Edited By Sanjeev Singh

Sanjeev Chawla, a bookie accused in a match fixing scandal, has been extradited and brought to India nearly 20 years after the case was filed in 2000. This marks the first high-profile extradition of its kind under the India-UK Extradition Treaty, signed in 1992.

Eight former top police officers on Sunday condemned BJP's Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Thakur for her comments that 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare died because she had "cursed" him. The joint statement was signed by former director generals of police Julio Ribeiro, Prakash Singh, PKH Tharakan, Kamal Kumar, Jacob Punoose, Sanjeev Dayal, Jayant...

About 14 crore people, almost the same as the population of Russia, are queuing up today to cast their ballots in the first phase of a mammoth general election to pick members of the 17th Lok Sabha. Voting in the first of seven roundsis being held in 91 constituencies across 20 states and union territories, amid tightened security.

The 'dancing uncle' who took the internet by storm has been appointed the brand ambassador by Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha Municipal Corporation on Saturday. Professor Sanjeev Srivastava, 46, teaches electronics at a local college. He claims to be a die-hard fan of actor Govinda for more than three decades.

Crisis in Aam Aadmi Party deepens over an 'Office Of Profit' case in which 20 AAP legislators face exit after the Election Commission recommended to President Ram Nath Kovind that the 20 Aam Aadmi Party legislators should be disqualified for holding 'office of profit' as parliamentary secretaries. The 20 AAP legislators include prominent names - Ch...

A lawmaker from Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, Sanjeev Jha made an unsuccessful attempt to go on a hunger strike on Saturday to counter sacked minister Kapil Mishra's fast in Delhi but was hauled off to the police station before he could begin, triggering a fresh bout of verbal duel between the party and the former minister.

A central school in Uttar Pradesh's capital city, Lucknow, has recorded the highest level of suspended particulate matter, PM 2.5 on Monday, followed by Delhi's Anand Vihar according to the latest report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

The uneasy alliance between the BJP and the Shiv Sena came under strain again today after a number of hoardings - chiefly showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing before the late Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray - appeared overnight in Mumbai's Dadar.

A family of six spent the whole of Wednesday on the streets of Mumbai trying to find accommodation in a hotel, but despite their best efforts, they were turned away by all the places they went to, allegedly because they are Pakistani.

It doesn't happen often that the President shows interest in watching a Bollywood film, but the Rashtrapati Bhavan at Raisina Hill is gearing itself for a grand screening of the film Talvar based on the Arushi Talwar muder case later this month.

BJP chief Amit Shah, who attacked rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav for most part of a speech to party workers in Bihar's Begusarai today, had to go on the defensive on the issue of caste-based reservations, emphasising that his party supports affirmative action.

An athletics coach was beaten up for alleged sexual harassment of national level female athletes in Madhya Pradesh, by a group of protesters outside the railway police station in Ratlam.

Sabita Devi, a villager from north India, exemplifies the growing role of women in developing countries, says Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder and American business tycoon Bill Gates.

Senior Pakistani journalist Aftab Alam was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi today. He was a former employee of Geo TV and other local channels. This is the second killing of a journalist in Karachi in a span of 24 hours. On Tuesday, a satellite engineer, Arshad Ali Jafri, was killed when a GEO TV van was attacked in Karachi.

The agitating ex-servicemen demanding One Rank One Pension has accused the Centre of trying to create a rift between the ranks of retired officers, saying that the government has still not been able to come to the negotiating table with a clean agenda as the protests entered the 81st day.

Sanjeev Chawla, a bookie accused in a match fixing scandal, has been extradited and brought to India nearly 20 years after the case was filed in 2000. This marks the first high-profile extradition of its kind under the India-UK Extradition Treaty, signed in 1992.

Eight former top police officers on Sunday condemned BJP's Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Thakur for her comments that 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare died because she had "cursed" him. The joint statement was signed by former director generals of police Julio Ribeiro, Prakash Singh, PKH Tharakan, Kamal Kumar, Jacob Punoose, Sanjeev Dayal, Jayant...

About 14 crore people, almost the same as the population of Russia, are queuing up today to cast their ballots in the first phase of a mammoth general election to pick members of the 17th Lok Sabha. Voting in the first of seven roundsis being held in 91 constituencies across 20 states and union territories, amid tightened security.

The 'dancing uncle' who took the internet by storm has been appointed the brand ambassador by Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha Municipal Corporation on Saturday. Professor Sanjeev Srivastava, 46, teaches electronics at a local college. He claims to be a die-hard fan of actor Govinda for more than three decades.

Crisis in Aam Aadmi Party deepens over an 'Office Of Profit' case in which 20 AAP legislators face exit after the Election Commission recommended to President Ram Nath Kovind that the 20 Aam Aadmi Party legislators should be disqualified for holding 'office of profit' as parliamentary secretaries. The 20 AAP legislators include prominent names - Ch...

A lawmaker from Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party, Sanjeev Jha made an unsuccessful attempt to go on a hunger strike on Saturday to counter sacked minister Kapil Mishra's fast in Delhi but was hauled off to the police station before he could begin, triggering a fresh bout of verbal duel between the party and the former minister.

A central school in Uttar Pradesh's capital city, Lucknow, has recorded the highest level of suspended particulate matter, PM 2.5 on Monday, followed by Delhi's Anand Vihar according to the latest report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

The uneasy alliance between the BJP and the Shiv Sena came under strain again today after a number of hoardings - chiefly showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing before the late Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray - appeared overnight in Mumbai's Dadar.

A family of six spent the whole of Wednesday on the streets of Mumbai trying to find accommodation in a hotel, but despite their best efforts, they were turned away by all the places they went to, allegedly because they are Pakistani.

It doesn't happen often that the President shows interest in watching a Bollywood film, but the Rashtrapati Bhavan at Raisina Hill is gearing itself for a grand screening of the film Talvar based on the Arushi Talwar muder case later this month.

BJP chief Amit Shah, who attacked rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav for most part of a speech to party workers in Bihar's Begusarai today, had to go on the defensive on the issue of caste-based reservations, emphasising that his party supports affirmative action.

An athletics coach was beaten up for alleged sexual harassment of national level female athletes in Madhya Pradesh, by a group of protesters outside the railway police station in Ratlam.

Sabita Devi, a villager from north India, exemplifies the growing role of women in developing countries, says Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder and American business tycoon Bill Gates.

Senior Pakistani journalist Aftab Alam was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi today. He was a former employee of Geo TV and other local channels. This is the second killing of a journalist in Karachi in a span of 24 hours. On Tuesday, a satellite engineer, Arshad Ali Jafri, was killed when a GEO TV van was attacked in Karachi.

The agitating ex-servicemen demanding One Rank One Pension has accused the Centre of trying to create a rift between the ranks of retired officers, saying that the government has still not been able to come to the negotiating table with a clean agenda as the protests entered the 81st day.