23:28
A case has been registered against a youth, who had uploaded a 'prank' video on YouTube in which he could be seen kissing girls randomly and running away, for outraging modesty of women and publishing obscene material.Dependra Pathak, joint commissioner of police (Southwest) and Delhi Police...
22:11
JUST IN: Trinamool Congress member of Parliament Sudip Bandyopadhyay's CBI remand extended by four days by a Bhubaneswar court in the Rose Valley chit fund scam case.
22:10
Finance Ministry today invited suggestions and comments from Twitterati on the focus of upcoming Budget to generate employment.People can exercise their voting option on the official twitter handle of the Ministry of Finance. The voting would remain open for next 4 days.'Which area (MSME/low cost...
21:25
Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav has said that there is 'no question of split in the party'.The party is one and we will begin campaign shortly, he told ANI.He also said that Akhilesh Yadav will return as the chief minister after the elections (if the party wins).He said he has tried...
21:09
Sources from the income tax department have said that several cooperative banks have been found involved in laundering unaccounted cash at unprecedented scale post November 8. They said that cash in unallotted and benami lockers was seized from cooperative banks at several places, including...
20:29
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly today said he has received an anonymous 'threat letter' that has warned him against attending a University programme in Medinipore.Yes I have received the letter on January 7 and I have informed this to the police and the organisers, Ganguly said about the...
20:22
For the April-December period of the current fiscal, indirect tax receipts soared 25 per cent to Rs 6.30 lakh crore, which is about 81 per cent of Budget Estimates. Direct tax collection was also up 12.01 per cent at Rs 5.53 lakh crore, 65 per cent of BE.
20:06
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said his government is focused on development of railways shedding earlier practices wherein the ministry was used as a bargaining tool by the main ruling party to distribute trophies to its allies. The railway was left to its fate in earlier regimes....
19:52
One of Indian cricket's eternal comeback men Yuvraj Singh today hailed Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to quit limited-overs captaincy as he feels that they can now conjure up the magic of good old days and enthrall the fans with their fearless brand of cricket. It will be like...
19:50
The prime minister is entitled free travel on Indian Air Force planes for which no bills are raised, IAF has said in an RTI response.Commodore (Retd) Lokesh Batra had sought to know from the Prime Minister's Office the information on the laid down procedure for clearing bills of IAF BBJ aircraft...
19:42
Pakistan fired its first submarine-launched cruise missile on Monday, the military said.The launch of the nuclear-capable Babur-3 missile, which has a range of 450 km (280 miles) and was fired from an undisclosed location in the Indian Ocean, is likely to heighten long-running tension between...
18:36
The Congress today moved the Election Commission demanding removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photograph from government posters at public places, including petrol pumps, ahead of assembly polls in five states. AICC Secretary and head of Legal and Human Rights department, K C Mittal,...
18:28
Our favourite tweeple lures us with this gorgeous picture of Gulmarg. @abdullah_omar This is what our ski slopes in #Gulmarg look like now. I've to be in Jammu for the assembly session. What's your excuse for not being here? With an honorary 'tourism minister' like Omar Abdullah, the...
18:04
Priyanka Chopra took to Twitter to share a picture of hers with Meryl Streep. The two are happily posing backstage at Golden Globes. Streep was honored at the Golden Globes with a Lifetime award and she took the opportunity to attack US President-elect Donald Trump, without actually naming...
17:59
CBSE class X and class XII exams to now begin from March 9 in view of the state assembly elections in five states.
17:53
Two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were suspended in connection with the alleged thrashing of a differently-abled man at Balasore station in Odisha after Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu ordered a probe into the incident.The information about the suspension came into light through a...
17:45
The Madhya Pradesh government on Monday announced major tax exemptions on purchase of point-of-sale (PoS) machines to promote cashless and digital transactions.There would be exemption of 14 per cent in VAT and two per cent in entry tax on the purchase of PoS machines. State cabinet has approved...
17:35
The Central Election Committee of BJP is set to meet on Wednesday to finalise first list of party candidates for the assembly elections in five states starting February 4.The committee, whose members include Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, is likely to announce the...
17:13
Just in: Congress seeks the removal of the PM's posters form petrol pumps before the five-state polls and writes to the poll panel.
17:12
US president-elect Donald Trump slammed Meryl Streep as 'one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood' after she used her Golden Globes acceptance speech to publicly slam him. @realDonaldTrump tweeted saying, Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't...
17:00
A month after former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's death, groups of AIADMK loyalists continue to throng the house of her niece Deepa Jayakumar, urging her to float a political party. Read more
16:56
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today urged President Pranab Mukherjee to save the people of the country from the hardship caused by demonetisation and the resultant cash crisis, while claiming that the CBI was being used to victimise her party.I urge the President, who is the...
16:19
Rajeev Sharma informs us: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have told BJP leaders at the closed door session of the January 6-7 BJP national executive meeting in New Delhi that the BJP will win at least 275 seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election.The UP assembly has 403 seats.Modi...
16:17
Narendra Modi's crackdown on civil society in India. Read more
16:12
The Rajya Sabha Chair Dr Hameed Ansari has received a letter from Mulayam Singh Yadav asking for the expulsion of SP RS MP Ramgopal Yadav from the Upper House. The request will be examined. Ramgopal Yadav is an Akhilesh Yadav loyalist. Also readformer SC Justice Markandey Katju's column: Why I...
15:46
As I watched Donald J. Trump campaigning, I thought, I've seen this show before. It was in the 1990s in Bombay (now called Mumbai). And the man playing the Trump part was Bal Keshav Thackeray, the leader of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, who rode to power on a wave of outrageous stories,...
15:37
Details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Delhi University degree, sought aggressively by Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party, may be released soon, reports NDTV.The Delhi University's objections to providing these details to a Right To Information (RTI) campaigner have been overruled by the...
15:28
Boris Johnson has arrived in New York for talks with senior members of Donald Trump's transition team, the Foreign Office said.News of the Foreign Secretary's surprise trip emerged just hours after Theresa May labelled the US President-elect's controversial comments about groping women...
15:25
French police have arrested 16 suspects in connection with the robbery of the US reality TV star Kim Kardashian West in Paris in October, reports the Guardian.The suspects, a number of them reportedly well known to detectives for armed robbery, were picked up in coordinated early...
15:20
Days after the Madras High Court expressed doubt over the circumstances leading to the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, the Apollo Hospital in their argument stated that it will file a response petition in a sealed cover to the court.The hospital in their argument...
15:06
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday urging the latter to consider promulgating an ordinance to resume the sport Jallikattu on Pongal this year. The bull-fighting sport had been banned by the Supreme Court in May 2014 owing to...
14:38
In Delhi as Akhilesh Yadav loyalists Ram Gopal Yadav and Naresh Agrawal arrive at the Election Commission office to stake claim to the party symbol -- cycle, Mulayam Singh addressing the press clarified that there was no problem between him and his son (Akhilesh Yadav). He said only one person...
14:23
There will be no extra charge for card transactions at petrol pumps, the government decided today after petrol pump owners threatened to stop accepting cards. Petrol pumps will also continue to accept card payments. Consumers will not pay extra for digital transactions, Minister of State for...
14:11
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis dedicated phase I of the ambitious Mumbai WiFi project. The WiFi city project envisages 1,200 hot spots, under an ambitious smart city mega-project by May 1, 2017. Fadnavis says that 500 WiFi Hotspots will go live across various locations in Mumbai . Mumbai Wifi...
13:56
India has said Pakistan is behind the Akhnoor attack which killed three people. Minister of State, PMO Dr Jitendra Singh, said the terrorism perpetrated in India is from Pakistan.At least three civilians employed as labourers with the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) were killed in a...
13:53
Just in: Salman Khan will be handed out the verdict under the Arms Act case in the black buck poaching case of 1998 on January 18. Salman has been charged for poaching with a gun whose licence had expired. In 2006, Salman had been convicted by the trial court and handed sentences of...
13:16
Prime Minister Narendra Modi could be asked to explain his abrupt demonetization drive to a parliamentary committee, its chief, Congress leader VK Thomas, said today, reports PTI.The Public Accounts Committee has ordered Urjit Patel, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, to meet it on the...
12:50
SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav reaches the Election Commission office.
12:46
Finance minister Arun Jaitley is addressing a press conference over a host of issues surrounding the note ban and the criticism of it. Direct and Indirect taxes moved up post note ban and collections are up in December as compared to November. In a statement, the finance minister said that in...
12:36
Former PM Manmohan Singh releases the Punjab Congress Manifesto for the upcoming polls.
12:22
Hillary Clinton will not run for any elected office again after losing to Donald Trump in the US Presidential polls, her Indian-American aide Neera Tanden has said amid reports that the former secretary of state could run for the post of New York Mayor. I think she's going to figure out ways to...
11:54
State-run Chinese tabloid Global Times warned US President-elect Donald Trump that China would take take revenge if he reneged on the one-China policy, only hours after Taiwan's president made a controversial stopover in Houston.Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met senior US Republican lawmakers...
11:35
Mumbai-born strategic expert Ashley J Tellis, who served at the United States embassy in New Delhi and the White House, could be US President-elect Donald Trump transition teams pick for ambassador to India, a media report said on Monday.Trump is close to selecting Tellis to be the next envoy to...
11:24
Samajwadi Party feud is likely to end on Monday as the Election Commission is expected to give a decision on the party symbol and title in favour of Akhilesh Yadav or Mulayam Singh Yadav.According to sources, Mulayam is confident that he will emerge as a winner in the battle of symbol. He is...
11:21
State-run Dena Bank today said its board has approved raising of share capital by up to Rs 360 crore through issue of equity shares. The Board of Directors...has approved raising of share capital (including premium) of the bank up to amount of Rs 360 crore by issue of equity shares via FPO/rights...
10:58
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said Indians abroad facing problems can tweet to the respective embassy and tag her in the tweet, adding that she will personally monitor the missions responses.The minister, who has been known for reaching out to citizens through Twitter, said a new...
10:44
The Centre is now desperate, leading it to compound the note-ban blunder with more and egregious blunders, said Robert Vadra, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, in a Facebook post wrote. Referring to another note ban-related latest crisis, this time with petrol pump owners, Vadra...
10:05
India is now actively discussing the possible sale of the indigenously developed Akash surface-to-air missile systems to Vietnam, even as the two countries steadily crank up their bilateral military ties with a watchful eye on a confrontational China in the Asia-Pacific region.Sources say the...
10:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modis administration will probably have to prepare Indias $300 billion budget in the dark.With less than a month to go before the annual presentation, his Statistics Office has refused to estimate the impact of Modis unprecedented cash clampdown on gross domestic product....
09:41
Former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to officially join the Congress Party today.According to sources, Sidhu wanted to join the Congress in presence of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi but since he is out of country, he decided the date accordingly.The Central...
09:27
A man tried to use the spate of molestation allegations in Bengaluru as a decoy to carry on his extra-marital affair with his sister-in-law, police said on Sunday.Footage from a CCTV camera showed a man stalking a burqa-clad woman walking towards a bus-stop on a deserted road on Friday morning....
08:38
After Sakshi Maharaj sparked a controversy by indirectly blaming Muslims for the population boom in the country, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad said the BJP leader should be booked under Goondas Act and sent to jail.He said Sakshi Maharaj is always involved in communalising society and he should be...
08:20
Petrol pump owners in the country on Sunday night deferred till January 13 their decision to not accept credit and debit card payments for fuel sales after banks put off the move to levy the transaction charge.To promote cash-less transactions, the government had waived the Merchant Discount Rate...
07:48
Three General Reserve Engineer Force personnel lost their lives on Monday morning in an attack on the BRO GREF camp in army district of Akhnoor, reports said. The gunshots were heard around 7 am on Monday.According to reports the area has been cordoned off. More details are awaited.The GREF...
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