21:07
Most Facebook users in the United States remain loyal, despite the recent data sharing scandal involving a political consultancy firm, a poll suggests.Facebook admitted last month that the data of 87 million users had been improperly shared with the UK-based firm, Cambridge Analytica.The...
20:32
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from police custody early Sunday, a day after hundreds of people were detained following an anti-government protest in Moscow.Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, organised the rallies in several cities across Russia on...
20:08
A man in Karnataka's Raichur has tattooed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face on his back to show his support to the prime minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party during the ongoing election campaigning in the district.The elated man, Basvaraj, said he got the tattoo done as a sign of...
19:45
The Supreme Court is likely to hear tomorrow the Kathua gangrape-and-murder case along with the petitions seeking shifting of the trial to Chandigarh and handing over the investigation to the CBI. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, which had stayed the trial in the...
19:36
JUST IN: Pakistan interior minister Ahsan Iqbal injured after being shot during rally
19:26
Bollywood star Salman Khan today is in Jaipur for the hearing of his application before a sessions judge challenging the trial court order sentencing him to a five-year jail term in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case. The application is listed for hearing tomorrow before Jodhpur District...
19:07
While the BJP continued to launch its tirade against the Congress ahead of next week’s Karnataka Assembly elections, the latter decided to shift its focus to one of BJP ministers whose “imagination is running riot”. On the occasion of World Laughter Day, the Congress on Sunday took potshots...
18:33
With the Lok Sabha elections scheduled to take place next year, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Ballia Surendra Singh equated Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the leader of the Pandavas in the political 'dharamyuddh'.Singh said that Prime Minister Modi would play the leader of the Pandavas,...
18:15
Mukesh Ambani's daughter Isha will wed Ajay Piramal's son Anand in December, sources said. Isha is the twin sister of Akash who was recently engaged to Shloka Mehta, daughter of diamantaire Russel Mehta. Their wedding too is planned for December. ...
17:51
Just providing jobs and ensuring development is not the solution that will end violence and alienation in Kashmir, former chief minister Omar Abdullah said today referring to the killing in an encounter of an assistant professor who allegedly had joined terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.“Sadly...
17:20
Members of the Gujjar community in Rajasthan today decided to revive their agitation from May 15 to press for their demand of five per cent reservation from within OBC quota. The spokesperson of Gujjar Sangharsh Samiti, Himmat Singh, said that the decision was taken at a meeting in...
17:03
Wading into the Jinnah row, Union minister V K Singh today said those Muslims, who supported the presence of Pakistan founder's portrait in the Aligarh Muslim University, were insulting their forefathers, who had rejected his ideology. They are Indians today because of their forefathers,...
16:43
ahul Gandhi's Twitter outreach has played a key role in changing perceptions about him, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said urging the party chief to maintain his unique communication with the people and to ignore trolls and troglodytes.Tharoor, who was recently edged out by Gandhi as...
16:25
The superhero mashup movie Avengers: Infinity War has minted over $1 billion worldwide, setting the record for the fastest film to reach the milestone.The film, which released on April 27, went past $1 billion mark on Saturday, reports Variety.'Avengers: Infinity War' brings together 22...
15:36
JUST IN: Six Indians abducted in Afghanistan's Baghlan, reports TOLO News
15:23
The Pakistani military leadership led by Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa is reaching out to India because it has realised that the way to peace and prosperity is through military cooperation with New Delhi, a Pakistani analyst has said in a British think-tank commentary. The...
14:56
More than five women were raped every day in the national capital in the first three and a half months this year, according to the Delhi Police statistics.The police claimed that in 96.63 per cent of the rape cases reported last year, the accused was known to the victim.According to the data, 578...
14:27
A year after a massive farmers' agitation roiled western Madhya Pradesh with six people getting killed in police firing in Mandsaur, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is bracing up for a fresh stir.It could be all the more challenging for the BJP government to handle, as assembly elections are...
14:09
Dalits need affirmative action and not token lunches with ministers, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah pointed out in a scathing tweet a week ahead of the bitterly fought assembly elections in the state. His target, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is campaigning in Chitradurga district, one...
13:41
The Congress would emerge as the number one party in the Karnataka assembly elections, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said today, taking a swipe at the BJP for mobilising the entire central machinery for state campaigns.He also said the understanding between the BJP and his party for the upcoming...
13:19
The board of ICICI Bank, which will meet on Monday for approving the annual earnings of 2017-18, may see some discussion on the allegations of conflict of interest against the lender’s CEO Chanda Kochhar, sources said.There are series of allegations of impropriety in ICICI Bank extending loans...
13:02
The Press Council of India has rubbished the recently released Press Freedom Index, in which India slipped two places to rank 138th among 180 countries, saying there was a lack of clarity on the inputs that weighed in the rankings which were based on opinion or perception. Published...
12:46
A Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Madhya Pradesh believes that late marriages are the reason behind love jihad and has advised parents to marry off their daughters on time.Gopal Parmar, lawmaker from Agar Malwa, explains that earlier when the elders of the family fixed marriages in...
12:29
Breaking his silence on the rise in incidents of right-wing groups preventing Muslims from offering namaz in open spaces in Gurugram, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said such congregations should be restricted to mosques or Idgahs rather than public areas. The CM,...
12:03
No one is immune to fake news, not even Shashi Tharoor. The Congress MP tweeted early on Sunday that he might have been “taken in by fake news” when he shared a news article on former RBI chief Raghuram Rajan being appointed as the head of Bank of England.Tharoor had tweeted on Saturday night...
11:40
After addressing four rallies yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is out on the campaign in Karnataka today, addressing another four rallies. Here are the highlights from the Chitradurga rally:>> Look at the Congress -- leaders, they do not know, whom they should remember and...
11:25
JUST IN: Four terrorists killed in encounter with security forces in Kashmir's Shopian district, says army
11:11
France is sternly rejecting US President Donald Trump's argument that if Parisians had more guns they could have stopped the deadly 2015 extremist attacks on the French capital. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian expressed his firm disapproval of Trump's remarks and vigorously...
11:04
Big wilful defaulters owed Rs 15,171.91 crore in loans to Punjab National Bank at the end of March this year.The data from the bank relates to those wilful defaulters who have taken loans of Rs 25 lakh and above but did not repay despite the ability to do so.The liability on such defaulters rose...
10:26
A Border Security Force jawan allegedly shot dead three colleagues with his service weapon before committing suicide today at a border outpost at Maguruli in Unakoti district, about 180 km from Agartala, police said.S P (Special branch), Shankar Debnath said the BSF jawan opened fire on three...
09:28
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday will address four rallies in Karnataka ahead of the upcoming state legislative assembly elections.In the last leg of his campaigning for May 12 polls.The PM will visit Karnataka's Chitradurga, Raichur, Jama Khandi and Hubli area.Apart...
08:57
An encounter broke out today between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police said.Two security personnel have sustained injuries in the ongoing encounter.Acting on specific information about the presence of militants in Badigam village in Zainapora area of...
08:21
Sanjeeb Mukherjee/Business Standard reports:Another thunderstorm, days after a big one killed more than 100 people across North India, might strike around May 7-8, the weatherman said.It could be accompanied by wind speeds of around 90 km per hour.The India Meteorological Department, in an update...
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