Ahmedabad: Voting for the second and final phase of Gujarat assembly elections began today on 93 seats of North and Central Gujarat.

After an acrimonious campaign, around 2.22 crore voters would be exercising their franchise to choose between the two main contenders, the BJP and the Congress.

A total of

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today commissioned Scorpene-class submarine Kalvari into the Indian Navy.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and top defence officials were present at the commissioning ceremony here.

On the occasion, Modi said Kalvari is an excellent

London: Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor has been named the ‘Sexiest Asian Man’ in a poll, dethroning singer Zayn Malik who has been winning the title for the past two years.

Shahid has topped Eastern Eye’s 2017 list of 50 Sexiest Asian Men in the world. Last year, he ranked seventh.

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London: British Prime Minister Theresa May lost a key Brexit vote in parliament Wednesday after a group of her own MPs rebelled, a blow for the government on the eve of a crucial EU summit.

Lawmakers voted 309 to 305 in favour of an amendment to the government’s EU (Withdrawal) Bill demanding an explicit leg

New Delhi: Parents can complain to a Delhi government-appointed committee if they have an issue with the fees charged by private schools.

The ‘Fee Anomaly Committees’ have been formed in each district pursuant to recommendations of the Justice Duggal Committee.

“Any parent or guardian o

New Delhi: A 24-year-old man, working as a sweeper in the Election Commission (EC), was arrested on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in the killings of an octogenarian woman, her three daughters and their security guard in the Mansarovar Park area here in October, the police said.

This was the eighth arrest i

Moscow: Russia today said it welcomed US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s statement that Washington is ready for talks with North Korea without preconditions, calling this a constructive approach.

“We can state that such constructive statements impress us far more than the confrontational rhetoric th

New Delhi: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is slated to meet the industry tomorrow to discuss the roadmap for India to become a USD 1 trillion digital economy in the coming years.

This is a follow-up to a similar meeting held in June this year with tech leaders where the minister had exhorted the industry to help

New Delhi: Vidya Balan says with back-to- back box office disappointments post her wedding, she gave into the thinking that married female actors cannot deliver a hit, but the success of “Tumhari Sulu” has proved the theory wrong.

Vidya says for someone like her, who considers acting as important as pe

Election Commission on Wednesday sought an explanation from Congress president-elect Rahul Gandhi for appearing in television interviews that allegedly violated the model code of conduct ahead of the second phase of voting in Gujarat.

The poll panel also ordered registration of cases against channels for violating the model code of con