23:52
Amid criticism for allegedly ignoring the Taj Mahal in its tourism plans, Uttar Pradesh tourism minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi today said the monument was our cultural heritage.Her comments came after reports in some sections of the media yesterday said that the Taj Mahal -- one of the seven...
23:17
The US Congress today shelved a controversial plan to make it easier to purchase gun silencers, as President Donald Trump signalled a future debate about the nation's gun laws was possible.The announcement about the bill came days after the tragic shooting massacre in Las Vegas, Nevada.That bill...
22:44
A former Sarpanch Gh Rasool Ganie was shot by terrorists in Anantnag's Nambal Mattan area in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.Ganie was shifted to Mattan hospital after he was fired upon by terrorists, where he was declared brought dead.
22:17
US President Donald Trump huddled with local and federal officials Tuesday in Puerto Rico, praising his administration's response to the hurricane that devastated the island.Still, Trump noted that the devastation in Puerto Rico has thrown our budget a little out of whack, though he said that was...
21:55
The wife of Tamil 'superstar' Rajinikanth, Latha, today said her family is eagerly waiting to see what decision the veteran star would take on hispolitical plunge, but asserted all kinds of good changes can be expected of him if he did enter politics.Rajinikanth, besides his contemporary Kamal...
21:24
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has invited Narayan Rane to join the National Democratic Alliance government. It is learnt that the former Congress man has sought two days time to respond. Days after quitting the Congress, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane launched...
20:34
In a breach of diplomatic propriety, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has branded Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a terrorist and said India was being run by a terrorist party, evoking a sharp reaction from the BJP that dismissed the Pakistani minister as a political pygmy.Asif made the...
19:47
Bowing to public pressure, the government today cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre to moderate the relentless rise in fuel priceswitnessed for the last three months.Govt of India has reduced Basic Excise Duty rate on petrol and diesel [both branded and unbranded] by Rs 2 per...
19:37
An honour bestowed on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the city of Oxford has been withdrawn as a reaction to her perceived inadequate response to the plight of Rohingya Muslims in the country.The 'Freedom of Oxford' had been granted to the de facto leader of Myanmar in 1997 for her long...
19:30
JUST IN: Govt cuts excise duty on petrol, diesel by Rs 2 per litre.
19:07
Karnataka Prisons department rejects Sasikala's parole application to visit her ailing husband.Sasikala had applied for a 15-day parole to meet her ailing husband M Natarajan, her nephew and sidelined party leader T T V Dinakaran said on Monday.Natarajan, undergoing treatment at a corporate...
18:27
Indian scientists who contributed to the discovery of the gravitational waves today described the Nobel Physics Prize win for three US astrophysicists as a dream come true.US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were today awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for the discovery of...
17:54
Former liquor baron Vijay Mallya has been granted immediate bail after his arrest in London in money laundering case.Mallya has been rejecting allegations by investigation agencies that he diverted most of the Rs 6,000 crore borrowed from a State Bank of India-led consortium of lenders as...
17:23
Vijay Mallya arrested in London. This is the second time that Mallya has beebn arrested. He was earlier arrested in London in April based on an extradition warrant, but was later granted bail and released on a bond of 6,50,000.The 61-year-old liquor baron, wanted in India for defaulting on...
17:13
An Army jawan has been killed in a Pak sniper attack in Balakote, J&K. The martyred jawan belonged to the Gorkha regiment. Meanwhile, the three BSF men injured during an encounter with Jaish terrorists at a BSF camp near Srinagar airport, are out of danger. Security forces foiled an attempt...
16:52
The Assam government will gift khadi clothes, worth Rs 12 lakh, to its four lakh employees, but wearing them to office is not mandatory, state finance minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma said today. The Khadi board has been entrusted with the responsibility of providing the clothes, Sarma told...
16:43
Spectacles missing from Mahatma Gandhi's statue at Porbandar's Manek Chowk for the last three days.
16:39
Remains of the day: The BSF Camp near Srinagar airport that was attacked by terrorists today. 3 terrorists were killed by security forces; 1 BSF jawan died. The area close to the camp and the Kashmir Valley School was sealed for the search and security operation to continue smoothly.
16:21
Prime minister Narendra Modi today took a swipe at Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh by asking the people of the state to throw out the Congress government which is on bail. Kicking off the BJP's election campaign in Himachal Pradesh, he said the Congress leadership was wary of...
15:58
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish and Kip S Thorne.According to the Guardian, the three American physicists have won the Nobel prize in physics for the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were first anticipated by...
15:15
After a month-long search for Gurmeet Ram Rahim's adopted 'daughter', Haryana Police today arrested Honeypreet Insan. 'Papa's angel', the description on her Twitter profile, has been handed over to the Panchkula police (Haryana Police) by the Mohali police (Punjab police).Honeypreet had been on...
15:04
Four suicide attackers carrying a massive arsenal of guns and explosives broke into a Border Security Force camp near Srinagar airport at 4 am today and opened fire, killing a BSF jawan. Three terrorists were killed in an eight-hour operation after which security forces stormed the campus for the...
14:21
We are happy to tell you that former Rediff.com staffer and popular film critic, Raja Sen's first book will be out next month. Published by Penguin/Puffin it's a children's book, written entirely in limericks, meant to be read out loud by parents and precocious kids. Called The Best Baker In The...
14:08
BSF says all three terrorists involved in attack near Srinagar airport killed.
13:44
Indian-American lawmakers have called for changes in the gun control laws in the US, as they condemned the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in the country's modern history which claimed nearly 60 lives. Gun violence is a public health crisis that has claimed thousands of innocent lives and...
12:48
The adopted daughter of self-styled god man Guru Ram Rahim Singh, Honeypreet Insan, has cried foul and downplayed all allegations framed against her.Reportedly, Honeypreet is likely to surrender before a court today after being on the run for over a month.While talking with a Hindi news channel,...
12:36
President Ram Nath Kovind today embarked on a four-day visit to Djibouti and Ethiopia, his first trip abroad since taking office. During his visit to the two African nations, the President is expected to sign agreements on institutionalisation of foreign office consultation and...
12:32
Supreme Court hear on October 9 the plea of Kerala man opposing an NIA probe into his marriage with Hindu woman who had converted to Islam. SC says it will examine as to whether the high court can annul the marriage by exercising its writ powers.
12:00
Terrorists still holed up inside the building campus of the 182nd Battalion camp in Srinagar, BSF officials said. Terrorists today launched a suicide attack on a BSF camp near the Srinagar International Airport, killing an Assistant Sub Inspector of the BSF and leaving four security personnel...
11:33
Former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif re-elected as president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N): Pakistan Media
11:23
Update on the suicide terror attack at a BSF camp near Srinagar airport. The BSF, Special Ops group and the J-K police have sanitised the area. Three terrorists have been killed, while as many BSF jawans injured. The body of one BSF jawan was recovered from the BSF camp. The IGP, Srinagar, says...
11:11
Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Monday claimed the Special Investigation Team probing the killing of senior Kannada journalist Gauri Lankesh has got clues and is in the process of gathering evidence.Gauri Lankesh, known to be an anti-establishment voice with strident anti-right...
10:58
Ranveer Singh's first look as Alauddin Khilji from Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmavati was unveiled today and the actor looked fierce as the most powerful ruler of the Khilji dynasty. His is the third look to be revealed after Deepika Padukone's Padmavati and Shahid Kapoor's Maharawal...
10:55
Veteran rocker Tom Petty has passed after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 66. Petty's longtime manager confirmed the singer's death and said that the the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer took his last breath at his home in Malibu, reported People magazine. -- PTI
10:52
Update on the J&K terror attack: One more terrorist has been gunned down in the anti-terror operations at a BSF camp, taking the number of terrorists killed to three. However, one BSF jawan was killed and three jawans and a policeman were injured after terrorists attacked a camp near the...
10:30
Update on the J&K attack: One terrorist still holed up inside a building in the BSF camp near Srinagar airport. At least two terrorists have been killed. Ops on.Anti-terror ops continue.The BSF camp is near the Srinagar airport and flights have been temporarily suspended. The decision of...
10:22
According to media reports, the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist outfit has claimed responsibility for the Srinagar attack.Early reports say one BSF jawan has been killed. Two terrorists were gunned down in retaliatory firing. Airport operations at Srinagar International airport have...
10:17
The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Hakan Cavusoglu, has announced that the country will provide university scholarship to 53 Rohingya Muslim students.The students from Myanmar's troubled western Rakhine state will study communication, law, politics and human rights at Turkish...
09:51
The White House has maintained that this is not the time to talk to North Korea, which has been carrying out ballistic missile test and going ahead with its nuclear weapons programme in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.We have been clear that now is not the time to...
09:03
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has called a high level meeting at 11.30 am today after a suicide attack on a Border Security Force camp.Following the terror attack near the Srinagar International airport, airports in all metro cities have been put on high alert.Heavily-armed suicide attackers...
08:48
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Himachal Pradesh today to lay the foundation stone for an AIIMS and an IIIT besides inaugurating a steel plant.Modi will lay the foundation stone for the AIIMS at Bilaspur.The 750-bed hospital is to be built at a cost of about Rs 1350 crore and will, in...
08:27
The United States government has said that there was no specific credible evidence of a threat involving other public venues in the country after at least 58 people were killed and over 500 others injured at a concert in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.The...
08:17
In a view of terrorist attack on a BSF camp in Srinagar, schools in Kashmir Valley will remain closed.
08:00
Terrorists today carried out a suicide attack on a Border Security Force camp located near Srinagar International airport leaving three jawans injured.A body suspected to be that of a terrorist was found. The identity is yet to ascertained, Director General of Police SP Vaid said.Three personnel...
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