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Information sought by Jashodaben, wife of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the security cover given to her through an RTI has been denied by the Mehsana police on the ground that her queries were related to local intelligence bureau which is exempted under RTI Act. The information sought by...
22:21
The Assam government today claimed that the overall situation in the restive districts has improved even as the number of people taking shelter in 81 relief camps in the wake of serial NDFB attacks has risen to nearly 1.15 lakh. The overall situation is improving. Incidents of...
22:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, under whose leadership the BJP fought the assembly elections in Jharkhand, will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister-designate Raghuvar Das. Governor Syed Ahmed agreed to Das' wish to conduct the oath-taking function at the Birsa Munda Football Stadium...
21:53
The Assam government had received prior intelligence report of an attack by terrorists of NDFB-S but it did not know about the target and spots, said a senior official today. Addressing a press conference, Assam Commissioner and Secretary (Political and Home) Prateek Hajela said, There was...
21:53
The Assam government had received prior intelligence report of an attack by terrorists of NDFB-S but it did not know about the target and spots, said a senior official today. Addressing a press conference, Assam Commissioner and Secretary (Political and Home) Prateek Hajela said, There was...
21:40
Bangladesh Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith today said there was no evidence that money collected by the Saradha chit fund group was deposited in any of the banks in his country to fund Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh outfit, which is linked to Burdwan blast,...
21:35
Prannoy Roy's new show What's Your Choice, which aired tonight on NDTV, talks about how India reacts to bias against the girl child.
21:26
At least 105 terror suspects, including Afghans, were arrested in Peshawar today as part of the Pakistan government's offensive against militants after the Taliban's deadly school attack in the city. 85 suspects including Afghan refugees were arrested during search operation in different rural...
21:19
The funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos, one of two police officers shot dead last Saturday as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn, is under way at Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale, Queens in New York.Many thousands of police officers and other mourners, including Vice...
20:46
With the Congress reeling under a string of poll defeats, senior leader Digvijaya Singh today said party vice president Rahul Gandhi should assume full-time leadership of the Congress.All Congressmen today want Rahul Gandhi to take over full-time leadership of All India Congress Committee, the...
20:29
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hailed Mumbai's famous dabbawalas for joining the Swachh Bharat campaign, saying their effort is exemplary. I congratulate the dabbawalas of Mumbai for joining Swachh Bharat Mission & extending their continued support to it, Modi tweeted. The...
19:57
At least 80 tribals were allegedly converted to Christianity in Balisuda village in Sundargarh district of Odisha, officials said today. We have information about the alleged conversion (on December 25). I have sent there a team that consists of Sub-Collector of Bonai, Surendra Kumar Mina. They...
19:37
Twenty four high-profile death row prisoners have been shifted from a jail in Quetta to another prison in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, fearing a possible jail break. The decision to shift the high-profile prisoners from the District Jail Quetta to Central Jail Mach was made at a...
19:34
PTI reports: A man today hurled a stone at Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal at a rally in South Delhi's Tigdi locality today. Kejriwal is unhurt.This is not the first time that Kejriwal has been attacked in public. He was slapped twice while addressing rallies. He has also been attacked with...
19:10
The Delhi government has put all its designated hospitals on alert and has asked them take appropriate measures and follow the standard protocols for treating swine flu patients in the wake of the death of a 51-year-old woman due to the virus. With 32 confirmed cases of H1N1 in the city this...
18:46
Air India today said its fight safety wing is looking into the issue of a daughter of a senior pilot resting in a bunk, meant only for use of flight crew members, during one of its flights to Newark from Mumbai recently. However, it asserted that the incident did not affect the flight safety of...
18:44
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his bete noire Sanjay Joshi have been invited for a mega RSS workers camp here next week, where its chief Mohan Bhagwat will address the participants, the organisers said. Nearly 26,000 Sangh volunteers from Gujarat are expected to take part in the three-day...
18:26
The Express Tribune reports: At least 55 militants were killed in airstrikes and a gun battle with ground forces in Pakistan's northwest where the army launched a major offensive, officials said on Saturday. The army intensified its offensive after the massacre of 150 people in Army...
18:00
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was today presented with the first draft of constitutional and legal amendments for trial of hardcore terrorists and enemy combatants as he ordered the activation of a dormant anti-terror body to fight the menace. The PM chaired a meeting of the committee to...
17:53
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said an anti-conversion law should be framed to check conversion and appealed all the political parties to think over it seriously. I think that to check conversion, an anti-conversion law has to be framed. All political parties should think over it...
17:50
Eminent Scientist and Bharat Ratna Awardee CNR Rao today said India doesn't have infinite time to become a progressive nation and one must work towards bringing development to the country at a faster phase. Science keeps going on, science will go on..... the problem is we in India have very...
17:27
Describing refugees from Assam as guests, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government would stand beside them. They are more than our guests, our own people. They don't have shelter now. We all know their mental condition.They are the victim of...
16:55
Ahead of his swearing-in as Jharkhand chief minister tomorrow, Raghuvar Das met BJP president Amit Shah in New Delhi today and discussed with him government formation in the state. The 59-year-old BJP leader, a national vice-president of the party who will be the first non-tribal chief minister...
16:51
Four Janata Dal-United MLAs were today disqualified from the Bihar assembly under anti-defection law for anti-party activities, including cross voting in Rajya Sabha election. With this, membership of eight rebel JD-U MLAs has been terminated since last month by the assembly speaker following...
15:57
The NIA has been directed by the Home Ministry to take up the cases relating to the recent killing of more than 70 Adivasis by NDFB(S) militants in two districts of Assam.The four cases registered by Assam Police in two districts -- Sonitpur and Kokrajhar -- will be taken over by the National...
15:35
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today dismissed media reports that his wife and daughter used a naval helicopter in Goa on December 23. Media reports had claimed that Jaitley's wife and daughter were flown by a naval helicopter, made available at the instance of Defence Minister Manohar...
15:33
At least 20 militants were killed today in a retaliatory action by Pakistan Army when the terrorists attacked military check posts in the volatile tribal region near the Afghan border. The militants attacked the check posts in Shindara and Khazana Kandao in Orakzai Agency early this...
15:32
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Sri Lanka have killed at least 17 people and marooned nearly a million in the past four days, officials said today.Lal Sarath Kumara, a top disaster management official, said 980,095 people from over 270,000 families are affected in 17 districts...
14:40
Announcing plans to continue with their 'ghar vapsi' programme in Kerala, Vishwa Hindu Parishad today asserted that no forcible conversions were taking place here and said it would help those who wanted to embrace Hinduism.A batch of people would reconvert to Hinduism at a function to be held...
14:38
Legal loopholes, weak evidence and irrelevant sections invoked against Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the key planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, led to the granting of his bail, an Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad said. ATC judge Judge Syed Kausar Abbas Zaidi, who had granted bail to Lakhvi on...
12:45
CNN-IBN reports: After yet another winter session of Parliament was washed out, wherein the Narendra Modi government failed to pass crucial economic reforms, it is now planning the ordinance route to make changes to the Land Acquisition Act.The government plans to exclude 13 central laws to clear...
12:43
In wake of growing calls for arrest of the controversial Pakistani cleric, a Pakistani court has issued an arrest warrant for Red Mosque Imam Abdul Aziz, who allegedly justified the heinous Peshawar school attack by Taliban.The cleric, who is also known as 'Mullah Burqa', is accused of...
12:43
A day after Delhi recorded its first swine flu death, Health Minister JP Nadda on Saturday assured people that there is no need to panic.Asserting that the Health Ministry will deal with the situation, Nadda told a news agency that 17 government hospitals in Delhi have adequate medical...
11:47
Delhi today recorded the second lowest temperature of the season with the mercury dipping to 4.8 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal, even as early morning dense fog affected about 50 north-bound trains. However, no diversion or cancellation of flights due to fog was...
11:44
A 27-year old Indian, who worked on a Caribbean cruise ship, died after falling off the ship and was identified after his body washed up on a beach in the US state of Florida. Cliford Minej of Thane, Mumbai was a worker on Holland America Line cruise ship. His body, dressed in shorts and a...
10:14
North Korea called President Barack Obama a monkey and blamed the US on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy The Interview.North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an...
09:51
In an alleged violation of aviation safety norms, a daughter of a senior Air India executive travelled in the bunk which is only meant for resting of flight crew members as per the DGCA norms, during one of the airline's flight to Newark recently.KVJ Rao, a union leader and former Air India cabin...
09:36
Microsoft's online network for its Xbox gaming console was restored to nearly full service Friday after an alleged coordinated Christmas Day hack brought it and Sony`s PlayStation network down.The PlayStation network remained down, while Xbox's service returned to all except three of its...
09:34
A 12-hour bandh has been called by tribal organisations in six north Bengal districts on Saturday to protest against the attack and killing of adivasis by NDFB(S) in Assam.The bandh began at 6 am and essential services would be exempted from its purview.On Friday, Adivasi Vikas Morcha state...
09:33
Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Saturday departed for Assam to visit the violence-hit areas, a day after vowing to intensify operations against the NDFB militants.A deadly attack on tribals by militants in Assam had left over 70 people dead earlier this week.General Suhag is likely to...
02:00
Vladimir Putin delivered a lump of coal in the Kremlin's stocking this year when he announced Thursday that he has canceled holiday vacations for members of the government.Russia's President delivered the bad news at a December 25 meeting he convened of his government, but for those thinking that...
01:55
All Indians who thought they could download an app and reduce their prepaid telephone bills by making VOIP (voice over internet protocol) calls, have a rude call back to reality from Bharti Airtel. The service provider's move to charge more than what it does for regular Internet usage for...
01:10
At least 14 people have been killed and 750,000 affected in Sri Lanka due to floods and mudslides caused by heavy rains across the country in the past three days as the air force deployed helicopters for rescue operations in the central hills today.At least 14 people are dead while 11 remain...
00:45
Chinese President Xi Jinping today virtually rejected pro-democracy agitators' demand for free elections in Hong Kong in 2017 and backed embattled Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying who came in for severe criticism during the recent protests in the former British colony. Read the...
00:10
India announces 6 crore rupees for UN tsunami fundFurther disciplinary action against Khobragade not ruled out: MEASwine flu claims first life in Delhi this seasonJK governor calls PDP, BJP for parleys on govt formationJ&K govt formation: NC makes offer of support to PDPSuspense over...
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