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The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on July 11 its verdict on gangster Abu Salem's plea challenging his life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case on the ground that his sentence could not exceed 25 years as per a solemn assurance given by India to Portugal for his extradition in...
20:39
Three sitting Congress Lok Sabha MPs and as many former Rajya Sabha members are in touch with the Trinamool Congress Party leadership to join the Mamata Banerjee-led party, sources said days before the start of the Monsoon Session. They are actively engaging with the party leadership for...
19:58
Condemning the recent murder of a tailor in Udaipur by two men over an alleged insult to Islam, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Saturday said the Hindu society has responded in a peaceful and Constitutional way, and the Muslim community should also oppose such incidents vigorously. ...
19:52
Former Shiv Sena corporator Pramod Bhangire from Pune and his aides have extended their support to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Bhangire, who represented ward number 46 in Mohammadwadi-Hadapsar area, is the first former corporator from...
19:51
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At least 130 villages in three districts of Maharashtra, all in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions, were affected by heavy rains which caused floods in parts of these districts and at least 200 people were evacuated, but fortunately, no casualties are reported, officials said on...
19:28
Billionaire Gautam Adani's group on Saturday confirmed its entry into the race to acquire telecom spectrum, which it said will be used to create a private network to support its businesses from airports to power. As India prepares to roll out next generation...
18:32
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, their first meeting after the new government assumed office in the state. Shinde and Fadnavis met the prime minister at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence and sought his...
18:15
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told political leaders he is willing to step down and make way for an all-party government. Earlier, Wickremesinghe held initial talks with some party leaders before the parliament Speaker chaired a meeting to decide on the next steps to resolve...
18:09
Amid Eknath Shinde's rebellion, the Bharatiya Janata Party had promised not to target Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and his family, a spokesperson of the rebel Sena faction claimed on Saturday. BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, who often accused the previous Thackeray-led government in...
17:55
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav's wife Sadhna Gupta passed away at a private hospital in Gurugram on Saturday after a prolonged illness. She was suffering from a lung infection and other ailments for the past three months. She was undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital, where...
17:15
The intensity of rains in Konkan, ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra and parts of Marathwada will increase over the next four to five days due to a low pressure area over Odisha and a cyclonic circulation spread over 7.6 kilometres, the India Meteorological Department said on Saturday. ...
17:13
For the first time, Nepal has started exporting cement to India, with the initial consignment of 3,000 bags entering the neighbouring country through a check post bordering Uttar Pradesh. The Palpa Cement Industries in Nawalparasi district on Friday dispatched the first consignment of cement...
17:05
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in Chennai in connection with the Chinese visa case, officials said. They said during searches on May 17 after filing of the FIR, a portion of Karti Chidambaram's home was...
17:02
Embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's whereabouts was not known after he was moved out of his residence on Friday ahead of Saturday's protests during which thousands of irate anti-government protesters stormed into his official residence in Colombo. Rajapaksa, who was facing...
16:11
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday called for an urgent meeting of political party leaders to discuss the crisis in the country caused by the public protest, calling for Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation.A statement from Wickremesinghe's office said he had called on party...
15:53
The Union Home Ministry has set up a three-member commission for carrying out a fresh delimitation of the municipal wards in Delhi, according to a statement issued by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Saturday. The exercise will pave the way for the civic polls in Delhi, which...
15:51
As thousands of Sri Lankan protesters demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa entered his official residence in Colombo after breaking the barricades on Saturday, former Sri Lanka cricket captain Sanath Jayasuriya said he has never seen the country united like this to throw out...
15:16
Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was on Saturday elected president for lifetime of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress.The process was completed on the concluding day of the YSRC's two-day plenary, after the party constitution has been amended to enable Jagan's election as president for a lifetime.Jagan...
15:12
Asserting that India is the most tolerant country in the world, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said secularism is safe in this country, not because of any government or party, but because it is in the blood and veins of every individual living here. ...
14:50
As many as 30,000 to 40,000 houses were damaged in Assam due to the recent massive floods, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said seeking an advance fund from the NDRF to help the affected people. Sarma conveyed this to Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a meeting here on Friday evening...
14:48
Saji Cheriyan
The Kerala government has reassigned the portfolios held by CPI-M MLA Saji Cheriyan, who resigned from the Pinarayi Vijayan cabinet over his controversial remarks against the Constitution, among three other ministers. Cooperation and Registration Minister V N Vasavan will hold the...
14:37
The Enforcement Directorate has seized Rs 5.32 crore cash after it conducted raids at about 18 locations in Jharkhand as part of a money laundering investigation against Pankaj Mishra, the political representative of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, and those linked to him, officials said...
14:03
Union minister Nitin Gadkari has expressed confidence that green fuel will end the need for the use of petrol in vehicles in the country after five years. He made the statement in Maharashtra's Akola on Thursday, where he was conferred an honorary degree of...
13:18
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled as protesters surround his official residence, reports AFP news agency quoting defence source.
13:15
Seeking to corner the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the issue of terror and its alleged links with terrorists, the Congress will on Saturday hold a series of press conferences in 22 cities across the country. Congress leaders said the aim is to counter the BJP's fake nationalism claims...
12:46
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday called on President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, along with Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Minister, called on President Ram Nath Kovind at...
12:43
The India Meteorological Department on Friday said the deaths and destruction near the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir were due to a highly localised rain event and not due to a cloudburst. According to weather scientists, the shrine reported 31 mm of rainfall between 4.30 pm...
12:37
Birmingham Police have arrested a man for racially aggravated public order offence, following allegations of racist abuse aimed at Indian fans during the rescheduled fifth Test between India and England at Edgbaston. The man, who is in his early thirties, has been taken into custody...
11:49
The man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told police that he initially planned to attack a leader of a religious group, the Japanese media reported on Saturday, quoting police sources as saying. Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has also said he had a grudge against...
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The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered an inquiry into a Sehore-based private educational institute's alleged move of imposing fine on some of its students for reciting Hanuman Chalisa in their hostel, a minister has said.The incident had occurred in the campus of Vellore Institute of...
10:26
A fresh batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims left from the Jammu base camp for Baltal and Pahalgam base camps in Kashmir.We are heading towards the Pahalgam camp and are hoping that yatra will resume. We pray to Baba Bholenath to protect all the pilgrims, said a pilgrim.On Friday, the pilgrimage was...
09:29
Six pilgrims were evacuated by Army's helicopters on Saturday as rescue operations continued through the night near the holy cave shrine of Amarnath after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst swept away scores of people, killing at least 13, officials said.The cloudburst that occurred around...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis are scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda on Saturday as the new-found allies move towards constituting their council of ministers.Shinde and Fadnavis, who assumed...
01:07
The India meteorological department on Friday said that the deaths and destruction near the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir was due to a highly localised rain event. According to weather scientists, the shrine reported 31 mm of rainfall between 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm on Friday. At...
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Droupadi Murmu
National Democratic Alliance presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu's scheduled visit to Kolkata on Saturday to meet Bharatiya Janata Party lawmakers from West Bengal has been cancelled in the wake of the one-day national mourning, as a mark of respect to ex-Japanese premier Shinzo Abe. Murmu...
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