23:53
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
23:34
A journalist from a local TV news channel from Agartala was today abducted and killed in West Tripura district while covering the agitation and road blockade by the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura, the police said.Superintendent of Police of West district, Abhijit Saptarshi said Santanu...
23:26
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh today called on Shankaracharya Rajrajeshwar, considered close to the RSS and the BJP, at his ashram in Haridwar but said he did not believe in the ideology of the twin outfits which is meant to divide the country's polity along religious lines. The former...
22:51
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami today made a veiled attack on sidelined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader TTV Dinakaran, saying those who had never faced polls were dreaming of coming to power, and asserted that his stable government could not be toppled by...
21:50
Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury today alleged that demonetisation and haphazard implementation of goods and services tax had broken the backbone of Indian economy and held the Narendra Modi government responsible for the economic downturn.Citing the defeat of...
21:46
Pakistan has raised objection with the United States over President Donald Trump advocating greater role for India in the war-torn Afghanistan, the country's top diplomat said on Wednesday.Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during a meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of...
21:07
A jawan of the Sashastra Seema Bal was killed and another injured in suspicious firing at a camp of the paramilitary force in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.It is being verified as to whether it was a terror attack or a case of fratricide, SSP (Ramban) Mohan Lal told PTI.There...
20:29
Home Minister Rajnath Singh is likely to visit the Sino-Indian border in Uttarakhand next week, the first by a senior minister in the Modi government after the resolution of the stand-off in Doklam, officials said.During the visit, the home minister will interact with jawans of the Indo Tibetan...
19:52
Bharatiya Janaat Party president Amit Shah today asked Rahul Gandhi to give an account of the work of his three generations, a reference to Nehru-Gandhi family's reign.He made the remarks at a meeting of BJP workers in Dehradun, targeting the Congress vice president who has been attacking the...
19:10
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked the police to adopt a more relaxed and humane approach in dealing with situations, so that the men in uniform acted as an institution of public reassurance, rather than a cause of fear among the masses.Chairing a meeting of senior police...
18:43
The government is working on additional measures to bolster economy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said while maintaining that inflation is well under control.GDP growth hit a three-year low of 5.7 per cent in the June quarter.The minister said an announcement with regard to the additional...
18:05
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today called Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's 'white paper', highlighting the failure of previous regimes, a book of lies.He allged that the Adityanath government failed to bring about any development in the past six months.The 'white paper' released by him is...
17:24
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal over notification imposing restrictions on Durga idol immersion (Vijaya Dashami) and Muharram falling on the same day. The court, while hearing a plea against the directive, said that the Mamata...
16:49
Rahul Gandhi's ascension as Congress president would give an adrenaline shot to the party, but Sonia Gandhi would continue to play a major role in Indian politics even after the transition, says party veteran Salman Khurshid. Amid reports that the elevation of the Gandhi scion is round the...
16:39
Acting tough on illicit liquor manufacturers, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to add a new section in the Excise Act to provide for death penalty for spurious liquor makers if its consumption causes death or permanent disability. The decision was taken at a meeting of the...
16:34
Former Union minister N D Tiwari was admitted today to a private hospital in New Delhi after he suffered a brain stroke, his son Rohit Shekhar Tiwari said. Sources at Max Hospital in Saket said the condition of 91-year-old Tiwari, a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and...
16:03
The police have busted a racket of 'contract marriage' of local women and minor girls with men from the Middle East and Gulf countries.The police have arrested 20 persons, including eight foreign nationals, in this connection, a senior official said today.They also arrested three qazis (people...
15:40
Another view of the street alpona (rangoli) to celebrate the upcoming Durga Puja festival in Kolkata on Tuesday. PTI Photo
15:35
A street art in the form of an alpana or rangoli has covered an entire 1.25-km stretch in South Kolkata, as part of Durga Puja decoration. An estimated 350 students from Art College have drawn various colour designs along a 1.25 km stretch from Sarat Bose Road to Vivekananda Park near the Samaj...
15:16
Mumbai's disaster management cell says that reports of a cyclone are not true. @DisasterMgmtMum tweets: As informed by IMD there is no cyclone warning for Mumbai. Citizens r requested not to spread & trust rumour.IMD posted another tweet thereafter saying, there would be intermittent showers...
14:32
Around 300-400 followers of Dera Sacha Sauda had over the years scattered ashes of their relatives after their cremation inside the sect headquarters as part of rituals, a senior Dera functionary has told a Special Investigation Team of Haryana Police. On media reports suggesting skeletons used...
14:07
When Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi broke her silence over the Rohingya refugee issue and delivered a State of the Union address at Naypyitaw on Tuesday morning, she refrained from referring to the Muslim minority as 'Rohingyas', inviting the ire of the global...
13:53
The Indian cricket board has nominated Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the country's third highest civilian award -- the Padma Bhushan -- for his contribution to the game. A senior BCCI official confirmed that the Board has only sent one name for the Padma awards this year and it was a unanimous...
13:49
Quick takes from the Madras High Court order: 1) Speaker and assembly secretary to explain to HC regarding the 18 MLAs disqualification. 2) EC should not announce election to 18 constituencies till further orders 3) No floor test till further orders. Speaker sought 10 days to respond. 4) Case...
13:48
Just in: BCCI nominates MS Dhoni for Padma Bhushan award.
13:31
Madras High Court extends stay order on floor test in Tamil Nadu Assembly until further orders.
13:10
In a major embarrassment for the Bihar government, the inauguration of the Rs 389.31 crore Ganga pump canal scheme by the chief minister today was cancelled after a canal wall collapsed and the gushing waters inundated parts of a township. The wall broke up after being forcefully hit by the Ganga...
12:58
As ever, Amul says it best. A tribute to Marshal Arjan Singh who passed away on Monday.
12:47
The British police have arrested a third man in connection with the terror attack on a packed London Tube train that wounded 30 people last week. Scotland Yard's Counter-Terrorism Command investigating the Friday attack arrested the 25-year-old from Newport, South Wales yesterday. The...
12:10
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the Haryana government on the anticipatory bail plea filed by the three trustees of Ryan International School in connection with the murder of a student in its Gurgaon school. However, the single bench of Justice Inderjit Singh did not...
11:58
Leaders like Narendra Modi and Donald Trump are being elected all over the world as people are in pain due to unemployment, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said today, but stressed that even the prime minister was not doing enough to solve the key problem facing India. Gandhi, 47, who is in...
11:43
The Border Security Force shot dead two Pakistani intruders along the Indo-Pak border today when they refused to surrender while crossing over to Indian territory.DIG BSF J S Oberio said the BSF shot dead two Pakistani intruders when they ignored warnings and kept marching towards BSF troops...
11:41
Maneka Gandhi @Manekagandhibjp I was delighted to know that Shri @girirajsinghbjp ji has also been working for welfare of cows through monetisation of gobar.
11:09
Mumbai airport update: A SpiceJet Boeing 737 aircraft carrying 183 people overshot a wet runway while landing at the airport in rain-hit Mumbai and got stuck in the mud, officials said yesterday, adding that all passengers were safely evacuated. As many as 56 flights were diverted to different...
10:57
We have removed warning (for heavy rainfall), intermittent rainfall likely over city and suburbs for the next 48 hours. Now rainfall will decrease, but light to moderate rainfall to continue in Mumbai region. Situation will improve from now onwards: Ajay Kumar, Scientist IMD.Heavy rains pounded...
10:30
As the Meteorological Department (MeT) has alerted that high tide is expected on Wednesday afternoon at 12.03 pm of 4.5mm and also warned of heavy rainfall in next 24 hours, it has said that the worst is over. Since Tuesday, Mumbai is witnessing heavy rainfall accompanied by thunder and...
10:02
Airport update: Many flights from Delhi-Mumbai have been cancelled/delayed due to bad weather supplemented by the SpiceJet flight incident at Mumbai airport. At least 13 Mumbai-Delhi flights have been delayed,15 cancelled and 50 diverted. The airport spokesperson said that heavy rainfall and bad...
09:40
Mumbai city recorded 210 mm rainfall, suburb recorded 303 mm rainfall and Dahanu near Mumbai recorded 304 mm rainfall in the past 24 hours, K S Hosalikar, deputy director general of India Meteorological Department said.This has been recorded in the past 24 hours, till 8:30 am, he said, adding,...
09:32
The dabbawalas of Mumbai today cancelled their delivery of over two lakh tiffins to office-goers in the city in view of the disruption of suburban rail services after heavy rains.The tiffin delivery men use suburban trains to ensure the lunch boxes reach their destination on time.The over 5,000...
09:09
Flight operations at the Mumbai airport remain affected for the second day today following heavy rains that continue to lash the metropolis.The skidding of a SpiceJet aircraft on the main runway (09/27) last night compounded the problem further as it forced the private airport operator to shift...
08:52
Due to heavy rains in Mumbai, a SpiceJet flight overshot runway 27 while landing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport and skidded off into the unpaved surface due to wet runway.However, all the passengers are safe and ops are underway to take out the aircraft that got stuck...
08:14
People of Mumbai and adjoining region braced for another spell of heavy rains today, a day after incessant downpour disrupted normal life in the megapolis, affecting rail, road and air traffic.Commuters stuck at various stations since last night due to disruption of suburban train services were...
00:29
Taking on Rahul Gandhi for his Berkley remark on dynasticism in India, BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday said it is a trait peculiar to the Congress and not the country. Shah described the BJP as the only party in the country in which internal democracy prevails. Dynasticism is a trait of the...
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