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New Delhi: Cracks in the Punjab Congress came to the fore once again after outgoing state unit chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring called his departure a victory for former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi. Warring also said he learnt that the new AICC general secretary...

New Delhi: Three new judges are likely to be appointed to the Supreme Court next week, sources said Friday. The Supreme Court collegium had September 29 recommended the elevation of three high court chief justices to the top court. Sources aware of the appointment procedure...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said students have exercised their constitutional right and protested against "vote chori" as he asserted that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar will go and the system that put him there will go too. In a post in Hindi...

Jerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday said that the attacker in the Flydubai incident underwent Islamist radicalisation and intended to crash the plane with all its passengers on board. “As time passes, the picture is becoming clearer. Yaniv and his heroic companions prevented a...

Mumbai: Despite police denying permission, thousands of young men and women gathered Friday for the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) protest at Shivaji Park here demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. While police and security forces were deployed in the central Mumbai area...

New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for India, hockey umpire and technical official Gurinder Singh Sangha, has been sent back from the Asian Games in Japan owing to multiple complaints of alleged sexual misconduct by him during the mega-event. A well-placed Hockey India source told...

New Delhi: Captain Smit Machchhar, speaking to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a video call Friday, gave him a brief account of the fatal attack and his fightback inside the Dubai-Tel Aviv flydubai flight cockpit and stated that he kept chanting 'Hanuman Chalisa' while fighting...

New Delhi: The Congress Friday accused the Election Commission of lying about the ECINet portal and violating the Representation of the People Act, as it stressed on accountability for the violations of the law and the Constitution. Congress general secretary in-charge Jairam Ramesh said that...

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed states and union territories where the nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has been completed to conduct a special drive to identify and enrol voters who may have been left out. In a...

United Nations: India's Bimal Patel has been sworn in as judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). He took the oath of office  Thursday at the tribunal in Hamburg, starting a nine-year term on the highest judicial body for the...