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A high-level Indian defence team will visit France next week to review the ongoing production of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft and to formalise the modalities for the payment of the second tranche due this year in the euro 7.878-billion deal.Defence sources also said the first Rafale fighter is...
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Former chief of The Energy and Resources Institute R K Pachauri, facing allegations of sexually harassing an ex-woman colleague, will not have to seek court's permission any more to go abroad, with a Delhi court today allowing his plea for discharge of surety.In a span of two years during...
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A minor girl in Odisha's Kalahandi district sustained severe burn injuries after she was set on fire allegedly by two youths for protesting eve-teasing, police said.The girl, studying in Class X, struggled for life after sustaining severe burn injuries, the police said, adding her condition was...
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JUST IN: Lok Janshakti Party President and Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a private hospital after complaining of breathlessness, says his personal secretary.More details awaited.-- PTI
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said excessive use of paper currency is detrimental to society and hoped banking transaction charges will fall with the entry of new players.Expressing satisfaction that digitisation is expanding at a much faster space than anticipated, Jaitley said...
19:52
JUST IN: A Bhubaneswar court extends Central Bureau of Investigation remand of Trinamool Congress member of Parliament Sudip Bandyopadhyay by 14 days.
19:44
In a first-of-its-kind move in the aviation industry, national carrier Air India will reserve six seats for women on its flights operating on domestic routes from next week.At times, a woman travelling alone gets a middle or window seat on aircraft, which puts her to inconvenience, particularly...
19:36
JUST IN: Photographs of the prime minister on hoardings at Goa petrol pumps and certificates in Uttarakhand not allowed under model code, Election Commission tells cabinet secretary.
19:14
Tata Sons today named TCS Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director N Chandrasekaran as its new chairman. Popularly known as 'Chandra', the 54-year-old was chosen to step into the shoes of interim chairman Ratan Tata. The decision to appoint Chandra, a Tata group veteran, was taken...
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Central Reserve Police Force's Inspector General Ravideep Sahi has requested the media not to 'hype' the issue of a jawan posting a video in which he alleged discrimination and differences in facilities provided to army men and those of the paramilitary forces.We make sure their (jawan's) food is...
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Banks and oil marketing companies will bear transaction charges for the fuel bought using cards at petrol pumps, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today.The decision is very clear. Consumers will not be burdened with Merchant Discount Rate (MDR). Retail outlets (petrol pumps) will also be kept...
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JUST IN: December 2016 Consumer Price Index at 3.41 per cent, compared to November's 3.63 per centIndex of Industrial Production for November 2016 stands at 175.8, which is 5.7 per cent higher as compared to level in the month of November 2015. -- ANI
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JUST IN: A Delhi court sends Manipur's proscribed Kangleipak Communist Party chief Khoirom Ranjit to seven-day police custody.His aide has been sent to two-day police custody.They were arrested in the morning from New Delhi's Mayur Vihar.The duo was allegedly wanted in cases of series of terror...
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CRPF DG K Durga Prasad speaking to NDTV on video released by a CRPF jawan asking for parity with the Army. Durga Prasad says that the issue raised by the jawan is not new. We have raised the issue of pay parity with the government earlier. Some issues have been addressed, some are yet to be...
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The Madras High Court today dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to nationalise the immovable and movable properties of late Tamil Nadu chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, saying these were self-earned by her and the court could not interfere.
16:24
A PIL has been filed in the Bombay High Court against the Maharashtra government's ambitious Chhatrapati Shivaji memorial project, wherein a 192-metre-high statue of the Maratha warrior king will be constructed in the Arabian Sea at a total cost of Rs 3,600 crore. The PIL, filed today by Mohan...
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The Narayanasamy government here is not for any confrontation with Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, but she should function in tandem with it for the overall development of the Union Territory, Puducherry Welfare Minister M Kandasamy said today. Talking to reporters, Kandasamy said, Our (elected ministry)...
16:16
Ivanka Trump, the 35-year-old daughter of US President-elect Donald Trump, will not play a management role in Trump Organisation as well as her own clothing and accessories firm. When my father takes office as the 45th President of the United States of America, I will take a formal leave of...
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India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services kicked off the third quarter results for technology services companies today. TCS on Thursday reported net profit up 10.9 per cent to Rs 6,778 crore in the October-December quarter over year-ago period. Its revenue was up...
15:54
The first wax museum attraction Madame Tussauds will debut in Delhi this June with its operator Merlin Entertainments foraying into India with an investment plan of 50 million pounds over the next 10 years. Merlin Entertainments will open its first Madame Tussauds attraction in Delhi in June with...
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With the Supreme Court rejecting the plea to pass judgement on Jallikattu before Pongal, DMK today blamed the Centre and State governments for the development and announced a state-wide stir tomorrow. DMK blamed both governments for not taking appropriate, timely steps to ensure conduct of...
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With another report of inferior treatment being meted out to paramilitary jawans coming to light, the government today said it is taking all such incidents seriously and corrective steps are being taken to improve the conditions of service personnel and their food. Several things have come to...
15:21
A CISF jawan allegedly opened fire on his colleagues, killing three of them and critically injuring another at their unit at a thermal power station in Aurangabad district of Bihar today. Officials said the incident was reported at about 12:30 am at the Nabinagar Power Generation Company Ltd...
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After the videos of BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav went viral on social media, another clip posted by a CRPF constable has surfaced wherein the trooper has demanded parity for paramilitary personnel in pay and other benefits at par with the army. The Central Reserve Police Force, the country's...
15:12
There's a campaign to make Princess Leia an official Disney Princess. Read more
15:11
The finance minister, Arun Jaitley, was entirely right to stress the significant improvement in the government's revenue collections in recent weeks as a pointer to the fact that the so-called calamitous effects of the November 8 demonetization have been overstated. However, while the full...
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Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said the state government has inked an Memorandum of Understanding with the Railways for manufacturing parts of bullet train wherein Rs 67000 crore of work will done in the state, reports the Indian Express.We are inking an MoU with Railways where by parts of...
14:36
Priyanka Gandhi is set to play a leading and decisive role for the debilitated Congress in the Uttar Pradesh elections. A determined Priyanka is being projected with a clearly defined role and is strongly supported by Congress leaders. Party veterans Raj Babbar, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P L Punia,...
14:21
RSS leader Rakesh Sinha on Thursday alleged that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has the lowest intellectual level in the Nehru-Gandhi family and said that the latter has to learn politics from the scratch to understand the ideology of the right-wing organisation. Sinha said the...
14:18
Days after a farmer in Madhya Pradesh received Rs 2,000 notes from a bank without the image of Mahatma Gandhi, an ATM at a village in Khargone district dispensed two 'one-side blank' currency of the new Rs 500 denomination. Hemant Soni on Tuesday night used his card to withdraw Rs 1,500 from a...
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Belgium has charged two new suspects in connection with the attacks in Paris in November 2015, claimed by the Islamic State group, which killed 130 people, federal prosecutors said today. The suspects, identified only as Farid K. and Meryem E B, are suspected of having provided Khalid El...
13:58
CISF jawan opens fire on four colleagues in Aurangabad in Bihar in alleged fratricide, 2 killed: Official.
13:57
Hardly a surprise, but for those who have back pain, this worth a read. Practicing yoga may have health benefits for people with chronic lower back pain, according to a latest review of research conducted in India, the UK and the US. Lower back pain is a common health problem, and is usually...
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The wife of BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, who claimed that poor quality food was being served to soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC), on Thursday said that her husband is being pressurised to withdraw his complaint and apologise.He told me that he is being pressurised to take the complaint...
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Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju broke his silence on the BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's audio tape, where he was heard complaining about the food served by BSF, pointing fingers at the whole machinery. Rijiju on Thursday said, We should not come to conclusion on the basis of just...
13:19
In the wake of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's visit to India, do read this blog to understand how far back and how close India's relations with Kenya go back. Incidentally, Jomo Kenyatta, the later Kenyan president mentioned in the blog, is Uhuru Kenyatta's grandfather. Kenyans are still...
12:55
French DJ David Guetta's concert, scheduled here for tonight, has been scrapped with the organisers citing law and order situation following the molestation incident during New Year's Eve as the reason. The DJ, 49, is on a four-city tour which was expected to begin from Bangalore and then move to...
12:54
Good wishes have been pouring in for Deepika Padukone's Hollywood debut and here comes a sweet message from the King of Bollywood with whom the leggy lass made her debut in the film industry.Shah Rukh Khan, who recently attended the Dabboo Ratnani's 2017 Calendar launch, sent across his best...
12:43
If you still can't get enough of Deepika Padukone or Vin Diesel, here's one more image of the hot pair (who share some amazing chemistry on screen) this morning. Vin Diesel arrived in Mumbai this morning and was welcomed by his XXX co-star Deepika Padukone. Diesel is in town to promote the movie...
12:22
Donald Trump's secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson has said he does not support blanket travel ban against Muslims even as he asserted that the US must win the war against Islamic terrorists not just on the battlefield, but in the war of ideas. I think what's important is that we are able to...
12:13
RBI Governor Urjit Patel sprinted his way to safety from the pursuit of the media contingent at the Vibrant Gujarat summit in Ahmedabad, ostensibly to dodge uncomfortable questions on demonetisation, reports Deccan Herald. On the second day of the summit, Patel addressed a session on Macro and...
12:06
PIL filed by ex-serviceman in Delhi HC seeking status report of all paramilitary forces in India over allegations of BSF Jawan in his video
11:58
Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep breaking: Cong set to ally with Goa Forward and Babush Monserrate. Babush has faced charges of rape and corruption! #Goaelection.
11:43
Just in: Setback for Tamil Nadu government: The Supreme Court turned down a plea seeking its intervention in revoking its ban on Jallikattu, a bull-taming sport practiced during the Tamil festival of Pongal, ANI reported. The apex court said while the draft of the judgment has been prepared, it...
11:10
On Priyanka Gandhi Vadera's birthday today, wishes from her sister-in-law.Monicka Vadera @mvadera One of my biggest inspirations,a woman of impeccable poise & beauty. Happy birthday sis in law #PriyankaGandhi!! Wishing her health & happiness.
10:57
An American and an Australian have appeared in a Taliban hostage video, five months after they were kidnapped from Kabul. Gunmen wearing police uniforms abducted the two professors at the American University of Afghanistan in the heart of the Afghan capital on August 7, seizing them from their...
10:34
After strong protest by India over Amazon selling doormats depicting Indian flag, the e-retail giant today removed the offensive article from its Canadian website.A spokesman for Amazon based at its headquarters in Seattle told The Washington Post that the doormat was no longer for sale on its...
10:29
Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Thursday poked fun at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and said the latter seems disconnected with the ongoing developments in the nation as he was on a vacation.Rudy said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA...
10:21
Over the next five days, the money in 160 million Paytm wallets will show up in a corresponding number of Paytm Payment Bank wallets as the wallet company becomes a payments bank. As news of the change emerged, some social media chatter created panic amongst Paytm users who thought they would...
10:15
BJP to release Goa and Punjab candidate list today at 11 am.
10:06
NSE Nifty breached the crucial 8,400-mark and BSE Sensex gained 113 points in early trade today on sustained buying by domestic investors ahead of key macroeconomic data to be released later in the day. Besides, a positive start of the earnings season and firming trend on other Asian bourses also...
09:49
Nitish Kumar's bonhomie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have hit a snag days after they swapped high praise. The Bihar chief minister has made it clear that his opposition to a Uniform Civil Code stands.Kumar has not just rejected the proposal in a 16-point questionnaire sent by the...
09:40
India's second Scorpene class submarine, INS Khanderi, was launched at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited in Mumbai today, with Union Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre presiding over the function. The submarine will undergo rigorous tests and trials till December 2017. ...
08:52
Hollywood actor Vin Diesel arrived in Mumbai at Kalina via a private airline this morning. He was welcomed by his XXX co-star Deepika Padukone. Diesel is in town to promote the movie in India. The actors, along with other members of the film's cast and crew, have been on an extensive...
08:44
India launched the second Kalvari class submarine, named Khanderi, in Mumbai. Union Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre is present at the launch ceremony. This Scorpene-class submarine has superior stealth and can use guided weapons - torpedoes and tube-launched anti-ship missiles...
08:35
Vin Diesel, Hollywood actor, playing the lead role in xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, along side Deepika Padukone, is land in Mumbai this morning ahead of the grand premier of the movie. Our correspondent Rajesh Karkera was at the Kalina airport waiting for the arrival of the...
08:02
Union minister Sushma Swaraj has demanded an unconditional apology from online retailer Amazon, which has been selling Indian flag themed doormats. The external affairs minister has demanded that the company withdraw the product immediately. Unless this is done, Amazon officials will not be given...
00:44
Amid uncertainty over forging an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party for high-stake Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation polls, which were announced on Wednesday, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has said he has not received any proposal on seat-sharing so far even as he took a dig at...
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BSF issues guidelines for maintaining high quality of foodRahul mimics Modi; says he instils fear among people In 1st presser, Trump calls Russia dossier 'phony stuff' -Didi, her MP call PM a 'rat'; BJP hits backWorst is yet to come: Manmohan on note banRead yesterday's commentary HERE
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