21:16
British finance minister Philip Hammond said he would make a point of resigning before Boris Johnson became prime minister, saying he could never agree to his Brexit strategy. Johnson is widely expected to win the governing, centre-right Conservative Party's leadership contest on...
20:42
The ruling BJP in Maharashtra on Sunday set a target of winning more than 220 seats with its allies in the assembly elections, due later this year, at its state executive met here to chalk out poll strategy.Addressing the conclave, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis exuded confidence that he will...
20:28
Two Independent MLAs, who withdrew support to the Congress-JD-S government in Karnataka, are going to move the Supreme Court seeking a direction for conducting a floor test forthwith in the state assembly, their lawyer said. Independent MLAs R Shankar and H Nagesh said the state has...
20:16
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, said on Sunday that she was not elected a parliamentarian to clean toilets and drains in the state.Sadhvi Pragya's statement has come at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been...
19:59
Actor Naseeruddin Shah on Sunday expressed solidarity with the family members of thosekilled in incidents of mob lynching in the country.Speaking at a national convention on the theme of 'state complicity in hate crimes' in Mumbai's central area of Dadar, Shah said the victims and kin of mob...
19:16
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to India on a day-long visit on September 9 to meet his counterpart Narendra Modi, just eight days before an unprecedented repeat polls in the Jewish state.Netanyahu, who created history on July 20 by becoming the longest serving Israeli PM,...
18:54
The fourth Thor movie -- now revealed to be called Thor: Love and Thunder -- is on its way, and its bringing a surprising cast member: Natalie Portman, reprising her role as Jane Foster, wholl be following in her comic counterparts footsteps to take on the role of Thor in the film, announced as...
18:22
Despite speculations that poll strategist Prashant Kishor would attend the Trinamool Congress' Martyrs' Day rally on Sunday, he gave it a miss. The media had been rife with speculations that Kishor, also a senior functionary of the BJP's alliance partner Janata Dal-United, would attend...
18:16
Four elderly people, including two women, were lynched in Jharkhand's Gumla district on the suspicion of practising witchcraft, police said on Sunday. The incident took place at Nagar Siskari village in the district on Saturday night.Superintendent of Police Anjani Kumar Jha said a...
17:45
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday took a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath after he visited Sonbhadra where 10 Gond tribals were shot dead over a land dispute four days ago, saying acknowledging one's duty is good.She said the UP government has acted only after the...
17:23
Global icon Priyanka Chopra, who revealed suffering from asthma last year, was seen enjoying a smoke on a yacht with her family as she continued her birthday celebrations. In a picture from her family vacation, which has now gone viral on social media, Priyanka can be seen smoking a...
16:50
Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa has exuded confidence that Monday will be the last day of the Janata Dal-Secular-Congress coalition government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in the state. As (senior Congress leader) Siddaramaiah, the speaker and Kumaraswamy have said that they...
16:21
The countdown for the launch of Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1, begins Sunday evening. ISRO has successfully completed the launch rehearsal of the Chandrayaan-2 mission. The launch is slated for July 22. Chandrayaan-2 will be launched on...
15:59
The last rites of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit are being conducted at Nigambodh Ghat. The former Delhi CM is being accorded a state funeral. Home Minister Amit Shah, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal are present along with other senior Congress leaders at the crematorium. Dikshit's...
15:27
Sheila Dikshit's remains reach Nigambodh Ghat, prayers of last rites begin. As former Delhi CM's remains were being taken to Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi received rainfall. Earlier at the Congress Headquarters, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said of Dikshit, She was a great support for me. She...
15:11
BJP leader and Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah is also likely to attend Congress senior leader Sheila Dikshit's funeral at Nigambodh ghat. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP senior leader LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj had also visited her residence in Nizamuddin to pay their respects.
14:53
PV Sindhu loses 15-21, 16-21 to Akane Yamaguchi at the Indonesian Open. The Japanese shuttler displayed some incredible attacking moves to bag her first Super 1000 event in 50 minutes.
14:43
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday met the family members of the people who were gunned down over a land dispute in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district. Yogi flew to Sonbhadra from Lucknow and went by road to Umbha village to meet the families. Ten persons from the Gond...
14:25
PV Sindhu is playing the finals against Akane Yamaguchi at the Indonesian Open. Sindhu had no answers to the Japanese fast-paced game from the mid-court and loses the first set 15-21.
14:10
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that central agencies are threatening TMC leaders and elected representatives with prison in chit fund scam cases if they don't get in touch with the BJP. The Trinamool Congress supremo, addressing the Martyrs' Day...
13:56
A fire has broken out at a four-storey building near the Taj Mahal hotel in south Mumbai's Colaba. Firefighters have reached the site and are trying to bring the situation under control, officials said.Nine people have been rescued from the burning Churchill Chamber building, about a...
13:54
Lok Janshakti Party Member of Parliament, Ram Chandra Paswan passes away at RML Hospital in Delhi. He is brother of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.
12:48
Sheila Dikshits mortal remains have reached Congress headquarters from where the three-time Delhi chief minister will be taken on her final journey for a state funeral at Nigambodh Ghat at 3pm, a day after she passed away following cardiac arrest. Dikshit, who gave the national capital its...
12:26
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will address Trinamool Congress's mega Martyrs' Day rally in Kolkata today. This rally is organised by TMC every year on July 21 in the memory of the 13 youth Congress activists killed in police firing in 1993 in which lakhs of people from across...
12:07
Sonbhadra police, at Robertsganj, arrest several leaders of Samajwadi Party including former MLA Avinash Kushwaha and local office bearers of the party.
12:03
Mortal remains of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit being taken from her residence in Nizamuddin to Congress Headquarters. Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's last rites will be performed today. The last rites would be performed at the Nigambodh ghat.The Delhi government...
11:53
The defence ministry has decided to organise the 11th edition of the biennial DefExpo in Lucknow next year. In 2018, the show was held in Chennai and this is the first time that it will be held in Uttar Pradesh's capital city. The 11th edition #DEFEXPO2020 will be held in Lucknow (UP) from...
11:27
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi wrote a heartfelt letter to former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit's children condoling the death of the veteran leader.Gandhi, in her letter to Sandip and Latika Dikshit, spoke of her relationship with their mother and praised her dedication to transform Delhi....
11:18
Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's residence permit has been extended for one year by the Union home ministry, officials said on Sunday. Taslima, a citizen of Sweden, has been getting residence permit on a continuous basis since 2004.Her residence permit has been...
10:57
As the Delhi Congress chief, Sheila Dikshit's last instruction to party workers was to stage a protest outside Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters if the standoff between party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and the Uttar Pradesh government did not end on Saturday, said a former cabinet...
10:54
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected travel to China next month to prepare ground for the second informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in India in October, government sources said. In Beijing, Jaishankar will held wide-ranging...
10:05
Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit's last rites will be performed today. The three-time Delhi chief minister and senior Congress leader passed away on Saturday afternoon at a private hospital in New Delhi after suffering a cardiac arrest. She was 81.Her body has been kept at her...
09:58
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav Saturday said the Centre should declare the flood and drought situations in Bihar as national disaster and provide a financial assistance of Rs 10,000 crore to the state.The death in Bihar flood rose to 97 on Saturday, as over 69 lakh people were...
09:04
Malabika Sarkar, the principal advisor of Ashoka University, has been appointed its vice-chancellor after political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta resigned from the post, saying he is quitting to complete long-standing academic tasks.Mehta will, however, continue to teach there, according to a...
09:01
ISRO said on Saturday it has completed the launch rehearsal of GSLV Mark III-M1, the launch vehicle of Chandrayaan 2, and its performance is normal. After aborting the second Indian mission to Moon on July 15, an hour before the take off, ISRO has said it would go ahead with the...
08:58
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Saturday that without knowing Sanskrit, it is difficult to understand India completely. All existing languages in the country, including tribal ones, are made up of at least 30 per cent Sanskrit words, he said, speaking at a book launch...
08:51
Nirmala Purandare, noted social activist and educationist died at her residence in Pune on Saturday after prolonged illness, family members said. She was 86. She is the wife of noted historian Babasaheb Purandare.Purandare was associated with the Vanasthali Rural Development Centre, founded in...
08:35
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Washington DC on Saturday afternoon on a three-day official trip to the United States.Khan, 66, is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, July 22, during which the American leadership will press him to take decisive...
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