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A Congress MLA has beenbooked allegedly for raping a 51-year-old woman and driving her to attempt suicide last week by consistently harassing her, the police said today.A case of rape, abetment to suicide and stalking was lodged against Congress MLA M Vincent of Kovalam assembly segment last...
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The Trump Administration today announced plans to ban its citizens from travelling to North Korea, attributing it to the serious risk of arrest and long- term detention of Americans in the reclusive nation.The move comes following the death of university student Otto Warmbier, who was returned to...
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JUST IN: Sean Spicer has resigned as White House press secretary, the American media reported on Friday.Spicer resigned as press secretary, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with his choice for a new communications director, the New York Times reported.Trump had offered the New York...
21:18
A batch of 1,141 pilgrims today left Jammu for the 3,888-metre-high Amarnath cave shrine of Lord Shiva in south Kashmir Himalayas.Escorted by the Central Reserve Police Force and police, the batch consisting of 759 males, 200 females plus 182 sadhus and sadhvis left in a convoy of 42 vehicles for...
20:52
A Group of Ministers appointed by the Union cabinet to look into disinvestment of Air India held its first meeting in New Delhi.The ministers who attended the meeting included Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, Union...
20:10
The United States has decided against disbursement of $350 million in coalition support fund to Pakistan after the defence secretary informed Congress that he was not able to certify that Islamabad has taken 'sufficient actions' against the dreaded Haqqani network, a top official said today.The...
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Senior diplomat and External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay was today appointed as Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office.He has been appointed in place of Vinay Mohan Kwatra, who has been already named as India's Ambassador to France.The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet...
20:02
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked party MPs to shun the mindset of 'lal batti (red beacon) culture'.He made these remarks in a meeting with party MPs from western Uttar Pradesh at his residence, according to an official statement.Modi routinely meets party MPs from different states...
19:42
Pakistani troops today violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Nowgam sector for the third consecutive day and in Keran sector but there were no casualties in the unprovoked firing from across the LoC.An army official said the Indian Army is retaliating to the Pakistani aggression in...
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Reliance Industries' chairman Mukesh Ambani today said rolling out fixed line services will be the next focus area for the company's telecom services arm, Reliance Jio, after the wireless expansion.In next level, we're very focussed in terms of giving fixed line connectivity to both home and...
18:36
Goa Bharatiya Janata Party president Vinay Tendulkar today won the sole Rajya Sabha seat, defeating his Congress counterpart and sitting MP Shantaram Naik.Tendulkar polled 22 votes, while Naik bagged 16 in the election held at the state assembly complex today in which all the 38 state legislators...
17:46
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday fired a new salvo at the BJP and said that the TMC would launch the 'BJP Bharat Chhodo' movement on August 9.Addressing the Martyr's Day rally in Kolkata commemorating the 1993 Kolkata firing, Mamata also accused the Union Government of not...
17:36
Shares of Reliance Industries today closed the day with nearly 4 per cent gains after the company reported its highest quarterly consolidated net profit of Rs 9,108 crore in three-months to June 30.The scrip of Reliance Industries went up by 3.76 per cent to close at Rs 1,586.20 on BSE....
17:29
Munna Michael's hollowness is as striking as Tiger's chiselled torso, one that he freely bares in everything from an unzipped hoodie to a doily masquerading as a shirt. Can't say I am surprised. What's shocking is the lack of wit.Rediff.com reviews Munna Micheal. Read before you book.
17:27
This is a film that trumpets out its sex -- it is content in being a girl's version of the archetypical boy's locker-room picture. And if it was just that, that would have been fun too, but Lipstick Under My Burkha doesn't want to affect your senses, it wants to control your mind!Rediff.com's...
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The image depicting Kiran Bedi as the goddess Kali.
17:18
Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi took to Twitter today to post a series of images portraying her as Hitler and the goddess Kali, which were used in posters across the city. The posters were allegedly made by Congress party cadres to protest against the appointment of three MLAs by the LG...
16:58
Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Pon Radhakrishnan today inspected the memorial for former President A P J Abdul Kalam, which is to be inaguruated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 27.
16:45
Curiouser and curiouser. RS Surjewala of the Congress now says no action was taken against Shankersinh Vaghela nor was he expelled. These are baseless arguments. Its his decision, Surjewala said. Vaghela also changed his stance saying he quit the party but had earlier maintained that the...
16:26
A 5-judge Supreme Court bench hearing the Whatsapp privacy case will await the verdict of the 9-judge Constitution bench to decide on the privacy issue involving Aadhaar. The Centre told the Supreme Court today that personal data cannot be shared and said that WhatsApp and other social media will...
15:43
The state-run Chinese media has accused External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj of lying in Parliament. On Thursday she had told the Upper House that the standoff between India and China can be resolved through talks, but both sides have to first recall their armies.Sushma said the issue was due...
14:59
More changes in the Congress: Senior Congress leader Ambika Soni says she has asked the party to relieve her as in-charge of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh due to health reasons.
14:38
I have been expelled by the party. Shankarsinh Vaghela: Had joined public life for the people, not myself. I have been expelled by the party; don't know what my party thought I would say, but Vinaash kal vipreet buddhi (when one's destruction comes, one thinks unintelligently or negatively). I...
14:27
Congress leader Shankarsinh Vaghela speaking at a rally in Gandhinagar. The former Gujarat CM said he has been thrown out of the Congress. I was sacked by the party 24 hours ago, he said at the rally to celebrate his 77th birthday today. He says he is 77 not out and believes in destiny. This will...
14:16
Former J-K CM Omar Abdullah defends his father on his remark that third party intervention was needed to solve the Kashmir problem. Omar Abdullah tweeted, My father isn't a Congress party member & doesn't need it's permission or approval before he voices his opinion. It's called free...
13:44
Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not directly referred to India's concerns over proposed cuts in a key American visa scheme when he met US President Donald Trump last month, though he discussed the spirit behind those visas. Sushma was...
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The Rajya Sabha today witnessed an uproar with Opposition members, including those from the Congress, seeking initiation of privilege proceedings against certain media houses for disseminating the expunged remarks of an SP leader, leading to a brief adjournment of the proceedings. They alleged...
12:54
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the states not to protect any kind of vigilantism and sought their response on violent incidents of cow vigilantism. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra was informed by the Centre that law and order is a state subject but it does not support any kind...
12:38
Kabhi apni shakal dekhi hai' is an Urdu phrase which literally translates as, 'Have you ever seen your own face?' Like many such phrases, it is not intended to be taken literally; most people have, of course, seen their own faces. Instead, what the query asks is this: Who are you to ask...
12:32
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has refuted former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah's assertion that a third party can be approached for the settlement of the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan.I have been asserting for long that it's Prime Minister Narendra...
12:19
Update: The Jio phone to be available for pre-booking from August 24, all Jio phones will be made in India from the last quarter.
12:14
Kokilaben Ambani breaks down, briefly, when Mukesh Ambani dedicates the growth of Reliance Industries to his father, Dhirubhai Ambani.
11:59
The 'zero cost' Jio Phone has a fully refundable security deposit of Rs 1500. The customer can claim the refund after three years by returning the Jio Phone. Ambani says this will prevent misuse.
11:57
Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani announces the launch of the 'intelligent feature phone, Jio Phone, at the company's 40th AGM to loud cheers by shareholders.The Jio Phone allows free voice, SMS, data at just Rs 153 per month, while a the Jio TV cable which allows you to watch...
11:33
The Supreme Court today said it will take a decision to list for early hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ram Temple-Babri Masjid land dispute case. We will take a decision on it, a bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud...
11:14
Calling for an end to politicisation of incidents of cow vigilantism, the RSS has said it does not support any kind of violence linked to cow protection and demanded action against those found guilty. RSS's Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh Manmohan Vaidya's remarks came at a time when the...
11:03
Tamil Nadu farmers continue their protest at Jantar Mantar.These farmers, who had grabbed headlines earlier this year, for their unique methods of protests, have returned to Jantar Mantar with skulls and femur bones allegedly of farmers who had committed suicide in the face of drought and debt,...
10:48
The United States has congratulated president-elect Ram Nath Kovind on his electoral victory and said that it looks forward to working with him on regional and global issues. Kovind, a low-key lawyer-turned-politician, was yesterday elected as India's 14th President, the first BJP member and the...
10:40
The benchmark Sensex rallied over 131 points above the 32,000-mark today as Reliance Industries' reported its highest quarterly earnings. The numbers came in after market hours yesterday. Besides, better-than-estimated results by Wipro gave investors more confidence. The 30-share index...
10:39
In the fourth week of May, Ram Nath Kovind was called to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 71 year old assumed that the meeting had something to do with his gubernatorial assignment in Bihar, but was surprised to be told that he was one of the nine names being considered for the...
10:34
The Congress today said that it will discuss the issue of alleged cross-voting that happened during the Presidential elections, in which NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind emerged victorious.Congress leader Pankaj Chaturvedi, speaking on the behalf on his party colleagues from Madhya Pradesh, asserted...
10:13
As India is celebrating the entry of the national Women Cricket team into the ICC Women's World Cup final, courtesy Harmanpreet Kaur's brilliant knock 171 not out off 115 balls, the cricketer's mother has urged the nation to empower their daughters.Expressing happiness over her daughter's...
09:54
Asserting that the cross-voting in the recently concluded Presidential election shows lack of unity in the Congress party, the BJP on Friday said that all political leaders who wished for the better of the nation, have voted for President-elect Ram Nath Kovind.BJP leader Vishwas Sarang said...
09:51
The BJP on Friday hailed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's statement against self-styled cow vigilantes and asked the Congress party not to communalise the issue.BJP leader Sanju Singh said that the Congress should not give the menace of lynching a religious colour to garner brownie points, and...
09:36
When Ram Nath Kovind takes his oath as the 14th President of India, the VVIP attendees will include Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Sources said that when the chief minister called the President-elect on Thursday to congratulate him, he was invited to the ceremony on July 25 and confirmed...
09:30
After trying out PAVA shells, security forces have now turned to capsicum gel-based teargas to quell mobs in the Kashmir valley and other places.A senior BSF official said the new teargas will be ready for use by security forces in spray can and shell forms, as early as next month.The non-lethal...
09:27
Former Gujarat CM Shankersinh Vaghela is all set to split the Congress state unit on his 77th birthday on Friday. It will come as a body blow to the main opposition party and a boon for the ruling BJP ahead of the November assembly polls.Vaghela, a BJP rebel who had merged his Rashtriya Janata...
08:18
JUST IN: 1 dead and 22 injured in bus-truck collision at Jammu-Pathankot highway.
07:58
Chester Bennington, the lead singer of rock band Linkin Park, was found dead at his southern California home in an apparent suicide, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office said.Coroner's office spokesman Brian Elias said his office had been notified by law enforcement of the death of Bennington,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has has travelled 49 countries in the last three years during which India signed a number of agreements on a range of topics, the government today said.In a written response to a question in the Rajya Sabha, V K Singh, the Minister of State in the Ministry of External...
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With 65% votes, Kovind elected India's 14th President Never thought he would become President: Savita KovindCross-voting powers Kovind well past the halfway markBengaluru: Man strums guitar as docs perform brain surgery'Lead India to the path of prosperity': Wishes pour in for KovindRead...
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