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NEW DELHI: Even as polling for the Presidential election is underway, several Congress MLAs on Monday voted for NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu. Congress MLAs in Odisha, Jharkhand and several other states voted for Murmu, instead of opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. Odisha Congress MLA Mohammad Moquim also voted for Murmu. He later said, “I am a […]

NEW DELHI: Bail orders of all five accused in the Biocon Briberygate case have been deferred till Tuesday afternoon. The Special CBI court of Nirja Bhatia at Rouse Avenue in New Delhi postponed the decision citing the voluminous nature of the records. The court will also give the orders on the application seeking voice samples […]

NEW DELHI: As voting took place today for India’s new President, opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday dubbed the polling as “very important” and urged political parties to vote in his favour to save democracy and the Constitution. Speaking to the media, Sinha said, “This election is very important and will set the path […]

NEW DELHI: In a bizarre statement, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that cloudbursts in India are being engineered by foreign powers to destabilise the country. “There is a new phenomenon called cloudburst. This is what happened in the Godavari region which caused the flood. There are reports that these cloudbursts are a conspiracy […]

SRINAGAR: Army on Monday said a captain and a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) were killed in an “accidental grenade blast” along the Line of Control in the Mendhar sector in the Poonch district. “Last night, an accidental grenade blast occurred in Mendhar Sector, district Poonch when troops were performing their duties along the Line of […]