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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday targeted the women-led protests against the amended Citizenship Act, alleging that while the men are sleeping under the quilt at the comfort of their homes, they have pushed their women and children forward to stage sit-ins. Addressing a...
22:37
Slamming veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah who called him a 'clown' and a 'sycophant', Anupam Kher on Wednesday said his A Wednesday co-star had spent his entire life in frustration despite a successful career.The statement came against the backdrop of Shah's interview with an online news portal in...
22:08
A Delhi court on Wednesday directed the police to file an action taken report (ATR) on the plea of Jamia Millia Islamia University seeking registration of a first information report against alleged police attack on students on the campus last month during protests against the Citizenship...
22:03
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday said all first information reports and other complaints filed with police are in line with the incidents that took place on January 3 and do not deviate from facts after an Right to Information response suggested discrepancies in the varsity...
20:39
One person was detained by security agencies in connection with a case involving suspended Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police Davinder Singh, who was caught ferrying terrorists, officials said in Jammu on Wednesday.Irfan Mushtaq is kin of a terrorist arrested along with Singh and...
20:32
Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Wednesday arrived in Jammu on a maiden two-day visit of Jammu and Kashmir to review the prevailing security situation, an army officer said.Gen Naravane, who took charge of Chief of the Army Staff on January 1, is likely to meet the Lt Governor G C...
19:54
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that he has cleared his stand on the Citizenship Amendment Act-National Register of Citizens while asserting that the assembly elections should not be fought on national issues.We have always opposed the CAA-NRC issue, and voted against it in...
19:42
Congress leader Hardik Patel was granted bail on Wednesday, four days after he was arrested for failing to appear before the trial court in a 2015 sedition case.Additional sessions judge B G Ganatra granted Patel bail on the condition that he will cooperate with the court proceedings and would...
19:39
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will lead an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rally at Kalpetta in Waynad on January 30, party sources said.The Wayanad MP is expected to be on a one-day visit to the state.Gandhi's programme would be finalised by tonight, the sources said. -- PTI
19:12
The government will unveil its 'plan of action' to boost the economy in the Union Budget to be presented on February 1, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday, asserting that economic fundamentals remain very strong.Responding to a question about the downward revision of India's...
18:29
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena, will visit Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh to mark the completion of 100 days in power in March, senior Sena leader Sanjay Raut said in Mumbai on Wednesday.It will be the first visit of the Sena chief to Ayodhya after his party...
18:16
A Delhi court has acquitted a man of rape charge saying the offence cannot be made out as the complainant was married to him when he forcibly established physical relations with her.Additional Sessions Judge Umed Singh Grewal observed that the woman accused the man of allegedly raping her on July...
17:30
Bahujan Samajwadi Party supremo Mayawati on Wednesday said her party is ready for a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on any platform, a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah threw a challenge to the Opposition.Addressing a rally in support of the CAA in Lucknow on Tuesday, Shah had...
16:14
The government will unveil its plan of action to boost the economy in the Union Budget to be presented on February 1, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday, asserting that economic fundamentals remain very strong. Responding to a question about the downward revision of India's growth...
16:09
The Interpol has issued a Blue Corner Notice to locate self-styled godman Nithyananda, who fled India last year after a rape case was registered against him in Karnataka, Gujarat Police said on Wednesday.The state police revealed the move in a chargesheet filed in a local court in connection with...
16:05
India slipped 10 places to 51st position in the 2019 Democracy Index's global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit, which cited erosion of civil liberties in the country as the primary cause for the downtrend.India's overall score fell from 7.23 in 2018 to 6.90 in the Index that...
15:50
Veteran actor Shabana Azmi, who was injured in an accident last week, is stable and recovering in a Mumbai hospital, sources close to her family said on Wednesday. Azmi suffered head injuries when her car met with an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on January 18. The...
15:44
The children of Jammu and Kashmir are nationalists, but they are sometimes being motivated in the wrong direction, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday. The comments come days after Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said girls and boys, as young as 10 and 12, were...
15:15
The Maharashtra Cabinet on Wednesday approved its 'Mumbai 24 hours' policy allowing malls, multiplexes and shops to remain open round-the-clock in the city from January 27.Noting that London's 'night economy' was five billion pounds, state tourism minister Aaditya Thackeray told reporters after...
14:54
The work on Chandrayaan-3 mission has started and it is going on at full speed, ISRO chief K Sivan said on Wednesday.The work on Chandrayaan-3 has started and it is going at full speed, he told reporters in Bengaluru.Earlier this month, Sivan had stated that Chandrayaan-3's configuration will be...
14:52
The Maharashtra Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to make Ajay Devgn-starrer Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior tax-free in the state.The film based on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's trusted lieutenant Tanaji Malusare, who played a pivotal role in capturing the Kondana fort, now known as...
14:47
Suburban services on the Western Railway were disrupted due to a snag in the overhead wire between Mira Road and Dahisar stations on Wednesday, a railway official said.All Borivali-bound trains were stopped because of the problem on UP fast-train line (towards Churchgate) for about an hour from...
14:45
Over 1000 FIRs have so far been registered in connection with various violations since the model of code conduct came into force for the Delhi assembly polls. Talking to reporters, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said action had been taken against 2,078 public vehicles, including...
14:37
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday appealed to the supporters of opposition parties to vote for the Aam Aadmi Party in the February 8 assembly polls so that the work done in the last five years in the national capital is not undone. He said the entire Delhi should vote on the...
14:13
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former party chief Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are among the party's list of 40 star campaigners for the upcoming Delhi assembly polls. Interestingly, former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor-turned-politician...
13:56
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday cited statements of several opposition leaders to accuse them of abusing Hindus for their appeasement politics and referred to the Congress as Muslim League Congress. Seeking apologies from Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist...
13:55
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday led a 4-km-long protest march in Darjeeling hills against the new citizenship law. The rally began at Bhanu Bhakta Bhavan near Mall in Darjeeling and will conclude in the Chowkbazar area.Earlier, she had led ten protest marches and six...
13:12
Multiple landslides at several places hampered restoration work on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway which remained closed for the second day on Wednesday, officials said. The highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for traffic on...
12:53
A 36-year-old man, who is suspected to have planted the explosive at the Mangaluru Intentional Airport, surrendered before the police in Bengaluru on Wednesday, officials said. The man turned up at the DGP and IGP office in Bengaluru, where he has been detained for...
12:42
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said Indian values consider all religions equal, and that is why the country is secular and never became a theocratic state like Pakistan. Speaking at the NCC Republic Day Camp in Delhi, Singh said: We (India) said we would not discriminate among...
12:37
Why debate with them? Debate with me, said All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday after Union home minister Amit Shah challenged Opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav for a debate on the newly enacted Citizenship Amendment...
12:20
An Indian-American man is facing multiple murder charges after he intentionally rammed his vehicle into a car ferrying six teenagers in California, killing three of them and injuring the rest before fleeing, according to United Sattes media reports. Anurag Chandra, 42, a resident of...
12:19
Actor Kangana Ranaut has expressed her desire to make a movie on Chandragupta, the shepherd-turned-emperor who founded the Maurya dynasty, noting that the film industry has not done enough justice to our history.The national award winner was in Patna to take part in a programme organised by the...
12:10
The Maharashtra government has made reading of Preamble of the Constitution after prayer mandatory in all primary and secondary schools, starting from January 26.The statement issued by School Education Minister and senior Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad on Tuesday, read, From January 26, a...
11:59
A 36-year-old man, who is suspected to have planted an explosive at the Mangaluru Intentional Airport, surrendered before the police on Wednesday, officials said. The man turned up at the DGP and IGP office in Bengaluru, where he has been detained for inquiry and medical tests. The...
11:58
Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The musician was said he was a lot better now than he was in February 2019 as he appeared on the TV show Good Morning America with his wife Sharon and children Kelly and Jack. It's been terribly...
11:40
Actor-model Pamela Anderson and movie mogul Jon Peters have tied the knot in a private ceremony. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the couple, who dated over 30 years ago, exchanged vows in Malibu on January 20.Anderson, 52, and Peters, 74, reunited in recent months and kept the...
11:36
The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it clear that it will not grant any stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act without hearing the Centre and said it may refer pleas challenging the validity of the Act to a larger Constitution bench. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde is...
11:19
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it may refer pleas challenging the validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act to a larger Constitution bench. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde is hearing a batch of 143 pleas challenging the validity of CAA. Attorney General K K...
11:09
The hearing on around 144 petitions challenging to the Citizenship Amendment Act is underway in the Supreme Court.Popular Front of India national secretary Anis Ahmed has also filed a PIL in the apex court challenging the new legislation, which trigged protests across several parts of the...
10:36
A day after Union home minister Amit Shah reiterated that Citizenship Amendment Act won't be revoked, Janata Dal-United vice president Prashant Kishor on Wednesday challenged the former Bharatiya Janata Party president to try and implement the CAA and National Register of Citizens.Being...
10:24
Due to fog and poor visibility, three flights from Riyadh, Kuwait and Bangkok are delayed. Two flights from Kabul and Bahrain flights have also been diverted.
10:03
A meeting of Union Cabinet is scheduled to be held today at 10:30 am.
09:54
The United States Senate has started the historic impeachment trial of President Donald Trump amidst acrimonious scenes among the Senators from the ruling Republican party and the opposition Democrats over the rules of the game.The impeachment trial began on Tuesday and comes nearly a week after...
09:18
Five flights have been diverted at Delhi airport due to dense fog on Wednesday morning, an airport official said. Five flights diverted as captain was not trained to land under CAT conditions, the official said. When the runway visual range is minimum 200 metres, then only...
08:43
Rajya Sabha MP Kumar Ketkar on Tuesday said the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Population Register were part of a conspiracy to take away voting rights of citizens.He was speaking at a protest organised here against the CAA, NPR and National Register of Citizens.About 16 educational...
08:25
The first case of coronavirus which has claimed the lives of six people in Asia, has been detected in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday.The United States has its first confirmed case of a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China, last month,...
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The historic impeachment trial of United States President Donald Trump opened debate with fireworks Tuesday as Democrats accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of fomenting a 'cover-up' with his proposed rules for the process.Republican McConnell proposed a set of ground rules that would...
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