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The Press Club of India today strongly condemned the killing of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru.A fearless and independent journalist who gave voice to many causes and always stood up for justice has been shot dead in the most brutal manner in order to silence her voice, the PCI said...
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In a veiled dig at the government, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan today said it is always better to under-promise and over-achieve than to face awkward questions when it comes to growth comparisons with China.Rajan, the only central bank governor in two decades who did not get a second term,...
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Protests are being held outside senior journalist Gauri Lankesh's residence in Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Nagar after she was shot dead this evening.Several protests are also being planned in Delhi and Bengaluru tomorrow.Karnataka police chief R K Dutta said Lankesh was shot dead by unidentified...
22:45
Mamata BanerjeeSaddened at the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru. Most unfortunate. Very alarming. We want justice
22:41
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama-era amnesty programme that granted work permits to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children, a move likely to impact 800,000 undocumented workers including more than 7,000 Indian-Americans.I am here today to...
21:56
One of the few women editors in language press was convicted on charges of defamation for writing a story against BJP workers. She says the case has more to do with her politics than the story her magazine published.Read Lankesh's interview to Newslaundry.
21:54
Reactions pouring in over the killing of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh. The media fraternity has expressed shock and sadness over the incident. Shocked, horrified that colleague & friend #GauriLankesh shot dead. She was a staunch voice for civil liberties and liberal values. --...
21:34
In a major clampdown against black money, the government today directed freezing bank accounts of more than 2.09 lakh companies whose names have been struck off from the records and said action would be taken against more such firms.Banks have also been asked to step up their vigil against those...
21:19
Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh has been shot dead at her residence in Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Nagar.According to media reports, around 6:30 pm three assailants came to her residence and killed her. She was the editor of Gauri Lankesh Patrike.More details are awaited.
20:54
The resident doctors of the AIIMS in New Delhi today demanded removal of Anant Kumar Hegde, who was inducted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, saying he has a history of physical violence against the medical practitioners. President of the Resident Doctors' Association of the All India...
20:18
Amid international uproar over North Korea's latest and biggest nuclear weapons test, one of its top diplomats said that it was ready to send more gift packages to the United States.Han Tae Song, ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations in Geneva, was...
19:53
Attorney General K K Venugopal has advised ministries and central government departments against seeking legal opinion directly from him saying they should approach his office through the law ministry, a senior government functionary has said.The AG's office has written to some secretaries whose...
19:04
Rohingyas are illegal immigrants and stand to be deported, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today said, asserting that nobody should preach India on the issue as the country has absorbed the maximum number of refugees inthe world.I want to tell the international organisations whether the Rohingyas are...
18:38
Under mounting international pressure to act against the terror groups, Pakistan today rejected a declaration by the BRICS nations, including China, saying there was no safe haven for terrorists on its soil.Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa condemned terrorism in all its...
18:21
An advance light helicopter (AHL) of the army today crashed in eastern Ladakh sector in Jammu and Kashmir, an officer said. All crew members are safe, the army officer told PTI. The Dhruv helicopter flying in eastern Ladakh sector crashed this afternoon, he said, adding that further details...
18:01
Reality show participant and actor Bobby Darling, who married a Bhopal-based businessman last year, has filed a complaint of domestic violence against her husband and in-laws.We received the complaint on Saturday through registered post. She has accused her husband and in-laws of harassment,...
17:43
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Myanmar President Htin Kyaw in Nay Pyi Taw.
17:13
111 MLAs of the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu today attended a legislators' meet convened by Chief Minister E Palaniswami, amid calls for a floor test in the Assembly by the opposition parties.State Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar on Tuesday asserted...
16:42
The Sri Lankan Navy allegedly attacked a group of fishermen from Tamil Nadu today and damaged their boats and fishing equipment, while they were fishing off the Katchatheevu island. According to information reaching the police in Ramanathapuram, the navy personnel of the island...
16:33
Time and tide -- and Mumbai suburban trains -- wait for none, but today was an exception. An alert motorman of a 'local' train (as suburban trains are known in Mumbai) did stop a train to save a dog which was about to get run over. The incident happened at the crowded...
16:20
A hoax call claiming that a bomb had been kept on the Howrah-CST Mumbai 12860 Up Gitanjali Express delayed the train for over half an hour today as it was thoroughly checked before and restarting its journey. A telephone call was received at Mumbai Central police control room...
16:17
The government has launched two new free contraceptives, an injectable drug and a pill, expanding the basket of choices for the country's population to meet their family planning needs. The contraceptives, which are available for free in medical...
16:13
The Haryana Police went looking for Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's close aide Honeypreet Insaan in Kheri as she was suspected to have left for Nepal through the porous border.Additional Superintendent of Police Ghanshyam Chaurasiya confirmed the arrival of two Haryana police...
16:01
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh today alleged that a state-owned auditorium in Kolkata where its chief Mohan Bhagwat was scheduled to attend a programme on October 3 has cancelled the booking for the event.The move to cancel the booking was condemned by the RSS but the auditorium authorities said...
15:40
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis immerses a Ganesha idol in an artificial pond at his residence.
15:38
A four-storey dilapidated building in the Posta area of central Kolkata collapsed today, killing one member of a family and grievously injuring two others, police officials said. The three were trapped inside a room when the building collapsed, they said. They were taken to the Calcutta Medical...
15:31
Shashi Tharoor's emphatic critique of British rule in India resonated during a discussion in which global thinkers and authors debated the moral status of the west and responses to racial, gender and economic inequality in the era of Donald Trump. For all Tharoor fans.
14:58
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal wants to qualify for the Dubai World Superseries Finals after resuming her partnership with long-time mentor and chief coach Pullela Gopichand. Three years after parting ways, Saina yesterday announced her reunioun with Gopichand and said she is...
14:53
Time and Tide - and the Mumbai suburban trains -- wait for none, but today was an exception. An alert motorman of a 'local' train (as suburban trains are known in Mumbai) did stop a train to save a dog which was about to get run over. The incident happened at the crowded Churchgate station of the...
13:49
Cricketer Gautam Gambhir has said that he will support the education of Zohra, the daughter of slain Jammu and Kashmir police officer, for a lifetime.The heartbreaking images of Zohra weeping inconsolably at her father, assistant sub-inspector of police Abdul Rasheed's funeral, went viral,...
13:04
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today left for Nay Pyi Taw for his first bilateral visit to Myanmar with an aim of charting a roadmap for closer cooperation between the two countries in areas like security and counter- terrorism. The Prime Minister left for Nay Pyi Taw, the capital city of...
13:01
Soldiers and civilians in Burma are attempting to cover up the massacre of the country's Rohingya Muslim population by gathering their bodies and burning them, an advocate for the minority group has said.Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, which monitors violence in...
12:50
The 14-year-old 71.3-kilometer-long Sarli-Huri Road in Kurung Kumey district, a defence road, leading to the China border, has been completed by Project Arunank of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).The project was taken up by 85 RCC/756 BRTF of Project Arunank in May 2006. Since then,...
12:44
The Enforcement Directorate attaches the Delhi farmhouse in connection with the money laundering probe against RJD MP Misa Bharti and her husband.
12:38
PM Narendra Modi leaves from Xiamen, China, for Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
12:04
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on the Modi-Xi meet. Highlights of the press conference. -- The discussions were constructive. -- It was agreed at Astana that we will not let differences become disputes, that was reaffirmed.-- Both agreed that concrete steps should be taken to resolve recent...
11:40
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar addresses the media in Xiamen, China.
11:39
Defense experts have deemed the BRICS Summit 2017 as a diplomatic victory for the country after a joint declaration condemned terrorism and included Pakistan based terrorist organizations in it.While speaking to ANI on the same, defense expert PK Sehgal said, It is a diplomatic victory for...
11:29
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched for coordinated action on counter terrorism, cyber security and disaster management, as he suggested 10 'noble commitments' through which BRICS leadership in global transformation can be achieved. Modi, while speaking at the 'BRICS Emerging Markets and...
11:21
The Archdiocese of Calcutta will declare Mother Teresa as its second patron after St Francis Xavier in the first such decision in 131 years. St Francis Xavier was declared the first patron when the Archdiocese of Calcutta was established in 1886. Every archdiocese has a patron who is a saint....
11:11
India used quiet diplomacy to convince China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa today to join it in collectively censuring Pakistan-based terrorist groups for the first time, a year after public bombast from Prime Minister Narendra Modi had failed to yield the same result. The...
11:03
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Xiamen on the sidelines of BRICS 2017. I congratulate you for the successful execution of BRICS Summit, the PM said at the bilateral meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Jinping tells the PM that China is prepared to work with...
10:42
Two Dera Sacha Sauda followers, who were arrested by the Sangrur district police of Punjab on Sunday for spreading violence following the verdict of rape-convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, have reportedly admitted that they had been directed to target public buildings in the Malwa region if the...
10:39
A Kochi-bound Air India flight with 102 passengers on board veered off the taxiway in the early hours of Tuesday at the Kochi airport.The incident took place at around 2:40 a.m. when the Air India express IX452, the Abu Dhabi to Kochi flight, was approaching to the parking bay.All the passengers...
10:04
Days after the United States lambasted the Pakistan government for giving safe havens to terror outfits, the second in command of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Abdul Rehman Makki, has pledged to intensify jihad against India in Jammu and Kashmir.Makki was speaking at the Shohda-e-Kashmir conference at Al-Daawa...
09:46
Coming down heavily on Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over the deaths of more than 100 children in state government-run hospitals, the Shiv Sena, in an editorial in the party's mouthpiece ' Saamna', on Tuesday criticised termed the incidents as case of 'a spree of children's...
09:26
The Supreme Court has sought to know the stand of the government on a petition challenging its decision to deport illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants back to Myanmar.The matter came up before a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud which asked...
09:14
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who took over his first portfolio since the party came to power in Delhi two years ago, will take a 10-day meditation break starting Sunday. His destination is Igatpuri - a picturesque hill station in Maharashtra's Nashik -- where he plans to pursue...
09:01
On the first day in his new office as tourism minister, bureaucrat-turned-politician Alphons Kannanthanam touched upon the controversial issue of beef, saying it would continue to be consumed in Kerala.The 1979 Kerala cadre officer said that the BJP had never said that beef cannot be eaten.As Goa...
08:38
Mumbai is all set to bid adieu to Lord Ganesha and the police is making sure that citizens don't face any hassles in the city.Some 40,000 police personnel will fan out across Mumbai to secure the city under the watchful eyes of over 5,000 CCTV cameras on Ganesh Visarjan today. Drone cameras...
08:13
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is headed to the United States where he is likely to meet the pioneers of research on Artificial Intelligence -- the science of making machines that think like humans.Gandhi, who recently returned from Norway, is gearing up for another offshore visit, this...
07:53
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a bilateral meeting at 10 am today on the sidelines of the BRICS summit.The meeting comes days after India and China called off their troops after a 73-day stand-off at Doklam. On Monday morning, the two leaders had...
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harpening its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress has said demonetisation was Modi Made Disaster and asked him to introspect whether he has moral right to continue after causing harm to India'seconomy and decimating it by over Rs 3 lakh crore.Congress incharge of communication...
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Twenty four more children died in the BRD Medical College hospital in Gorakhpur during the past 48 hours, officials said.Newly-appointed principal of the college Dr PK Singh said that nine children died on Sunday while 15 others died in the various wards of the hospital on Monday.With this the...
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