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A 21-year old woman was set afire allegedly by a former schoolmate for declining his marriage proposal, police said today.The victim's sister and mother suffered severe injuries when they tried to save her, police said, adding the duo is admitted in a hospital in critical condition.S Induja, a B...
22:43
Criticising Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over imposing a 'deeply flawed' goods and service tax, Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday said countrymen can rightly demand he quit for the hardships caused and also felt he is a 'burden' on the people of...
22:29
The word secularism is the 'biggest lie' told post-Independence, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, prompting a strong retort from the Congress today.I feel the word secularism is the biggest lie (told) in India post-Independence... those who have given birth to and used the word...
21:52
The Saudi Arabian government has approved the practice of yoga as a sports activity, claimed a social media post of Nouf Marwaai, founder of the Arab Yoga Foundation in the Saudi kingdom.'Yoga, which literally means 'union'. A union of individual with ones well-being, a body to mind, emotions...
20:45
Month-wise foreign trade of India in the past one year.
20:44
The Central Bureau of Investigation was going through the internet surfing records of a Class 11 student, who was apprehended in connection with the killing of seven-year-old Pradhyumn Thakur in Gurugram's Ryan International School, in a bid to figure out his thought process, sources said.The...
19:42
A two-and-a-half-year-old boy died today after falling into an open sump in his school located at Malkajgiri in Hyderabad, police said.The boy was a nursery student in the private school, they said.According to police, the boy's father had dropped him at the school in the morning.Later, when his...
18:36
A day after a purported 'sex video' of Hardik Patel surfaced, another clip emerged today in which a man resembling the Patidar quota stir spearhead is seen relaxing on a bed with two men and a woman.The man with a shaven head is seen drinking water while seated on the bed.Hardik Patel had got his...
18:16
The Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission will next month hear an appeal against state government's refusal to act on the commission order awarding Rs 10-lakh compensation to Farooq Ahmad Dar, who was used as a human shield by an Army officer earlier this year. Chairman SHRC Justice...
17:01
The decision to lower GST rates on over 200 items could help pull down retail inflation by 20 basis points from the current levels driven by lower food and beverage prices, says a report. Retail or CPI inflation rose to a 7-month high of 3.58 per cent in October, driven up by costlier food items,...
16:27
(BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday said the masjid can be built anywhere but not on Ram Janmabhoomi.Masjid can be built anywhere, it's a place to read namaz and masjids are broken in Saudi Arabia and are shifted. So the same way in India, Babri Masjid will be shifted to the borders of...
16:24
India's total household wealth stood at USD 5 trillion while the country is home to 2,45,000 millionaires, says a Credit Suisse report. The number of ultra rich in the country is expected to rech 3,72,000 while the total household income is likely to grow by 7.5 per cent annually to touch USD 7.1...
15:59
BJP Kisan Morcha president Virendra Singh today attacked Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, saying he was anti-farmer and often visited villages for recreation. Rejecting Gandhi's assertion that the BJP and its leaders were anti-farmer, Singh said that under the BJP government, budget for...
15:39
Inflation at the wholesale level rose to 6-month high of 3.59 per cent in October as the prices of food articles, led by onions and vegetables, rose sharply. Inflation, based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), was 2.60 per cent in September. Read more
15:27
A teenager has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a chicken and killing it, in Hafizabad, Punjab of Pakistan.The 14-year-old assaulted a hen in his village near Jalalpur Bhattian on November 11, the Express Tribune quoted the local police, as...
15:22
BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha message for PM Modi (without actually naming him). The PM, who arrived in the Philippines on Sunday, is in Manila to attend the ASEAN-India and the East Asia summits. Sinha who shares a fractious relationship with the BJP leadership tweeted yesterday, Highly appreciate...
15:07
UN chief Antonio Guterres today met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and urged her to take steps to ensure the dignified return of hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees who have fled the country to Bangladesh following violence against them. Separately on the margins of the ASEAN summit in...
14:46
Update: The National Green Tribunal today refused to exempt women and two-wheelers from the Delhi government's odd-even scheme and ordered that diesel vehicles over 10 years old be taken off the roads immediately. The green panel has also asked the city government to identify the most polluted...
14:24
The National Green Tribunal refuses to exempt women and two-wheelers from the odd-even scheme after which Delhi govt withdraws its modificationplea. The NGT also asks the Delhi government to identify the most polluted areas today and sprinkle water. It ordered taking 10-year old diesel vehicles...
13:50
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will leave on a two-day official visit to Singapore tonight. He is scheduled to meet the Singapore Prime Minister, Deputy Finance Minister and Finance Minister during his visit, apart from senior fund managers and key financial institutional investors for...
13:48
Decision expected to be a blow to Beijing's efforts to expand its clout in Himalayan country through infrastructure. Read more
13:46
The Geographical Indications Registry today announced that the Rosogolla or rasgulla, unanimous with the Bengali identity, originated in West Bengal and not Odisha.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee celebrated the news with a tweet saying: Sweet news for us all. We are very happy and...
13:34
@CNNnews18 Bengal acquires geographical indication for status for Rosogolla. GI authorities reject Odisha's Rosogolla claim.
13:30
Wholesale inflation stood at 3.59% for the month of October 2017 (over October, 2016) as compared to 2.60% for the previous month.
13:14
A man who was in the same jail as convicted Ram Rahim Singh revealed that the self-styled godman is enjoying himself in prison.Rahul Jain, the convict out on bail told ANI that the attitude of jail authorities towards Ram Rahim is different as compared to other prisoners, as he enjoys more...
12:39
Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar courted controversy with his statement that being homosexual is a tendency that may change later. He made the statement at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi after a student asked how he should handle the way his friends and family treated him with...
12:27
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday underscored the importance of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, citing that nothing in India can be undertaken and accomplished without Lord Rama.In India, nothing can be undertaken or accomplised without the mention of...
11:53
Nearly 160 passengers and crew on board a Hyderabad-bound IndiGo flight from Visakhapatnam had a narrow escape when a wild boar strayed on the runway and came under the aircraft while it was in the last stage of taxiing. As the pilot could not have rejected the takeoff at that time, he was...
11:48
Uber India's Head of Public Policy Shweta Rajpal Kohli has resigned from the company, a little over a year after joining the US-based firm. Kohli had joined Uber India in September last year and was responsible for the company's relations with policymakers, regulators, government officials,...
11:38
The Delhi High Court issues a notice to the Delhi govt, Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the police and the organiser of the Delhi Half Marathon on the Indian Medical Association's plea to postpone the event in view of the poor air quality in the city. The IMA last week declared a 'public...
11:30
The World Baloch Organisation has launched the third phase of its #FreeBalochistan advertising campaign, in spite of attempts to ban and censor its adverts by the Pakistan Government.More than 100 London buses are carrying adverts that say Free Balochistan, Save The Baloch People and Stop...
11:21
Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar tweets this picture saying: Namaskar. Bharat ke pratham Pradhan Mantri Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ji ki aaj jayanti hai. Main Pandit ji ki yaad ko pranam karti hun.Lata Mangeshkar, 88, sang the iconic, Ae mere watan ke logon, in the presence of Pandit Nehru at the...
11:07
The United States has asked Pakistan to abolish its blasphemy laws at the Universal Periodic Review held in Geneva on Monday, Dawn reported. Representatives from the US and the United Kingdom stressed on religious intolerance and human rights...
11:06
Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of the Wire, tweets: @svaradarajan 22 hours ago The Wire team outside the Ahmedabad courts today where Jay Shah did a no show, citing social work, in his bogus criminal defamation case. First matter I've seen where the complainant is scared to show his face,...
10:50
Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh resigns as jury head of the 48th International Film Festival of India. This comes after allegations that two films selected by a 13-member jury for the Indian Panorama section were removed from the final list by the I&B Ministry.Sanal Sasidharans Malayalam movie S...
10:27
Three persons were arrested early today in connection with the killing of an RSS worker at Nenmeni near the temple town of Guruvayur in Kerala, police said. The 23-year-old Anandan, who was riding a motorcycle, had been knocked down by a car carrying his attackers and then hacked to death on...
10:20
It might be tempting to view the prime minister's vitriolic attack on the former Union minister, P Chidambaram, for his remarks on Kashmir last month as election-time rhetoric, aimed at playing the 'nationalist' card in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. In an interaction with local...
10:08
The Sensex tested the 33,000 level in opening trade today after some value-buying in select stocks despite retail inflation rising to 7-month high in October. The rupee's modest recovery against the dollar and a mixed global trend were the other deciders. Retail or CPI inflation rose to 7-month...
10:06
The Rajasthan Police has appointed its first transgender constable after the state High Court's directive.Constable Ganga Kumari was appointed as the first transgender woman constable after Justice Dinesh Mehta issued the order.Ganga Kumari, who hails...
09:55
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today remembered country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 128th birth anniversary.Wish the nation on the occasion of birth anniversary of first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, today, Naidu...
09:45
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter on Tuesday asking his Punjab counterpart for a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the deadly pollution levels in the states of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana and solutions to tackle this issue. In a tweet, Kejriwal wrote, @capt_amarinder Sir, I am...
09:38
Two encounters broke out this morning between security forces and terrorists in Kulgam and Pulwama districts of south Kashmir, police said.Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Nowbug Kund village in Qazigund area of Kulgam this morning after receiving specific information...
09:22
Contrary to earlier claims from Congress leaders, party vice president Rahul Gandhi's elevation to replace mother Sonia Gandhi as party chief seems to have been put off.With no indication when a meeting of the Congress Working Committee will take place, Congress leaders said election of the party...
09:06
The ministry of external affairs announced that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modis invitation to visit India for the 2018 ASEAN-India commemorative summit, along with other leaders of the ASEAN.Secretary (East) of the MEA, Preeti Saran, said the...
08:47
Another woman has come forward to accuse former United States president George HW Bush of inappropriately touching her.Roslyn Corrigan, in an interview, said that Bush touched her buttocks when she was 16, during an event in 2003 at a Texas office of the Central Intelligence Agency, reported the...
08:12
The juvenile accused of murdering Class 2 student Pradhyumn Thakur at Gurgaons Ryan International School has retracted the confession he was said to have made before investigators. The investigators forced him to confess, the accused said to a team of CBI officials and a legal-cum-probation...
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Patidar quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel on Monday expressed satisfaction over the three options given by the Congress on how the party would grant reservation to Patels if voted to power and said the community leaders will take a final call by Tuesday.After studying various documents...
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