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The Centre has given consent to the renaming of at least 25 towns and villages across India in the past one year and among the pending proposals is one for the state of West Bengal, according to officials.Allahabad and Faizabad are the latest additions to the growing list of places that have been...
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The Congress on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of benefitting friends by promoting private and crony capitalists at the expense of public institutions and demanded an independent judicial probe into the new '59-minute loan scheme' for the micro, small and medium enterprises...
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National Commission for Minorities chief Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi Sunday said Ram temple must be built in Ayodhya so that Muslims can live peacefully and respectfully. Rizvi also stressed that the dispute should be resolved soon to help strengthen ties between communities. Some...
19:23
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate two major national highways and an inland waterways project at his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, on Monday. The two roads have a combined length of 34 km and have been laid at a cost of Rs 1,571.95 crore. The 16.55-km Varanasi Ring Road...
18:43
Growing public sentiment against the Centre's move to amend the Citizenship Act has given a fresh lease of life to the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom, which has recruited eight youths in the last two months, a senior officer of the Assam Police has said. Director...
18:41
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday pitched for dialogues between India and China on various issues, saying differences between the two nations should not be allowed to become disputes. Both India and China should respect each other and resolve issues through dialogues and...
18:23
The terror infrastructure in Pakistan remains intact and around 160 terrorists are waiting across the Line of Control to infiltrate into Indian territory, a senior army officer said Sunday. Lieutenant General Paramjit Singh, who took over as the general officer commanding of the...
18:22
India has slammed the United Nations Security Council's Sanctions Committees, saying they are opaque and lack accountability and never inform the reason for not acceding to requests for sanctioning terrorists, in an apparent reference to China repeatedly blocking New Delhi's bid to list...
17:42
A Somali-origin man, who set a car on fire and stabbed three people, killing one of them, before being fatally shot in the Australian city of Melbourne, did not have a definite link to the dreaded Islamic State but was inspired by it, the government said on Sunday. Hassan Khalif Shire Ali...
17:29
Nearly one lakh security personnel have been deployed in the Naxal-affected districts going to polls in the first phase in Chhattisgarh on Monday, amid the threat from Maoists who have called for a boycott of the elections. On the eve of the polls, a sub-inspector of the Border...
17:11
A 5-magnitude earthquake hit Pithoragarh, Didihat and Munsiyari sub-divisions of this border district of Uttarakhand Sunday. The quake occurred at 12.37 pm, the District Disaster Management office said here. It had a latitude of 29.7 degree north and a longitude of 80.6 degree...
16:29
Janardhana Reddy, who was arrested by Bengaluru Central Crime Branch, in connection with Ambident Group alleged bribery case has been sent to judicial custody till November 24.
16:22
In the wake of a clash between the army and police personnel in Arunachal Pradesh's Bomdila town, Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said both the institutions should respect each other as they are serving the nation. In a Facebook post, Rijiju said the army is country's pride which...
16:12
The Indian Air Force is very much alive to emerging threats that could arise in the Indo Pacific region, Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa said Sunday, and asserted that his force was prepared to deal with any challenge to protect India's national interests. He also said there is cause for...
16:08
A disgruntled Om Prakash Rajbhar, a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government and the chief of Bharatiya Janata Party ally Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, has mocked the saffron party over its renaming spree and suggested it to change the names of its three prominent Muslim leaders. The BJP...
15:18
Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar underwent a routine check-up at a state-run hospital near Panaji on Sunday, an official in the chief minister's office said. Parrikar, 62, has been recuperating at his private residence near Panaji since October 14 upon his return from the...
15:05
Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram Sunday asked the Centre what was its tearing hurry to fix the capital framework of Reserve Bank of India when the ruling dispensation had just four months to complete the term.In a series of tweets, the senior Congress leader slammed the government for...
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Bengaluru Central Crime Branch has also arrested Ali Khan, a close aide of mining baron G Jaanardhan Reddy.
13:36
Border Security Force sub-inspector Mahendra Singh, who was seriously injured in IED blast in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, succumbed to injuries.
13:31
Former Karnataka minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy has been arrested in connection with Ambident Group alleged bribery case, news agency ANI reported.Reddy, who the police said had been absconding, on Saturday appeared before the police in connection with an alleged ponzi scam,He...
13:22
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday paid tributes to Indian soldiers who fought in World War I and said the country reiterates its commitment towards world peace so that the trail of death and destruction caused by wars does not occur. Today, as we mark one hundred years since the end...
13:07
Posting too many selfies on social media may make you more narcissistic, a study has found. Published in The Open Psychology Journal, the study looked at personality changes of 74 individuals aged 18 to 34 over a four-month period.Researchers from Swansea University in the UK and Milan...
13:05
Candidates failing to put out advertisements listing their criminal records during electioneering could face contempt of court proceedings and those publishing wrong info about their rivals' criminal antecedents could end up paying penalty for indulging in corrupt practices, the Election...
12:12
Delhi's air quality remained in the severe category on Sunday owing to unfavourable weather conditions and a significant increase in contribution from stubble burning, authorities said. The overall air quality index was recorded at 423, according to data from the Central Pollution Control...
11:57
Russia, the United States, China and the Netherlands were the top countries from where cybercriminals attacked users in India, with over 6.95 lakh such incidents between January-June 2018, according to cyber-security firm F-Secure. Interestingly, the top 5 countries that cyberattackers from...
11:08
A Maoist was gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Chhattigsarh's Bijapur district on Sunday morning, a day ahead of polling in the region for the state assembly polls.The exchange of fire took place at a forest in Bedre area when a team of the Special Task Force was out on an...
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JUST IN: An assistant sub-inspector of Border Security Force was injured in an improvised explosive device blast in Kanker's Koyali beda in Chhattisgarh.A set of 6 IEDs were planted in a series and were set off in one go between village Gome and Gattakal in Koyali beda. The state is set to go...
10:08
United States President Donald Trump on the last minute canceled plans to attend the commemoration ceremony of the soldiers killed in World War 1.Quoting sources, Washington Post reported that the incessant rain in the French capital made it difficult to arrange transport for the US...
09:29
Rescue workers recovered the bodies of 14 people on Saturday who were killed by 'the most destructive wildfire' in California's history, bringing the total death toll to 23, the local sheriff said.Today 14 additional bodies were located, which brings our total number to 23, the sheriff told...
08:57
Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh said on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party has enough numbers in Parliament and it should bring an ordinance to facilitate the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya.The BJP has a majority and the government should bring an ordinance for the construction of Ram...
08:35
Congress in its manifesto in Madhya Pradesh has said if the party comes to power then Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 'shakhas' would not be allowed in government buildings and premises.Also, an earlier order to allow government employees to attend RSS 'shakhas' will be revoked. -- ANI
08:24
All the non-National Democratic Alliance parties are likely to meet on November 22 to decide on future course of action under a slogan of save democracy and save the nation.As part of the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party campaign, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday met...
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