India

Srinagar, Jul 27: A 26-year-old man from the remote Bandipora district here has hand-written the Holy Quran on a 500-metre-long paper scroll — a calligraphic feat achieved through painstaking work over three months. Mustafa-Ibn-Jameel, a resident of Tulail area of the ...

New Delhi, Jul 28: Braving mosquitoes and the heat, some of the suspended MPs like CPI’s Santosh Kumar, AAP’s Sanjay Singh spent the night beside the Gandhi statue in Parliament complex. TMC’s Dola sen and Santanu Sen were present on the ...

New Delhi(PTI): Amid a stalemate in Parliament, the Congress on Tuesday asked why the government is not allowing an urgent debate on price rise and GST when the entire opposition was demanding it. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said a ...

Kolkata (PTI): Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with its investigation into the teacher recruitment scam, an official of the agency said. Chatterjee, who was the state education minister when the scam took ...

Kollam(PTI): Two more persons, who oversaw the NEET exam held in an educational institution in Kerala, were arrested by police on Thursday for allegedly asking girl students to remove their innerwear for appearing in the test on July 17. The ...

Mumbai(PTI): Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has dissolved all departments and cells of the party with immediate effect, senior NCP leader Praful Patel said. While informing about this on Wednesday, Patel did not disclose the reason for the sudden ...

Ahmedabad, Jul 19: The Gujarat police detained filmmaker Avinash Das from Mumbai on Tuesday in a case related to sharing on Twitter a photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal, an official said. He was ...

Allahabad, Jul 18: The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the civil judge (senior division) of Mathura to expedite and decide within three months an application for a survey of the Shahi Eidgah and Jahanara’s mosque by the Archaeological Survey of ...

Lucknow, Jul 16: Two people were arrested after they entered the Lulu Mall here on Saturday and started reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, police said. At least 15 others were detained for creating a ruckus while trying to enter the shopping mall. ...

New Delhi(PTI): A married couple was arrested at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here for allegedly trying to smuggle 45 hand guns into the country, customs officials said on Wednesday. The officials who made the arrest said a ballistic report ...

New Delhi(PTI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear next week a batch of pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict refusing to lift the ban on hijab in educational institutions of the state. A bench comprising Chief Justice ...

New Delhi(PTI): SpiceJet’s Dubai-Madurai flight was delayed on Monday after the Boeing B737 Max aircraft’s nose wheel malfunctioned, Directorate General of Civil Aviation officials said. Monday’s incident is at least the ninth incident of technical malfunction in a SpiceJet aircraft ...

New Delhi(PTI): Billionaire Gautam Adani’s group is said to be planning a surprise entry into the race to acquire telecom spectrum, which will pitch it directly against Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio and telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel, sources said. ...

Mumbai(PTI): Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said he will reach Mumbai on Thursday for floor test against the beleaguered Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra. There has been no formal announcement from Raj Bhavan that the floor ...