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Rajya Sabha member and senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Friday said that the Leader of Opposition position should be allotted to the Congress party in the Lok Sabha.Singhvi also said there is no rule of having minimum 10 per cent MPs in the Lower House for the party a get the...
22:31
A core group of ministers on issues related to parliament session met at the residence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Friday ahead of the first session of the new Lok Sabha.Home Minister Amit Shah was among the ministers who attended the meeting which comes days before the...
22:25
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in a letter to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Friday said Islamabad wants talks with New Delhi to resolve all reconcilable problems, including the Kashmir issue, according to a media report, a day after India said there will be no bilateral meeting...
22:00
International Cricket Council on Friday turned down the BCCI's request to allow MS Dhoni to continue wearing the army insignia on his wicket-keeping gloves.The regulations for ICC events do not permit any individual message or logo to be displayed on any items of clothing or equipment. In...
21:51
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday formally resigned as the leader of the ruling Conservative Party, paving the way for a keen contest to decide a new premier who will take charge of the United Kingdom's tough divorce negotiations with the European Union. May, who had stepped down...
21:35
Saket Kumar, IAS 2009 batch, Bihar cadre, has been appointed as Private Secretary to Home Minister Amit Shah.
21:23
The first meeting of the new council of ministers will be held on June 12, sources said Friday. All the 57 Union Ministers have been invited to the meeting, which will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.According to the sources, the meeting is likely to deliberate on the action plan...
21:22
India cricket captain Virat Kohli has been fined by the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation for wastage of drinking water at his house in the city, officials said Friday. The Rs 500-fine was imposed after a domestic help was found cleaning a car with running water from a pipe outside Kohli's DLF...
20:49
Stepping up pressure on terror groups, security forces have eliminated as many as 103 terrorists till now in Jammu and Kashmir this year, defence sources said on Friday.After the Pulwama attack in February this year, security forces have especially targeted the leadership of the terrorist groups...
20:27
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday offered prayers at the makeshift Ram Lalla temple in Ayodhya, on a visit meant to reiterate support for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site. It is everybody's wish that Ram Mandir must be constructed, he said on...
19:40
The ruling Janata Dal-United in Bihar on Friday asserted that the National Democratic Alliance in the state was intact, dismissing speculation of a rift within the alliance in the wake of the party's decision to stay out of the Narendra Modi government. The JD-U is firmly in the alliance...
19:06
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday demanded a collegium be set up on the lines of Supreme Court to appoint election commissioners. Hitting out at the Election Commission for what she alleged was its partisan approach during the Lok Sabha polls, she said three nominated...
18:41
The Reserve Bank on Friday issued a new framework for resolution of bad loans, replacing the previous norms quashed by the Supreme Court in April, offering a 30-day gap for stress recognition instead of the one-daydefault earlier. The new norms replaces all the earlier resolution plans such...
18:28
The security cover of Home Minister Amit Shah has been strengthened with the Delhi Police putting in place additional component of security personnel at his residence, officials said Friday. The move came after Shah assumed charge of the sensitive ministry last week.The Delhi Police has...
18:18
The Cabinet has approved extension of service to Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha for three months.
17:56
In Kerala, Congress President Rahul Gandhi stops for tea at a shop in Chokkad of Malappuram district. He is on a three-day visit to the state, beginning today. In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi won from Wayanad by a margin of over 4.31 lakh votes, a state record, even as he...
17:52
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee speaking to ANI says Planning Commission should be brought back. She had written to PM Modi today saying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that she would not be attending the Niti Aayog...
17:27
The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case against media baron Raghav Bahl for alleged laundering of funds to purchase an undisclosed foreign asset, officials said Friday. They said an Enforcement Case Information Report, a police FIR equivalent, was lodged by the federal...
17:18
Appealing to Rahul Gandhi, Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily Friday asked him to step in and quell dissidence raging in some state units, saying he can't quit as the party president without putting in place an alternative. We are all concerned in the party, the former Union Minister...
17:10
Aslam Sher Khan, ex-union minister and hockey Olympian writes to Rahul Gandhi offering to be Congress president. I wrote when Congress lost elections once again. When Rahul Gandhi said he wants to step down and wants someone else, someone not from his family, to take the charge I thought there's...
17:05
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will briefly visit Sri Lanka on Sunday during which he will hold discussions with President Maithripala Sirisena, according to the president's office in Colombo.Modi will be the first foreign leader to visit the island nation after the Easter bombings that killed...
16:52
The Bombay High Court Friday granted bail to actor and singer Karan Oberoi, accused of raping his former girlfriend. Oberoi was arrested on May 5 after a 34-year-old woman alleged that he raped her on several occasions and also extorted money and gifts from her. Oberoi, in his bail...
16:42
Each time you take a shower, remember them.Residents of Kawatha village in Akola are facing a severe water crisis with people forced to dig pits to survive. For even filling one pot, we have to wait for at least 2 to 3 hours. Children are also not able to attend schools. Each member of the...
16:40
External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar called on Prime Minister of Bhutan Dr Lotay Tshering today.
16:33
In a major reform, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has approved plans to establish a training institute for soldiers to help them qualify as commissioned officers in the Indian Army. The institute will be known as Young Leaders Training Wing and is planned to be established inside the...
16:30
External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held a meeting with Tandi Dorji, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Royal Government of Bhutan at Gyelyong Tshokhang, Thimphu. S Jaishankar arrived in Bhutan on Friday on a two-day visit, his first overseas trip after assuming...
16:21
In Latehar, Jharkhand, another story of neglect and national shame. A 65-yr-old man, Ramcharan Munda, died allegedly from starvation yesterday because the electronic machine used for biometric-based ration delivery wasn't working. His daughter told ANI, We haven't received ration since past 3...
16:02
The BSE benchmark Sensex ended 86 points higher after a highly volatile session Friday tracking mixed domestic and global cues. After swinging over 400 points, the BSE gauge settled 86.18 points, or 0.22 per cent, up at 39,615.90. The index hit an intra-day high of 39,703.10 and a low of...
15:53
Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja met Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today. Dr Harsh Vardhan said he had assured Kerala of all support in the Nipah Virus scare. I am reviewing the status regularly, he added. Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja said today that the sample of one...
15:32
Five policemen, including an SHO, have been suspended for alleged negligence, five days after the mutilated body of a three-year-old girl was found in a garbage dump in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, triggering a huge public outcry over the brutality of the murder. The policemen were suspended for...
15:29
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveils a seven-foot tall statue of Lord Ram at the Ayodhya Shodh Sansthan. Adityanath will also visit various galleries and release books and a postal cover at the Ayodhya Shodh Sansthan museum after unveiling the statue. The statue, made of a single block of...
15:20
This should bring a huge cheer to a parched country: The India Meteorological Dept has announced that the monsoon is likely to set in over Kerala during the next 24 hours. A major chunk of India is on the brink of an extreme water crisis. The Composite Water Management Index report published by...
15:12
American brokerage Goldman Sachs Friday pegged the Indian GDP growth to accelerate to 7.2 per cent in 2019-20 on lower oil prices, political stability and removal of infrastructure bottlenecks. Risks to the estimate, which is higher than the RBI's projection for a 7 per cent growth, are on...
15:10
Update on the govt's meeting with the opposition.Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday met Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi, seeking her party's cooperation for smooth functioning of the Parliament session beginning June 17.Our meeting with Sonia Gandhi was very...
14:52
Calling out the ruling Janata Dal (Secular) over the lack of a decisive action on acute water crisis in the state, Karnataka BJP Chief BS Yeddyurappa accused Chief Minister Kumaraswamy of doing political drama. When there is a drought in the state, instead of resolving the water crisis in...
14:38
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi, MoS Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar, met UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at her residence ahead of upcoming parliament session.The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha will...
14:35
Even as the Committee of Administrators (CoA) chief Vinod Rai asserted that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will continue wearing the dagger insignia on his wicket-keeping gloves as it is not a military symbol, and that that the BCCI has sought the ICC's permission for it. support for Dhoni comes in from...
14:10
Uttar Pradesh Police has constituted a Special Investigative Team to probe murder of 2.5-year-old girl in Aligarh's Tappal.Additional Director General (Law & Order) Anand Kumar said, An SIT has been formed under Superintendent of Police rural area (SPRA). Forensic science team, Special...
14:00
Newly elected BJP MP and 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case accused Pragya Singh Thakur Friday appeared before a special court in Mumbai. It was Thakur's first appearance before the NIA court, which is conducting trial in the 11-year-old case, after being elected to Lok Sabha from Bhopal last...
13:41
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will briefly visit Sri Lanka on Sunday during which he will hold discussions with President Maithripala Sirisena, according to the President's office in Colombo.Modi will be the first foreign leader to visit the island nation after the Easter bombings that killed...
13:11
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing her inability to attend the Niti Aayog meeting on June 15, saying it is 'fruitless' as the body has no financial powers to support state plans.'Given the fact that the Niti Aayog has no financial...
12:48
At least 13 persons were killed and 21 injured due to dust storm and lightning in various parts of Uttar Pradesh, the state Relief commissioner said on Friday.While six persons died in Mainpuri, three persons each died in incidents related to dust storm in Etah and Kasganj and one due to...
12:34
Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were among the prominent personalities who on Friday expressed dismay at the brutal murder of a two-year-old girl in Aligarh, terming it 'shocking' and 'inhuman'.The brutal murder triggered a deluge of reactions on social media...
12:21
A Mumbai-based woman artist has posted a video on social media purportedly showing being attacked by a man on a busy road in Goa last week. In the clip which is accompanied by a message, the woman, who was on a visit to the tourist state, expressed unhappiness over her attacker being granted bail...
11:52
At least 13 killed, 21 injured due to dust storm and lightning in various parts of UP: State Relief Commissioner office. Details awaited.
11:33
Saradha chit fund case: Ex-Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar arrives at the CBI office for questioning. The Kolkata High Court had granted him protection from coercive action till July 10 and directed him to deposit his passport and cooperate with the CBI probe. The CBI, in its plea earlier...
11:12
Equity benchmark indices gained marginally in volatile trading during early hours on Friday, a day after the Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy cut interest rates marginally on expected lines.
11:06
A Delhi court granted bail to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Friday on a complaint over his alleged 'scorpion' remarks referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal granted relief to Tharoor on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 after he appeared...
10:39
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inspect the developmental works in Ayodhya during his visit on Friday. The CM is also expected to unveil a 7-foot tall statue of Lord Ram at the Shodh Sansthan museum.During his visit, the Chief Minister will inspect the developmental work in...
10:34
Tongues are wagging about Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday in New Delhi.The MP CM met the PM with his son, Nakul, the MP from Chhindwara. Congress observers in particular and political observers as well, are reading between the...
10:18
The rupee opened marginally higher and touched 69.21 against the US dollar in opening trade Friday, after the Reserve Bank cut key interest rates by 0.25 percentage point. To boost the sagging economy, the RBI Thursday lowered its benchmark lending rate to a nearly nine-year low of 5.75 per...
10:11
An IMD warning that parched Andhra Pradesh will welcome. The India Meteorological Department has warned of thunderstorms accompanied with lighting and gusty winds (40-50 kmph) at isolated places over Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.Besides, states such as Jharkhand, Bihar,...
09:58
Update on the missing IAF transport aircraft AN-32. On Day 5, the Indian Air Force has deployed a Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft P8I airborne from INS Rajali, Arakonam, Tamil Nadu for the ongoing search operations for the missing AN32 aircraft. It will carry out a search...
09:47
And so it begins... Rajasthan BJP chief Madan Lal Saini has claimed that Mughal Emperor Akbar set up Meena Bazaar and used go there in disguise and do misdeeds.Akbar had set up Meena Bazaar. Women used to do all the work there and men were not allowed. The way Akbar used to go there in...
09:40
Finally, some good news from a country that's being fractured by divisiveness. (Not India, it's the US, this time.) A Sikh airman has been allowed by the United States Air Force to serve with a beard, turban and unshorn hair, making him the first active-duty airman to be granted such a...
09:04
Four terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.The terrorists were killed at Panjran in south Kashmir, a police official said.He said the operation, which began on Thursday evening, was over.The terrorists reportedly...
09:00
Rising mercury in Churu district of Rajasthan has led to the cancellation of leaves of doctors in order to ensure availability of medical facilities at all times.As temperatures soared in the district, doctors were directed to avoid taking leaves, except in cases of emergencies, in order to...
08:17
Congress president Rahul Gandhi expected to visit his parliamentary constituency Wayanad today for the first time after winning from there by 4,31,770 votes in Lok Sabha elections 2019.Gandhi is likely to be on a two-day visit to Wayanad.His Twitter account for Wayanad had announced last week,...
00:06
Cyclone Fani that ravaged Odisha's coastal districts and killed 64 people last month caused a total loss of Rs 9,336.26 crore, a senior official said Thursday. While the calamity caused a loss of Rs 6,643,63 to public properties, Rs 2,692.63 crore is required for relief measures for...
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