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Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Abu Dujana, a Pakistani who was killed in an encounter with security forces today in Jammu and Kashmir, was not just involved in many attacks but would also harass the local public, a senior Army official claimed.Dujana's killing has affected the outfit and more...
23:24
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Reserve Bank of India is in the process of counting scrapped currency notes and will come out with the final figures once the fake notes were weeded out.Answering oft-repeated questions over the issue, he said in the Lok Sabha that the Reserve Bank had...
22:46
At least 20 people have been killed in an explosion inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in western Afghanistan.The Jawadia mosque, said to be the site of the blast, is in the Dehr Abad area in Herat city, the regional center of the Herat province, bordering Iran.The mosque was attended by the members...
22:37
The once formidable general secretary Digvijaya Singh's role in the Congress got further diminished on Tuesday, with the party divesting him of the charge of Telangana.Singh, who was earlier the general secretary incharge of Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, is left with only the...
22:02
Flight Lt Shikha Pandey, a member of the Indian women's cricket team, was today felicitated by Indian Air Force chief BS Dhanoa for her sterling performance at the recent World Cup.Pandey was awarded the chief of the air staff commendation by Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa for her performance at the...
21:32
The Islamic State terror group along with climate change are seen as posing a major risk to India by its people, while an assertive China is considered the third top threat to the country, a latest Pew research survey said today.In India, 66 per cent of the respondents considered Islamic State of...
20:38
Well-known scientist Pushpa Mitra Bhargava, who was instrumental in founding the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, passed away today. Bhargava, popularly known PM Bhargava, had been suffering from multiple health problems for some time now and the end came around 6...
20:37
A total of 37 defence aircraft and helicopters have crashed since May 2014 in which 55 people were killed, the government told the Rajya Sabha today. According to details provided by the minister of state for defence, the armed forces lost 25 aircraft and 12 helicopters during the period. Out of...
20:16
Defending Hizbul Mujahideen Chief Syed Salahuddin, outgoing Pakistan High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit today said that for Pakistan the terror outfits chief is not a terrorist. Speaking to ANI, Basit said that Salahuddin was struggling for right to self-determination of...
19:24
After the CAG rap, the Railways has begun the process of doing away with providing blankets in AC compartments and is instead regulating the temperature inside the coaches so that passengers don't shiver.The 'no-blankets rule' has now been implemented in the third AC coach of the Jammu Mail, a...
19:08
Heart attacks, depression and other medical reasons killed sixteen times more CRPF personnel than action in anti-Naxal operations in the last three years, the government said today.In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union minister of state for home Hansarj G Ahir said that while a total of 74...
18:58
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today criticised the Centre for its decision to eliminate all subsidies for domestic LPG and said providing such financial support to the people is its social obligation.Banerjee said the poor class will be the worst affected by the action. This decision...
18:40
BJP member Varun Gandhi today questioned the lawmakers' power to hike their own salaries and objected to major bills like Aadhaar being passed without serious discussion or referring them to a parliamentary panel.Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, he also pitched for an...
17:59
With the heavyweight portfolios of finance and defence under him Arun Jaitley has a hectic schedule in Parliament. Two days in a week he has to answer five starred questions on finance in the Rajya Sabha and eight starred questions on defence, and does the same in the Lok Sabha as well. With...
17:51
JUST IN: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi elected 18th prime minister of Pakistan.
17:43
Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav today said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wanted to sacrifice his son Tejashwi Yadav out of sheer insecurity.He claimed that Nitish got alarmed, when people started taking about Tejashwi's good work as the deputy chief minister.We supported...
16:56
Rajya Sabha MP Misha Bharti, daughter of Lalu Prasad, is very articulate and spends a lot of time in Central Hall. But these days Misha is upset with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who she would once address fondly as 'Uncle'. But the recent ED and I-T raids on her family...
16:47
Pulling off records for the second consecutive day, the benchmark Sensex today closed at 32,575 and the Nifty 10,115 as investors wait for the outcome of the RBI policy meet tomorrow amid corporate earnings momentum. Improving monthly sales numbers from automakers and a firming...
16:21
The break-up of women officers in the army. According to figures, the Indian Air Force has 13 per cent women in the team.
15:44
Mayawati has resigned from the Rajya Sabha. Sitaram Yechury's term will soon be over, and Sharad Yadav will now sit along with the BJP and not with the opposition, as the Janata Dal-United has decided to join the NDA. Senior Union ministers heave a sigh of relief over these...
15:24
Arvind Panagariya resigns as the vice chairman of NITI Aayog. According to reports, he will resume teaching in the United States. He said August 31 would be his last day in office. He was appointed vice-chairman of NITI Aayog, the replacement for the Planning Commission on Jan 5,...
15:13
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reviewed flood situation in north-eastern states at a series of high-level meetings in Guwahati and announced assistance of over Rs 2,000 crore.The prime minister announced the package for relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and flood mitigation measures...
14:56
Mithali Raj, who led Team India to the finals of the recently-concluded ICC Women's World Cup, was on Tuesday gifted a BMW by businessman V Chamundeswaranath. India ended up as the runner-up in the global tournament after losing to England in the finals by just nine runs. However, the...
14:50
Former police officers DG Vanzara and MN Dinesh, accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, were discharged by a special court in Mumbai today. The court dropped the charges against them citing insufficient evidence. With their discharge, the number of accused let off in the case has gone...
14:28
Devinder Singh Behal, a close aide of Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, whose premises were raided by the NIA on Sunday in the J-K terror funding case, was allegedly in touch with people in the Pakistani high commission and may have leaked national secrets, including Indian troop movement...
14:21
Amit Shah's impending entry into the Rajya Sabha has cheered up the BJP's parliamentary office. All political parties have office space in Parliament, and BJP being the ruling party has a huge space, within walking distance from the prime minister's office. With Amit...
14:13
For Gujarat Congress MLA Gyasuddin Shaikh, being shipped off on an unexpected retreat to a luxury resort near Bengaluru is going great, save for one little hitch: the food.Shaikh was among 42 Congress legislators taken to a four-star resort in Karnataka a state Congress rules in an ostensible...
13:20
President Xi Jinping today said China will never compromise on its sovereignty and security and its army has the confidence to defeat all invasions.We will never allow any people, organisation or political party to split any part of Chinese territory out of the country at any time, in any form,...
13:09
JUST IN: DG Vanzara and Dinesh MN discharged in Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case by special CBI court in Mumbai
12:06
The Indian continent of hearing impaired athletes that participated in the 23rd edition of the Summer Deaflympics in Samsun, Turkey, refused to leave Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday morning as there was no one around to receive them or celebrate their success.The contingent of 46...
11:46
BJP chief Amit Shah is unhappy his party MPs bunked the Rajya Sabha session on Monday, allowing the Opposition to affect crucial changes to the backward classes bill.Union Minister Ananth Kumar said Shah took a strict view of the absence and asked lawmakers not to repeat this ever.Shah told...
11:19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Guwahati on Tuesday to take stock of the flood situation in the state.On July 25, an inter-ministerial team, comprising seven members, had visited the state to assess the damage caused by recent floods.After meeting Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on...
11:16
E-commerce major Flipkart on Tuesday said it has completed the merger with eBay India's operations. With this, eBay.in will now be a Flipkart group company. The deal was announced in April when the Flipkart group raised USD 1.4 billion from global technology majors...
11:10
Authorities in Pakistan's Punjab province have extended the house arrest of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed for another two months to maintain public order.Saeed, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief, has been under house arrest since January 31 this year. His detention had been extended for...
10:54
Can't wait for Jab Harry Met Sejal's upcoming track 'Phurrr'? To be the first one to listen to Pritam and Diplo's number featuring superstar Shah Rukh Khan and the gorgeous Anushka Sharma, listeners will have to pay. In a landmark move, Sony Music India has taken what is potentially...
10:39
Sharad Yadav's formal dissent on the political upheaval in Bihar after five long days, drew a prompt response from Nitish Kumar. And the message from the chief minister was sharp: Stop sulking and debate in party forum. The forum is the national executive of the Janata Dal United, to be held in...
10:38
The BJP Parliamentary party meeting underway. It is reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pull up the MPs after the government faced embarrassment in the Rajya Sabha on Monday as many MPs from the ruling BJP were missing when a Bill granting constitutional status to the Other Backward...
10:18
Anthony Scaramucci's resignation as Trump White House's communications director followed an interview last week in which he used language that has been described as unparliamentary and colourful, against his colleagues in the administration. So what exactly did Scaramucci, who sold...
10:00
Known for courting controversies, Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athawale said members of the transgender community should not wear a sari.They are not men, they are not women, but they are human... why should they wear a sari when they are not women? Athawale...
09:41
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has donated Rs 25 lakh to the Assam government for its flood relief operations which has so far killed over 80 people and in the devastating catastrophe that has rendered many homeless.Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal took to Twitter to thank Aamir Khan for...
09:28
An encounter has broken out between terrorists and security forces in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.Acting on specific intelligence input about the presence of terrorists in Hakripora village of Pulwama, security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the area, a police...
09:18
US cable channel HBO said that hackers had stolen upcoming programming, and reported that the theft included a script for an unaired episode of the hit fantasy show Game of Thrones.As most of you have probably heard by now, there has been a cyber incident directed at the company which has...
08:40
Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Assam in the wee hours of Tuesday to take stock of the flood situation in the state. Modi will do an assessment of the affected areas with top officials of the state. Assam is going through one of the worst floods due to heavy monsoon showers in the...
08:30
JUST IN: Encounter underway in Hakripora area of Pulwama, three Lashkar terrorists trapped including top Lashkar-e-Tayiba chief
08:25
The National Assembly of Pakistan will pick the country's 18th prime minister on Tuesday, following the July 28 landmark judgment in the Panamagate case, in which a five-judge bench unanimously disqualified Nawaz Sharif from holding any public office.Major political parties have already fielded...
07:56
Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director, the latest sign of chaos inside the Trump administration.Scaramucci's ouster is the most recent high-profile departure from the Trump White House. Chief of Staff Reince Priebus resigned at the end of last week, replaced by John...
00:58
Pakistan's opposition parties failed to agree on a joint candidate against PML-N's Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for the prime minister's election, with six candidates filing their nomination papers for the polls scheduled to be held on Tuesday.The Supreme Court on Friday disqualified 67-year-old Prime...
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