23:35
Leo Varadkar, the son of a Mumbai-born doctor and Irelands first openly gay minister, will be the next Irish prime minister, after he was voted leader of the countrys main governing party on Friday.Varadkars victory in the Fine Gael leadership contest, which took place after outgoing PM Enda...
23:10
CBI registers FIR to probe the case of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed.
22:58
Reliance Communications Chairman Anil Ambani on Friday said his relationship with his brother Mukesh Ambani is cordial and all speculations to the contrary are unnecessary even as their telecom ventures will continue to be separate entities despite business ties.Speaking to reporters in Mumbai,...
22:31
Mobile Internet services were restored tonight in the Kashmir valley, six days after these were snapped in the wake of protests following killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat. The mobile network services have been restored across all connections and operators in the Valley, an...
22:08
Bihar's Class XII topper Ganesh Kumar was arrested on Friday after the Bihar School Examination Board cancelled his result.An FIR has been lodged against Kumar, BSEB chairman Anad Kishore said following a day long protest by students in front of the Bihar Inter Council office in Patna.Kishore...
21:07
The Election Commission's electronic voting machine hackathon to go ahead as scheduled on Saturday after the Uttarakhand high court rejected a plea for a stay on it.The same court had earlier asked for voting machines used in the Uttarakhand election to be sequestered after Congress candidates...
20:51
Shashi S Vempati appointed as Chief Executive Officer of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.
20:48
The fifth and the sixth units of India's largest nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu will cost about Rs 50,000 crore to build with half of it being funded by Russia as loan.The project will take seven years to start generating electricity, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Chairman and Managing...
20:29
Describing terrorism as a global menace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged the world community to block funding, weapons and communication modes of terrorists, in an apparent reference to Pakistan's support for Kashmiri militants.The call of time is that we should rise above specific...
19:09
India is committed to protecting climate, irrespective the Paris agreement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said inSt Petersburg on Friday but avoided a direct reference to the United States withdrawing from the international deal.Addressing the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in the...
18:24
Amid the ongoing agitation of farmers in Maharashtra, Congress today hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he could take time out of his schedule to meet Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, but had notime to meet farmers.It is unfortunate that Modi ji has time to meet Priyanka Chopra, but...
18:19
Results of CBSE Class X exams to be announced tomorrow.
18:02
Namadhu MGR, the official mouthpiece of the AIADMK, now controlled by the Sasikala-Edappadi Palaniswami faction, has a strong editorial on cow slaughter. The editorial has criticised PM Narendra Modi on the Centre's notification banning the sale of cattle for slaughter at markets. The editorial...
17:36
Three lower rung naxals were arrested from Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Dantewada district, police said today.
17:07
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday expressed shock over the Centre's unilateral decision on Subhas Chandra Bose.The Central Government recently gave information about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose through a reply under the RTI Act. I am shocked to see this unilateral decision...
16:32
Residents are being evacuated in Manchester after police cordoned off a suspect car linked to Salman Abedi. Greater Manchester Police said the Nissan Micra may be significant to the investigation as the operation continued. Read more
16:22
Shah Rukh Khan is the latest celebrity to face a death hoax as a European news network reported that the Bollywood star was killed in a plane crash. A European news network called El Pais TV announced a 'breaking news' segment that SRK was killed along with seven others when a private jet he was...
16:07
The Indian High Commission in Pakistan on Friday issued visas to an ailing two-and-a-half-year-old Pakistani boy and his parents after Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj promised they would be allowed to travel to India for treatment.To bring you up to speed, Ken Sid, a Pakistani...
15:31
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday called for peace and harmony in the state and said that the day when Kashmiri Pandits would return home would come soon. This is an important day for Kashmiri Pandits. I pray that day comes soon when Kashmiri Pandits will return home...
15:12
Union Minister Maneka Gandhi has been admitted to the emergency ward of a hospital in Pilibhit after a breathing problem, reports news agency ANI. However, hospital officials denied that the union minister had a breathing problem. She has a stone problem in the gall bladder and might be...
14:55
President Donald Trump does not read -- except in small doses and when his own name appears prominently. Prior to the presidency, his only activities were work and golf. He does not mingle with intellectuals, cultural trend-setters or artists.It should come as no surprise - and it has...
14:38
This week, two of Donald Trump's top advisers, HR McMaster and Gary Cohn, wrote the following passage in The Wall Street Journal: The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a clear-eyed outlook that the world is not a 'global community' but an arena where nations,...
14:18
Economic Adviser Arvind Panagariya on Friday said that India's economic growth is expected to pick up to 7.5 per cent by March 2018, as the government has sustained eight per cent growth rate over the next two years.Lot of good things have happened in the presence of the current Government....
13:52
CP Joshi wins the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) president election. Former RCA president Lalit Modi's son Ruchir was fighting the election against the senior Congress leader, who has also been an ex-president, for the top post. Joshi got 19 votes against Ruchir Modi's 14 votes.
13:39
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader Pema Khandu on Friday opposed the Union government notification which put a ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter.Khandu told CNN-News18 that the Centre would have to relook the sale of cattle for slaughter ban in consultation with states. I...
12:55
Historian Ramachandra Guha, appointed by the Supreme Court as one of the four administrators of the BCCI, on Thursday, informed the court that he had resigned from the post due to personal reasons.A vacation bench of Justices M M Shantanagoudar and Deepak Gupta was informed by Guha's counsel that...
12:39
The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case to probe alleged irregularities in the 2016 Bihar toppers scam case related to the state school examination board. Officials said the agency has booked a criminal case against a total of eight people, including former Bihar School...
12:24
Never before in our country have rational statements of concern and pleas for peace, not only from Muslims, been interpreted as cowardly or seditious. It is almost as if the day was being awaited when this could be done. A Facebook post quoting Einstein's warning about nuclear warfare received a...
12:06
Saurabh Mahajan, a former Indian Army officer, is making history in medieval battles grounds. Rediff.com's Archana Masih meets the man who supplies vintage armour and war props to Game of Thrones, Assassin's Creed, The Hobbit and knights in shining armour to the Tower of London. Read the story here.
12:03
India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from a test range in Odisha as part of a user trial by the Army. The trial of the surface-to-surface missile, which has a strike range of 350 km, was carried out from a mobile launcher from launch...
11:53
Thirty-six bodies were found inside a casino in the Philippine capital today after a masked man burst in with an automatic rifle and set fire to a gaming room, authorities said, but insisted it was not a terrorist attack. Dozens of others were injured in a stampede as they rushed to leave...
11:32
Following the release of the GDP and Gross Value Added figures for 2016-17 showing the sliding of the economy by 1.3 percent, former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Friday trained his guns on the Centre for ridiculing the suggestions of former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh.Reiterating his...
11:28
Nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile successfully test-fired from Odisha.
11:22
Two medium intensity quakes today hit Haryana, tremors of which were felt in Delhi and other parts of northern India. The epicenter of the first quake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale, was Rohtak district in Haryana, said the Center for Seismology under the Meteorological Department. The depth...
11:10
Telangana's Deputy CM Kadiyam Srihari faints during the Telangana Formation Day celebrations in Warangal. The Telangana government has lined up a slew of programmes to coincide with the third anniversary of formation of the State, starting with the ceremonial parade to be reviewed by Chief...
10:54
The mortal remains of Flight Lieutenant S Achudev reaches his residence in Trivandrum's Pongumoodu.The flight lieutenant along with Squadron leader D Pankaj were killed on May 23, when their Sukhoi-30 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from the Tezpur airbase in Assam. The wreckage was...
10:30
French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a take-down of President Trump's new climate policy, calling his decision a 'mistake' that threatens the world -- not long after a phone call where Trump told him about America's 'strong record' on the environment.'Wherever we live, whoever we are,...
10:28
Markets resumed their record-setting spree to hit fresh lifetime highs in opening trade today on sustained buying amid positive global cues. BSE Sensex, which had lost 21.81 points in the past two sessions, bounced back by 194.97 points, or 0.62 per cent to trade at 31,332.56, breaching its...
10:16
Former US President Barack Obama lamented the decision of President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate accord saying the deal was meant to protect the world we leave to our children.Accusing Trump for rejecting the future by pulling out of the Paris climate deal, the former...
10:15
The BJP and RSS may realise that it is much easier for the ICHR to rewrite textbooks and for the ICSSR to float its bizarre interpretations on social themes than to keep people away from their favourite dishes, says Amulya Ganguli. Read more
10:06
Retorting to opposition's criticism against the recent GDP percentage, the BJP on Friday said that the drop in economic activity is a temporary affair and that they will be disappointed soon.Asserting that the opposition is entitled to criticize the government, BJP leader S Prakash said, The...
10:04
In national news, The Delhi Court on Friday will pronounce its order on the CBI plea, seeking permission to conduct a lie-detector test on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.Earlier, the court had asked arms dealer Abhishek Verma, who is a witness in the case, to...
09:33
Twelve-year-old Ananya Vinay has won the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee.The sixth-grader from Fresno, California, won by spelling 'marocain', a French word for dress fabric made of ribbed crepe. She gets more than $40,000 in cash and prizes.Runner-up Rohan Rajeev missed the word 'marram', a...
09:30
JUST IN: Sensex hits all-time high of 31,332.56; Nifty climbs to new peak of 9,673.50
08:53
We're getting out. It was with these words that Donald Trump signified the United States' break from the Paris Agreement.In a statement from the Rose Garden in Washington DC, Trump announced that the United States would be withdrawing its support from the Accord, but would begin...
08:44
Cartoon by Tom Toro for the New Yorker. Image courtesy: New Yorker/Instagram
08:35
Three Democratic governors said they won't let the US back away from a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, despite US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from an international pact.This is an insane move by this president, California Governor Jerry Brown said, blasting the...
08:25
Dozens of top executives urged Trump not to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement. Now, many are voicing their displeasure. Disappointed with today's decision on the Paris Agreement. Climate change is real. Industry must now lead and not depend on government, said General Electronic...
08:14
There's no doubt that US President Trump's withdrawal will make it more difficult for the world to reach the goals that it set for itself in the Paris agreement - keeping global temperature rises well under 2 degree Celsius. The US contributes about 15 per cent of global emissions of carbon, but...
07:58
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has expressed disappointment over President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Accord, saying he is confident all other parties to the ambitious pact will continue with their efforts to reduce the emissions.The decision by the United States to...
02:31
Former President Barack Obama slammed his successor President Donald Trump today for pulling out of the Paris climate deal, warning that the move would see the United States 'reject the future' by not abiding by the agreement. 'Even in the absence of American leadership; even as this...
01:16
United States President Donald Trump has announced withdrawal from the Paris climate deal. He, however, said that the US will begin fresh negotiations to enter either the Paris deal or a totally new climate deal.Announcing the withdrawal, he said the deal caused major job loss to the US...
00:19
Gunfire was reported at a hotel and a casino resort in the Philippine capital on Thursday night, the operator of the complex said, and the Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility.'Resorts World Manila is currently on lockdown following reports of gunfire from unidentified men,' the...
00:13
India, Russia ink key pact for 2 nuclear power unitsPutin: Relations with Pak will not dilute Indo-Russia tiesCattle sale ban: FM tries to allay fears; Meghalaya BJP leader quitsBihar: A year later, another topper fails to answer basic questionsRead yesterday's commentary HERE
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