Eight Maoist rebels surrendered in Odisha Wednesday, police said. They surrendered before police in the district headquarters town of Koraput, about 500 km from here. "The rebels joined the local Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangha organisation around 2009 and provided leadership in their area," Deputy Inspector General of Police (Southwestern Range) Yashwant Jethwa told IANS.
Torrential rain lashed Mumbai and large parts of coastal and western Maharashtra early on Wednesday, providing welcome relief from the extended summer in the city. Monsoon is delayed by over three weeks – the normal date for its onset was June 10. The heavy downpour resulted in water-logging at several low-lying areas in the city
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa Wednesday expressed hope that the Mullaperiyar Dam supervisory committee will restore the dam's water storage level to 142 feet during the current monsoon period. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday, text of which was released to the media, Jayalaltihaa thanked Modi for constituting the supervisory committee
Visiting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited him to visit France, as the two leaders had "positive" talks on ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas such as defence, trade, investment and urban development. Fabius, who earlier in the day took part in a panel discussion
A blueprint to develop India as a software product nation was submitted to Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad here on Tuesday. "As the software product industry is an enabler for many other industries like defence, electronics and communications, its healthy growth brings endless opportunities and transform the country," Indian
In an assertion that may pitch the government and the top judiciary head-on, Chief Justice of India R.M.Lodha Tuesday said that the government acted unilaterally in segregating the name of former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium from the panel of four names recommended by the collegium for appointment as apex court judges. Chief Justice Lodha
India on Tuesday strongly reacted to revelations that the BJP was among the foreign political parties which the US' National Security Agency (NSA) was authorised to spy upon, terming it totally unacceptable and "extremely disconcerting" even as both the ruling and opposition parties demanded the matter be taken up with Washington. Answering queries from
With the countrywide chorus rising for his arrest and expulsion from parliament, Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul on Tuesday tendered an unconditional apology for his "deeply insensitive" rape comments even as another video surfaced showing him exhorting his partymen to kill CPI-M workers. With politicians, eminent personalities and activists baying for his head and
Members of two families in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, who had returned to their homes from Pakistan-administered Kashmir after 27 years on Monday, have been taken into custody for questioning, police said. "Two brothers had crossed over to Pakistan-administered Kashmir from Mendhar sector of the line of control (LoC) in Poonch district along