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The Janata Dal-Secular today termed the remarks of Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy indicating a rift in the coalition government with the Congress as an emotional outburst and said too much should not be read into it. Party secretary general and spokesperson Danish Ali...
21:10
On the eve of a key summit between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, US national security adviser John Bolton said today the hacking of Democratic emails during 2016 campaign was a serious matter and he found it hard to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin was unaware...
20:40
The government has refused to share copies of responses received from the US-based social media giant Facebook over global data breach scandal involving London-based data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, saying the information was shared by the companies “in confidence”. “The responses...
20:35
Debating religion will not create jobs for tomorrow, only science will build the future, technocrat Sam Pitroda told students at a university in Gandhinagar today. He also said when employment is talked about, it's given a political angle and involves a lot of rhetoric and very little...
20:32
Hitting back at the BJP after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the previous governments of neglecting the people and not completing developmental projects in time, BSP chief Mayawati today said the saffron party too had contributed to the delaying of projects. Why is the prime minister...
20:26
Maharashtra PWD minister Chandrakant Patil has claimed that pothole-ridden roads can not be entirely blamed for accidents.The statement came even as five persons have lost their lives due to damaged roads in the Mumbai region in the last two weeks.Speaking to reporters in Sangli yesterday, Patil...
20:24
Opposition parties will meet tomorrow to formulate a joint strategy to corner the government on various issues during the Monsoon Session of Parliament starting July 18. Topmost on the agenda will be to finalise a joint candidate for the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman's post which fell...
19:27
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz, who was arrested along with her father Nawaz Sharif upon their arrival in Lahore, has said that she is in prison for being the daughter of a brave man. The National Accountability Bureau officials took ousted prime minister Sharif, 68, and Maryam,...
18:45
Bangladesh today reassured India that it will not allow its soil to be used for any terrorist activities against the neighbouring country as visiting Home Minister Rajnath Singh held talks with his counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan on security-related issues. Singh, who is in Dhaka on a three-day...
18:27
A woman was burnt alive after having been gangraped allegedly by five persons in her house in Gunnaur area Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal, the police said today. The incident took place on Friday night when the 30-year-old victim was alone in her house with her daughter, the police said, adding...
18:26
Bedroll kits could soon be included in the ticket price of the poor man's no frills AC train, the Garib Rath Express, but it could cost significantly more with the railways considering a hike from the Rs 25 fixed over a decade ago, senior officials said.The review, in keeping with the steep rise...
18:07
Due to technical problem all suburban locals are running late by 10 to 15 minutes, Divisional Railway Manager, Mumbai Division of Western Railway, said on Twitter.Image: Railway employees work on tracks during a jumbo block. Photograph: Kind courtesy @WesternRly/Twitter
17:58
Four people were killed and 25 injured when a boulder rolled down and hit people bathing in a waterfall in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police officer said. The incident occurred around 3.30 pm at Siar Baba waterfall, a major attraction for holiday-makers, Senior...
17:47
Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu lost in straight games to Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the summit clash of the USD 350,000 Thailand Open World Tour Super 500 badminton tournament in Bangkok today. Seeded second Sindhu struggled with her consistency through the duel as Okuhara dominated the...
17:42
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took a dig at Congress president Rahul Gandhi's recent visit to Mandsaur to meet farmers, and said that he does not even know how an onion grows.A bhaiya (Gandhi) recently visited Mandsaur. He himself said I am ready to become prime minister....
17:32
The Uttar Pradesh Police has decided to strengthen its 'anti-Romeo squads' to protect women from stalkers and eve-teasers, official sources said.Dressed in plain clothes, the sleuths -- both men and women -- would be deployed at public places like colleges, shopping malls, markets, parks, bus...
17:29
As Pakistan observed a day of national mourning following the massacre of nearly 150 people in terror attacks ahead of the general elections, leading newspapers have questioned the claims of the government and the army that they have crushed terrorism in the country. Three deadly...
16:43
Actor Irrfan Khan, who is currently in London undergoing treatment for neuroendochrine tumour, has updated his display picture on Twitter. In the picture, which the 51-year-old actor shared today on the microblogging site, he appears slightly weak but happy.In the latest photo,...
16:03
Sacred Games co-director Anurag Kashyap and actor Swara Bhasker have praised Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's stand on the uproar over the Netflix Original series. Amid a row over alleged use of derogatory language in the web series while referring to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul...
15:59
A farmers' organisation in Madhya Pradesh has said it will campaign against 112 legislators, who belong to various parties, for their failure to take up the issues of cultivators.Farmers would be asked to evaluate the works done by MLAs for their welfare, and cast votes tactically in the state...
15:07
Surging river water, coupled with rain and strong winds, hampered operations to trace seven people, most of them teenagers, who have gone missing after a boat capsized in the Gautami river in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, officials said today. As many as 20 teams of rescue...
14:53
Ahead of the general election in Pakistan, Facebook has disabled numerous accounts and pages of the Islamist Milli Muslim League, in a setback to the political outfit launched by Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa, according to a media report today. ...
14:24
The Left parties intend to corner the government in Parliament on incidents of lynching and communal violence in the country and press for a reply from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the coming monsoon session. As they chalk out their strategy for the session, that begins on July 18, the...
14:22
During the last five years more than 26,000 girls and women went missing from Mumbai alone, out of which 24,444 were found and 2,264 are yet to be traced, revealed the Maharashtra government data.The data was produced by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in a written reply while...
14:16
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy today said his government is struggling to carry out its routine administration because of hurdles caused by the Centre and lieutenant governor Kiran Bedi. Narayanasamy alleged that even for preparing the territorial budget...
14:14
Days after Amartya Sen lamented that India has taken a quantum jump backwards since 2014, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar today said the Nobel laureate should spend some time in the country to see the structural reforms undertaken by the Modi government. I wish Professor Amartya Sen...
13:27
Tamil superstar Rajinikanth on Sunday came out in support of the proposal to hold simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies across the country.I support One Nation One Election. This will save money and time, said the actor-turned-politician in Chennai.He also said a...
12:45
The army has distributed 17,000 solar lights among the residents of un-electrified and inaccessible hamlets in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. The initiative under 'Roshni' (light) project, the army said, was launched after it was felt that electricity was the most critical...
12:43
On a day when he crossed the 10,000-run milestone in ODIs, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was booed by the Indian supporters at the 'Home of Cricket' for his slow batting during the team's 86-run defeat against England in the second game of the three-match series on Saturday. Dhoni was...
12:07
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the opposition parties of shedding crocodile tears for farmers.Addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur, Modi said, Those who are shedding crocodile tears for farmers today should be asked why did they not see irrigation projects which were left...
11:45
Concerned over a string of lynching incidents in Maharashtra, the police have decided to launch a campaign to check the spread of rumours on social media and come up with new ways to deal with the menace.The move comes days after five people were killed in north Maharashtra's Dhule district over...
10:59
Indications that all may not be well between JD-S and Congress despite showing BJP the door in Karnataka, an emotional H D Kumaraswamy broke down at a public event as he highlighted pains of leading a coalition government.Without giving out details of possible differences with Congress,...
10:50
Mumbai is likely to face the highest tide of the season at 4.97 metres on Sunday at 1.49 pm. It is likely to be coupled with heavy rains, raising fears of waterlogging and flooding in low-lying parts of the city. In view of the forecast, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has put its...
10:20
US President Donald Trump said he intends to run for re-election in 2020 because “everybody wants me to” and there are no Democratic candidates who could defeat him.Asked by British journalist Piers Morgan in an interviewwhether he was going to run in 2020, Trump was quoted by the Mail on...
09:34
The police are trying to weaken the Hapur lynching case at the behest of the BJP and the Yogi Adityanath government, said the witness and survivor of the June 18 murder allegedly by cow vigilantes after he was discharged from a hospital on Saturday.Samiyuddin also sent his first statement...
09:05
Two Border Security Force jawans were killed and another was injured in a gunbattle with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district today, police said. The gunfight took place in a forest near Mahla camp of BSF under Partapaur police station limits when a team of BSF's 114th battalion...
08:47
Police paraded a man through the area in Bhopal where he had held a woman captive at gunpoint for more than 12 hours demanding that she marry him, as women bystanders angry over the hostage crisis assaulted him with slippers.Rohit Singh, 30, on Friday, barged into the fifth-floor apartment of the...
08:30
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam, who has been sentenced to jail along with father in connection with Avenfield property case, has refused to apply for better facilities in jail.The development comes a day after the father-daughter duo was arrested. In her, statement...
