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People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti met Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah at the latter's residence in New Delhi today, said sources.The PDP President, who was in the national capital to attend the budget session of Parliament, drove in a car without security for a meeting...
22:41
The Nuclear Fuel Complex at Kushaiguda in Hyderabad today received an anonymous letter threatening presence of a bomb on its premises, prompting police to conduct a thorough check of the site where nothing suspicious was found.The letter written in Telugu and dated March 11 was received by the...
22:21
The Pakistan government today allowed ailing Pervez Musharraf to go abroad for medical treatment, a day after the Supreme Court lifted a bar on foreign trips of the former military ruler facing trial in a number of cases including for high treason.Musharraf, 72, is facing treason trial since 2013...
21:46
Shaktiman, the police horse who had suffered fractures in one of his hind legs after Uttarakhand BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi allegedly attacked him, had his leg amputated in order to save his life. The doctors, who are treating the police horse, had diagnosed earlier today that blood supply to...
21:36
Two cases were today filed in Bihar seeking sedition charges against AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi for his refusal to chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'.ABVP leader Ramji Singh in Buxar filed a case in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Hari Shankar Prasad seeking booking of the Hyderabad MP under...
21:28
The number of people killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition on a market in northern Yemen's rebel-held Hajja province on Tuesday has risen to 119, a UN agency said.The strikes saw 119 killed, including up to 22 children, and 47 injured, the UNICEF children's agency said in a statement.It...
20:48
Four Kashmiri students, who were arrested following rumours that they cooked beef in their hostel room in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh, have been released, police said today, claiming the meat in their possession was prima facie not of the cow.The police have also identified the man who allegedly...
20:35
Intensifying BJP's attack on AIMIM leaders for their remarks against chanting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai, Union minister Venkaiah Naidu today said 'Razakars', who fought against Hyderabad integrating into India, had alsoobjected to this slogan.I don't understand why people have objections to raising...
20:34
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday was welcomed with chants of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' at the inaugural of World Sufi Forum in New Delhi.At the ceremony the PM said, 99 names for Allah, none of them stand for violence. Allah is Rahman and Rahim.The fight against terrorism is not a...
20:08
Shaktiman, the horse who suffered fractures in one of his hind legs after Uttarakhand BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi allegedly attacked him, will need an amputation in order to save his life. The doctors, who are treating the police horse, have diagnosed that blood supply to injured portion had...
19:34
It seems that the elections in abroad are also trying to cash in on the 'Modi wave'.Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative party candidate for the high-profile London mayoral polls is using leaflets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's image to woo Indian-origin voters against his veteran Labour party...
19:17
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that it would be difficult to accept Congress' demand to cap the goods and services tax rate in a Constitution amendment bill pending in Rajya Sabha even as he remains hopeful of passage of the key bill. He also said that there is...
18:47
When public figures speak violence, the fallout goes beyond their immediate targets. In ways seen and unseen, those most affected are often women.Recently, we saw an illustration of this during the Jat quota stir. In a sea of men blocking highways and railway tracks, women were invisible. In...
18:23
Congress, which had supported suspension of AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan after he refused to chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai', today objected to the use of a derogatory word against the legislator by Shiv Sena MLA Gulabrao Patil. The party has also sought an unconditional apology from the Shiv Sena leader...
18:04
Haryana government invites Jat leaders for talks on quota demand tomorrow afternoon, till then they will not begin their agitation.
18:03
A 90-year-old Muslim woman fell ill and was admitted to hospital after she heard AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi saying he refused to chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'. Her son has now filed a sedition case on her behalf against the AIMIM chief. Rashidun Khatoon, a resident of Ekderva village in...
17:58
EAM Sushma Swaraj on her meeting with Sartaj Aziz, the foreign affairs advisor to the Pakistan prime minister, in Pokhara, Nepal. We discussed issues pertaining to the Pathankot terror strike. A Pakistan Joint Investigation Team is probing the Pathankot terror strike and will arrive in New...
17:24
Just in: Chhagan Bhujbal sent to judicial custody till March 31. Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal was on Tuesday remanded in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate for two days by a PMLA court in Mumbai. His custody with the ED ended today. The former Maharashtra Deputy...
17:20
Pakistan foreign minister Sartaj Aziz hands over SAARC summit invitation for PM Modi, to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Pokhara, Nepal.
16:53
Jat agitation: PM speaks to Home Minister, Haryana Chief Minister, asks them to ensure law and order. There can be no repeat of last time, the Prime Minister warned Rajnath Singh and ML Khattar as the Jat community warned of a new round of aggressive demonstrations...
16:25
Loans defaulter and owner of long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines Vijay Mallya has finally responded to the Enforcement Directorate summons ordering him to appear before it on March 18. Mallya has asked for time till early April. Mallya has been embroiled in a money laundering case involving Rs 900...
16:11
News at this hour:-- Vijay Mallay seeks time till early April to appear before the Enforcement Directorate. -- India has granted visas to members of the Pakistani Special Investigation Team, dispatched to assist Indian authorities in the probe into the January 2 Pathankot airbase attack. -- SC...
15:49
Goa government on Wednesday classified 'Feni', a form of spirit produced exclusively in the coastal state, as Heritage Spirit of Goa.Feni has achieved first geographical indication in Goa and is also the first liquor product in the country to obtain that status, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar...
15:35
German bakery bomb blast case convict Himayat Baig awarded life sentence in one case, acquitted of nine charges.The Bombay high court delivered its verdict this afternoon overturning the death penalty awarded to Himayat Baig, the lone convict of the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case.A division...
15:31
For the first time in its history, Muslims in their thousands will hoist the Indian tricolour, sing the national anthem and will then chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' outside the sanctum sanctorum, but within the premises of the Mahim dargah in Mumbai to celebrate the 603 Urs of Peer Maqdoom Shah...
15:06
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi took on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat when he said he would refuse to chant 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' even at 'knife-point.' Addressing RSS leaders at a conclave on March 3, Bhagwat said the new generation needed to be taught to chant slogans...
14:59
PM Narendra Modi to begin West Bengal poll campaign from Kharagpur on March 27. Modi will attend at least seven rallies in three phases, claimed the state BJP leadership.Besides the PM, other top BJP leaders including party president Amit Shah, central ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj,...
14:49
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi's programme in the Lucknow today was cancelled after he was denied permission by the district administration to hold a meeting on grounds of law and order situation in the state.An angry AIMIM slammed the Samajwadi Party (SP)...
14:30
The Goa government's decision to propose Rs 50 crore for marketing tourism in 2016-17 has invited strong criticism from the Opposition benches which dubbed it as a scam. Stakeholders like Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) in their pre-budget memorandum had specifically requested not...
14:28
Just in: No bids for Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher House in Mumbai. The base price of the house was set for Rs 150 crore. The SBI-led bank consortium set up the auction of Kingfisher House at Vile Parle in Mumbai in a bid to recover a part of Rs 6,963 crore debt due from the now grounded...
14:19
Two flights have been grounded at the Indira Gandhi International ( IGI) airport here on Thursday due to a bomb scare. The Kathmandu-bound Nepal Airlines flight, which was supposed to take off at 11.30 am, and Bhubaneswar-bound Air India flight, scheduled for 11.00 am departure, have...
14:16
The emergence of real estate tycoon Donald Trump as Republican presidential nominee sounded the death-knell for the party establishment, Indian-American former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said.The GOP (Republican) establishment is done for. This race shows that, Jindal told MSNBC's Meet...
14:13
A little over 170 passengers of the Nilgiris Mountain Railway train were today left stranded on the tracks as it stopped mid-way following a technical snag. The heritage train, which left Mettupalayam in the district at 7.10 am, stopped some half a km from Coonoor, its destination, as its...
14:12
It is still a week a to go for Holi but festivities have already begun in Brijbhumi Vrindavan. Devotees enjoyed the festival of colours at the famous Dwarkadhish temple yesterday and many more such events will unfold in the run-up to Holi. Imparting a touch of pathos to the celebrations...
14:10
The National Investigation Agency has arrested an alleged 'sympathiser' of the banned ISIS terror group from West Bengal. The agency identified the youth as one Ashiq Ahammed alias Raja, a resident of Hooghly district. Ahammed, who was arrested yesterday, will be produced before a special...
13:51
Just in: Bomb threat at Delhi's IGI airport delays Nepal Airlines (Delhi-Kathmandu) and Air India (Delhi-Bhubaneswar) flights.
13:49
f you have a ticket to the blockbuster at the Eden Gardens this Saturday, you didn't just buy a ticket. You also won a lottery. For the first time in Indian sport, an online lottery is being used to determine who gets to buy tickets to some matches featuring India along with the knockouts at...
13:39
The condition of the injured police horse 'Shaktimaan' deteriorates, says Sadanand Date, SSP Dehradun.The police horse that was allegedly attacked by a BJP MLA, causing a nation-wide outrage, underwent a surgical procedure to fix one of its hind legs after which authorities said no...
13:30
Also read Uttarakhand BJP MLA's interview to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com: 'I was not there when the horse fell'
13:13
US seed company Monsanto is welcome to leave India if it does not want to lower prices of genetically modified cotton seeds as directed by the government, a minister said on Wednesday, in a sign the rift between New Delhi and the firm is widening.The comments come as Prime Minister Narendra...
12:55
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among the most influential people on the Internet, TIME magazine said, describing the Indian leader as an Internet star who often uses social media to conduct diplomacy.The magazine cited Modi's unconventional announcement on Twitter of his visit to Pakistan last...
12:33
One of the consequences of the rise of Donald Trump is the global equalization of awfulness. Time was when desis would lament the loneliness of the long-distance liberal in India and gesture, by way of contrast, at the West where liberal virtues were institutionalized and where political...
12:29
Lenders to long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines, owned by beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya, today began auctioning the KFA headquarters - Kingfisher House - situated near the domestic airport here.The property, with a built-up area of over 17,000 sq ft in Vile Parle area, is being auctioned by...
12:15
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Mussourie Ganesh Joshi who is accused of assaulting and severely injuring a horse that belonged to the Dehradun Police, visited the injured animal in Dehradun on Thursday and said that the horse needs better treatment and must be send to the national...
12:02
Supreme Court agrees to hear a petition of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee against Sikh jokes.
11:53
Finance minister Arun Jaitley on the Vijay Mallya case: The case is pending in court and every govt agency is going to take strong action wherever he has violated the law. Banks are going all out to recover every penny that they have given to Mallya.
11:49
The Delhi High Court today fixed for March 23 the hearing on the pleas seeking cancellation of interim bail granted to JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case. The petitions have been received on transfer. Renotify for March 23, Justice Suresh Kait said. However, when the judge fixed...
11:40
Bharti Airtel to acquire Videocon Telecom's 1,800 MHz spectrum for Rs 4,428 crore.
11:35
The Enforcement Directorate has announced that liquor baron and owner of grounded Kingfisher Airlines Vijay Mallya has to appear in person before the court. His lawyers cannot appear on his behalf, the ED told news channels. The first hearing in the Vijay Mallya loan default case by the ED has...
11:21
Actor Anupam Kher, an ardent Narendra Modi supporter and flies the nationalist flag tweets that the only definition of nationalism for Bharatwasis should be Bharat Mata Ki Jai. Yesterday, the Congress joined the BJP, NCP and Shiv Sena in the Maharashtra Assembly to get AIMIM MLA Waris...
11:04
These are among hundreds of episodes recorded over the past year that show how young Muslims have been branded IS recruiters, sympathisers or active members by people looking to settle personal scores. Read more
11:02
Frank Sinatra Jr, the son of legendary singer Frank Sinatra and an artist himself, has died. He was 72. The Sinatra family said in a statement that he died of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona, FL, and that they mourn the untimely passing of their son, brother, family, and uncle,...
10:59
Nandan Nilekani, the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India and considered one of the chief architects of Aadhaar, says the NDA government's Aadhaar Bill has enough safeguards and this is probably the most stringent law on privacy till date in India. In fact, this (the...
10:53
Rajasthan minister R Rathore says Kashmiri students, who were accused of cooking beef in Chittorgarh college, have been released after questioning.Non-vegetarian food is barred in the campus of the college affiliated to the Mewar University.The four students were attacked by a mob on Tuesday...
10:48
Delhi High Court adjourns for March 23 the hearing on a plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to Kanhaiya Kumar
10:12
A whopping over Rs 1,500 crore was spent by various central government ministries on foreign travel during the last three years.Of the total of 1,537 crore spent by ministries, a total of Rs 509.91 crore was during 2014-15, Rs 434.94 crore in 2013-14 and Rs 593.09 crore during 2012-13, Minister...
10:07
NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal will be produced before a Special PMLA court in a case of money laundering filed against him in connection with the Maharashtra Sadan scam.Former Maharashtra PWD Minister Bhujbal is in the custody of Enforcement Directorate until today in connection with the Maharashtra...
10:05
Political tempers are running high after AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's statement that he would never chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'. Now, an Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shyam Prakash Dwiwedi has announced a reward of Rs 1 crore to whoever cuts Owaisi's tongue.Dwiwedi has also...
10:00
Airport Authority of India employees union threaten to go on a hunger strike from April 4 if bonus is not paid to them: ANI
09:57
JUST IN: Vishwa Hindu Parishad wants name of Mangalore district collector be dropped from temple event invite, says they don't want non-hindu official to attend temple event
09:56
NCP's Sameer Bhujbal who had been arrested in a money laundering case brought to ED office
09:31
Asaduddin Owaisi's visit to Lucknow cancelled. He was denied permission by the city administration on Wednesday to hold a public meet.
09:10
The Jat reservation protests, which plunged Haryana into a welter of violence leaving 30 dead, could erupt again today if the Haryana government fails to meet its demands in the draft Bill it is likely to table in the state assembly.The influential Jat community leaders are demanding 10 per cent...
08:59
The Justice SN Dhingra Commission of Inquiry, set up in 2015 to probe grant of commercial licence of land to hundreds of private companies, including Skylight Hospitality and DLF, has issued summons to former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for joining the investigation.The...
08:52
A consortium led by the State Bank of India is likely to auction the Kingfisher House at Jogeshwari in Mumbai on Thursday, in a bid to recover part of the Rs 6,963 crore debt due from the now grounded Kingfisher Airlines. The bank consortium had taken over the Kingfisher House near Mumbai...
08:49
Jewellers will today hold a rally at Ram Lila Maidan in national capital New Delhi to protest against the Budget proposal to impose 1 per cent excise duty on non-silver jewellery.Jewellers are on strike since March 2 demanding withdrawal of the proposed excise duty. The strike entered the 16th...
08:45
A sessions court in Delhi is likely to hear the bail plea of former Delhi University lecturer SAR Gilani who was arrested under sedition charges in connection with a Press Club event.The accused, arrested on February 16, had filed his bail applications before the Patiala House Courts registry on...
08:42
The Bombay high court is likely to deliver its verdict on confirmation of death penalty awarded to Himayat Baig, the lone convict of 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case, today.A division bench of Justices N H Patil and S B Shukre is expected to pronounce the verdict on the confirmation petition of...
08:40
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz are scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting in Pokhara, Nepal today which was sought by Aziz to extend the invitation for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the SAARC summit, to be hosted by Pakistan later this...
08:37
The Jat quota Bill is likely to be tabled in the Haryana assembly today, keeping in view the deadline set by agitating Jats to meet their reservation demand.The influential Jat community leaders are demanding 10 per cent quotas, besides withdrawal of FIRs registered against the protesters,...
04:07
United States President Barack Obama has signed an order implementing United Nations-backed sanctions on North Korea, amid a series of reprisals from Pyongyang.The White House on Wednesday said Obama had signed an executive order targeting the volatile hermit state's energy, financial and...
03:22
Assam Agriculture Minister Rockybul Hussain on Wednesday filed a police complaint against an Election Commission Election Expenditure team for allegedly defaming him by searching his vehicles.Hussain said that he along with his wife had come to his house in Panjabari area in Guwahati at around...
02:25
United States network Fox News today called off a Republican debate next week after front-runner Donald Trump announced he wasn't taking part.The debate -- being organised in partnership with the Republican Party -- would have been held Monday in Salt Lake City, Utah.'The Salt Lake City debate is...
01:15
Silver anklets, weighing around 6 kg and printed with pictures of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leaders M Karunanidhi and M K Stalin, were today seized by an election flying squad here.Police said the seizure was made from the house of DMK functionary Gopalakrishnan, who is into silver anklets...
00:40
The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to grant any interim stay on the money laundering proceedings initiated by the Enforcement Directorate against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and others.In a notice to the ED, Justice Pratibha Rani sought its...
00:05
The first part of the budget session of Parliament came to end on Wednesday evening, with both the Houses adjourned till 11 am on April 25.The first part of the session turned out to be a very productive.The lower house worked 123 per cent of the scheduled time, while productivity of the...
00:03
AI plane searched at Bangkok airport after bomb threatsComplaint against Owaisi for refusing to say 'Bharat Mata ki jai' -Group of JNU teachers' release report, say Afzal event could have been avoided Merrick Garland nominated as US Supreme Court judge Pak diplomats get travel permission as...
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