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Amid strained ties between the two countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif exchanged greetings at at a cultural gala in Astana, Kazakhstan.Media reports claimed that PM Modi inquired about Sharif's health. Reports also said that Modi enquired about...
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Narendra Modi, who led the BJP to a clear-cut majority in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, could not predict during the campaign that the victory would be so huge, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in Mumbai on Thursday.He was speaking to reporters about the NDA government's completion of three years...
22:59
Pakistan on Thursday urged the International Court of Justice to adopt an expedited timetable for an early substantive hearing of the Kulbhushan Jadhav case as the agents of India and Pakistan discussed procedural matters with the court's President.A meeting took place between ICJ President Ronny...
21:54
Comparing Army chief Bipin Rawat to General Dyer, who had earned notoriety for ordering the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, is a sad comparison, his naval counterpart Admiral Sunil Lanba said today.Academician Partha Chatterjee, in a piece published on a news website, had drawn comparison between...
21:21
As many as 18 naxals allegedly involved in the deadly attack on the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in April, were today arrested from two places in the insurgency-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, an official said. While 10 cadres were apprehended from Chintagufa police station...
21:04
Former FBI Director James Comey said that he believes that President Donald Trump fired him over Russia investigation. During his testimony before the Senate, he also said that Trump did not ask him to stop the investigation.- I believe the President fired me over the Russia investigation-...
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Former FBI Director James Comey's testimony is underway before the Senate Intelligence Committee.In his opening remarks, Comey said that there is no doubt Russia interfered with the US election.Comey said that he wants Americans to know FBI is honest, strong and always will be independent.He also...
19:52
As part of the party's Dalit outreach, BJP's top brass has asked Union ministers and senior functionaries to have a meal at a Dalit household while visiting different states as part of the Modi government's third anniversary celebrations.While they (Union ministers and party leaders) will talk...
19:20
As part of the party's Dalit outreach, BJP's top brass has asked Union ministers and senior functionaries to have a meal at a Dalit household while visiting different states as part of the Modi government's third anniversary celebrations.While they (Union ministers and party leaders) will talk...
18:45
Internet services in Saharanpur have been blocked for two days to prevent social media being misused to foment tension following the arrest of Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar, the main accused in the recent violence in the district, the police said today. Internet facilities have been...
18:04
A debt-ridden 45-year-old farmer in Maharashtra's Solapur ended his life by hanging himself from a tree near his house and left a suicide note with clear instructions for the family -- don't cremate me till Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis comes here.Dhanaji Jadhav allegedly committed suicide at...
17:58
India is constantly monitoring the situation in Qatar, which is facing diplomatic isolation by four major Arab countries that have also closed air, sea and land links with it. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain announced on Monday they were cutting diplomatic ties and closing all...
17:54
Are people paying the Krishi Kalyan cess so the government could buy bullets to shoot farmers? the CPI(M) asked today as it attacked the Centre over the violent stir by cultivators in Madhya Pradesh. The Left party's criticism of the government comes after five protesting farmers were killed,...
17:52
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called on Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana and discussed ways to expand bilateral ties. He met Nazarbayev soon after arriving in Astana on a two-day visit during which he will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit where India and...
17:43
Amid protests in Madhya Pradesh, farmers in Punjab have decided to launch a statewide agitation on June 12 to press for debt waiver and implementation of the Swaminathan Commission's report.
17:33
Congress VP Rahul Gandhi has been released. He was arrested and kept in a makeshift jail in Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh. He will be meeting the family members of the farmers killed by the police during protests at the Madhya Pradesh-Rajasthan border, inside Rajasthan. He cannot meet them in Madhya...
17:19
The Army today accused their Pakistani counterpart of engineering infiltration of armed militant into Kashmir, saying these groups were being provided active support, including covering fire, during their infiltration bids at the Line of Control. Indian Army units deployed along the Line of...
17:06
Sukesh Chandrashekhar, arrested by the Delhi police for allegedly taking money from AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran to bribe Election Commission officials in the poll symbol case, was today produced before a court in Coimbatore in connection with a cheating case. Sukesh, who was...
17:01
India's Rohan Bopanna won his first Grand Slam as he and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski edged past Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Colombia's Robert Farah in the final of the mixed doubles at the French Open in Paris, on Thursday.Bopanna and Dabrowski registered a hardfought 6-2, 2-6,...
16:37
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi speaks to family members of deceased farmers on phone. Sources said Gandhi won't be returning without meeting the farmers in Mandsaur.Families of deceased farmers waited to meet Gandhi outside the premises where he's been kept. Sources also said that he won't...
15:54
Special session of the Kerala Legislative Assembly passes a resolution against the Centre's 'unconstitutional usurpation of State rights', tweets Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan. The Constitution espouses federalism and defines rights of Centre and States. Parliament has no right to pass laws on State...
15:47
Arundhati Roy on balancing her dual identity as fiery political commentator and soft-spoken novelist. Read the interview here.
15:46
PM Narendra Modi arrives in Astana (Kazakhstan) to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.
15:45
JUST IN: Curfew lifted for women and children in Mandsaur from 4 pm to 6 pm. Round-the-clock curfew was imposed in Mandsaur town in Madhya Pradesh after five farmers were killed and over a dozen injured in police firing. The farmers were protesting in Mandsaur district of MP since Monday. Curfew...
15:26
A fire broke out in a three-storey building located behind Gurudwara Sis Ganj in Chandni Chowk this afternoon. A call to alert the Delhi Fire Services about the fire was received at 1.02 pm, a senior official said. As many as 15 fire tenders have been rushed to the spot to the douse the blaze...
15:24
Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth today said he would meet his fans again stepping up expectations about the possibility of his entry into politics. After telling his fans last month that his entry into politics was in the hands of God even while asking them to prepare ground for a war, he said...
15:12
Photographs of Dangal girl Fatima Sana Shaikh, chilling out on the beach in a black one-piece swimsuit went viral on the internet yesterday, with fans going cross-eyed over how lovely she looked. But, there were many, who trolled the actress for her attire.The actress was s**t-shamed for...
15:03
If Trump hadn't stupidly fired Comey last month, the former FBI director might not be testifying on Thursday about his nine different contacts with the president, the details of which point to obstruction of justice by Trump at the very least. If Comey hadn't been fired, we might not know about...
14:52
JUST IN: Rahul Gandhi arrested by Police in MP's Neemuch under Section-151 for 'knowingly joining or continuing in assembly of five or more persons after it has been commanded to disperse'. The farmer movement in Madhya Pradesh moved into high political gear today as Congress vice president Rahul...
14:45
Rajdeep Sardesai on why he feels the media must turn its gaze inward as well. Read more
14:43
Pakistan's top diplomat in the US was laughed at by a Washington audience when he repeatedly insisted that there are no safe sanctuaries for terrorists in Pakistan and that the Taliban leader, who reportedly died in a hospital in Karachi, never left Afghanistan. What is there funny about, a...
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Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today accused the Congress of instigating violence and politicising the farmers' stir in Madhya Pradesh and termed party leader Rahul Gandhi's visit to Mandsaur as another photo opportunity. Naidu asked the Congress to behave in a more mature and responsible manner...
14:09
Rahul Gandhi was stopped ahead of Neemuch near Mandsaur. He has been detained and taken into preventive custody and will be taken to a guesthouse. Section 144 has been imposed in Mandsaur which means a crowd cannot gather. The Congress VP said, I only wanted to meet farmers who are the citizens...
14:02
My white skin was, for many, my biggest asset -- and indeed through the years I spent in India, my white privilege cloak worked as an armor to keep me safe, and as a passcode to grant me admission to circles of society much higher than what I belonged to. Read the story here.Representational image.
13:57
Extreme weather events and lack of policies and mechanisms to drought-proof susceptible areas are crippling rural economy. Read the report here.
13:48
Hundreds of Congress workers as well as senior leaders like Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot and Madhya Pradesh legislator Jaiwardhan Singh also courted arrest. They were being taken to a guesthouse of a cement company, a police official said. Gandhi, also accompanied by senior party leaders...
13:12
@OfficeOfRG tweets: Raj & MP Govts are doing their best to prevent me from entering MP & meeting the families of the #farmers killed in #Mandsaur. What law of the land says that it is illegal to stand in solidarity with farmers who were killed simply for demanding what is their right?
13:12
@OfficeOfRG tweets: Raj & MP Govts are doing their best to prevent me from entering MP & meeting the families of the #farmers killed in #Mandsaur. What law of the land says that it is illegal to stand in solidarity with farmers who were killed simply for demanding what is their right?
13:04
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi hops on to a motorcycle after his convoy is stopped on the way to Mandsaur. Gandhi flew in to Udaipur today from where he took the road to travel to Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh. There is heavy police bandobast around Mandsaur, and Neemuch SP, Manoj Kumar Singh,...
12:35
In the wake of the United Kingdom's third terrorist attack in 10 weeks, Dr Tanveer Ahmed, a psychiatrist practicing in Sydney says the mainstream media and politicians also needed to acknowledge terrorists were following the Koran. It's grounded in scripture. People who commit terrorism, they are...
12:24
UK polls close at 10 pm UK time (2.30 am IST) with results expected to begin rolling in within an hour or so after voting finishes. UK PM TheresaMay, 60, called the election three years earlier than scheduled ahead of what are expected to be tough negotiations with the European Union over...
12:19
Blast hits premises of the United States embassy in Ukraine's capital city Kiev: Media reports
11:59
Just in: Polling begins for Britain's general elections. Polls opened at 7 am across 40,000 polling stations in Britain with counting starting once voting ends at 10 pm (UK time).A total of 650 MPs will be elected, with about 46.9 million people registered to vote, reports the BBC.That is up from...
11:48
Main accused in Saharanpur violence, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar arrested by UP STF from Dalhousie in Himachal Pradesh.
11:44
In an interaction with ANI, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said that the condition in Kashmir will be normal soon.This statement of the Army Chief comes at a time when the situation in Kashmir remains volatile with protesters carrying out violent demonstrations against the army, some protests...
11:37
Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat, in an interaction with ANI, said that the Indian army is well prepared to face external, as well as internal threats to the country.Speaking to ANI General Bipin Rawat said, Indian Army is fully ready for a two-and-a-half-front war.The Army Chief...
11:32
Twitter groaned Monday when journalist Marin Cogan tweeted out her discovery that Shaw's Tavern, a bar and restaurant on Florida Ave., Northwest, would be opening early this Thursday so it could screen former FBI Director James Comey's appearance...
11:31
US President Donald Trump feels completely and totally vindicated by the testimony of fired FBI director James Comey who alleged that he was asked by him to drop the probe against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, according to his private lawyer. Comey's seven-page written testimony...
11:26
Heart-stopping video shows moment armed police gunned down London Bridge terrorists in a hail of bullets seconds after all three jihadis stabbed a passer-by - who miraculously got to his feet. Watch
11:17
Toll plaza vandalised in Mandsaur, Rs 8-10 lakhs looted.
11:12
Just in: Madhya Pradesh home minister Bhupendra Singh accepted today that the death of the five farmers in Mandsaur was due to police firing. He had denied it earlier. The HM told ANI that it has been established in a probe that the farmers were killed in police firing. The postmortem report of...
11:05
Two militants and a jawan were killed as the Army foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Naugam sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district today.This is the second successful anti-infiltration operation by the Army in the last 24 hours and the fourth such along the LoC in...
10:55
James B. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., will be testifying in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. The New York Times' breakdown of how you can follow along.What: Mr. Comey, who was fired by President Trump last month, is expected to discuss their...
10:50
J&K: infiltration bid foiled in Naugam sector, one soldier, two terrorists killed; operation continues.
10:43
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi who reached Udaipur airport is now on his way to Mandsaur by road to meet the kin of those killed during the farmers agitation. However, Neemuch SP, Manoj Kumar Singh, said the Congress leader will not be allowed to visit violence-hit Mandsaur. To bring...
10:19
While on J&K, 12 CRPF jawans suffered minor injuries after their vehicle overturned during stone pelting in Shopian last evening. The driver lost control of the vehicle after it was being pelted with stones and the vehicle toppled. All the jawans have been discharged after treatment.
10:16
@ShivAroor tweets: Two infiltrating terrorists killed at LoC Naugam. One soldier dies fighting. Ops still on.
10:14
At least two soldiers were injured in an encounter with about five terrorists in Uri along the Line of Control. The encounter is still on and no reports of the whereabouts of the terrorists.A tense situation prevails along the LoC as Pakistan is pushing more and more terrorists across the Line of...
10:02
After the government decided to deploy five more battalions in Mandsaur, where five people were killed in firing to curb violence, the BJP lashed out at the Opposition asserting that Congress was using this agitation to provoke violence in the state.Speaking to ANI, BJP leader GVL Narsimha Rao...
09:55
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday leave for Kazakhstan's Astana for the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. India is set to become a full member of the SCO during the two-day summit to be held at Astana.Prime Minister Modi will also hold bilateral talks with Kazakhstan...
09:53
Thousands of Maharashtra farmers to flock to Nashik on Thursday, plan to take protests nationwide. Read more
09:44
BJP MLA Ramesh Arora of Jammu and Kashmir says he wants much-loved momos banned because they contain the carcinogenic monosodium glutamate or Ajinomoto.He has been campaigning for a ban on the dumplings, popularly called momos, saying they have been found to be the root cause of several...
09:30
When the Centre introduced a new notification banning the sale of cattle for slaughter in animal markets, S Selvagomathy, a vegetarian, decided to challenge it in court. The Madurai-based lawyer-activist and managing trustee of the Justice Shivaraj V Patil Foundation for Social Legal Education...
09:24
The District Collector and Superintendent of Police of Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh have been removed following large-scale violence during farmers' protest in the district.The district remained tense following the death of five farmers in alleged police firing on Tuesday.Widespread...
09:08
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that the Indian mission in Kenya is trying to bring back an injured Gujarati sailor who has been admitted to a hospital in Somalia. Hamid Juneja, 30, went to Somalia aboard the Sri Lankan ship Fahad. He broke his leg and suffered...
09:03
NASA has chosen 12 new astronauts, including an Indian-American, from a record number of over 18,000 applicants, who will be trained for missions into Earth orbit and to deep space. The seven men and five women comprise the 22nd class of American spaceflight...
08:30
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has left for Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur to meet family of those killed during farmers' agitation.Earlier, he was disallowed by the Madhya Pradesh government to visit the region and it is unlikely that the administration will allow him to proceed to the troubled...
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Two unidentified persons on a two-wheeler on Wednesday hurled a 'petrol' bomb at the BJP's district office in Thiruvananthapuram, police said.No one was in the office when the incident took place.A chair in front of the office was found in a burnt condition, police said.BJP district president S...
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- Farmer protests spread across MP; Centre rushes 1,100 RAF personnel- Prez poll to be held on July 17, counting on July 20 - Debris of Myanmar military plane with 116 on board found - China to set up military bases in Pakistan, says Pentagon reportMissed Wednesday's...
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