23:24
After a two-day lull in cross-border firing and shelling, Pakistani troops targeted Indian border outposts and villages along the International Border in Jammu and Samba districts on Thursday, injuring six civilians, a senior Border Security Force officer said.The officer said Pakistan targeted...
22:55
Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim is still in Pakistan, his brother Iqbal Kaskar has told the interrogators from the Intelligence Bureau and the Thane police's crime branch, officials said on Thursday.Thane police arrested Kaskar two days ago in Mumbai in a case of extortion.Along with crime...
22:47
Star India shuttler P V Sindhu today jumped two places to second spot in the Badminton World Federation women's singles rankings, riding on her Korea Open Super Series title on Sunday. This is the second time in her career that Sindhu, the Olympics silver medallist, occupied the second...
22:13
United States President Donald Trump today said that he was putting more sanctions on North Korea, the country which has been carrying ballistic missile and nuclear tests in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.His statement comes two days after he warned North Korea of...
22:03
The Congress today said that the Centre should make public whatever evidences it has about any links of some of the Rohingyas with the Islamic State and take action as per Indian law against those found having any suchconnection. The party, however, said that false allegations should not be...
21:28
The BJP today announced that businessman Swarn Singh Salariya will be its candidate for the by-poll to the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat that fell vacant following actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna's demise.Polling for the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab will take place on October 11. The seat...
20:46
Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal of practising communal politics under the garb of secularism, the BJP today said the Calcutta high court order, which set aside its restrictions on Durgaidol immersions, had unmasked it.BJP general secretary Kailash Vijarvargiya, who is in...
20:36
Popular TV presenter host Ellen DeGeneres has again said that she does not want to invite United States President Donald Trump on her show. The 59-year-old actor-host said she does not want to provide a platform to the POTUS as that will mean giving undue importance to him, reported...
20:19
Pakistan's former dictator Pervez Musharraf today claimed that Asif Ali Zardari was responsible for the killing of his wife Benazir Bhutto, saying the former president gained the most from the assassination of the country's first woman prime minister, media reports said.The 54-year-old Pakistan...
20:17
Aviation regulatory body the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has grounded two SpiceJet pilots after a plane carrying 183 passengers overshot a wet runway while landing at the Mumbai airport earlier this week.With the Boeing 737 aircraft, flying from Varanasi to Mumbai, stuck in the mud, the...
19:40
The police today told the Delhi high court that it now intended to embark upon a new mode of investigation, called forensic psychology, after having explored all other avenues in the death case of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar.A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Chander...
19:00
Mobile phone major Samsung India today announced the 'Never Mind' offer for buyers of Samsung smart phones wherein consumers can avail one-time replacement of a broken screen within 12 months of purchase of theirphone. Under the 'Never Mind' offer, consumers can replace the...
18:19
Reacting to the Calcutta high court's order to revoke her government's restrictions on immersion of Durga idols, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said she will try her best to keep peace but asked who will take the responsibility if there's trouble.Someone can slit my throat but...
17:28
Four activists of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura were arrested in connection with Wednesday's incidents of violence and the killing of a journalist in the state, the police said.Avijit Saptarshi, Superintendent of Police, Tripura West, said, Sixteen police personnel were injured. Two...
17:11
The Jammu and Kashmir government and the Centre are open to having an unconditional dialogue with all stakeholders, including separatists, to address the Kashmir issue, Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Ram Madhav said today. Madhav, who is in Srinagar on a two-day visit to take stock...
16:03
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin a two-day visit to his Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency tomorrow, during which he will inaugurate severalinfrastructure projects and address public meetings, officials said today.Varanasi District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra said Modi would open the...
16:01
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress strongman Narayan Rane has quit the party. The strongman is now likely to join the BJP in the coming days. Rane reportedly wants his two sons also to be accomodated in the BJP, which is in power in Maharashtra. The Shiv Sena may, however,...
15:39
Raj Thackeray dropped a bombshell today as he claimed that India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is trying to negotiate his return with the central government as he wants to spend his last days in his home country. The Maharashtra politician claimed that the ruling BJP wants to bring...
15:26
Another upset from the Japan Open Superseries: Saina Nehwal loses to Spain's Carolina Marin by 16-21, 13-,21.
15:09
The Calcutta high court set aside on Thursday the West Bengal government's controversial restrictions on Durga Puja idol immersion, a day after it rapped Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for creating communal divisions.The court asked the administration to ensure separate routes for immersion and...
14:58
Delhi Darbar is always abuzz with speculation, and the latest round revolves around two questions. One, who among the Union Council is closest to Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Two, who will be inducted into the BJP's parliamentary board following the elevation of M...
14:37
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and actor Kamal Haasan are all smiles as they meet in Chennai where they will be having lunch together. Earlier, Haasan's daughter Akshara received Kejriwal at the airport and escorted him to Haasan's residence. The two are believed to have...
14:25
Homegrown auto maker Tata Motors today launched its first compact SUV, Nexon, with a price tag starting from Rs 5.87 lakh for petrol and Rs 6.87 lakh for the diesel variant. The Nexon is the result of our intent to breakaway from the conventional approach of segmentation, Tata...
14:12
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to get the women's reservation bill passed in the Lok Sabha taking advantage of the BJP's majority in the House.Gandhi also assured support of her party to the legislation, which she said would be a...
13:56
Kamal Haasan's daughter Akshara Haasan welcomes Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as he lands in Chennai. Kejriwal will meet Kamal Haasan in Chennai today and the two will have political discussions, a member of the Aam Aadmi Party said, amid indications the veteran actor may join...
13:43
The office of the Alappuzha bureau of Asianet TV channel in Kerala was attacked on Thursday after the news network reported alleged involvement of a state minister in land encroachment.According to an anonymous source, the attack was result of the channel's series of reports on the alleged...
13:32
Upset alert: PV Sindhu knocked out of Japan Open Superseries after losing to Japan's Nozomi Okuhara, 18-21, 8-21.
13:29
With two of its seven MPs in the Rajya Sabha set to retire, and the remaining elected from Kerala and Tripura, the Communist Party of India-Marxist will cease to be represented in the Upper House from West Bengal, a state that was once its bastion.
13:12
Questioning the West Bengal government's curbs on Durga idol immersion, the Calcutta high court on Thursday said that the state was 'exercising extreme power without any basis.'The Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta HC in scathing remarks told the state government, Just because you are the state,...
12:47
With Sharad Yadav finding himself on the wrong side of Nitish Kumar's alliance with the BJP, his seat in the Rajya Sabha has been pushed back from the first row to the eighth. The pride of place held by him, facing the chairman's podium along with BSP and SP leaders, has now been given to...
12:20
Two civilians have been killed and several policemen have been injured after terrorists hurled grenades on a police party at a bus stand in Pulwama district's Tral.The attack comes after Pakistani troops targeted Indian borderoutposts along the International Border in Jammu district today, a...
12:08
Amidst the discussion on Rohingyas and their status in India, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has clearly said that they aren't refugees, nor have they taken asylum. Rohingyas are not refugees, nor have they taken asylum. They are illegal immigrants, said the home minister, adding that he failed to...
11:14
The rains are not the same anymore. In recent years, instead of the monsoon being more or less evenly distributed across four months, the city saw a few days of intense rain that contributed to almost half the citys annual rainfall, according to experts. This, they said, could be the monsoon...
11:01
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had specifically asked Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to use the personal camaraderie she shares with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to try and assuage Bangladesh's concerns over the Rohingya crisis, Charu Sudan Kasturi reports in The Telegraph, Kolkata,...
10:45
North Korea's foreign minister has brushed aside US President Donald Trump's fiery threat to destroy his nation, comparing it to a dog's bark and suggesting Pyongyang would not be deterred by the rhetoric.Trump used his stormy maiden address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to...
10:13
The first poster of Sanjay Leela Bhansalis Padmavati was released early morning on Thursday and it shows us the royal Deepika Padukone. Earlier she had said the first look will be revealed as the sun rises, heralding the beginning of Navratri festival which is celebrated with much fanfare in...
09:53
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi today said his country has developed short-range nuclear weapons to counter the 'cold start doctrine' adopted by the Indian Army, reports PTI. Abbasi was also assertive of Pakistan's nuclear arsenals being safe and secure. ...
09:46
JUST IN: Income Tax raids houses and offices of senior BJP leader SM Krishna's son-in-law and Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha
09:45
Priyanka Chopra recently met Nobel Laureate Malala Yousufzai and the actor is in awe of her.Priyanka, who is the goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, shared a picture with Yousufzai on Instagram and hailed her for her efforts in empowering and inspiring young girls.I could write a novel about how...
09:22
The Special Investigation Team probing the murder of senior Kannada journalist Gauri Lankesh now has a facial profile of her attacker.The images, which were developed by matching CCTV footage with eyewitness accounts, have given police enough leads to launch a massive manhunt.Gauri Lankesh was...
09:03
A journalist working for a local channel, Din Raat, was fatally attacked while covering a clash between the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura and the ruling CPI-Ms tribal wing, Tripura Rajaer Upajati Ganamukti Parishad, in western Tripuras Mandai area, about 25 km from the state capital...
08:36
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government said that incumbently divisive politics is being practiced in India.While addressing a gathering at Times Square in New York, Gandhi said that people around the globe are questioning that why...
08:19
Google will acquire part of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTCs smartphone operations for $1.1 billion (Rs 7,073 crore), the companies said in a joint statement on Thursday.Under the deal, Google will acquire a team of people who develop Pixel smartphones for the US firm and receive a non-exclusive...
07:54
The second day of downpour in Mumbai severely crippled air traffic with over 108 flights being cancelled and another 51 flights have been diverted to nearby airports. The SpiceJet Boeing 737 aircraft carrying 183 people was finally retrieved after 23 hours from the main runway. The...
00:17
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet Kamal Haasan in Chennai on Thursday and the two will have political discussions, a member of the Aam Aadmi Party said, amid indications the veteran actor may join politics soon.Haasan has been very active politically of late, often times levying...
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