23:43
More soldiers have sacrificed their lives in Kashmir than those who died in various wars since independence, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said on Wednesday.She was speaking at an event organised by RSS's communication wing Indraprastha Vishwa Samvad Kendra in New Delhi to award...
23:31
Kenneth I Juster, a top aide of United States President Donald Trump, is set to be America's new ambassador to India, the White House said today.Juster, who is the Deputy Assistant to the US president for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of his National Economic Council, would...
23:24
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed gratitude to the people across the world who participated in the International Day of Yoga.The third IYD was celebrated across the world, with lakhs of people bending, stretching and twisting their bodies to different yogic asanas.Modi himself led over...
23:10
Eleven judges to three high courts have been appointed.The fresh appointments -- six in the Madras high court, three in the high court of Chhattisgarh and two in Punjab and Haryana-- come at a time when the government and the judiciary continue to have differences over a key document which guides...
22:55
A gunbattle broke out this evening between security forces and militants in an area of Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said. Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Kakapora area of Pulwama around 6 pm following information about presence of militants...
22:24
Urban Development Secretary Rajiv Gauba was today named as the next Home Secretary to succeed Rajiv Mehrishi, who completes his term on August 30. Besides him, 16 new secretaries have been appointed to various central government departments as part of a major top-level...
21:28
With the goods and services tax coming into effect from July 1, train passengers will have to pay a bit more to travel AC and first class.Service tax on ticket charges is set to hike from 4.5 per cent to 5 per cent after the GST implementation.Service tax is levied only on AC and first class...
21:17
Two additional battalions -- a total of 2000 men -- of the army will be sent as reinforcement to four troubled districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.With the presence of additional forces in Kulgam, Anantnag, Shopian and Pulwama, some army camps in Shopian and Pulwama will...
21:10
Have decided to support NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, says Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palanisamy.
21:07
India's population could surpass that of China's around 2024, two years later than previously estimated, and is projected to touch 1.5 billion in 2030, according to a United Nations forecast.The World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social...
21:04
Three Muslim boys, all minors, were held in the hill town of Mussoorie for allegedly shouting pro-Pakistan slogans after the Indian cricket team lost the ICC Champions Trophy final, the police said.The three minors were arrested after an FIR was lodged against them following complaints by locals,...
20:37
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Wednesday said there cannot be any term like 'Hindu terrorism', and added that a Hindu can never be a terrorist.A Hindu cannot be a terrorist. There cannot be any term like 'Hindu terrorism'. Hindu, by nature, can never be a...
19:51
The BCCI top brass had an inkling that all was not well between coach Anil Kumble and captain Virat Kohli but they were taken aback when they got to know that the duo had not been on talking terms for the last six months.Another important thing that has come out in the open was that the Chief...
19:47
NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind meets veteran BJP leader LK Advani at his residence in Delhi.
19:07
Senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam today urged Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan to withdraw from the goods and services campaign to avoid getting targeted by traders later.The government has roped in Bachchan to promote the GST, ahead of the scheduled July 1 rollout of the sweeping tax...
18:29
Tennis champion Boris Becker has been declared bankrupt by the London high court.The decision came after a failure to pay long-standing debt, according to reports in the English media.Lawyers for the three-time Wimbledon winner pleaded with a Bankruptcy Court registrar in London on Wednesday for...
18:23
Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad on Wednesday said his party will go with other opposition parties in their choice for a presidential candidate.We will go with the decision of opposition parties, which will meet in New Delhi tomorrow, he told reporters.Lalu brushed aside questions on the...
18:15
The monsoon session of Parliament, normally in July, is yet to be announced. Generally, the session is announced in June. The Union Cabinet sub committee on Parliamentary Affairs which recommends the dates to the President of India to summon the Monsoon session, has deferred its decision of...
17:53
The government has given a last chance to district cooperative banks, commercial banks and post offices to deposit the banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes with the Reserve Bank by July 20, provided they were collected within the specified time period. After the November 8 shock demonetisation...
17:20
After Anil Kumble stepped down from the post of Indian cricket team's head coach following a rift with captain Virat Kohli, Olympic gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra has revealed how he stuck with a coach he hated, for 20 long years.Taking to Twitter, Bindra although did not take names of any of the...
16:57
An Economic Offences Court here today framed charges against AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala, who is now lodged in jail in Bengaluru, in connection with a FERA violation case. She appeared before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate through video conferencing from the...
16:51
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16:42
The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip has been admitted to hospital for treatment of an infection arising from a pre-existing condition.Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has been admitted to hospital as a precautionary measure for treatment of an infection, Buckingham...
15:50
Former Calcutta High Court judge, Justice CS Karnan, has been lodged in Kolkata's Presidency Jail, after the Supreme Court refused to grant him interim bail. A day after his arrest, the Supreme Court today refused to entertain his plea for interim bail and suspension of the six-month sentence...
15:32
Al Jazeera: Gunmen have occupied a school after storming a village on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, according to police. Suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) group were engaged in a gun battle with security forces at...
15:29
Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, 96, in hospital: Buckingham Palace.
15:29
Arrested former HC judge CS Karnan brought to Kolkata from Chennai.
15:27
Laddoos (a party perennial) were being distributed in the BJP headquarters in New Delhi when TV channels flashed the news of JD-U chief Nitish Kumar supporting the NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind for the Presidential polls. But insiders in the BJP say that on the day Kovind's name was announced...
15:23
Expressing confidence on All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam backing National Democratic Alliance's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said party general secretary VK Sasikala is the 'controller' of that party therefore the...
14:35
Karnataka becomes the fourth Indian state to offer farm loan waivers. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announces a farm loan waiver for short term loans up to Rs 50,000, applicable only to cooperative bank loans.On Monday, Punjab announced farm loan waivers of all crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh for small...
14:19
V Nanammal India's oldest Yoga practitioner at 98 and a Nari Shakti Awardee.
14:10
The Samajwadi Party today celebrated the International Day of Yoga day by undertaking 'cycle yatras' across the state. Directives were issued to partymen by SP National President Akhilesh Yadav to embark on a cycle yatra at all district headquarter from 6 am and later perform yoga as per their...
13:34
Breaking ranks with the Opposition, the JD-U has decided to back NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind for President of India. A JD-U leader told news agency ANI that Bihar CM and JD-U chief Nitish Kumar had told them the party would be supporting Kovind's candidature. The writing was on the wall. Hours...
13:23
Union minister for Textiles Smriti Irani joined other BJP Parliamentarians and chief ministers practicing yogasanas on the occasion of International Yoga Day today. Irani was in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, doing asanas led by Art of Living Foundation Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Much of north India was...
12:54
Two women Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with the joined team of the Special Task Force and District Reserve Guard in Abujmarh area of Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district.The Armed forces have recovered two .315 bore rifles and other ammunitions including IEDs, uniforms, codex wires,...
12:47
DMK working president MK Stalin introduced a 'no-confidence motion' in the Tamil Nadu assembly today and raised the Koovathur issue. Stalin also raised the vote of confidence issue upon which the Governor sent a letter to the Speaker for appropriate action seeking an explanation.My petition...
12:43
Never mind goat yoga, try aqua yoga instead. This is at Rajkot, Gujarat.
12:39
What do Kashmiri stone pelters mean when they shout 'Azaadi'?What do the Kashmiris want? What are the factors destablising the Kashmir valley? What are the solutions? Did the September 28, 2016 surgical strikes serve their purpose? Is peace possible in Kashmir? As Northern Army Commander,...
12:31
Pakistan's outgoing High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit has said that his country is committed not to carry out the execution of death sentence awarded to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav by a military court till the hearing in the International Court of Justice gives its verdict in the...
12:27
The brave men of the Army in Siachen on International Yoga Day.
12:06
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's led Janata Dal-United will make a decision today on whether to support the BJP's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind. Kovind, resigned as Bihar governr on Tuesday. Kumar has called a meeting of the JD-Us core committee on Wednesday to take the...
11:48
World's oldest Yoga teacher Tao Porchon-Lynch and India's oldest Yoga guru Amma Nannamal demonstrated various asanas in Bengaluru at Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium today on the occasion of the third International Yoga Day.Along with the two nonagenarians, social activist Anna Hazare and Union...
11:40
UN chief Antonio Guterres has said he is engaged in bringing about a dialogue between India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue through his meetings with the prime ministers of the two countries. Why do you think I met three times the prime minister of Pakistan and two times the...
11:15
Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned from the ride-sharing company.He stepped down as the firm he founded in 2009 deals with a sexual harassment scandal.According to the New York Times, a shareholder revolt made it untenable for him to stay on at the company. I love Uber more...
11:05
Former Calcutta HC judge, justice C S Karnan, moves the Supreme Court seeking bail and suspension of the six-month sentence awarded to him. The SC refuses to entertain Karnan's plea, saying the seven-judge bench has already passed an order and only the special bench can hear...
10:59
Former Prime Minister HD Devegowda performs Yoga at his residence.
10:53
Goa CM Manohar Parrikar performs Yoga at in Bambolim.
10:50
Just in: NDA presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind to meet BJP senior leaders Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi today.Union minister Venkaiah Naidu who was part of the three-member committee formed to evolve a consensus for the BJP's presidential candidate had met BJP veterans Advani and...
10:43
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa leads a Yoga session organised at the Air Force Station, New Delhi.
10:40
Where there's a will, there's yoga. Yoga within the confined spaces of a submarine.
10:38
The Delhi Police has received intelligence inputs about some terror outfits planning a London-style attack during the International Yoga Day celebrations at Connaught Place in New Delhi. The police has barricaded with buses the entry points of roads leading to Connaught Place, sources said. The...
10:23
When yoga used to be a personal commitment and not aggrandisation. India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru does the Sirsasana.This is what what the former PM wrote on the asana.Among my exercises one please me particularly -- the shiorshasana, standing on the head with the palms of the...
10:07
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated a sub-inspector in Lucknow for writing a poem on Yoga. Police sub-inspector Kuldeep Singh was greeted by Prime Minister Modi, who appreciated his gesture. Singh wrote the poem describing the benefits of Yoga.Beautifully starting his poem, he thanked...
10:04
Against the spectacular backdrop of the Aguas Calientes, the Machhu Pichhu Mountain, yoga enthusiasts take a break.
10:00
In other news, two terrorists were gunned down on Wednesday morning in an encounter with security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore district.The area has been cordoned off and the counter-terror operations are in progress.The Armed forces have also recovered two weapons from the...
09:59
NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday joined the International Yoga Day celebrations in the national capital as he performed asanas at central Delhi's Connaught Place and urged people to take up the traditional practice.Donning a white yoga-themed t-shirt, he joined...
09:55
Yoga on board aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.
09:54
In Bhopal, Congress workers do the 'Shavaasana' on InternationalYoga Day to protest against farmers killed in police firing in Mandsaur, MP.
09:46
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal, Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Baba Ramdev's associate Acharya Balkrishna perform Yoga in Nalbari, Assam.
09:45
The BJP's Muslim face, Parliamentary Affairs minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi does yoga in Noida.
09:37
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis tweets this picture: Seaside #Yoga organised by @MumbaiPolice , Spandan Arts with MP @poonam_mahajan & MLA @ShelarAshish in Mumbai. #YogaDay2017.
09:15
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09:02
While the entire country is busy marking International Yoga Day, West Bengal has chosen to sit this one out. Education minister of West Bengal Partha Chatterjee said that state-run schools across West Bengal will not observe International Yoga Day on Wednesday. We will hold a separate yoga...
08:38
Two terrorists were killed after an encounter broke out them and security forces in Rafiabad area of Kashmir's Baramulla district. The gunbattle broke out in Pazalpora village in Sopore township of the district this morning, a police official said.
08:16
Anytime, any place yoga! Yoga onboard INS Jalashwa in the Bay of Bengal. Photograph: @SpokespersonMoD/Twitter
07:58
The United Nations will issue special stamps commemorating the International Yoga Day on June 21. Releasing soon. @unstamps Special Event sheet to commemorate International Day of Yoga, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin tweeted.The UN postal agency, UN...
07:32
To celebrate the third International Yoga Day, Yoga guru Ramdev and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani participated in a Yoga camp in Ahmedabad.Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah also graced the event.Hundreds of countries are uniting to mark the Yoga Day today. Celebrations have already...
07:22
Artist Sudarshan Pattnaik with his sand sculpture on the occasion of the third International Yoga Day.
07:19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading the 3rd International Yoga Day celebrations from Ambedkar Sabha Sthal in Lucknow. Around 50,000 people are attending the event, among them Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the key ministers of his cabinet.Dressed in a white T-shit and...
00:30
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has suggested that he is engaged in bringing about a dialogue between India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue through his meetings with the prime ministers of the two countries.Why do you think I met three times the prime minister of...
00:23
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