23:51
On its newest cover, controversial French magazine Charlie Hebdo appears to mock Texans, depicting them as neo-Nazis caught in the deluge of tropical storm Harvey.The magazines cover reads God Exists! He Drowned All the Neo-Nazis of Texas. The words accompany an illustration showing swastika...
23:22
As ministers -- Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Uma Bharti -- put in their papers from the Union Cabinet, reports are coming in that the Cabinet reshuffle will take place on September 2 between 5 pm and 7 pm. Speculation is rife that Piyush Goyal is likely to get cabinet promotion....
23:01
Uma Bharti, the Cabinet Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, has resigned from Modi's Cabinet on health grounds. The development comes shortly after it was reported that Rajiv Pratap Rudy had also resigned as minister of state skill development...
22:45
iPhone users awaiting the arrival of Apple's next-generation smartphone now have a date to circle on the calendar.Apple will hold its annual product launch -- where it typically shows off new iPhone models and other product updates -- on Tuesday September 12.For the first time, the event will be...
22:18
Rajiv Pratap Rudy, minister of state skill development & entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), has resigned from the Union Cabinet.Speculation is rife that Modi's Cabinet will undergo a reshuffle over the weekend. The changes in the Union cabinet would reflect the expanding electoral...
21:55
The US State Department on Thursday said Russia will have to close its San Francisco consulate, as well as annexes in Washington, DC and New York, by September 2. The US State Department said it was responding to Russia's decision to reduce the size of the US mission in Russia, which was in...
21:19
Former home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi has been appointed Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The appointment comes after Mehrishi stepped down as the Union Home Secretary. The government also announced that former bureaucrat Sunil Arora wasthe new election commissioner. After...
20:58
JUST IN: Former I&B secretary Sunil Arora appointed as election commissioner
20:35
As many as 13 children died in the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital, taking the toll so far this month to 309.With this, the death toll in the hospital has touched 1,269 so far this year.Confirming the fresh cases of deaths, newly-appointed principal of the college Dr PK Singh...
20:07
More than 4,200 people recommended 'Saint Dr Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan' for a Padma award in 2017, while the self-styled godman and now rape convict proposed his own name for the honour five times.According to the list of recommendations or nominations for Padma Awards 2017, the Union home...
19:41
The maiden launch of India's first private-sector manufactured satellite, the IRNSS-1H from the launchpad in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh was declared unsuccessful today. The 1,425 kg satellite had piggybacked on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, which was on its 41st mission. The...
19:37
China's military today said it will beef up the presence of troops and patrols to protect every inch of its territory in Doklam but was evasive on the construction of the road which was stopped by Indian troops, leading to a 73-day standoff.India and China on Monday ended their standoff in Doklam...
19:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed grief over the Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar building collapse and also condoled the death of people in the tragic incident.Collapse of building in Mumbai is saddening. My condolences to families of those who lost their lives & prayers with the...
18:19
India's economic growth has slowed down further in the 2017-18 first quarter for the three months spanning April-June, dropping to 5.7% from 6.1% in the 2016-17 fourth quarter ended January-March, according to data released by the government on Wednesday. The government says the growth is slower...
18:04
A more than century-old five-storey residential building collapsed today in the congested Bhendi Bazar area of south Mumbai, killing at least 19 people and wounding 12 others, officials said. They were declared dead at the state-run JJ hospital, where they were taken after being pulled out of...
18:00
The Congress today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise for demonetisation, describing it as the country's biggest scam which had inflicted misery on the people and dealt a body blow to the economy. None of the measures that Modi had promised with the ban on high currency notes, put...
17:58
There was an explosion-like sound, followed by a swirl of dust as the five-story Husaini building in his neighbourhood collapsed, said Iqbal Kaskar, absconding gangster Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother.The dilapidated building in congested Bhendi Bazar area in South Mumbai collapsed this morning....
17:43
GDP growth slips to 5.7% in April-June, from 6.1 per cent in January-March: Govt
17:34
Government extends by four months the deadline for linking income tax PAN with Aadhaar to December 31. The deadline for linking Aadhaar with PAN was today. Section 139 AA (2) of the Income Tax Act says every person with PAN as on July 1, 2017, and is eligible to obtain Aadhaar must intimate his...
17:27
Twenty-five-year-old Mohammed Rafiq had a hairbreadth escape as he managed to dash out of the dilapidated Husaini Building in Bhendi Bazaar moments before it collapsed, leaving at least 16 dead.I had come to collect my belongings last night before leaving for my native place in Uttar Pradesh this...
16:31
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination trial, ordering his property confiscated, a court official said on Thursday. The court sentenced two former senior policemen to 17 years each in...
16:20
Former principal of BRD Medical College, Rajiv Mishra, and his wife Purnima Shukla were today sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a local court in Gorakhpur in connection with the deaths of scores of children in the state-run medical college hospital. The doctor couple, arrested...
16:18
A special anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentences two senior police officers to 17 years in jail in the Benazir Bhutto murder case. Details soon.
16:15
The finance ministry today ruled out opening another window for depositing the scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, with the government now saying that it had expected all the annulled currency to be returned, in line with the latest Reserve Bank of India data.While the Reserve Bank yesterday...
15:54
Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky Yadav, the main accused in the killing of a student in a road rage case in Bihar, has been convicted by Gaya District Court.The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on September 6.On May 7 last year, Yadav shot dead class XII student Aditya Sachdeva for overtaking his...
15:33
Buzz in the AICC headquarters at 24, Akbar Road in New Delhi is that the Himachal Pradesh Congress is heading for a major split. Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh has become a big headache for Rahul Gandhi. While Rahul was away in Norway last week, Virbhadra wrote a three-page letter to Sonia...
15:01
About 50 children had a narrow escape today when a building collapsed some 20 minutes before their playschool in the five-storey structure was to start for the day. The school functioned on the ground floor of the Hussaini building located at Pakmodia Street in the Bhendi Bazaar area in Mumbai....
14:46
President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu are going the Narendra Modi way. At least in terms of accessibility to the media. While Presidents, vice-president's and prime minister's past, have embraced the media which has accompanied them on foreign and domestic tours, a policy...
13:56
A Union Cabinet reshuffle on the cards for a while, is now directly connected with Tirupati Balaji, say senior BJP leaders who are expecting a call from the PMO for inclusion in the cabinet.President Ram Nath Kovind will be at the Tirupati Balaji temple on Friday and Saturday to inaugurate the...
13:43
Guwahati: Fire breaks out at Janata Bhawan (Assam Secretariat); rooms sealed, investigation on
13:18
Death toll in Mumbai building collapse climbs to 10, says police.
12:58
Bhendi Bazaar building collapse: Death toll rises to 10, 15 including 2 fire officers injured, 25 rescued.BJP election in-charge of Gujarat Arun Jaitley and co-incharges NS Tomar, N Sitharaman, J Singh, PP Chaudhary meet Amit Shah at his Delhi residence.External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj...
12:53
A day after the RBI revealed that almost all of the Rs 15.44 lakh crore junked currency had come back, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said deposits of overwhelmingly large amount of money in banks has ended anonymity around it and helped fix liabilities.He said the fallout of the...
12:31
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has hinted that he would not be serving the post for long. Responding to a poser, during a press briefing, on his tenure as the defence minister, the union minister said, At least I hope not very long. That's anyway not me to decide.Re-iterating his stand on the...
12:23
Senior IAS officer Rajiv Gauba today took charge as the Union Home Secretary after incumbent Rajiv Mehrishi retired from service. He will have a fixed two-year tenure. A 1982 batch officer of Jharkhand cadre, 58-year-old Gauba was appointed as the home secretary about two months ago and since...
12:15
The Supreme Court today allowed a Pune-based woman to abort her 24-week foetus, which does not have a skull or a brain. The apex court relied on the report of the medical board of the Pune-based B J Government Medical College that there was no medical treatment for the anomaly.We consider it...
12:13
Mumbai building crash update: Seven persons were killed, 15 others injured, while around 25 people are feared trapped after a five-storey residential building collapsed in Bhendi Bazaar area of south Mumbai today.
11:41
Mumbai building collapse: Four persons were killed, 12 others injured, while around 30 people are feared trapped after a five-storey residential building collapsed in Bhendi Bazaar area of south Mumbai today, fire department sources said. The building, located at Pakmodia street near JJ Hospital,...
11:26
Mumbai building crash: Death toll goes up to four. Rescue operations in full swing. Picture: Sahil Salvi.
11:07
In other news, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the fallout of demonetisation was on predicted lines and the economy will benefit in medium and long term. A day after the Reserve Bank said that almost all of the demonetised currency came back into the system, Jaitley said the fact that...
10:58
The 50-year old building housed at least 12 families. While three people have died, 11 people have been rescued so far. Picture: Sahil Salvi.
10:56
A five-storeyed, 50-year-old residential building, collapsed near the JJ junction at Pakmodia street of the Dongri area of Mumbai, Maharashtra on Thursday morning.The Husaini building, is located at the Bohari Mahal and falls under the jurisdiction of the JJ Marg Police Station. The building...
10:21
Senior IAS officer Rajiv Gauba takes charge as new Union Home Secretary.
10:18
The Narendra Modi government has picked former CBI chief R.K. Raghavan, who led a probe that cleared then chief minister Modi of complicity in the 2002 Gujarat riots, as high commissioner to Cyprus in its first political appointment to India's diplomatic establishment. Unlike its...
10:04
The Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ), Sachchidanand Singh, is scheduled to deliver the judgement in the Gaya road rage case, in which suspended Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) leader Manorama Devi's son Rocky Yadav was involved, today.While talking to ANI, the parents of the class XII...
09:56
The body of renowned Bombay Hospital gastroenterologist Deepak Amrapurkar, who went missing near Elphinstone Road station following heavy rains on Tuesday, has been found in a drain near Worli seashore.The 58-year-old doctor had left for his Prabhadevi home from the hospital on the evening of...
09:34
A three-storey building has collapsed in Mumbai's Dongri today.Many people are feared trapped inside the building.Fire brigade and rescue teams are at the spot. More details are awaited.
09:31
The United States has about 11,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan as per the policy of President Donald Trump for the war-torn country, the Pentagon has said.The announcement is part of the new transparent accounting procedure set in motion by Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, Chief Pentagon...
09:02
A large number of people in India defecate in the open despite having toilets at home, a senior government official said.Only 30 per cent of the households in Bihar have toilets. 13 per cent of them are not being used, Permeswaran Iyer, secretary in the Department of Drinking Water and...
08:54
The White House has said that it has put all options on table to tackle the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea, which fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan on Tuesday.I think the President (Donald Trump) has been very clear about his position on North Korea, certainly in his...
08:41
India is ready to launch its first private sector-built navigation satellite today at 6.59 pm from Sriharikota. The satellite will replace one of NAVIC's seven satellites that is malfunctioning. The 1425 kg IRNSS-1H satellite will lift off on the back of PSLV, India's workhorse that will be on...
01:08
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday ruled out any talks with North Korea, which fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan, forcing people to seek shelter.However, his Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis said that there was still room for diplomacy in dealing with North Korea's...
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