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Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a judge on Friday to throw out an advice columnist’s defamation lawsuit over his response to her allegation that he raped her in the 1990s.The US president’s lawyers argue E Jean Carroll’s suit cannot go forward in a New York state court because his statements were...
20:48
Air India chief Ashwani Lohani on Saturday said that rumours of the disinvestment-bound airline's shutdown are all baseless, weeks after he told the civil aviation ministry that the carrier's financial situation was grossly untenable for sustaining operations.  Rumours regarding Air India...
20:43
Telangana BJP MP D Arvind has hit out at the AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi over his alleged 'tear' the BJP remark, saying he would shave off the latter's beard and hang him upside down.  In a veiled attack on the ruling TRS, which maintains friendly ties with the MIM and has opposed CAA,...
20:18
A court in Nagpur on Saturday granted exemption from appearance to BJP leader and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in a complaint seeking criminal proceedings for non-disclosure of cases against him in his election affidavit.Chief judicial magistrate RM Satav posted the matter for hearing...
19:38
Noting that the National Register of Citizens in Assam has led to a bitter experience, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said the National Population Register of the Bharatiya Janata Party government was clearly linked to the NRC and asked why Home Minister Amit Shah was not...
19:25
Amid reports of strife in the Aurangabad unit of the ruling Shiv Sena and rumours of a state minister submitting his resignation, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Narayan Rane on Saturday said the Uddhav Thackeray-led government in Maharashtra will be short-lived.Talking to reporters in Solapur, Rane said...
18:49
The Bhim Army claimed on Saturday that its jailed chief Chandrashekhar Azad was unwell and needed immediate medical care. Rejecting the claim, a senior jail official said Azad was absolutely fine and no such issue had come to their notice during routine medical check-ups by the official jail...
18:28
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Gobind Singh Longowal on Saturday said that the religious body would send a delegation to Pakistan for discussing the Nankana Sahib issue.We are sending a four-member delegation to Pakistan, which will meet senior officials and the province's...
17:47
Congress worker Sadaf Jafar and former IPS officer SR Darapuri, who were held in December in connection with the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, have been granted bail. Besides, 10 other anti-CAA protesters, too, have been granted bail.The development has come...
17:19
Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.Irfan, 35, has played 29 Tests, 120 ODIs and 24 T20Is for India in an international career that spanned nearly nine years beginning 2003. Known for his ability to swing the ball sharply, Irfan picked 301...
16:59
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Meenakshi Lekhi on Saturday questioned Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu's silence on stone-pelting by a mob at Gurdwara Nankana Sahib in Pakistan.She said that even after the incident, if he wanted to hug the 'ISI chief', then the Congress should look into it. Till...
16:35
Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot offered cautious criticism of his government today, urging the Congress to be compassionate and sensitive following the deaths of more than 100 infants at a state-run hospital in Kota district. Pilot's comment comes two days after Chief Minister Ashok...
16:18
India captain Virat Kohli has refrained from making any comments on the Citizenship Amendment Act, without gaining full knowledge on the sensitive subject. The CAA will grant Indian nationality to people belonging to minority communities -- Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians...
15:57
The British government on Saturday advised UK nationals to avoid travelling to Iraq and Iran in face of heightened tensions in the Middle East following the US killing of a top Iranian commander in Baghdad.  Following the death of Qasem Soleimani and heightened tensions in the region... We now...
15:32
The Jamia Millia Islamia University has announced that the semester examinations will commence from January 9.  The varsity was closed mid-December after violence outside its campus during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.It had declared vacation till January 5 and cancelled all...
15:07
Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha on Saturday announced that Rashtra Manch, his political action group, will take out a 'Bharat Jodo Yatra 2020' from Mumbai to Delhi to demand withdrawal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.Addressing a press conference, the former BJP leader said the 21-day...
14:43
Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha MP and former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir launched an attack at Pakistan against the Nankana Sahib Gurudwara incident and slammed the neighbouring country for supporting forcible conversions of a girl.Gautam Gambhir also called Pakistan Prime Minister Imran...
14:27
Shiv Sena MLA Abdul Sattar has offered to step down as a minister of state in Maharashtra, sources said on Saturday.According to former MP Chandrakant Khaire, Sattar is angry over Shiv Sena's decision to support Congress in the Zilla Parishad president elections. Khaire said he had a...
14:03
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday condemned the mob attack on Nankana Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan, saying bigotry is a dangerous, age old poison that knows no borders.  Taking to Twitter, Gandhi termed Friday attack reprehensible, and said the only known antidote to bigotry is love,...
13:26
Suspected terrorists hurled a grenade at CRPF personnel in Kawdara locality here on Saturday, resulting in damage to several vehicles, police said. However, there was no immediate report of any casualty or injury, they said.A grenade was hurled by terrorists to target CRPF personnel posted in...
12:49
Grenade attack in Kawdara area of old Srinagar.More details awaited.
12:31
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday reached violence-struck Muzaffarnagar. She met Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini who was allegedly beaten up by the police in the crackdown on anti-Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 protests. The Congress general secretary was accompanied by Imran Masood,...
12:07
Muzaffarnagar district adminstration has sent notices to 46 people for their alleged involvement in damaging public property during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests.  The notices to 46 people have been sent by a panel set up under additional district magistrate Amit Kumar by the...
11:45
Promising pension to anti-CAA protesters if voted to power in the state, Samajwadi Party leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Ram Govind also said that his party would give compensation to the kin of those jailed or killed during the protests.They...
11:21
Iran promised to seek revenge for a United States airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed the mastermind of its interventions across the Middle East, and the US said on Friday that it was sending thousands more troops to the region as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing.The...
10:56
Amid ongoing nationwide protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Union Minister of State (MoS) Jitendra Singh said that the Central government's next step would be the deportation of Rohingyas from the country.The Citizenship (Amendment) Act is applicable across the country including...
10:05
Ranjit Savarkar, grandson of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, was hospitalised late on Friday night after he complained of high blood pressure, sources said on Saturday.Sources claimed that the 55-year-old was under a lot of stress and tension following the controversy over his...
09:57
A Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist was arrested from a hospital in Srinagar on Saturday, police said.Nisar Ahmad Dar, a resident of the Hajin area of Bandipore district in north Kashmir, was arrested by the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir Police from Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital...
09:37
India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin on Friday slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for peddling a seven-year-old violence video from Bangladesh as a case of what he claimed to be 'Indian police's pogrom against Muslims in UP'.'Repeat offenders. Old habits...
09:29
As many as 19 trains are running late due to low visibility in the Northern Railway region.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), dense fog was recorded in parts of India.'Dense Fog recorded in isolated pockets over East Rajasthan, West MP and Bihar; Moderate to Dense Fog in...
08:19
At least five people were killed on Saturday by an airstrike on a vehicle convoy of Iraq's Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces in northern Baghdad, a source in security forces was quoted as saying by Sputnik. Earlier in the day, the source told Sputnik about a powerful explosion in Baghdad's...
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The BJP believes there should be a National Register of Citizens exercise in the country in the future but there was no draft of it at the moment, party national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said here on Friday.The NRC is an exercise carried out under Citizenship Act, 1955 which provides for...
