Mumbai: Under pressure from the opposition and ally Shiv Sena, the BJP-led Maharashtra government today accepted the demands of agitating farmers, including their right to till forest land, as thousands of agriculturists converged here in a sea of red.

In a major victory for the farmers who trekked 180 km from Nas

Srinagar: The NIA today raided the central jail here and seized over two dozen mobile phones, jihadi literature and a Pakistani flag apart from data hardware, official spokesman said.

At least 20 teams of the central probe agency, with commandos of the NSG and drones in tow, searched the barracks and open ground o

Agartala: Over 80 per cent of the 36,793 electors cast their votes on Monday in the Charilam Assembly constituency in western Tripura, an official said.

According to the Returning Officer, no untoward incident was reported from anywhere in the constituency.

"In all, 36,793 voters, including 17,880 w

Patna: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and five others today filed their nominations for Rajya Sabha elections in Bihar.

BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad, whose tenure in the Rajya Sabha ends on April 2, filed his nomination papers along with two JD(U) candidates Bashishtha Narayan Singh and Mahendra Prasad.

New Delhi:  Samajwadi Party's Rajya Sabha member Naresh Agrawal on Monday joined the BJP, saying "dancers and film actors were preferred over him for the nominations for the upper house of Parliament".

"My comparison was drawn with those working in films... I was rejected for those who danc

New Delhi: A Delhi court today sent Karti Chidambaram to judicial custody till March 24 in the INX Media corruption case, while dismissing his plea for early hearing of his bail application.

Special judge Sunil Rana pronounced the order after the CBI said that he was not required for custodial interrogation.

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Bodies of victims have been recovered from the wreckage as a US-Bangla Airlines plane carrying 67 passengers crash landed after catching fire at Nepal's international airport here today, officials said.  

"We just pulled out dead bodies and injured from the debris,"

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was disrupted on Monday amid continued protests by the opposition over the PNB fraud case and other issues, forcing Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to first adjourn the House till noon, and later for the day.

This was the sixth day in a row when the House, facing a stalemate, was forced to adjourn

Hyderabad: Headphones thrown at governor ESL Narasimhan by an angry Congress Legislative Party (CLP) member accidentally hit Telangana State Legislative Council chairman K Swamy Goud injuring his right eye on Monday.

The incident happened when an enraged Komatireddy Venkat Reddy threw his headphones dire

Hyderabad: Congress MLAs on Monday tore up the copies of Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan's address to the joint session of Telangana Legislative Assembly and Council.

Soon after the Governor began his address at 10 a.m., Congress members raised protests on the government's poor response to farmers' suicides