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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday praised the functioning of Self-Help Groups (SHG) in Bihar saying they are repaying loans unlike big shots who flee the country after defaulting on loans.Over 8 lakh SHGs have been formed in the state for helping poor women in villages in carrying out...
20:08
Pakistan is reviewing the projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to safeguard the interest of the people in Balochistan province, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said.The $50 billion CPEC, launched in 2015, is a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking...
19:51
The Delhi high court is likely to pronounce on Monday its verdict in a plea for tracing Jawaharlal Nehru University student Najeeb Ahmed, who went missing from the university nearly two years ago.A bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel had on September 4 reserved its decision on the...
19:15
Indian National Lok Dal president Om Prakash Chautala on Sunday said his party will work towards bringing the opposition parties together to make Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati the next prime minister after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.Out on a two-week parole, the former Haryana chief minister...
18:33
The Gujarat forest department on Sunday started vaccination of lions in the Gir sanctuary to protect them from a deadly virus blamed for the death of some of the big cats in their last abode.As many as 23 lions have died in Gujarat's Gir sanctuary in less than a month. Most of them have succumbed...
17:01
Aadhaar is not mandatory to avail benefits for the first time under the recently-launched Ayushman Bharat -- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) but will be compulsory for those seeking treatment under the scheme for the second time, according to a top official.In case the Aadhaar...
16:54
IndiGo tweets an advisory over its system which is down at all the airports for a while.The airline has asked its passengers to contact it through Twitter, Facebook, its website or its contact number.'We regret the inconvenience caused to our passengers this afternoon due to system being down...
16:15
IndiGo systems are down at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport due to a technical error, ANI reports.Passengers of the airline are currently stranded at the airport.More details awaited. -- ANI
16:04
Within a day of the one-off excise duty cut and PSUs subsidising fuel, petrol and diesel prices are on the rise again and have hit a three week high.Petrol and diesel prices were cut by a minimum Rs 2.50 on October 5 when the government's only second cut in excise duty of Rs 1.50 per litre and...
15:20
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday said the menace of Left Wing Extremism will be wiped out from the country in about three years.Addressing troops of the Rapid Action Force on the occasion of their 26th anniversary celebrations in Lucknow, Singh said their action should be rapid and...
14:18
Women prisoners and inmates of open jails across Maharashtra can now make video calls to their families and relatives, said a senior official of the prison department of the state government.This could be the first-of-its-kind initiative for prisoners in the country, claimed the official.Under...
13:40
After an eight year gap, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad swept the student union elections in the University of Hyderabad for 2018-19, winning the top six posts.The ABVP, which contested the polls together with the Other Backward Classes Federation and Sevalal Vidyarthi Dal, bagged all six...
12:25
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday said the United States should not view its relations with the country only through the perspective of the ties with India or the Afghan issue.He also said it would be wrong to expect that all differences between the US and Pakistan...
12:14
Kanye West has once again deactivated his Twitter and Instagram accounts.The 41-year-old rapper was at the receiving end for quite some time over his support to United States President Donald Trump.West was severely criticised by fans and celebrities for the controversial comments he made on TV...
11:43
American star Will Smith, who was in Mumbai to attend an event, made an appearance on the sets of Koffee with Karan and it seems like the star is ready for his 'Koffee' debut.The dynamic duo of Ranveer Singh and Akshay Kumar shot for their Koffee episode recently, with Smith gracing the sets.From...
11:00
Author Chetan Bhagat has apologised after a WhatsApp conversation with a woman journalist was leaked on Twitter in connection with sexual harassment. Accepting that the viral screenshots are indeed real, Bhagat in a long post on Facebook said he was really sorry. The conversation was shared...
10:39
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has called Anil Ambani Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BFF, urban slang abbreviation for Best Friend Forever.In a tweet targeting Anil Ambani, Rahul Gandhi said, When your BFF is the PM, you can get the 1,30,000 Cr. Rafale deal, even without relevant experience....
10:29
No one can say, US First Lady, Melania Trump doesnt understand the power of an image.Standing in front of one of the best known but most enigmatic monuments of the ancient world, the Great Sphinx, Trump one of the most mysterious first ladies in modern times agreed to take questions from a...
10:09
Saturday was a day of mixed verdict for Bihar leader Lalu Yadav, who is currently in jail. While his son Tejashwi Yadav and wife Rabari Devi managed to get regular bail from the CBI court they could not get provisional bail from the Enforcement Directorate court in the IRCTC case, in which the...
09:45
India captain Virat Kohli has requested the cricket board to allow wives of players to accompany the team for the full duration of overseas tours. The current policy restricts the stay of wives of players and support staff to just two weeks.It is learnt that Kohli first broached the issue with a...
09:19
Rohingya refugees staying in Indian camps have expressed concern over being deported to Myanmar.After the Central government deported seven Rohingya refugees to Myanmar on Friday, many now have refused to return to Myanmar, saying they will not rehabilitate until 'peace is restored in their...
09:09
JUST IN: An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale hits parts of Jammu-Kashmir.
08:59
Queen actor Kangana Ranaut has alleged filmmaker Vikas Bahl made her feel uncomfortable on several occasions, after a woman employee at Phantom Films reiterated her allegations of molestation against the film director. Last year, the woman employee at Phantom Films, which had...
08:45
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa has spoken out in defense of soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been embroiled in a rape accusation. Speaking to television on the Spanish island of Lanzarote on Saturday, Costa made an appeal to the presumption of innocence, as well as...
08:19
Tanushree Dutta on Saturday filed a police complaint against veteran actor Nana Patekar for allegedly sexually harassing her on the sets of a film in 2008, police said. Dutta, in a recent interview alleged that Patekar had misbehaved with her while filming a song for the 2008 film Horn Ok...
07:54
Brett Kavanaugh, 53, was sworn in as a judge of the US Supreme Court, hours after he was confirmed by a bitterly divided Senate by 50-48 votes.Kavanaugh was officially sworn as the 114th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts who administered the...
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