23:41
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday approved a financial relief of Rs 2 lakh for the family of each deceased in the Amritsar train accident and Rs 50,000 for the injured, a spokesperson said. 58 people were killed and 72 injured Friday evening after a crowd of Dussehra revellers, who had...
23:17
All services on Jalandhar-Amritsar route remained suspended three hours after Dussehra revellers standing across railway tracks were mowed down by a train near Amritsar Friday evening, a railway official said. While some trains are being diverted, many are stationed near Jalandhar, he...
22:55
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday ordered an inquiry into the tragic Amritsar train accident in which at least 58 people were killed and 72 injured and declared one-day mourning in the state on Saturday. The chief minister, who was scheduled to leave for Israel this...
22:29
The railways has issued helpline numbers for the kin of those injured and dead in Amritsar train accident on Friday, officials said. At least 52 people were killed and 72 others after a crowd of Dussehra revellers that had spilled onto railway tracks while watching burning of Ravana...
22:01
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal cancels all engagements in US, immediately returning back to India, PTI reports.
21:56
Extremely sad news coming about a major train accident near Amritsar I appeal to all our volunteers in the area to help authorities in the relief work and provide whatever help we can in this moment of crisis, tweets Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...
21:48
Amritsar train accident: Railways issues helpline numbers: 0183-2223171, 0183-2564485.
21:46
Congress leader and Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu was the chief guest at the Ravana effigy burning event where a train ran over 50 people. According to an eyewitness, Sidhu's wife was the chief guest at this particular event and she continued to give the...
21:08
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that the railways is conducting immediate relief, rescue ops.Shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic train incident that occurred in #Amritsar. My heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims. I pray for the injured to recover quickly. Railways is...
21:06
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi asks state government, party workers to provide immediate relief at Amritsar train accident site.The train accident in Punjab in which over 50 people have died is shocking. I urge the state government & Congress workers to provide immediate relief at the accident...
20:55
Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh has announced Rs 5 lakh to kin of each deceased and free treatment to injured in government and private hospitals.Rushing to Amritsar to personally supervise relief & rescue in tragic rail accident on Dussehra in Amritsar. My govt will give Rs 5...
20:49
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses his condolences on the Amritsar train accident.Extremely saddened by the train accident in Amritsar. The tragedy is heart-wrenching. My deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their loved ones and I pray that the injured recover quickly. Have...
20:36
Home Minister Rajanth Singh on train accident.Pained beyond words at the loss of precious lives due to a train tragedy during Dussehra festivities in Punjab. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased and prayers with the injured. I spoke to Home Secretary of Punjab and DGP of the state...
20:18
Over 50 people were killed on Friday evening after a crowd of Dussehra revellers that had spilled onto railway tracks while watching burning of Ravana effigy was run over by a train near Amritsar in Punjab, officials said. There are more than 50 casualties. We are evacuating people, injured...
20:03
Several people were feared dead as train travelling to Amritsar from Pathankot ran over a group of people watching Dusshera celebrations in Amritsar. According to reports, over a dozen people have been killed in the accident.More details are awaited.Representative image
19:52
Districts along the Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh have been put on high alert for possible flash floods after China informed India about a landslide blocking a river in Tibet leading to formation of an artificial lake, officials said on Friday. A senior official of the Union...
19:14
Swami Paripoornananda, founder of Hindu Vahini, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party Friday, with party president Amit Shah expressing confidence that the addition will boost his party's prospects in the Telangana assembly election. Shah said Paripoornananda has made a big contribution in the...
19:07
The Southwest Monsoon will most likely withdraw completely from the country on October 20, the India Meteorological Department said Friday. The Southwest Monsoon officially starts on June 1 and ends on September 30. Its withdrawal starts from western Rajasthan from September 1.The official...
18:24
Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi fires the arrow to burn the effigy of Ravana during Dusherra celebrations at Ramlila Maidan.
18:15
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi take part in Dusshera celebrations at Delhi's Ramlila maidan.
17:55
Ramesh Chennithala, the leader of opposition in Kerala Assembly, has blamed Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led government in the state for failing to assess the situation that led to the row around women's entry in Sabarimala Temple.Chennithala said that it was the state government's duty...
17:29
The Kerala Devaswom Board has decided to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the court's verdict allowing entry of women of all ages to the Sabarimala temple. The Board President A Padmakumar requested all stakeholders for a meeting saying the situation was serious and that the...
16:31
The opposition Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday hit out at the Left government in Kerala for allegedly extending support to bring women activists to Sabarimala temple, hurting the sentiments of devotees.They also alleged the police gave one of the women, who climbed to the hill...
16:05
Union Ministry of Home Affairs through a letter sent on October 16 to Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of three southern states -- Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka -- had made it clear that there might be law and order situation in Sabarimala Shrine and surrounding areas in...
15:53
Sushant Singh Rajput has denied sexual misconduct allegations levelled against him in a report which states the actor behaved inappropriately with Kizie Aur Manny co-star Sanjana Sanghi. In the report, which started doing the rounds on social media Thursday, the actor was accused of harassing...
15:27
The mortal remains of Congress veteran Narayan Dutt Tiwari will be brought to Lucknow on Saturday for people to pay their last respects to the departed leader. Tiwari, 93, died at a private hospital in Delhi on Thursday after prolonged illness. The body of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister...
14:54
The BSE benchmark Sensex tumbled 540 points and the broader Nifty slipped below the 10,300-mark in late afternoon trade Friday following heavy selling in blue chip Reliance Industries as well as financial stocks. The 30-share Sensex, opened Friday distinctly weak at 34,563.29 and continued to...
14:46
Anirban Blah, the co-founder of Kwan Entertainment, one of the biggest celebrity management agencies in India, was rescued in the early hours Friday by the Vashi Traffic police in suburban Mumbai after they found attempted suicide, reports the Hindu. The incident happened at around 12.30 am when...
14:26
Burning effigies of Ravana is a common practice on Dussehra, but some harassed husbands celebrated the festival in Aurangabad in a slightly different way - by burning an effigy of Surpanakha, sister of the mythical multi-headed demon king. These men -- members of 'Patni Pidit Purush Sanghatana',...
14:19
A Pakistani-origin radical Islamist preacher was freed from a UK jail on Friday after serving less than half of his five-and-a-half-year sentence for inviting support to the Islamic State terror group. Anjem Choudary, 51, was released for his reported good behaviour under very strict licence...
13:59
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met her US counterpart James Mattis on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus in Singapore today.
13:54
Corporation shows off room of engineers, data scientists and other experts but offers reporters few new specifics. Read more
13:43
Interesting trivia: There's a Ravan Temple in Kanpur. The temple priest says, It is believed that today is the birth as well as the death anniversary of Ravan. We open this temple only for a day; it is will be locked in the evening after we burn an effigy of Ravan.
13:27
Journalist Kavitha Jakkal (in picture) and activist Rehana Fatima returned to Pamba under police protection. Kavitha thanked everyone for supporting them. We are feeling proud to come here. You have seen what dangerous situation we faced, she said commenting on their decision to turn back. Woman...
13:11
Shares of Reliance Industries Friday slumped 7 per cent despite the company reporting its highest ever quarterly net profit in the July-September quarter. The stock opened lower and declined further by 6.59 per cent to Rs 1,073.15 on BSE. At NSE, shares of the company dived 7 per cent to Rs...
12:49
Another image of the vandalism at the Kochi house of activist/devotee Rehana Fatima.
12:45
Update: Images of the house of woman activist/devotee Rehana Fatima in Kochi vandalised by unidentified miscreants earlier today. She had gone up to the Sabarimala Temple this morning under police protection but was forced to turn back midway after a meeting with Kerala IG and devotees. The...
12:25
On Wednesday, Samajwadi Secular Morcha chief and Akhilesh Yadav's uncle Shivpal Yadav moved into the bungalow vacated by former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati. He reached the bungalow with his supporters and entered it after performing a havan to mark Durga ashtami. The move did not go...
12:21
Bihar's pre-poll poster wars are the stuff of legends. Some posters emerged earlier this week showing Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav as Lord Rama and Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar as the 10-headed demon Ravana. The posters, put up near...
12:19
In poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, the BJP ropes in magicians, jugglers to boost campaign. The BJP is known for the extensive use of new technology and social tools in its election campaigns. But in Madhya Pradesh, it seems to be relying on the traditional methods of entertainment and publicity to...
12:12
A woman named Mary Sweety on her way to Sabarimala is forced to turn back at Pamba. She has police protection and she has currently been taken to a police control room. She says she believes Ayyappa and wants to see him. I don't know about them ((journalist Kavitha Jakkal & woman activist...
12:02
Kerala IG S Sreejith on the Sabarimala disaster: We had brought them ((journalist Kavitha Jakkal and woman activist Rehana Fatima) till the temple premises but the tantri and priest refused to open the temple for them. While we were waiting, the tantri informed me that if we attempt to take the...
11:45
Three unidentified terrorists were killed in a failed infiltration bid along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, a defence spokesman said Friday. The Army Thursday foiled the infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Uri sector of Baramulla district, the spokesman said....
11:38
The rupee recovered from early losses to trade higher by 19 paise at 73.42 against the US currency in late morning session Friday on fresh dollar selling by exporters amid easing crude oil prices and a weakening greenback.Dealers said the Reserve Bank of India's steps to ease liquidity concerns...
11:24
Reports coming that the house of the women devotee, whose identity the police have not divulged, has been trashed. To bring you up to speed, two women, -- one a journalist and the other an activist and devotee -- have decided to turn back from the Sabarimala shrine -- after the priests threatened...
10:56
So, history will not be made.The two women attempting to enter the Sabarimala shrine on Day 3 after the temple opened for prayers, have decided to return. This comes after the Sabarimala priests said prayers will not be offered and the temple will be closed if the women enter. The women then said...
10:50
Amid mounting pressure, Devaswom Minster Kadakampally Surendran said in Thiruvananthapuram the activists should not try to make holy land of Lord Ayyappa a place to prove their strength. Police is holding discussions with the women who they should reach the shrine. Devotees, who have come to...
10:38
Pathanamthitta: Woman activist and devotee Rehana Fatima (in the picture) and journalist Kavitha Jakkal of Hyderabad based Mojo TV have been taken to an office where they have been called by Inspector General S Sreejith for a meeting. Devotees are also believed to be at the meeting. Kavitha has...
10:33
Subramanian Swamy on the Sabarimala issue: The denial of admission of women in menstruation period in Sabarimalai was not twisted to their being unclean' and that instead it was to protect the women from mutation from gravitational matrix of the Temple location then such women would have...
10:07
This is why there are 100 cops escorting the two women to Sabarimala. IG Sreejith has said that he will personally ensure the women reach the temple and make their way back to the base safely. A barricade of devotees block their path as they make their way up.
09:51
Journalist Kavitha Jakkal of the Hyderabad-based Mojo TV and woman activist and devoteee Rehana Fatima are en route to the Sabarimala temple, escorted by a posse of 100 cops. The women are now very near the temple.Their attempt to reach the shrine came a day after a New Delhi-based woman...
09:17
Ashish Pandey, the son of a former Bahujan Samaj Party MP who has been accused of brandishing a pistol and threatening the guests at a five-star hotel in New Delhi, told the police on Thursday that he was instigated by a woman, who had shown him the 'middle finger', after which he had got the...
08:24
A woman reporter from Hyderabad began trekking to Sabarimala hill on Friday, a day after a New Delhi-based reporter of a foreign media outlet made a failed bid to visit the shrine.Police have thrown a security ring around the woman who had requested security to go to Sabarimala Sannidhanam to...
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