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Amid murmurs of fissures in the party, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hosted a dinner for all AAP MLAs and their families. Party MLAs termed the dinner as a usual get-together hosted by the chief minister, but said it also sought to send a message that the leadership is keen on having...
23:23
The monsoon is expected to arrive in the country two days ahead of schedule, with Kerala likely to be hit on May 30, the Indian Metereological Department said.The normal date of arrival of monsoon in Kerala is June 1, which marks its official onset in the country.The IMD, which has predicted a...
22:50
Maria Sharapova won't feature at this year's French Open after being snubbed by the Fedration Franaise de Tennis. The Russian was declined a wildcard into the main draw and was also looked over for the qualifying rounds.
22:21
Najeeb Ahmed's family has pinned its hope on the Central Bureau of Investigation, which was asked by the Delhi High Court today to trace the missing Jawaharlal Nehru University student.I hope the CBI finds my son, Najeeb's mother Fatima Nafees said, accusing the Delhi Police -- so far in charge...
22:00
The Gujarat police today said over 150 of its computers installed at various police stations across the state have been infected by the global ransomware 'WannaCry.'Around 150 computers of police stations across the state have been infected. We have deployed a team of technical staff to take...
21:45
Eight Naxals, allegedly involved in the deadly attack on CRPF personnel last month, were today arrested from two places in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police said.With this, the number of ultras arrested for the April 24 attack has risen to 17, officials said.Five of them were apprehended from...
21:28
A woman in Pakistan has reportedly been set on fire by her husband's parents for failing to conceive after three years of marriage.Aasia Bibi alleged to police that her husband, Ameer Islam, and his parents doused her in petrol and set her on fire in their house in Okara.According to a local...
20:39
The BJP rode to power in 2014 by generating a sense of hope in the people. Call it the Narendra Modi phenomenon or the saffron juggernaut, but BJP was voted to power with an unprecedented majority because it curated a promise of 'acche din,' which the people believed. Meeting the three year mark,...
20:23
Amid a widespread shutdown of ATMs across the country over fears of a WannaCry infection, the central bank today said none of the money-vending machines in the country had been hit by the ransomware.(There is) no impact due to ransomware anywhere in the country. Even if any ATM is not...
20:02
In the wake of former union minister P Chidambaram's property being raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while defending the investigative body has said the 'day of reckoning' is here, adding that all those involved will be accountable.Jaitley said the...
19:41
Actress Deepika Padukone, looking uber chic, arrived in the French Riviera for the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Deepika is expected to walk the red carpet on Day 1. For her entry, Deepika paired jeans with a summery yellow top by designer label Chloe. Her tan brown lace-up boots...
19:19
The Supreme Court of Cassation, the highest court in Italy, has banned Sikh migrants to carry the kirpan in public and ruled that migrants in the western world must conform to the values of the society they have chosen to settle in.The Italian High Cessation Court has ruled against the Sikh...
19:08
JUST IN: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Nawshera sector. Indian Army posts retaliating.
18:38
In its new campaign against black, the government will put up reports of raids on a website and also rate defaulters in various categories from high risk to very low risk.Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched the Operation Clean Money website today.We want to change habit from non-tax compliant...
18:22
Last month was the second warmest April in 137 years of modern record-keeping of average global temperatures, according to NASA.The two top April temperature anomalies have occurred during the past two years. Last month was 0.88 degree Celsius warmer than the mean April temperature from...
17:54
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress chief is all set to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss a common presidential nominee from the Opposition ranks. However, meeting the press after the meeting, Banerjee said they did not discuss any...
17:44
Markets soared to record-smashing heights for the second straight session today as investors remained enthused by the early onset of monsoon amid quarterly earnings cheer. Benchmark Sensex finished at a fresh lifetime high of 30,582 while the broader Nifty closed above the 9,500-mark for the...
17:32
Olympian PT Usha's new academy at Kozhikode opens on June 15. Called the Usha School of Athletics' it will train budding athletes. The academy is spread across 30 acres and is built at a cost of Rs 8.5 crore sanctioned by the Centre. It will have a 8-lane synthetic track, a mud track, a...
17:12
Malkangiri (Odisha): Sirisa Kurami, daughter of a former woman Maoist cadre has been selected for the under-18 national volleyball team.Also read: The CRPF is not fighting just the Maoists in Bastar
16:55
The trial of India's first upper-class crime of passion - a gripping tale of love and honour - had enough twists and turns, leading to an unexpected pardon for the naval officer. It also turned out to be India's last trial by jury.Bachi Karkaria, senior journalist and author of In Hot Blood: The...
16:44
The CBI today carried out searches at the house of former media baron Peter Mukerjea in Mumbai as part of investigations into a case linked to Karti Chidambaram, son of former union minister P Chidambaram, over alleged favours granted in foreign investment clearance to a firm, INX Media, in...
16:23
Slamming the BJP following income tax raids at 22 locations in Delhi, Gurugram on companies and people associated with him, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav asserted that he is not afraid of the onslaught against him.Lalu took to Twitter to slam the BJP, saying the saffron...
16:19
Supreme Court advocate Karuna Nundy @karunanundy tweets: Let's make sati, casteism, honour killings legal again.That's in response to Kapil Sibal's remark in the SC today. Sibal, who is representing the Muslim Personal Law Board in the triple talaq hearing told the court today:...
16:07
Pranab Mukherjee rules out a second term as President in the wake of a statement from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. According to sources in Rashtrapati Bhawan, the President feels that since the BJP has absolute majority in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls it gets the right to choose the President...
15:47
Ahead of his upcoming visit to Israel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today conveyed to Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas India's unwavering support to the Palestinian cause. After holding extensive talks with Abbas, Modi said India hopes to see a sovereign, independent, united and viable...
15:01
Hours after the income-tax department conducted raids on at least 22 locations in Delhi and adjoining areas on charges of alleged benami deals worth Rs 1,000 crore linked to Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family, the RJD chief said he is not afraid. Lalu said, Main jhukne aur darnewala nahin hoon....
14:57
China today took strong exception to India's stand on its One Belt One Road initiative, saying it was welcome to participate in the mega project but New Delhi should explain what kind of meaningful dialogue it wants Beijing to hold with it. Over the past four years since the project was initiated...
14:00
A fire broke out at the popular Oberon Mall in Kochi on Tuesday. The fire is believed to have originated in a restaurant in the food court. The fourth floor of the mall has been damaged. Everyone has been evacuated.
13:55
Chemicals found in Chinese folk medicines may be used to make next generation of 'molecular condoms' that may serve as a safe alternative to today's hormone-based contraceptives, scientists say. The chemicals, extracted from two plants, thunder god vine and aloe, are effective at low doses and...
13:48
Branding P Chidambaram as an 'emerging leader', the Congress on Tuesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to tarnish the former union minister's reputation because he is voicing against the Narendra Modi-led Government.The statement comes in the wake of the CBI raids underway at...
13:26
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today alleged that the Centre was using investigating agencies to target his son and his friends to silence his voice against the government. All I will say is, I shall continue to speak and write, he said in a statement in Chennai as CBI today launched...
13:08
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has said his government will withdraw a proposal seeking permission from the Centre to allow hunting of nilgais and wild pigs by declaring them as vermin. Instead of hunting these animals, the state government would put up 97.5 lakh meters of fences around...
13:06
The Delhi High Court today transferred to the CBI from the police the investigation into the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmad, who is missing since October 15, 2016. A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Rekha Palli transferred the matter to CBI with immediate effect on a plea by the...
12:47
JUST IN: Delhi high court transfers case of Jawaharlal Nehru University missing student Najeeb Ahmad to Central Bureau of Investigation. -- ANI
12:44
As Congress leader and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, arguing on triple talaq case, told the Supreme Court that it 'shouldn't decide or interfere in one's faith and belief', Justice Rohinton Nariman asked him, You mean to say that we shouldn't hear the matter?To which, Sibal replied, Yes, you...
12:35
A fire broke out in a coffee shop at Park Street in southern Kolkata in the morning today, fire brigade sources said. Five tenders were pressed into service to bring the blaze under control, which broke out at 11.05 am. No one was injured in the incident. The cause of the blaze, which...
12:33
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today asked the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre what it was celebrating after three years in power, as all it had to show for this time were 'broken promises' and 'non- performance'.Pointing to farmer suicides and unemployment in the...
11:59
Irfan Habib, intellectual and historian tweets: @irfhabib 125 Modifests, celebrating 3 years of Modi govt: Keep marketing the Man, governance can wait.
11:41
Update on the triple talaq hearing in the Supreme Court. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board today told the Supreme Court that triple talaq is a matter of faith being practiced by Muslims for the last 1,400 years and hence the question of constitutional morality and equity did not arise. The...
11:24
The Supreme Court is hearing the triple talaq case. A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court is hearing the case, Supreme Court lawyer Kapil Sibal is arguing the case on behalf of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Sibal, who is also amicus curiae in the case, told the court...
11:09
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed by President Pranab Mukherjee and PM Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhawan.Abbas landed in New Delhi late Sunday for a three-day visit looking to strengthen ties with India ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic trip to Israel.He will meet...
10:59
Finnish mobile firm HMD Global will start selling the new version of the iconic Nokia 3310 handset for Rs 3,310 in India from May 18. The Nokia 3310 will be available across top mobile stores in India starting May 18, 2017... will retail at a recommended best buy price of Rs 3,310, HMD Global...
10:54
Raising the bar, the Sensex today shot up another 181 points to a fresh all-time intra-day high of 30,503 and the Nifty 9,482, with retail investors steering the ship amid unabated foreign capital inflows. Encouraging earnings also supported the rally. The 30-share BSE index leapt 181.36 points,...
10:39
The Income Tax department today conducted raids and surveys on at least 22 locations in Delhi and adjoining areas on charges of alleged benami deals worth Rs 1,000 crore linked to RJD chief Lalu Prasad and others. Officials said the department began raiding the premises of some prominent...
10:37
MoS Home Kiren Rijiju @KirenRijiju joins the campaign As a former Member of Khadi Commission I value cotton. I join to celebrate Indian summers & cotton industry with my #CottonIsCool look.
10:28
This is the picture BJP MP Hema Malini posted for the #CottonIsCool campaign.
10:26
Textiles minister Smriti Z Irani kicks off a #CottonIsCool initiative to promote cotton clothes in India. Irani posted a picture of herself in a pretty cotton sari, before an idol, presumably at the Nathdwara temple near Udaipur, with this message: I celebrate Indian summers and cotton industry...
10:11
Digvijaya Singh @digvijaya_28 Strongly condemn raids against Chidambaram and Kartik. Political vendetta of the worst kind.
09:56
Congress leader P Chidambaram reacts to CBI raids at his residence and other places:The government by using CBI and other agencies is targeting my son and his friends. The government wants to silence my voice, Chidambaram said.The government wants to stop me from writing, as it has tried to do...
09:45
After threatening to drag Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to Tihar Jail, sacked Delhi minister Kapil Mishra will on Tuesday approach the Central Bureau of Investigation and Central Board of Direct Taxes to submit evidences of corruption against the former.Mishra, ended his...
09:02
A blast has been reported in a car parked at Kishtwar mini bus stand in Jammu and Kashmir.One person has been injured. More details awaited. -- ANI
08:45
JUST IN: The Central Bureau of Investigation has conducted raids on Chennai residence of former Union minister P Chidambaram, ANI reported on Tuesday.More details related to the raid are awaited.
08:34
As many as 27 children fell ill on Monday after they ate the mid-day meal in which a dead lizard was found.The incident took place in Bihar's Jamui.The children were rushed to a nearby hospital for immediate treatment.This comes to light after a baby snake, also known as a 'snakelet' was found in...
00:53
The Israeli prime minister's office says it is seeking clarifications from US President Donald Trump after an American official said the Western Wall is part of the West Bank.The spat reportedly erupted during preparations for Trump's visit to the region next week. Trump is planning on visiting...
00:04
US First lady Melania Trump announced today that her son, Barron, will attend a private Episcopal school in Maryland, beginning this fall.The announcement answered one of the lingering questions surrounding the first family's unusual living arrangement. Melania and 11-year-old Barron have been...
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