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A senior DMK leader Saturday asked party chief M K Stalin not to take on board key ally Congress for the local body polls, expected to be held shortly and instead go it alone. K N Nehru, a former State Minister and DMK's district secretary, addressing a protest demonstration...
20:53
Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed does not seem too affected by the defeat to arch-rivals India in their World match and is rather confident of his team's comeback against South Africa here on Sunday. Pakistan have won just one of their five matches in the World Cup so far, but what...
20:25
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said Saturday efforts were on to open a multiplex in the valley in order to provide an avenue for the entertainment-starved people in Srinagar. I regret that there is nothing to do in Kashmir after 6 pm. Cinema halls are closed for decades...
20:24
Lauding border residents for providing support to troops and maintaining vigil in their areas, Army chief General Bipin Rawat said on Saturday that the forces were fully prepared for emerging security challenges. I am fully satisfied with the operational preparedness of troops to meet...
19:49
A 22-year-old youth on Saturday died after being struck by lightning while talking on a mobile phone in Maharashtra's Akola district, police said.An official said Abhijit Srikrishna Ingle, 22, a resident of Waghjali village in Barshitakali taluka in Akola, was standing under a tree to protect...
19:47
Ahead of the next month's Union budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday interacted with economists and industry experts on current economic situation and took note of their suggestions. In the interactive session organised by Niti Aayog on 'Economic Policy - The Road Ahead', over...
19:13
Posters asking Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to keep his promise of quitting politics if Congress president Rahul Gandhi lost the elections from Amethi were seen in Ludhiana on Saturday.At the time of campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections, Sidhu had promised that he would quit politics if...
18:50
Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has sought parole for over a month for farming at his fields in Haryana's Sirsa, officials said on Saturday. The 51-year-old is currently lodged at Sunaria jail in Rohtak after being convicted in two rape cases and murder of a...
18:19
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur and senior officials of the ministry on Saturday observed the symbolic 'Halwa' ceremony to mark the launch of formal printing of documents relating to the Union Budget 2019-20. The National Democratic...
17:58
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to increase the strength of judges and raise the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years. Gogoi has also urged the prime minister to make tenure appointments of retired apex court judges...
17:05
Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday said the country is at the cusp of achieving peace, which can be complemented through meaningful international partnership. Addressing a seminar on 'Pakistan's Regional Security Perspective' at the International Institute for...
16:54
Amid rising geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran, India's aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Saturday said Indian airlines have decided to avoid the affected part of the Iranian airspace and reroute their flight suitably. On Friday, the...
16:51
A day after a fire occurred at an under-construction naval warship at Mazgaon Dockyard in Mumbai, a senior official on Saturday said it would not affect the schedule of the ambitious 'Project 15-B' under which four warships are being manufactured. Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd, which...
16:11
Newly elected Bahujan Samaj Party MP Atul Rai, who has been accused of rape, surrendered in a Varanasi court on Saturday. The judicial magistrate remanded Rai in 14-day judicial custody.An FIR was registered against Rai on May 1 on a complaint by a college student who had alleged that...
16:09
Several persons were injured as fresh clashes were reported in trouble-torn Bhatpara area in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Saturday as rival groups violated Section 144 imposed there. Police had to resort to lathi charge to disperse the crowd.The incident happened moments...
15:42
On legendary Indian actor Amrish Puri's 87th birth anniversary on Saturday, search engine Google paid tributes to the character artiste with a special doodle. The doodle created by Pune-based guest artist Debangshu Moulik celebrates the life and legacy of the renowned actor. Born in...
15:19
A terrorist was killed in an encounter on Saturday with security forces in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Boniyar area of Baramulla district in the early hours following information about presence of the...
14:28
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday congratulated those who have been conferred with the Prime Minister's Award for Outstanding Contribution for Promotion and Development of Yoga, 2019. We are immensely proud of their rich work to ensure more people embrace Yoga and our planet...
14:01
Union minister Smriti Irani wrote a strong post against bullying on Instagram on Friday after her daughter was humiliated and mocked in school. I deleted my daughter's selfie yesterday coz an idiot bully in her class, A Jha, mocks her for her looks & tells his pals in class to...
13:44
Eighteen people were injured Saturday when a minibus turned turtle in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The accident occurred at Fogmorh near Shalimar and the injured, including the driver of the bus, were shifted to the district hospital, a police official...
13:06
The Andhra Pradesh government transferred as many as 32 IAS officers and gave postings to seven others, in a bureaucratic reshuffle. The transfer orders were issued Friday midnight. Three senior IAS officers including a Special Chief Secretary, who served in...
12:51
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam organised a yagna at Arulmigu Gangadeeswarar temple in Purasawalkam, Chennai for rain.
12:30
The Enforcement Directorate has offered to provide an air ambulance and a team of medical experts to bring back fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, a key accused in the multi-crore Punjab National Bank scam, from Antigua and provide him with all necessary treatment in India.In a counter affidavit...
12:07
The United Statets has asked Pakistan to release more than 40 members of the religious minorities facing blasphemy charges and also to appoint an envoy to address the various religious freedom concerns in the country.Speaking at the release of the annual report on the International Religious...
11:32
The international terror financing watchdog, Financial Action Task Force, has decided to keep Pakistan on its 'Grey' list for failure to curb funnelling of funds to terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and others and has given a September deadline to compile with its 27-point action...
10:59
The CBI has registered a case against unknown officials of Indian Air Force, ministry of defence and controversial arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari for alleged corruption in procurement of 75 Pilatus basic trainer aircraft in 2009, officials said Saturday. The CBI also carried out searches...
10:55
India on Saturday said it expects Pakistan to take all necessary steps to effectively implement the FATF action plan fully by September and take credible, verifiable, and irreversible measures to address global concerns related to terrorism and terrorist financing emanating from its soil. ...
10:09
Jammu-Kashmir: Exchange of fire between terrorists and security forces in forest area of Boniyar in Baramulla district.
10:02
The death toll from acute encephalitis syndrome reached 141 in Bihar with the viral disease claiming the lives of three more children in Muzaffarpur.As many as 18 districts were affected by encephalitis. Majority of the cases had been reported from Muzaffarpur (437), where 85 children have died...
09:32
President Ram Nath Kovind extended his best wishes for space mission 'Chandrayaan-2' which is scheduled to be launched next month. The Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Space Commission, Dr K Sivan, had called on the President on Friday and briefed him about the new space...
09:08
New York-based advice columnist has claimed that US President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, according to a first-person account published on Friday by New York magazine.However, Donald Trump denied the allegations and...
08:37
Donald Trump has nominated Mark Esper to be the US Secretary of Defense, the White House said hours after the president revealed he had come close to authorising a strike on Iran. Esper, who is Secretary of the army, was named acting Pentagon chief after Patrick Shanahan withdrew his...
08:03
Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, who kick-started his village stay campaign ''Grama Vastavya 2.0'' from Gurmitkal in Yadgir district on Friday, denied reports of him getting a 5-star treatment in a village stating that he was ready to sleep on the road.What 5-star arrangements? Ready to...
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A 40-year-old cleric has alleged that a car hit him in northwest Delhi's Rohini on Thursday after he refused to heed to the demand of its three occupants to chant 'Jai Shree Ram'. However, police said they are verifying the claims made by the cleric.In his complaint to the police, Maulana...
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