Plight of farmers in India

The government has ordered a CBI probe into the alleged paper leak in one of the tests of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) held last month, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. The order came a day after the SSC, which conducts examination for ...

India's Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat called on Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba at his official Balauwatar residence here on Wednesday.General Rawat, who is also the honorary Chief of Nepal Army Staff, was accompanied by Indian Ambassador to ...

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the army and other security forces were effectively doing their job and would never let any Indian hang his head in shame. He said it would not be appropriate for him to comment on the attack on an army camp in ...

IMAGE: Shiva Keshavan. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Luger Shiva Keshavan and cross-country skier Jagdish Singh will represent India in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics which begins on February 9. The 36-year-old Keshavan, the country's best known Winter Olympian, will be taking part in his sixth Games since his debut at Nagano in Japan in 1998. Since then he has represented the country in the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.   Meanwhile, Jagdish Singh will be representing ...

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh governmnet today ordered registration of an FIR against BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in connection with the alleged rape of an 18-year-old woman in Unnao district. It also ordered to hand over the twin cases of rape and the ...

Expressing solidarity with the civil servants who held Prime Minister Narendra Modi responsible for the “terrifying state of affairs”, over 600 academicians and scholars, in an open letter, pointed out to the Prime Minister 'an undeniable association' of ...

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi is among the 13 candidates the BJP today announced for Bihar and Uttar Pradesh legislative council seats with an eye on social equations aimed at consolidating its votes. Among the 10 candidates for UP seats are Bukkal Nawab, Yashwant Singh and Jaiveer Singh, who had left rival parties to join the BJP after its win in the assembly polls, besides Mohsin Raja, the lone Muslim minister in the UP government, the party said in a statement. Bukkal Nawab ...

IMAGE: AFI president Adille Sumariwalla. Photograph: Photograph: Reuben NV/Rediff.com The Athletics Federation of India on Friday constituted a three-member inquiry committee to probe the events around the ousting of two athletes from the CommonwealthGamesVillage in Gold Coast for breaching the 'no needle policy. Race walker K T Irfan and triple jumper V Rakesh Babu were ordered to return home from the ongoing Games after they failed to explain the presence of needles in their bedroom at the ...

SSB personnel have rescued 18 children from Rupaideeha area along Indo-Nepal border while they were being taken to Shimla and Mumbai from Nepal by a gang involved in human trafficking.Four members of the gang - Kamal Gautam, Surat Singh, Sant Bahadur and ...