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New Delhi, Oct 8: Five persons, including four women of a family and a security guard, were stabbed to death in the early hours of Saturday in Shahdara’s Mansarovar Park area. The police are yet to ascertain the motive and identify the killers. The victims, identified as Urmila Jindal (82), her daughters Sangeeta Gupta (56), Nupur Jindal (48), Anjali Jindal (38), and security guard Rakesh (42)

A committee of experts appointed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led union government to examine the India’s Hajj policy has now drafted a proposal which includes abolishing subsidy for the pilgrims and allowing women devotees above 45 to travel in a group of at least four without a male. The proposed Hajj Policy 2018-22, by a panel headed by former secretary Afzal Amanullah, also recommends

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan features in the list of probables for this year's Nobel Prize in Economics, The Wall Street Journal has reported. He is one of the six economists on the list of probable winners complied by Clarivate Analytics, a company that does academic and scientific research and maintains a list of dozens of possible Nobel Prize winners based on research citations. The entry

Bengaluru, Oct 7: Reiterating that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to crack the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh will solve the case soon, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Saturday said that the cops are just a few steps away from catching the culprits. Speaking to media persons in Hubballi on Saturday, he said the SIT formed specially for the case is a short

Kasaragod, Oct 7: The Kerala state government has Kerala rejected the claims made by the Centre's National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Supreme Court that the Hadiya case, involving conversion of a Hindu woman to Islam and her marriage to a Muslim man, is part of a “pattern” of religious conversions and radicalisation happening in the southern State. In fact, Pinarayi Vijayan-led CPI (M)

Kasaragod, Oct 7: The Kerala state government has Kerala rejected the claims made by the Centre's National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Supreme Court that the Hadiya case, involving conversion of a Hindu woman to Islam and her marriage to a Muslim man, is part of a “pattern” of religious conversions and radicalisation happening in the southern State. In fact, Pinarayi Vijayan-led CPI (M)

Dwarka (Gujarat), Oct 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of a four-lane cable-stayed bridge between Okha and Beyt Dwarka and said it was a link between old and new Dwarka. The 2.32 km bridge, including 900 metres of central double span cable-stayed portion, will be constructed at a cost of Rs 962.43 crore. "There were lots of possibilities of development in the tourism

Washington, Oct 7: President Donald Trump will dispatch his top diplomatic and military advisers to Pakistan in the coming weeks, turning up the heat on a nuclear-armed ally accused of harbouring terror groups. Weeks after Trump angrily accused Islamabad of providing safe haven to "agents of chaos," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to depart for Pakistan late this month. He will be followed

Mumbai, Oct 6: Twenty-year-old daughter of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) president Nilesh Vikamsey was found dead on railway tracks in Central Mumbai, a senior GRP official said today. Pallavi had gone missing while returning from a law firm at Fort in south Mumbai where she was doing her internship. She was last seen boarding a local train at CSMT station yesterday at

Oslo, Oct 6: Nuclear disarmament group ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran. "The organisation is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a