23:43
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday boycotted External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's opening statement at the meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Council of Foreign Ministers, saying his country will not engage with India 'until and unless' it...
23:39
The National Investigation Agency will carry out investigation into the disappearance of some computer hardware from the country's first indigenous aircraft carrier being built at the Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) here,official sources said on Thursday.We will take over the case, an NIA official...
22:53
The Indian Space Research Organisation is working out a plan for moon mission in the future, undeterred by Chandrayaan-2's lander 'Vikram' not achieving its stated aim of soft landing on the lunar surface though its orbiter is doing 'very well', its chairman K Sivan said on Thursday.Terming the...
22:13
The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mukul Roy to appear before it in Kolkata on Friday in connection with the Narada tapes scandal, agency sources said.He has been asked to come to the CBI office at Nizam Palace in the city, they said.Roy, a founder...
22:07
Statement by United States Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo:'The President announced a Presidential Proclamation restricting entry into the United States for senior Iranian government officials and members of their families.' -- ANI
22:02
After meeting top management of private sectors banks, NBFCs, microfinance institutions (MFIs) and small finance banks, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that she had not heard of any liquidity problem from them.Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi, Sitharaman said: I...
21:53
Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and Anand Sharma on Thursday met party leader from Karnataka D K Shivakumar, who is currently in judicial custody in a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate. The two leaders were accompanied to the Tihar Jail, where Shivakumar is lodged, by...
20:56
Mumbai attack mastermind and banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has been allowed by an anti-terror committee of the United Nations Security Council to withdraw money from his bank account for basic expenses on Pakistan's request.Saeed-led JuD is the front organisation for the...
20:53
Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar, arrested in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate, approached the Delhi high court on Thursday seeking bail.He has challenged the trial court's Wednesday order by which his bail plea was dismissed.While refusing the relief, the trial...
20:08
The Mumbai City District, which comprises 10 assembly segments, is perhaps the only urban area in poll-bound Maharashtra which has seen a decline in the number of voters in the last 10 years.The reason is migration of population to the suburbs of Mumbai in the north or to the townships beyond,...
19:28
Bollywood actor Salman Khan will appear before a Jodhpur court in the blackbuck poaching case on Friday amid a death threat by a gangster.The death threat was issued by gangster 'Garry Shooter', who belongs to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, through a Facebook post on September 16. The actor had filed...
19:19
Three people, including an elderly woman, died in separate rain-related incidents during the past two days as heavy rains lashed Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana, officials said on Thursday.A 43-year-old man was washed away after he fell into an open drain, while he, along with his...
18:32
China will host its top defence and security meeting called the Beijing Xiangshan Forum from October 20 to 22, a Chinese military spokesperson said on Thursday.Modelled on the annual Singapore's Shangri-La Dialogue, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum hosts defence and security officials from around the...
18:12
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has alerted Mumbaikars about 'intense rainfall' expected in the city for the next 2-3 hours.'As per the IMD (Indian Meteorological Department) forecast, intense rainfall is expected in the city for the next two to three hours.'We request citizens to not believe...
17:51
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Swami Chinmayanand, arrested following a law student's rape accusation, spent his fourth day at a hospital in Lucknow as doctors monitored his diabetes and urinary problems.Chinmayanand was admitted at the government-run Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of...
17:12
Actor Salman Khan has been asked by a Jodhpur court to appear tomorrow in the blackbuck poaching case.
16:58
Investors became richer by Rs 1.57 lakh crore on Thursday as nearly 400 points rally in the BSE Sensex gauge lifted domestic sentiment. The 30-share BSE benchmark index zoomed 396.22 points or 1.03 per cent to close at 38,989.74 amid positive cues from global markets. During the day, it jumped...
16:56
Olympic Medallist Yogeshwar Dutt joins BJP in the presence of Haryana BJP Chief Subhash Barala.
16:54
Former Indian Hockey captain Sandeep Singh joins the BJP in the presence of Haryana BJP Chief Subhash Barala.
16:47
The Election Commission Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would defer the upcoming by-polls to 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka. The statement by EC's council came after a 3-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said that it would decide on the batch of petitions filed by 17...
16:33
Former French President Jacques Chirac has died at the age of 86. Chirac had served as a head of state from 1995 to 2007 and as mayor of Paris prior to that from 1977 to 1995.He was most remembered for his defiant stand against the United States-led war in Iraq, and for shortening the...
15:57
IN a huge relief to account holders in the Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative Bank, the RBI has now increased the withdrawal limit to Rs 10,000 in six months. The RBI had capped withdrawals at Rs 1,000 per customer during the six-month period, and banned the bank from extending new...
15:46
NCP leader Supriya Sule on Thursday said she has been diagnosed with dengue and advised rest. Sule, the Lok Sabha member from Baramati in Pune district, however, said she and her team were coordinating with government officials to ensure relief measures are taken in her rain-hit constituency....
15:34
CISF surveillance and intelligence unit at IGI Airport yesterday recovered peacock feathers weighing about 49 kg from bags of a passenger Naseer Ansari (Indian), bound for Hong Kong, during checking at Terminal-3.
15:15
The Indian economy is expected to start its recovery from later part of this fiscal thanks to the initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank for policy rate transmission and steps by the government to boost growth, says a report. According to D&B Economy Observer report, a pick-up in the...
15:05
Election Commission of India announces by-polls for two Rajya Sabha seats, one each from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, on October 16. The seats have been vacated after the deaths of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and senior Supreme Court Advocate and former Union Minister, Ram Jethmalani.
14:44
Students stayed away from schools, markets remained shut and public transport stayed off the roads in the valley for the 53rd day on Thursday as the shutdown over the Centre's decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir's special status continued, officials said. Students: Classes were not held in...
14:33
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday appointed senior leader Sanjay Singh as its in-charge for the forthcoming assembly elections in Delhi. The AAP also appointed its national secretary Pankaj Gupta as the campaign director for the polls, at a meet of its Political Affairs Committee chaired by...
14:17
Intelligence agencies have warned about plans of international terror outfits including Al-Qaeda and cells affiliated to the Islamic States (IS) of attacking Jewish and Israeli communities in India during their holiday season in September and October.The agencies have alerted the states having a...
13:57
A strong aftershock of magnitude 4.7 on the Richter scale struck parts of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and adjoining areas on Thursday.According to The United States Geological Survey, the tremor struck at the depth of 10 km at around 12:15 pm local time.The quake struck Mirpur city of PoK and...
13:15
In a clear indication that the judgment in the Ayodhya dispute case is likely to be delivered before CJI Ranjan Gogoi's retirement in November, the Supreme Court on Thursday said that it cannot grant even a single extra day beyond October 18 to all petitioners to complete their submissions.A...
12:59
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday made a strong pitch for holding simultaneous polls across India to avoid deviation, dilution and diversion of the public work. Naidu made the remarks at a public event in Pune. Frequent elections in the country is a matter of concern, because the...
12:45
Digital services and consulting major Infosys has been awarded the number three ranking on Forbes list of The World's Best Regarded Companies for 2019.The list of the best regarded companies is based on each company's trustworthiness, honesty, social conduct, fairness to its employees and the...
12:37
A tribunal of the Delhi High Court has upheld the banned imposed on Yasin Malik-led Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Home Ministry said. The ban on JKLF-Malik was upheld by the tribunal headed by Justice Chander Shekhar, a Judge of the...
12:31
The Muslim parties on Thursday took a U-turn on questioning the authorship of the 2003 report of the Archaeological Survey of India and apologised to the Supreme Court for wasting it's time in the Ayodhya land dispute case. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi...
12:13
Rupa Gurunath, the daughter of former BCCI President N Srinivasan was elected as the President of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association on Thursday.She was appointed as the head of the state cricketing association at the Annual General Meeting which was held at the Chepauk MA Chidambaram Stadium in...
12:08
CBI searches were underway at the residence of former Bengaluru Police Commissioner Alok Kumar in connection with alleged phone tapping of politicians and bureaucrats during the tenure of the Congress-JD(S) government, officials said Thursday. The Karnataka government led by B S Yediyurappa...
11:53
Top Congress leaders on Thursday wished former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his birthday and recalled his dedication and selfless service to nation building. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wished good health and happiness to Singh, who turned 87 today. On his birthday, let us acknowledge...
11:42
Hitting out at Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said India cannot talk to a very challenging neighbour that conducts terrorism as a legitimate tool of statecraft to put pressure on New Delhi to come to the negotiating table, and follows a policy of implausible...
11:41
Hitting out at Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said India cannot talk to a very challenging neighbour that conducts terrorism as a legitimate tool of statecraft to put pressure on New Delhi to come to the negotiating table, and follows a policy of implausible...
11:09
Equity benchmark BSE Sensex rallied over 400 points in early session on Thursday, led by gains in banking stocks, tracking positive cues from global markets. After hitting a high of 39,008.83, the 30-share index was trading 384.54 points, or 1 per cent, higher at 38,978.06 at 0945...
11:03
Batting great Sachin Tendulkar says he had to beg and plead to open the innings for India in an ODI against New Zealand in 1994, recalling a major turning point of his career. The switch from middle-order to opening the innings proved to be a masterstroke as Tendulkar finished with a...
10:43
Pakistan has approached United Nations Security Council with a request to release monthly expenses for 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind and globally designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed. The council has 'approved' the letter after no objections were raised to it within the set deadline.In a...
09:56
Power and water supply lines were disconnected on Thursday at the four apartment complexes in Maradu, which the Supreme Court has ordered to be demolished for violating coastal norms. Amid heavy police presence, the power supply was disconnected around 5 am, while the water supply was...
09:23
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday outlined that before abrogation of Article 370 Jammu and Kashmir was in a mess while adding that the restrictions were imposed in the region to prevent loss of lives following the stripping of special status.He said that the Indian government's...
09:13
Days after United States President Donald Trump tried to woo Indian Americans by joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a mega rally in Houston, Democratic presidential aspirant Joe Biden was hosted for a major fund-raiser by this small but rich community.The fund-raiser in Los Angeles Wednesday...
09:10
Seven people were killed as heavy rain lashed Pune on Wednesday.Six people were killed in a wall collapse incident in Sahkarnagar area on Wednesday while one body was found by the National Disaster Response Force in a vehicle in a canal near Sinhagad road on Thursday morning.Water-logging was...
08:34
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesdaysaid that secularism is not under threat in India and that it is promoted by the ethos of the society.I don't accept that secularism is under threat in India, the minister said during a conference at the Council on Foreign Relations in New...
07:33
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Wednesday asked India to rescind its actions in Kashmir and abide by the relevant UN Security Council resolutions following New Delhi's decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir's special status. The foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic...
07:29
India on Wednesday slammed the UK's Labour Party after it passed a resolution calling for international intervention on the Kashmir issue. Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar described the Labour Party's move as an attempt at pandering to vote-bank interests. There is...
00:25
The United Kingdom's Opposition Labour Party on Wednesday passed an emergency motion on Kashmir calling for party leader Jeremy Corbyn to seek international observers to 'enter' the region and demand the right of self-determination for its people, drawing criticism from the Indian diaspora...
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