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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday said six men from the state were among those injured or missing in the LPG tanker blast in Sudan and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct officials concerned to update on their status.Citing media reports about several people...
22:57
Use of mobile phones has been banned around the area near the sanctum sanctorum of the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, official sources said on Wednesday.The decision was taken at a meeting of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), which administers the hill shrine, here on Wednesday in the...
22:19
Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury expressed regret in the House on Wednesday over his 'Nirbala' remark on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and described her as his sister.Just before Sitharaman was to reply on the debate on Demands for Grants, Chowdhury said if his...
21:23
Congress leader P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram arrive at the residence of party's Interim president Sonia Gandhi.I will address a press conference tomorrow. I am happy that I stepped out and breathing the air of freedom after 106 days, Chidambaram said. -- ANI
21:18
A 28-year-old man was on Wednesday arrested for posting abusive comments against a prominent woman dignitary on social media following the gang rape and murder of a woman veterinarian near Hyderabad last month, police said.A complaint was filed with Cyber Crime Police on December 2, stating that...
20:16
JUST IN: Congress leader P Chidambaram released from Tihar Jail.He was received by his son Karti Chidambaram and a lot of supporters outside the Jail.Chidambaram was granted bail by the SC earlier in the day.He is now expected to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other leaders of the party.
20:04
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Eknath Khadse on Wednesday claimed some leaders of the saffron party played an active role in electoral defeat of his daughter Rohini and former minister Pankaja Munde.The BJP had denied ticket to Khadse for the assembly polls held in October this year, but...
19:08
Scores of Congress supporters gathered outside the Tihar jail on Wednesday to greet former Union Minister P Chidambaram on his release from the prison, where he has been lodged for over 100 days.Even before Chidambaram's release, his supporters had gathered outside gate no 3 of the prison,...
19:02
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar visited the Calcutta University's College Street campus on Wednesday only to find no senior officials present, even as he hit out at the government alleging policy paralysis in the state's education system.Seemingly an insulted Dhankhar, who is also the...
18:28
18 Indian sailors have been abducted by pirates while their vessel, the Hong Kong-flagged crude tanker Nave Constellation was passing through Nigeria on December 3. According to initial reports, the armed pirates boarded the ship when it was to the south of the coast of Bonny, and...
18:16
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was restrained by the Supreme Court on Wednesday from either giving any press interviews or making public comments regarding him or other co-accused in the INX Media money laundering case.The apex court imposed this condition while granting bail to the...
18:14
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday felicitated a city-based techie who helped United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration discover Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander's debris on the lunar surface.Shanmuga Subramanian had analysed data for about eight...
17:57
A video purportedly showing Madhya Pradesh Women and Child Development Minister Imarti Devi dancing energetically at a function went viral on Wednesday.The video showed the minister, clad in pink sari, dancing to the tune of Bollywood song 'Mujhko rana ji maaf karna'.People around her were seen...
17:40
The Shiv Sena on Wednesday attacked the government in the Lok Sabha over the state of the economy, alleging that traders, farmers and the youth are unhappy. Shiv Sena recently broke ranks with the NDA to form a government in Maharashtra with the support of the Nationalist Congress Party and the...
17:26
As the Ministry of Home Affairs receives the mercy plea of a convict of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case after it was rejected by the Delhi government, a man in Himachal Pradesh volunteers to be hangman. Ravi Kumar, from Shimla has written to President Ram Nath Kovind to appoint...
17:22
The government said on Wednesday that there was no plan to conduct the National Register of Citizens exercise across the country on religious lines.Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai, gave the information in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.He was responding to a question of Trinamool...
17:15
The law student who had accused BJP leader Chinmayanand of rape and who was arrested for allegedly blackmailing him, has been granted bail by the Allahabad High Court.Chinmayanand was arrested on September 20 after the 23-year-old woman, a student at a law college in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur,...
17:01
The Telangana government has set up a special court at the Mahabubnagar District Court to hear the case of rape and murder of the woman veterinarian which has seen impassioned speeches in parliament calling for the lynching of the accused.On Monday, members in both the Houses of Parliament had...
16:38
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear next week a plea seeking directions to the Kerala government to provide safe passage to women into Sabarimala temple.The plea has been filed by Fathima A S, who was allegedly not allowed to enter the shrine recently.In September last year, the Supreme...
15:44
A delegation of state finance ministers met with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday to discuss GST compensation.Finance Minister Sitharaman did not specify the reason why compensation to states is being held up. Centre owes Delhi Rs 3,600 crore for three months, Delhi Deputy...
15:28
Announcing that people in Delhi will soon be able to enjoy free WiFi access, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that the state government plans to set up 11,000 wifi-hotspots in the national capital within the next six months and the first 100 hotspots will be inaugurated on...
15:25
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to extend reservation for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for 10 years, but is learnt to have done away with a similar quota for the Anglo-Indian community. The reservation for these categories in the Lok Sabha and...
15:03
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday told Lok Sabha that Chinese soldiers sometimes intrude into Indian territory due to absence of a mutually agreed Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the two countries.There is no mutually agreed LAC between India and China. Due to different perceptions...
14:48
Karti Chidambaram on Wednesday said that former finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram, who was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX Media case, will be attending the Winter Session of Parliament from Thursday. Chidambaram has submitted the bail bond of Rs 2 lakh and two...
14:39
Shabana Azmi remembers her on-screen hero Shashi Kapoor on his second death anniversary today. 2 years already! You gave and you gave .. to family,friends, Theatre and the Indian Film Industry.. Remembering you with deep admiration affection and respect Shashiji, she tweets. The two...
14:26
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear in January 2020 an application filed by the Association of Democratic Reforms seeking a stay on the implementation of the Electoral Bond Scheme notified by the Central government on January 2, 2018.A Bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice BR Gavai and...
14:11
Amid demand by members for a separate law to curb mob lynching, Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said in the Rajya Sabha that the government has set up a committee to suggest necessary amendments in the Indian Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure to deal with it. Responding to a...
13:21
The National Rifle Association of India has requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to exempt shooters from the Arms Amendment Bill 2019.The Arms Amendment Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on November 29, 2019.We have already written to the Home Minister regarding the Arms Amendment Bill. We have...
13:19
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari reacts to the Supreme Court order granting bail to P Chidambaram in the INX Media Case.Gadkari said there is evidence for the cases against Chidambaram. There have been inquiries, and now the matter is sub-judice and the court will take the decision. We have never...
12:54
Carl XVI Gustaf King of Sweden and his wife Queen Silvia on Wednesday engaged in removing tons of plastic and other garbage along with young lawyer and Mumbai-based climate activist Afroz Shah.On the occasion, Shah, who is best known for organising in the world's largest beach clean-up project,...
12:51
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Centre on a plea against revelation of identity of the Hyderabad rape victim by certain media houses. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notices to the Centre, the governments of Telangana, Andhra...
12:43
Criticising the delay in the Unnao rape case trial, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday wondered if it was because of the involvement of an influential former BJP MLA. The Supreme Court had given instructions that the trial in the Unnao case should be completed in 45 days....
12:32
Shares of automakers were trading higher by as much as 3 per cent on Wednesday after some companies announced hiking prices from January on the back of rising input costs. Tata Motors' stock gained 3.92 per cent to Rs 163.85 on the BSE. In early trade, it was up 6.07 per cent at Rs 167.65 a...
12:27
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has reaffirmed India's sovereign credit rating at BBB minus with stable outlook and expects its economy to grow strongly over the next two years.India's economy continues to achieve impressive long-term growth rates despite a recent deceleration. It is believed...
12:21
Neeraj Shekhar, BJP MP and son of former PM Chandra Shekhar, defends his statement that SPG protectees felt like they were the PM. The Home Minister said yesterday that the Gandhi family is getting the security that is given to the President and other eminent people. The Gandhi family and the...
12:12
India's IT major Wipro Ltd is all set to expand its presence in Australia's Victoria state by establishing a 1.5 million dollar state-of-the-art Cyber Defence Centre. The new centre in South Melbourne will offer protection from cyber-attacks to the organisations and will generate 100 new tech...
11:40
Five personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police were killed and three others injured in an exchange of fire among themselves in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Wednesday, police said. The incident took place at the Kadenar camp of ITBP's 45th battalion in Narayanpur, located around 350 km...
11:37
The Union Cabinet has cleared the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill for Parliament to take over. The Bill is now likely to be tabled in the Lok Sabha for clearance next week.The Citizenship Bill seeks to grant citizenship to all non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan...
11:22
Just in: 6 dead and two injured in a clash amongst Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh.
11:13
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate. A Bench of Justice R Banumathi, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice Hrishikesh Roy set aside the Delhi High...
11:05
Asserting that he was following the Constitution, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Wednesday that he was neither a rubber-stamp nor a post office, after the ruling Trinamool Congress blamed him for the abrupt adjournment of the assembly. The rancour between the ruling...
10:46
Just in: Supreme Court grants bail to former Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram in INX Media money laundering case, registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He has been granted bail on a bail bond of Rs 2 lakh and two sureties. He has also been forbidden to hold any...
10:32
Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan has given Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha over 'concern over the safety of girl students in Allahabad University Hostel.Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) MP Vaiko gives Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha over 'Madras High Court to be renamed as High Court...
10:09
Karti Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal leave for the Supreme Court which will will pronounce the order on P Chidambaram's petition seeking bail in the INX Media money laundering case, today. The court will pronounce its order on the senior Congress leader's plea against the order of the Delhi...
10:00
Desperate times for the poor. A farmer in Richha village of Mandsaur has alleged that his onion crop worth Rs 30,000 was uprooted and stolen from his field by thieves.Farmer Jitendra Kumar has registered a complaint with the police in this regard and said that onions were sown on 1.6 acre of land...
09:51
Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal has moved her hunger strike to Raj Ghat after she was no longer allowed to sit at the Jantar Mantar area.Yesterday, Maliwal had accused the police of trying to disrupt her indefinite hunger strike over the Telangana rape and murder case. Delhi...
09:42
At least four soldiers were trapped in two separate incidents of snow avalanches near the Line of Control in north Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. An avalanche hit an Army post in the Tangdhar area of Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon where at least two soldiers were trapped. Search...
09:17
Signalling its intent on the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that proposes to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the BJP on Tuesday asked its MPs to be present in the House in large numbers in the coming days, and said the Bill...
08:43
ISRO chief K Sivan has rejected NASA's claims that they have located the debris of the crashed Vikram lander on the lunar surface and said the Indian Space Research Organisation had located it long back.ISRO chief K Sivan has said, Our own orbiter had located Vikram lander. We had already...
08:17
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday pronounce order on senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's plea against the order of the Delhi high court that had dismissed his bail petition in the INX Media case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate.A bench of justices R Banumathi, AS Bopanna and Hrishikesh...
07:40
Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris has dropped out of the 2020 United States Democratic presidential race.The sudden and surprising announcement by Harris, 55, came during a call with her campaign staffers on Tuesday.To my supporters, it is with deep regret -- but also with deep gratitude --...
00:05
Security forces have apprehended a terrorist Tariq Hussain Wani with a huge amount of arms and ammunition from the Ikhala Plamar forest in Kishtwar.Wani was missing since November 14 along with a 303 rifle, one magazine, 64 live cartages and 11 charger clips from Ikhala Plamar.'A cordon was...
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