23:16
A statue of Jawaharlal Nehru was removed from an intersection in Allahabad as part of a road-widening project, triggering a protest by the Congress.According to the Allahabad Development Authority (ADA), the statue near Anand Bhavan was removed on Thursday from Balsan Chauraha in Allahabad, ahead...
22:50
Inmates of a privately run residential facility for disabled children in Bhopal on Friday accused its founder of sexually abusing two girls and three boys.Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh latched onto the issue, alleging that government authorities had ignored a complaint filed in the past...
22:34
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested an under secretary in the Ayush Ministry for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 10 lakh, officials said.R K Khatri, holding the additional charge of the post of managing director of Indian Medicine and Pharmaceutical Corporation under the...
22:15
The government Friday decided to relax norms for raising overseas borrowing and impose restrictions on the non-essential imports as part of efforts to check rising current account deficit amid falling rupee.These decisions were taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review...
21:53
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday began a two-day review of prevailing economic issues including fall in the rupee, rising fuel prices and reforms measures needed to boost growth, official sources said.Modi met Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel...
21:19
Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa on Friday said the Indian Air Force would be involved in the selection process to send humans on a space mission and expressed confidence of meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2022 deadline for the exercise.The Institute of Aerospace Medicine was actively involved...
20:43
Hindu nationalism has been a rising political force in India in recent decades, 'eroding' its secular nature, a United States Congressional report has claimed, as it warned that social media platforms provide 'both tacit and overt sanction' for rising incidents of 'majoritarian violence' in the...
20:21
Posters promising to ban short dresses for women in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, protect the university from 'anti-national comrades' and close eateries serving non-vegetarian food have come up on its campus, purportedly posted by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliate Akhil Bharatiya...
19:51
Cow vigilantes forced a Howrah-bound express to stop at Balasore station for over four hours on Thursday night claiming that cows were being smuggled in the train, railways officials said.Altogether 17 cattle were being transported legally to Kolkata in a bogey that was attached to the...
19:10
Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana on Friday resigned from the Lal Thanhawla cabinet, sources in the Chief Minister's Office said.Lalzirliana accompanied by his supporters arrived at the chief minister's office-cum-residence to put in his papers but Lal Thanhawla is out of town, the sources...
18:22
The Majerhat bridge, a portion of which collapsed last week, will be demolished and a new bridge will be constructed, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday.She said there was negligence on the part of PWD officials in the bridge collapse.They cannot avoid responsibilities,...
18:12
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has ruled out any engagement with the Opposition on issues relating to the multi-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal, saying they do not deserve to be involved after throwing muck on a very sensitive issue concerning India's defence preparedness.Sitharaman...
17:23
A Delhi policeman's son, who is seen brutally thrashing a woman in a video that has gone viral, has been arrested on charges of rape after he allegedly assaulted her in his friend's office in Dwarka, police said Friday. The woman, seen in the video shared widely on social media and shown on TV...
16:17
India's biggest lender SBI said Friday there was no laxity on its part in dealing with loan default by now defunct Kingfisher Airlines of fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya. The comments by State Bank of India came after reports suggested that the bank, which was the lead lender to...
15:52
Delhi's Saket Court orders framing of charges against environmentalist RK Pachauri in a sexual harassment case. Next hearing of the matter is on October 20. An FIR was registered against Pachauri by a colleague in 2015, after which more women levelled allegations of sexual misconduct against...
15:14
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to hear on September 17 a plea filed by a petitioner in nikah halala and triple talaq case, seeking protection after facing acid attack yesterday at Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwikar and D Y Chandrachud...
14:49
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on the alleged gang-rape of a CBSE topper: The law will take its own course and whoever is found guilty will be punished.
14:37
Chennai: An idol of Lord Ganesha has been made using around 7000 banana flowers in Kolathur.
14:17
A 19-year-old CBSE topper from the Kosli area in Haryana's Rewari district was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped after being drugged on Wednesday.The victim, who was felicitated by President Ram Nath Kovind after she topped the CBSE board exam in the state, was going to her coaching centre...
13:43
The statue of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was on Thursday removed from Balsan Chauraha in Allahabad. Authorities said that the statue has been removed in view of the beautification work that is being held in the city for the upcoming Kumbh mela that is due to be held in January...
13:22
Congress president Rahul Gandhi continues his attack on the BJP over Vijay Mallya. @RahulGandhi tweets: Mallya's Great Escape was aided by the CBI quietly changing the Detain' notice for him, to Inform'. The CBI reports directly to the PM. It is inconceivable that the CBI, in such a high profile,...
12:57
Asian Games gold-medallist Swapna Barman will have customised shoes for her 12-toed feet soon as the Sports Authority of India has tied up with footwear company Adidas to ensure specially-designed gear for the heptathlete. After coming to know about Swapna's case, the Sports Minister immediately...
12:51
DMK President MK Stalin appoints senior DMK leader TR Baalu as party's Principal Secretary.
12:42
Inflation based on wholesale prices eased to a four-month low of 4.53 per cent in August on softening of prices of food articles, especially vegetables. The Wholesale Price Index based inflation stood at 5.09 per cent in July and 3.24 per cent in August last year. According to the government...
12:28
Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra community felicitates Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Saifee Mosque in Indore. Modi said that the Ayushman Yojana has come as a savior for about 50 crore poor people of the country since it will ensure free medical treatment worth Rs...
12:00
The Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre to consider framing separate rules for granting disability certificates to leprosy patients for availing reservation and various welfare benefits. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued a...
11:42
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Saifee Mosque in Indore to attend the Ashara Mubaraka -- the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Hussain -- organized by the Dawoodi Bohra community.Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj S Chouhan at the Saifee Mosque: Aisa apne mulk se mohabaat karne wala, dusron ki...
11:32
Our 2014 interview with ISRO scientist Dr Nambi Narayanan. Do read
11:22
The US State Department spent about USD 52,701 last year on customised and mechanised curtains for the official residence of US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley at a time when the department was undergoing deep budget cuts and had frozen hiring, according to a media report. The report in The New...
11:18
The verdict on another key case by CJI Dipak Misra before he demits office. A three-judge Supreme Court bench held that ISRO scientist S Nambi Narayanan was unnecessarily arrested, harassed and subjected to mental cruelty in the ISRO spy case. The court awards Rs 50 lakh compensation to the...
11:00
A court in Maharashtra has issued an arrest warrant against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and 15 others in a 2010 case related to an agitation staged by them over the Babli project across the Godavari river. Judicial Magistrate First Class of Dharmabad in Nanded district N R...
10:50
In a major setback to the Congress party, senior leader and five-time Meghalaya CM DD Lapang says he has quit the party. Writing to Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Lapang questioned the All India Congress Committee's policy of phasing out elderly leaders from the party in order to infuse new...
10:33
And another picture of Omar with his parents, likely at Srinagar's famed tulip garden.
10:32
It's former J-K CM and National Conference party chief Dr Farooq Abdullah's golden wedding anniversary, his son, also a former CM of J-K tells us on Twitter. Omar, posts this throwback picture of his parents, saying, @OmarAbdullah My mum will murder me for this but if not today then when!!...
10:14
The BSE benchmark Sensex reclaimed the 38,000-mark by surging over 300 points in opening trade Friday on heavy buying by domestic institutional investors as the industrial production grew at 6.6 per cent in July and retail inflation cooled to a 10-month low. The 30-share barometer pushed...
10:04
A 126 kilo modak to be offered to Lord Ganesha at Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati Temple in Pune for Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. The modak has been made using dry fruits and silver leaf.
09:56
Continuing its recovery, the rupee Friday strengthened by 50 paise to 71.68 against the dollar in early trade in the forex market on the government's assurance that all steps would be taken to ensure the domestic currency does not depreciate to unreasonable levels. Besides, dollar selling by...
09:54
In the wake of the Majerhat bridge collapse on September 4, the West Bengal public works department has identified seven bridges in the city as most vulnerable requiring urgent repairs, a senior official of the department said. The seven bridges are out of the 20, which, the PWD has classified as...
09:51
A Redmond-based information technology staffing company was asked to pay over USD 300,000 to its 12 H-1B employees for paying them far below their salary and has been imposed a penalty of over USD 45,000 for violating the labour provisions. The US Department of Labour Wage and Hour Division...
09:40
Taking his criticism for RSS, a step further, the AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday slammed former President Pranab Mukherjee for attending an RSS event in the past.After understanding RSS ideology we have been fighting against it. If anyone else wants to...
09:30
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was admitted to a hospital in Candolim on Thursday afternoon. Speaking to ANI, Deputy Speaker Michael Lobo said, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has been admitted to the hospital today afternoon in Candolim and is undergoing treatment.Parrikar, who is...
09:13
Fuel prices jumped to an all-time high on Friday, with petrol being sold at Rs 81.28 per litre and diesel at Rs 73.30 per litre in the national capital.Petrol prices increased by 28 paise per litre, while diesel saw a hike of 22 paise per litre in the national capital, informed the Indian Oil...
08:57
The brother of the Kerala nun who has accused the Bishop of Jalandhar, Franco Mulakkal of allegedly raping her on several occasions between 2014 and 2016 on, Thursday blamed the state government for not taking any action into the matter in view of the state elections.The nun's brother claimed...
08:27
Mass evacuations from US towns north of Boston were underway after dozens of fires and suspected gas explosions erupted, police said, leaving at least 10 residents injured, one critically. Massachusetts State Police said they had responded to 70 reports of fires, explosions and the...
07:50
The CBI said the change in a 2015 Look Out Circular against liquor baron Vijay Mallya from detain to merely informing about his movements was an error in judgement because he was cooperating in the probe and there was no warrant against him. Three years later as the controversy surfaced...
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