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Prime Minister Narendra Modi wishes team India after their six wickets win over Pakistan at Eden Gardens in 2016 World T20.Congratulations Team India for the amazing victory, tweeted the PM.Title favourites India maintained their stranglehold over arch-rivals Pakistan in ICC events with a...
23:28
Expanding his presence on social media, Pope Francis is now on photo sharing service, Instagram.On the eve of the launch, a Vatican communications official, Monsignor Dario Vigano, told Vatican Radio that the pope believes images can reveal many things. Vigano also said that the Instagram account...
22:34
Two soldiers who were on surveillance duty in Kargil, J&K were washed away in the avalanche. One soldier was rescued while search and rescue operation was on for the other. The avalanche was triggered by mild earthquake that hit the army post located at an altitude of 17500...
22:18
Manithaneya Makkal Katchi on Saturday joined the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam-led front to fight the May 16 assembly election in Tamil Nadu which already has the Congress and Indian Union Muslim League on board. We fought 2014 Parliamentary polls only as part of the DMK...
21:49
An IIT alumnus, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar says a public life was something he never anticipated and he was pushed into the river of politics from behind but managed to swim successfully.He used disarming sense of humour in his address to future technocrats while inaugurating IIT Roorkee's...
21:28
Amid the debate on intolerance and nationalism, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday advised the students to collaborate with various decision-makers to make the world free of inequality and intolerance. The youth of today has a bright vision for the future. They want...
21:02
In a new turn in the slogan row, the oppostion Congress in Maharashtra on Saturday claimed that it did not support the motion for suspension of All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Waris Pathan from the assembly for not chanting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' and alleged that the ruling BJP and Shiv...
20:14
To popularise AYUSH system of medicine across the world, the ministry will enter into an agreement with World Health Organisation and a partnership with United States for research in AYUSH medicines for treatment of cancer.AYUSH is a very important sector and it should be propagated worldwide. To...
19:44
A day after his release from Tihar jail where he was lodged in a sedition case, Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid on Friday presented a paper at the Young Scholar's Conference at the university.The Centre for Historical Studies was to organise its annual Young Scholars' Conference...
19:27
The mosquito-borne Zika virus has infected at least 116 people, including an infant who was born with a severe brain development disorder, in the US, according to a leading American public health institute.During January 1, 2015February 26, 2016, a total of 116 residents of 33 US states and the...
19:23
According to sources, the Uttarakhand governor has asked Chief Minister Harish Rawat to prove majority in the state assembly by March 28, PTI reported on Saturday. Earlier in the day, the BJP said it has a majority in the Uttarakhand Assembly and should be invited to form a government as the...
19:04
In a rain curtailed match, Pakistan beat Indian by 2 runs in women's World T20 via D/L method in the Group B match at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi
19:00
Movie makers will now not be allowed to shoot at Golden Temple complex as Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which manages the shrine, has imposed a ban on shooting of commercial films there.We have imposed a complete ban on shooting of commercial films at Golden Temple complex, SGPC...
18:30
A criminal complaint was filed on Friday in a Delhi court seeking registration of FIR against All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi for alleged offences of sedition and causing enmity between different classes.The complaint was filed before Chief Metropolitan...
18:21
Victims of the November jihadist attacks in Paris and their relatives have expressed relief over the arrest of top fugitive Salah Abdeslam, saying they were glad he was captured alive to face justice, AFP reported. There can be a real trial with someone who was clearly involved in the...
17:53
JUST IN: Bangladesh's bowlers Arafat Sunny and Taskin Ahmed have been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect after an independent assessment found their bowling actions to be illegal.
17:38
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said the US has now become a third world country as compared to infrastructures in Dubai and China, and promised that things would change once he is elected the American president.We have become a third world country, folks!, Trump, 69, told...
17:15
Around 125 children were taken ill today after consuming mid-day meal at a primary school in Belhari, the police said. The children ate a meal of puri, chole and kheer following which they started vomiting and had loose motions. They were rushed to the district hospital, K Balaji, District...
17:13
A Chinese journalist linked to an anonymous letter calling for President Xi Jinping's resignation has gone missing while on his way to Hong Kong, according to his lawyer and family.Nobody has been able to contact Beijing-based columnist Jia Jia, 30, since Tuesday night when he was set to board...
17:11
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today met Radha Soami sect chief Gurinder Singh Dhillon at his residence at Beas, a move which has evoked interest as the party prepares to take on Punjab's ruling SAD-BJP combine in the 2017 assembly poll. Rahul spent nearly two hours with Dhillon....
17:00
A tiger, which had killed a worker and triggered panic among the locals in Devarsholai in Tamil Nadu for more than a week, was shot dead today. Three teams drawn from forest and police departments and Special Task Force were on the job to catch the tiger, which had deep cuts on its leg and...
16:49
Security forces have arrested a militant of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit from central Kashmir's Budgam district, police said today.Abdul Hamid Nath, a militant of Hizb, was apprehended from Ratsuna village in Beerwah area of the district by a joint party of police, army and CRPF last night, a police...
16:45
The ACJM court in Dhakrani on Saturday rejected the bail plea of Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ganesh Joshi, who is presently in jail for allegedly injuring a police horse.Joshi was on Friday sent to judicial custody for 14 days.Meanwhile, the ruling Congress in Uttarakhand and the BJP exchanged...
16:38
Russian investigators probing the crash of a Dubai airliner in southern Russia that killed all 62 people on board have found one of the plane's flight recorders.The Boeing 737-800 operated by FlyDubai was carrying 55 passengers, most of them Russian, and seven crew members of various...
16:23
A 32-year-old man, who was arrested in a theft case, died in custody following which 14 police officers were suspended and a magisterial probe ordered into the incident.While the police claimed that the deceased Zeeshan fell ill due to a suicide attempt and subsequently died, his relatives...
15:52
At least four people have been killed and two others wounded after a massive explosion rocked a crowded shopping street in the Turkish city of Istanbul, according to media reports. According to Turkey's Dogan news agency, ambulances rushed to the scene of the blast, which...
15:11
Amid the ongoing controversy over AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi refusing to chant 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', former Jammu and Kashmir Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah on Saturday said that one must not be asked for a certificate to prove his or her nationalism.I am what I am; I don't have to...
14:59
NCP MP and party chief Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule today met former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal at Arthur Road jail here. Bhujbal was sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Special Court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in Mumbai on Thursday. Asked by...
14:20
Ex-Delhi university lecturer SAR Gilani, arrested under sedition charges in connection with the Press Club event in New Delhi has been granted bail.More details are awaited.
14:17
Two Indians are among sixty-two people killed after a Dubai airliner crashed and caught fire early today while landing in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.The names of the Indians in the list put out by Russian authorities are: Anju Kathirvel Aiyappan and Mohan Shyam,...
13:40
JUST IN: 2 Indians are among the dead in plane crash in southern Russia, Flydubai airlines has said. More details are awaited.
13:38
The Delhi police today opposed the bail plea of ex-Delhi University lecturer S A R Gilani, arrested under sedition charges in connection with a Press Club event here, saying the event was an attack on the soul of India and it was contempt of court. Additional Sessions Judge reserved the...
13:22
Special prayers are being offered throughout the country ahead of the World T20 clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata this evening.The students in Lucknow's Vedic Pathshala chanted special hymns and prayed for the Indian team's victory. The kids here appeared...
12:49
Movie supernova Rajnikanth will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP Boss Amit Shah in New Delhi early next week. Rajnikanth is in the capital to shoot the sequel of Robot, directed by Shankar, with Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, who plays the...
12:20
Expressing confidence of forming the next government in Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said that it was ready for fresh polls as Chief Minister Harish Rawat has no majority in the state, adding that it would now wait for Governor K K Paul's reply on the concerned...
11:37
US President Barack Obama has congratulated Belgium and France over the arrest of top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, saying the significant arrest was the result of hard work and close cooperation between law enforcement authorities. President Obama spoke by phone today with Belgian...
11:36
China today issued a yellow alert for smog as the pollution choked most regions in the country's north with no signs of abating. This morning, PM 2.5 density - particulate matter with size equal to or less than 2.5 micron and the main gauge to identify pollutant particles in the air -- in most...
10:52
The White House today slammed Donald Trump for his threat of riots if he is denied the Republican presidential nomination, asserting that there can be no political justification for violence.It also disagreed with Trump being a popular candidate, arguing that Democratic presidential front-runner...
10:38
The 'Make in India' vision is a priority for defence procurement but operational readiness is the military's primary task as we don't want people to look at us with big eyes, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said.We need adequate equipment and that cannot change. Make in India is in its...
10:22
Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul's late son and former CEO of Caparo Group Angad Paul has been posthumously honoured with Editor's Special Award by a UK-based business association. Lord Paul's grandson Arush Paul received the award at the Asian Business Awards organised by Ramniklal...
10:00
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to provide jobs to acid attack women victims on priority in the state.Earlier, the acid attack survivors were felicitated and provided with financial assistance in Lucknow on the occasion of International Women's Day.Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav honoured...
09:36
The Bharatiya Janata Party National Executive and officer bearers meeting will begin in New Delhi on Saturday, as the two-day meeting will discuss current political situation in the country and take stock of organisational issues besides fine-tuning party's strategy for the ensuing Assembly...
09:33
As part of efforts to spread the message of energy conservation, New Delhi will join a billion people in over six cities across the globe to observe the Earth Hour today.It will be observed by switching off electrical appliances between 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm.As the Earth Hour coincides with the...
09:24
And here is Sand Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik's sand sculpture, wishing luck to Team India for match against Pakistan in the World Cup T20.
08:42
A strong and shallow 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit off Alaska, US experts said. The quake occurred at 5:35 pm Anchorage time yesterday and was located at a depth of 10 kilometers some 45 miles south of Atka, Alaska, according to the US Geological Survey. Picture for representation only
08:30
JUST IN: A UAE plane has crash landed in Southern Russia, killing over 61 people. Euronews reported the flight is said to have come from Dubai and to have crashed on its second attempt to land.Russian news station RT has published dramatic CCTV imagery of an explosion which appears to...
08:14
The plane with 55 passengers and four or five crew on board, coming from Dubai, crashed as came into land at the airport in Rostov-on-Don,' Marina Kostioukova, spokesman for the local emergencies ministry, was quoted by The Straits Times as saying.
05:41
A woman was on Friday arrested after she was found roaming in paramilitary force uniform near the cantonment area in Pathankot, police said.The woman, identified as Raminder Kaur, was roaming near the Tank Chowk here wearing force uniform following which army personnel detained her and...
03:34
In an apparent rejoinder to the criticism that Hindu nationalism is akin to fascism, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh supremo Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said India was bound to become a great country, but, in the process, no Hitler would arise.Speaking at the inauguration of a Vaidik School in...
02:51
JUST IN: Nine rebel Congress MLAs and 26 Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs of the Uttarakhand assembly have arrived in New Delhi.After their arrival at the national capital, former CM and rebel Congress MLA Vijay Bahuguna said that this (Harish Rawat) government was involved in massive corruption and...
02:24
United States President Barack Obama telephoned French President Francois Hollande and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel to congratulate them for the arrest of top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, officials said today.Obama called Hollande to congratulate him for the intervention, the...
01:50
A charted flight carrying 35 Uttarakhand MLAs -- including rebel Congress MLAs -- has taken off for Delhi from Dehradun's Jolly Grant Airport just now.While talking to media at the airport, former chief minister and Congress MLA Vijay Bahuguna said he is surprised why CM Harish Rawat has not...
01:29
Hours after his release from Tihar jail in a sedition case, Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid on Friday said he has no regrets of being jailed and was rather proud of being booked under the said charges.We have no regrets of being jailed in this particular case. We are in fact...
00:10
Trouble mounted for the Harish Rawat government in Uttarakhand as 35 MLAs of his party and the Bharatiya Janata Party are leaving for Delhi tonight to discuss the crisis with top leadership.Earlier, nine Congress MLAs, known to be loyalists of former chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, rebelled...
00:05
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