Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said today that he neither supported a ban on the movie ‘Padmavati’ nor backed those issuing threats to its actors and crew.

Singh decried attempts by what he claimed were “vested interests” to misinterpret his statement on the issue.

Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani today declared “victory” over the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria as the jihadists cling to just a few remaining scraps of territory.

Iran is one of the main international backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has sent military advisers and thous

New Delhi: A Delhi court today dismissed a CBI plea seeking to conduct lie-detection test on nine JNU students as part of its probe into the mysterious disappearance of another student, Najeeb Ahmad.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal dismissed the plea noting that the nine students were “

Harare: Robert Mugabe resigned as president of Zimbabwe Tuesday,  swept from power as his 37-year reign of brutality and autocratic control crumbled within days of a military takeover.

The bombshell news was delivered by the parliament speaker to a special joint session of the assembly which had convened to i

Chennai: The Madras High Court today directed the Election Commission to conduct the byelection to the RK Nagar Assembly constituency here, lying vacant for nearly a year, by December 31, as ordered by it earlier.

The constituency fell vacant after the death of sitting member and then Tamil Nadu chief minister J J

Ahmedabad: Amid the ongoing tension between the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) and the Congress over the allocation of tickets for the Gujarat polls, Patel quota stir spearhead Hardik Patel today claimed his outfit never demanded any seats and said “the BJP and the Congress are the same”.

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Ahmedabad: The Congress late on Sunday night released its first list of 77 candidates in which sitting MLA Indranil Rajyaguru of Rajkot East seat has been fielded to fight against BJP Chief Minister Vijay Rupani from Rajkot West seat.

However, after the list was released, PAAS members expressed anger and started protes

Ahmedabad: Former chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court Bhagwati Prasad passed away at a private hospital Sunday evening, family sources said.

He was 68.

Prasad was admitted to the hospital yesterday after he suffered low blood pressure complications, they said, adding that the last rites will be performe

Harare: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in a much-expected TV address Sunday, stressed he was still in power after his authoritarian 37-year reign was rocked by a military takeover.

“The (ruling ZANU-PF) party congress is due in a few weeks and I will preside over its processes,” Mugabe said, pitching t

New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) today claimed to have busted an alleged trafficking racket in East Delhi and rescued three minors with the help of police.

A statement by the DCW said the commission’s helpline received a call from a group of parents from Jharkhand who were searching for their child