23:48
Rains lashed several parts of Tamil Nadu on Monday, partially disrupting normal life in some areas and claiming one life in Thanjavur district.Though the showers, the first big spell after the North East Monsoon set in over the state last week, brought cheers in several parts hit by water...
23:28
Another image from meeting of army personnel of India and China at Bum La Pass in Tawang.
23:27
Army personnel of India and China today held a meeting at Bum La Pass in Tawang and resolved to maintain peace and tranquillity along the Sino-India border.A border personnel meeting was organised by the People's Liberation Army at the historic Bum La pass in Arunachal Pradesh, a senior army...
23:20
Without mincing words, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut today termed the Bharatiya Janata Party his party's principal enemy and said it is part of the Maharashtra government just for the sake of it.His remarks came on the eve of the Devendra Fadnavis govenment's third anniversary.Raut also praised Rahul...
23:02
Days after Catalonia's unilateral declaration of independence, India said today that issues of identity and culture are best addressed within the constitutional framework and with respect for national integrity.In response to a question on Catalonia's unilateral declaration of independence...
22:32
Saudi Arabia plans to extract uranium domestically as part of its nuclear power program and sees this as a step towards self-sufficiency in producing atomic fuel, a senior official said on Monday.Extracting its own uranium also makes sense from an economic point of view, said Hashim bin Abdullah...
22:16
Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah today lashed out at the Congress alleging the party had sullied the image of 'Devbhumi' Himachal by turning it into a state where mafia thrived.Addressing rallies in the poll-bound hill state, Shah latched on to former Union Home minister P Chidambaram's...
22:06
The Yogi Adityanath government has decided to introduce NCERT books in madrassas in Uttar Pradesh, apart from making mathematics and science compulsory at intermediate level in the Islamic schools.The steps are intended to make madrassa students more competitive by providing them contemporary and...
21:05
Pakistan's ousted premier Nawaz Sharif will hold a key consultative meeting with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz top leadership including Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in London to decide the next steps of the party and the government in the Panama Papers scandal.Sharif, 67, had to...
20:45
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said that the Shiv Sena must realise that it cannot play the role of a ruling party and opposition simultaneously.His comments came as the Bharatiya Janata Party-Sena coalition government completes its three years in office on Tuesday.Some Sena...
20:29
Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar today assumed charge as the Vice Chief of Naval Staff. He succeeds Vice Admiral Karambir Singh who will take charge as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command. Vice Admiral Kumar, an alumni of the National Defence Academy, has had extensive...
20:07
Union Minister Giriraj Singh today lashed out at Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress vice president's thinking was in the intensive care unit as he had failed to see the people's approval of demonetisation in the BJP's victory in Uttar Pradesh.Asked about Gandhi's recent remark on the economy being...
20:04
Railway officer Vikram Singh was today appointed private secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind. Singh is a 1997 batch officer of the Indian Railway Traffic Service. The appointments committee of the cabinet has approved his appointment to the post for a period of two years, an order issued by...
19:44
The government is considering appointing a chief of defence staff as head of the tri-services with a sense of urgency, defence ministry sources said on Monday.They said government was revisiting the long-pending issue, indicating that a clear picture may emerge soon.The defence ministry is...
19:21
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui announced that he is withdrawing his biography, An Ordinary Life: A Memoir, few days after its release, following the heavy criticism he received as repercussion of the affairs he has documented. The move has come soon after a Delhi based advocate Gautam Gulati...
19:03
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been indicted in the first charges brought by the special counsel investigating Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted Manafort on 12 counts including money laundering,...
18:32
Transgenders will now have the option of identifying themselves as the third gender with the railway board modifying reservation forms to provide the option 'T', besides 'M' (Male) and 'F' (Female). The railway board in a letter to all zonal railways has said that ticket booking and...
17:59
The Ahmedabad police has detained a passenger of a Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways flight which was forced to make an emergency landing at the Ahmedabad airport today after a note stating that there were hijackers and a bomb on board was found in the washroom, a police officer said. The passenger,...
17:21
US authorities have sent the body of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews to a funeral home but a medical report on how the Indian girl, adopted by an Indian-American couple, died is yet to come out, according to a media report. The cause of Sherin's death is still pending, a spokesman for the police...
15:39
The cricketer Chris Gayle has won his defamation case against Fairfax Media after a jury found a series of articles published in 2016 which alleged he exposed his penis to a masseuse were untrue. The jury at the supreme court in Sydney took less than two hours to answer no to...
15:35
Update: India and Pakistan hold DGMO-level talks on Islamabad'srequest, Army sources tell PTI. The Indian Director General of Military Operations tells Pakistani counterpart that support to terrorism by Pakistan Army is unacceptable.In an unscheduled hotline interaction requested by Pakistan,...
15:32
Talks between PM Modi and Italian PM are over; six agreements exchanged including ones on cooperation in railway safety, energy and investment.PM Modi says the two countries discussed several aspects of cooperation between India and Italy in their detailed meetings today. Both of us are committed...
14:59
The verdict in the gang-rape case of a 72-year-old nun at Ranaghat in 2015 in Nadia district would be pronounced on November 7 after the trial of six accused concluded in a city court today. The nun was gang-raped at a convent on March 14, 2015 allegedly by a group of suspected Bangladeshi...
14:48
China hints at once again blocking resolution to list JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by UN.
14:26
Former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar is likely to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from the Begusarai seat in Bihar on a CPI ticket. The party is considering fielding Kanhaiya Kumar from the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat or any other seat in Bihar for the next Lok Sabha polls, CPI state...
14:05
November 8 is a sad day for India, Rahul Gandhi said today after meeting Congress leaders ahead of first note ban anniversary. The PM saying that November 8 will be celebrated conveys the message that he has not understood the pain and feelings of the people, the Congress vice-president said...
13:22
The Supreme Court directs the father of a Kerala woman, who converted andmarried a Muslim man, to produce her before it on November 27. The court says it will interact with the woman in an open court hearing at 3 pm on that day. The National Investigations Agency tells the court that there is a...
12:33
I am informed that person responsible for Jet flt 339 (Mum-Del) incident causing landing at Ahmedabad, has been identified: Civil aviation minister A Gajapathi Raju.A Jet Airways flight 9W 339, a Boeing 737-900 from Mumbai to New Delhi, was diverted...
12:31
Just in: An old iron bridge used as a walkway has collapsed in Chavara near Kollam, Kerala. Rescue operations underway. One person is believed to have died, while the number of injured is pegged between 20 and 57. Details awaited. Image: ANI
11:57
A Jet Airways flight 9W 339, a Boeing 737-900 from Mumbai to New Delhi, was diverted to Ahmedabad in Gujarat on Monday due to the detection of an on board security threat.The aircraft landed without incident at Ahmedabad at 4.25 a.m. and...
11:51
Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, today moved the Supreme Court opposing a plea seeking reopening of the 70-year-old assassination case of the Mahatma. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and M M Shantanagoudar questioned the locus of Tushar Gandhi in the case. Senior advocate Indira...
11:42
'Hindutva,' explained Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923, is 'not a word, but a history.' It was introduced in a lengthy pamphlet, Essentials of Hindutva, which Savarkar wrote on the walls of his prison cell, and re-published in 1928 under the new title Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? 'A Hindu,'...
11:39
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley plans to revitalise the countrys state banks with a 2 trillion rupee injection money he wants to raise by selling those exact same financial institutions special bonds. Will such sorcery pay off? Read more
11:37
The SC issues notice to Centre on separate plea challenging linking of mobile phone numbers with Aadhaar, seeks reply within four weeks.
11:20
The Supreme Court responds to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying the state cannot challenge a Central Act. The court said she could challenge the Act as an individual but not as state. Banerjee had challenged the mandatory Aadhaar rules in the Supreme Court and announced that she...
11:07
Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, moves the Supreme Court opposing the reopening of the assassination case of the Mahatma. Amicus curiae Amrender Sharan seeks four weeks time, saying he is yet to receive documents from the National Archives.
10:09
'Chinese engineers are testing techniques that could be used to build a 1,000km tunnel -- the world's longest -- to carry water from Tibet to Xinjiang, experts involved in the project say,' reports Stephen Chen in the South China Morning Post. 'The proposed tunnel, which would drop...
10:05
As we approach the first anniversary of a decision on whose efficacy the jury is still out, here's Norbert Haering, a German financial journalist and a PhD in economics, writing in 'George Washington's Blog' on zerohedge.com: 'Not even four weeks before this assault on...
09:58
Kevin Spacey has come out as a gay man while simultaneously apologising to Anthony Rapp.Rapp, the 46-year-old Star Trek: Discovery actor, accused the House of Cards actor actor of making a pass at him when he was only 14 years old, Kevin issued a statement on social media on Sunday night.I have a...
09:54
The Nationalist Congress Party on Monday came out in support of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the latter for his 'Kashmir' remark.NCP leader Tariq Anwar said, PM Modi is trying to represent P Chidambaram's statement in...
09:44
Starting with the visits to New Delhi by Russian presidential envoy Zamir Kabulov and by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani soon thereafter, to the regional tour by the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, recent weeks have thrust the Afghanistan issue to the forecourt of regional politics. The...
09:37
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni met on Monday after relations had turned frosty following a face-off over two Italian marines killing two Indian fishermen in 2012.Gentiloni, who arrived on Sunday on a two-day visit, will have a 90-minute one on one meeting...
09:15
BJP national president Amit Shah, who will join Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath in the election campaign, will address his first public meeting in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh on Monday.Shah will be in the state for two days. During his trip, the BJP president will address four...
08:57
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told herdsmen bordering Arunachal Pradesh to set down roots to safeguard Chinese territory and focus on developing their hometown. Without peace in the territory, there will be no peaceful lives for the millions of families, Xi, who began his second term in...
08:37
Saudi Arabia will allow women into sports stadiums for the first time from next year, authorities said, in a landmark move opening up three previously male-only venues to families.The ultra-conservative kingdom, which has some of the world's tightest restrictions on women, has long barred women...
07:53
From Aadhaar to love jihad in Kerala, a string of high-profile cases riveting the nation are up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday, making it a day of significant judicial importance.A bench led by Justice AK Sikri will hear the West Bengal government's petition against the Centre's move...
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