23:35
The Bihar Public Service Commission was on Monday left red-faced as reports surfaced of a question asking candidates to elucidate whether they thought that the Governor of Bihar was a 'mere puppet', in one of its question papers.An embarrassed BPSC promptly issued a release expressing regret over...
23:16
Hitting back at the Bharatiya Janata Party for the criticism of the Congress government over the transfer of sniffer dogs and their handlers, a Madhya Pradesh minister on Monday said the saffron party had a 'dog-like mentality'.The controversial comment by PWD Minister Sajjan Singh Verma came...
22:56
Troubled Bhatpara-Kankinara region in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district witnessed fresh violence on Monday when some bombs were exploded in the area, police said.There were reports of sporadic explosion of bombs in the area since Saturday evening, they said, adding two persons have been...
22:24
Hours after Chandrayaan 2 launch was called off because of a technical glitch, former Indian Space Research Organisation chief K Madhavan Nair recalled on Monday that India's first mission to the Moon too had experienced a similar problem shortly before the rocket could blast off.But ISRO...
22:03
Over 20 pilots of various airlines have been temporarily taken off duty on the orders of the regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation so far in July, after a series of incidents, including the one at Mumbai airport involving a Spicejet plane, a senior official said on Monday.These pilots...
21:25
State-owned Air India's flights services are likely to be hit partially as public sector oil marketing firm Indian Oil Corporation has threatened to cut fuel supply at some of the airports from Tuesday evening on non-payment of bills, according to a source.The disinvestment-bound carrier, which...
21:04
An Ahmedabad-bound IndiGo flight carrying around 180 passengers returned to the Goa airport on Monday after taking-off as it developed a 'technical glitch', a senior Airports Authority of India (AAI) said.The flight landed safely at the Dabolim airport, around 40km from here, at around 4.45 pm,...
21:01
As many as 119 teams of the National Disaster Response Force have been deployed in flood-hit areas of the country, including Assam and Bihar, and a 24X7 control room has been set up in Delhi to closely monitor the situation in these regions.As part of proactive measures, 119 teams of the NDRF...
20:31
The government has stopped the process of verification using Aadhhar for driving licence, Parliament was informed on Monday.The Ministry in compliance to the order of the Supreme Court dated September 26, 2018 ... stopped the process of verification using Aadhaar for the Driving Licences, Road...
20:25
About 50 students were injured on Monday when a high-tension wire fell into a primary school in Naya Nagar Vishnupur area in Balrampur, prompting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to order a probe into the incident.The students are stated to be out of danger, officials said.When the...
19:47
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to reply to a plea which has alleged that the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order 2019 procedures, dealing with the appeals of those who would be left out in Assam National Register of Citizens, are violative of the fundamental rights.A bench of...
19:39
The much-awaited second Vande Bharat Express will be run on the high traffic Delhi-Katra route three days a week, likely from next month, sources said on Monday.The Delhi-Katra route was chosen by the Railway Board in a bid to capitalise on the high traffic volume owing to the Vaishno Devi temple...
18:53
The total value of specified bank notes returned from circulation during 2016-'17 was Rs 15,310.73 billion, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply on Monday. On November 8, 2016, the Centre had invalidated Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes and...
18:36
Hours after Navjot Singh Sidhu sent his resignation from Punjab Cabinet to the chief minister, Amarinder Singh said if the cricketer-turned politician did not want to do his job, there was nothing he could do about it.The minister, who was given the power department last month in a reshuffle of...
18:14
7-year-old boy dies due to drowning after he fell into a drain at Rajiv Gandhi Colony, Dharavi in Mumbai
18:00
Samajwadi Party leader Neeraj Shekhar on Monday resigned as member of the Rajya Sabha and his resignation was accepted by Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, sources said. Shekhar, the son of former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, met Naidu and told him he is resigning voluntarily and not under...
17:44
Karnataka MLAs camping at a hotel in Mumbai may skip the confidence motion moved by the southern state's Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on July 18, sources said. The Karnataka rebel MLAs in Mumbai are unlikely to fly to Bengaluru on Thursday when the Congress-JD(S) government would face the floor...
17:37
A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking to shift hotelier P Rajagopal, who has been admitted to a government hospital here after he surrendered in a murder case, to a private hospital citing deterioration in his health condition. When a special mention was made by his...
17:25
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the decision of UPA government to repeal POTA in 2004 was a mistake and was taken for the sake of vote bank politics, which led to rise in the incidents of terrorism between 2004 and 2008.Intervening in the debate on the National Investigation...
16:32
Just in: Lok Sabha passes the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2019.The government asserted on Monday that a bill to broaden the NIA's investigating powers is part of its policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and is in national interest, as Lok Sabha took up a discussion...
16:03
The government asserted on Monday that a bill to broaden the NIA's investigating powers is part of its policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and is in national interest, as Lok Sabha took up a discussion on the proposed legislation.While Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy sought...
15:46
Commercial surrogacy will soon be banned and only close relatives will be permitted to act as surrogates to infertile couples for ethical altruistic reasons.On Monday, the government introduced the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha that also provides for constitution of surrogacy...
15:45
Commercial surrogacy will soon be banned and only close relatives will be permitted to act as surrogates to infertile couples for ethical altruistic reasons.On Monday, the government introduced the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha that also provides for constitution of surrogacy...
15:26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday spoke to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and took stock of the flood situation in the state, where the deluge has claimed 11 lives this year while millions are affected, officials said. During the telephonic conversation, the Chief Minister...
15:17
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a petition filed by three women seeking a direction to decriminalise abortion.A two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was hearing a plea by three women -- Swati Agarwal, Garima Sekseria, and Prachi Vats.The top court...
14:55
The Calcutta High Court will hear former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar's plea seeking protection from arrest in connection with the Saradha chit fund case on Wednesday.A single judge bench of Justice Asha Arora said it would hear the matter at 12 pm on July 17.The court had earlier...
14:12
Karnataka coalition to take floor test on Thursday, says Congress leader Siddaramaiah. The discussion on the vote of confidence will be taken up on Thursday at 11 am in the Karnataka Assembly, says Siddaramaiah. The BJP in Karnataka Monday sought to move a no-confidence motion against the...
14:02
Acharya Devvrat who was the Governor of Himachal Pradesh has been transferred and appointed as the Governor of Gujarat. Kalraj Mishra will be replacing him as the Himachal Pradesh governor.
13:05
Wholesale price-based inflation declined for the second consecutive month to its 23-month low of 2.02 per cent in June, helped by decline in prices of vegetables as well as fuel and power items, according to official data released Monday. The Wholesale Price Index-based inflation was at 2.45...
12:51
Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday sent his resignation to Chief Minister of Punjab at his official residence, ending speculations that ensued through the weekend following the announcement of his exit from Captain Amarinder Singh's cabinet.Today I have sent my resignation to the Chief Minister Punjab,...
12:30
Update and a clarification from news agency ANI: Sakshi, the daughter of BJP MLA Rajesh Mishra and her husband Ajitesh were allegedly roughed up by some people at Allahabad High Court premises today where they had gone to seek protection. However, reports that they had been abducted and...
12:27
A suspected Pakistani intruder was shot dead by BSF personnel while he was trying to cross the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Monday, officials said. The incident took place around 3 am when a man in his 60's was trying to sneak into the Indian territory near...
12:25
The Centre allowed prosecution under Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against 56 Indian Administrative Service officers in the last 10 years spanning both Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi governments.Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) had granted 102 prosecution sanctions against these...
12:16
A special judge holding trial in Babri Masjid demolition case, involving BJP veterans LK Advani, M M Joshi and others, Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking six more months to conclude the trial in the case. The special judge, in a letter written in May, has informed the top court that he...
12:10
The Allahabad High Court gives directions to the police for the protection of Sakshi Misra and her husband Ajitesh. Their lawyer says, Only Ajitesh was beaten up. It's not known who were these people. But it proves that there is indeed a threat to their life for which they were seeking...
11:24
The Bharatiya Janata Party has reiterated its demand for floor test in Karnataka assembly while criticising the state Chief Minister and Assembly speaker for their unacceptable behaviour.Speaking to ANI on Karnataka's political situation, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Monday...
11:03
IN Solan, Himachal Pradesh, one more body retrieved from the site of building collapse in Kumarhatti. Death toll rises to 8. At least 6 still trapped in the debris. Around 17 Army personnel and 11 civilians rescued so far. Rescuers pulled out the body of another Army jawan from the debris,...
10:53
However, ANI reports that Sakshi and her husband Ajitesh were allegedly roughed up by some people at Allahabad High Court premises where they went to seek protection, but not abducted. They are present in the court.
10:52
In a sensational turn of events, the couple from Bareilly, who have been making headlines since last week claiming to be under threat from a BJP MLA over their inter-caste marriage, was this morning kidnapped at gunpoint by armed men from outside the Allahabad High Court, where they had gone to...
10:29
The rupee appreciated by 16 paise to 68.53 against the US dollar in opening trade Monday, driven by positive opening in domestic equities and easing crude oil prices. The rupee opened strong at 68.59 at the interbank forex market then gained further ground to touch 68.53 per dollar,...
10:23
Fourteen Karnataka rebel MLAs, who are staying at a hotel in Mumbai after resigning from the state assembly last week, have written to the Mumbai Police again to seek protection from senior Congress leaders who may try to meet them.Congress's general secretary Mallikarjun Kharge and Karnataka...
09:50
United States President Donald Trump on Sunday ratcheted up his verbal spat with liberal Democratic Congresswomen and stated that the many terrible things they say about the US must not be allowed to go unchallenged.While he continued to not name the representatives, the consecutive Twitter...
09:10
Enthusiasts of all ages who had gathered at Sriharikota on Monday to witness the launch of Chandrayaan-2 were left disheartened as India's second mission to Moon was called off due to a technical snag less than an hour before lift off. The countdown to the launch of Chandrayaan-2 onboard...
08:31
Nearly 50 days after Rahul Gandhi stepped down as Congress president, taking moral responsibility for the humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, the grand old party is yet to finalise a new chief.Gandhi, now an MP from Wayanad in Kerala, became the Congress president in 2017. He offered...
04:28
Three resident doctors of the civic-run Nair Hospital in central Mumbai were on Sunday attackedby the relatives of a patient, police said.The incident took place in the evening after the patient, Rajkishore Dixit, 50, who was critically ill, died during treatment, an official said.As the resident...
03:35
The GFP withdrew support to the BJP government in Goa by sending a communication to Governor Mridula Sinha.The decision was taken after the Goa Foward Party held a meeting.All three members of the GFP, including Vijai Sardesai who was deputy chief minister in the Pramod Sawant cabinet, were...
03:30
Empty screen which initially showed countdown at the media centre in Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
03:11
India's second mission to Moon, Chandrayaan-2 onboard GSLVMkIII-M1 was called off due to a technical snag on Monday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said.A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-56 minute. As a measure of abundant precaution, #Chandrayaan2 launch has...
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