23:43
The routine call for peace talks between India and Pakistan has no meaning unless Islamabad changes its course and stops terrorism, a top United States think-tank has said.The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a global think-tank, said in its report that such a move supported by...
23:41
Airline systems around the world broke briefly, causing disruptions in a number of major airports around the world.The disruptions slowed down some of the world's busiest airports, including London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Zurich, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Changi in Singapore and Reagan National...
23:09
Union minister Jayant Sinha today rejected suggestions that he wrote an article in an English daily disputing his father and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha's contentions on the state of India's economy at anybody's bidding, insisting it was absolutely out of his own conscience.Sinha,...
22:46
Indian Railways is working with the Indian Space Research Organisation to devise safety mechanisms to make travel by trains more safer, Union minister Piyush Goyal said today.The minister said that he met ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar few days back and Indian Railways along with RailTel are...
22:22
China today announced commissioning the radar-evading J-20 stealth fighter jets into military service, giving its air force an edge in the region.The flight tests of J-20 jets are being conducted as scheduled, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence Col Wu Qian told a media briefing in...
22:02
The Bombay high court today directed all municipal, district and panchayat-level authorities in Maharashtra to explain the reasons for their inability to repair and maintain roads, and also state if lack of funds is the issue.A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice N M...
21:59
Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan today wrote to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh demanding protection for journalists from fanatically minded people.Chavan, a former chief minister, made the plea in connection with reported threats to some senior TV journalists by people who disapprove of...
21:39
Amid conflicting claims by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leaders over access to former chief minister Jayalalithaa during her hospitalisation, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam working president M K Stalin today said if a lie detector test was conducted, many truths will come from state...
20:38
Home Minister Rajnath Singh will celebrate 'Dussehra' with the jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police at Joshimath in Uttarakhand on Saturday.Singh began a four-day trip to forward areas along the Sino-India border today.A home ministry official said Singh will address a Sainik Sammelan at an...
20:21
Rejecting opposition claims over slowing economy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Narendra Modi-led government ended policy paralysis of the Congress government. Here are the highlights:- Government has not shied away from taking tough decisions unlike previous governments-...
19:40
The withdrawal of southwest monsoon has begun, 12 days after its normal date, the country's top weatherman said today.The southwest monsoon, however, still remains active over Telangana, Rayalaseema, Coastal Karnataka, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala, the India Meteorological Department...
19:28
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who died at the age of 91, will be buried next to Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, the magazine's first cover girl. Hefner will be laid to rest at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.Hefner had purchased the plot next to Monroe 25 years ago for USD 75,000,...
19:09
Banaras Hindu University vice chancellor Girish Chandra Tripathi said today that he will resign if he is asked to proceed on leave and maintained that the HRD ministry had not told him to do so.The ministry has, meanwhile, initiated a routine process to shortlist the successor of Tripathi, who is...
18:32
Homeshop18, subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani-owned Network18 Media and Investments and Shop CJ Network today said they will be merging the businesses of both entities.The Board of Directors of TV18 Home Shopping Network (Homeshop18) and Shop CJ Network approved entering into a definitive agreement to...
18:28
The Election Commission has rejected a plea of sidelined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader T T V Dinakaran to grant 15 days additional time to submit affidavits in the party symbol dispute case and said the hearing would take place on October 6 as scheduled.The poll panel had last...
17:38
Much has been said of Yashwant Sinha's column, 'I need to speak up now', in the Indian Express yesterday which has kicked up a huge storm and leading to his son Jayant Sinha penning a rebuttal in a blog in Times of India. Now Kanchan Gupta, commissioning editor and commentator with...
17:27
Model-turned-actor Sherlyn Chopra, who appeared on the centrespread of Playboy in 2014, remembered Hugh Hefner as a nonconformist.Hefner passed away at the age of 91.Sherlyn became the only Indian woman to appear in nude in the magazine.In an Instagram post, the actor took wrote, #restinpower...
17:23
The Punjab and Haryana high court today stayed the arrest of three Ryan International Group trustees who had sought anticipatory bail in connection with the killing of a student in a Gurugram school.A single judge bench granted stay on the arrest of group chief executive officer, Ryan Pinto, and...
17:08
The National Investigative Agency today issued summon notice to Jammu and Kashmir MLA Engineer Rashid in connection with terror funding case.Rashid will be questioned by the NIA on October 3.The NIA in the recent past has arrested many separatist leaders and businessmen in the case.Earlier on...
16:13
The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday suspected that Lashkar-e-Tayiba was behind the brutal killing of Border Security Force Constable Mohammad Ramzan Parray.North Kashmir Inspector General Nitish Kumar confirmed that there were three to four terrorists who first attacked Parray with a knife...
15:54
JUST IN: Ryan murder case: Pinto family's arrest stayed until further hearing on October 7 by Punjab and Haryana High Court
15:49
Air passengers are suffering major disruption at airports around the world after reports that computer check-in systems have crashed.Travellers have reported problems at London Gatwick, Charles de Gaulle in Paris, Reagan Airport in Washington DC, Changi in Singapore, Johannesburg and...
15:22
Vishwas Gupta, the former husband of Dera Sacha Sauda chief's adopted daughter Honeypreet Insan, today filed a complaint alleging threat to his life, the police said.In his complaint, Gupta alleged that an unidentified person threatened to kill him, the SHO at the Karnal City Police Station,...
15:22
Tarun Tejpal, founder and former editor-in-chief of Tehelka, has been charged with rape, sexual harassment and wrongful confinement. The former editor pleaded not guilty. The court has said that the trial will begin from November 21. The former founder-editor of Tehelka was accused by...
14:56
JUST IN: On behalf of the government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will today respond to questions raised on the economy
14:32
A Facebook user called Mohammad Anas was reportedly banned from the social networking site for 30 days after he put up a post with the message, 'Kamal ka phool, hamari bhool' (The lotus is our mistake), on his personal page on Tuesday. The lotus is the symbol of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...
14:08
When Parliament convenes for its winter session there will be new floor leaders for the CPM, BSP and JD-U in the Rajya Sabha. There will also be no Hamid Ansari presiding over it, or Mayawati, Sitaram Yechury and Sharad Yadav in the first row. The Rajya Sabha will also have a new...
14:00
J Jayalalithaa was drowsy and had difficulty breathing, but could speak when she was brought to Chennai's Apollo hospital on September 22 last year, says the first medical report that was filed that day and has now been accessed by local media. The report noted that the then Tamil Nadu chief...
13:51
The buzz in Dilli Durbar is not hard to guess, it is that the Prime Minister's Office and the BJP leadership are upset with Yashwant Sinha for his criticism of the government's handling of the economy. After resigning from all party posts in 2009, Sinha has generally been critical...
13:48
A trainee aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed on Thursday morning in Keesara village in Telangana. The pilot of the craft is safe and no casualties or injuries have been reported.The trainee aircraft Kiran crashed at 11:45 am this morning. It left from Hakimpet Air Force station in...
13:23
The morning after his extreme indictment of the government's role in the economic slowdown, veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said I stand by my analysis. Sinha, a former finance minister, said short-sighted decisions are being rushed by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
12:42
BSF soldiers lay wreaths on the coffin of Md Ramzan Parray who was shot dead by terrorists yesterday, when he had come home on leave.The constable, Rameez Ahmad Parray, had come home on holiday a few days ago. The terrorists, after forcing their way into the house at Parray Mohalla, fired...
12:27
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who is elated that his mother Mehroonisa Siddiqui has been named as one of the most influential women in India by the BBC, shared his happiness on Twitter by posting a photograph featuring him with his mother. The actor posted on Twitter, A lady who showed courage...
12:21
It's past midnight. The moon -- just a sliver in the inky sky -- watches as elite commanders billow out of choppers into enemy land. Four hours later, they are back in India, having razed seven terror camps.Just what the director or the author ordered. The surgical strike -- which the Army...
12:11
The Shiv Sena on Thursday backed former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha's criticism of the economy and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party needs to prove that the claims by Sinha are wrong.Backing Sinha's backlash at demonetisation and the downward spiralling agricultural sector, the editorial...
11:51
Jailed Dera chief Ram Rahim's 'adopted' daughter Honeypreet want to surrender to the police, said sources close to her, but she has a few conditions. According to sources close to her, Honeypreet is in depression. Her health is getting worse and she has gone weak. On Tuesday, the Delhi...
11:36
Man Booker winner Aravind Adiga leads the race for this year's $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.Adiga has made it to the shortlist for his book Selection Day. Four other authors are also in contention for the coveted prize - Anjali Joseph (The Living), Sri Lanka's Anuk...
11:25
Father Tom Uzhannalil, who was held captive by ISIS for over a year, has finally reached India today and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Catholic priest from Kerala, was allegedly abducted from Yemen by Islamic State on March 4, 2016.Catholic priest Father Tom arrived in Delhi at 7.40 am...
11:05
In what is set to be a first for a government in Uttar Pradesh in recent times, the Yogi Adityanath administration has decided to celebrate Diwali on a grand scale on the banks of Saryu river in Ayodhya next month, with the Chief Minister, Governor Ram Naik, the entire ministry and top government...
10:48
Amid the controversy that has unfolded over the sexual harassment of a student in the Banaras Hindu University Campus last Saturday, reports suggest that Vice Chancellor GC Tripathi has been asked to go on leave by the HRD ministry. Search for a new VC has been set into motion.Sources quoted by...
10:35
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament today, paving the way for a snap election that is expected to be held October 22.The speaker of the house, Tadamori Oshima, read the statement of dissolution.Abe is widely seen as trying to reconsolidate his grip on power...
10:17
JUST IN: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to visit Srinagar on September 29. She will also visit Siachen on September 30
10:12
A day after senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's takedown of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's handling of the economy, his son and union minister Jayant Sinha has defended the government's economic policies, stating it is undertaking structural reforms that are necessary to create a 'New India' and...
09:51
Making evident their disapproval of the Congress high command's decision to oust BPCC chief Ashok Choudhary, at least 26 of the 27 party MLAs skipped the function in which newly-appointed working president Kaukab Quadri assumed charge on Wednesday. This assumes significance as Choudhary...
09:22
After former finance minister Yashwant Sinha created a stir with his Indian Express editorial on the economy of the country, Shatrughan Sinha has tweeted in support of Sinha, breaking away from other BJP leaders who slammed the senior leader. On Thursday, Shatrughan took to Twitter and...
08:54
Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine and star of E! reality show The Girls Next Door, has died, PEOPLE confirms. He was 91.Born Hugh Marston Hefner on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois to parents Grace Caroline and Glenn Lucius Hefner, the businessman died on Wednesday.Hugh M. Hefner,...
08:41
My fingers scrolled through my Facebook feed as I went through other people's lives, random pictures, food videos and frequent opinion pieces on whatever the hot news that day was. A few months ago I was that hot news and what a nightmare it was. As I read about the protests against the...
08:28
A Goa court will frame charges against journalist Tarun Tejpal, who is accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague four years ago. The Bombay High Court has rejected Tejpal's plea to stall the framing of charges till it decides on his petition to drop the case against him. The...
08:09
Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was recently released from the terrorist captivity has finally reached home. The priest who was in the clutches of the Islamic State for 17 months will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of External Affairs Sushama Swaraj at 11.30 am...
01:08
An inquiry commission, set up by the Tamil Nadu government to probe the death of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, will look into the circumstances and situation leading to her hospitalisation last year and subsequent treatment, the government has said.The commission shall submit its report...
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