23:35
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks asking first-time voters to dedicate their vote to those who carried out the Balakot air strike continue to be under the examination of the Election Commission to ascertain whether they violate its directive to political parties against using the armed...
22:51
Bharatiya Janata Party Unnao MP Sakshi Maharaj on Friday told people that if they do not vote for him, they will face divine displeasure, prompting the police to lodge an first information report against the priest-turned-politician.If you ensure my victory, I will work for you, otherwise do...
22:36
Amidst intense global pressure to rein in terror outfits, Pakistan on Friday launched guidelines for implementing the United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions targeting UN-proscribed individuals and entities in the country.The guidelines will help meet international obligations against...
21:45
Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday termed a reported letter written by over 150 military veterans to President Ram Nath Kovind a 'disgusting act by grand alliance', saying it reflected disappointment and nervousness of the Opposition.Expressing outrage over the 'use' of the armed forces...
21:29
Actor Urmila Matondkar, who is contesting as a Congress candidate from Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat against sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MP Gopal Shetty, on Friday met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leaders to discuss about her poll campaign.Matondkar met MNS's North Mumbai vice president Nayan...
20:41
Growth in industrial production over last year.
20:38
The Prime Minister's Office has called an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis in private airline Jet Airways, which is facing acute financial woes.According to sources, the meeting has been called after Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu asked the secretary of the department to review issues...
20:37
The Aam Aadmi Party is capable of defeating both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress in Delhi and an alliance is possible with the Congress only when it will be done on 33 Lok Sabha seats, said AAP leader Gopal Rai on Friday.Earlier in the day, the Congress announced that it will fight...
19:46
Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi on Friday claimed that poll strategist Prashant Kishor had met her husband Lalu Prasad with the proposal that the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United merge together and the new entity thus formed declare its 'prime ministerial...
18:45
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday hit back at the Congress over its allegations that she 'falsified records' of her educational qualifications, saying she will continue to work hard for Amethi no matter what its leaders say.Dubbing Irani a 'serial liar', the Congress also alleged that she...
18:08
Equity benchmarks closed in the green for the second straight session Friday as investors looked forward to the earnings season with measured optimism amid an uncertain global growth environment. After rising over 200 points intra-day, the 30-share BSE Sensex finally settled 160.10 points,...
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Attacking Congress over its poll promise of repealing the sedition law if elected to power in the Lok Sabha election, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Friday said here that the BJP government would make the law even more stringent. He was speaking at a gathering in Gandhidham city of Kutch...
17:34
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has paid tributes to director Colonel Raj Kumar Kapoor, the man who gave the actor his first break on television in Fauji. The family of Kapoor announced on Thursday that the veteran director died earlier this week. His last rites were performed at Lodhi...
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In a scathing attack on the Congress-JDS government in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday dubbed it as a 20 per cent commission government. Addressing a rally in Gangavathi in north Karnataka, Modi said the Congress-JDS coalition's only mission is commission, attacking it on the...
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The Delhi High Court Friday directed the CBI to file a timeline of events relating to the ongoing investigation in a bribery case involving the agency's former special director Rakesh Asthana and the need for sending Letters Rogatory (LRs) to various countries. The court questioned the CBI...
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Goa Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai has said late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's son Utpal is the right person to carry forward his fathers legacy in the Panaji assembly constituency. The Panaji assembly constituency was represented by Manohar Parrikar for long and a bypoll is being held...
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Three civilians, including two women, were injured Friday when Pakistani troops targeted forward posts and civilian areas with mortars and small arms firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, drawing strong retaliation from the Indian Army. With Pakistan...
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Union minister Smriti Irani plays the victim card after the Congress mocked her for lying about her educational qualifications in the affidavit filed during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls where she said she was a graduate. In the affidavit filed yesterday, Irani wrote she was not a graduate. In the...
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The Supreme Court Friday agreed to hear on April 15 a plea challenging the Election Commission's ban on the release of a biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi till the general election is over. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it will hear the plea filed by the biopic's...
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An estimated 83.79 per cent of 34.52 lakh voters exercised their franchise in Cooch Behar and Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituencies in the first phase of polls in the state, an election department official said Friday. In Cooch Behar (SC), 83.88 per cent electorate cast their votes till 6 pm...
12:57
Curiouser and curiouser! Two of the 156 veterans, who are signatories to a letter sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan expressing concern on the politicisation of the armed forces, say they have not signed the letter. General SF Rodrigues who is mentioned as the first signatory in the...
12:29
Fifteen candidates, including Kanhaiya Kumar, the Aam Aatish Party's Atishi, a widow of a farmer who committed suicide and a transgender activist, are raising campaign funds through a crowd-sourcing platform, Our Democracy.Helmed by Anand Mangnale and Bilal Zaidi, Our Democracy aims at...
12:14
Rashtrapati Bhavan denies receiving any letter written by armed forces veterans to the President which is circulating in the media. A group of retired officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force has written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, urging him to urgently direct all political...
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The opposition doesn't disappoint. Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturdevi on Union minister Smriti Irani's affidavit submitted to the Election Commission that she did not complete her graduation from Delhi University. Smriti Irani is the BJP candidate from the Amethi Lok Sabha...
10:58
The Supreme Court on Friday refused any interim stay on the electoral bond scheme and directed all parties to submit details of political funding to the Election Commission in sealed covers.The court's interim order, asked political parties to give details of donors who donated through electoral...
10:44
A 100 Indian fishermen held in Pakistani jails arrived on Thursday after being released through Attari-Wagah border earlier this week. These fishermen are from the state's Veraval region and were caught by Pakistan coast guard for crossing the international sea borders. They were kept in Karachi...
10:37
In an unprecedented move, over 150 veterans of the Indian armed forces, have written a letter to the President Ram Nath Kovind complaining about the manner in which the ruling party has taken credit for cross-border military ops and the claim that armed forces are 'Modiji ki Sena' The...
09:57
Case registered against 11 people including 4 BJP leaders for taking selfies inside the polling booth yesterday. Details awaited on the leaders, but it's clearly a page out of their leader's notebook.Remember in 2014, Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat CM landed himself in a soup by displaying the...
09:24
Union minister Rajnath Singh will file his nomination from Lucknow today. He will also hold a roadshow after filing his nomination. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address three mega rallies today in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. Congress president Rahul Gandhi will also hold a...
09:14
Pakistan violates ceasefire at Sawjian sector in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
09:04
Making history of sorts, polling in some booths in Andhra Pradesh continued till midnight on Thursday as the total voter turnout reached nearly 80 per cent, capping hours of tension and clashes that left two dead and scores of others injured.The polling concluded around midnight in some polling...
08:32
US President Donald Trump has said he is considering a potential third nuclear summit with North Korea's leader. We will be discussing that and potential meetings, further meetings with North Korea and Kim Jong Un, Trump said in the Oval Office at the start of talks with South Korean...
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The Supreme Court will today deliver its verdict on a plea challenging the validity of electoral bonds. The plea, filed by an NGO, has sought that either the issuance of electoral bonds be stayed or the names of donors be made public to ensure transparency in the poll process.During...
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Seeking to assuage concerns over the orbital debris created by India's A-SAT test, Defence and Research Development Organisation chairman G Satheesh Reddy on Thursday again assured that the mission was planned in a way that the resulting fragments will decay in a few weeks and there was no threat...
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