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Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, who had launched a hunger strike yesterday for not being allowed to visit the Simhasth Kumbh going on in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, will be taken for 'Shipra snaan' by the police on Wednesday morning.The Sadhvi, against whom the National Investigation Agency recently...
23:37
Congressman and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Paul Ryan today said that real estate tycoon Donald Trump is 'getting the nomination' of the Republican party for the November presidential elections.I hope it's Donald Trump. He's getting the nomination, Ryan told reporters at...
22:52
Union minister Kiren Rijiju will join an elite list of dignitaries who have undertaken a sortie on board the frontline attack aircraft Sukhoi-30 MKI when he will take off tomorrow from an airbase in Punjab.44-year-old Rijiju will take off from Indian Air Force's Halwara base and fly for about 30...
21:57
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday directed setting up of a task force to study the economic impact of drip irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra on parameters like water saving and productivity.Reviewing the drought situation in Andhra Pradesh with its Chief Minister N...
21:53
A Hindu school headmaster in Bangladesh was beaten up and made to do sit-ups in the presence of a local lawmaker for allegedly making disparaging statement against Islam, prompting the government to launch a probe into the incident.Shyamal Kanti Bhakta of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Bandar...
21:24
J K Rowling, who once called Donald Trump worse than her fictional Harry Potter villain Voldemort, has said that the controversial real estate mogul has her support to visit the United Kingdom and be offensive and bigoted there.Only last year, we saw an online petition to ban Donald Trump from...
20:59
A helicopter carrying Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat's wife, Renuka Rawat and state Congress chief Kishore Upadhyay today made an emergency landing at Joshimath due to a technical snag, police said.Renuka Rawat was returning to Dehradun along with Upadhyay and party MLA from Badrinath,...
20:51
Rahul Gandhi, who is down with high fever, today said he is feeling much better now and that he should be up and about in a few days. Thank you everyone for the kind wishes, I'm very touched by your concern. Am feeling much better now. I should be up & about in...
20:37
An all-women police station started functioning in Anantnag district of Kashmir on Tuesday with a 24-hour helpline number. On April 11, Jammu and Kashmir cabinet had accorded sanction to the creation of four women police stations, one each in Anantnag and Baramulla districts in the valley...
20:35
Budget airline SpiceJet on Tuesday announced one way base fares for domestic flights, starting as low as Rs 511 (excluding statutory taxes and fees) for a limited period to mark 11 years of the commencement of itsservices.SpiceJet also rolled out fares as low as Rs 2,111 (sans statutory taxes and...
20:33
The Central Bureau of Investigation is expected to question representatives of NGOs whose names have cropped up during its probe against a Home Ministry official Anand Joshi who was allegedly issuing notices of foreign remittances violations to voluntary groups in an arbitrary manner.CBI sources...
20:10
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan came under attack from BJP lawmaker Subramanian Swamy for the second time in two weeks on Tuesday. This time, Harvard-educated Dr Swamy upped the ante against the RBI chief byseeking his dismissal in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Most...
20:05
British Prime Minister David Cameron today warned that Islamic State terrorists would be happy if Britain was to vote to leave the European Union in the crucial June 23 referendum. Cameron, who was addressing a World Economic Forum event, highlighted on the negative impact of...
19:28
The Debt Recovery Tribunal on Tuesday directed JP Morgan Bank not to disburse the $40 million amount deposited by British liquor giant Diageo in favour of liquor baron Vijay Mallya. The DRT also directed the bank to provide statement of transaction since February 25, 2016, till...
19:09
Strategist Prashant Kishor, the man behind the winning election campaigns for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, may quit his latest assignment with the Congress if he is not given a free hand soon, reports NDTV. After Nitish...
18:47
Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that Islamabad would explore other options to meet its defence needs, if the F-16 deal did not materialise with the United States. Asif asserted that Pakistan was an independent and sovereign state and it could acquire defence...
18:30
Olympics: 31 athletes tested positive after new Beijing 2008 doping analysis, says the IOC
17:50
Minister of State for External Affairs General (Retd) VK Singh on Tuesday wrote to the Minister of Urban Development of India, Venkaiah Naidu, to rename the historical 'Akbar road' as 'Maharana Pratap Road.' In his letter Singh says that Maharana Pratap had played an instrumental role in...
17:35
As the 'Simhastha Kumbh Mahaparv' in Ujjain -- one of the four Kumbh Melas celebrated as one of the largest spiritual gatherings in the world -- draws to a close, the police have arrested 134 people posing as sadhus and indulging in criminal activities, Additional Director General of Police V...
17:23
The Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday slammed Pakistan after it expressed serious concern to the United Nations over Indias draft Geospatial Information Regulation Bill 2016. The Pakistan Foreign Office had said that in violation of UNSC resolutions, the official map of India has been...
17:09
Congress MP Shantaram Naik today gave a notice for breach of privilege against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the Rajya Sabha for allegedly submitting a printout of a website report to level allegations against its leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, in the AgustaWestland issue. In his notice...
16:52
Parents and students form a human chain along Marine Drive in the blistering Mumbai heat to draw attention of the powers that be for their intervention in the NEET issue. The Supreme Court has ruled that starting this academic session, students would have to appear for NEET to seek admission to...
16:34
Samajwadi Party nominates Amar Singh and Beni Prasad Verma for the Rajya Sabha seat.
16:01
JUST IN: Bombay high court refuses to grant pre-arrest bail to former Congress MP Nilesh Rane in case of alleged assault and abduction of party worker. Rane has been told to surrender before police on or before May 23.Rane and four others, including his personal assistant Tushar Panchal and...
15:38
A man has been arrested by Gangavati town police in Koppal district of north Karnataka for allegedly posting a morphed photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a social media site.The photo showed Modi bowing to the feet of Telangana Legislative Assembly member Akbaruddin Owaisi from All-India...
15:35
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha took a maiden flight in India's indigenous light combat aircraft, Tejas, and reviewed the development so far. The Air Chief Marshal flew the indigenously designed and produced Light Combat Aircraft (Tejas) for over 30 minutes at Bengaluru's HAL Airport. Air...
15:06
Only a few, including Jan Dhan and Swachh Bharat, have caught the imagination of the country in the first two years of the Modi government while most of its other schemes have escaped notice, a CMS study finds out. In all, there are about 40 schemes being implemented since Modi took power in...
14:46
The story making the rounds last week about the tourists trying to rescue' a bison calf in Yellowstone National Park came to an unfortunate conclusion Monday when the park service announced they euthanized the calf. A week ago, a pair of presumably well-meaning, but utterly misguided,...
14:26
The judicial custody of all accused in the Sheena Bora murder case was on Tuesday extended till June 6. Earlier today, the Central Bureau of Investigation sought time to file a reply on driver Shyamvar Rai's application to be approver in a Special CBI court in Mumbai. The hearing in the...
14:19
Donald Trump said Monday London's new mayor made very rude statements about him -- and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee warned he won't have a good relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron if he's elected. Read
14:05
What is it like living nearly half a decade as a hostage, shuffled between warring militant groups along the notoriously restless Pakistan-Afghanistan border, withstanding gruesome acts of torture and then suddenly, one day, escaping back to one's family and to home?In his first English language...
13:50
The Interpol has issued red corner notice against Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar and his brother Abdul Rauf for their alleged role in the conspiracy to attack the strategic Indian Air Force base in Pathankot . NIA had sought the red corner notice against Masood Azhar,...
13:34
Pakistan on Tuesday said it has expressed 'serious concern' to the UN over a draft bill in the Indian Parliament over the map of Kashmir and called upon the world body to uphold its resolutions and urge India to stop such acts which are in violation of international law.Wrong depiction of the map...
13:31
In a setback to BJP which dominated the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the party managed to win only from three seats while the AAP made its debut by winning five seats and the Congress wrested four seats in the bypolls to 13 wards.The AAP fell short of its expectations of a clean sweep in the...
13:14
South Korean author Han Kang has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for her unforgettably powerful novel 'The Vegetarian' which deals with a woman's rejection of human brutality and giving up of eating meat. Kang, 45, beat writers including Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and...
13:00
Passengers on the Ernakulam-Kolkata Duronto Express raised a complaint on Sunday after a person alleged to have seen a pantry car official using water from the toilet taps for preparing tomato soup.
12:43
PM Narendra Modi set to visit Iran on May 22 and 23. India is one of the biggest customers of Iranian crude, and is set to import at least 400,000 barrels per day from Iran in the year from April 1, but it has built up a backlog of payments for three years when Iran was under sanctions over...
12:39
President Pranab Mukherjee has come in for some criticism from the Congress and the media over his nod to declaring President's Rule in Uttarakhand. But sources tell us that the President is unmoved by the criticism since he has taken the decision based on constitutional requirements. This is how...
12:19
The Delhi High Court issues a notice to the Wrestling Federation Of India and the Central government on wrestler Sushil Kumar's plea on trials in the Rio Olympics 2016. The Delhi HC has asked the Wrestling Federation Of India to file an affidavit stating its stand on the matter. This comes after...
11:45
Just in: Supreme Court asks Bombay High Court to decide on the Jiah Khan death case expeditiously. Jiah Khan was found dead on June 3, 2013 at her flat in Juhu. Her boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi was arrested for abetting her suicide on June 10, 2013 but released on July 2 after the HC granted him...
11:18
BJP MP from RS Subramanian Swamy writes to PM Narendra Modi, seeks immediate termination of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan.Days after being nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the Bharatiya Janata Party, politician leader on May 12 embarrassed his party by saying RBI governor Raghuram Rajan should be...
11:12
AAP and Congress today won in four wards each while the BJP won from three wards in the MCD bypolls for 13 wards, results of which were declared today.Independent candidate Rajender Singh Tanwar won from Bhati ward where the maximum votes had been polled in the bypolls held on Sunday last. AAP...
11:09
Suspended Janata Dal (United) MLC Manorama Devi, who was sent to 14-day judicial custody this morning on charges of possessing liquor bottles, blamed the BJP for falsely implicating her under political conspiracy. The information is false, no liquor bottles were found in my house. I am...
10:52
Simply blown away by their pyrotechnics, West Indies left-hander Chris Gayle compared Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers to fictional superheroes 'Batman' and 'Superman', as the duo lit up the Indian Premier League with some dazzling display of top quality batsmanship. Those two guys are playing...
10:33
A 65-year-old Indian American scientist is set to receive the prestigious 'National Medal of Science' award from US President Barack Obama. Rakesh K Jain, a professor of tumour biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School, will receive the award from Obama along...
10:26
Hugh Hefner has been sued for allegedly conspiring to allow Bill Cosby to commit sexual assault on young women at his Playboy mansion.Former model Chloe Goins, 26, filed a federal civil suit at United States District Court in California's Central District against the embattled comedian last year,...
09:33
The death toll due to heat wave and related issues during the current summer season in Telangana rose to 300.The state disaster management authorities informed that the three member committees set up at district level confirmed that all these deaths were occurred due to sun stroke and heat wave...
09:05
Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala appears to have voted for change, with West Bengal all set to maintain status quo, as per various exit polls conducted at the end of five-state elections on Monday evening.While the Bharatiya Janata Party appeared poised to win in Assam for the first time, ending 15...
08:50
Two militants were killed in two separate encounters in Kashmir valley early Tuesday.A defence spokesman said one militant was killed in an ongoing gunfight in Pahlipora village of south Kashmir Shopian district.Troops of counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and police had jointly surrounded the...
08:23
The government on Monday hiked the price of petrol by Rs. 0.83 a litre and that of diesel by Rs. 1.26 per litre.Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. has decided to affect the following price changes w.e.f. midnight of May 16.Thereafter, petrol in Delhi will now be priced at Rs. 63.02/litre whereas diesel...
07:59
Pakistani troops violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Uri Sector of Kashmir but no damage was reported in the incident, army said today.There was a ceasefire violation from across the LoC last night in Kamalkote area of Uri sector, an army official said. While there were no...
07:56
Two militants were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Shopian and Kupwara districts of Kashmir, army said today. Hizbul Mujahideen militant Farooq Ahmad was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in the wee hours today at Pehlipora in Shopian, 52 kms from here, an...
07:51
Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Union Territory Puducherry recorded a good voter turnout in the assembly elections, said the Election Commission on Monday.Puducherry registered the maximum votes with 81.94 per cent, while Tamil Nadu and Kerala stood at 69.19% and 71% respectively.As far as...
07:41
JD-U MLC Manorama Devi, against whom an arrest warrant was issued for violating prohibition laws and allegedly harbouring her fugitive son who has been held in the road rage murder case in Bihar, on Tuesday surrendered before the Gaya court.Manorama had remained on the run and her house sealed by...
04:14
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea seeking complete ban on water supply to distilleries and breweries in drought-hit regions of Maharashtra.A vacation bench posted the matter for hearing on May 23 after a lawyer mentioned the plea saying that instead of curtailed water supply,...
03:27
The University Grants Commission has asked colleges and varsities to encourage their students to share their views with the Prime Minister on the Narendra Modi mobile app.In a letter written to all universities, UGC secretary Jaspal S Sandhu said that the prime minister had expressed such a...
01:59
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has warned of major terror attacks by refugees coming into the United States.I do, I actually do, Trump said when asked whether or not he believed it would take a large-scale attack on US soil for Americans to 'wake up' about border...
00:12
Delicacies conceived by celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor may soon be on the platter of students studying in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said her ministry has decided to rope in Kapoor to prepare menu of food to be served at all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas and...
00:06
Exit polls: Mamata retains Bengal, big gain for BJP in AssamStates say defer NEET, Centre agrees to consider students' dilemma Jat stir: Haryana government releases Rs 65.38 cr compensationTransgenders cast vote in Kerala for first timeMonsoon delay not to affect crop sowing: IMD NDA has done...
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