23:50
A day after estranged cousins Raj and Uddhav Thackeray met causing ripples in political circles, Shiv Sena today said it was a 'family meeting' and nothing more should be read into it.Raj quit Shiv Sena in 2006 to float Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. Uddhav is the president of Shiv Sena.They are...
23:23
Family members of five militants, who carried out the deadly Dhaka cafe terror attack killing 22 people, have not come forward to claim their bodies, a media report said on Saturday.The bodies of five militants, who were shot dead in a gunfight with security forces at the Holey Artisan Bakery in...
22:52
Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch who was killed for bringing shame to the family by posting risque videos and posts on Facebook was strangled to death by her cousin and not by her brother, a polygraph test found on Saturday.The main accused of the case Muhammad Waseem had earlier...
22:37
Jermaine Blackwood slammed a quickfire half-century to rally West Indies after a horror start, on Day 1 of the second Test against India in Jamaica.Blackwood smashed 62 from as many balls to take WI to 88 for 4 at lunch. They were struggling on 3 for seven at one stage after Ishant Sharma had...
22:09
The decision on wrestler Narsingh Yadav's doping case has been deferred to Monday. The NADA will announce the decision at 4 pm on August 1. No decision could be taken today. Panel waiting for all documents and records, Naveen Aggarwal, DG NADA said.The decision at 4pm on Monday; Entire case to...
21:41
Authorities say there appear to be no survivors after a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas.Officials say the balloon crashed in a pasture in Central Texas at approximately 7.40am local time.According to Lynn Lunsford, of the Federal Aviation...
21:24
Aurangabad Arms Haul case till August 2. The special MCOCA court here reserved its order on quantum of sentence till August 2.Special prosecutor Vaibhav Bagade said the entire world was now fighting the terror menace and the convicts were preparing to carry out acts of...
21:20
At least 27 persons were killed after being struck by lightning in different parts of Odisha today, police said. While the maximum number of eight deaths were reported from Bhadrak district, there were seven casualties in Balasore district, five in Khurda, three in Mayurbhanj and one each in...
20:52
Pacer Ishant Sharma claimed two wickets off successive deliveries to give India a dream start in the second Test against the West Indies, in Jamaica, on Saturday.Ishant claimed the wicket of Kraigg Brathwaite (1) and Darren Bravo off successive deliveries to leave the hosts tottering at 4 for 2...
20:28
As the government gears up for a fresh push to get the long-pending GST law passed, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the 'one nation, one tax' regime will reduce the taxation levels and also eliminate corruption. Stressing that India cannot afford the kind of spectrum or coal mines...
20:19
Hours after BJP contradicted Mehbooba Mufti's stand by saying that forces were aware of Wani's presence, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh has make a u-turn.Toeing CM's line Singh said, If we would have known about this (Burhan Wani's encounter), we would have taken better...
20:03
West Indies captain Jason Holder has won the toss and elected to bat against India in the second Test. India lead the four-match series 1-0 .
19:19
A operative of terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami was on Saturday awarded death penalty in the 2005 Shramjeevi Express train blast case by a local court in Uttar Pradesh.Alamgeer alias Rony, a Bangladeshi national, was awarded death sentence and a fine of Rs 7 lakh by Additional District and...
19:06
With the Rio Olympics just a week away, here is a brief history of the Ancient Olympics.
18:45
Contradicting Mehbooba Mufti's stand, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said security forces had the knowledge of Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani's presence at the encounter site. Terming the killing of Wani as success, Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Sat Sharma said identity of the terrorist...
18:40
Dozens of civilians left the besieged and battered opposition-held east of Syria's Aleppo city on Saturday through a humanitarian corridor to the government-held west, state media reported.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that a number of civilians had crossed...
17:51
One of the jihadists who murdered an elderly French priest smiled as he carried out the attack, and nuns who witnessed the grisly murder said the killers spoke about a holy book.The two nuns who were in the church when Father Jacques Hamel was killed, his throat slit on the altar, said the men...
16:56
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's son Rakesh Siddaramaiah, who was undergoing treatment in the Belgian capital, passed away on Saturday due to multiple-organ failure.He was undergoing treatment for acute pancreatitis at Brussel's Antwerp University Hospital. Unconfirmed reports suggest...
16:32
Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar today visited the family of flight lieutenant Kunal Barpatte, who was navigating the Indian Air Force transport plane when it went missing, and reassured them that he was personally monitoring the situation.Parrikar expressed his shock and sympathy to the parents...
16:28
Peepli Live co-director Mahmood Farooqui has been convicted by a Delhi court for raping an American researcher.The Delhi Police had accused Farooqui of raping a 35-year-old American woman, who was in India to conduct research for her doctoral thesis from Columbia University.Farooqui, however, had...
16:18
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Naresh Yadav was today granted bail by a local court here in connection with the alleged sacrilege incident in Malerkotla on June 24.Naresh Yadav has been granted bail by the court of Additional District & Sessions Judge A S Virk here in Sangrur, AAP leader and Head of...
15:22
A CoBRA jawan was killed and another injured in a fierce gun-battle with Naxals in a dense forest pocket of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district today, police said.The skirmish took place in the core forests of Bhejji police station area when a squad of CoBRA's 208th battalion -- an elite...
15:18
Belgian police have arrested two men in connection with an anti-terrorism case, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said.The two men, named as Nourredine H, 33, and his brother Hamza were detained after house searches in the Mons region and the city of Liege.Both are suspected of planning a...
15:18
A CPI-ML Legislator Mehboob Alam was today booked for allegedly slapping a branch manager of a bank in Bihar's Katihar district. Rakesh Ranjan, Branch Manager of Gwaltoli branch of Allahabad Bank, lodged a complaint against the MLA for allegedly slapping and abusing him besides trying to...
15:18
Sri Lanka have won the test match against Australia in Pallekele by 106 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Spinner Rangana Herath picked five wickets to send Australia crashing for 161 in their second innings.This is Steven Smith's first loss as Australia's Test captain.Both sides...
14:31
NADA verdict on wrestler Narsingh Yadav likely to come at 6 pm today, television reports said.After the conclusion of the two-day hearing on Narsingh's dope positive case on Thursday, the NADA counsel had said that the verdict would come either 30 July or on 1 August.We have not been told when...
12:42
Army today foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Naugam sector of Kashmir's Kupwara district, killing two terrorists in the operation that also left two soldiers dead.Troops noticed suspicious movement along the LoC in Naugam sector during the intervening night and challenged...
12:04
Explosion rocks Herat city, casualties feared: Afghan media
12:01
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit at Hangzhou in China on September 4-5, said government sources.Though the details of the meeting have not yet emerged, if it does take place, it would be...
11:56
Satish Mathur has been appointed as the new DGP of Maharashtra police, ANI reported.Mathur, a 1981-batch IPS officer, had taken charge as the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau chief in April this year. Prior to this, Mathur was heading the Maharashtra State Police Housing and Welfare...
11:49
Calling on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch a campaign to free Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has said it was about time that India took concrete steps to take back the captured and disputed land. Prime Minister Modi should begin a campaign to free PoK. Nawaz Sharif...
11:38
The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court, which on Thursday held Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal and 11 others guilty in 2006 Aurangabad Arms haul case, is expected to announce the quantum of sentence for the convicts on Saturday.While delivering the order, Special MCOCA Judge...
11:27
2 terrorists and 2 soldiers killed as Army foils infiltration bid in Baramulla.
11:06
Curfew and restrictions continued for the 22nd consecutive day across the Kashmir valley on Saturday following protests over the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani.Security forces have blocked all the roads as the resistance camp extended their shutdown call till July...
10:17
Gurugram police chalks out a detailed plan to avert traffic jams during rains this year.14 crucial points have been chosen mainly on the NH8 and NH248A and forces deployed 24x7 for the same. At each point, an inspector rank officers will be deployed along with police as per requirement of each...
10:04
Rajjat Barjatya, MD and CEO of Rajshri Media, passed away on Friday at a hospital in Mumbai. Cousin of filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya, Rajjat was suffering from cancer for a while now and took his last breath at 6:30 in the evening.He was admitted in Jaslok Hospital from the last 10-12 days....
09:01
The pro-Kannada and farmer associations have called for 'Karnataka Bandh' on Saturday to protest against the Tribunal's interim order rejecting Karnataka's interim plea for sharing the Mahadayi river water with Goa. Huge protests were witnessed on July 28 after Karnataka's petition seeking...
08:59
The United States has handed over certain documents to the National Investigation Agency which could strengthen India's assertions of complicity of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad in the attack on the Pathankot IAF base.As per a report in The Times of India, these comprise of...
08:39
Telangana government decides to scrap Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test-2, 2016 after CID report confirms paper leak The EAMSAT is the entry door to bachelor of medicine and surgery and bachelor of dental surgery courses in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. About 50,900...
04:04
An Istanbul court has remanded 17 Turkish journalists in custody over links to the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen who is blamed for this month's failed coup, charging them with membership of a terror group.Twenty-one journalists had their cases heard by the court, with four being freed and 17...
03:53
A strong but deep 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific today, but triggered no tsunami alert, US monitors said.The quake struck at a depth of 212 kilometre at 7:18 am (local time) some 31 kilometre southwest of the island of Agrihan, according to...
03:52
The Pentagon is flatly rejecting allegations by Turkey's president that the US military was somehow involved in or in any way supported the recent failed coup in that country.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn) lashed out at the US yesterday and criticized a...
01:51
Slovak President Robert Fico today said he believed there is a high risk that fresh attacks will occur in Europe, and he blamed migrants for the threat.In less than two weeks Islamic State group jihadists have claimed four bloody assaults in France and Germany that killed nearly 90 people,...
00:59
Democratic Party officials said today they have been targeted by a fresh cyber attack, similar to a breach at the Democratic National Committee that resulted in an embarrassing leak of party emails.The revelation will raise further questions in the United States about the activities of Russian...
00:27
French authorities filed terror charges today against two suspected members of the same Islamic State cell that massacred 130 people in Paris last November, a judicial source said.The 29-year-old Algerian and the 35-year-old Pakistani were charged with criminal conspiracy with terrorists, the...
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Maya abuser Dayashankar Singh arrested; sent to 14 day judicial custodyTrump says he wants to 'hit' Democrats who mocked him22 dead, about 22 lakh affected in Bihar floods
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