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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the demonetisation process is almost complete, hailing it as the smoothest possible replacement of high denomination currency anywhere in the world.Describing the government's decision to take Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes out of circulation as a move towards...
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The Tamil Nadu government today protested against Karnataka's unilateral action of constructing a reservoir across river Cauvery at Mekedatu and sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention in the matter.Citing media reports, Chief Minister E K Palaniswami told Modi in a letter that the...
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An FIR was today lodged against BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit chief Keshav Prasad Maurya for allegedly violating the model code of conduct, which is in place in the state in view of the assembly polls.According to inspector in-charge of the Civil Lines police station Arun Kumar Tyagi, The FIR was...
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The BJP will not have a post-poll understanding with the Congress in the BMC and not abandon thetransparency agenda, its plank in the civic polls, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said.We will take along those who come with us, but proceed without those who don't come with us,...
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After the Ramjas College incident, the Delhi Commission for Women on Saturday issued a notice to Delhi Police asking who ordered the lathi-charge against the protesting students. DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal also said that the policemen attacking female protesters in DU could be charged for...
18:13
Amid speculations of Shiv Sena shaking hands with the Congress party in order to form a majority for the Brihanmumbai Municipality Corporations, Congress leader and Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chairman Sanjay Nirupam, on February 25, stated that they are not in favour to amalgamate with...
17:41
After a Delhi SBI ATM dispensed a fake note saying it was from the ‘Children Bank’s of India’, an SBI ATM in Shahjahanpur in UP reportedly dispensed a scanned copy of a Rs 2000 note. There was a mass protest after bank officials refused to acknowledge that the note was disbursed by the...
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Don't talk to each other in Hindi or any other Indian language when you are at a public place in the US. It might land you in deep trouble. This is one of the suggestions doing rounds among Indians in the US in their social media groups.That sums up the fear psychosis among Indians, especially...
16:54
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has stepped up the ante against Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and moved the high court seeking the finance minister's and his family's bank account details. The move comes in after Jaitley filed a defamation case against Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party...
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The DMK today called for the removal of portraits of the late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaafrom government offices, saying she was convicted in an assets case.DMK Working President M K Stalin also opposed the naming of government schemes after her and the use of taxpayers' money for her 69th...
16:03
The Ramjas bug has hit Pune University campus as the activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad clashed with those of the Students Federation of India at Savitribai Phule Pune University.The clashes erupted after some SFI activists put up posters on the Delhi University's Ramjas College...
15:34
under fire for refusing to certify 'Lipstick Under My Burkha, Central Board of Film Certification chairperson has come out with a response that the censor board will not work under any media pressure.Pahlaj Nihalani said, No one knows the process for certification of films and CBFC will not work...
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A BJP leader and RTI activist today accused the Harish Rawat government of paying Rs 47.19 lakh out of disaster relief funds to a firm, in which singer Kailash Kher has a stake, for a tourism video featuring cricketer Virat Kohli.Citing information procured under the RTI, Ajendra Ajay said Rs...
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JUST IN: Suspect in 2002 American Centre attack case in Kolkata arrested in Gaya: Bihar Police
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said the BSP can enter into an understanding with the BJP anytime as they are concentrating on ensuring that the SP does not move ahead. The BJP is misleading the people. There is a need to be cautious of BSP... She (Mayawati) can enter into...
14:15
Amid speculation that Congress may join hands with the Shiv Sena to stake claim to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Congress's senior leader Gurudas Kamat has issued a letter to the party saying that it should not align with the Sena as it would dent their credibility. In his letter...
14:00
US immigration authorities have decided to bar entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer whose harrowing film about his nation's civil war, The White Helmets, has been nominated for an Academy Award. According to internal Trump administration correspondence, the Department of Homeland...
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Director Vishal Bhardwaj has said his period romance Rangoon talks about Indian National Army'srole in the freedom movement and is a tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.It is important to share this fact with the present generation. Netaji's sacrifice should come to the mainstream. The film is...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing a public meeting in Manipur's capital Imphal. Polls for the 60-member legislative assembly of the northeastern state will be held in two phases on March 4 and March 8. The election is expected to be a high-octane, virtual contest between the ruling...
12:43
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has reacted to the news of an Indian techie shot dead in Kansas by an American in an apparent hate crime. He tweeted, No place for senseless violence& bigotry in society. My heart is with victims & families of horrific shooting in Kansas.Earlier, Sunayana...
12:37
The Communist Party of India-Marxist will now tell its members what they can like, write, follow or share on social media. Just to give you an idea, there are roughly one million party members in the country — the figure was 10,48,678 in 2015.Discussions on social media within the CPM have so...
12:18
Known for his public outbursts and raking controversies with his statements, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju has done it again with his new Facebook post.Justice Katju has called Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami a puppet of 'jailbird' Sasikala, the AIADMK general...
11:50
An Indian IT engineer employed with a US company in Kansas was fatally shot and a colleague, also from India, was wounded by a white man who allegedly thought they were from the Middle East and was heard telling them to get out of my country at the time of the shooting.The Hindu American...
11:39
With elections to BMC throwing up a fractured verdict, thinking is strong in Maharashtra Congress that it should consider the option of enabling the Shiv Sena to foist its candidate as mayor of the civic body.The Congress, which managed to secure only 31 seats in the 227-member House, however, is...
11:14
A major fire at a multi-storey luxury hotel in east China's Jiangxi Province today trapped an unknown number of people, authorities said.The blaze on the second floor of HNA Platinum Mix Hotel in provincial capital Nanchang began this morning, fire fighters said.More than 10 construction workers...
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Extending support to former Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam and his demand to have judicial enquiry into the 'mysterious' death of late J Jayalalithaa, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Saturday said their working president M.K. Stalin also demanded the same since she was admitted to...
09:53
The Donald Trump administration has dismissed as 'absurd' any correlation between the United States President's controversial remarks on immigrants and the Kansas shooting incident that resulted in the 'tragic' death of an Indian engineer.Obviously, any loss of life is tragic, but I'm not going...
09:05
The White House on Friday blocked several news organisations from an off-camera press briefing, raising alarm among the First Amendment watchdogs.CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico and BuzzFeed were barred from attending the meeting, held by White House press secretary Sean...
08:34
The wife of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead in an apparent hate crime by a Navy veteran at a bar in Olathe city, has said that she had her doubts about staying in the United States but was assured by her husband that 'good things happen in America'.Speaking at a news...
08:26
Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi today described the shooting at a Kansas pub in which an Indian was killed as an attack on United States' fundamental values and an assault on the sense of security of all persons of colour in the country.This was an attack not only on the victims,...
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Tension prevailed on the campus of Savitribai Phule Pune University in Pune on Friday evening after activists of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad and Students' Federation of India clashed.Both the groups came to the police station and registration of cross-complaints was underway, said a duty...
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Google said it will begin offering media groups an artificial intelligence tool designed to stamp out incendiary comments on their websites.The programming tool, called Perspective, aims to assist editors trying to moderate discussions by filtering out abusive 'troll' comments, which Google says...
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Delhi Police's Crime Branch has begun its probe into clashes between Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and All India Students' Association members in Delhi University's Ramjas College.Since it was Maha Shivratri today (Friday), students were not present in the campus. Police will begin recording...
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