23:31
After claiming that he would form his own political party, actor Kamal Haasan on Friday said that he would be willing to work with Rajinikanth if the superstar ever decides to enter politics.However, he added that he would not enter politics in haste.There are questions whether I will...
22:48
The West Bengal government, which drew flak over restrictions on immersion of Durga idols, today told the Calcutta high court that immersion will be allowed till 10 pm on September 30, though Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had earlier said that it will be permitted only till 6 pm on that...
22:21
A total of 230 students, including 150 girls, were taken ill allegedly after consuming food in different schools in Odisha's Malkangiri and Kalahandi districts, officials said on Friday.Around 150 girls of a government-run residential school fell ill with symptoms of food-poisoning at Badapada...
21:12
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Friday expelled its Rajya Sabha member Ritabrata Banerjee for 'gross anti-party activity', its West Bengal secretary Surya Kanta Mishra said.For gross anti-party activity, Ritabrata Banerjee is expelled from the primary membership of the party, Mishra said...
20:02
The Crime Investigation Department will share the details of its probe into the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi with the Special Investigation Team probing the Gauri Lankesh case, a top official said today.Gauri was shot dead outside her house by unidentified men who came on a motorcycle on...
18:59
JUST IN: India's current account deficit increases sharply to 2.4 per cent of Gross Domestic Percent in first quarter, from 0.1 per cent a year ago, the Reserve Bank of India said.The government said that exports rose by 10.29 per cent to $23.81 billion in August.The trade deficit has been...
18:34
The Centre will soon start linking driving licence with Aadhaar, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.It would be done soon to check the menace of multiple licensing, he said, after inaugurating the Haryana Digital Summit-2017 in Gurugram.I have already...
17:53
An improvised explosive device today went off on an underground train during the morning rush hour at a busy station in London, leaving at least 22 people injured, in what Scotland Yard called a terrorist incident. The explosion happened on a District Line Tube as the train pulled into Parsons...
17:50
A Financial Times journalist was killed by a crocodile whilst washing his hands in a lagoon in Sri Lanka during a holiday with friends. Paul McClean, 24, an Oxford University graduate, is believed to have wandered off from friends in order to go to the toilet, before being ambushed by the...
17:29
Kangana Ranaut is quite adorable as the jaunty, lively Praful, who lives life with a certain gay abandon, having no qualms in drinking down multiple shots in a few minutes or going up to men in bars uttering klutzy pick up lines like 'Are you tired? Because you are running in my mind' or...
17:19
The Haryana government hands over the Pradyuman Thakur case to the CBI. Haryana CM ML Khattar announced that the state government will take over the school management for three months. On Wednesday, Special Investigation Teams searched the Ryan International School for clues to...
17:04
British media quotes the National Health Service in England as saying that 22 people are now being treated in four hospitals across London for the injuries they suffered from Friday morning's explosion in a train at Parsons Green station.London Ambulance service took 18 patients to...
16:59
A knife-wielding man attacked a soldier in Paris today.The soldier, who was part of an anti-terrorism operation known as Sentinelle, rapidly tackled the man and was uninjured.The attacker was taken into custody.The man had lunged at the soldier at the central Chatelet metro station around 6.30 am...
16:33
After the Friday morning terror attack, Londoners have offered to 'put the kettle on' for people affected by the explosion in Parsons Green, said reports in British media.As the station was evacuated and hordes of people flooded the area, a Twitter user Katy Dunn posted: 'If anyone is feeling...
15:58
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has expressed solidarity with Bangladesh over the Rohingya crisis and said India is putting pressure on Myanmar to take back refugees who have fled the Buddhist-majority nation, a top aide of Bangladesh Prime Minister has said.More than 300,000 Rohingya...
15:47
In other news, the Prime Minister's Office, is reportedly upset with senior BJP leaders Uma Bharti and Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who were eased out of their ministerial portfolios recently. The buzz is that both the leaders have imported and expensive wooden panels gracing their homes. Bharti has said...
15:37
Statement by London mayor Sadiq Khan on the terror attack on the tube. The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that the explosion on a train at Parsons Green Station this morning is being treated as terrorism. Our city utterly condemns the hideous individuals who attempt to use terror to harm us...
15:27
There is a political reason why India should not welcome Rohingyas. The country earlier experienced a silent wave of illegal immigration, from Bangladesh. Over time, this has changed the demography of Assam, with deleterious political consequences. It fuelled a popular insurgency there, and...
15:23
London terror attack: Downing Street said Theresa May was receiving regular updates''. The PM will chair a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee this afternoon. She said: My thoughts are with those injured at Parsons Green and emergency services who are responding bravely to this...
15:21
What were China's objectives in the Doklam dispute?Read it here.
15:01
Newly-inducted Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that India is not walking on the path of war, but at the same time, the army is prepared for any situation.India is not walking on the path of war, but at the same time, I would like to add that our army is prepared for any...
14:47
The BBC reports that the Parsons Green tube explosion is being treated as terrorism.
14:45
Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol. Read more
14:38
The whole country is expected to be open defecation free by October, 2019, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. The government is confident of fulfilling the prime minister's vision of making India open defecation free by October, 2019, Singh said after launching the 'Swachhta Hi Sewa'...
14:27
London tube explosion: The BBC reports that police officials say it's too early to pinpoint who they think caused the explosion at Parson Green but that an EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) team is at the site looking at forensic clues. Met Police SO15 Counter Terrorism Command are...
14:17
In other news, New Delhi's Connaught Place has slipped one position to become the tenth most expensive office location in the world with an annual rent of USD 111 per sq ft, according to property consultant CBRE. Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex is at 16th rank while Nariman Point is at 30th...
14:07
London tube explosion: Alex @carefreealex tweets: Been stuck 5m from the platform at Parsons Green for a little over an hour now.
13:55
A bomb squad and armed police have all been seen arriving at the station following the blast which happened in a white bucket inside a Lidl carrier bag, reports the metro.co.uk.A reporter from the website, who was at the scene described seeing people with facial burns, adding that they were...
13:51
Commuters using the London underground rail were reportedly injured in an explosion at the Parsons Green station in west London, reports the Independent. Transport for London said the District Line was partially suspended because of a security alert. No reports yet on whether it was a bomb...
13:09
The Madras High Court asks the Election Commission to decide on the AIADMK's two leaves symbol by October 31. The Election Commission had blocked the AIADMK's 'two leaves' party symbol in March after the then rival factions led by K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam staked claim to it ahead of the...
13:02
Our sources tell us that Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has been feeling isolated, removed as he is from the political hustle-bustle that he was used to as a cabinet minister. Naidu feels he is now a prisoner of protocol. A few media persons were invited to his home in New Delhi and were given...
12:18
India and Pakistan are holding high-level talks on technical issues of the Indus Waters Treaty here, a senior World Bank official has said. These meetings are a continuation of a discussion on how to safeguard the Treaty for the benefit of the people in both countries, a World Bank spokesperson...
11:52
Citing example of refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka residing in India, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday tore into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Government over sending the Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar, saying that Rohingya refugess...
11:02
Between the two, it's actor Kamal Haasan who seems to have taken the political plunge first. Rajinikanth, who has been testing waters, is yet to announce his political debut. Kamal Haasan said yesterday that he will form his own political party as none of the existing ones can provide a...
10:52
The Shiv Sena on Friday continued its attack on India and Japan's joint venture of bullet train. In the editorial of its mouthpiece, Saamna, the party said that if Indian railways had taken lessons from Japan on the safety formula of its railway system, the country would have been happier.The...
10:38
Visuals from the residence of BSF Constable Brijendra Bahadur Singh in Ballia; he lost his life in firing by Pakistan in J&K's RS Pura.
10:22
When Anupam Kher met Baba Ramdev.
10:02
The other important case the Supreme Court will be hearing today is a plea seeking a ban on the Blue Whale game.Earlier on September 12, the apex court bench, comprising of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to hear the plea on...
09:59
Veteran actor Harrison Ford said it was strange for her him when his Star Wars co-star Carrie Fisher revealed their secret three-month affair in her memoir The Princess Diarist. At the time of their affair on the set of Star Wars in 1976, Fisher was just 19. Ford was 33, and married to his first...
09:51
The Supreme Court today will hear a plea filed by two women lawyers seeking implementation of the existing guidelines to ensure safety and security of children in schools.A bench, headed by CJI Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and AMKhanwilkar, said that it has already issued a notice on a...
09:23
A Border Security Force jawan was killed when Pakistani troops violated ceasefire for the third consecutive day today along the International Border in Jammu district.Constable Bijender Bahadur was on duty at forward point along the fence in Arnia sector along the IB when Pakistani Rangers...
09:15
US stock futures and Asian shares dipped after North Korea fired another missile over Japan into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, demonstrating Pyongyangs defiance in the face of intensifying sanctions.US stock futures fell 0.2 per cent while MSCIs Asia-Pacific share index excluding Japan shed 0.4...
08:26
An Indian doctor from Telangana was stabbed to death in the US state of Kansas state. Achutha Reddy, a psychiatrist, was murdered in his clinic in East Wichita. Sources quoted the US police as saying that the assailant, aged 21, repeatedly stabbed the doctor after a conversation. It was not...
08:13
About 40 per cent of the total Rohingya population living in the Rakhine State of Myanmar have now fled to Bangladesh, the UN has said.Since August 25, the number of Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh has now reached 389,000, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman to...
07:53
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, its latest act of aggression against a neighbour and key Western ally amid a escalating war of rhetoric with the United States. The missile launch will prove a stern test for both US President Doanld Trump and the UN who have so far...
00:22
North Korea has again threatened to 'sink Japan into the sea' with a nuclear bomb and said the United States should be 'beaten to death like a rabid dog' after the latest sanctions on the shipment of oil products by United Nations Security Council in response to Pyongyang's recent nuclear test.It...
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