21:23
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers have asked a New York judge to dismiss rape and sexual assault charges against him, releasing emails between one of his accusers and Weinstein they said were not shown to the grand jury that indicted him.Weinstein has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone...
21:11
A 25-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in neighbouring Navi Mumbai today, with his purported suicide note mentioning his anguish over the Maratha community not getting reservation, police said. It would be the eighth such suicide in the state in the last two weeks, where the...
20:45
Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu today asked newly elected members to leave politics outside and focus on people's welfare inside the House. He made a passionate appeal to all MPs to ensure smooth functioning of the Rajya Sabha and Parliament by making good use of...
20:16
US President Donald Trump has taunted US basketball player Lebron James and suggested that he prefers Michael Jordan.It came after the LA Lakers star accused Trump of being divisive in a CNN interview.The US president responded on Twitter by saying: Lebron James was just interviewed by the...
19:40
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi joined the protest called by Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav to demand the resignation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after several cases of alleged sexual exploitation in various state-run shelter homes were reported.Leaders from many parties will be...
18:21
India's ambitious mission to the moon piggybacking a lunar rover is postponed once again with a possible lift-off only in 2019. The Chandrayan-2 mission was earlier slated for October 2018 and is now rescheduled because of technical glitches. This delay may now give Israel an opportunity to edge...
17:52
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Union minister Suresh Prabhu today visited a city hospital where DMK president M Karunanidhi has been undergoing treatment since July 28.Naidu, the TDP supremo, visited the Kauvery Hospital and enquired about Karunanidhi's health from his son...
17:35
The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP today said the party was open to a debate over Article 35A of the Constitution, which confers special status to permanent residents of the state, as protests continued against the August 6 Supreme Court hearing on petitions challenging the...
17:12
Major Leetul Gogoi, who was detained by police in a Srinagar hotel after he was seen with a local woman in May, may face punitive action as a Court of Inquiry ordered by the army into the incident is likely to indict him in the case, official sources said here. They said the CoI has...
16:41
A Jodphur sessions court on Saturday ruled that Salman Khan will need to seek its permission every time he has to travel abroad. The ruling came as a development in the blackbuck poaching case against the actor. The order came following an application by the 52-year-old's lawyers asking for an...
16:09
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reviewed the progress of preparations for the launch of the health assurance programme under Ayushman Bharat. The scheme will provide health assurance cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per family. It will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families in the...
15:52
A special CBI court today granted bail to Vipul Ambani, senior executive of a firm owned by diamantaire Nirav Modi, in the multi-crore Punjab National Bank scam. Ambani, president (finance) of Modi's firm Fire Star Diamond, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in...
15:23
For the first time, Osama bin Laden's mother, Alia Ghanem, has given an interview. Conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Martin Chulov of The Guardian, the interview is noteworthy because bin Laden, the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and his mother were exceptionally close.What...
15:02
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, who is set to be sworn in as the next prime minister of the neighbouring country, may not take oath of office next Saturday, as expected earlier. The swearing in ceremony is now expected to be held on August 14, when Pakistan celebrates Independence Day,...
14:37
A man tried to barge inside Kerala House in Delhi with a knife today. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was present inside. According to the police report, the man in question is 80 per cent mentally unstable and has been sent to Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences.Earlier...
14:17
A man in Haryana's Palwal, about 80 kilometres from Delhi, was beaten to death last night on the suspicion of being a cattle thief.The man's hands and legs were tied and he was thrashed by three men in Bahrola village in Palwal, police said. The men who beat up the victim say he had come to steal...
13:53
BJP president Amit Shah today flagged off Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's pre-poll tour 'Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra' from the Charbhujanath temple in Rajsamand district. The 58-day tour is aimed at seeking people's mandate in the assembly elections scheduled to be held later...
13:28
North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programmes, violating UN sanctions, a report commissioned by the UN Security Council says.It also says Pyongyang has resorted to a massive increase of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil products and has been trying to sell weapons abroad.The...
13:00
Sir, you dont have any daughter. But I want to ask you would you not have taken any action against anyone in the Muzaffarpur shelter abuse case if, out of those 34 girls, anyone would have been your daughter? Due to this one act of yours, you have lost respect among crores of women and girls in...
12:30
A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Milan had to return to the airport in Italy within 30 minutes of take-off after a passenger tried to enter the cockpit, the airline said today. According to an airline spokesperson, the incident happened on August 2 when the passenger, and Indian...
12:11
A total of 1.67 million votes cast across Pakistan in the 2018 general election were rejected, which was 11.7 per cent more than that of the 1.5 million ballots discarded in the 2013 polls, according to an independent election watchdog report. A ballot is rejected from the count if it does...
11:58
Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai on Friday condemned the attack on 12 schools in Gilgit-Baltistan which took place late on Thursday night.She tweeted, The extremists have shown what frightens them most - a girl with a book. We must rebuild these schools immediately, get the students back into...
11:34
A man has been shot dead after he rammed his car into the Jammu residence of former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah. Speaking of the security breach, SSP Jammu Vivek Gupta said, The intruder breached the main gate and went inside. He had a scuffle with the duty officers there. Duty officer...
11:00
Congress Working Committee meeting begins at party headquarters in New Delhi.This is the second CWC meeting under Rahul Gandhi's chairmanship.The National Register of Citizens in Assam is likely to be the key agenda of the meeting.The meeting of the CWC, the Congress' highest decision-making...
10:48
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced an ex gratia of Rs 5 lakh for the families of those killed in the blast which took place in Kurnool on Friday.Furthermore, Naidu ordered an inquiry into the blast and asked the deputy chief minister and the mining minister...
10:29
India has become the third Asian country after Japan and South Korea to get the Strategic Trade Authorisation-1 (STA-1) status after the United States issued a federal notification to this effect, paving the way for high-technology product sales to New Delhi, particularly in civil space and...
09:57
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh today said that the issue of National Register of Citizens for Assam should not be hyped up as India was not a 'dharamshala' (guest house) where foreigners would keep on infiltrating.He told reporters in Durg district that those who could not prove their...
09:31
A Dalit youth was allegedly set on fire by two men in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said on Friday.The two accused allegedly assaulted Pardesi first, poured kerosene and set him on fire in Satoha village on Thursday night, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Vinay Singh Chauhan....
08:48
Four more terrorists were killed in a fresh exchange of fire with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, the Army said today.With these deaths, the number of terrorists killed in the overnight operation reached five.Four more terrorists have been killed in the operation at...
00:05
Two police complaints were lodged against Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Kolkata on Friday over alleged 'manhandling' and 'illegal detention' of Trinamool Congress delegates at the Silchar airport yesterday by Assam police officials, TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said.One complaint was...
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