21:10
Bihar Chief Minister and JD-U president Nitish Kumar is likely to articulate his party's position on a host of issues, including the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha polls, at its national executive meeting here tomorrow amid a strain in its ties with the BJP. Kumar held deliberations...
20:45
Taking a jibe at former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said that a true and a patriotic leader spends money on the welfare of the citizens and not on extravagant things.Addressing an Ulema Mushaikh conference, Khan claimed that Sharif was...
20:19
An army jawan was injured when he was reportedly hit by a Pakistani sniper firing from across the Line of Control in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir today, officials said. The soldier was manning a forward post at Pokhra in Kalal area of Nowshera sector and received a...
19:59
Ranked 1 in the world, Simona Halep has crashed out of Wimbledon in the third round. The current Roland Garros champion lost to Su-Wei Hsieh, ranked 48 in the world, in three sets -- 6-3, 4-6, 5-7.
19:42
It's not just us who are glued to our TV screens watching the England vs Sweden World Cup match. Wimbledon's dedicated ball boys and girls will be able to watch England's World Cup clash in between the tennis action, their trainer has revealed.Asked if the highly disciplined ball boys and...
19:27
Promising full cooperation in India's quest to bring controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik back to the country, a close aide of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said today that Bangladesh will never allow its territory to be used by elements hostile to New Delhi. After...
19:11
North Korea hit out at what it called Washington's rapacious demands and extremely regrettable attitude, according to a report by the South's Yonhap news agency, just hours after concluding talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pyongyang. The US attitude and positions at the...
18:48
The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu was in principle agreeable to the proposal to hold simultaneous polls to Parliament and state assemblies, but wants it to be considered after 2021 when the present state assembly's term would expire, a senior leader today said. This view had been...
18:24
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday filed a chargesheet against five accused in the death case of the father of a minor girl who was allegedly raped last year in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar is main accused in the alleged rape case, who is the Sitapur jail at...
18:13
A 45-year-old Gurugram-based businessman has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his daughter's friend, who had come to his place for a sleepover, the police said today. On Thursday, the victim, 18, had gone for a night stay at her friend's place, where the accused offered...
17:58
Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and Gujarat MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani were booked by police on trespass and other charges after allegedly leading a raid at a house where they claimed that liquor was illegally stored, an official said today. Thakor, a Congress...
17:32
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that she is not averse to working with the Congress to oust the BJP government at the centre which is behaving like a hundred Hitlers. The TMC president, in an interview to a magazine, said she shares very good relations with UPA...
16:51
BJP general secretary Ram Madhav today rejected reports that his party was working to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir with rebel PDP MLAs and said that it was for continuing with Governor's rule in the state in the interest of peace, governance and development. His...
16:26
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family are all set to challenge the accountability court's verdict in the Avenfield reference case in the Islamabad high court.The Sharif family will challenge the verdict in the IHC on July 9, Geo TV reported, citing anonymous sources, as...
16:04
The relationship between India and Maldives continue to remain strained with the Maldivian government trying its best to undermine Indian influence in its land. After the helicopter and work permit snub, Male has now signed a capacity-building agreement in the power sector with Pakistan.According...
15:32
Competitive exams such as the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test, Joint Entrance Examination Main, the National Eligibility Test, Common Management Admission Test and others will now be computer-based and conducted by the National Testing Agency, Union education minister Prakash...
15:22
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Jaipur today to lay the foundation stone for 13 urban infrastructure projects and meet the beneficiaries of central and state run public welfare schemes. The prime minister will seek feedback from around 2.5 lakh beneficiaries of government...
14:51
What do you do when this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the world's most prestigious accolade of its kind, is postponed because of a sexual assault scandal?You create your own award.More than 100 Swedish intellectuals have joined forces to form a new prize-giving body in protest after the Swedish...
14:24
Two weeks after he took over the reins in Jammu and Kashmir, Governor N N Vohra's official Twitter handle has got several complaints of alleged corruption and other wrongdoings against the previous PDP-BJP coalition government headed by Mehbooba Mufti.The Twitter handle was set up on June 19, the...
14:02
Medical officials overseeing the annual Running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, say that five people have been injured at the traditional festival, with at least one gored by a bull's horns. Red Cross spokesman Jose Aldaba says ambulances were taking the injured to a nearby hospital...
13:43
All the 1,430 stranded Indian pilgrims who were stranded while returning from the Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet have been airlifted to safety with the evacuation of the last batch of 160 people from Nepal's mountainous regions today, the Indian embassy here said.Those rescued from Hilsa and Simikot...
13:20
Three people including a 16-year-old girl were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam on Saturday as security forces fired at stone-throwing protesters.Reports said the security forces opened fire after an army patrol came under attack in the Redwani area of Kulgam.Those killed were identified as...
13:06
JUST IN: 3 civilians killed allegedly in firing by security forces in J-K's Kulgam district
12:55
Facebook Inc co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the worlds third-richest person, further solidifying technology as the most robust creator of wealth.Zuckerberg, who trails only Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, eclipsed Buffett as...
12:23
After sparking a political storm by welcoming eight men who were convicted in the Ramgarh lynching case in Jharkhand with a garland, Union Minister Jayant Sinha on Saturday said that the Ranchi high court has suspended the sentence of the accused and released them on bail.The Union minister of...
11:58
Indian-American judge Amul Thapar has not made it to the shortlist of three candidates from among which US President Donald Trump is likely to nominate his pick for the US Supreme Court justice, a media report said today.Trump is likely to announce his nominees to replace Supreme Court Justice...
11:21
About 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will soon get credit card-sized plastic IDs that will help provide them another level of protection and preserve their right to voluntarily return to Myanmar in conducive conditions, according to the UN refugee agency.As per the UN estimates, nearly...
11:02
The Amarnath yatra resumed today from Jammu after it was suspended for two days due to inclement weather in Kashmir, with a batch of over 2,200 pilgrims leaving for the Pahalgam base camp for the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine, officials said. However, the pilgrims registered for...
10:59
Congress president Rahul Gandhi meets Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay.
10:31
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been granted regular bail in the case relating to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death almost four years ago.Tharoor today appeared before Delhi's Patiala House Court as accused in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case.Judge said there is 'no requirement to file a...
09:41
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is expected to appear before a court in Delhi today in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar 's death case. The court had summoned Tharoor after a 3000-page chargesheet was filed against him by the Special Investigation Team probing the case.On Thursday, the...
08:54
Pakistan's top civil-military body has reiterated its commitment to fulfil obligations made to the Financial Action Task Force to combat money-laundering and terror financing.A meeting of the National Security Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Justice (retd) Nasirul Mulk, discussed the details...
08:41
All attempts to rescue the 12 members of a youth football team and their coach from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system in Thailand have been put on hold for the moment due to a rain forecast.No, not today, CNN quoted Narongsak Osottanakorn, the governor of Chiang Rai province as saying.Thai Navy...
00:14
Theresa Mays husband Philip will escort Donald Trumps wife Melania on a separate programme of events during the US presidents visit to the UK next week.May and Trump will attend a separate spouses programme which will take place during Trumps first visit to the UK as the leader of the free...
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