23:21
Left leader Sitaram Yechury believes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is like Bollywood's hit producer-director, Manmohan Desai.Modi gives the people a slogan a day to keep them distracted the way the late director did not allow his audiences to think while they were watching his films, the...
22:21
People of India are lazier than the Chinese but the country is most stable and a living example of diverse traditions, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said today.He drew a light comparison between the people of India and China at an interactive programme organised by the Indian Chamber of...
22:15
The finance ministry today said there is no proposal to withdraw the bank cheque book facility, which is an integral part of the payments landscape.The clarification comes in the backdrop of reports in a certain section of media that there is a possibility that the central government may withdraw...
22:03
Sidelined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader TTV Dinakaran today said his faction would move the Supreme Court against the Election Commission's ruling allotting the two-leaves symbol to the unified AIADMK led by Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam. ...
21:53
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will represent India at the upcoming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the Russian city of Sochi.The SCO summit will be held on November 30 and December 1 and it is likely to discuss the regional security scenario besides several other...
21:17
The health ministry today asked all states to issue strict warnings and take action against hospitals, including private ones, which indulge in malpractices such as overcharging and don't follow standard treatment protocols.The move comes in the wake of allegations that Gurgaon- based Fortis...
20:44
In his first direct attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah, party MP Shatrughan Sinha today described the dispensations running the government and the organisation as a one-man army and a two-man show.The outspoken Lok Sabha member from Patna Sahib, in a...
20:35
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said there was no anti-incumbency against his government and dubbed as an illusion the BJP's target to win 150 seats in the next year's assembly elections. Responding to discussion on north Karnataka-related issues in the state...
19:51
The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights has summoned the principal and three staff members of a private school where a four-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her classmate.The girl's mother had on Wednesday approached the police and alleged that her daughter was...
19:26
The Central Bureau of Investigation today filed a chargesheet against 592 people in connection with its probe related to Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh.The charge sheet lists promoters of three private medical colleges from Bhopal -- J N Choksey, chairman of L N Medical College; S N Vijaywargiya...
19:20
Actor Prakash Raj today said he has sent a legal notice to BJP MP Pratap Simha seeking an apology for trolling him in the social media. The national award winning actor said he would sue to Simha if he did not apologise within ten days. People who are open to...
18:48
In an apparent bid to counter the Congress' meme targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'chaiwala' past, the BJP workers in Gujarat would listen to his radio programme 'Mann ki Baat' while having tea with people across the state on November 26.Modi would be on a whirlwind tour of his home state...
18:30
Union Minister Mahesh Sharma has dubbed Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati as a daughter of daulat (wealth) and not a Dalit and claimed that the Gandhi family was not competent enough to run the country.He was speaking at a public rally in Pahasu yesterday in support of BJP candidates in the...
17:48
In a shocking incident, a woman forest officer was pushed into a well by some persons as she and her colleagues were about take action against encroachments in Ashok Nagar district. Her colleagues rescued her using ropes. -- PTI
17:33
India today expressed outrage over Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed's imminent release from detention and dubbed it as an attempt by Pakistan to mainstream UN-proscribed terrorists. The Ministry of External Affairs said this confirms the lack of seriousness on Pakistan's part in...
17:15
Stocks today sailed past many hiccups as IT and technology shares ensured the benchmarks ended in stable waters for the sixth day running. Early on, the 30-share Sensex had slipped to 33,468.30, but some last-minute buying saved the day as the index settled up 26.53 points, or 0.08 per cent, at...
17:13
President Ram Nath Kovind today cleared an ordinance amending the Indian Forest Act, 1927. The ordinance omits bamboo grown in non-forest areas from the definition of trees, thereby exempting it from requiring permits for felling or transportation. Before the ordinance was issued, the definition...
16:56
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project on November 28, which will boost Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao's efforts to turn the state into a shining example of emerging India. The Hyderabad metro is the first in India, where a 34-km route will...
16:35
The Supreme Court today directed official Receiver of the Bombay High Court to help the Liquidator in getting the Sahara Group's Aamby Valley property auctioned. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and A K Sikri also asked the official liquidator of the Bombay...
16:26
Smoke detected mid-air in the cockpit of IndiGo 6E719 Delhi-Vizag aircraft yesterday. Flight returned to Delhi immediately. Full emergency announced. 170 passengers were on board the aircraft.
16:21
The central leadership in the BJP has conducted three pre-poll surveys in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.All the three private surveys indicate that the BJP is winning in both the states.The BJP has also gone in for a negative survey in both states, which they believe will show up the weaknesses of...
16:00
President Ram Nath Kovind will not be presenting models of the Taj Mahal to visiting foreign dignitaries. The President's estate has been quietly told that instead, they should consider the possibility of gifting the the Bhagwad Gita or the Ramayana to visiting dignitaries.Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi...
15:49
Update on the Maharashtra cop's sex change surgery: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis has asked the home department to positively consider her case.
15:45
A 28-year-old woman police constable in Beed district today approached the Bombay High Court seeking direction to the Maharashtra's Director General of Police to grant her leave to undergo a surgery for sex change.Lalita Salve, who now prefers to be called Lalit, had sought a month's leave to...
15:35
Amid the raging controversy over film Padmavati, an education officer in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district has issued a circular banning a song from the period drama from being played at cultural programmes in schools. However, the district collector today ordered for withdrawal of the circular...
15:34
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address eight rallies on November 27 and 29 in different parts of Saurashtra and south Gujarat, where polling for the first phase of assembly polls will be held on December 9. On the morning of November 27, Modi will address people in Bhuj town of Kutch district...
15:26
The Editors Guild of India today strongly condemned the killing of a 48-year-old journalist in Tripura and demanded that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar bring the culprits to book immediately. Sudip Datta Bhaumik, working with Bengali newspaper 'Syandan Patrika, was gunned down on Tuesday allegedly...
15:16
President Kovind gives assent to ordinance to amend Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, says government. The government bars wilful defaulters from bidding for their own assets under insolvency law, says the ordinance. Details awaited.
15:15
Sonia Gandhi's role in the Congress will remain undiminished even after Rahul Gandhi's elevation as party president and she will continue to guide it, senior party leader M Veerappa Moily said here.Moily said the Congress would take aggressive and sustained steps to ensure that Rahul Gandhi...
15:10
In a first, a woman has been inducted as a pilot in the Indian Navy. Shubhangi Swaroop, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, will soon be flying maritime reconnaissance aircraft. Three other women cadets, Astha Segal from New Delhi, Roopa A from Puducherry and Sakthi Maya S from...
14:57
Will he or won't he? Superstar Rajinikanth, often asked if he was going to take the plunge into politics, has said he won't -- not yet, that is. There was no pressing need for him to join politics at this moment, the actor told reporters at the Chennai airport. There is no...
14:16
The Centre will reintroduce the Bill to grant Constitutional Status to the National Commission for Backward Classes in the Lok Sabha in the coming winter session of the Parliament.The proposal of the same was stalled in the Rajya Sabha during the last parliament session.The...
13:56
Being a genius is different than merely being supersmart. Smart people are a dime a dozen, and many of them don't amount to much. What matters is creativity, the ability to apply imagination to almost any situation. Take Benjamin Franklin. He lacked the analytic processing...
13:38
Bangladesh Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali met Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and reportedly discussed the Rohingya repatriation issue.The long pending talks started yesterday, with an expectation of signing a Memorandum of Understanding to...
12:52
Just in: The Election Commission restores the two-leaf symbol to the unified AIADMK helmed by O Panneerselvam and E Palaniswamy. The EC says the unified AIADMK is the real AIADMK. The poll panel also says TTV Dinakaran, VK Sasikala's nephew, did not have party support. The EC had frozen the party...
12:50
The student who was caught passionately kissing former First Daughter Malia Obama before the Harvard-Yale football game on Saturday is a British student Rory Farquharson, who was head boy at one of England's most prestigious schools. However, Farquharson, has reacted to the reports of his...
12:36
Maoist activities in Chhattisgarh continued even after the scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. In a recent search, security forces in Abujhmar area of Narayanpur district of the state have managed to recover documents maintained by the Nelnar area janatana sarkar for 2016-17, which shows...
12:24
Mumbai Police called out actor Varun Dhawan on Twitter for flouting traffic rules by taking a selfie with a fan. The Mumbai Police twitter handle shared a picture of the Mumbai newspaper Mid Day, which shows Varun Dhawan leaning out of his car to take a selfie with a fan. The fan is sitting in an...
12:21
Former India fast bowler Zaheer Khan tied the knot with Bollywood actress Sagarika Ghatge in Mumbai on Thursday. The couple had a court marriage on Thursday morning in presence of a few family members and friends.They will have a cocktail party at a five-star hotel in Central Mumbai later...
11:59
The rearguard action that Rajputs have steadfastly fought to find honour in medieval defeat continues with the battle of Bhansali. Once upon a time the effort to salvage glory from the wreckage of history consisted of bardic narratives and modern hagiographies that talked up episodes of...
11:28
Why are the Chinese interested in making the yuan legal tender in Gwadar? What purpose does such a step serve, and how are Pakistan's interests advanced by it? If this is about helping make the yuan an international currency, which is a major policy priority for China, then why only ask for it to...
11:18
A former head of the CIA has called on web giants such as Facebook to work harder to take extremist material off the internet.General David Petraeus, the former commander of US-led coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, also used a speech in London yesterday to urge Britain and its allies to...
11:11
The controversy over the film Padmavati once again reminded us that the fragility of our identities, the layers of resentment that constitute our sense of self, the emboldening of the most lumpen elements in our society, intellectual confusions over the law, and the sheer lack of constitutional...
11:11
The Supreme Court agrees to hear on November 28 a fresh plea seeking to stall the release of Padmavati outside India on December 1.
10:54
Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed Padmavati, whose release has been postponed amid the protests in London, has been cleared by British Board of Film Classification for the UK audience. The BBFC has given the film a 12A rating and was passed without any cuts. The 12A rating mandates that the film...
10:44
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday that he would get the story of Rajput queen Padmavati included in the school curriculum from next year.Speaking at a programme organised in Ujjain by a Rajput community to felicitate him for banning the film, the chief...
10:33
India and the US will continue to work together to increase economic opportunities and inclusive growth, US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump today said, days ahead of her visit to Hyderabad for a global business summit. Ivanka, 36, will lead a high-powered American...
10:22
Many newspapers in Tripura have left the space for editorials blank in protest over the murder of journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmik who was shot dead allegedly by a Tripura State Rifles guard.Seeing little coverage in the national media following the incident, Syed Sajjad Ali, President of...
10:08
A four-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a classmate on the premises of Delhi's Maxfort School in Dwarka.As per the FIR filed by her parents, the girl had complained of pain in her private parts after coming back from school on Friday, last week, and the next day broke her...
09:41
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be on a four-day visit to India starting January 14, a little more than six months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Jewish state, informed sources said. Netanyahu would be only the second Israeli prime minister to visit...
09:01
Bus conductor Ashok Kumar -- who was earlier said to have killed seven-year-old Pradhyumn Thakur at Ryan International School in Gurugram -- reached home late on Wednesday night after being released from Bhondsi Jail.Kumar was granted bail by Gurugram civil court on Tuesday on a bond of Rs...
08:25
The alleged suicide of a student at Chennai's Sathyabama University triggered violent protests across the campus on Wednesday, with over 300 students participating in it.Ragamonica hailing from Andhra Pradesh was a student of first year at the university.She...
00:02
Social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday sought to know the number of industrialists committing suicide in the country and claimed that the farmers doing the same was 12 lakh in the last 22 years.He said he would launch an agitation over the farmers issues and the Lokpal in New Delhi in...
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