Sam Pitroda, the Congress's overseas unit chief, stepped down from the post this evening amid a huge row his recent remarks have generated. The announcement came in a terse post on X from the party's communications-in-charge Jairam Ramesh. "Mr. Sam Pitroda has decided to step down as Chairman of the …...Read More

Senior Congress leader Sam Pitroda - whose comment last month about an inheritance tax in the United States sparked a massive fight with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party - has triggered another row in his attempt to make a pitch for national unity. In an exclusive interview with The Statesman, …...Read More

The DRDO also described the reports as "misleading". (Representational) The defence ministry on Saturday trashed reports that a model of a Chinook chopper installed by the DRDO at the 2020 edition of DefExpo went missing. Defence Ministry spokesperson A Bharat Bhushan Babu said the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) …...Read More

Fugitive businessman Nirav Modi, who has been in a London prison for over five years, on Tuesday filed a new bail application which was rejected by a UK judge who ruled that he continued to pose a "substantial risk" of absconding justice. Declared a 'fugitive economic offender' in December 2019, …...Read More

A total of 64.2 crore voters, including 31.2 crore women, participated in the electoral process. The counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, conducted over seven polls from April 19 to June 1, is currently underway. As per the Election Commission, a total of 8,360 candidates had their …...Read More

Chandrababu Naidu has scripted a remarkable comeback. Never write off any politician. That is the biggest lesson from the Andhra Pradesh election. Less than eight months ago, when Chandrababu Naidu went to jail, it looked like the 74-year-old politician and his Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were down and out. Prospects …...Read More

The high court also directed Naresh Goyal to surrender his passport (File) The Bombay High Court on Monday granted interim bail for two months on medical grounds to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, who has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case. A single bench …...Read More

The operation is still underway and further details were awaited, police said (Representational) Seven Maoists were killed in an encounter with security personnel in a forest along the Narayanpur-Bijapur inter-district border in Chhattisgarh on Thursday, police said. The gunfight broke out around 11 am when a joint team of security …...Read More

Chhattisgarh IED Blast: Security personnel were unharmed in explosion, police said (Representational) Fifteen Maoists, seven of them women, were arrested following an IED blast in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said on Tuesday. The Maoists triggered the explosion when the security forces were on a search operation on Sunday, but no …...Read More

This is the third major blow to the Maoists in Chhattisgarh in the last one month. (Representational) At least 12 Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Friday, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai said. The gunfight took place in the forest near Pidia …...Read More