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After a brief respite, air quality in the national capital deteriorated again on Tuesday due to calm winds and increased impact of farm fires, official said. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the city's overall air quality index read 242 at 4 pm on Tuesday, up from 214 at...
23:07
A 62-year-old tribal farmer allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a tree in Maharashtra's Akola district, police said, adding that the decomposed body remained hanging for the last six days before it was spotted on Tuesday.While family members of the deceased Tulsiram Shinde blamed...
22:35
The Congress' mega 'Bharat Bachao rally' in the national capital against the Centre's anti-people policies, which was scheduled on November 30, will now be held on December 14, the party announced on Tuesday. The Congress had said on Saturday that its district-level and state-level...
22:23
A Delhi-based man has been apprehended by Central Industrial Security Force personnel at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi for allegedly impersonating as a pilot of Lufthansa airlines to escape long queues and security checking, officials said on Tuesday.Rajan Mahbubani (48)...
22:01
Congress president Sonia Gandhi met senior leaders Ahmed Patel, Mallikarjun Kharge, A K Antony and K C Venugopal on Tuesday to discuss the political situation in Maharashtra and the way forward for the party on government formation, sources said. Senior leaders of the Congress and the...
21:52
The government on Tuesday avoided a direct reply on whether it has taken steps to confer Bharat Ratna on Sangh Parivar idealogue Veer Savarkar but said recommendations for the country's highest civilian award are received regularly from various quarters. Union Minister of State for Home...
21:52
Hitting out at Pakistan, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that the neighbouring country does not live up to the meaning of its name and keeps on doing nefarious acts.Addressing the Indian diaspora in Singapore, Singh also defended the revocation of Article 370 and said that it was...
21:22
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Tuesday withdrew support to the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union's strike against the hostel manual and also demanded that the three-member high power committee set up by HRD Ministry to look into the JNU...
20:46
Superstar Rajinikanth on Tuesday said he would join hands with actor-turned politician Kamal Haasan for the welfare of people of Tamil Nadu if such a situation arose. Rajinikanth, who has announced he would launch his political party to contest the state assembly elections due...
20:31
Attacking Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi over her sytle of functioning, chief minister V Narayanasamy on Tuesday said she appears to be the sister of German dictator Adolf Hitler and his blood pressure shootsup whenever she returns files on cabinet decisions without approval. ...
20:08
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today met newly-elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo.A warm meeting with Sri Lanka President @GotabayaR. Conveyed PM @narendramodis message of a partnership for shared peace, progress, prosperity & security. Confident that under his...
19:52
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday expressed concern over the deteriorating air quality in the national capital and cited the introduction of CNG-powered public transport by the Congress government to tackle the issue. Speaking at the presentation of the Indira Gandhi Prize for...
19:26
Strong earthquake tremors were felt in Delhi, Lucknow and other parts of northern India on Tuesday, reports said. The earthquake had its epicenter in Nepal and was measured 5.1 on Richter scale.An earthquake was recorded in Delhi on Tuesday sometime back. Tremors were felt in Delhi-National...
19:07
Veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar, admitted to hospital with breathing problems last week, is stable and showing signs of improvement but continues to be in the ICU, hospital sources said on Tuesday. Mangeshkar, 90, has been admitted to the Breach Candy Hospital.She is stable. She is still in...
19:06
Over 270 lakh people in the age group of 18-30 years have been employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme in the last four years, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. In 2015-16, 72.74 lakh individuals in the age group of 18-30 years worked under the...
18:44
As many as 950 incidents of ceasefire violation by Pakistan have been reported along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 in August, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy also said in the Lok Sabha that...
18:30
The Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Direcotorate and the Intelligence Bureau are among 10 central agencies upon which the power of telephone interception is vested and they have to take the Union home secretary's approval before putting anyone on surveillance, the Lok Sabha was...
18:00
In a veiled reference to the recent Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena fallout over differences on government formation in Maharashtra, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said that both sides will face loss if they are going to fight over a matter.Everybody knows that both of them will...
17:44
The ruling Congress won over 961 wards, leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party trailing with 737 places in the elections to the urban local bodies held last week. The results declared Tuesday showed that the party dominated most of the 49 civic bodies which went to the polls on...
17:13
JNU Students' Union president Aishe Ghosh on Tuesday alleged that women students were not only manhandled by male police personnel in Monday's protest but were even groped.We take out a peaceful march. Vice-Chancellor is continuously spreading a false narrative that JNU students do not want to...
17:00
Without naming All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has warned against the rise of extremism among minorities who has a base in Hyderabad.Addressing her party workers on Monday at Cooch Behar, Banerjee said, Extremism is...
15:24
Congress-NCP leaders to meet in Delhi in a day or two to give final shape to the Common Minimum Program of both the parties. Final draft will be vetted by top leadership of both parties before taking it for further discussion with Shiv Sena. Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on...
14:50
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday dedicated a poem to her late grandmother and former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 102nd birth anniversary.IN memory of the bravest woman I have known#IndiraGandhiIn the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried...
14:24
Communist Party of India Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the Rajya Sabha not taking up the Jawaharlal Nehru University issue for discussion in the Parliament saying, It is quite an unfortunate battle that there is no space in the Rajya Sabha to discuss such a...
13:56
Only Rajasthan and Manipur have passed bills on action to be taken against those involved in lynching but the legislations are yet to get the President's consent, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union minister of state for home Nityananda Rai said the Centre, following a Supreme Court...
13:45
Delhi: Indian Space Research Organisation Chief K Sivan and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval at Parliament, today.
13:37
An Indian national has been charged with sexually assaulting an American national while working as a US military contractor in Afghanistan. Lokesh Naik, 35, was charged by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on November 6 with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count...
13:17
The West Bengal BJP unit has been asked by its central leadership to refrain from getting into the frequent verbal spats between the state government and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, a senior party leader said. There is a general perception that the governor and the saffron party complement...
13:04
Security forces on Tuesday seized improvised explosive devices and a wireless set from a terrorist hideout in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said. The seizure was made during a search operation that was launched on Sunday following information from villagers about the movement...
12:46
Amid sloganeering by Congress over various issues in Lok Sabha, Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday warned that he will be forced to take action against members protesting in the Well. As soon as the House met for the day, Congress and other Opposition parties, including DMK and TMC, wanted to raise...
12:43
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2019 awarded to renowned broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
12:21
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday likened its one-time ally BJP to 13th century invader Mohammed Ghori who killed Prithviraj Chauhan despite the legendary king sparing his life several times. In a hard-hitting editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana, the Sena said it would uproot the BJP as the latter...
12:10
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday rejected Shiv Sena's criticism that he had shifted their MPs to the opposition benches in the Parliament.Speaking to ANI, Joshi said, We did not make them sit in the opposition, they did it themselves.Joshi was responding to an...
11:42
The Congress-NCP meeting scheduled for today has been postponed to tomorrow. The NCP's Nawab Malik said that today's meeting between Congress and NCP leaders was postponed as Congress leaders are busy in different programmes due to Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary.Yesterday, NCP leader Sharad...
11:33
The Congress has given a notice to move an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha against the withdrawal of Special Protection Group cover of the Gandhi family. Describing the move as arbitrary, the Congress in the notice said the security cover was withdrawn ignoring the existing and probable...
11:25
A day after meeting Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday asserted that a strong and stable government led by his party will be formed in Maharashtra soon.A Shiv Sena-led government will be formed in Maharashtra soon. It will be...
10:57
After days of 'severe' and 'very poor' air quality, Delhi and its nearby areas witnessed a change with AQI improving to the 'poor' category in the morning on Tuesday.According to SAFAR, this relief from toxic air is temporary as the wind speed is going to slow down from November 20. Due to this,...
10:41
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday hit out at former ally BJP for removing them from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and making their MPs sit in the opposition side in both houses of the Parliament.On Sunday, Union parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi had said that Shiv Sena MPs are being...
10:28
On Day 2 of the Winter Session of Parliament here's what's expected:BJP Rajya Sabha MPs, RK Sinha, Vijay Goel, KTS Tulsi, GVL Narasimha Rao and Narendra Jadhav have given zero-hour notice on the issue of air pollution in the country. CPI Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswan gives suspension of...
10:16
US President Donald Trump had no chest pain nor was he evaluated or treated for any urgent or acute issues, a presidential physician has said, two days after he went for an unscheduled physical check up at a military hospital that has given rise to speculation about his health. Trump, 73, went...
10:11
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will travel to London from the International Airport in Lahore at around 10 am (local time) on Tuesday via a Qatar air ambulance.Sharif will be accompanied by his brother and PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif and his personal physician Adnan Khan.The Qatar...
10:04
Equity benchmark BSE Sensex opened over 170 points higher on Tuesday tracking gains in index-heavyweights RIL, Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank and Infosys. After hitting a high of 40,455.36 in early session, the 30-share index pared some gains to trade 58.59 points, or 0.15 per cent,...
10:04
Equity benchmark BSE Sensex opened over 170 points higher on Tuesday tracking gains in index-heavyweights RIL, Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank and Infosys. After hitting a high of 40,455.36 in early session, the 30-share index pared some gains to trade 58.59 points, or 0.15 per cent,...
10:01
Isolated places in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal and Rayalseema are likely to receive heavy rainfall today, predicted India Meteorological Department on Tuesday.According to the weather forecast agency, heavy downpour is expected to batter a few places in Tamil...
09:51
BJP Working President JP Nadda and party leader Arjun Ram Meghwal arrive at the Parliament Library Building for the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting.
09:35
A discussion on air pollution and climate change is expected to take place in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday afternoon on the second day of the Parliament's winter session.Congress MP Manish Tewari and Biju Janata Dal lawmaker Pinaki Misra are expected to initiate the discussion in the Lower House of...
09:29
Interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday paid tribute to late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary at Shakti Sthal in New Delhi.Former President Pranab Mukherjee and several other party leaders also paid homage to the late Prime...
09:25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to Indira Gandhi on her 102nd birth anniversary.Gandhi was the prime minister between 1966 and 1977 and later between 1980 and 1984.She was born on this day in 1917 in Allahabad.'Tributes to our former PM Indira Gandhi Ji on her birth...
08:30
The Jawaharlal Nehru Union Students' Union (JNUSU) has appealed to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to prepare a new IHA manual in consultation with all students of the JNU and to reconsider the proposed hike in hostel and other fees as it would prove detrimental to the careers...
00:14
Hong Kong police have fought running battles with protesters trying to break a security cordon around a university in the city, firing teargas both at activists trying to escape the besieged campus and at crowds trying to reach it from outside.Police have said the demonstrators inside Polytechnic...
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