Hathras, (UP):  Fifteen people were killed and two others seriously injured when the Mathura-Kasganj Express rammed into a jeep at an unmanned railway crossing here on Tuesday morning. The accident took place at the unmanned railway crossing near Madu Railway Station at 7.19 am in the district. The jeep was carrying 17 passengers, Superintendent of [...]

Mumbai:  There’s finally some good news for residents of Mumbai who have long nurtured a dream of owning a house in the city. The Maharashtra Housing and Development Authority (MHADA) is set to announce a lottery of nearly 3,500 homes — a majority scattered across the western suburbs — in the end of May, say [...]

Lucknow: Actor-politician Jaya Bachchan on Saturday filed her nomination for Rajya Sabha as a Samajwadi Party candidate.   A former Rajya Sabha member, Jaya filed her nomination in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and other party MLAs.  Jaya was earlier elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2004 as SP nominee and [...]

New Delhi : Telephone use, eat-outs and other activities will cost more as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today proposed increasing the service tax rate to 12 per cent from 10 per cent and introducing a negative list aimed at bringing more services under the tax net. “I propose to raise the service tax rate from [...]

Singapore : Oil prices were mixed in Asian trade today, as investors weighed concerns over a supply disruption in the Middle East and a surge in US crude stockpiles, analysts said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April was up 25 cents to USD 105.68 while Brent North Sea crude for [...]

Gurgaon:  After a woman who worked at a Gurgaon pub was gang-raped, the local police has said women cannot work at pubs or nightclubs after 8 pm. On Sunday night, a woman who had completed her shift at a pub at a mall was getting into a taxi with her brother when a group of [...]

Ambala: A 22-year-old student of a government college was murdered outside the institution’s campus on Monday. The deceased was identified as Kewal Singh, a postgraduate student hailing from Jatwar village near Ambala Cantonment. Kewal was on his way to attend his class when some youths asked him to come out of the college. As soon [...]

New Delhi: The much talked about Lokpal Bill is expected to be brought again for consideration in the Rajya Sabha during the second phase of the Budget session of Parliament. The bill is on the live register of the Rajya Sabha and it will be taken up only in the second phase of the Budget [...]

Mangalore: Jagotik Konkani Songhotton (JKS) organised a -day seminar titled Scripts and Languages of Modern India with Special Reference to Konkani at Kalaangan on March 10 Saturday Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Valerian Rodrigues of the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) said that, Konkani is the language spoken by 2 million [...]

Ghaziabad  : Two persons including a woman were killed and more than 24 others injured, when  a private company bus ferrying employees from Noida to Hapur dashed into a tractor on National Highway 24 on Saturday evening.   Eight people have been admitted to hospital, while the others were discharged after first aid, police said [...]