New Delhi: Three Delhi Police personnel, including a constable and two head constables, were beaten up by two drunk men and five men dressed as advocates in two separate incidents here, police said Friday. In the first incident, a 58-year-old head constable was thrashed by five unidentified men dressed as [...]

New Delh: BJP leader Tarun Vijay Friday met the home and defence ministers to voice his concern over Google holding a Mapathon competition, saying the internet giant had shown “utmost disrespect for the Indian mapping laws” and wondered if Google was above Indian law. In letters submitted to Home Minister [...]

Lucknow: An inflamatory post on social networking site Facebook resulted in communal tension in Meerut Friday as angry members of a community stoned a mini-truck and a bus carrying a marriage party, police said. Soon after the post lampooning a specific religion was noticed, mobs took to the streets raising [...]

Washington: Even as it acknowledged that a US congressional delegation’s visit to Gujarat had official sanction, the US said there was no immediate change in its stand on a visa to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but he is “welcome to apply”. “Visits like this do help support a deepening of [...]

Bangalore: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday met legendary singer Manna Dey at the latter’s daughter’s residence in Bangalore and presented him the “Vishesh Maha-Sangeet Sammaan”. Banerjee feted Dey with a medallion carrying an inscription – “Banglar Garba” (Pride of Bengal). She also gave 94 roses to Dey as [...]

Kolkata:  Stirring a fresh controversy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday dubbed the death of a student activist in Kolkata as a “small” and “petty” matter, while sticking to her stand that it was an “accident” and not “due to police atrocity”. “Why, for what purpose, for what cause,” [...]