22:53
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav with wife Dimple Yadav, Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan, Uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav and others attended a dinner party hosted for party members at Taj hotel in Lucknow.After a scare for Mayawati, the SP lawmakers who had skipped the meeting in the morning arrived...
22:39
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called Angela Merkel to congratulate her on assuming office as the Chancellor of Germany for a fourth successive term.Prime Minister Modi lauded the strong leadership provided by Chancellor Merkel to Germany, and the pivotal role played by Germany in European...
21:47
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is responding well to treatment in the United States, the Chief Minister's Office said in a statement in Panaji today.Parrikar is suffering from a pancreatic ailment and is undergoing treatment at a hospital in the United States.Further treatment on the chief...
21:23
A statue of India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was found desecrated in Shertha village of Gujarat's Gandhinagar district, the latest in a series of vandalism of statues of popular personalities across the country.According to police, some unidentified persons last night...
21:19
The NDA government today quoted former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the Supreme Court to put forth its arguments supporting the Aadhaar scheme, saying it would stop the leakage of public money.A former Prime Minister of this country (late Shri Rajiv Gandhi] has gone on record to say that out of...
20:10
Hitting out at Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for linking data mining firm Cambridge Analytica with the Congress, the party today said it was the Bharatiya Janata Party which hired the services of the controversial firm during Bihar and Gujarat elections.Congress communications incharge...
19:20
Amid reports of China opening up a new route to reach South Doklam, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi would react to the development through 'hugplomacy', by blaming the defence minister or crying in public.'In Doklam, it's China season again. How...
18:43
The Army lost 163 personnel deployed at the Siachen Glacier, the world's highest battlefield, during the last 10 years, according to details provided by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.Six officers were among the army personnel who lost their lives while guarding the glacier which is at an...
17:28
Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy today said urban intellectuals did not buy the idea of demonetisation that the government implemented in 2016, but it did go down well with a majority of rural Indians.Murthy was speaking on the government's demonetisation of high value banknotes in November...
16:27
The home ministry has conveyed to a parliamentary panel that Sikh youths are being trained at ISI facilities in Pakistan to carry out terror activities in India, and members of the community who are settled in Canada and other places are also being instigated against the country with false and...
16:09
Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has slammed author Yasser Usman for his 'unauthorised' biography on him.Dutt took to Twitter to clarify the matter and said he is planning to take legal action against the author and the publication, Juggernaut Books.The actor shared a note to put across his point and...
16:00
Market benchmark Sensex reclaimed the key 33,000 level today after spurting 139 points amid mixed global cues ahead of US Federal Reserve's policy meet outcome. Continuous capital inflows by foreign funds and covering-up of short positions by speculators too influenced sentiments here,...
15:50
State-owned Indian Oil Corp has launched home-delivery of diesel on a pilot basis in Pune and plans to expand doorstep delivery of the fuel to other parts of the country in near future, its Chairman Sanjiv Singh said today.The country's biggest oil company has mounted a diesel dispenser, similar...
15:33
Legendary British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will receive a private funeral at a church in Cambridge on March 31, his family has said.One of the world's most famous scientists, who died peacefully at his home in Cambridge aged 76 on March 14, will receive an inclusive and traditional...
15:12
WhatsApp messaging service co-founder has urged users to delete Facebook amid a massive data harvesting scandal in which information of 50 million people was leaked allegedly to influence the 2016 US presidential election.WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton left Facebook in September last year and...
15:07
India today warned social media platforms like Facebook of 'strong action' if any attempt was made by them to influence the country's electoral process through undesirable means. Amid probe by United States privacy watchdog over a potential breach of user confidentiality by Facebook, IT and...
14:34
British superbike maker Triumph Motorcycles today launched the all-new TIGER 800 XCX XR and XRX line-ups in India priced between Rs 11.76 lakh and Rs 13.76 lakh, at the Four Seasons, Mumbai. There are more than 200 upgrades to the chassis and engine, which is more responsive and...
14:30
Twenty six people have been killed and 18 others injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack near a shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.Initial reports suggest the bomber attacked a crowd of hundreds of people who had gathered to celebrate the start of Navroz, the New Year...
14:10
The Centre today sought the Supreme Court's permission to allow the CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India for a PowerPoint presentation on Aadhaar scheme in the court to allay concerns.Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hearing a number of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of...
13:24
Amid the ongoing tiff with her cricketer husband Mohammed Shami, Hasin Jahan will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on March 23, reports ANI. Jahan had earlier sought an appointment from the chief minister to meet her in person and listen to her side of the story in...
13:14
Air India has rescheduled a couple of India-bound flights from the US today due to inclement weather in north-eastern America, the airline has said in a tweet. Air India's London-Newark flights (both directions) have been cancelled along with the Newark-Ahmedabad flight. ...
12:59
A Pakistani court has upheld the death sentence of a man convicted in the brutal rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl that shook the entire nation and sparked outrage. In the first ever trial in the country's history that concluded in shortest period of four days, an anti-terrorism court...
12:49
The Enforcement Directorate has informed the Madras High Court it cannot share copies of official documents, including the case diary, to Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam leader TTV Dinakaran in connection with the 1996 FERA case filed against him. When the criminal revision petition by...
12:35
A policeman was injured in a fresh exchange of fire between militants and security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir today, an official said, a day after four militants were killed in a gun battle in the area. In the fresh exchange of fire, one policeman has been injured. He is...
12:30
The Centre seeks the Supreme Court nod to allow UIDAI CEO to give PowerPoint presentation on Aadhaar scheme in the court to allay concerns. The CJI says will fix time for PowerPoint presentation after discussing the matter with other judges of the bench. There are technical points related...
12:25
The proceedings of the Lok Sabha were disrupted for the 13th day today as the TDP, YSR Congress, TRS and AIADMK continued their noisy protests over various issues including special status for Andhra Pradesh and Cauvery dispute. Even before Speaker Sumitra Mahajan took up the Question Hour,...
11:05
Rani Mukerji on her 40th birthday recalled her journey in Bollywood and the actor said it was not an easy one as she had to prove her worth every single day. The Hichki actor has penned a letter on the occasion and thanked all the filmmakers she worked with in the past 22 years for giving her...
10:59
A petrol bomb was allegedly hurled on the car of the Bharatiya Janata Party district secretary in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore in the early hours today. The bomb was hurled by unidentified people.Police have reached the spot to investigate the matter. This incident took place a day...
10:45
Tamil Nadu: VK Sasikala reaches Thanjavur, the place where her husband Natarajan Maruthappa's mortal remains are kept for people to pay last respects. He passed away at the age of 76 due to multiple organ failure. Sasikala has been granted 15-day bail for her husband's funeral.
10:42
And this other Kashmir. Tourists visit Almond Blossom park, locally known as Badam Wae'r in Srinagar. Tourists told ANI, It is a wonderful place, urge people to come and visit this place as they will never be able to see a place like this anywhere else in India.
10:40
Jammu & Kashmir: Search operation in Kupwara's Halmatpora underway. Four terrorists were killed during an encounter last night.
10:38
The Delhi High Court will on Wednesday hear an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the acquittal of former telecom minister A Raja and others in the 2G spectrum case.The probe agency on Tuesday filed the appeal in the high court after a special CBI court in...
10:28
Extremely tragic. I think govt tried their best to find out what happened, it took a long time but it was not due to fault of govt as we all know how that area was conflict-ridden & things become tough in such situations: Nirupama Rao, former diplomat on Indians killed in Mosul. Rao served as...
10:07
Former union minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said unnecessary speculation in connection with Congress state party chiefs stepping-down one after another must be avoided.Khurshid told ANI that to jump on to any conclusion without any evidence would be unfair.We should at...
09:24
United States President Donald Trump spoke over phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on his recent re-election and the two leaders discussed the state of bilateral ties and the possibility of a meeting in the near future, the White House said.Trump congratulated...
09:18
The United States has offered its deepest condolences on the death of 39 Indian nationals abducted by Islamic State in Iraq, saying it stands with the people of India in condemning the murders. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday told Parliament in New Delhi that the 39 Indians...
08:59
Days after Congress president Rahul Gandhi's appeal to party veterans to make way for young generation, it seems senior Congress leaders have taken it too seriously. According to several media reports, Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar announced his resignation late on Tuesday.Although...
08:31
Petitions for H1-B visas, popular among Indian IT professionals, will be accepted from April 2, a federal agency announced on Tuesday.The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services also announced the suspension of premium processing of all H-1B petitions which are subject to the annual...
00:42
Legendary British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will receive a private funeral at a church in Cambridge and the final resting place for his ashes will be next to fellow scientists Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey in London, his family said today.One of the world's most...
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