23:12
Claiming that the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party has gained significantly in strength in Bihar, Union minister Upendra Kushwaha on Friday demanded that his party be allotted more than three seats in the state by the National Democratic Alliance to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election.Bihar has 40 Lok...
22:53
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena has dissolved Parliament after power-struggle, agency reports said.Sirisena's move comes hours after Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's his spokesman acknowledged on Friday that he remains short of the 'magic number' 113 required to prove his majority in...
22:20
Union Minister Shripad Naik on Friday said a change in leadership in Goa is a 'requirement' 'today or tomorrow' considering the health of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.Parrikar has been undergoing treatment for a pancreatic ailment for several months now and arrived in the state on October 14...
22:10
Amid special prayers and the chanting of Vedic hymns before hundreds of devotees braving cold winds, the Himalayan shrines of Kedarnath and Yamunotri closed on Friday for the winter months.The gates of the Kedarnath temple closed at 8.30 am while those at Yamunotri were shut at 12.15 pm on the...
21:29
The Kerala high court on Friday declared as invalid the election of Indian Union Muslim League MLA K M Shaji on a plea claiming that he indulged in a communal campaign, amounting to corrupt practices, to win the 2016 assembly polls.Disqualifying Shaji, who had won from the Azhikode seat, Justice...
21:26
Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi over his criticism of demonetisation, the Bharatiya Janata Party said on Friday that a war is going on in Indian politics with the Narendra Modi-led government working to curb black money while the Congress president trying to save it.BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra...
20:56
Amid strains in the marriage of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's son Tej Pratap Yadav, an 11-day puja was performed at the Maa Vindhyavasini Devi temple in Mirzapur, a priest said on Friday.Lalu Yadav's family members have immense faith in the goddess enshrined there and have been...
20:11
The Centreal Bureau of Investigation, caught in an unprecedented clash between its top brass, has roped in Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to motivate its staff and bring positivity in the agency.Guides of the Art of Living run by Ravi Shankar will visit the CBI headquarters, where over 150 officers, from...
19:24
India on Friday hit back at Pakistan for expressing concern over the recent deployment of nuclear submarine INS Arihant, saying the comments come from a country for whom the 'tenet of responsibility' does not exist.Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal, at a media briefing...
19:14
If the Congress was voted to power in Chhattisgarh, it will write off farmers' debts within 10 days, party president Rahul Gandhi said on Friday.Addressing a poll rally in chief minister Raman Singh's home turf Rajnandgaon, Gandhi attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre...
18:13
The makers of 'Sarkar', a Tamil political thriller starring actor Vijay, have under immense pressure from the Tamil Nadu government edited out parts of the movie seen as critical of the ruling AIADMK and former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, reports NDTV. The film, released on Tuesday, will be...
17:59
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad's son and MLA Tej Pratap Yadav, who has been in the news for his failing marriage, on Friday said he was currently putting up in Haridwar and would not return home till his family backed his decision to divorce his wife of six months.Talking to a regional...
17:40
Five people died when the earth caved in Bihar's Samastipur district on Friday while they were digging it to make earthen ovens for the 'Chhath' festival.The incident happened in the morning at Nazirpur village -- 80 km east of Patna.Local villagers said eleven people were digging the soil to...
17:28
An Indian freelance journalist, who has been the target of online trolling and harassment for her investigative reports, has bagged the 2018 London Press Freedom Award for Courage.Swati Chaturvedi, author of the book I am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP's Digital Army, beat...
16:59
Confident of meeting fiscal deficit target, the government on Friday clarified it is not seeking transfer of Rs 3.6 lakh crore reserves from the RBI and the only proposal under discussion is to fix appropriate economic capital framework of the central bank.'Lot of misinformed speculation is going...
16:37
A high-level meeting between Army officials and Chinese People's Liberation Army troops was organised on Friday at Bumla, near Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, where the two sides reaffirmed their resolve to strengthen friendship and maintain peace along the Line of Actual Control.The...
16:07
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Maldivian president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih next week, the ministry of external affairs announced Friday. The prime minister will also visit Singapore to take part in the 13th East Asia Summit and other meetings on...
16:05
Tigress Avni died due to excessive internal haemorrhage and cardio-respiratory failure and her stomach and intestines were filled with fluid and gas, indicating she had not hunted or eaten for 4-5 days, according to a provisional necropsy report. The tigress, who was believed to have turned...
15:36
The Ministry of External Affairs statement on India's talks with the Taliban. MEA spoksesperson Raveesh Kumar said India would support any Afghan-led initiative. Our participation will be at the non-official level. We are not holding talks with the Afghans. We are supportive of any process in...
14:24
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday inducted three major artillery gun systems, including the M777 American Ultra Light Howitzers and the K-9 Vajra, into the Army. The third gun system inducted is the 'Composite Gun Towing Vehicle' for towing some of the existing guns in service with...
13:50
In a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said the demonetisation was an ill-conceived move.Chidambaram's statement comes after the BJP celebrated the second anniversary of...
13:27
At least one person has been killed and two others wounded in a rush hour stabbing incident in Melbourne's central business district, police said Friday. The perpetrator was arrested and is in a critical condition after he was a shot by police as he lunged at officers with a knife at the busiest...
13:15
An encounter broke out Friday between militants and security forces in Tral area of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. No casualties have been reported so far, they said. There has been an exchange of fire between security forces and terrorists at Tral in Pulwama district,...
12:52
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday tore in to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre and questioned that if New Delhi can participate at a non-official level in the Moscow format meeting on Afghanistan, which will be attended by Taliban...
12:37
A man was shot by police in Melbourne, Australia, after setting a car on fire and allegedly stabbing a number of people in an area called Bourke Street in the central business district. The man was arrested at the scene and has been taken to hospital in critical condition. He is under police...
12:17
Australian police report multiple people hurt in a rush hour stabbing in Melbourne, reports ANI quoting AFP. Details awaited.
12:15
Sarkar' producers' Sun Pictures have put out a shocking tweet stating that Tamil Nadu police were at film director AR Murugadoss' residence to arrest him Thursday night. Police reach director AR Murugadoss residence to arrest him, the production house tweeted. Read more
11:57
By telling the story of Brahmins in Benares, Aatish Taseer becomes the storyteller of an India struggling through its own existential confusions. Read the review here.
11:51
Pace duo of Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah and spinner Kuldeep Yadav have been rested for the third T20I against West Indies ahead of India's tour to Australia. Punjab seamer Siddarth Kaul was included in the squad for the final T20I to be held at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on...
11:21
Seems like, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are one step closer to tying the knot. According to The Blast, the couple recently obtained a marriage license in the United States, reports People magazine. Priyanka and Nick stopped by the Beverly Hills courthouse last week to fill out the...
10:51
The thick blanket of smog and fog have shrouded the national capital after the country celebrated the festival of light- Diwali. According to the autonomous meteorological body set up under the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, SAFAR, the overall Air Quality Index of Delhi at 8:15 am was...
10:34
Central Bureau of Investigation Director Alok Verma reaches Central Vigilance Commission for the second time in as many days. He was examined by the Commission yesterday.Verma had met CVC commissioner KV Chowdary and denied corruption charges levelled against him by his deputy and special...
10:29
US vice president Mike Pence would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his four-nation trip next week, during which he will also attend the US-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit in Singapore, the White House has said.Generally the summit is attended by US President. However, this...
10:15
Claiming that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of H-1B visas being held up, a coalition of American employers representing top IT companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft has alleged that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is acting outside of its own...
10:07
The rupee appreciated 35 paise to 72.65 against the dollar in early trade Friday, following US mid-tem election results and easing crude oil prices. Forex traders said the rise was also supported by dollar-selling by exporters and banks and the US unit's weakness against some currencies...
10:00
Benchmark stock indices opened on a negative note Friday following weak global cues after the US Federal Reserve left key interest rates on hold last night, but hinted a rate hike next month. The BSE Sensex was trading 114.08 points, or 0.32 per cent, lower at 35,123.60. It had dropped 226.45...
09:36
Bangladesh will hold its general election on December 23 and for the first time will use electronic voting machines on a limited scale, the electoral body announced on Thursday, amid an impasse between the government and the main opposition alliance over the timing of the polls.The 11th general...
09:13
The entry of heavy and medium goods vehicles into the national capital has been banned for three days from 11 pm on Thursday night as Delhi's air quality worsened to the severe-plus emergency category following cracker burning on Diwali. The transport department of the Delhi government has...
08:42
The Bharatiya Janata Party would aim to rename Hyderabad and other cities in the state after the names of great people if it is elected to power in Telangana in the December 7 poll, party leader Raja Singh said Thursday. Our aim is, when our Bharatiya Janata Party government comes to power...
08:29
The Congress on Thursday said that people were not interested in changing of names of places but they wanted other things such as jobs, income security, safety of women. Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma, responding to questions on the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh...
08:07
A strike by a section of employees of Air India's ground handling subsidiary, Air India Air Transport Services Ltd, over non-payment of Diwali bonus and other issues, was called off late Thursday, a senior official said.The strike was called off after discussion with the management, a senior...
08:01
A fire broke out in two wagons of a goods train near Dahanu in Palghar district of Maharashtra late on Thursday night, as a result of which at least 10 long-distance trains were halted, police said. According to an official, the incident took place around 11 pm between Dahanu Road and...
07:49
United States President Donald Trump would celebrate Diwali in his Oval Office next Tuesday, the White House has said.The president will be celebrating Diwali with a ceremonial lighting of the diya (lamp) in the Oval Office next Tuesday, deputy assistant to the president Raj Shah said in a...
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