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Prashant Jagtap, who quit NCP (SP) over alliance with Ajit Pawar, joins Congress

India, Dec. 27 -- Former Pune mayor Prashant Jagtap joined the Congress on Wednesday, two days after resigning from the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (SP) over its decision to form an al... Read More


Former Pune mayor Prashant Jagtap joins Congress

India, Dec. 27 -- Former Pune mayor and Nationalist Congress Party (SP) city president Prashant Jagtap formally joined the Congress on Friday in the presence of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee ... Read More


On Mithi's banks, Congress targets corruption in BMC

India, Dec. 27 -- With the sewage-choked Mithi River as the backdrop, the Congress on Friday launched its campaign for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, projecting the polluted w... Read More


HC finds 13-year-old mature enough, refuses to give custody to her UK-based father

India, Dec. 27 -- The Bombay High Court has rejected a petition filed by a UK resident, seeking custody of his 13-year-old daughter who lives in Mumbai with his estranged wife, noting that the teenage... Read More


Gangster Vinay Tyagi shot repeatedly while on way to court dies in Rishikesh

India, Dec. 27 -- Gangster Vinay Tyagi succumbed to his injuries at Rishikesh's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday, three days after two assailants on a motorcycle fired at hi... Read More


Mamata condemns 'persecution' of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states

India, Dec. 27 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday condemned what she called "the brutal oppression and persecution" of Bengali-speaking people in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ru... Read More


TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar's kin called for Bengal SIR hearings, triggers row

India, Dec. 27 -- Hearings in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal began on Saturday, even as a political slugfest erupted after at least four family members of ruling Trinamool... Read More


HT Archive Terror in the sky: IC-814 hijacked, flown to Kandahar

India, Dec. 27 -- Indian Airlines flight IC-814 with 190 passengers and crew was hijacked after entering Indian airspace on Friday. After a seven-hour journey across three countries, the aircraft land... Read More


2 dead, 1 critically hurt in outer Delhi accident

India, Dec. 27 -- Two men died and another was critically injured in a mishap that took place when the trio was travelling on a motorbike in Narela on Thursday night, police said, adding it was unclea... Read More


Retired Air Force personnel shot dead in Loni

India, Dec. 27 -- Two unidentified bikers on Friday afternoon shot dead a 58-year-old retired Indian Air Force personnel near Ashok Vihar in Ghaziabad's Loni, police said. The deceased, identified as... Read More