23:53
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanth reacts to BJP's victory.I thank our MLAs and allies for their support. I would also like to thank the independent MLAs who supported us for the betterment of the state, said Adityanath after the results were announced.Hitting out at the Samajwadi Party,...
23:24
Former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan today said universities need to be safe spaces where debates takes place and no one is shouted down after being branded an anti-national. Every stream of thought needs to be encouraged in a varsity, he said, citing instances like one of...
22:51
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wishes the new elected members of Rajya Sabha.Congratulations to all those elected to the Rajya Sabha from various states and best wishes for their Parliamentary career. I hope they effectively voice the aspirations of the states they will represent, he tweeted.
22:28
In a setback to Bahujan Samaj Party's Mayawati, the Bharatiya Janata Party succeeded to win nine Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party's Jaya Bachchan wins another term in Uttar Pradesh.BJP nominees Arun Jaitley, Anil Jain, GVL Narasimha Rao, Vijay Pal Tomar, Kanta Kardam,...
22:16
Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli has cancelled a Rs 34-crore luxury apartment he booked in the Omkar 1973 tower located in the tony Worli area of the megapolis.In June 2016, the cricketer had bought the 7,171-sqft sea-view apartment on the 35th floor of the underconstruction tower C of...
21:34
Authorities today said that Rs 5 lakh each will be provided to the victims of Pakistan shelling in Poonch district. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Poonch Deputy Commissioner Tariq Ahmed Zargar with officers concerned to decide about providing the financial relief under...
21:20
The ruling Congress in Karnataka has bagged three Rajya Sabha seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party one in the biennial election. Congress' Dr L Hanumanthaiah, Dr Syed Naseer Hussain and G C Chandrasekhar, as also BJP's Rajeev Chandrashekar, were declared elected by the returning officer.In...
20:36
The government today issued notice to Cambridge Analytica -- the firm at the centre of Facebook users' data breach -- seeking its response by March 31 on whether it was involved in misuse of data to profile Indians and influence their voting behaviour. The notice also sought the company's...
20:05
Union Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat attends the Pakistan National Day reception as a government representative at Pakistan high commission in New Delhi.
20:01
The AAP today said the Election Commission's decision to disqualify 20 of its MLAs was a serious attempt to dislodge an elected government and demanded that the election commissioners either resign or apologise for it. The Delhi high court today set aside the EC's order disqualifying 20 AAP...
19:29
West Bengal Total seats - 5TMC: - 4Congress- 1Chhattisgarh Total seats - 1BJP- 1
19:17
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has won four Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal. The fifth seat was bagged by Congress's Abhishek Manu Singhvi with TMC's support.
19:07
Counting of votes for Rajya Sabha elections begins after clearance from the Election Commission.
18:55
Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi wins Rajya Sabha poll from West Bengal.
18:48
Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Saroj Pandey has won the Rajya Sabha Election from Chhattisgarh.Pandey defeated Congress's Lekhram Sahu.However, the counting of votes have been stopped in Karnataka while in Uttar Pradesh counting is yet to begin.Counting of votes for the Rajya Sabha election...
18:11
BJP's Saroj Pandey wins Rajya Sabha Election from Chhattisgarh by beating Congress's Lekhram Sahu.
17:59
Relatives of the 39 Indians killed by the ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, say they will protest at Jantar Mantar tomorrow. We have given government time till tomorrow morning to announce a compensation to secure the future of the families of the deceased. If they aren't able to do it then we'll protest at...
17:49
A gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group fired shots and took hostages at a supermarket in southwestern France on Friday, says French media. The latest reports say at least two people were feared dead in an incident French prosecutors are treating as a terror attack. Security...
17:22
A woman was publicly beaten up by her husband on a village panchayat's orders for allegedly eloping with another man in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr city.She was subject to the assault after her husband forcibly brought her back from another village. The woman was tied to a tree and thrashed...
16:44
From the Independent: Gunmen have fired on police out jogging in Carcassonne in the south of France, before taking hostages at a supermarket in nearby Trbes, firing on police before taking a number of people hostage, according to local media reports. Local authorities are treating the...
16:28
French media reports shooting and hostage situation at a supermarket in south France. A policeman has been hurt, say early reports. Islamic State group claims responsibility.
16:21
With one BSP MLA believed to have cross-voted and two others in jail being denied permission to vote in the Rajya Sabha polls, the Opposition today faced a challenge of numbers to ensure victory for their second candidate. While the ruling BJP is assured of eight of 10 Rajya Sabha seats for which...
15:43
The Supreme Court today sought a detailed reply from 12 states and Union territories for not appointing Lokayukta.A bench of top court headed by justices Ranjan Gogoi directed chief secretaries of states concerned to file an affidavit in the issue within two weeks and apprise the court about...
15:16
Mohammed Shami's wife Hasin Jahan at the office of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata. Her husband and cricketer Mohammed Shami was cleared by the BCCI of match-fixing charges levelled against him by Hasin Jahan, who had claimed that the cricketer had received unaccounted...
15:04
It's a victory of truth: CM Arvind Kejriwal after Delhi HC sets aside notification disqualifying 20 AAP MLAs in office-of-profit case.The office of profit case pertains to the appointment of the MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries in the Arvind Kejriwal cabinet. The appointment, however, was set...
14:55
The Delhi High Court has set aside the disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs in an office of profit case. The Election Commission will now re-hear the office of profit case and will hear each MLAs plea on merit. The court says there was violation of natural justice and no oral hearing was...
14:26
Delhi High Court grants bail to Karti Chidambaram in the INX Media case. The bail conditions say that he cannot travel abroad and has to furnish a bail bond of Rs 10 lakh. Details awaited. The court had reserved the verdict on March 16 after hearing arguments on behalf of former union minister P...
14:09
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is getting greater. Twice the size of Texas, the floating mass of about 79,000 metric tons of plastic is up to 16 times larger than previously thought, according to scientists who performed an aerial survey. Read more
13:36
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, has asked AIADMK MPs Dr V Maitreyan and A Navaneethakrishnan to cooperate with the Opposition to bring a short notice discussion on the PNB scam and Nirav Modi.AIADMK MPs agreed to hold their agitation on the Cauvery Water issue on...
13:23
The owner of Mumbai's Kamala Mills today moved the Supreme Court challenging his arrest in connection with a fire that claimed 14 lives in December last year. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan asked Ravi Bhandari to serve a copy of his petition to the Maharashtra government. The top...
12:37
The newly appointed United States National Security Advisor John Bolton, who had been a US ambassador to the United Nations, has had grave concerns about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.Last year, he said if Pakistan's nuclear arms fall into the hands of terrorist, it would be...
12:27
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day amid ruckus by AIADMK and TRS MPs. Saying the House will meet on Tuesday, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she cannot take up notices for no-confidence motion against the government as the House is not in order.The Rajya Sabha too could not transact any...
12:15
Speaking to ANI, BJP leader Nitin Agarwal said that all the nine candidates of the saffron party are sure to win. All the nine candidates of BJP will win. Samajwadi Party insulted their workers and people will answer them for choosing a candidate (Jaya Bachchan) that entertains the...
12:08
Fodder scam: Quantum of punishment in Dumka treasury case, involving Lalu Prasad Yadav, to be announced tomorrow.
12:00
Voting in the crucial biennial elections for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh began today. To secure a seat to the Upper House of Parliament from this state, a candidate needs 37 first preference votes. Since the BJP and its allies have 324 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly right now,...
11:40
Delhi: Congress leaders protest outside Gandhi Statue in Parliament, demand government file review petition against SC ruling on SC/ST act. MPs raise slogans of, 'Daliton ke samman mein, Rahul Gandhi maidan mein.'
11:31
Anil Singh (pictured), BSP MLA says he has voted for the BJP.Voting is underway to elect 10 Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh. Voting for the crucial polls began at 9 am and will conclude at 4 pm, after which counting will begin at 5 pm.For the 58 Rajya Sabha seats to be filled, 33...
11:06
Congress MP Pratap Singh Bajwa has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding revocation of the GST on purchases made for langar/prasad at the Golden Temple, Durgiani Mandir and Ram Tirath temple in Punjab. His appeal yesterday, came after the Punjab government decided on Wednesday to...
10:53
How was the Finance Bill passed in the Lok Sabha when the no-confidence motion could not be taken up due to disruptions in Parliament, a Telugu Desam Party MP asked on Thursday.Today is the fifth day that we have given a no-confidence motion to the parliamentary secretary. Once again the...
10:49
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who had come to Shimla to inspect her under-construction house at Chharabra, complained of restlessness last midnight, following which she was taken to Delhi. The former Congress president was in Shimla along with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Senior Medical...
10:35
Voting underway at Vidhan Soudha in Bengaluru for four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka.
10:34
Voting underway at Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly in Raipur for one Rajya Sabha seat from the state. The number of votes needed to win the seat from is 46. With 49 MLAs, the seat looks set to be firmly in the BJP's kitty.
10:28
Rahul Gandhi on the BJP accusations that the Congress hired Cambridge Analytica to harvest data for the 2019 polls. @RahulGandhi tweeted: BJP lying factory at work: Journalist set to break big story on how Cambridge Analytica (CA) was paid to infiltrate and sabotage the Congress in 2012. BJP...
10:17
The Congress had issued a three-line whip to all its MPs in the Rajya Sabha asking them to be present in the House at 11 am today in full strength and support the party's stand. According to sources, the whip was issued last night as the opposition party seeks to corner the government on some...
10:08
Anna Hazare pays tribute at Raj Ghat in Delhi.
10:06
The Ramlila Maidan in Delhi has been readied for social activist Anna Hazare's indefinite fast beginning today. Hazare has demanded a competent Lokpal and better production cost for farm produce.
09:53
Voting has begun for the Rajya Sabha elections in seven states to fill 26 of 59 seats falling vacant. Of these, 33 candidates have been elected unopposed. The BJP is expected to gain about a dozen seats in the Upper House and consolidate its position as the largest party, but it is far from...
09:40
The Allahabad High Court on Friday barred jailed Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mukhtar Ansari from voting in the Rajya Sabha elections today.BSP national general secretary and Rajya Sabha member, S Sansitpat, an eminent Supreme Court lawyer, Satish Chand Mishra had...
09:31
The direct maiden flight of Air India to Tel Aviv from New Delhi arrived yesterday, heralding a new chapter in the India-Israel ties and ending a decades-old overfly ban by Saudi Arabia.Flight AI 139 landed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport at 2215 (Israeli time).This is really a historical...
09:27
Union Minister for Health and Welfare J P Nadda said he is confident of his party's victory in the Rajya Sabha polls.The election are about to take place. I have come to Chhattisgarh to meet party MLAs on Friday, the minister said.Nadda said Chhattisgarh was developing rapidly and working well...
09:13
JUST IN: Voting for Rajya Sabha elections in 6 states --Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Telangana -- begins
08:49
Nearly seven years after his anti-corruption movement caught the imagination of millions of Indians and shook the then UPA government, social activist Anna Hazare is set to go on an indefinite hunger strike again, this time, against the Centre in Delhi on Friday.The protest will take place in the...
07:59
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John R Bolton would be the new National Security Adviser to US President Donald Trump, effective April 9, replacing Lt Gen H R McMaster.Reports of McMaster's ouster had surfaced last week but the White House had dispelled them saying that there were no...
00:21
At a time when our democracy is experiencing some shocks, journalists should stand up for defending and promoting the values enshrined in the Constitution, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday.He was speaking at an award ceremony in New Delhi. Ideas are very important to...
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