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The United States on Thursday announced economic sanctions on 11 individuals and companies accused of supporting Iran's Revolutionary Guards or engaging in hostile cyber attacks on US banks, the Treasury Department announced.The move came the same day the White House was expected to announce an...
23:19
The probe into the alleged rape of a five-year-old girl in a school in Gandhi Nagar has been transferred to the Crime Branch, police today said.The development comes after the Delhi government wrote to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal in this regard yesterday.Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain...
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The alleged mastermind of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts and two of his associates have been arrested here, police said today.Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters) S K Singhal identified the suspected mastermind as Tausif Khan, a resident of Ahmedabad and aged around 35...
22:14
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said that the Centre has not filed any affidavit in the Supreme Court in regard to the Rohingyas matter.We have not filed any affidavit yet on Rohingyas, Rijiju told the media.Earlier, it was reported that...
21:50
Ten days after the cold-blooded murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, the Special Investigation Team probing the case is yet to get any clear lead into the killing that had sparked outrage across the country.The Karnataka government today said it does not want to share any details...
21:28
A Border Security Force personnel was killed near the Indo-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas today when he tried to stop a mini truck smuggling cows across the border.Superintendent of police P Sudhakar said Tushar Kanti Das of BSF 64 Battalion had spotted the mini-truck at...
20:50
The Haryana Police on Thursday said it has arrested three policemen who allegedly conspired to help Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh escape after his conviction.The policemen -- two head constables and a constable -- were part of the Dera chief's security detail during his...
20:03
As a mark of appreciation, the Maharashtra government has decided to give Rs 5 crore reward to police personnel who worked untiringly during the deluge of August 29 to ensure safety of citizens and for the good work done in the last few months.The government has also lauded the work done by the...
19:27
Karti Chidambaram today refused to appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Aircel Maxis case saying a special court had discharged all the accused and terminated proceedings in the matter, a claim strongly contradicted by the CBI which said that the investigation was still on.The...
19:04
A decade old diesel vehicles will now have to go off the roads with the National Green Tribunal today declining to lift its ban on them in Delhi-NCR, noting that emissions from diesel vehicles were carcinogenic.The green panel said the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises has...
18:56
Stressing on zero tolerance against terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe called upon all countries to work towards rooting out terrorist safe havens and infrastructure, disrupting their networks and financing channels and halting cross-border movement of...
18:26
Haryana Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda is has been canoodling with the Prime Minister's Office, our sources tell us. Hooda is all set to launch a regional party, which may support the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. It is believed that Huda and the Prime Minister had three rounds of...
18:15
Following the killing of Abu Ismail, mobile internet services have been blocked in Srinagar.
17:50
Top Lashkar-e-Taiyba commander Abu Ismail, responsible for the attack on a bus carrying Amarnath Yatra pilgrims in July that left eight dead and several injured, has been killed in an encounter.LeT terrorist Abu Ismail of Pakistan along with his accomplice killed in Nowgam. Huge achievement for...
17:19
Rohingyas are a threat to national security, have links with terror groups and are likely to be used by the Islamic State, the Central government told the Supreme Court today. The government also said national interest warrants their deportation and the court should not interfere in the...
16:43
Just In: 3 Bangladeshi youths, suspected to have links with banned extremist group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), arrested in Lucknow, says IG, ATS, Asim Arun.
16:43
Following the Press Council's censure of various publications, for reasons ranging from 'paid news' to 'irresponsible, mala fide reporting', the Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity has decided to take action against 52 publications. Accordingly, those that have been empanelled...
16:02
Madras High Court orders no floor test be conducted in Tamil Nadu assembly till September 20. Court passes the interim order after apprehensions by DMK and TTV Dinakaran camp about the possible disqualification of 19 dissident AIADMK MLAs by the Speaker.
15:57
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe today launched the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, farmers from Boisar in Palghar district protested against the project fearing acquisition of their lands. The farmers, who held the demonstration outside Boisar...
15:50
The announcement of Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train has received mixed reactions from people in Mumbai, but they were unanimous in their demand for reforms in the city's local trains over the introduction of a bullet train.One Mumbaikar was of the opinion that bringing bullet trains when local...
15:40
Crisil Ratings today said banks have only recognised two-thirds of their stressed loans as non-performing assets, and estimated the bad loan ratio to rise by 1 percentage point to 10.5 per cent by March 2018. The 9.5 per cent NPA figure for March 2017 includes only two-thirds of the overall...
15:17
Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav today said the Narendra Modi government should have launched the bullet train project for New Delhi-Kolkata route. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe today launched India's first bullet train project between Ahmedabad and...
14:56
Madras High Court says no floor test in Tamil Nadu till September 20.
14:43
Kamran Yousuf has been in the National Investigation Agency's custody for a week without any charges being brought against him. Read more
14:30
An Indian Air Force plane carrying the consignment of Op Insaniyat, humanitarian assistance to Bangladesh, reached Chittagong today. The consignment is relief assistance for the lakhs of Rohingya refugees who have fled the violence in Myanmar's Rakhine province for Bangladesh.In response to the...
13:00
NGT refuses to lift ban on 10-year-old diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR.
12:56
India's wholesale inflation rises. Inflation grew at 3.24 percent during August, higher from 1.88 percent in July, primarily because of an increase in food and vegetable prices, reports Moneycontrol.com.The commerce ministry said that, while the prices of pulses continued to fall owing to a...
12:41
Slamming the bullet train project, NDA ally Shiv Sena today said the project was not a dream of the common man but that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Sena, in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', sought to know if the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed train project really fits into the...
12:36
Wholesale inflation rises to 3.24% for the month of August from 1.88% for the month of July
12:08
The Gurgaon Police has detained the Ryan International School gardener and key witness in the school boy murder case, Harpal Singh and is likely to arrests some more persons in connection with the case, a senior SIT officer said. The Gurgaon Police's Special Investigation Team detained the...
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Just ahead of flagging off the bullet train project, the PM visited former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel at his residence in Gandhinagar to condole the death of his son Pravin Patel. Pravin (60) died of cardiac arrest in the US.
11:29
The Congress on Thursday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the launch of the bullet train, saying that the latter is getting involved more in photo opportunities and is getting carried away from the important issues that need to be discussed with Japan.Congress leader Anand Sharma...
11:16
To put scams into perspective, the Bullet train project costs Rs 1.1 lakh crore, while the 2G scam, three years ago, was Rs 1.63 lakh crore.
10:59
Prime Minister Modi, along with visiting Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, launched work on India's first bullet train at Ahmedabad this morning. Calling Japan a 'true friend', PM Modi told the cheering crowd of nearly 10,000, that the bullet train will bring both speed and jobs to the country. PM Modi...
10:44
Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta Mocking bullet train echoed our chronic fear of scale. Delhi Metro also faced but-what-about-the-poor, can-we-afford/do-we-need-it doubts
10:34
Japan PM Shinzo Abe speaking at the launch of the bullet train project, starts his address with a Namaskar. I'm grateful that Japan got the opportunity to build the first Bullet Train in India. It's a historic day, a beginning of new chapter. I am extremely happy. Two years ago a decision was...
10:21
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be joined by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when they launch the ambitious Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed bullet train project in a few moments from now.The two leaders are at the venue where the bhoomi pujan will be conducted will lay the foundation stone of...
10:16
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad route is expected to have 35 trains per day. This might increase to 105 by 2050. The trains are set to run at a speed of 320-350 kilometres per hour and will cover 12 stations -- Bandra Kurla Complex, Thane, Virar, Boisar, Vapi, Bilimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand,...
10:07
Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani speaking now.
09:52
The RSS has alerted the BJP to credible signs of a shift in the public mood over the performance of the government in spite of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said today. On the basis of feedback from various frontal organisations, the RSS has raised red flags on the...
09:49
The Rajasthan Police have closed investigations into six people named by dairy farmer Pehlu Khan before his death in a mob attack in April, Hindustan Times reports. The police have cleared the six men -- three of whom are linked to Hindu right-wing organisations -- based on the...
09:31
The CBSE yesterday asked 19,500 affiliated schools to put all their employees through a psychometric evaluation against the backdrop of the murder of a child in a Gurgaon school allegedly by its bus attendant. If the board presses ahead with the move, the scale and sweep of the test will be...
09:23
The None Of The Above option has also shined in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections. In fact, it has emerged as a Third Student Union in the DUSU elections.NOTA is a ballot option designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of all of the candidates in a...
09:17
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address the crisis engulfing Rakhine state next week, in her first speech since scores were killed in violence that has sent nearly 380,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh and sullied her reputation as a defender of the oppressed.A crackdown by...
08:54
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will today lay the foundation stone for India's first bullet train project. The Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project is expected to be completed by 2022 and is likely to traverse the distance of over 500 km between the two...
08:38
A tale on the global migration crisis by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid has made it to the Man Booker Prize shortlist, alongside works by American authors Paul Auster (4321), Emily Fridlund (History of Wolves) and George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo), and British authors Ali Smith (Autumn) and...
08:14
A coach of Jammu Tawi-New Delhi Rajdhani Express derailed today at the New Delhi Railway station in the national capital, but no one was injured in the incident, a Northern Railway spokesperson said.The incident took place around 6.00 am when the train was entering the platform, the spokesperson...
07:58
A team of hackers, who call themselves Kerala Cyber Warriors, on Wednesday took down several websites linked to the Ryan International Group, which runs a chain of schools including the one in Gurugram where a 7-year-old student was murdered on Friday. The hackers said they had targeted the...
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Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya is set to return to court in London on Thursday for a hearing in his ongoing extradition case over economic offences in India.The 61-year-old businessman is out on bail on an extradition warrant executed by Scotland Yard on behalf of the Indian authorities in...
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