23:47
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah disapproved of the event at JNU on the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, saying it has discredited the university. What was the necessity to bring in Afzal Guru into the campus?...
23:21
There have been 107 cases of Zika virus among US travellers returning from Zika-infected areas, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The CDC also reported 40 locally acquired cases of the virus in US territories. Thirty-five are in Puerto Rico, four are in American Samoa,...
22:45
The Russian military has halted airstrikes in areas of Syria as part of a cessation of hostilities agreement. Russia has stopped attacks on armed groups included in the temporary truce, defense ministry official Sergei Rudskoi said.
22:16
Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and chess maestro Viswanathan Anand will join Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 17th edition of the 'Mann ki baat' programme tomorrow.Prime Minister Modi will share his thoughts on upcoming board exams in his radio address, which would be broadcast on the...
21:42
BJP President Amit Shah described Gujarat as the laboratory of Sangh Parivar's ideology and expressed confidence of a victory for the party in 2017 assembly polls as he once again attacked Rahul Gandhi over the JNU episode. Giving a pep talk to Gujarat BJP workers in the wake of recent...
21:04
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is India's most powerful person while RSS chief Mohan Bhagat is the second most powerful person, according to the 2016 Indian Express Power List, which ranks the 100 most powerful Indians. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat holds the second spot, indicating the huge...
20:46
BJP's hanta Kumar dashed off a strong-worded letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting that the World T20 India vs Pakistan match should not be allowed at Dharamshala, headquarter of Kangra district -- a home to hundreds of valiant jawans, martyrs and ex-servicemen. He feared...
20:12
MNS chief Raj Thackeray said that the BJP should not issue certificates of patriotism by politicising the issue of alleged sedition in Jawaharlal Nehru University. While anti-national sloganeering in JNU has to be condemned, it is not for BJP to issue certificates of patriotism or...
19:33
News that Nergis Mavalvala, the Karachi-born astrophysicist who was in the team that verified Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity, has been invited to visit Pakistan and to meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has delighted the country's gay community.Mavalvala is openly gay and a...
19:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio programme Mann Ki Baat to be broadcast tomorrow at 11 am.
18:55
A teenage German national has alleged sexual assault by an auto rickshaw driver in central Delhi around two months back. The teen, claimed, that on December 14, 2015, she lost her way and an auto rickshaw driver offered her a lift after which he allegedly sexually assaulted her. She claimed...
18:14
Radhika, the mother of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide at Hyderabad University last month, meets Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi. Yesterday, Rohith's mother held a press conference, along with other family members and friends, and slammed Union HRD...
18:08
JUST IN: Delhi court extends police custody of JNU students, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, arrested in sedition case, by two more days.
17:49
A loud explosion rocked the Afghan capital Kabul near the defence ministry on Saturday, hours after a suicide bomber killed at least 11 people in the eastern province of Kunar. Interior ministry spokesperson Najib Danish said it was not yet clear what caused the blast but casualties were feared.
17:38
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar asked people to share information, if they have any, with the state police regarding the alleged incident of sexual assault of women near Murthal in Sonepat during the Jat quota agitation.Those people who possess any information (regarding Murthal...
17:06
In the backdrop of JNU and Hyderabad university row, some faculty members and students of the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences, along with some activists, are holding a two-day conference to discuss the attack on autonomy of educational institutions and freedom of expression.This is...
16:57
A resident of Indore has been receiving telephone calls since yesterday after Haryana Police listed his number among the names and numbers of three officers for receiving information concerning the alleged incident of sexual assault on some women near Murthal during the Jat stir. When a...
16:30
NDTV reports: Confronted by a team of lawyers sent by the Supreme Court, policemen at Delhi's Patiala House Courts were able to offer little explanation for the violence that unfolded for the second time last week when arrested JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was assaulted while being produced...
16:25
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh granted bail in MP Assembly Recruitment Scam
15:25
Amidst a national debate over the use of sedition charges against Jawaharlal Nehru University students, President Pranab Mukherjee called for a revision of the Indian Penal code to meet the needs of the 21st century.Speaking at an event in Kochi on the occasion of the year-long celebrations of...
15:17
Hindustan Times reports: Joint secretary of JNU students' union, Saurabh Kumar, will hold a public screening on campus of the T20 cricket match between India and Pakistan scheduled for Saturday evening.Saurabh is the sole member of right wing ABVP in the JNUSU. The screening is being done at a...
15:11
Delhi court summons ex-Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, Kalanithi Maran, his wife as accused in a money laundering case related to Aircel-M: PTI reports
15:08
Congress to move privilege motion against HRD minister Smriti Irani : ANI
14:52
JUST IN: Karishma Kapoor files FIR under Sections 498 A (Dowry law) and 34 against husband Sanjay and mother-in-law Rani: ANI
14:50
Philanthropist Alfred E Mann, an entrepreneur and inventor whose wide-ranging business endeavors included aerospace, pharmaceuticals, electronic circuitry and biomedical research, has died. He was 90. His death on Thursday was announced by MannKind Corp, where Mann served as chairman of the...
14:18
A Pakistani court has granted bail to a young die-hard fan of ace Indian batsman Virat Kohli after he spent more than a month behind bars over treason charges for hoisting the Indian tricolour atop his home.The additional district and sessions court in Okara admitted bail plea of 22-year-old Umar...
13:23
South Indian filmmaker Rajesh Pillai died on Saturday at a private hospital in Kochi, according to a report in The News Minute. The 42-year-old director was suffering from a liver problem and had been on ventilator support since Friday.His latest film Vettah, starring Kunjacko Bobban, Manju...
13:10
The number of men smoking tobacco in India rose by more than one-thirds to 108 million in 17 years, according to an alarming new study led by an Indian-origin researcher, which also found that cigarettes are replacing the traditional bidis.The study found the number of men smoking any type of...
13:08
A US appeals court has handed Samsung a win over Apple in a long-running patent fight, overriding a jury verdict ordering it to pay $119.6 million to the iPhone maker. The court ruled yesterday that two Apple patents at issue were not valid, according to a copy of the decision posted...
12:26
At least 10 people were killed and over 40 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a market in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar today, officials said.A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle detonated his explosives in a market in Asadabad the provincial capital, 10 people were...
12:24
Another Jawaharlal Nehru University student, Ashutosh, who the police was looking out for in connection with the sedition case, joined investigation on Saturday after receiving a police summon.Ashutosh, who is JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's predecessor, is one of the five students, including...
12:12
Times of India reports: Kanhaiya Kumar, according to police sources, has claimed that he did not know Umar Khalid or Anirban Bhattacharya, now in Delhi Police custody, personally but was aware of their political affiliations. He has allegedly claimed that he knew them only as fellow students...
10:38
Indian Express reports: The investigation into alleged anti-national slogans raised on Jawaharlal Nehru University campus earlier this month has been transferred to the Delhi Police Special Cell. The move to transfer the case to the unit that probes terror cases came on the day three JNU students...
10:15
A complete shutdown is being observed across Kashmir today against the crackdown on the Jawaharlal Nehru University students and former Delhi University Professor SAR Geelani who have been slapped with charges of sedition by the Centre.The shutdown call was given by the Hurriyat conference and...
10:13
Times of India reports: HRD minister Smriti Irani should know that university students are not her baccha nor do we need a mother like her, said Anant Prakash Narayan, one of the students charged with sedition for the controversial February 9 event.Reacting to Irani's speech in the Lok Sabha on...
10:10
JUST IN: One dead, two injured after a crude bomb exploded in Birbhum district of West Bengal
09:30
US defence secretary Ashton Carter's two-day India visit beginning late on April 10 will be the high point of a string of visits by top defence officials of the Obama administration.The quickened pace of the India-US defence relationship is a consequence of last week's formal Make in India...
09:11
A ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect across Syria today, marking the biggest international push to reduce violence in the country's devastating conflict, but the Islamic State group and al-Qaida's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, were excluded.The ceasefire aims...
09:08
North Korea today boasted of a newly developed anti-tank weapon that its leader said was so powerful it could turn the most heavily armoured enemy tanks into boiled pumpkin.Pyongyang's state media said leader Kim Jong-Un had watched tests of the portable, laser-guided rocket and declared it had...
09:05
With just 32 squadrons remaining out of the actual requirement of 42, the Indian Air Force may be ill prepared to give an effect resonse in the event of an enemy assualt, said an NDTV report.The seriousness of the situation is highlighted by the fact that Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar has...
09:02
President Pranab Mukherjee will launch five key projects, including declaration of Kerala as the first digital state and dedication of the UL CyberPark to the nation, at Kozhikode on Saturday. Dedication of the Gender Park by the department of Social Justice of Kerala government to the...
00:43
Delhi Police is probing a threat mail received on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official e-mail address, with regard to which a complaint was lodged at central Delhi's IP Estate police station.According to the complaint, a mail was received in the chief minister's official e-mail address on...
00:05
Justice Karnan asked to join Calcutta HC before Mar 11SC seeks Centre's suggestions to ban child pornographyMP recruitment scam: Digvijay faces non-bailable arrest warrantIrani resorted to 'blatant lies' in Parliament: Rohith's motherHe taught me to be informed, unafraid: Slain B'desh blogger's...
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