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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has ruled out any new window of opportunity for NRIs or people of Indian-origin to deposit their high value Indian currency which was declared illegal after the demonetisationpolicy, a statement said.Swaraj made these remarks during her interaction with a...
23:17
The Enforcement Directorate has received replies from actor Amitabh Bachchan and his family members to notices issued to them in connection with its probe in the Panama Papers case and they could be summoned soon, officials said.Officials in the anti-money laundering agency said they had issued...
23:01
A jawan of the Border Security Force was shot dead by terrorists who barged into his house in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district on Wednesday evening.Three family members were also injured in the attack.News agency ANI reports that Rameez Ahmad Parray had taken voluntary retirement from the...
22:15
Pakistan's Foreign Minister has claimed that a proposal was made to swap Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav for a jailed terrorist in Afghanistan, who was responsible for the horrific 2014 Peshawar school attack.The terrorist who killed children in APS (Army Public School) in Peshawar is in Afghan...
21:34
Pigeons are capable of switching between two tasks as quickly as humans and even more faster in certain situations, despite their small brains, a study suggests.Researchers performed behavioural experiments to test birds and humans and found that the cause of the slight multitasking advantage in...
21:31
The Election Commission has disqualified former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda from contesting polls for three years for failing to properly file election expenses. More details are awaited.
21:01
The Centre today extended the deadline for obtaining Aadhaar for availing government schemes and subsidies by three months to December 31.The extension is, however, only for those who are yet to apply of Aadhaar, an order issued by the ministry of electronics and information technology said.As...
20:45
In a major 'festive bonanza' for Mumbaikars, the railways has decided to add 100 new train services to the financial capital's train network from October 1.Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will make the announcement on September 29 during his visit to his home state of Maharashtra, senior railway...
19:46
Latching onto former Union Finance Minister and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's critical comments on the state of economy, MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi today attacked the NDA government for its handling of the economic situation.Whatever he (Sinha) has said in that article is completely true. I...
19:22
The Karnataka Cabinet today cleared the much-awaited anti-superstition bill to prevent and eradicate inhuman evil practices and said it would be tabled in the next state assembly session for approval.The legislation was earlier proposed as The Evil, Inhuman and Superstitious Practices Prevention...
18:46
The ED has summoned former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav and his mother Rabri Devi in connection with its money laundering probe in a railway hotels allotment corruption case dating back to the UPA rule,officials today said.They said Tejashwi, son of RJD chief and former Union...
18:31
The BBC today named Indian women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj as one of the most influential women in India. Mithali is currently the highest run-getter in ODIs and also led the team to the ICC Women's World Cup final in England, where they lost to the hosts. The list has been...
18:08
Pakistan's Foreign Minister has acknowledged that Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, the Haqqanis and the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. are liabilities for the country but it does not have the required assets to get rid of them.Khawaja Asif said that the United States, which is putting pressure on...
17:45
United Nations General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has said that he will look into how to deal with the use of erroneous pictures, days after Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN used a photo to portray an injured Gaza girl as a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.Exercising her right to...
17:02
Former finance minister and Congress Party senior leader P Chidambaram addresses the media on a day when BJP's Yashwant Sinha slammed his government for wrecking the economy in column for the Indian Express. Highlights.-- Congress has exposed many weaknesses in the economy and the terrible...
16:09
The BSE Sensex tanked 440 points to end at over three-month low of 31,159.81 due to across the board selling by investors ahead of the expiry of September derivatives and weakness in the rupee amid mixed global cues. Extending its falling streak for the seventh straight session -- the...
16:04
The house arrest of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has been extended by another month by authorities in Pakistan's Punjab province, saying his activities pose a threat to the peace and tranquillity in the country. Saeed, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief, has been under house arrest...
15:51
Palestine joined Interpol as a member state on Wednesday, a move opposed by Israel, in a vote at the international police organisation's general assembly in Beijing, Interpol said.The State of Palestine and the Solomon Islands are now Interpol member countries, an Interpol tweet read.The Israeli...
15:46
Cabinet briefing by Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi. The union cabinet met at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 7, Lok Kalyan Marg official residence this morning. Highlights of the press conference with the home minister and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Pradad. -- An umbrella scheme for police...
15:29
Update on the Army manoeuvre against NSCN-K rebels.The Army inflicted heavy casualties on the insurgent NSCN(K) group during retaliatory fire along the India-Myanmar border in the early hours of the morning, the Eastern Command said today. Indian troops suffered no casualties, officials...
15:17
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15:10
The statement released by the Indian Army, Eastern Command.
15:07
The Indian Army today inflicted heavy casualties on NSCN(K) (Naga terrorists) in a pre-dawn counter operation along the Myanmar, the Eastern Command said today. Indian security forces suffered no casualties, it said. Heavy casualties reportedly inflicted on NSCN(K) cadre. No casualties suffered...
14:21
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Wednesday said that data is the oxygen of a digital economy, and Indians have it in super-abundance.Hailing India as one of the biggest telecom markets in the world, while addressing the Indian Mobile Congress 2017 (IMC) at Pragati...
14:07
Former Finance Minister and senior BJP party leader Yashwant Sinha's lacerating criticism of the government's handling of the economy provided Rahul Gandhi perfect fodder. The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has tweeted a taunt from Gujarat. Ladies & Gentlemen, this is your copilot...
14:04
Ashok Choudhary, who has been ousted from the post of the Bihar Congress president yesterday, said that the expulsion was insulting.I welcome the decision of the party but I don't deserve the way I was insulted and expelled from the party. I don't want to leave the party but don't have a...
14:00
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa will visit Afghanistan this week to hold discussions with his counterpart in Kabul and the Afghan leadership, including restarting the process of peace talks with the Taliban.General Bajwa is expected to meet with senior Afghan...
13:31
The Centre for Equity Studies, run by former IAS officer Harsh Mander, has been served an income tax notice for 'complete scrutiny' of its returns. The institute received a notice under Section 143 (2) of the Income Tax Act for scrutiny of its I-T returns for the assessment...
12:46
JUST IN: Rocket lands near Kabul airport after US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrives.According to sources, a number of rockets landed, causing flights to be cancelled and the airport to be evacuated. More details awaited.
12:38
Life was disrupted as torrential rains lashed the city since last night till early today, as also several other parts of the state. Areas such as Krishnarajapuram, Nelamangala, Koramangala and surrounding areas in the city received more than 180 mm rain. Krishnarajapuram...
12:18
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has granted visa to a seven-year-old Pakistani girl from Karachi for undergoing an open heart surgery in India. The minister, responding to the girls mother Nida Shoaib, who appealed for help, tweeted, We also pray for her early recovery.Shoaib, who...
11:54
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met with his Cuban counterpart to express his profound concern over the safety and security of its diplomats in Havana after mysterious ailments affected 21 American embassy staff. The meeting came amid concerns over the unexplained incidents that have...
11:45
The union cabinet is scheduled to meet at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 7, Lok Kalyan Marg official residence this morning.According to sources, the cabinet is likely to take up key issues such as the next steps to be taken in the Ujwala Scheme, when to roll out the next phase of...
11:23
No matter what power does, ultimately truth will prevail, said senior Congress leader and former finance minister P.Chidambaram on Wednesday after senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Central Government's economic policy.Sinha, a former finance...
11:07
16 coaches of a goods train derailed near Nergundi station in Cuttack early Wednesday morning, affecting the rail traffic bypassing the district.The fertilizer-laden goods train, which was coming from Gangavaram Port, and was on its way to Haibargaon, derailed at around 4.00 am near Nergundi...
11:01
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said the recent incidents in the Banaras Hindu University smacked of a conspiracy' as prima facie reports suggest the role of anti-social elements.A number of students, including women, and two journalists were injured in a baton-charge by the...
10:51
It may not have been possible in the gory and violent world of Game of Thrones but Jon Snow and Yrgitte are engaged to be married in real life. After a huge amount of speculation, an official announcement has been published in the Times newspaper, confirming that actors Kit Harington and Rose...
10:22
Cabinet meeting to be held at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, at 10:30 am today.
10:10
The Sensex rose 198 points and the Nifty recaptured the 9,900 mark in the opening trade today after buying in realty, oil and gas and banking stocks paced up. Speculators were busy covering up short positions ahead of the September derivatives contract expiry tomorrow, which added to the upward...
10:08
The Pakistan Army on Wednesday violated ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch and Bhimber Gali sectors, along the Line of Control. They initiated unprovoked and indiscriminate firing of small arms, automatics and mortars at around 8 am, to which, the Indian Army is retaliating strongly and...
10:01
Where the mind is without fear/ And the head is held high/ The whole world is by the side/ Of Narendra Modi... The Bengali version rhymed, and was perhaps the only Amit Shah-welcome verse that scanned. The normally terrible versifiers of the Bharatiya Janata Party surpassed themselves because...
09:58
Hailing science and technology, President Ram Nath Kovind drew an encouraging comparison between a scientist and a nation builder.President Kovind said, When a scientist works hard in the lab, with integrity and sincerity and with the larger dream of helping society, he or she is playing the...
09:45
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram backs Yashwant Sinha and claims that he speaks the truth.Taking to Twitter, the former finance minister wrote, Yashwant Sinha speaks Truth to Power. Will Power now admit the Truth that economy is sinking?Earlier, Sinha in an editorial in the Indian Express...
09:33
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has hit out at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying that the economy has been on a downward spiral on his watch. I shall be failing in my national duty if I did not speak up even now against the mess the finance minister has made of the economy, Sinha wrote...
08:58
US President Donald Trump has said that America is totally prepared for a military option on North Korea but warned that would be devastating,in a further escalation of tensions between the two nations.The strong reaction from the US president came a day after North Korea said that it was ready...
08:49
The violent Banaras Hindu University protests inside the campus have been criticised by the Congress as they have said that the prime minister should apologise to the girls, who were mercilessly lathi-charged by the cops.The PM should first apologise to the girls in BHU, because despite being...
08:38
JUST IN: Pakistan violates ceasefire in Shanpur area along LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir
08:23
Twitter is to double the length of characters per tweet from 140 characters to 280.Twitter said on Tuesday that it would begin a test with a random sample of users allowing them to send tweets that are as long as 280 characters, double the existing cap, in most languages around the world.The tech...
08:08
BHU Chief Proctor Professor O N Singh resigned taking moral responsibility for the recent incidents of alleged molestation of a student and violence on campus. The university authorities are learnt to have accepted his resignation. The resignation came even as the administration and...
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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday for taking decisions like note ban and the GST roll-out without listening to anybody which affected the backbone of thecountry's economy.This is the big difference between the Congress's ideology and the BJP's...
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