Dharmendra Pradhan, Maneka Gandhi among key contestants in 6th phase

Voting for the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha polls will be held on Saturday in 58 constituencies in six states and two Union territories, including all the seven seats in Delhi and the......

In Rohtak, Hooda Faces 2019 Opponent

The 2024 Lok Sabha contest between the BJP and Congress is crucial in the context of the assembly polls in Haryana, which are due by October. IMAGE: Deepender Singh Hooda, the Congress candidate......

As North India reels under severe heatwave, rain drenches TN, Kerala in south

Large parts of north India, including Haryana and Delhi, reeled from severe heatwave conditions with the maximum temperature touching 47.4 degrees Celsius in Najafgarh in the national capital --......

BJP names Khattar, Gadkari, Piyush Goyal in 2nd list for LS polls

Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and three former chief ministers, including Haryana's Manohar Lal Khattar, figured in the BJP's second list of 72 candidates for......

Mysuru cleanest; Varanasi among dirtiest Indian cities

Image: People attend the annual Dussehra celebration in Mysore. Photograph: Jagadeesh Nv/Reuters The January 2016 survey looked at only 73 cities. Mysuru continues to be the cleanest city in......

LPG mess: Will you get more subsidised cylinders?

The government in September finally decided to limit the subsidy on domestic LPG. Now it faces pressure from within to raise the cap. Will it budge? Ajay Modi explains. The domestic LPG business......

After job woes, stimulus came as a saviour

Year 2009 began on a gloomy note for the labour and employment ministry with the recession, resulting in a job crisis in the country, though the mid and later half showed promising signs of......