Top Stories

Riyadh, Sept 25: Saudi Arabia will offer an electronic visa for foreign visitors to attend sporting events and concerts from December, the Kingdom said on Tuesday. At present, foreigners traveling to the country are largely restricted to resident workers and their dependents, business travellers, and Muslim pilgrims who are given special visas to travel to holy sites. Crown Prince Mohammed bin

Bhopal, Sept 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that the Congress and other opposition parties were pursuing vote bank politics which had destroyed the country like "termites" over the last seven decades. Addressing a workers' meet in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Modi attacked the Congress over the instant triple talaq issue. "The politics of vote bank has destroyed the country like

London, Sept 25: A 22-year-old Sikh soldier, who created history by becoming the first to wear a turban during an annual parade to mark British Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday ceremony, could be kicked out from his post after he was tested positive for cocaine, according to a media report. Charanpreet Singh Lall made headlines across the world for wearing the turban during the Trooping the Colour in

Shimla, Sept 25: Forty-five people, including 35 students from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, who had gone trekking in Himachal Pradesh's mountainous Lahaul and Spiti district are missing after heavy snowfall in the region, news agency ANI reported late on Monday. Rajvir Singh, father of one of the students, told ANI that the group had gone for trekking to the Hampta pass in Kullu and

Chennai, Sept 25: BJP's Tamil Nadu unit President Tamilisai Soundararjan on Monday said she has 'nominated' Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Nobel Peace Prize for launching the "world's largest" health scheme. Her husband, Professor Dr P Soundarajan, Head of Department and Senior Consultant in Nephrology at a private university, has also nominated Modi for Nobel, a press release from the state

New Delhi, Sept 24: Incessant showers triggered flash floods and landslides in the hill states of northern India with at least eight people killed on Monday in rain-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. In the wake of heavy rains, a "red alert" was issued in Punjab where educational institutes have been ordered to remain closed on Tuesday. Schools have also been

New Delhi, Sept 24: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Gujarat government's response on a plea by the wife of dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, alleging that she is compelled to move the court as her husband is being prevented from doing so. Describing the allegation by Shweta Bhatt that her husband was not being allowed to sign 'vakalatnama' and other documents necessary for approaching the

Nagpur, Sept 24: In a scathing attack on BJP government over its economic policies, the BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha termed demonetisation and GST ‘dictatorial' decision of the government. Speaking during 'Yuva Sansad' programme organised by local BJP Mla Ashish Deshmukh at Katol Festival on Saturday, Mr Sinha said the decision on demonetisation and GST were not taken by the cabinet or BJP. Mr Sinha

Gorakhpur, Sept 24: Dr Kafeel Khan, who has been allegedly trapped by Uttar Pradesh government in the case of death of infants at a State-run hospital in Gorakhpur last year, and his brother Adeel Khan were arrested on Sunday in a nine-year-old case. “A case was registered against Dr Kafeel and his brother Adeel under various sections of the IPC in 2009 at the Rajghat police station by Muzaffar

Beijing, Sept 24: China must come clean about the fate of an estimated one million minority Muslims swept up in a "massive crackdown" in the far western region of Xinjiang, Amnesty International said in a new report on Monday. Beijing has ramped up restrictions on Muslim minorities to combat what it calls Islamic extremism and separatist elements in the far western province. But critics say the