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The Supreme Court's ruling, which says seeking votes in the name of religion amounts to corrupt practice, clashes with the Hindutva as a way of life verdict delivered by Justice J S Verma, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Monday.In a majority verdict, the...
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A Shiv Sena leader and a member of Devendra Fadnavis-led ministry in Maharashtra on Monday ridiculed demonetisation, saying the exercise only helped unearth `black money' of housewives. The common man is bearing the brunt of demonetisation. Fifty days after the decision there is no respite...
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Pakistan's statement criticising India's bid to get Pathankot attack mastermind Masood Azhar designated as global terrorist by the UN reflected Islamabad's tacit support to terror networks and its uneasiness in talking about it, official sources said today.Referring to Pakistan's comment calling...
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Indigenous digital payments app BHIM has been downloaded 3 million times and enabled over 5 lakh transactions since its launch, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said today. Bhim App - 3 million download since launch, No 1 on Playstore in India amongst all apps, over 500,000 transactions since...
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Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mahaparivartan rally in Lucknow as a flop show, BSP chief Mayawati today claimed that despite all out efforts, the gathering did not accept Modi as a UP-walla.The mahaparivartan rally of the prime minister was a total flop show as it was a mere...
20:48
More than 50 killed in Brazil prison riot in Amazon region: news agency AFP quotes media reports.
20:32
Carolina Marin of Hyderabad Hunters beats Saina Nehwal of Awadh Warriors 15-14, 11-5 to draw level.
19:56
Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Monday said his force is prepared for a two-front war involving Pakistan and China simultaneously but emphasised on the need to look at cooperation and not confrontation with Beijing.His remarks came days after Beijing raised eyebrows over India testing 5000...
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US President Barack Obama on Monday said that he will deliver his farewell address to the nation on January 10 from his home city of Chicago, thanking the American people for the amazing journey he had during the last eight years. I'm thinking about them as a chance to say thank you for this...
19:06
ICICI Bank reduces benchmark lending rate by 0.7 pc across tenures.
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Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised bank employees for the hard work done during the demonetisation period, a bank union has demanded overtime for the extra hours put in by staff during the 50-day window that ended on December 30.National Organisation of Bank Workers, an affiliate of...
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Istanbul anti-terror police on Monday detained eight people suspected of links to the New Year gun attack on a nightclub in the Turkish city that left 39 dead and was claimed by Islamic State jihadists, AFP quoted a report.The Dogan news agency said police were pressing on with operations after...
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Actress Nandita Das and her entrepreneur-turned-actor husband Subodh Maskara have decided to part ways after seven years of marriage. Nandita and Subodh have a six-year-old son, Vihaan. After seven years of marriage Subodh and I have decided to separate amicably. Our son is our foremost...
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The Department of Consumer Affairs on Monday said that it is optional on restaurants to add service charges in addition to taxes in the bill and the consumer has discretion to pay service charge or not.This is the full statement:A number of complaints from consumers have been received that hotels...
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Just in: The government has ruled that service charge by eateries is optional. The government says it is on the consumer's discretion whether he wants to pay the service charge or not. Details awaited.
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SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav accompanied by Amar Singh, Shivpal Singh Yadav and Jaya Prada leaves his residence to visit the Election Commission. Both the Mulayam Singh Yadav and the Akhilesh Yadav faction will approach the Election Commission and put forward their arguments following which the...
16:33
The BJP has alleged that opposition party members insulted the national anthem while disrupting house proceedings on the first day of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly's budget session.BJP leader Ravinder Raina demanded an apology from National Conference, Congress and Governor for allegedly...
16:25
Anurag Thakur, who was today sacked as BCCI president for obstructing Lodha panel reforms, took a subtle dig at the Supreme Court's order saying that if the apex court feels the cricketing body will do well under the guidance of retired judges, I wish them all the best. Thakur and BCCI...
16:16
Karnataka home minister reacts to the reports of women being molested and insulted New Year's eve. Bengaluru is a safe city, this is just an incident on new year. We need to understand the culture of celebration and how to do it. But we cannot have 10,000 policemen deployed on the streets, there...
15:27
If you haven't picked up an Amitav Ghosh book yet, do read this essay and discover why he is one of our greatest writers... For many years the word globalization was used as shorthand for a promised utopia of free trade powered by the world's great centers of technological and financial...
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That's the picture of the mammoth crowd at the PM's Parivartan rally in Lucknow.Highlights of the PM's speech... -- SP and BSP have joined hands seeking my removal as I work to eradicate black money. -- People should rise above caste and vote for development of UP.-- Despite full support from the...
15:07
Prashant Jha @prashantktm Amit Shah's more pointed attacks on Akhilesh in the Lucknow rally means BJP sees him as the major threat-maybe even main adversary.
14:51
PM Narendra Modi addressing the 'Parivartan rally' in Lucknow. This is the PM's first rally in the new year. The rally will be held at the Ramabai Ambedkar grounds and the turnout is massive. Highlights of the PM's speech... -- This is the biggest rally in my career. -- Crowds at the...
14:43
Islamic State (IS) on Monday claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Istanbul nighclub attack on Sunday in which 39 people, including 2 Indians, were killed.A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opened fire inside at a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday during new year's celebrations. The...
14:37
Meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi's extended family that lives in quiet obscurity, far removed from the circles of power and influence. Read more
14:33
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa pays homage at Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate, today.On Saturday, the last day of 2016, General Bipin Rawat took over as the 27th Chief of Army Staff, while General Dhanoa took over as Air chief.
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SP leaders Jaya Prada and Amar Singh meet Mulayam Singh Yadav at his Delhi residence.
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Uttar Pradesh: PM Narendra Modi will address the 'Parivartan rally' in Lucknow in a bit. This is the PM's first rally in the new year. The rally will be held at the Ramabai Ambedkar grounds and the BJP reportedly hopes to see a turnout of over 10 lakh people -- double the capacity of the 80...
14:18
The 4000-km range nuclear weapons-capable strategic missile, Agni-IV has been successfully test fired from APJ Abdul Kalam island, 50 km away from Odisha's Chandipur.The Agni-IV test is aimed at revalidating new technologies incorporated in its system and checking the readiness of armed...
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Rattled after the Supreme Court removed both the BCCI President and Secretary, the Board's senior vice President Gokaraju Ganga Raju today made it clear that his association Andhra CA will implement Lodha Reforms with immediate effect. There is no confusion as Supreme Court has passed it's...
13:47
Make no mistake -- demonetisation is an important first step in what will be remembered as India's biggest reform. Read more
13:45
Bengaluru moved into 2017 with horrific incidents of molestation marring its New Year's eve celebrations. According to a Bangalore Mirror report, the city's most bustling areas of MG Road and Brigade road saw thousands of men mobbing the revellers, and groping and trash talking the women in the...
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India test-fires nuclear-capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-IV from test range off Odisha coast. Also read: China's and India's nuclear doctrines mandate 'No First Use' of nuclear weapons, so use against each other seems unlikely. Ajai Shukla reports from Hyderabad on how Agni-5 was built....
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Sacked BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke today said he is absolutely fine with the Supreme Court order asking him to leave office but hoped that the Board does not lose its international standing owing to the administrative upheaval in New Delhi. I have no reaction to that (to his sacking). If that is...
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Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker said his newspaper would not refer to false statements from the Trump administration as lies,' because doing so would ascribe a moral intent to the statements.Baker appeared on NBC's Meet The Press' Sunday, where he described some of...
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Turkish authorities believe the attacker who killed 39 people, including two Indians, at an Istanbul nightclub over the New Year is linked to Islamic State (IS) jihadists and may be from Central Asia, the Hurriyet daily said. Hurriyet said Turkish police and intelligence had received information...
12:45
Days after VK Sasikala took charge as AIADMK's General Secretary, the party now want her to take over as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. In a letter issued to the media by the AIADMK party office, Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker and AIADMK Propaganda Secretary M Thambidurai wrote, When the country is...
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Amar Singh who was expelled from the party by the Akhilesh camp, is also in Delhi to fine tune the strategy to ensure that the symbol remains with Mulayam ahead of assembly polls in the state likely to be announced any day now. Talking to reporters after returning from London, Amar said, I was...
11:52
Gopal Subramanium and Fali Nariman to suggest names for an interim BCCI committee.
11:52
Just in: The Supreme Court removes BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke from their posts. Supreme Court issues contempt notice to Anurag Thakur.The Supreme Court is pronouncing its crucial order in the Board of Control for Cricket in India vs Lodha Committee matter. Apart...
11:44
Shivpal Yadav at Mulayam Singh Yadav's house in New Delhi, says that Mulayam Singh is the SP national president even now and will continue to be. I will be with netaji till I die, he said. The Yadav battle moves to Delhi today where the Samajwadi Party factions led by father Mulayam Singh and...
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Just in: In a landmark ruling the Supreme Court on Monday said that political parties cannot seek votes in the name of religion. The apex court said, No politician can seek votes in the name of caste, creed, or religion. And politicians cannot appeal to religion during the electoral process. The...
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Hours after Mulayam Singh Yadav cancelled the party's convention called by him on January 5 in Lucknow, he said he has not done anything wrong. Mulayam who is leaving for New Delhi said no one can accuse him of any wrongdoing and denied rumours that he was unwell. I am not unwell at all, I am...
10:16
Chand Pal, a Delhi Police head constable, commits suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver in Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court will on Monday continue its hearing on the Hindutva case which deals with electoral malpractices arising out of its 1995 judgment. Earlier, during the hearing by a seven judge Constitutional bench, the apex court had said that it wont reconsider 1995 judgment which defined...
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The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the December 16 gang rape case. Delhi Police's counsel Siddhartha Luthra earlier on December 14 told an apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra how the sequence of events and commission of the offence was made by the accused in the case.The apex court...
09:48
In a speech full of faulty economic reasoning, Modi made one factual claim -- the number of Indians with official incomes greater than Rs 10 lakh is just 24 lakh. If demonetisation really works, he needs to up that figure substantially in the next two years. Read more
09:30
In a dramatic turn of events, the national convention of Samajwadi Party on January 5 convened by party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, was on Monday put on hold. As per Mulayam Singh Yadavs order national convention of Samajwadi Party called by him on January 5th has been put on hold,...
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JUST IN: Mulayam Singh Yadav postpones national convention of Samajwadi Party called by him on January 5, says Shivpal Yadav
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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav staged a coup on Sunday, dislodging his father Mulayam Singh Yadav as Samajwadi Party president and installing himself as the boss at an emergency convention of the party.While this caps three months of acrimonious manoeuvres and counter-manoeuvres that...
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An astounding 10 lakh people -- to be brought in 15,000 buses and 35,000 other vehicles -- are expected to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modis Parivartan Maharally in Lucknow on Monday in what is being tipped as the biggest political rally by him in a long time.If the Bharatiya Janata Party...
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As the crisis within the Samajwadi Party refused to die down, doctors conducted a health check-up of Mulayam Singh Yadav at his residence after he complaint of high blood pressure.The Samajwadi Party split on Sunday with a national convention declaring Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav...
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