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Indiscipline in the Congress was one of the key issues raised today at the first Congress Working Committee meeting Rahul Gandhi chaired after taking over as the party president, against the backdrop of Mani Shankar Aiyar's 'neech' remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Though no names were...
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A one-man inquiry commission probing the death of J Jayalalithaa today issued summons to her close aide V K Sasikala and Apollo Hospitals Chairman Prathap C Reddy seeking information about the hospitalisation and treatment provided to the late Tamil Nadu chief minister.The summons issued to...
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Rahul Gandhi addresses the media after chairing first Congress Working Committee meet as the party president:The whole architecture of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) is about lies, the whole structure is about lies.Everyone knows about 2G, the truth has come out on front of you.If you see the Modi...
18:28
The members of Himachal Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party held a protest while a meeting of the party central observers Nirmala Sitharaman and Narendra Singh Tomar was underway, saying that the next chief minister should be chosen from the elected MLAs and that there should be no...
17:34
Arun Jaitley addresses the media in Gandhinagar on the party's decision to retain Vijay Rupani as the Gujarat CM. This is what Jaitley said. Vijay Rupani has been chosen as Legislature party leader unanimously, Nitin Bhai Patel as the deputy Legislature party leader in a meeting today. Will...
17:29
Celebrations outside BJP Office in Gandhinagar after Vijay Rupani gets elected as the Gujarat Chief Minister again, Nitin Bhai Patel as Deputy CM.
17:27
Tiger Zinda Hai returns to the same moronic space where it's all about slow-motion Salman, his checkered scarf, his fleeting shirtless-ness, his unrealistically beefed up body and a taken-for-granted indestructibility, says Sukanya Verma. Read the review before you go.
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Vijay Rupani will continue as Gujarat CM. Nitin Patel retains the deputy CM portfolio. Rupani will also be the legislative party leader. The decision was taken at the legislative party meeting being held at Ahmedabad, which was attended by Arun Jaitley. Rupani is the first BJP chief minister...
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Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at the AICC for the Congress Working Committee meeting which has begun. This is Rahul Gandhi's first CWC meeting as party President. The CWC will accord a warm welcome to the new president and likely discuss the current political situation, including the...
16:45
The Supreme Court today refused to grant any interim stay on the Karnataka High Court verdict which quashed the government regulation that packets of tobacco products must carry pictorial warning covering 85 per cent of the packaging space. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice...
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A day after being acquitted in the 2G case, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Kanimozhi on Friday said she was wrongly framed in the multi-crore scam.The DMK was blamed unnecessarily and we had been framed wrongly. The whole case was based on a notional loss. What we have been saying all...
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Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar posts his Rajya Sabha speech on Facebook Live after he was prevented from speaking in the House yesterday by a raucous Opposition demanding an apology from the Prime Minister for his remarks against Dr Manmohan Singh. In the 15-minute video, Tendulkar said it was...
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Anushka Sharma @AnushkaSharma Second time for me on Forbes, first for #Nush. Thank you again @forbes_india #ForbesIndiaCeleb100.
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A Delhi court will hear on January 4 the issue of whether to declare fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender for allegedly evading summonses in a FERA violation case. The matter could not be heard today by the court due to the absence of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak...
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Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, now famous for his 'neech' remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, refused to respond to a question on the Gujarat elections asked by an ANI reporter.Aiyar, who was at an event in Kolkata, refused to acknowledge the reporter and continued reading his...
14:46
A 25-year-old woman, who was allegedly set ablaze last evening in full public view in Secunderabad by a man suspected to be her lover, succumbed to her burns this morning, police said. She died around 7.30 am while undergoing treatment at Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad, Deputy Commissioner of...
14:08
Jayalalithaa death probe commission summons Sasikala and Apollo Hospital Chairman Pratap Reddy.
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The Delhi High Court today asked the CBI to trace the founder of the north Delhi-based ashram where girls were allegedly kept under illegal confinement.Over 40 girls were rescued by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) along with the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and...
13:59
Sheela Bhatt @sheela2010 BJP is 101 ( 99 plus 2) now in Gujarat assembly! Two independent MLAs have declared support to BJP.
13:50
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar was spotted using a landline-receiver in order to avoid the harmful radiation released by mobile phones, outside the Parliament, on Friday.In order to safeguard himself from the radiation, Javadekar was seen talking over the purple...
13:33
The CBI today opposed in a Gurgaon court the bail plea of the 16-year-old student, accused of killing a seven-year-old boy, at the Ryan International school here. Additional Sessions Judge Jasbir Singh Kundu fixed the matter for January 6 for arguments on the appeal filed by the accused against...
13:17
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by six boys, a 19-year-old and five minors aged about 10, living in her neighbourhood, police officials said in Pune today. All six have been held following a complaint from the girl's mother yesterday. She alleged that the six, all living in her...
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A fast track court in Muzaffarnagar has sentenced a woman to seven years imprisonment for helping a man and his wife in the rape of her friend 14 years ago. Judge Ashok Kumar yesterday held that Rita Kumari helped Ugar Sain and his wife in the rape of a 22-year-old girl at Titawi village in the...
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The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day soon after it assembled today as Congress insisted that the impasse over the reported remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against his predecessor Manmohan Singh should be resolved first. For the past week, the opposition has been demanding a...
12:34
In wake of his acquittal in the high profile 2G spectrum allocation scam case, former telecom minister A Raja on Friday wrote to DMK supremo M Karunanidhi, thanking him for being his saviour.You are my saviour and I submit this historical verdict at your feet. You have always safeguarded and...
11:44
The Bombay High Court sets aside the sanction granted by the Maharashtra governor to prosecute Congress leader Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing scam. The court says the CBI failed to present any fresh evidence against Chavan while seeking a sanction to prosecute him in the Adarsh scam.A day...
11:35
Money can't buy you love, but there is now a bank in Uttarakhand that trades in good deeds.A Haldwani resident has been catering to the poor through a unique initiative - 'Bank of Happiness', which provides basic necessities, free of cost, to those who need them the most.Here,...
11:08
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart state councillor Yang Jiechi began the next round of formal negotiations on the boundary issue today.This comes almost four months after the 73-day-long military stand-off at the Doklam plateau in the...
10:52
The Congress on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to shed his raaj-hatth (stubbornness) and clarify in parliament his 'conspiracy with Pakistan' remarks against his predecessor Manmohan Singh to end the stalemate and enable a discussion on issues such as...
10:14
A 47-year-old-woman shoots and injures brother and mother in Delhi's Defence Colony. Police have registered a case. Licensed pistol has been seized
10:08
Rahul Gandhi is likely to chair the first Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting as the party president today. The CWC will discuss the current political situation, including the consequences of the Congress's strong performance in the Gujarat Assembly elections for the party in future.The...
10:03
There are no terrorist safe havens in Pakistan, a senior diplomat has told the UN Security Council during a discussion on the security situation in Afghanistan. The denial from Pakistan came at a time when, both US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have warned Islamabad of...
09:57
Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha The countries that support President Trump on Jerusalem are Honduras, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Togo and Israel itself. And the Modi toadies wanted India to join this list.India on Thursday joined 127 other countries to vote in the United Nations...
09:32
The Congress has moved adjournment motion notice in Rajya Sabha under rule 267 against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his conspiracy with Pakistan remark against his predecessor Manmohan Singh.The Congress has been raising the issue since the beginning of the winter session of the Parliament...
08:59
Acclaimed Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui will play the title role of the late Shiv Sena founder-president Bal Thackeray in the upcoming biopic titled Thackeray.The biopic penned by Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, will be directed by Abhijit Panse.Speaking at the launch of a teaser of the film...
08:26
India and China will today hold a fresh round of border talks under the special representatives mechanism which will be the first on the sticky boundary issue since the 73-day-long military standoff in Doklam.In the 20th round of special representatives talks, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval...
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A bill which seeks to criminalise the practice of instant triple talaq has been listed for introduction in the Lok Sabha on Friday.'Muslim Women Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill', prepared by an inter-ministerial group headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, makes giving instant triple...
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