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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya and chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurates an exhibition at the 1st Uttarakhand Investors Summit in Dehradun. (Photo: PTI)

Sweeping socio-economic changes taking place, says Modi

The Prime Minister highlighted the benefits of the newly-launched Ayushman Bharat Yojana health insurance scheme, GST...

8 Oct 2018 1:39 AM IST

Will Ajit Jogi lead a minority govt like HD Kumaraswamy?

While the JCC has a major share of 55 seats, the BSP is to field its candidates in rest 35 seats, as per seat-sharing...

8 Oct 2018 1:18 AM IST

Chanda Kocchar will now go on leave till the enquiry in the ICICI-Videocon case is not completed. (Photo: File)

From here to eternity

Europeans are pretty blas© when it comes to nudity.

8 Oct 2018 1:10 AM IST

Shibu with his father, Yusuf Arakkal (Picture courtesy: Shibu Arakkal)

The troubled genius: Snapshots of life with yusuf

My relationship with my dad was complex, to say the least.

8 Oct 2018 1:10 AM IST

In the race for marks and admissions, our schooling methodology may have become mere rote learning with no real sense of purpose than to get those numbers in the exams. I sometimes look at the figures. How many children make it to the IITs? How many join medical colleges? A very, very, small percentage. What about the rest? Are we doing enough to fire their creativity, so they shine in any field they chose to work in?

Schools must encourage independence of thoughts

India has the largest youth population in the world. Most of them are unable to find fruitful employment.

8 Oct 2018 12:07 AM IST

Union Minister rides bullock cart, demands fuel price cut from Delhi govt

Union Minister rides bullock cart, demands fuel price cut from Delhi...

The minister said the Modi government cares for the people while the Kejriwal government 'wants to kill people'.

7 Oct 2018 9:18 PM IST

The action that was being taken earlier would continue, Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat said. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

India follows independent policy': Army Chief on S-400 deal with...

General Bipin Rawat said India was looking forward to procuring Kamov helicopters and other weapon systems and...

7 Oct 2018 8:40 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar speaking to media during Lok Samvad programme at 1 Anne Marg, in Patna. (Photo: PTI)

Self-help groups repay loans while big shots flee country': Nitish...

Over 8 lakh SHGs have been formed in Bihar to help poor women in villages in carrying out their own small business,...

7 Oct 2018 8:21 PM IST

Representational image of an Indigo aircraft.

IndiGo reported temporary system failure, flyers left stranded

The glitch, was, however, rectified later on and operations resumed normally.

7 Oct 2018 7:24 PM IST

The police said that an FIR has been registered and a team of SHOs of four police stations have been formed to conduct raids. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

40 girls hospitalised after mob thrashed them in Bihar for resisting...

The girls all aged between 12 to 16 years, are students of Kasturba Gandhi School in Daparkha village of Triveniganj.

7 Oct 2018 7:06 PM IST

Hundreds of devotees, mostly women, take part in the namajapa (chanting the name of Lord Ayyappa ) during march in Kottayam on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Sabarimala priests reject Kerala CM's offer of talks on SC verdict

Pandalam royals also said there was no point in holding talks now as state govt had already decided to implement SC...

7 Oct 2018 4:58 PM IST

Union Minister Arun Jaitley said that Congress had no real issue and was hence resorting to manufacturing. (Photo: File)

Jaitley to spend his area development funds on Gandhi family bastion

Aiming to breach Gandhi family bastion in 2019 LS polls, Jaitley will spend his MP area development funds on Rae Bareli.

7 Oct 2018 3:55 PM IST