23:44
JUST IN: Fire breaks out in slums in Mumbai's Agripada area. 14 fire tenders rushed to the spot
23:38
Prosecutors have released the 23-year-old they arrested after the attack due to a lack of evidence against him.The man was arrested after a witness chased the attacker through the Tiergarten park. It now seems he lost site of the actual attacker and led police to the wrong man. Meanwhile,...
23:30
German local media reports that Cologne train station has been evacuated after a telephone bomb threat was given. German security agencies have been on high alert ever since a truck ploughed into a Christmas market on Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others. German security...
22:57
Former Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf (retd) has claimed that ex-army chief Gen Raheel Sharif helped him leave the country by keeping the government from pressuring the courts. Speaking during a talk show on Dunya News, he said: Well he (Raheel Sharif) did help me and I am...
22:48
The body of the Russian ambassador assassinated by a Turkish policeman in Ankara has been flown home.Andrei Karlov was shot by Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, nine times as he gave a speech on Monday, apparently in protest at Russia's involvement in Aleppo.On Tuesday afternoon, Karlov's coffin was...
22:30
Teams searching for missing aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have very likely been looking in the wrong place, a new Australian government report confirmed.Given the high confidence in the search undertaken to date, the experts agreed that the previously defined (search) area is unlikely to...
21:52
Bank deposits, even upto Rs 2.5 lakh post demonitisation, may be investigated by the Income Tax department though the amount may not attract any tax, an official said today.The amount of Rs 2.5 lakh is not sacrosanct that it will not attract investigation even though it may not attract any tax,...
21:45
Terming demonetisation a monumental tragedy and an anti-poor measure, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said whoever planted the idea should enrol in an undergraduate course in economics.I don't think demonetisation is a reform. It is a monumental tragedy which is anti-poor and has put...
21:06
Board exams for Class X are set to become compulsory for all CBSE students from 2018 as CBSE's governing body today unanimously approved a proposal in this regard. At the meeting of the Governing body, its members agreed that from the academic session 2017-18, compulsory Board exams should be...
20:47
Water level in 91 major reservoirs in the country has dipped to 62 per cent of their total capacity, the government said today. According to the Union water resources ministry, 98.32 billion cubic metres of water was available in these reservoirs for the week ending on December 15. The stock...
20:13
Just In: Jordan policeman killed in shootout with gunmen in Karak: AFP quoting security source.
19:49
The Centre has rushed around 4,000 paramilitary personnel to Manipur in the wake of violence following economic blockade on national highways connecting the state.While around 1,500 paramilitary personnel were rushed in to Manipur in last two days, around 2,500 paramilitary were dispatched to the...
19:35
Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra was rushed to Mumbais Nanavati Hospital on Monday by his family. Apparently, the senior actor has been unwell for a few days and he has been diagnosed with a serious gastroenteritis.He is under observation and responding well to treatment. We are planning...
19:17
Did you plan to wait till December end to deposit old Rs 500, Rs 1,000 notes in the bank as the Reserve Bank of India and the finance ministry had assured you not to rush?Did you get a message from your bank asking you to deposit the old notes at ease as you have time till Dec 30?If yes, then...
19:01
Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said on Tuesday that India would now seek to issue a Red Corner notice against Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar and three others.We will issue a Red Corner notice against four terrorists living in Pakistan and initiate extradition process, he told...
18:41
The Income Tax Department said it has detected undisclosed income of Rs 3,185 crore and seized Rs 428 crore in cash and jewellery since note ban, PTI reports.The I-T department sources were quoted as saying by ANI that more than action has been taken in more than 677 cases since November 8.Also,...
18:35
JUST IN: German police says it arrested wrong man; true perpetrator of Berlin Christmas market attack armed and still at large, reports Die Welt News.
17:59
Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is in the forefront of anti-demonetisation protests, today said senior party leader Sudip Bandopadhyay has received three calls from the Central Bureau of Investigation, but that will not deter the party from fighting...
17:24
JUST IN: Navjot Singh Sidhu meets Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi, meeting went on for 45 minutes.
17:23
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has been injured in a knife attack at her home in the eastern Czech town of Prostejov, The Independent reported. Kvitova, 26, from the Czech Republic, suffered knife wounds to the tendons in her left hand, but her injuries are not thought to be...
17:09
India and Kyrgyztan on Tuesday firmed up broad contours of a bilateral investment agreement and inked six other pacts covering a range of areas even as they resolved to work closely to combat the challenge of terrorism, extremism and radicalism.In their comprehensive talks, Prime Minister...
16:20
Asserting that the Reserve Bank of India keeps making new rules on deposits post demonetisation and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley contradicts them, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday stated that the citizens have no clue who to believe as both authorities have zero...
15:57
Swapan Dasgupta's reposte to Yogendra Yadav's takedown of the RBI's new rule that says deposits totaling more than Rs 5,000 in old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes can be made only once per account until December 30. Yadav posted a picture of the letter he wrote to his bank explaining why he was...
15:51
As Kareena Kapoor Khan and husband Saif Ali Khan welcomed their first child together, the actress' girl squad congratulated the couple, with sister Karisma Kapoor leading the wishes. Karisma posted a picture on Instagram the read It's a baby boy that makes me a proud maasi!. She captioned the...
15:46
Swapan Dasgupta clarifies his tweet: Pointing out a misstep does not in any way diminish my complete endorsement of demonitisation. Trolls can look elsewhere for sceptics.Dasgupta had tweeted earlier today saying, New caveats on depositing old notes till Dec 30 were unnecessary & will...
15:16
RBI is changing rules like the PM changes his clothes, says Rahul Gandhi.The Congress VP's comment comes after the RBI issued a statement yesterday that deposits of above Rs 5,000 in banned banknotes can be made only once till December 30. This is the latest in a series of banking restrictions...
14:57
Yogendra Yadav, former AAP member and now founding member of Swaraj Abhiyan, gives voice to the growing frustration of Indians to the government's whimsical and ever-changing rules on demonetisation. The RBI on Monday said that deposits totaling more than Rs 5,000 in old Rs 500 and Rs...
14:09
A few weeks before Monday's terror attack in Berlin, German agents arrested one of their own -- a 51 year old man who was charged with passing on information to Islamist terrorists.Even though he had been working at Germany's domestic intelligence agency only since April, the man, who was...
14:00
In a possible bid to lend legitimacy to its proposal to institute VK Sasikala as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK has now tweeted a video grab of Jayalalithaa's interview with Simi Garewal, where the former TN CM talks about her friend and companion. The AIADMK tweets: Puratchi...
13:22
Weeks before he presents India's first combined general and railway budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said rail commuters must pay for the service they receive even as he made a strong case for outsourcing of non-core functions like hospitality services. He said year after year, the...
12:05
Rajya Sabha BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta criticises the Modi government for changing its stance yet again on the deposit of old notes. Dasgupta tweeted: New caveats on depositing old notes till Dec 30 were unnecessary & will undermine people's faith in govt assurances. A terrible last move.This...
11:52
India's rulers have always had high expectations from Indian science. Nehru said to Indian Science Congress in 1937, It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources...
11:49
We are in the middle of the biggest self-created crisis of this government. A crisis which involves and includes citizens and affects the way we go about our lives. It is a crisis that is being managed poorly by the government and, it is absolutely clear, even more shoddily by the Opposition,...
11:38
Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan Pataudi have been blessed with a son this morning. Both the Khan and Kapoor family members were present at the Breach Candy Hospital when Kareena was wheeled in for the delivery. Friend and filmmaker Karan Johar was the first to tweet the name of the baby. Johar...
11:28
Accusing the government of experimenting on us, to try and prove itself correct, Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, today slammed the Centre for scrapping high-value notes, and worse, for constantly changing the rules. Vadra's comments came a day after the RBI, in...
11:23
Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan have been blessed with a baby boy. Kareena gave birth to the baby boy at Breach Candy Hospital at 7.30 am on Tuesday morning. Both the mother and the baby are said to be doing fine. Karan Johar @karanjohar tweeted his happiness, My Bebo...
10:31
A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said.They said they had collected evidence inside the building and would make more details available on Tuesday. They declined to comment on the potential motive.Two of the three...
10:12
India has renewed its demand for international action against Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and their shadowy supporters. Pressing for international action against Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, India today delivered a sharp message to Pakistan at the UN, saying what...
09:26
Reacting to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's remark that demonetisation helped 50 families gain 60 percent of India's wealth, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the Gandhi family is among those who became billionaires under the UPA regime and are now frustrated as they had lost their...
09:17
The Union Government has sought help from IT firms and its industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) to participate in training more people with digital payments.The activity is jointly planned by Niti Aayog and Ministries of IT and Telecom in a move to...
09:16
In Mumbai, fire broke out in the Air India building, Nariman Point. The fire has now been doused. Four fire tenders at the spot.
09:03
Highly placed government sources on Monday denied media reports that the government is setting a limit on keeping cash at home.Media reports stated that the government would set a limit on the amount of cash that can be kept at home. The limit was speculated to be between Rs 3-15 lakhs.Experts...
08:43
* Fire breaks out in the Air India building, Nariman Point. 4 fire tenders at the spot.* IT Dept seized Rs 2.67 cr (Rs 17 lakh in new currency notes) from the residence of RK Jain who works as engineer with a Govt firm in Meerut.* Delhi: 34 trains running late, 7 rescheduled as foggy weather...
00:29
The Chinese military is expected to return a seized underwater probe to the US Navy in the South China Sea on tomorrow, a US defense official said. The small craft, taken around 90 kilometres northwest from Subic Bay in the Philippines last week, will be handed over to the crew of a US warship in...
00:02
In the aftermath of his wifes defeat to Donald Trump, former US president Bill Clinton reportedly bumped into the editor of a local newspaper in upstate New York and made clear his opinion as to what had led to the surprise victory for the Republicans.According to an editorial published in the...
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