23:29
Maharashtra government has given the mayor's bungalow at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai on a 30 years lease for a memorial of the late Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena founder. According to an ordinance issued by Urban Development Department on Tuesday to amend the Mumbai Municipal Corporation...
23:20
India today expressed confidence that the Indo-US relationship will be brighter under Donald Trump's presidency and said there has been high-level engagement with his prospective team in deepening the ties. We are very clear that the future of Indo-US relationship will be brighter than it...
23:19
New York City authorities say more than 100 people suffered minor injuries when a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block at a Brooklyn station.Fire officials at the scene today said metal that appeared to be from a rail pierced the bottom of the train and the wheels lifted up. They said...
23:08
Former media baron Peter Mukerjea, arrested in the murder case of his step daughter Sheena Bora, today told a special court in Mumbai that the Central Bureau of Investigation was trying to malign his image.Peter's lawyer Mihir Gheewala argued on framing of charges. Special judge for CBI cases H S...
23:04
The nine-year-old son of an aspiring film producer, who was in the process of producing a film on Akhilesh Yadav, allegedly consumed poison in New Delhi on Wednesday as he was apparently upset over the recent developments in the Samajwadi Party.The incident occurred in southeast Delhi's Jamia...
22:31
Joining the opposition chorus, BJP's ally Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today appealed to President Pranab Mukherjee to not allow presentation of the Union Budget days ahead of elections to five states, a move that will not go down well with the Centre or Maharashtra government. The Sena...
22:27
Hyderabad: Fire breaks out near VIP parking at Shamshabad airport. Five fire tenders at the spot.
21:23
The RBI will remove restrictions on cash withdrawals after assessing market situation, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today even as he ruled out interfering with the conditions barring anyone other than NRIs and Indians returning from abroad from depositing the junked notes in select central...
21:17
MS Dhoni has stepped down as India's limited-overs captain.Mahendra Singh Dhoni has informed the BCCI, that he wishes to step down as the captain of the Indian Cricket Team from the One Day Internationals and the T20 Internationals formats of the game, BCCI said in a statement. He will be...
20:16
The Congress appears to have kept its doors open for a pre-poll alliance in Uttar Pradesh, given the inclination of Samajwadi Party's 'newly elected president' Akhilesh Yadav for such a tie-up to garner over 300 assembly seats.As of now, we are working on the recommendations of the screening...
19:35
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Bhubaneswar has sent Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay to six-day CBI remand.Bandyopadhyay was yesterday arrested in the Rose Valley chit fund scam, provoking a violent attack by his supporters on Bharatiya Janata Party's state...
19:30
JUST IN: New York City commuter train derails in Brooklyn, 18 injured. -- Reuters
19:11
Four men were questioned today by the Bengaluru police about their alleged involvement in molesting women at a New Year's Eve celebration, NDTV reported.Bengaluru Police Commissioner Praveen Sood tweeted that an enquiry is being 'conducted by a DCP rank officer who has gone through feed from 45...
18:34
The Goods and Services Tax Council will be meeting again on January 16 as deadlock continued in Wednesday's meeting over the issue of dual control of assesses.Addressing media after the council meet, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, There was discussion on six economic sectors. Six...
17:36
JUST IN: Alleged Trinamool Congress workers set Bharatiya Janata Party office in Hooghly, west Bengal, on fire on Wednesday, ANI reports.The photograph shows the BJP office on fire.Trinamool workers are staging protests against the arrest of party MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay by the Central Bureau of...
17:15
A group of young Chinese children were attacked by knife wielding man after he climbed over the wall of their kindergarten, reports the Independent. A 41-year-old suspect has been caught, but his motives remain unclear, state media reported. None of the children sustained life threatening...
17:12
The bodies of film producer-realtor Abis Rizvi and fashion designer Khushi Shah, who were among the 39 people killed in the terror attack at an Istanbul nightclub, arrived in Mumbai early Wednesday. The Turkish Airlines plane carrying the bodies landed at Mumbai airport shortly after 5 am, BJP MP...
17:04
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday said his party along with its ally the BJP will win three-fourth seats in Punjab assembly polls. Punjab goes to the polls on February 4.There is no opposition in Punjab. We will win three-fourth seats in the Punjab polls, Badal told...
16:31
Unable to get a few junked currency notes exchanged, a frustrated poor woman became topless in front of RBI regional office here today. The woman, who was with her child, was in tears when turned away by guards after repeated request to exchange her junked notes. In protest she sat in front of...
16:29
What connects Justice TS Thakur, who stepped down on Tuesday, January 3, and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley?Apart from the obvious -- both have been lawyers -- they have a father and father-in-law who served as Jammu and Kashmir's finance minister.Devi Dass 'D D' Thakur -- Justice Thakur's...
16:12
Criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to demonetise higher value currency notes, noted American economist Steve H Hanke today said India's war on cash has pushed its economy into contraction as anticipated.#Modi has officially steered #India's economy into contraction as a result of...
16:08
'The legal burden of running demonetisation should vest with Parliament, not RBI'. Read more
16:02
The Samajwadi Party (SP) is expected to win 141 to 151 seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections, according to the latest ABP News-Lokniti CSDS Opinion Poll. This figure takes the SP's vote share to 30 percent of the total.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) follows close behind, with the poll...
16:00
The gardens at Rashtrapati Nilayam, or the President's southern residence, in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, will open for public viewing from January 3 to 10, said an official statement. People can visit the gardens from 10 am to 5 pm, it said.The gardens of Rashtrapati Nilayam...
15:58
Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has requested President Barack Obama to consider pardoning Julian Assange after his website WikiLeaks leaked hacked Democratic emails in the run up to US Presidential election last year. The 49-year-old actress has penned a letter to Obama, who will step down as the...
15:41
AgustaWestland Case: Bail granted to SP Tyagi's cousin Sanjeev Tyagi and lawyer Gautam Khaitan.
15:40
Salaries of Flipkart employees could put you to shame. In April-March 2016, India's largest homegrown e-commerce company paid over Rs10 crore ($1.5 million) to six of its employees and over a crore to 101 others, regulatory filings sourced by data platform Tofler shows. The compensation to...
15:36
The Congress Party has roped in poll strategist Prashant Kishor to work his magic for the Uttarakhand polls. Congress insiders have told India Today that Kishor has agreed to chalk out campaign plans for the party in Uttarakhand where CM Harish Rawat is likely to face a stiff fight from the...
15:16
West Bengal: TMC supporters stage a rail-roko protest in Coochbehar over the arrest of TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay. TMC MPs are now marching to the PM's residence.Trinamool Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay was on Tuesday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the...
15:12
Just in: Sheena Bora murder case: Court to frame charges against all the accused on January 17.
14:54
A deadly brown snake has been captured on film eating a python after the pair were spotted in a suburban house in north-eas tAustralia. Sally Hill, from N&S Snake Catcher, observed the incident, which lasted more than three hours, after she and her husband were called to a house near...
14:36
A 200-year-old ancestral house in Margao town is getting spruced up to welcome its family member and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, during his Goa trip on January 11-12, which is a part of his India visit. Christmas has just concluded, so right now I have to clean up the house. I...
14:16
Slow clap for Shirish Kunder for this epic response. Fatima Arya @XMuslimFatima @ShirishKunder Your Kids Hindus or Muslims?@ShirishKunder Shirish Kunder Retweeted Fatima Arya Depends on which festival is next. Last month, they were Christians
14:07
Just in: Shiv Sena to pitch candidates in 150 seats in the upcoming UP polls. The high-stakes assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases between February 11 and March 8, while Punjab and Goa will go to polls together on February 4, Uttarakhand on February 15 and Manipur in...
14:03
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country grew by over 27 per cent to USD 27.82 billion during April-October this fiscal. The FDI stood at USD 21.87 billion in April-October 2015-2016, according to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). The main sectors which have...
13:36
Swaraj Abhiyan's Yogendra Yadav makes an important observation on Twitter: Will Union Budget be presented just 3 days before Punjab, Goa polls? Fair? Has EC revised the position it has taken for last two decades?
13:20
Punjab Polls: Navjot Singh Sidhu to contest on Congress ticket from Amritsar East assembly constituency.
13:06
In other news: The identity of the gunman who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day has been established, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a televised interview with the state-run Anadolu news agency on Wednesday.The gunman, who fled after the attack,...
13:05
And finally the dates for the five state elections. All five states will go to elections in one go. Uttar Pradesh votes in seven phases for the 403 seats: Phase I votes on: 11 February, Phase II votes on: 15 February, Phase III votes on 19 February, Phase IV votes on 23 February, ...
12:26
The Election Commission announcing the poll dates for Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Nasim Zaidi addressing the media.Highlights....-- Nearly 16 crore voters will be participating in the polls. -- Electoral roll of Goa will be published on...
11:46
Neha Dhupia was at the NBA Knicks Game at Madison Square in New York.
11:32
From CPI-M president Sitaram Yechury's Facebook post: Advancing the Annual Budget has the following implications immediately apparent:1. The advance GDP estimates for the ongoing FY were released in February, and meant actual data for three quarters was considered. Now, with the advance estimates...
11:13
Just in: TMC workers block NH-2 near Asansol in protest against the arrest of TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay; Vehicles stranded.
11:07
Activist Anna Hazare has moved the Bombay high court seeking a CBI inquiry into what he termed a Rs 25,000 crore sugar cooperative factories scam. Hazare filed two civil PILs and a criminal PIL seeking a CBI probe. The criminal PIL is listed for hearing on January 6 before a...
10:55
Shashi Tharoor's An Era of Darkness tells you that India was in the forefront of globalization before the British conquered and looted the country. Angus Maddison in his classic, The World Economy, estimated the primary economic parameters of many countries over the millennium. When the...
10:47
Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was sworn in as the 44th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India today at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The tenure of Justice TS Thakur ended yesterday.
10:40
Remember how President-elect Donald Trump told 60 Minutes shortly after winning the election that he was planning to be restrained' on how he uses Twitter? It seems he is now reconsidering and is absolutely' planning to continue to use Twitter as a communication tool and to make...
10:15
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel, finance secretary Ashok Lavasa and economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das will brief the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on January 20 on the impact of demonetisation on Indian economy and the amount of black money unearthed...
10:10
Former President Bill Clinton and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration later this month, aides to both Clintons told CNN on Tuesday.Former President George W Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will also attend, the 43rd...
10:07
Just in: Stalin elected as DMK working president. The general council of the DMK met on Wednesday to crown party treasurer and heir apparent M K Stalin. The meeting at the party headquarters 'Anna Arivalayam', ends the DMK scion's agonising wait for an elevation. DMK president M Karunanidhi has...
09:35
Face down in the mud, a baby boy lies still after washing up on a river bank.His name is Mohammed Shohayet, a 16-month-old Rohingya refugee whose family fled their home for Bangladesh to escape the violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, only to drown during the journey along with his mother, uncle...
09:18
In horrifying video footage, two men on a scooter are seen blocking a young woman's path, getting off and then groping her just hours into the New Year in Bengaluru.The incident is said to have taken place around 2:30 am on Sunday and was recorded by a camera installed at a house off Kammanahalli...
09:06
Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar will today assume the office of Chief Justice of India as the tenure of Justice TS Thakur ended yesterday.On December 19, President Pranab Mukherjee had cleared the name of Justice Khehar.Justice Khehar, who will be sworn in by President Mukherjee, will be the 44th...
08:31
JUST IN: Election Commission to announce assembly polls in UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand and other states at 12 noon today.
08:29
After the India visit of Travis Kalanick, founder and chief executive officer of US-based taxi aggregator Uber, Google CEO Sundar Pichai would be in New Delhi for an event on small and medium businesses one of the new focus areas of the global technology major.According to sources, Pichai could...
08:10
BJP leader Krishna Bhattacharya's house in West Bengal's Uttarpara allegedly attacked by TMC workers, last night. Case registered.
07:57
Three days after New Year eve revelry turned into a nightmare for several women who were allegedly molested at a large gathering in Bengaluru's downtown area, police today claimed to have found credible evidence of molestation and have registered an FIR.As the incidents drew widespread outrage...
00:28
The US is set to become the world's greatest magnet for innovation and job creation, President-elect Donald Trump said.Instead of driving jobs and wealth away, America will become the world's great magnet for innovation and job creation, Trump said in a tweet.Trump's tweet came as Ford announced...
00:27
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