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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...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary, recalling his ideals of truth, non-violence, simplicity and Swadeshi, saying Bapu’s timeless message would continue to guide the country towards a better society and a Viksit Bharat. In a...

New Delhi: The Indian women’s recurve team of Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Mohod and Kirti stunned 10-time champions South Korea to clinch its first-ever gold at the Asian Games. Marking India’s first-ever appearance in the Asian Games women’s recurve team final, India registered 5-3 win over...

Mumbai: Indian benchmark shares posted their eighth straight weekly loss, the longest such streak in 25 years, as record foreign selling, crude prices near $100 a barrel and a surge in global yields sent risk sentiment plunging. The Nifty 50 dropped 3.1% and BSE Sensex...

Mumbai: HDFC Bank has appointed Anup Bagchi as its next Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer after receiving approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), according to a stock exchange filing Thursday. Bagchi, currently the MD and CEO of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, will...