The BJP on Friday alleged the Congress was “running out of ideas” after a senior Congress leader compared AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi with socialist stalwart Jayaprakash Narayan.

In Bihar’s ongoing electoral battle between heavyweight rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav, it is the Congress party that seems to be scoring more points in the war of political advertisements playing constantly on the state’s local television channels. Hitting the TV screens just before the Assembly polls began on Thursday, the Congress party’s stinging ad campaigns aim at outwitting the main competition coming from the ruling JD(U)-BJP’s persuasive feel-good ads. While the Congress,

A Ph.D. scholar of the Delhi University, who is accused of blackmailing and outraging the modesty of a civil services aspirant, has to spent at least 12 days in Tihar jail, despite being granted bail by a Delhi court as he could not furnish a surety and personal bond of `50,000 each.

In a shocking case of allegedly apathy by the Delhi and railway police personnel, the body of a 60-year-old man was left unattended for around 11 hours due to a jurisdiction dispute involving two police stations and the railway police.

A 25-year-old employee of a private firm was injured on Friday morning when a luxury car hit a cyclist on the Bus Rapid Transit corridor near Chirag Delhi flyover.
Police officials said the incident took place at around 7.50 am on the BRT corridor when the victim, Sunil, a resident of Tigri Extension in Khanpur, was going to his office o

Apart from the 16 initial projects which the CVC was investigating in connection with the Commonwealth Games, the watchdog agency is also looking into some other allegations of corruption pertaining to supply of three-dimensional displays of the Games Mascot “Shera” and re-modelling and upgradation in Major Dhyan Chand

Denying allegations of involvement in any financial irregularities as a contractor for the Commonwealth Games, BJP national council member Sudhanshu Mittal on Wednesday complained he was being made a “political scapegoat”.

Indicating, in the backdrop of a possible reshuffle in the Union council of ministers, that it was time for him to head some other ministry, civil aviation minister Praful Patel on Wednesday said that “maybe”, it was time for him to “move on” from the civil aviation ministry. Soon after, however, the minister told this newspaper he had made the comment “in jest”.

Defying the directive issued by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar suggesting ministries to avoid using names of top national leaders while announcing welfare programmes, the government on Wednesday approved a new scheme named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for expectant and lactating mothers.

Four incidents of the suspected use of money to influence voters surfaced a day before the Assembly polls begin in Bihar. Unaccounted-for money was recovered from the vehicles of a BJP candidate and two LJP candidates by the police on Thursday and five people were arrested in this connection.