23:56
Appellate tribunal NCLAT today stayed bankruptcy proceedings against Reliance Communications after the debt-laden telecom operator agreed to pay Rs 550 crore to Ericsson to settle a payment dispute.The order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal clears the way for Anil Ambani-led...
23:27
A 28-year-old soldier from Kerala, who was posted at Fort William, Kolkata, has died of suspected Nipah virus infection.He was admitted to the command hospital on May 20, where he died five days later, a Defence spokesperson in Thiruvanthapuram said.The body of the soldier, Seenu Prasad, who...
22:40
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has vacated a government house in Lucknow, claiming compliance with a Supreme Court order, while holding on to a second official bungalow which her party says is a memorial to Kanshi Ram.The Uttar Pradesh government recently sent notices to six politicians...
22:00
Russian anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was reported killed in Kiev, appeared alive and well at a news conference in Ukraine in a stunning development today.The head of Ukraine's security service Vasyl Grytsak told reporters that the faked death yesterday was part of a 'special...
21:46
A 27-year-old Air India pilot was found dead at a Riyadh hotel in Saudi Arabia this morning, officials said.Rithwick Tiwari, a first officer with the state-run airline, died reportedly of a heart attack while working out in the hotel gym, according to crew sources.Tiwari's colleague Captain Renu...
20:40
Repolling at 73 booths in Kairana Lok Sabha constituency passed off peacefully today with an estimated voter turn out of 61 per cent, the state election office said in Lucknow.The Election Commission had yesterday ordered repolling at these polling stations in view of technical snags in...
20:08
Heartbroken over not being able to marry his lover, a Pakistani man decided to walk up to the Indian border hoping a Border Security Force bullet would kill him.Instead, Mohammad Asif, 32, landed behind bars.He was caught by 118 Battalion of the BSF on Monday near the Mabboke border post and...
19:44
The Special Investigation Team probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh today filed its first chargesheet in the sensational case, naming alleged gunrunner and Hindutva activist T Naveen Kumar as an accused.The 650-page chargesheet filed before the First Additional Chief...
19:35
Five persons, including a former deputy inspector general of the Border Security Force and a former Jammu and Kashmir police deputy superintendent of police, were held guilty by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Chandigarh today in the 2006 Jammu and Kashmir sex scandal.Two other...
18:40
Two police personnel have been taken into custody in connection with the alleged honour killing of a man, a top police officer said in Kottayam today.ASI Biju and police driver Ajaya Kumar of Gandhinagar police station near Kottayam were detained for suspected links with the gang that...
18:10
Terrorists carried out two grenade attacks on security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir today but there was no loss of life or damage to property, an official said.The grenade attacks on security forces took place this afternoon at Tral and Pulwama towns of the south Kashmir...
17:44
The board of India's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has ordered an independent probe into allegations of 'conflict of interest' and 'quid pro quo' in bank's MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar's dealing with certain borrowers.There are allegations of involvement of Kochhar and her family members...
17:35
The police today detained a woman when she allegedly tried to immolate herself near Chief Minister Vijay Rupani's residence in Gujarat's Rajkot district, an official said.Hetal Makawana, a native of Padadhari town in Rajkot,had a couple of days back threatened to set herself ablaze in front of...
17:11
Just In: Traffic heading to Andheri and beyond on Mumbai's Western Express highway has been badly affected after a milk tanker overturned near the marble shops before the airport.
17:07
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced a 30-day free visa for Indonesian citizens and invited the diaspora to travel to their country of origin to experience the 'New India'.Addressing a gathering of Indian diaspora at the Jakarta Convention Centre in the Indonesian capital, Modi said, Not...
16:20
Mikhail Bora, Indrani Mukerjeas son has claimed that there is a threat to his life in Assam. He has written a letter to the CBI who have brought the matter to the notice of the trial court. The CBI has filed an application before the trial court seeking to direct Assam police to give Mikhail Bora...
16:09
The Enforcement Directorate has attached a Rs 52.8 crore wind farm owned by Nirav Modi's family in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer in connection with its money laundering investigation into the over $2 billion PNB fraud case, the probe agency said today. The agency said it has issued a...
15:45
The two-day nationwide strike by employees of public sector banks may affect customer transactions worth up to Rs 20,000 crore, industry body Assocham said today, urging the United Forum of Bank Unions to call off the strike. The chamber also urged the government to come up with a stimulus...
15:31
Thousands of people from Jammu and Kashmir headed back to their homes near the de facto border with rival Pakistan on Wednesday, after their armies agreed to stop exchanging artillery fire following repeated recent clashes. More than 50,000 people had taken shelter in schools and colleges in...
15:16
Superstar Rajinikanth on Wednesday announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the kin of those who died during the anti-Sterlite protests in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district. Earlier today, the actor-turned politician visited the general hospital in Thoothukudi to meet the...
15:03
The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu today effected a shake-up in its party ranks, appointing its coordinator O Panneerselvam's son to a key post. Panneerselvam and AIADMK co-coordinator K Palaniswami announced the appointment of P Ravindranath Kumar as Theni district secretary of...
15:00
The police in Bareilly is probing the complaint of a 19-year-old woman who has charged the BJP's Bisauli legislator Kushagra Sagar with raping her on the pretext of marriage, a senior official said today. Sagar has refuted the allegation as baseless. In a written complaint...
14:58
The government has not received any bids so far for its stake in state-run carrier Air India, the civil aviation secretary told TV channels, a day before the formal bidding process closes.The government will not extend the deadline for submissions of interest in Air India, RN Choubey said on...
14:47
The Punjab and Haryana high court is set to a get a new chief justice in the coming days as the law ministry has cleared the name of Justice Krishna Murari for the post. Justice Krishna Murari is a judge of the Allahabad high...
14:35
A special MCOCA court in Mumbai today convicted 11 people in connection with the murder of gangster Farid Tanasha, an aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan, and awarded life imprisonment to six of them. Special MCOCA Judge S M Bhosale convicted six of the accused under section 302 (murder)...
14:27
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the cut in petrol and diesel price. If this is your idea of a prank, its childish and in poor taste, he said while mocking PM Modi over reducing the petrol and diesel price by 1 paisa.Dear...
14:22
A dissident Russian journalist has been shot at his apartment in Kiev in a high-profile murder that police said may have been tied to his reporting, reports Andrew Roth in The Guardian. 'Arkady Babchenko, a veteran Russian war correspondent, was shot three times in the back as he left his...
14:14
'Since his May 2016 election, Philippines president Rodrigo Roa Duterte's approval rating has never been far from 80 percent, and his drug war is an important element of his popularity. According to a detailed poll carried out last year by Manila-based Social Weather Stations, voters approved of...
13:58
JUST IN: Explosions heard close to new building of Ministry of Interior in Kabul on airport road, casualties feared, reports Afghanistan's TOLO News.
13:21
Ahead of the Palghar Lok Sabha constituency bypoll, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday slammed the Election Commission and called it a 'tawaif' (mistress) of a political party.Raut's comment comes after his party chief Uddhav Thackeray released a video of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis...
13:16
Jet Airways has reportedly grounded four of its pilots for allegedly clicking selfies on a training flight. Though the flight wherein they allegedly clicked the photographs was a training flight without any passenger, yet the act was in violation of the norms specified for airlines.Among the...
12:45
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today welcomed the agreement by DGMOs of India and Pakistan to fully implement the ceasefire pact of 2003 and stop cross border firings, saying it would bring great relief to the people of the state. The chief minister said having peace...
12:10
The Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce has blocked the release of Rajinikanth's Kaala in the state.About 10 pro-Kannada groups approached the Kannada Film Council, seeking a ban on Kaala, because they were dissatisfied with Rajinikanth's comments on the Cauvery issue.At a recent media...
11:32
A woman from Bareilly has accused Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Badaun Kushagra Sagar of allegedly raping her.The victim claimed that Sagar raped her for two-year on the pretext of marrying her.My mother used to work in his house and I used to accompany her there. The BJP MLA promised to marry...
11:05
North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons stockpile any time soon but could offer to allow the launch of a western hamburger franchise in Pyongyang instead as a goodwill gesture, NBC News cited a new CIA intelligence assessment.The assessment, however, did not name the brand likely...
10:36
Former Union minister P Chidambaram was granted anticpatory bail in the Aircel-Maxis case. With central agencies moving fast in the Aircel-Maxis case, Chidambaram had moved Delhi's Patiala House Court. The Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation are probing the...
10:08
Repolling in 123 booths in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondiya, Uttar Pradesh's Kairana and Aonglenden in Nagaland started on Wednesday morning.Election Commission yesterday ordered re-poll at 73 polling stations in Kairana, 49 in Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after VVPAT...
09:59
Morgan Freeman's lawyer has demanded an immediate retraction and an apology from CNN for a report in which multiple women accused the veteran actor of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour. In a letter sent to the media house, Freeman's lawyer Robert Schwartz said the report...
09:36
The Central Bureau of Investigation raided Delhi PWD Minister Satyendar Jain for hiring a creative team for the Public Works Department.Jain's decision to hire 24 architects to set up a creative team for the Public Works Department through a detective agency had come under CBI scanner last...
09:11
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh praised former president and Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee for accepting an invitation to address its workers in Nagpur on June 7.This isnt surprising for those who know and understand the Sangh, because RSS has always invited prominent people of the society in...
08:51
It will take another four hours to completely douse the massive fire that ripped through a godown in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar area on Tuesday evening, officials said today. The blaze is of the highest category that the national capital has seen in recent times. The authorities have sought the...
08:29
PM Narendra Modi pays tribute at Kalibata National Heroes' Cemetery in Jakarta during his visit to Indonesia. Photograph: ANI/Twitter
08:24
After 16 days of continuous hike, fuel prices on Wednesday witnessed a slight drop.The petrol prices have been cut down to 60 paise in Delhi and 59 paise in Mumbai while diesel price went down by 56 paise in Delhi and 59 paise in Mumbai.The revised petrol prices in metropolitan cities are --...
07:59
Upset by a wage-hike offer that fell short of their expectations, employees of 20 state-owned, 12 private sector, and seven foreign banks will go on strike across India on May 30 and 31, affecting millions of customers, disrupting business, and increasing traffic at automated teller machines...
01:10
Members of civil society and religious minorities in India were concerned over minority communities feeling 'increasingly vulnerable' due to Hindu nationalist groups engaging in violence against them in 2017, a United States report on international religious freedom said.The...
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