23:00
Uttarakhand Home Department has written to the district magistrate of Dehradun to withdraw case against Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ganesh Joshi who was booked for attacking police horse Shaktiman last year.'(The) government has decided to withdraw the case in the public interest against Ganesh...
22:38
Police today seized swords, knives and iron rods near the Bharatiya Janata Party district committee office in Kannur.The weapons were found by corporation workers from a compound near the BJP office.Police said a case has been registered.BJP district president P Satyaprakash termed the seizure a...
21:49
Pakistan Army today handed over an Indian woman, who had inadvertently crossed into the country through the Line of Control, to the Indian security forces.The Army, in a statement, said the woman was handed over to the Indian security forces in Kashmir in a goodwill gesture and in continuation of...
21:05
The Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Jyoti on Tuesday announced that assembly elections in Gujarat will be held in December this year.The term of the Gujarat assembly ends on January 22, so the election will have to be completed in December. Assembly elections will mostly be conducted...
20:02
Terrorists fire at Central Reserve Police Force vehicle of the 29th Battalion at Sanat Nagar Chowk in Jammu and Kashmir.No injuries reported to Indian troops. One terrorist reportedly injured in return fire, says CRPF.More details awaited. -- ANIRepresentative image.
19:00
Pallavi Purkayastha murder case: Convict Sajjad Mughal, who had jumped parole, has been arrested.
18:55
The International Monetary Fund today lowered India's growth projection to 6.7 per cent in 2017, 0.5 percentage points less than its previous two forecasts in April and July, attributing it to demonetisation and introduction of the GST.It also lowered the country's growth for 2018 to 7.4 per...
18:30
The Aam Aadmi Party today announced launching of a city-wide protest against the Metro fare hike, and alleged that the decision to raise tariffs was taken by the Centre to benefit radio cab operators.Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi unit convenor Gopal Rai also sought to debunk the claim that the fare...
18:19
A day after the Supreme Court banned sale of firecrackers during Diwali in the Delhi-NCR region, the Bombay high court today imposed the same ban in residential areas in Maharashtra.The apex court on Monday banned the sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR till November 1, dealing a body blow to the...
17:55
Not just railway officials but their wives too have now been asked to avoid ostentation.The Railway Women's Welfare Organisation president, Arunima Lohani, the wife of Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani, has issued an advisory to RWWO members to avoid splurging, days after railway officials...
17:39
Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday faced flak on Twitter for backing the Supreme Court decision to ban sale of firecrackers during Diwali in the Delhi-NCR region. Welcome decision by the SC on ban of firecrakers sales in NCR. Comes as a huge support for my #GreenDiwali...
17:19
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls helped him a lot. The BJP helped me a lot. They have really helped me. We lost 2014 but the defeat could not have helped us more. Itni buri tarah...
16:48
Panchkula court sends Honeypreet Insan to three day police remand.
16:14
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today accused the BJP-RSS of discriminating against women in their organisations and asked if anyone had ever seen women at an RSS 'shakha' meeting wearing shorts, the group's trademark khaki uniform.Their (BJP) organisation is the RSS. How many women are...
15:42
Maharashtra government reduces VAT on petrol, diesel; prices to come down by Rs 2 and Re 1 a litre respectively from mid-night. Earlier, the state of Gujarat too reduced the value added tax on petrol and diesel by 4 per cent.With this rate cut, the price of petrol will come down by Rs...
15:20
Pakistan is ready for a joint operation with the US to destroy the Haqqani Network if it provides evidence about the presence of safe havens of the dreaded terror outfit in the country, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said.His remarks came after US President Donald Trump, in August, had accused...
15:15
JUST IN: AAP to organise satyagraha against Delhi Metro fare hike on October 13
14:44
The government had transitioned from Beti Bachao to Beta Bachao, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said today in another swipe following a report alleging that a firm owned by Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah's son saw a huge rise in turnover after the party came to power.Gandhi's remark...
13:45
Just in: Suspected militants attack company operating base of Army's Longding battalion at Niausa in Arunachal Pradesh. No casualty or damage to property reported. Details awaited.
13:34
Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said allegations against BJP president Amit Shah's son have no basis and there was no need for any investigation. Inaugurating the new headquarters of the National Investigation Agency, the minister said such allegations are levelled from time to time. Such...
13:20
Taking a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Union minister Smriti Irani has claimed that visits by her and senior BJP leaders ensured that the people of Amethi were seeing more of the Congress vice-president. The Union Minister of Textiles and Information and Broadcasting is on a two-day tour...
12:45
Rajnath Singh says that allegations against BJP chief Amit Shah's son have no basis.
12:41
India's transition to the Goods and Services Tax regime has been fairly smooth despite attempts by ill-informed Opposition leaders to derail its implementation, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said, Jaitley, who is on a week-long visit to the US to attend the annual meetings of the...
11:43
Rahul Gandhi's interaction with students in Vadodara on day 2 of his Navsarjan Yatra. The Congress vice-president has been doing some plain-speaking, peppering his speeches with quotable quotes. Excerpts from his address today. Have you heard of Start up India? Have you heard about...
10:21
Finally, a happy story from Mumbai's suburban railway system. A 26-year-old woman Salma Shaikh delivered a baby girl on platform 3 of Mumbai's Dadar Station last night.The train was en route to CST from Kalyan and was stationed on platform number 3 at...
09:58
Govt largesse for a state going to the polls: The Gujarat govt reduces VAT on petrol/diesel prices by 4 per cent. The price of petrol has been cut by Rs 2.93 and diesel by Rs 2.72 per litre
09:41
The Shiv Sena has called out the BJP for the contradictory opinions made by its ministers on demonetisation, a day after Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the poor were hit hard by the decision.The common man has suffered from demonetisation; this is an...
09:31
Amul's tribute to filmmaker Kundan Shah, who passed away on October 7.Read our tribute to the filmmaker here.
08:55
That's the statement from the Governor of Texas shortly after the shooting.
08:42
The state-run Chinese media has hailed the recent friendly exchange between Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the Chinese troops at the Sino-Indian border in Nathu-la on Saturday, terming it as the most 'warmhearted scene' ever since a truce was called on...
08:32
The Texas Tech University shooting suspect, Hollis Daniels, now in police custody. He was captured near a stadium.A Texas Tech University officer was shot in the head and killed at Texas Tech police headquarters in Lubbock, Texas, police have confirmed.@mike_Zollo echoed the anger of Americans at...
08:07
Back in India and in Delhi, if you are travelling beyond 5 km on the Metro from today, be prepared to shell out Rs 10 extra with yet another fare hike coming into effect. The hike, which comes five months within the last one, will affect every commuter of the mass rapid transit who travels beyond...
08:05
If you've just joined us, there's been a shootout at a university in Texas, which has left one cop dead. The Washington Post reports that the Texas Tech University in Lubbock was placed on lockdown after a campus police officer was shot and killed.University spokesman Chris Cook said campus...
07:58
@yorkcommatyler Lubbock and Texas Tech police searching for active shooting suspect Hollis Daniels, freshman. Fled in a silver 2001 BMW SUV.
07:51
@Drakedabs I was just at Texas Tech getting a burrito when the shooting went down the burrito was good though please pray for both families@BrooklynnWilde Prayers for Texas Tech students who where in the shooting...@avery_fitnurse ACTIVE SHOOTING AT TEXAS TECH. ONE COP IS REPORTED...
07:42
Just in: Reports of a shooting on the campus of Texas Tech University in the US. The shooter is believed to be still at large. Students have been urged to take shelter as police search for the shooter.The Dallas News reports that a Texas Tech police officer has been shot and killed at the police...
07:34
Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who secured a place at Oxford University to study philosophy, politics and economics, tweeted last night to say, @Malala 5 years ago, I was shot in an attempt to stop me from speaking out for girls' education. Today, I attend my first lectures...
07:27
An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit the Andaman Islands in the early hours of Tuesday.The tremor occurred at 1:03 am in the Andaman Islands Region, confirmed KS Dhatwalia, DG PIB. No loss of life, injury or damage to property has been reported so far.Further details are...
06:40
The Bihar state Congress headquarters yesterday saw a free-for-all as workers exchanged blows, former state unit president Ashok Choudhary was thrashed, and slogans of Narendra Modi zindabad rent the air. Sadaquat Ashram, the state Congress HQ, was hosting a meeting - of 1,240 newly elected...
06:31
Senior CPI leader D Raja today demanded a response from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a media report's claim that the turnover of the firm of BJP chief Amit Shah's son Jay Shah rose by a huge margin after the party came to power in 2014. He said a probe should be initiated to reveal the...
06:27
Another important case the Supreme Court is hearing today: The Court will today continue the hearing on the INX media case, in which Karti Chidambaram is alleged to have committed irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance for the...
06:22
Opposition BJP today demanded the Delhi government give a Rs 3,000 crore annual grant if it wanted the withdrawal of the proposed metro fare hike, and abstained from the session that passed a resolution against the increase in the assembly. The House passed the government resolution to oppose the...
06:18
Good morning and welcome to the Live! news commentary on Rediff.com.First up, the Supreme Court's Constitution bench will today begin the hearing on a plea favouring euthanasia.A five-judge constitution bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, will hear the...
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Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday said that his forces are fully capable of responding to any aggression and warned that the 'enemy' has to pay an 'unbearable cost' in case of an attack.Addressing a passing out parade of the Pakistan Air Force cadets at the Asghar Khan...
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