23:49
A 40-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly spreading rumours that created panic among people in Jammu, a senior police officer said.Yashbir Singh alias 'Badshah' alias 'Don', a resident of Khour, was arrested on the basis of investigation into the widespread rumours in the city on...
22:44
Veteran music composer, Mohammed Zahur 'Khayyam' Hashmi, passed away at a hospital in Mumbai. -- ANI
22:09
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the government is considering suggestions to build a new Parliament building or to improve and modernise facilities at the existing complex.After inaugurating 36 duplex flats for members of Parliament at North Avenue in New Delhi, Modi made the remark...
21:51
India has conveyed its concerns to the United Kingdom over incidents of violence during a protest by Pakistani supporters outside the Indian High Commission in London on Independence Day, government sources said on Monday.Violent clashes took place outside the Indian High Commission when...
21:06
A landslide on the route to Kailash-Mansarovar prompted the district administration to call back a 56-member batch of pilgrims to Dharchula the base camp for safety reasons in Pithoragarh on Monday.The 17th batch of pilgrims has been called back from Lamari, which was hit by a landslide following...
20:31
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation today with United States President Donald Trump, a release by Prime Minister's Office said.'Their 30-minute conversation covered bilateral and regional matters and was marked by the warmth and cordiality,' it said. Referring to their...
20:12
After the re-opening of primary schools, the government of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to re-open all middle-level schools across the Valley from Wednesday.Syed Sehrish Asgar, Director of Information and Public Relations of Jammu and Kashmir, said that there has been no major law and order...
19:34
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Monday.He was declared elected unopposed as the deadline for the withdrawal of nominations for the bypoll ended at 3 pm.Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot congratulated Singh on his election to the Upper...
18:29
Shah Faesal, a former bureaucrat has moved a habeas corpus plea in Delhi high court challenging his recent detention at Delhi airport.Court has sought response from Centre and fixed August 23 as the next date of hearing.More details awaited. -- ANI
18:12
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned former finance minister P Chidambaram in connection with its money-laundering probe in an alleged aviation scam during the United Progressive Alliance dispensation, officials said on Monday.They said the senior Congress leader has been asked to depose on...
17:36
Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa's tenure has been extended for another three years, reports in Pakistani media say.'General Qamar Javed Bajwa is appointed Chief of Army Staff for another term of three years from the date of completion of current tenure,' Dawn News quoted the brief...
17:32
Two bike-borne men allegedly snatched the mobile phone of Solicitor General of India Tuhsar Mehta's wife in front of the FICCI auditorium in Mandi House, police said on Monday.In a complaint registered with the police, Aparna Mehta said the incident occurred around 8.30 pm on Sunday while she was...
17:24
President Donald Trump has said the US' ties with Pakistan have improved after he cut USD 1.3 billion in security assistance to Islamabad for not doing enough to rein in terror groups operating in the country. President Trump announced last year that the USD 1.3 billion aid to Pakistan would...
17:03
Task force headed by Akhilesh Ranjan, Member of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), submitted its Direct tax code report to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today. New direct tax code will replace the existing income tax act of 1961.
16:55
Swedish home furnishings major Ikea on Monday said it has launched its online store in the city offering more than 7,500 products. It said the online store is part of its new multichannel approach to reach 100 million customers in the next three years. Mumbai will see a multichannel offer...
16:50
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis says the state is open to hosting an investment summit for Jammu & Kashmir.
16:47
Equity benchmark indices ended in the green on Monday but last hour selling pressure erased all intra-day gains.The BSE S&P Sensex closed 52 points higher at 37,402 while the Nifty 50 was up by six points to 11,054.At the National Stock Exchange, sectoral indices were mixed with IT, media,...
16:32
Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis says he will request Finance minister Nirmala Sitharman to extend the deadline for filling income tax and GST returns.
16:26
Congress MLA Nirmala Gavit is set to join the ruling Shiv Sena on Tuesday, according to a close aide. Gavit, daughter of veteran Congress parliamentarian Manikrao Gavit, has been representing Igatpuri Assembly segment in Nashik district for over a decade. She will meet Sena chief Uddhav...
16:11
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on bilateral visits to France, UAE, and Bahrain and will also attend the G7 summit in Biarritz, France from 22nd to 26th August, the Ministry of External Affairs said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on state visit to UAE on 23-24 August 2019. He...
16:02
Singer Mika Singh on Monday got some relief after the Federation of Western India Cine Employees president BN Tiwari accepted his demand for some time to clarify his stand on his performance in Pakistan.The singer shared a video on his Twitter handle where the FWICE president is speaking about...
15:58
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Monday. He was declared elected unopposed as the deadline for the withdrawal of nominations for the bypoll ended. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot congratulated Singh on his election to...
15:55
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday held a meeting with senior intelligence officials in which National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba were also present to review the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.This comes after Doval returned to Delhi after a 10-day visit to...
15:26
The Central government has prepared a detailed action plan, that includes modernising the sewerage system and facilitate mechanical cleaning, to prevent human entry into sewers and septic tanks, Union minister Thawar Chand Gehlot said on Monday. Speaking at a national...
15:23
Hitting out at the Centre over restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370 was scrapped, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Gulam Nabi Azad on Monday demanded that the government release the detained political leaders and restore normalcy in the region.In 22 districts, there is curfew a...
14:59
Hundreds of submerged sugarcane farms, damaged houses with only sludge inside, decomposed animal carcasses lying around with people struggling to clean their dwellings to get on with life - this is the scene in several flood-ravaged villages of Sangli and Kolhapur. Heavy rains and floods...
14:44
The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing on a plea filed by Facebook seeking transfer to it the petitions pending before different high courts, demanding to interlink of Aadhar database with social media profiles for identity authentication.Several petitions are pending before Madras, Bombay...
14:08
Pakistan's efforts to link Kashmir with the US-led peace process in Afghanistan was reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible, Kabul has asserted as it also slammed Islamabad's sinister intention to prolong the violence in the country. Pakistan might redeploy troops from the Afghanistan border...
13:54
As former finance minister Arun Jaitley continues to be on life support, politicians, including veteran BJP leader LK Advani and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, visited AIIMS in New Delhi, on Monday to enquire about his health. Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and BJP...
13:46
In a significant milestone for India's Moon mission, ISRO will fire Chandrayaan2's liquid engine on Tuesday to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit. It's tomorrow morning (tentatively between 8.30 am and 9.30 am). It's challenging, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan told...
13:39
More than four million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a hard-line Hindu nationalist agenda that has challenged the country's pluralist traditions and aims to redefine what it means to be Indian.The hunt for migrants is...
13:34
In Delhi, due to the rising water-level of the Yamuna river, vehicle movement on 'Loha Pul' (old iron bridge) over the river has been stopped. The water level has reached 205 meters (the warning level is at 204.50 meters).
13:27
Remembering former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday recalled one of his achievements in bringing the information technology and telecom revolution in the country. He said to celebrate his father's 75th birth anniversary, the Congress will organise memorial...
13:25
Even as he reiterated the regulatory resolve to not let any large NBFC fail, Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das Monday ruled out ordering an asset quality review of the systematically important shadow banks for now. The over 12,000-odd non-banking financial institutions, coupled with...
13:20
Delhi Congress leaders arrived at the residence of Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Congress General Secretary for the state PL Punia & Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee chief Mohan Markam arrived earlier.
12:53
The death toll in the flood-ravaged Himachal Pradesh has climbed to 22 in the last 24 hours with two people missing in Shimla district following heavy rainfall in the state, said Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday.The rainfall following in the past three days has caused an estimated 574...
12:44
India's cautious business press has begun to criticise the government. So too, even more gingerly, have its cowed business leaders. There is no demand and no private investment,' groused Rahul Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, a motorcycle-maker, at its annual meeting in late July. So where will...
12:38
MNS reacts to ED notice: The MNS on Monday dubbed as political vendetta the Enforcement Directorate's notice to party chief Raj Thackeray in connection with its money laundering probe in the IL&FS alleged payment default case. Thackeray has been asked by the ED to appear before the...
12:31
After over a dozen public sector banks, including the State Bank, have voluntarily linked their loans and deposits pricing to the repo rate, Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das Monday stressed on the need for the entire system switching to this model, saying such a move can speed up the...
12:18
BJP lawmaker Subramanian Swamy has said the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir's special status was correct but the state of economy needs to be corrected as this issue is also important for national security and nation-building. The Rajya Sabha MP told reporters Sunday the wrong policies...
12:01
On Sunday New York saw the annual India Day parade to mark India's Independence Day, with actor Suneil Shetty as the grand marshal, weave down Madison Avenue in Manhattan. On parade were a host of tableaux by various Indian American organisations, which culminated in cultural...
11:58
The expansion of the Karnataka cabinet will take place tomorrow and 13-14 ministers are likely to be inducted, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Monday. The cabinet expansion will take place between 10:30 and 11:30 am tomorrow. I have already written a letter to the Governor in this...
11:50
Teachers reported to work in many schools in Kashmir as restrictions were eased further on Monday but not many students were seen. Officials said the government has made necessary arrangements for opening of 190 primary schools in Srinagar city as security forces remained deployed in most of the...
11:37
More members of the Indian Armed Forces have died in Kashmir, North East and Naxal areas than in the 1965 and 1971 wars against Pakistan combined. These deaths are the result of political failure and not war, says Aakar Patel. Read the column here.
11:30
The hearing in the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case could not take place in the Supreme Court on Monday due to unavailability of one of the five judges of the Constitution bench. The Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was scheduled to...
11:25
The Supreme Court on Monday granted two more weeks' time to the CBI to complete the ongoing investigation in a road accident case in which the Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer have sustained critical injuries. A bench comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose extended the time...
11:22
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is scheduled to visit Nepal this week to participate in the fifth meeting of the Nepal-India Joint Commission to review the overall state of bilateral relations. The meeting is taking place in Kathmandu from August 21 to 22, a statement issued by the...
11:20
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned MNS party chief Raj Thackeray in connection with its money laundering probe in the IL&FS alleged payment default case, officials said Monday. They said the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief has been asked to appear before the investigating officer...
11:01
Blackbuck poaching case: Hearing in the Jodhpur court adjourned to September 16 on a plea of the Rajasthan Government against the acquittal of Saif Ali Khan, Tabbu, Sonali Bendre, Neelam, & Dushyant Singh.
10:57
The Supreme Court refuses to quash the charges against journalist and former editor Tarun Tejpal in the case registered by his former junior colleague in 2013. The Supreme Court says the trial in the case is to be concluded in a period of six months.Tejpal had filed an appeal to quash charges in...
10:46
Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan has promised more flights to Kerala from the Gulf countries during the coming Onam season. The Minister said starting more flight services was one way out to address the problem of steep rise in air fares for international flights from the...
10:44
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has claimed that the Modi-led government will continue to rule the country for another 25 years. In the coming days, the BJP-led central government will take many decisions which are in the pipeline and after that, no one will be able to replace the dispensation...
10:34
In Himachal Pradesh, a portion of a footbridge over Sutlej river in Chaba area of Shimla collapsed yesterday after the water level in the river increased due to heavy rainfall in the region. The bridge provided connectivity to Shakra, Baaladi, Bindla, and Jedvi villages. In Morvi,...
10:25
While on Kashmir, this column, tenderly written by Aanchal Magazine on displacement and loss and yes, hope. Is 370 an article of faith or just a number? A privileged identity or a misplaced entitlement. If I leave out the middle number, 30 remains. My age. The years in exile. The age of...
10:15
This is not kids being packed off to school in a bus; this is kids being packed off to school in a bus in Rajouri about 150 km from Srinagar. After over a fortnight in lockdown, primary schools in the Kashmir Valley reopen today though officials believe that there won't be much attendance...
09:59
The Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi has called for an emergency meeting of concerned officials in the wake of rising water levels in the national capital. The water level of the Yamuna river was recorded at 204.70 meters today (the warning level is at 204.50 meters), after more than 8...
09:17
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged of human rights violation in the Kashmir region while asserting that the subject of human rights was very close to her heart. Today is World Humanitarian Day. Human rights have been totally violated in Kashmir. Let us pray for...
08:50
Eleven people were killed and more than 12 were injured when a truck collided with a bus in Dhule district on Maharashtra last night.The state-run bus was on its way from Aurangabad to Shahada when the collision took place, said police. Drivers of both the vehicles were killed in the crash, which...
08:40
Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday echoed sentiments of his cabinet colleague Rajnath Singh on merging Pakistan Occupied Kashmir with India. As the parliament has unanimously agreed, let us free Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and merge it with India. Let us pray to the almighty that we get...
08:26
There should be conversation in harmonious atmosphere between those in favour of reservation and those against it, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday. Bhagwat said he had spoken on reservation earlier as well, but it created a lot of noise and the whole discussion diverted from the...
07:52
After over a fortnight of lockdown, primary schools in the Valley will reopen today though officials believe that there won't be much attendance because of the restrictions. On Sunday, Jammu and Kashmir authorities made 10 more telephone exchanges operational in Kashmir Valley, but again snapped...
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