23:26
Lyricist Javed Akhtar's recent comment on demand to ban the burqa in India has not only triggered a debate but some trouble too. Karni Sena has demanded an apology from him and threatened to beat him if he does not apologise in three days.After Shiv Sena asked the government to follow Sri Lanka's...
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A day after Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra impressed photographers during an interaction with snake charmers, Modi accused her of projecting an image of the country that did not sit well with the reality. Now it is 'mouse charmers' and not 'snake charmers', Modi said Friday,...
22:42
Union Minister Jayant Sinha was at the centre of a social media storm in July last year when images emerged of him garlanding eight men who were accused of being part of a mob that lynched a Muslim cattle trader in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, in 2017. Sinha is the MP for Hazaribagh and is seeking...
22:23
The Election Commission on Friday gave an extension till May 7 to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for replying to its notice, which was issued over his remark that the Narendra Modi government has enacted a new law which permitted tribals to be shot. Citing his speech made in Shahdol,...
21:47
The Lankan police on Friday arrested a man alleged to have been in charge of the finances of the banned local Islamist extremist outfit, National Thawheed Jammath, linked to the Islamic State, which claimed the responsibility for the Easter bombings that left 253 people dead and several hundreds...
21:20
The listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar by the UN as a global terrorist is a solid proof of the international community's strong support to India's fight against terrorism, French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler said Friday. He said France has also been hit hard by terrorism...
21:00
The Election Commission has given a clean chit to PM Modi for his Nanded speech in which he dubbed Congress as a 'sinking Titanic'.This is the fourth time that the PM has been given a clean chit. In early April, Modi in a pre-poll prediction, said the Congress party is akin to Titanic ship that...
20:40
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held 200 programmes, most of them electoral in nature, across 27 states and Union Territories, over the last 125 days beginning December 25, according to information provided by his official website.The PM joined 30 programmes in Delhi itself. Fourteen Cabinet...
20:20
Union minister Smriti Irani took a sharp dig at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his letter to the people of Amethi, which he shared on Facebook on Friday.In the letter written in Hindi to his 'Amethi parivar', Rahul appealed to the voters of his constituency to re-elect him and promised to...
19:42
A lawyer has sought action against Priyanka Gandhi Vadra under the Wildlife Protection Act after a video surfaced on the social media showing the Congress leader touching and petting snakes during an election rally in Uttar Pradesh. In a letter written to the chief wildlife warden of...
19:18
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who faces a notice by the Election Commission for his Sambhal speech last month defended his Babar ka aulad remark. The chief minister said his speech cannot be a violation of the model code of conduct because he was only recalling a conversation...
18:52
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday mocked the Congress over its claim of having conducted surgical strikes during the UPA regime telling the party that it is not a video game.A day after the Congress claimed that six surgical strikes were carried out by the Manmohan Singh-led government, he...
18:20
After 36 years of glorious service, Indian Navy's front-line missile destroyer INS Ranjit will be decommissioned on Monday.Commissioned September 15, 1983, INS Ranjit was the third of the five Kashin-class destroyers built by erstwhile USSR.The ship will now be decommissioned at a solemn ceremony...
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A baby was born in an Odisha railway hospital as the extremely severe storm wreaked its havoc on Friday and her name came to officials in a flash -- she could only be Lady Fani for them. The baby was born at 11.03 am in the railway hospital in Mancheswar, barely five km from the Odisha...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today held a meeting of senior officials to review the preparedness for commencement of 17th Lok Sabha and said the lower house has now become part of her life.Last month the Lok Sabha Speaker, an eight-time Lok Sabha MP, announced she did not want to contest the...
17:09
Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has responded to the questions he has been facing about his nationality. In a Twitter post on Friday, he wrote that he is a tax-payer In India and intends to make the country stronger and stronger. Kumars post says that the negativity surrounding his...
16:40
Pakistan has issued an official order to freeze the assets of and impose a travel ban on JeM chief Masood Azhar after the UN declared him a global terrorist.Pakistan-based Azhar is also banned from selling or purchasing arms and ammunition.The UN sanctions committee on the Islamic State and Al...
16:07
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said over Rs 1,000 crore had been released in advance for the states affected by Cyclone Fani.Addressing an election rally Rajasthan's Hindaun City, he said the government was with the people in times of crises.A detailed review meeting was held and he had...
15:13
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party for fragmenting the society for votes through its divisive policies. The leader went on to brand religious epics Ramayana and Mahabharata as specimens of Hindu violence.Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur said...
15:08
Three people were killed in separate incidents as cyclone Fani battered the Odisha coast on Friday, officials said.A teenager was killed when a tree came crashing down on him at a place within Sakhigopal police station area limits in Puri district.Flying debris from a concrete structure hit a...
14:26
The extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani that made landfall at Puri on Friday morning with a wind speed of around 245 kmph has weakened into a very severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of approximately 150-160 kmph. As it continues to move north, north East, it is likely to further weaken...
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A Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport bus caught fire in suburban Malad on Friday, but nobody was injured in the incident, a fire brigade official said.The incident occurred around 7.30 am at a bus stand in Dindoshi area, he said.The blaze started from the fuel tank of the bus. Except its...
14:15
World number 1 Bajrang Punia has become the first Indian to win gold at the Ali Aliev wrestling tournament after defeating Viktor Rassadin of Russia in the 65 kg freestyle in Kaspiysk.Bajrang, who won the Asian Championships in China last week, came through stiff resistance from a host of...
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Model code of conduct, in place for Lok Sabh elections, has been relaxed in four Andhra Pradesh districts -- East Godavari, Visakapatnam, Vizianagram and Srikakulam -- in view of relief work required due to destruction caused by Cyclone Fani.The Election Commission of India approves the...
12:42
A terrorist was killed after an encounter broke out with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian on Friday.The search operation is underway.As per officials, the firing was reported in Adkhara area of Imam Sahib.Further details are awaited.
12:15
Telecommunications networks have been reportedly partially disrupted in Puri and Bhubaneswar districts in Odisha due to cyclonic storm Fani making a landfall on Friday morning. In addition to the 147 trains (scheduled from May 1 to May 3) cancelled earlier, East Coast Railway has cancelled...
12:11
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday took to Twitter to inform that she has cancelled all her election rallies for the next two days in the wake of the 'impending' Cyclone Fani in her home state. Have cancelled my rallies for the next 48 hours because of what could be an...
11:30
As Cyclone Fani expected to hit West Bengal tonight, no flights will land or take off from the Kolkata airport from 3:00 pm on Friday to 8:30 am on Saturday, news18 has reported. The airport authorities have asked airlines to cancel both domestic and international flights during the said...
11:05
An India-based photo journalist, who was in Sri Lanka to cover the aftermath of Easter Sunday bombings, was arrested by Sri Lankan police for alleged unauthorised entry into a school. Siddiqui Ahamad Danish, who works for Reuters news agency and is based in New Delhi, was arrested...
10:57
The Odisha government has suspended Chief District Medical Officer of Rayagada, Siva Prasad Padhi, for not joining duty despite the government's order cancelling holidays of all employees in the health department in view of the cyclonic storm Fani.The state government had earlier cancelled the...
10:52
13 Navy aircraft at Vishakapatnam are in a state of readiness to provide necessary assistance as Cyclone Fani makes a landfall in Odisha's Puri.
10:30
According to the Indian meteorological department in Hyderabad, winds in Puri, Odisha, are blowing at a maximum speed of 240-245 km per hour and heavy to very heavy rains are continuing over the Odisha coast. With cyclone Fani's landfall, the impact is likely to reduce and it is likely to...
09:54
A film on Prime Minister Narendra Modi will finally release in theaters on May 24, a day after the Lok Sabha election results are announced.The film titled PM Narendra Modi starred Vivek Oberoi in the lead role.The film was set to release on April 11.However, Opposition parties protested...
09:46
Bracing for the fallout from cyclone Fani, which made landfall near Puri in Odisha this morning, the Odisha administration has been evacuating people in coastal areas. Over one million people have been evacuated from vulnerable districts in the last 24 hrs and about 5000 kitchens are...
09:39
Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani has hit Odisha coast in Puri with the area recording a wind speed of 145 kilometres per hour, the IMD said. Mritunjay Mohapatra, in-charge of the Cyclone Warning Division of the India Meteorological Department, said the process of landfall will...
09:36
The Indian Coast Guard has positioned 34 disaster relief teams at Vishakapatnam, Chennai, Paradip, Gopalpur, Haldia, Frazergunj and Kolkata, besides four Coast Guard ships at Vishakapatnam and Chennai to handle the fallout from Cyclone Fani which had a landfall this morning in Odisha.
09:30
An encounter broke out between terorrists and security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Imam Sahib area of Shopian district in south Kashmir in the morning, a police official...
08:42
Cyclone Fani has started making its impact felt in the Odisha coast, the weather office said. The impact of landfall process has started. Fani will make a landfall between 8-11 am. In the morning it was 70 km south-southwest of Puri. It is moving now, said HR Biswas, director, Met Dept,...
08:18
Cyclone Fani, which is expected to make a landfall at the Odisha coast by Friday forenoon, was nearly 65 kilometres from Gopalpur and 80 kilometres from Puri at 5.30 am, the IMD said. The Cyclone Warning Division of the India Meteorological Department said the wind speed of the Extremely...
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Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan called for tougher action against sexual assault in the US military after an annual Pentagon report said the number of assaults in 2018 had risen from recent years. Sexual assaults reported by Defense Department employees, both men and...
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