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Formula 1 is to swap its recently scrapped grid girls programme, which for years saw promotional female models accompany drivers at the stages before and after a race, with grid kids, a move that will incorporate youth competitors as mascots, according to a statement on Monday. In a...
23:23
JUST IN: The National Defense Forces of the Maldives have broken into the supreme court of the Maldives.
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Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen has declared a 15-day state of emergency, his aide Azima Shukoor announced on state television. The move gives sweeping powers to security forces to arrest and detain suspects and comes amid a deepening political crisis in the Indian Ocean nation as Yameen...
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US S President Donald Trump today attacked the UK's state-funded National Health Service, angering British politicians across party lines.Trump took to Twitter in response to television coverage of an NHS in Crisis march over the weekend in London,claiming it showed how the universal...
22:09
Outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed today dared the Pakistani government to arrest him if it can and said he will not stop fighting the case of Kashmiri people.If the Pakistani government wants to arrest me... come and go for it but I will not stop...
21:51
Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant was today given an extension till June 30 next year, according to an official order.He was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the government think tank on February 17, 2016 for a two-year term.The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved extension of...
21:26
Beleaguered Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen has declared a 15-day state of emergency, his aide Azima Shukoor announced on state television today.The move gives sweeping powers to security forces to arrest and detain suspects, and comes amid a deepening political crisis in the Indian Ocean...
21:06
Larry Nassar was sentenced Monday to 40 to 125 years in prison, ending a remarkable three weeks of court hearings that dramatically personalised the pain and suffering the former doctor caused for years.Nassar apologised to the court as part of his sentencing hearing in Eaton County, Michigan,...
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Slamming the BJP over ill-treatment of its alliance partners, the Shiv Sena said today the branding of old allies as sworn enemies is disgusting and sickening.Nowadays, there is a trend to brand old friends as sworn enemies and that is disgusting. We highlighted this trend. Now (TDP chief and...
20:22
Director Neeraj Pandey's film Aiyaary, starring Manoj Bajpayee and Sidharth Malhotra, will release on February 16 instead of February 9 due to an apparent delay in getting a clerance from the censor board.We have been told there are a few cuts in the film. We are yet to get a letter from CBFC...
19:54
Firing yet another salvo at his party, BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha said today the stature of Union ministers has diminished, and the perception is that the government is a one-man show and the party a two-man army.Not only us. You and many others feel that a 'one-man show and a two-man army' is at...
19:34
Captain Kapil Kundu, one of the four soldiers killed in Pakistani shelling last evening, was just six days short of his 23rd birthday. His Facebook page intro speaks volumes about his incredible spirit: Life should be big instead of being long...Captain Kundu was killed in Jammu and Kashmir's...
19:31
A 52 year-old headmaster of a government-aided school in Vellore was stabbed allegedly by a student of the institution today after the former questioned him regarding studies, police said.The incident happened at a government aided school at Thirpuathur and the class XI student who allegedly...
18:36
Setting the alarm bells ringing for Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, whose government will face the electorate later this year, the Kota district unit of the Bhartiya Janata Party is now divided over her leadership ability.While BJPs OBC wings president in Kota district has written a...
18:15
Leader of Opposition in Upper House, Ghulam Nabi Azad slammed the Modi government and said that they have just changed the names of schemes launched by Congress government and repackaged it as their own. Raising the issue of rapes in Haryana, Azad said, BJP ruled states like Haryana has...
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The CBI on Monday filed its chargesheet in a Gurugram court in the murder case of a seven-year-old boy at a private school in Bhondsi and held a 16-year-year student as the main accused in the crime. The 1,000-page, 29 volume chargesheet was filed before the court of Additional Sessions...
17:17
The CBI has booked billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi, his brother and wife and a business partner for allegedly cheating Punjab National Bank of over Rs 280.70 crore crore during 2017, officials said.The CBI has acted on a complaint from the Punjab National Bank, which alleged that Modi,...
16:57
Seeking justice for his son's death, the father of 23-year-old Ankit Saxena, who was stabbed to death in west Delhi's Khyala area on February 1, said that he will be thankful if the Delhi government will help his family in fighting the case. Ankit's father Yashpal Saxena demanded...
16:43
Diplomats are keenly waiting to see whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on his visit to Palestine on February 10. The Prime Minister's Office may decide to have a secretary in the External Affairs ministry accompany the Prime Minister. The PM liked...
16:27
Tamil Nadu minister Sellur K Raju today denied having said that only AIADMK card holders would be given government welfare measures, and claimed that falsehood was being spread.A falsehood is being spread that I had said government items (schemes) will be available only for those holding AIADMK...
16:18
Tension resurfaced in Kasganj today as some miscreants tried to disrupt peace by setting afire the gate of a place of worship but the police swiftly swung into action and the flames were extinguished, an official said. Following the incident, two constables were suspended over alleged laxity...
16:07
Virat Kohli tweets @imVkohli: Off to Cape Town for the next one!Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli guided India to a comprehensive nine-wicket victory over South Africa in the second One-Day International at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Sunday. India chased down the meagre 119-run target...
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The CBI today booked billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi, his brother and wife and a business partner for allegedly cheating Punjab National Bank of over Rs 280.70 crore crore during 2017, officials said. The CBI has acted on a complaint from the Punjab National Bank, which alleged that Modi,...
15:44
President Ramnath Kovind inaugurates the annual Udyanotsav of the Mughal Gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Mughal Gardens will remain open for the public from February 6 to March 9 (except on Mondays and March 2, 2018, Holi) between 0930 hrs to 1600 hrs. Entry and exit will be from Gate No. 35...
15:27
Twenty-two-year-old Captain Kapil Kundu, who was killed in heavy Pakistani shelling along the LoC in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, was to visit home on his birthday. Capt Kundu, a resident of Ransika village near Pataudi in Haryana's Gururgram district, would have turned 23 on February...
14:52
BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Amit Shah delivers his maiden speech in the Upper House. Shah was supposed to speak in the last session but due to frequent adjournments his turn did not arrive. Highlights of his speech.Sarkaar ne jab kaam-kaaj sambhala, tab sarkaar ke paas virasat me kya...
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Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia on Monday attributed the slump in the Indian stock market to the correction seen in the global equity market.Adhia clarified that the fall is not related to the long-term capital gains tax, which was re-introduced in the Union Budget 2018.People don't know the...
13:02
The Supreme Court today sought a response from BCCI on controversial cricketer S Sreesanth's plea challenging the life ban imposed on him by the apex cricket body.A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked the Board of Control for Cricket in...
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India will continue to give a befitting reply and its action will speak for itself, the Army's vice chief said today, a day after four of its personnel were killed in heavy shelling by Pakistan along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistani Army has been supporting infiltration by terrorists...
11:54
A BSF sub-inspector was injured in shelling and firing by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, an official said today. There was intermittent shelling through the night by Pakistani troops along the LoC in Rajouri district, Deputy Commissioner (DC),...
11:22
Hansraj Ahir, Minister of State Home Affairs, on ceasefire violations by Pakistan: We will not forgive Pakistan's actions. It will prove to be Pakistan's foolishness and will cost them dearly.On Sunday night, Pakistan initiated unprovoked firing along the LOC in Rajouri district that claimed the...
11:07
Metro Railway services were today affected in the southern part of Kolkata during morning rush hours from 9.05 am owing to a technical snag in a rake. Train services from Kavi Subhash station in the far south to Mahanayak Uttam Kumar station were stalled for 20 minutes after a brake-binding snag...
10:55
The Budget for 2018-19 strikes a balance between fiscal prudence and growth, and a slight slippage in fiscal deficit has no material impact on overall economic strength. The government has revised its 2018-19 fiscal deficit projections to 3.3 per cent of GDP and for the current fiscal to 3.5 per...
10:31
The BSE Sensex dipped below the 35,000-level by plunging around 546 points in opening trade today on heavy losses in metal, realty, capital goods, banking and oil & gas stocks amid a global rout in equity markets. The BSE 30-share barometer tanked 545.95 points, or 1.55 per cent, to...
09:32
Sensex falls 545 points to trade below 35,000 level, Nifty tumbles 173.80 pts to 10,586.80 in opening trade amid global sell-off.
09:31
Congress social media head and Karnataka leader Divya Spandana Ramya today took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi wondering if he was on pot, a put-down which invited a sharp response from the BJP bycalling it atrocious and insult to the masses. Ramya's swipe came following Modi's...
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Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday lashed out at the BJP and the RSS for divisive politics, and said if the current government is not ousted, it would be harmful forthe country.Yadav addressed a rally organised by his party in Mumbai.First, this...
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All schools situated within five kilometres of the Line of Control in Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir have been closed by authorities for three days in view of firing and shelling by Pakistani troops.All 84 schools located in 0-5 km from the LoC stretch from Sunderbani to Manjakote shall...
08:25
An Army Captain, who was among those killed in the heavy Pakistani shelling along the LoC in Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, was six days short of his 23rd birthday, a senior army official said.Captain Kapil Kundu from Ransika village of Gurugram district was killed...
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