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Renowned novelist and author Kiran Nagarkar passed away in Mumbai on Thursday evening. He was 77.Nagarkar breathed his last at Bombay Hospital.Nagarkar was the author of Ravan and Eddie and Cuckold among other novels.His works also include Gods Little Soldier, The Extras and, Rest in...
23:12
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to investigate the 2017 Pehlu Khan lynching case on Thursday submitted its report to the Rajsthan Director General of Police, a source said.He said the report will soon be presented before Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.The chief minister...
22:27
The Congress on Thursday accused the government of 'selective opposition persecution' after former finance minister P Chidambaram was put behind bars.Congress spokesperson and Chidambaram's counsel Abhishek Singhvi expressed the hope that there are better chances of getting bail after some...
21:54
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday defended hefty fines under new Motor Vehicle Act, saying the government's intention was not to impose heavy penalties on people but to bring road discipline for preventing loss of lives through accidents.After the Motor Vehicle Act (2019) came into effect...
21:12
Congress leader P Chidambaram who was sent to Tihar jail Thursday did not press for bail in a Delhi court on the expiry of his Central Bureau of Investigation custody in the INX Media corruption case, leaving him with the option of seeking regular bail.Instead of sending Chidambaram to Tihar jail...
21:03
A Hindu girl, who was allegedly abducted and forcibly converted to Islam before being married to a Muslim man in Pakistan's Sindh province, has been reunited with family, according to a media report.Reno Kumari, resident of Rohri, was kidnapped when she was on her way to a local college on August...
20:50
Pakistan will develop an ancient Hindu cave shrine situated in the restive Balochistan province, according to a media report.A delegation of Shri Hinglaj Mata temple on Tuesday met Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan to discuss the facilities available at the temple, particularly during...
20:01
Karti Chidambaram leaves from Tihar Jail.
19:52
Former chief minister of Uttarakhand Bhagat Singh Koshyari was on Thursday sworn in as the new governor of Maharashtra.He was administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Pradip Nadrajog, at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis,...
19:48
Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday suspended two IndiGo pilots for two months for flying a Hyderabad-Vijaywada flight on July 24 with the tail support attached even though they were informed about it by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) immediately after take-off, an...
19:40
P Chidambaram brought to Tihar Jail.Director General of Tihar Prison Sandeep Goel said Chidambaram will be kept in Jail number 7 and in a separate cell.Roti, dal and sabzi will be given to him. Other things like western toilet which the court asked will be provided, Goel said. -- ANI
19:18
P Chidambaram being taken in a Police bus to Tihar Jail.Supporters of Chidambaram protested outside Rouse Avenue Court.Chidambaram waved to them as he was being taken in the Police bus.The former finance minister is likely to be lodged at the Tihar prison's Jail No. 7, officials said.Jail No. 7...
19:10
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Bengaluru to witness live, Chandrayaan-2's landing module 'Vikram' trying to pull off a historic soft-landing on the lunar surface in the early hours of Saturday.'Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Bengaluru on September 6 and will view the...
18:40
Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who was sent to 14-day judicial custody on Thursday in the INX Media corruption case, is likely to be lodged at the Tihar prison's Jail No. 7, officials said.Jail No. 7 usually houses those accused in Enforcement Directorate cases.The veteran Congress leader...
18:38
Police bus parked inside Rouse Avenue Court, P Chidambaram is expected to be taken in this bus to Tihar Jail.Chidambaram is still inside court.The court has remanded him to judicial custody till September 19 in CBI case in INX media matter. -- ANI
18:26
P Chidambaram on being asked what he has to say after court sent him to judicial custody, said, I am only worried about the economy. -- ANI
18:14
Prime Minister on Thursday said that India and Russia share a linguistic connection in bidding farewell.Addressing the plenary session of the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) here, Modi said in his home state Gujarat instead of saying 'Goodbye' people say 'Aavjo' (see you later). And here in...
17:53
Delhi court sends Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, to six-day Enforcement Directorate custody in a money laundering case related to VVIP chopper scam. -- PTI
17:51
Considering that he has Z security, court directs Chidambaram be kept in separate cell in Tihar jail.The court also allowed him to carry his medicines to jail.Chidambaram's lawyers have also moved an application in court stating that Chidambaram wants to surrender in the Enforcement Directorate...
17:37
The Rouse Avenue Court has sent Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram to judicial custody till September 19 in a case being probed by Central Bureau of Investigation in INX Media case. -- ANI
17:25
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a swipe at his political opponents on Teachers' Day, thanking them for their 'vicious barbs, false propaganda and anger' that made him stronger.'On Teachers' Day, I thank all those from whom I've learnt, over the years,' he said.'That...
17:21
A case has been registered against 43 persons for serving non-vegetarian biryani to Hindus at a community feast during an 'Urs' in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district, police said on Thursday.The feast was organised during the 'Urs' of Sheikh Peer Baba in Salat village in Charkhari area on August 31,...
17:03
A Delhi court will shortly pronounce its order on the Central Bureau of Investigation plea that former finance minister P Chidambaram be sent to judicial custody in the INX Media corruption case.Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar reserved the order after Chidambaram's counsel opposed the plea for...
16:15
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram was produced before a Delhi court on Thursday after expiry of his two-day Central Bureau of Investigation custody in the INX Media corruption case and the agency said that he be sent to judicial custody.He was brought to the special court hours after he...
16:01
The HRD ministry on Thursday awarded Institution of Eminence (IoE) status to five public institutes including Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University, University of Hyderabad, IIT-Madras and IIT-Kharagpur. The decision was taken following a recommendation made by the University...
15:50
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has reorganised the party's data analytics department. The department, headed by Praveen Chakravarty, had led the Congress campaign on its minimum income guarantee promise in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, as also its membership drive. ...
15:39
Authorities in Kashmir have restored 19 more telephone exchanges, a month after telephone services were snapped following abrogation of provisions of Article 370, officials said on Thursday. Landline telephone connections started working in commercial hub of Lal Chowk and press colony...
15:32
Hitting back at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former finance minister P Chidambaram for criticising the Centre over the plunging GDP figures, Union minister Anurag Thakur said both the Congress leaders needed to look back and see the state of the Indian economy during the tenures of...
15:20
Among the outpouring of concern over Mumbai's submerged state on Wednesday, there has been one notable exception so far. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who has been tweeting in his usual prolific manner, has not said a word about the nightmare Mumbai's residents...
15:05
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India will walk shoulder-to-shoulder with Russia in its development of the Far East and announced a USD 1 billion line of credit for the development of the resource-rich region.Addressing the plenary session of the 5th Eastern Economic Forum, prime...
14:21
A Delhi court Thursday granted anticipatory bail to former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti in Aircel Maxis cases filed by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate. Special Judge O P Saini granted relief to the Chidambarams and directed them to join the probe in the cases.In...
14:18
On the occasion of Teachers Day, Kanhaiya Kumar has posted a tribute to Gauri Lankesh on Twitter, describing her as en embodiment of a teacher, here.
14:17
With Sonia Gandhi back as the Congress chief, the older guard has started to assert itself in the party. On Wednesday, senior leaders finally settled the leadership issue in the Haryana unit of the Congress. The party president named Kumari Selja as the state unit chief. She...
13:58
The merger of public sector banks, announced recently by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, 'was meant to be seen as a big bang response for arresting the slowdown, but 'on the contrary, it was a needless distraction'. So writes Duvvuri Subburao, former RBI governor, in the Indian...
13:27
Meanwhile we came across this tweet by Harsh V Shringla, India's ambassador to the US: 'A pleasure to meet the legendary ideologue and 'Dharma' warrior @StephenBannon, an avid follower of the #Hindu epic the #BhagvadGita.' Shringla also posted a photograph of him with...
13:24
Two FIRs have been lodged against Assam Coordinator of National Register of Citizens, Prateek Hajela, for discrepancies in the final updated list, police said on Thursday.A lawyer and indigenous Muslim students organisation -- All Assam Goriya-Moriya Yuva Chatra Parishad -- filed separate FIRs...
12:56
Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that the government has no intention to ban petrol and diesel vehicles.There were discussions and the ministry had received suggestions that petrol-diesel vehicles should be banned. I would like to clarify that the government...
12:38
Days after Kashmir Times Executive Editor Anuradha Bhasin filed a plea, alleging media restrictions, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court that a large number of newspapers are being published in the Valley every day. The solicitor general also said that the Kashmir Times editors...
12:12
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said news of an economic slowdown and the Modi government's silence on it was very dangerous. Excuses and rhetoric will not work, the Congress general secretary said on Twitter.The government has neither a solution nor the strength to...
11:38
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered shifting of ailing Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Mohd Yusuf Tarigami to AIIMS in Delhi from Srinagar where he is under house arrest. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it was inclined to shift Tarigami, the former CPI (M)...
11:30
When Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Supreme Court advocate, wrote an article in the Indian Express on September 4, saying that the Centre's non-renewal of President's rule in Jammu and Kashmir is a gaffe that can have dire consequences (link here), the ministry of home affairs' spokesperson was quick to...
11:26
Mehbooba Mufti's daughter will be allowed to meet her in Kashmir, the Supreme Court said today, responding to her petition today. In her petition, Sana Iltija Javed had said she was worried about her mother's health since she had not met her in a month.Mehbooba Mufti, a former Jammu and...
10:51
Congress leader P Chidambaram faces arrest by the Enforcement Directorate over corruption allegations in the INX Media case after the Supreme Court refused to grant him protection today.Anticipatory bail has to be exercised sparingly in cases of economic offences, the Supreme Court said, in a...
10:34
Backing India on its move to declare Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and three others individual terrorists under the new anti-terror law, the US has said the move has expanded possibilities of cooperation between the two countries in fighting terrorism.We stand with India and...
09:53
Normal life was hit in parts of neighbouring Ramanagara district on Thursday following a bandh called to protest the arrest of senior Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. Sporadic protests were reported in places,...
09:30
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and BJP MP Sunny Deol expressed grief over a firecracker factory blast in Batala which claimed 23 lives on Wednesday. Deeply anguished to learn of the loss of lives due to the blast in the firecracker factory in Batala. Rescue operations are underway with the...
09:14
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear the petition of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's daughter, Iltija Javed, seeking permission from the authorities to allow her to meet her mother. A bench comprising of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde and S A...
08:31
In comparison to Wednesday, people in Mumbai have some respite from rain and water-logging. The local train service has been largely restored and pace of road transport has also improved this morning. The water level is receding in many areas.However, the train link between Chhatrapati...
08:12
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe and the two leaders pledged to deepen the robust bilateral ties in a number of areas, including in economic and defence sectors. Modi, who arrived in Russia on a two-day visit, is the first Indian prime...
07:57
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor said that the National Register of Citizens has made many people who have families, careers, properties in India suddenly a foreigner in their own country. Tharoor said: You have taken people who know no other home but India, who have...
01:40
Amidst tensions with India, Pakistan's military clarified on Wednesday that it does not follow the 'no first use' policy on nuclear weapons. Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor at a media briefing was asked about the statement by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who said last month that...
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