in the party went unheard,' she...

2 April 2017 9:17 PM IST

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal (Photo: PTI/File)

Introspect Punjab polls result, unfair to blame EVMs: EC to AAP

The AAP alleged that poll authorities in Punjab had refused to accept its demand to tally results with paper trail...

2 April 2017 9:01 PM IST

Militants hurled the grenade on a police party next to Ganjbaksh Park in Nowhatta area of the city at around 7.00 pm when the cops were withdrawing from there after day-long law and order duty. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

1 cop killed, 14 injured in grenade attack by militants in Srinagar

The official said miscreants had engaged the cops by pelting stones on them in the same area.

2 April 2017 8:56 PM IST

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav addresses the media with partys UP President Shivpal Yadav at a press conference at the party office in Lucknow on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

SP leader Shivpal Yadav rules out forming or joining any other outfit

On Saturday, in a public outbrust Mulayam had said that his son had insulted him and his brother Shivpal.

2 April 2017 8:49 PM IST

Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan. (Photo: PTI)

'Lord Krishna was legendary eve teaser': Prashant Bhushan's tweet...

He tried to control damage by tweeting later that his remarks had been distorted and he had no intention of hurting...

2 April 2017 8:27 PM IST

Liquor ban (Representational Image)

1000 star hotels in Maharashtra hit by SC verdict on highway liquor...

Many five star hotels are located near the domestic airport here and most of them are affected due to the order.

2 April 2017 6:05 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PIB)

Kashmir's youth have to pick either tourism or terrorism: Modi in J&K

Some misguided youngsters are pelting stones, while others are using the same stones to build infrastructure, the PM...

2 April 2017 6:03 PM IST

Election Commission of India

EC orders mass transfer of officials ahead of RK Nagar by polls

Services of IAS/IPS probationers from the state will also be pressed into service.

2 April 2017 4:47 PM IST

Union HRD minister Smriti Irani (Photo: PTI/file)

We're just having fun, say students booked for chasing Irani's car

They apologised for their mistake, saying they were not aware that Irani was there in that car.

2 April 2017 4:15 PM IST

Modi will also address a public rally at Battal Ballian in Udhampur district after inaugurating the tunnel. (Photo: PIB)

Modi inaugurates India's longest tunnel, to connect Jammu, Srinagar

However, Modi's visit was met with a separatist call for a shutdown, which meant most establishments were shut.

2 April 2017 3:55 PM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh addresses a rally in Fatehabad, Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Even Muslims have realised that terrorism wants to defame Islam: HM

Stating that terrorism is being dealt with the way it should be, Rajnath said India will be successful in this.

2 April 2017 3:09 PM IST