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The Central Bureau of Investigation has sought sanction to prosecute former defence secretary Shashi Kant Sharma, who later became Comptroller and Auditor General, in connection with alleged corruption in the Rs 3,600-crore Agusta Westland VVIP helicopter deal, officials said on Friday. The...
23:34
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the normalisation of ties between Israel and Bahrain, weeks after it brokered the peace deal between United Arab Emirates and Israel.Trump made the announcement of the agreement on Friday, following a three-way phone call he had with...
23:28
The result for JEE-Mains was announced on Friday with 24 students scoring 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam which was postponed twice in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. While Telangana has maximum 100 percentile scorers at 8, Delhi is at the second spot with 5 hundred...
23:18
Retired Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju was challenged as a self-publicist on behalf of the Indian government on Friday as he gave evidence in the extradition case of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi via a live videolink from India at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. On the...
23:03
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said rank cannot determine the provision for nutrition in the armed forces and called for a reconsideration of the related rules. Participating in a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, which was convened to discuss the subject...
22:57
Indian and Chinese armies are expected to hold Corps Commander-level talks early next week with a focus on implementing provisions of a five-point roadmap agreed by the two countries to ease tensions and speed up the disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh, government sources said on...
22:39
5 missing Arunachal youths
China's People's Liberation Army is likely to hand over five youths missing from Arunachal Pradesh to the Indian authorities on Saturday, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said. The PLA on Tuesday had conveyed that the five youths, who went missing on September 4 from the Sino-Indian border...
22:28
A 62-year-old retired Navy officer was beaten up by alleged Shiv Sena workers in Mumbai after he forwarded a cartoon on Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on WhatsApp on Friday, the police said.The incident took place around 11.30 am in Lokhandwala Complex area in suburban Kandivali, an...
22:09
Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Friday denied that he expresed disapproval about demolition at actor Kangana Ranaut's bungalow in Mumbai.Sources had said the governor had summoned Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's principal advisor Ajoy Mehta on Wednesday, when the demolition was...
22:07
Minister of state for railways Suresh Angadi, who on Friday said he has tested positive for COVID-19, has been admitted at the AIIMS Trauma Centre in New Delhi. The 65-year-old member of Lok Sabha from Belagavi constituency in Karnataka was admitted to the AIIMS Trauma Centre, which is a...
21:32
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has overhauled the All India Congress Committee organisation.The congress chief has removed Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ambika Soni, Motilal Vora, Mallikarjun Kharge as AICC general secretaries.
21:17
Maharashtra's tally of COVID-19 cases crossed 10 lakh on Friday with a record spike of 24,886 new cases, a health official said.While the total of cases reached 10,15,681, the death toll due to the pandemic reached 28,724 with 393 new fatalities reported across the state.The number of recovered...
20:49
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said in the race for TRP, journalism has been reduced to a position where it lacks substance. To protect the democracy, there is an absolute necessity of truth-finding journalism, the former UP chief minister said in a tweet, adding that...
20:48
Russia on Friday welcomed India and China's decison to de-escalate tensions in eastern Ladakh, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov saying he was very happy that he could provide his Indian and Chinese counterparts a platform for a very well timed meeting. India and China agreed on a...
20:46
The Y-plus security cover to actress Kangana Ranaut has been provided based on a request from her father to the state government in her native Himachal Pradesh which in turn forwarded it to the Centre, Union minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy said on Friday. According to...
20:42
China on Friday staunchly defended Pakistan's record in fighting terrorism, saying its all-weather ally has made tremendous efforts and sacrifices, countering calls by India and the United States that Islamabad must ensure that its territory is not used for terror activities. India and the...
20:23
Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said that Sushant Singh Rajput's death case was not an election issue but a common man's issue, and asserted that his party would ensure justice to theactor. The BJP will not rest till justice was done...
20:08
Social activist Swami Agnivesh passes away at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Delhi.He was 80 years old.Swami Agnivesh was receiving treatment for liver cirrhosis and had been on ventilator support for four days following multi-organ failure.
19:15
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and top military brass on Friday deliberated on the five-point agreement reached between India and China on de-escalating tension along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, government sources said. The deliberation was attended by National Security...
18:53
The government has listed 23 new bills, including 11 which seek to replace ordinances, for introduction in Parliament's monsoon session beginning Monday. One of the ordinances the government plans to pass as a bill during the 18-day-long session relates to providing preventive...
18:35
Union minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Friday said the government is working on creating a database of migrant labourers so that they get direct benefit of various welfare schemes. Speaking at an event after inauguration of a new building of the Labour Bureau Bhawan here, the Minister of...
18:28
Industrial production declined by 10.4 per cent in July, mainly due to lower output of manufacturing, mining and power generation, as per the government data released on Friday. According to the Index of Industrial Production data, manufacturing sector production registered a decline of...
18:14
India and China held Brigade Commander level talks in Chushul, Ladakh on Friday, a day after the meeting between foreign ministers of the two countries.Indian Army sources said the meeting started at 11am and ended around 3pm.External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a detailed discussion with...
18:05
Actor Aftab Shivdasani on Friday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been advised to quarantine at home. Shivdasani shared the news in statement posted on Twitter, saying that he showed minor symptoms of the novel disease, following which he got himself tested. Hello...
17:54
Sunandaji
Sunandaji, daughter-disciple of world-renowned philosopher Swami Parthasarathy, will deliver a series of four talks over two weekends on the theme 'Find the Missing Peace'. The lectures, based on the Bhagavad Gita, will be conducted live online on Sept 12-13 and 19-20, from 7 pm to 8.15...
17:43
Actor Rhea Chakraborty, who has been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a drug case linked with Sushant Singh Rajput's death has revealed names of around 15 B-Grade Bollywood celebrities who are involved in drug use, sources said.Among these 15 celebrities, some are procurers of...
17:28
A screengrab from the trailer of the show viral on social media
The Delhi High Court Friday declined to stay the evening telecast of Sudarshan TV's Bindas Bol' programme, whose promo claimed that the channel was all set to broadcast a 'big expose on conspiracy to infiltrate Muslims in government service'. The show is scheduled to be telecast at 8 pm on...
17:27
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said that Maharashtra government has nothing to do with the demolition of Kangana's office as it was BMC which has taken that action. The issue is not Kangana vs state, demolition of Kangana's office has nothing to do with the state. The...
16:56
The aggregate earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation for 22 rated Indian non-financial companies will fall by 24 per cent in the current financial year, global rating agency Moody's said on Friday.Their credit metrics will weaken as coronavirus-led economic...
16:36
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that students will study under a new curriculum drawn from the National Education Policy when the country celebrates its 75th year of Independence in 2022, and asserted that the curriculum will be forward-looking, future ready and scientific.Addressing...
16:07
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch and inaugurate development works worth over Rs 16,000 crore in the next 10 days in poll-bound Bihar, sources said on Friday. These multiple projects will improve infrastructure and ease of living for the people of Bihar, they said. The sources said that...
15:53
The Bombay High Court on Friday said the freedom of speech and expression provided under Article 19 of the Constitution was not an absolute right. The court made the observation while refusing to grant interim protection from arrest to a woman booked by the Mumbai and Palghar police for...
15:37
AIADMK founder and former Chief Minister M G Ramachandran's nephew M C Chandran, who was treated for coronavirus has succumbed to the illness here on Friday, the party said. The AIADMK said 75-year old Chandran is the son of MGR's elder brother M G Chakrapani and he was treated at Rajiv...
15:25
The Shiv Sena-led state government these days looks more focused on fighting actor Kangana Ranaut than the ongoing coronavirus crisis in Maharashtra, said BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Friday.The Maharashtra government believes its fight is not with Corona but Kangana. The maximum number of...
15:09
Sixty per cent of the daily new Covid-19 recoveries in India are from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, which also account for 57 per cent of the new cases, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. Total Coviid-19 recoveries in the country have surged to...
14:36
The Centre has released Rs 6,195.08 crores to 14 states as the sixth equated monthly instalment of the Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant (PDRDG) on Friday as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission. Office of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted on Friday saying that this...
14:32
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar said he has no connection with actor Kangana Ranaut's property, which was demolished by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). I have no connection with the building, which was demolished by BMC. Her allegations against me are totally...
14:28
Maharashtra Minister of State (MoS) and Congress leader Vishwajeet Kadam has tested positive for Covid-19. He made the announcement on Twitter. Kadam is the minister for Social Justice.
14:01
Passenger vehicle wholesales in India rose by 14.16 per cent in August to 2,15,916 units driven by pent-up demand, industry body SIAM said on Friday. According to the latest data by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), passenger vehicles wholesales stood at 1,89,129 units in...
13:46
Former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir believes that the coronavirus pandemic will not impact the performance of the cricketers when they participate in the Indian Premier League in the UAE. The former Delhi Capitals captain also stressed that players must adhere to the guidelines put in place.I...
13:36
A man, claiming to be a fan of actress Kangana Ranaut, was on Friday arrested from Kolkata's Tollygunge area for allegedly threatening Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, police said. A team of Mumbai Police with the help of Kolkata Police nabbed Palash Ghosh, in his late 20s, from his Tollygunge...
13:27
A video grab of the drones delivering meals to Chinese troops
China-state affiliated media, The Global Times, releases this video in a push towards what it does best -- propaganda. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the paper, tweets the video showing hot meals being cooked delivered to Chinese troops via drones at the LAC. He writes, With these drones, the...
13:15
An artist's impression of the Coastal Road
The National Green Tribunal has refused to quash the Coastal Zone Management Plan for Sub-Urban Mumbai and directed the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority to maintain a strict vigil against any violation of the same.A bench of the NGT, headed by its chairperson AK Goel, was hearing an...
12:57
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari today. I met the Maharashtra Governor today over the issue of the demolition of Kangana Ranaut's property in Mumbai and demanded that she should get compensation for the loss. The way BMC carried out demolition at her...
12:23
Just in: The bail pleas of Rhea Chakraborty, her brother, Showik, Abdul Basit, Zaid Vilatra, Dipesh Sawant and Samuel Miranda have been rejected by a special court in Mumbai. They're arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in connection with a drugs case related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput....
11:58
Invoking Shiv Sena founder, the late Balasaheb Thackeray, actor Kangana Ranaut on Friday questioned how he would be feeling if he saw his party's situation today.Sharing an old video clip of an interview given by the late Balasaheb in which he said that he does not like elections, and groupism,...
11:45
Normal life came to a grinding halt in West Bengal on Friday as a complete lockdown was enforced across the state to stem the spread of Covid-19 cases. All public transport, offices and other commercial establishments, barring those dealing with essential services, remained closed as strict...
11:38
Rajasthan Royals' Robin Uthappa believes the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League is going to be really special and it will bring the feeling of normalcy back into our lives amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Very happy to get back to playing, competing, and not just individually but...
11:29
March of the migrants: The govt's unholy mess
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is significant on India's development and the immediate priority is a coordinated policy response, the International Monetary Fund has said. Given the unprecedented shock, the immediate priority is a coordinated policy response to fight the virus, said IMF...
11:08
In a veiled reference to the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, Shiv Sena in its mouthpiece Saamana on Friday said that to win the election in Bihar and to get votes of specific caste, politics is being played on a death.To win the election of Bihar and to get votes of specific caste, politics is...
10:49
TIME's issue marking nearly 200,000 US deaths -- and why its border is black for the second time in history. Do read
10:39
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked the Government of India whether it has any plans to reclaim 'land taken by China' or is that also going to be left to an 'Act of God'.The Chinese have taken our land. When exactly is GOI planning to get it back? Or is that also going to be left to an...
10:13
As India recorded the biggest single-day spike of 96,551 coronavirus cases in a day, BJP President, Dilip Ghosh, dismisses the numbers and claims the state is virus free. Corona has gone. Didimoni (Mamata Banerjee) is acting and imposing lockdown so that BJP can't organise meetings and...
09:57
India has recorded the biggest single-day spike so far, of 96,551 coronavirus cases in a day, which has taken the countrys tally to 45,62,415. The death toll has also 1,209 and is now at 76,271.Among the 45 lakh confirmed cases, India now has 9,43,480 active coronavirus cases and 35,42,663...
09:48
Even as there has been been an unprecedented rise in COVID-19 cases, there has been a 100 per cent surge in recovered patients in the last 29 days, the Union health ministry said on Friday.There has been an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 recoveries in India. There is a more than 100% increase in...
09:26
Actor Kangana Ranaut in a tweet said that, as a symbolic gesture, she will not renovate the portions of her office that were demolished on Wednesday by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The BMC carried out the demolition based on alleged structural violations.In a tweet, the actor wrote, I...
09:16
Serena Williams has lost the battle of mothers at the US Open in the semi finals to Belarus' Victoria Azarenka. The third seeded Williams went down fighting to Azarenka -- 6-1, 3-6, 3-6. The hunt for Williams' 24th Grand Slam title will continue. Meanwhile, Azarenka will now play...
08:51
Delhi Metro's Magenta Line and Grey Line resumed operations on Friday after being closed for 173 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said. Services started at 7 am as part of the second stage of the graded reopening of Delhi Metro, which was closed on March 22 to check the spread...
08:30
A medium-intensity earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit the coastal district of Palghar in Maharashtra early Friday morning, the National Centre for Seismology said. The quake occurred at 3.57 am at a depth of 10 kilometres, the NCS, a body under the ministry of earth sciences, said.A district...
07:57
The worldwide number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has surpassed 28 million, Johns Hopkins University says.The exact number of the coronavirus cases stood at 28,047,828 on Friday. More than 907,000 people have died of the disease, the university added. The World Health Organisation...
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Newly appointed West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Thursday that his party is ready to forge a poll alliance with the Communist Party of India Marxist-led Left Front in the state to put up a spirited battle against the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya in the...
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