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The National Investigation Agency has registered a case against eight Kerala men the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for allegedly sympathising with banned terror group Islamic State, a senior official said today.The NIA took over the case from the Kerala police which had last year...
23:05
Union minister Nitin Gadkari today met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Pune, a source said, a day after the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party suffered setbacks in Lok Sabha and assembly bypolls held across 11 states.The source in Gadkari's office confirmed that the minister met...
21:54
Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman today strongly refuted allegations of kickbacks to officials in the defence ministry and the Indian Air Force in a deal with Ukraine for An-32 aircraft spares.The Congress had recently demanded action against 'corrupt' officials after a media report said...
21:22
terrorists carried out two grenade attacks today in Anantnag and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir, including at the residence of ruling Peoples' Democratic Party MLA Mushtaq Shah, leaving six persons injured.Terrorists lobbed a grenade towards the residence of Tral MLA Mushtaq Shah in...
20:39
Signs of changing political equations are visible but it is too early to predict if the opposition unity against the Bharatiya Janata Party would sustain till next year's Lok Sabha polls, senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel said today.Patel stated this a day after the BJP faced...
19:18
Asia and the world will have a better future when India and China will work together with trust and confidence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today, over a month after his first informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.In his keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore,...
18:49
Former Union minister P Chidambaram has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation on June 6 in the INX Media corruption case.Yesterday, the Delhi high court had granted Chidambaram interim protection from arrest till July 3.Chidambaram's role has come under the scanner of investigating...
18:01
A massive fire has broken out at Scindia House office building near south Mumbai's Ballard Estate Area. According to officials, the fire has been designated at Level-2 and five fire tenders have been rushed to the spot. No casualties have been reported so far.
17:51
The Congress and Janata Dal-Secular will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha polls together as a pre-poll alliance, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal announced today after the two parties reached an agreement on Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's cabinet. The Congress has ceded the crucial...
17:19
Sharing specific information with the income tax department about any benami transaction or property could earn you up to Rs 1 crore, while the same for undisclosed black money stashed abroad could fetch up to Rs 5 crore.Besides, the 'Income Tax Informants Reward Scheme' has also been amended...
16:35
A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA today blamed the ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government for the party's humiliation in Uttar Pradesh bypolls, while another dejected lawmaker resorted to poetry. Surendra Singh, BJP MLA from Bairia constituency (Ballia district), said if certain...
16:24
Terrorists today hurled a grenade at People's Democratic Party MLA Mushtaq Shah's residence in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said. No one was injured in the attack, they said. Shah, who represents Tral, is a legislator of the PDP which has a coalition government...
16:02
Arbaaz Khan has reportedly been summoned by the Thane police for questioning in regards to a betting probe into the Indian Premier League, according to a TV report.His name cropped up during the investigation of high profile bookie Sonu Jalan. Arbaaz has been asked to record his statement by the...
15:58
Curfew was imposed in 11 localities of the Meghalaya capital this morning following a clash between a group of bus drivers and residents of Them Metor area, a senior district official said. The curfew was imposed at 4 am today and will remain in force till further orders, East Khasi Hills...
15:25
Karnataka's newly appointed Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday said both the Congress party and Janata Dal-Secular will share the portfolios equally.Leaders from both the parties, through mutual understanding, agreed on everything regarding portfolio allocation, Kumaraswamy said, adding,...
15:06
Several staffers, including nurses and four doctors, of a hospital in Balussery have been asked to go on leave from today as a precautionary measure after the death of two people being treated for Nipah virus, officials said. The virus has so far claimed 16 lives in Kerala's northern...
14:45
Twitterati are praising renowned Pakistani educational activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai over her epic reply to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. It all began when a satirical website called Clickhole, published a piece with the headline More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into...
14:30
Prime Minister Narendra Modis government will review plans to sell Air India after his administrations most high-profile privatisation offer ended in a whimper with no buyers showing interest in the unprofitable flag carrier.The government will make changes to the plan, if needed, economic...
14:06
JUST IN: Spain PM Mariano Rajoy admits defeat ahead of no-confidence vote
14:05
Uttar Pradeshs Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said on Friday the advance medical procedure of test tube baby existed during the period of Ramayana, a day after equating the mythological character of Narada to Google.People say Sita ji was born from an earthen pot, which means at the time of...
13:45
Two-month-old Christian Harris just got to meet some very special people: the soldiers who served alongside her late father.Army Specialist Christopher M Harris died in August, just one week after his wife, Britt Harris, told him she was pregnant. He was serving in Afghanistan when his wife...
13:31
The Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks has shot itself in the foot yet again. The latest blooper comes in the Class 12 Sanskrit textbook, which says Sita was abducted by Lord Ram.The error appears in a paragraph describing poet Kalidas' 'Raghuvansham'. The offending line on Page 106 of the...
12:52
The Madras high court on Friday directed the Tamil Nadu government to explain the circumstances in which police opened fire during protests in the southern port city of Tuticorin, killing 13 people.Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami's administration needs to reply by next Wednesday -- June...
12:35
JUST IN: Lieutenant General Devraj Anbu takes over as Vice Chief of Army Staff & Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh takes over as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command.
12:22
A special National Investigation Agency court has sentenced all accused in the 2013 Bodh Gaya blasts to life imprisonment. On May 25, the NIA court had convicted five Indian Mujahideen terrorists in the case. The world-renowned Buddhist pilgrim town of Bodh Gaya was rocked by a series...
12:16
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad on Friday arrested a terrorist identified as Ahmed Lambu from Gujarat's Navsari-Valsad coastal area, who was allegedly involved on 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case.The Central Bureau of Investigation and Interpol had earlier circulated a lookout notice against...
11:58
A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party performed poorly in the bypoll elections, including its lost in Kairana, Uttar Pradesh, a BJP MLA has attacked the Yogi-led government, highlighting its poor performance. Shyam Prakash, a BJP MLA, said, Officers are corrupt. Farmers aren't happy with...
11:26
Farmers unions across Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab launched a mega 10-day protest on Friday morning, shutting down supply of milk, vegetables and essential farm produce to mark the first anniversary of the Mandsaur demonstration in MP in which six farmers were killed in police...
10:58
Highlights from PM Modi's joint statement with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong.>> I express my gratitude to PM Lee, he has always made untiring efforts towards strengthening relations with India>> We have been able to conclude successfully the second review of...
10:47
Pakistan's interior ministry has asked for the suspension of former President Pervez Musharraf's computerised national identity card and passport, a media report said on Friday.In compliance with the order of a special court, the ministry on Thursday asked the National Database and Registration...
10:18
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong and discussed bilateral ties. Modi, who arrived in Singapore on a three-day visit, also called on Singapore President Halimah Yacob. After his arrival at the presidential palace Istana, he was accorded a...
10:01
A Vogue cover photo of a Saudi princess behind the wheel of a red convertible has a ignited a heated debate following a string of arrests of womens rights activists.The image of Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah al-Saud in the drivers seat wearing leather gloves and high heels is on the front cover of...
09:53
Terrorists fired upon a bunker vehicle of the 183 CRPF battalion while it was on its way to Idgah in Pulwama. No casualty reported, area being cordoned off by CRPF and police.
09:34
Security forces in Jammu-Kashmir have been put on a high alert following reports of large scale infiltration of terrorists in the Valley from across the Line of Control, officials said today. There are reports of infiltration of over 20 terrorists into Kashmir from...
09:30
Congress and JD-S are likely to announce a power-sharing deal for their coalition government in Karnataka on Friday, with unambiguous reiteration that H D Kumaraswamy will be chief minister for the full term and the two parties will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls together.Contrary to...
09:06
Karthik Nemmani, 14, of McKinney, Texas was named the 91st Scripps National Spelling Bee champion in the United States after correctly spelling koinonia. He defeated the Bee's largest ever pool of competitors after 515 spellers took the national stage beginning Tuesday for three days of...
08:34
Prices for petrol and diesel have fallen by 6 paise and 5 paise per litre respectively on Friday.In Delhi, petrol now costs Rs 78.29 per litre, while diesel price has been revised to Rs 69.20 a litre.Besides Delhi, the revised Petrol prices in other metro cities are - Rs 80.92 in Kolkata, Rs...
07:50
Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked all the parties to draw lessons from victories and defeats, as he congratulated the winners of the bypoll results in various states. Congratulations to all the winners in the by polls, across India. Valuable lessons to be learnt from the victories...
00:24
North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol, who is in New York to hold talks with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, would deliver a special letter from his leader Kim Jong Un to President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.'We're doing very well with North Korea. Our Secretary of State...
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