23:43
Top officials of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana on Monday outlined before the Prime Minister's Office steps taken by their states in the past 24 hours to check air pollution, including imposing fines on those burning stubble and sprinkling of water in identified hotspots. Holding a review meeting...
22:49
Despite the ban on stubble-burning that is choking Delhi and other areas in northern India, farm fires continue around this Punjab village, just 20 km from the state capital Chandigarh. We are helpless, says a farmer, citing the cost of equipment meant to tackle crop residue without...
22:44
With India deciding not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the Congress on Monday claimed victory saying its forceful opposition ensured that the Bharatiya Janata Party government backs out from bartering the interests of farmers, dairy producers, fishermen and small and...
22:37
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for home after attending India-ASEAN, the East Asia and the RCEP summits in Bangkok. PM @narendramodi emplanes for home after participating in ASEAN & related summits, encapsulating principles of Neighbourhood First, Act East & Indo...
22:36
Jawaharlal Nehru University students, who are on protest against the draft hostel manual since last week, on Monday claimed that the administration had called paramilitary force inside the campus. However, a senior police officer said the paramilitary personnel did not enter the...
21:42
Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan is set to pass the baton of his party's leadership to his son Chirag and an announcement to this effect is likely to be made on Tuesday. Party sources said the LJP national executive in its meeting on Tuesday will see Chirag...
21:36
As the suspense over government formation in Maharashtra continued, Bharatiya Janata Party sources on Monday said the party would wait and watch how the situation pans out in the next few days as the ball was now in its ally Shiv Sena's court. BJP leader and Maharashtra chief minister...
21:26
The Prime Minister's Office on Monday asked Haryana and Punjab to provide details of additional measures taken by them to check fresh cases of fire and stubble burning during the last 24 hours. P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, sought these details when he...
20:41
Amid the stalemate over government formation in Maharashtra, a Marathi daily, widely seen inclined towards the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, on Monday likened Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut to 'Betaal', the mythological ghost known for challenging King Vikramaditya with his witty riddles.Coming down...
20:34
The tussle between Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy and Lt Governor Kiran Bedi continued unabated on Monday, with the CM alleging she behaves as if she is the country's president and urged her to not run a parallel administration. Talking to PTI over phone, Narayanasamy said as the...
20:25
Pakistan's sudden decision to accept the 70-year-old demand to open Kartarpur Corridor is aimed at driving a wedge in the Sikh community by exploiting religious sentiments, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh said on Monday. He stressed that Pakistan's move indicated an ulterior...
20:12
Eminent farm scientist M S Swaminathan on Monday said blaming farmers for air pollution in the national capital will take nowhere, rather Delhi and neighbouring state governments should set up rice bio-parks to help farmers switch to cleaner methods to get rid of stubble. In South...
20:11
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) on Monday said it is recalling a limited batch of XUV300 vehicles to fix a faulty suspension component. The proactive inspection and replacement of the component would be carried on a limited batch of compact SUV that were manufactured till May 19,...
19:55
Terming Congress ideology as divisive and pro-Pakistan, a Uttar Pradesh minister has said Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are considered role models in Pakistan. The Congress is pro-Pakistan and its ideology is divisive. Rahul and Priyanka are considered role models...
19:34
A Delhi court summoned the editor-in-chief of Zee News, Sudhir Chaudhary, as an accused on Monday in a defamation complaint filed by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra against him and the television news channel in connection with a show aired by it on one of her speeches delivered in...
19:29
The responsibility of forming the government in Maharashtra is with the Bharatiya Janata Party, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar said on Monday after meeting Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi.Amidst reports that Uddhav Thackeray's party was in touch with the NCP, Pawar said...
18:37
Savera R Someshwar reports:It was Indrani Mukerjea's fourth bail appeal at the Mumbai civil and sessions court in south Mumbai.Accused of brutally murdering her elder daughter Sheena Bora, Indrani made an emotional appeal to Judge Jayendra Chandrasen Jagdale.I haven't done the heinous crimes I am...
18:32
India has decided not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement as its key concerns have not been addressed, government sources said.The sources said there will no compromise on the country's core interests and RCEP agreement does not reflect its original intent and the...
18:25
A total of 192 challans were issued for violations of the odd-even rule on the first day of its implementation on Monday, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said. He also thanked the people of Delhi for complying with the rule, saying the scheme was successful on day one.The...
17:43
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar met Congress president Sonia Gandhi amid the ongoing tussle between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena over government formation in Maharashtra. Pawar's meeting with the Congress chief comes days after his meeting with Shiv Sena's...
17:38
The statue of Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar at Pillayarpatti was vandalized by unidentified miscreants on Monday.The statue was vandalized by unidentified suspects, who spread cow dung all over it.Earlier, a controversy broke out between political parties in Tamil Nadu, when the state...
17:08
Passengers taking IndiGo flights on Monday morning at airports all over India faced major hassle as the airline's server were down for around an hour across the entire network. As servers were down, the check-in counters of the budget-carrier were unable to issue boarding passes to passengers,...
16:47
Infosys on Monday said it is yet to receive any evidence to corroborate complaints by anonymous whistleblowers that alleged unethical practices by the company's top management.With respect to the anonymous complaints, there is no prima facie evidence that the company has received until date to...
16:16
The Supreme Court on Monday held state governments responsible for the current situation of air pollution prevailing in Delhi-NCR and remarked that those at the helm seem interested only in gimmicks.The remarks by the apex court came during the hearing of Air pollution case. The matter was being...
16:09
Dr Reddy's Laboratories, which initiated a voluntary recall of its Ranitidine from the US market following the ongoing investigation by the FDA into the reported carcinogenic impurity in the drug at low levels, has said it made Rs 40 crore towards provisioning, anticipating market impact.
16:00
Amid the stalemate over government formation in Maharashtra, a Marathi daily, widely seen inclined towards the RSS, on Monday likened Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut to 'Betaal', the mythological ghost known for challenging King Vikramaditya with his witty riddles. Coming down heavily on Raut, Tarun...
15:40
Update: Terrorists lobbed a grenade in a busy market in the heart of the city, killing one person on Monday, almost three months since the Kashmir Valley shut down in response to the Centre revoking the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.At least 13 people...
15:04
With the Shiv Sena seeming firm on its demand of sharing the chief minister's post in the next Maharashtra government, a BJP minister on Monday said some of his party leaders are willing for a re-election in the state. The BJP leaders expressed this view during a review meeting held in Dhule...
14:53
Amid the recent power struggle with alliance partners Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday expressed confidence that the state will be getting a new government soon.Speaking to media persons, Fadnavis said, I don't want to comment on anything anyone is saying on...
14:43
The Supreme Court Monday slammed authorities for failing to curb pollution in Delhi-NCR and said they have left people to die. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta took serious note of crop burning in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh and said it cannot go unabated every...
14:20
A civilian was killed and 13 others were injured as terrorists lobbed a grenade in a busy market area in Srinagar on Monday, police said. The attack took place at 1:20 pm in Hari Singh High Street market area. While one person died in the attack, 13 others were injured, two of them critically,...
14:19
Ayodhya District Magistrate Anuj Kumar Jha on Monday appealed to the public to exercise necessary caution and not like, share or forward social media posts which may hurt the sentiments of any community.In an order dated October 31, the Ayodhya district administration had issued a slew of...
14:03
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Monday thanked Indian captain Rohit Sharma and the Bangladesh cricket team for agreeing to play the first T20 International despite severe air pollution in the national capital. The Delhi government has issued a health emergency across NCR as the toxic air...
13:34
Madhav Godbole, the then (Dec 1992) Union Home Secy, on Babri masjid: If Rajiv Gandhi had acted a solution could have been found because political positions had not fortified on both sides, there was a possibility of give and take and a solution could have been acceptable. Rajiv Gandhi went...
13:25
More than a thousand Indian Sikhs arrived in Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal around midnight on Sunday as part of the Nagar Kirtan, a religious procession held to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.The gurdwara was decorated with colourful lights...
13:24
Lunchtime read: A vast amount of Urdu poetry exists on the various incidents mentioned in the epic, reports the Dawn. Do read
13:05
AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Monday hit out at BJP leader Vijay Goel for opposing the odd-even scheme and stated that his act depicts BJP's 'mentality'.Singh's comments came in reference to Goel's announcement of a symbolic protest wherein he will ride through the streets of Delhi to oppose the...
12:44
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has banned mobile phones inside Congress Working Committee meetings with immediate effect. Sonia has always been concerned about sensitive information discussed at CWC meetings leaking to the BJP or news channels, and the recent news of snooping via...
12:29
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday arrived at the official residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to hold a meeting with the Union minister.As per sources, Fadnavis is meeting with Shah to seek more assistance from Central from the government for farmers affected due to...
12:03
The 5-year-old girl who had fallen into a 50-feet deep borewell in Hari Singh Pura village of Karnal, has died. A rescue operation was on to pull her out, police said on Monday. She fell in the borewell belonging to her family while playing in the fields on Sunday in Gharaunda area, a police...
11:56
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the parole plea of Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term for killing business executive Nitish Katara in 2002. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the convict was awarded 25 years of jail term and it has to be served without any...
11:29
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will be the chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations in January 2020.It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi who chooses the chief guest for the occasion, with or without consulting the foreign office. The PM has had close interactions with nearly...
11:10
Amid the ongoing tussle over government formation in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said his scheduled meeting with Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Monday evening will be a courtesy call with no political motive.Raut said the governor was like the state's guardian and therefore, he...
10:59
In Ludhiana, farmers continue to burn stubble, one of the primary reasons of poor air quality in Delhi.
10:54
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia leaves for his office on a bicycle, from his residence in Delhi even as the government's odd-even scheme kicked in at 8 am today. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has urged all citizens to use carpooling in order to control the deteriorating air quality in...
10:29
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Prime Minister of Japan, Shinz Abe in Bangkok.
10:24
The Shiv Sena on Monday said the intricacies of government formation in Maharashtra should not push rain-hit farmers towards existential crisis and demanded that they be provided relief package of about Rs 30,000 crore. Farmers in the state need to be saved at any cost, it said in an...
10:11
Market benchmark BSE Sensex rallied over 269 points to hit its intra-day peak of 40,434.83 in early trade on Monday led by gains in ICICI Bank, RIL, ITC, TCS and HDFC Bank amid positive global cues and unabated foreign fund inflow. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty advanced 75.85 points to...
10:09
With an aim to combat air pollution, Delhi government's odd-even scheme was launched in the national capital on Monday with common citizens giving a mix response over the scheme.Many commuters on the road supported the scheme but also urged the government to take better and more stringent steps...
09:58
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will attend Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Summit, where the leaders of the member countries will review the state of negotiations which are ongoing in Bangkok currently and will continue over the next few days.RCEP is a proposed free...
09:53
Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia on the Odd-Even scheme that was launched today: North India has been engulfed in smoke caused by stubble burning, right now we can't do anything about that, but if we follow the scheme for next 10 days, it will give some relief. It is for everybody's...
09:45
There is no respite for Delhiites from the hazardous air quality as the Delhi-NCR region was engulfed in a thick blanket of smog on Monday morning. According to the data provided by System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), major pollutants PM 2.5 and PM 10 were docked...
09:36
Maharashtra: Four people dead and around 30 injured after a bus driver lost control of his vehicle on old Pune-Mumbai highway, near Bhor Ghat, today.
09:26
A 5-year-old girl fell into a 50-feet-deep borewell in Harsinghpura village in Haryana's Karnal district and a rescue operation was on to pull her out, police said on Monday. She fell in the borewell belonging to her family while playing in the fields on Sunday in Gharaunda area, a police...
09:02
Ahead of the verdict on Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit that is likely to be delivered by Supreme Court in coming few days, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has asked its cadre to get in touch with their respective local police stations and raise an alert if anti-social elements try to disturb...
08:42
With talks with ally BJP stuck over chief ministership, the Shiv Sena said joining hands with the NCP, Congress and others to form a government was in the interest of Maharashtra.Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said he would meet the Maharashtra Governor on Monday. I will ask him to invite the single...
08:10
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut along with other senior party leaders is scheduled to meet Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at 5 pm today.Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, along with other senior party leaders, is scheduled to meet Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at 5 pm, the office of Maharashtra Governor...
07:45
With the air quality in Delhi reaching apocalyptic levels, authorities in the world's most polluted capital city will implement the odd-even traffic rationing scheme starting 8 am today. Around 200 teams of the Delhi Traffic Police have been appointed to ensure compliance and around 5,000 civil...
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