New Delhi: The CBI today asked RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi Yadav to appear before it for questioning on October 5 and 6 in an alleged corruption case after both leaders expressed their inability to appear on given dates, the agency sources said.

The sources said Yadav and Tejashwi were earlie

Mumbai: Stock markets after a long weekend started the day today with a bang as the Sensex surged 332 points and the Nifty was back on top of 9,800 on optimistic buying ahead of RBI policy review.

Looking good for the third day, the 30-share index advanced 331.56 points, or 1.05 per cent, to 31,615.28. Auto, metal

Los Angeles: Tom Petty, an old-fashioned rock superstar and everyman who drew upon the Byrds, the Beatles and other bands he worshipped as a boy and produced new classics such as “Free Fallin,’ “Refugee” and “American Girl,” has died. He was 66.

Petty passed away Monday night at

Washington: Indian academician Prajapati Trivedi has been elected as a fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration in the US, becoming the first Indian to be bestowed with this honour.

NAPA is an independent, non-profit and non-partisan organisation established by the US Congress in 1967 to

Singapore: Singapore’s newly elected President Halimah Yacob is moving out of her 30-year-old apartment, built under the public housing scheme, for security reasons, according to media reports.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has advised the president that “the security agencies face several challen

Tehran: A young woman banned from the Iranian national chess team, allegedly for attending an international competition without wearing an Islamic headscarf, has joined the US team, an Iranian news agency reported.

The semi-official ISNA reported that Dorsa Derakhshani refused to wear the headscarf, known as the h

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said that it would examine the question as to whether the Kerala High Court can annul the marriage of a Muslim man with a Hindu woman, who had converted to Islam before tying the nuptial knot, by exercising its power under the writ jurisdiction.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Di

Chandigarh: Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s adopted daughter Honeypreet Insan, who has been on the run for over a month, says she is “devastated” by allegations that she incited the Panchkula violence.

She told a TV news channel that her “Papa” was innocent and

Online Desk : Fugitive and liquor baron Vijay Mallya has been arrested in London for the second time in this year in the case of money laundering.However Mallya is out on bail after his arrest in April following India’s extradition request. 61yr old Mallya who has been staying in UK for over a year, now he is accused of defaulting on loans