India

New Delhi, October 16: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the Narendra Modi government to provide documents related to the police control room during the 2002 riots to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. Bhatt had approached the High Court seeking permission to get the documented records pertaining to the Gujarat riots. The HC directed the state government to provide the documents to Bhatt

New Delhi, October 16: Recognizing the threat of cyber attacks from a host of hostile entities — ranging from domestic saboteurs to foreign rivals — a new initiative intends to train five lakh cyber warriors in the next five years to meet a critical gap in India's defences. A government-private sector plan will look at beefing up India's cyber security capabilities in the light of a group of

Kharkhoda (Sonipat), October 16: Miracles happen and Ramajit Raghav is there to prove it. The farm hand claimed on Monday that he was the oldest person to father a child at the age of 96. What's more, he has done it for the second time in a gap of less than two years; Raghav was blessed with his first child in November 2010. On October 5, Raghav's 52-year-old wife Shakuntala Devi gave birth to

New Delhi, October 16: When Arvind Kejriwal formed his political party earlier this month, he had promised to "expose corrupt leaders." So far, he has focused mainly on Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and union Law Minister Salman Khurshid. His next disclosure, which he is expected to announce tomorrow, is likely to focus on BJP president Nitin Gadkari. When the

Mumbai, October 16: The Congress swept away the elections for Nanded Municipal Corporation of the state by winning 41 out of the total 81 seats. Congress, which shares power with NCP at the state level, went alone in elections to the 81-member Nanded Municipal Corporation, held yesterday. While NCP secured 10 seats, Shiv Sena got 14 and BJP won on 2 seats. Reacting to the victory, former

Kolkata, October 16: After Haryana ministers and Khap panchayats, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday gave her 'bizarre' reasoning for the increasing rape cases in the country. Mamata said that rape cases are on a rise in the country because men and women interact with each other more freely now. "Earlier if men and women would hold hands, they would get caught by parents and

New Delhi, October 15: Seeking to defend his colleague, Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Monday put his foot in his mouth saying a man like Salman Khurshid will not do any wrong for Rs. 71 lakh, which is a “very samll amount” for a Central Minister. “Salman Khursid is a responsible person. He is a Central Minister. He was a Central Minister earlier as well. When he is saying there is no

New Delhi, October 15: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Centre’s decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail sector. A bench of justices R M Lodha and A R Dave, however, said that the policy suffers from “curable” irregularity of want of legal sanction and asked the RBI to amend the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) regulations to allow implementation of the

Shillong, October 15: India will have its first glass mosque - in the country's northeast. Madina Masjid, an imposing and resplendent structure of glass dome and glass minarets, will formally open doors to devotees Thursday in Meghalaya's capital. "It is an architectural marvel," Congress legislator Sayeedullah Nongrum, who helped in the mosque's construction, told us. "It took us one and a half

Gaya, October 15: The dwindling number of crows here is giving sleepless nights to Hindu priests and devotees during the ongoing pind daan, religious rites seeking salvation for the dead from the cycle of rebirth. Crows are considered central to the age-old pind daan rituals, following which the devotees offer them food as they are believed to be the ancestors of Hindus. The priests are neither