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Uddhav Thackeray, who heads a faction of the Shiv Sena, on Wednesday said that the decision by the Supreme Court on the disqualification of the party's rebel MLAs should come first and then by the Election Commission on whom the original party belongs to.Addressing a press conference, Thackeray...
23:10
The Congress on Wednesday strongly criticised the expunging of certain remarks made by Rahul Gandhi in Parliament targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and alleged that democracy was cremated in Lok Sabha.Gandhi had made these remarks while participating in a debate on the Motion of Thanks on...
22:39
As the crackdown on child marriage continued in Assam, the police are now setting up additional prison facilities to house the accused, with two such arrangements in Goalpara and Cachar districts already in the offing. While accused from different districts have already been moved to the...
21:46
A man has been detained along the India-Pakistan international border in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district on suspicion of espionage activities, police said on Wednesday. Haneef Khan, a resident of Jhalria village of the district, was detained by the Border Security Force...
21:42
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday predicted that Russia would lose the war against his country, and thanked the British people for their support from Day One since Moscow's military offensive. I stand before you on behalf of our brave soldiers who are right now under...
21:35
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen close and important relations between their countries and expressed their mutual desire to deepen cooperation in the fields of hi-tech, economy and...
20:59
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Wednesday evening for a lack of quorum. DMK member Dayanidhi Maran raised the issue of quorum after his party colleague T R Baalu completed his speech on a debate on the Union Budget. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla directed officials to ring...
20:38
Shiv Sena-UBT leader and former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday said the unconstitutional state government headed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will not last long and fall very soon. Aaditya, son of Shiv Sena president and former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray,...
20:29
Assam government's decision to eliminate child marriage by penalising the perpetrators was a welcome step but the state must provide financial assistance, legal support and rehabilitation to the victims, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation said on Wednesday.The government should...
19:48
Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Wednesday said Rahul Gandhi hit the right chord by flagging the issue related to industrialist Gautam Adani, but insisted the party has no personal issues with Adani or Ambani. We want the country to grow and have more...
19:46
Newlyweds Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra made their first public appearance together post their magical wedding in Jaisalmer. The couple was clicked at the Jaisalmer airport a while ago as they left for New Delhi. She was seen sporting a black velvet tracksuit but what made her look...
19:44
A leopard strayed into the court complex under the Kavinagar police station area in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Wednesday afternoon and injured six people, police said.Around six people have sustained injuries after being attacked by the animal, which is still on the court premises, Assistant...
19:27
The bilateral trade between India and Pakistan has increased to USD 1.35 billion during April-December 2022 as against USD 516.36 million in the whole 2021-22, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Similarly, the country's trade with China has aggregated at about USD 87 billion during...
19:04
Shanelle Irani with her fiance Arjun Bhalla
Rajasthan is set to witness another high-profile wedding as Shanelle, daughter of Union cabinet minister Smriti Irani and Zubin Irani, is going to tie the knot with Canada-based lawyer Arjun Bhalla on Thursday. On Tuesday, actors Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani got married in an intimate...
18:45
France's TotalEnergies, one of the largest foreign investors in billionare Gautam Adani's business empire, said it has put on hold participation in Indian conglomerate's USD 50 billion hydrogen project pending results of an audit launched following allegations by a US short-seller. ...
18:35
Ten Indians are stuck in remote parts of earthquake-hit Turkiye but they are safe while one citizen is missing, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Wednesday. Secretary (West) in the MEA Sanjay Verma said the Indians in Turkiye are relatively safe.He said the government is in...
18:16
Beneficiary farmers of PM Kisan Scheme will have to get their bank account e-KYC verified by February 10, an official said. It has been made mandatory for the beneficiaries of the PM Kisan Scheme before February 10, 2023, for e-KYC, linking bank account with Aadhaar and direct benefit...
17:51
Ending its two-day slide, the 30-share BSE Sensex on Wednesday rose by 377.75 points, or 0.63 per cent, to close at 60,663.79, with 24 of its constituents posting gains. The broader Nifty of the NSE spurted by 150.20 points or 0.85 per cent to settle at 17,871.70, riding on a rally in Adani...
17:48
Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stinging attack on the Opposition, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said that the PM did not answer his questions on Adani issue or did not talk about inquiry. I am not satisfied with (Modi's speech). No talk about inquiry (on Adani row). If he (Gautam...
17:26
Raising slogans, members of the BRS, Left parties and some members of the Congress walked out of Lok Sabha in protest as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was speaking.
17:13
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking in Lok Sabha a day after Congress's Rahul Gandhi's attack on his government: Those who are drunk in arrogance and think that only they have the knowledge, feel that only by abusing Modi will a way come out, that only through false, nonsensical mudslinging on...
17:07
PM Modi in Parliament: A few people, drowning in despair, are unable to accept the country's progress. They don't see achievements of the people of the country. It's the result of the efforts of 140 crore people of the country due to which India is making a name. They don't see those...
16:56
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Why were my words expunged? asks Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as he arrives in Parliament in the middle of PM's speech during motion of thanks to President's address, in Lok Sabha.Read Rahul's speech yesterday here: For Adani, magic happened after 2014: In LS Rahul links group's rise to Modi
16:42
PM in Parliament: Between 2004-14, the UPA turned every opportunity into a problem. When the world was making advancements in technology, they were stuck in the 2G scam.In 2010, Commonwealth Games, an opportunity presented itself to show India's progress to the world, but even that turned into a...
16:38
PM speaking in Parliament wraps his speech in patriotic hues. The pandemic, divided world and destruction due to war has cause instability in several countries. There is acute inflation, unemployment, food crisis in several countries. Which Indian would not be proud that even in such times,...
16:26
UK PM Rishi Sunak shares this image with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Welcome to the UK, President @ZelenskyyUa, tweeted Sunak. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is on a visit to Britain on Wednesday, his first trip to the UK since Russia's invasion began nearly a year ago...
16:25
PM in Parliament: This government does not believe in reform out of compulsion but reform out of conviction.India oversaw the world's largest vaccination drive.India gave free vaccines to its citizens.India gave free vaccines and medicines to more than 150+ nations.Many countries around the world...
16:14
PM Modi takes a dig at Rahul Gandhi's speech in Parliament, says People spoke according to their nature. Entire ecosystem was excited by some people's speech. Quoting poet Jigar Moradabadi, Modi said, I was watching yesterday. After the speeches of a few people, some people were happily...
16:08
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reply to the motion of thanks on the President's address in the Lok Sabha begins. The Lok Sabha has allocated a time of over 12 hours to discuss President's Address.Earlier today, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey called for action against Rahul Gandhi for his attack on...
15:55
India is providing materials, supplies, medical supplies, and equipment, to Syria as well as sending search and rescue teams to Turkey under 'Operation Dost', said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday.The search for survivors of the terrible earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria...
15:54
Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed noisy scenes as Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe on the allegations against the Adani Group, and asked if the rise of the industrialist was due to his friendship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.During the...
15:46
The Morbi bridge collapsed in October last year
2022 Morbi bridge collapse: Accused, Oreva Group promoter Jaysukh Patel sent to jail. He was produced before Morbi Sessions court today at the end of his 7-day police remand and was sent to jail after the Police didn't seek any further remand. Patel, whose company was responsible for the...
15:42
Sidhique Kappan
Delhi-based journalist Sidhique Kappan was imprisoned in Uttar Pradesh for more than two years.He corrects Shobha Warrier, I was in jail for two years, and five days short of four months.Only a person who has experienced the horror of getting arrested while on his way to report a...
15:36
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das
Nilesh Shah, Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company: The RBI is playing like Indian cricket team in third one day against New Zealand. Dont take foot of the pedal. After hitting every bowler out of stadium, they dismissed all the batsmen cheaply. The RBI could have said...
15:29
The actual COVID-19 infections in India may be around 17 times higher than the official figure, a study led by researchers at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) suggests. According to government data, nearly 4.5 crore people in India have been infected with COVID-19 so far. However,...
14:57
A fresh team of 51 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel is being rushed to earthquake-hit Turkiye even as two teams present there have launched rescue operations at multiple collapsed structures, Director General of the force Atul Karwal said Wednesday. The third team of the...
14:50
KBK Graphics
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India decided to raise the key benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent on Wednesday.
14:32
Domestic banks' exposure to the Adani Group is not very significant, and the system is strong and large enough to not get impacted by a single case, the Reserve Bank said on Wednesday. Replying to a specific question on whether the RBI will give any guidance to lenders on their...
14:19
Jill Biden kisses Doug Emhoff
US First lady Jill Biden kissed Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff 'on the lips' ahead of the State of the Union Address on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Fox News reported. On Tuesday night at the national Capitol, President Biden delivered his second State of the Union address,...
14:11
Pic: Umar Ganie
Police prevented PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti from taking out a march to Parliament here on Wednesday to protest against an ongoing anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir. Accompanied by scores of party workers, Mehbooba planned to march from Railway Bhawan to Parliament, where she...
14:06
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday said they have discovered a spear phishing campaign targeting multiple IT firms where scammers were sending WhatsApp messages to top tier employees' personal numbers pretending to be their CEO. Read the report here.
13:37
Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll passes 9,000.Another earthquake of magnitude 4.3 jolted Nurdagi district, a city in Gaziantep Province of Turkey on Wednesday. The quake was reported around 8:31 am at a depth of 10 km, 15 km south of Nurdagi at the location, 37.032degN 36.721degE, reported...
13:34
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak made a big statement about the demand to change the name of Lucknow and said that it is well known that it was the city of Lakshman.The government will give an update about the name change, said the deputy CM, as he reached Bhadohi on...
13:02
TMC MP Mohua Moitra
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra who sparked a furore by using unparliamentary language in Lok Sabha on Wednesday defended her usage of the word stating that she will call an apple an apple and not an orange. I do not know what kind of language I am supposed to use. And I am quite...
12:32
Union Culture and Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy on Wednesday said nearly 69 lakh foreign tourists visited India in 2022, indicating a four-fold increase in the number of arrivals after two years of negative growth during COVID-19 pandemic. Reddy was addressing the Tourism Working Group...
12:30
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday demanded that action be taken against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his certain objectionable comments made in Lok Sabha, and that they be expunged from the records. Certain remarks of Gandhi made in the House on Tuesday have...
12:08
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) confirmed the attachment of properties of former minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel in the Iqbal Mirchi case.The attached property includes four floors in the prime property Ceejay House at Worli belonging to Praful Patel and his...
11:56
India on Wednesday recorded 96 fresh COVID-19 cases, while the number of active cases increased to 1,785, according to Union health ministry data. With the new cases, the total tally stands at 4.46 crore (4,46,83,639). The death toll increased to 5,30,746 with one death reported from...
11:42
Zoom on Tuesday announced that it will lay off about 1,300 employees, or approximately 15 per cent of its staff, becoming the latest tech company to announce significant job cuts. In a message to employees on Zoom Blog, Zoom's Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan said the layoffs will impact...
11:29
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to constitute a three-judge bench to consider a plea of the Delhi Police for review of its verdict acquitting three death row convicts in the gang-rape and murder case of a 19-year-old girl in Delhi's Chhawla area in 2012. A bench of Chief Justice...
11:13
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) highlighted the serious challenges America faces across the world and warned China that Washington will act to protect sovereignty if threatened by Beijing.Biden while delivering his first major speech to a divided Congress after Republicans took...
11:01
The RBI on Tuesday projected India's economic growth to slow down to 6.4 per cent in FY24 from 7 per cent in the current fiscal, citing risks from geo-political tension and tightening global financial condition. Announcing the bi-monthly monetary policy, Reserve Bank of India Governor...
10:35
All eyes on Kiara Advani's jewellery at her wedding. The bride looked gorgeous in a rose-hued lehenga with Swarovski crystals by Manish Malhotra, but it was the necklace that caught our eye.Real or fake?Well, that stunning necklace she has on is also designed by Manish Malhotra. The...
10:27
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announces an increase in repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.5%. Unprecedented events of the last three years have put to test monetary policy across the world. Emerging market economies are facing sharp tradeoffs between supporting economic activity and controlling...
10:03
China has operated a fleet of spy balloons targeting several countries including India and Japan, a media report has said, days after the US military shot down a Chinese surveillance craft floating over sensitive installations in the country. US officials have briefed its friends and...
09:49
The parents of a student from Khammam district of Telangana, who allegedly died of a gunshot wound in the United States, have requested the governments' help in bringing the body back home. Akhil Sai Mahankali, 25, from Madhira town in Khammam district, died in the state of Alabama,...
09:44
China has rejected Washington's request for a telephone call between US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Beijing counterpart Wei Fenghe, The New York Times reported citing Pentagon. The request was made on Saturday soon after a US fighter aircraft shot down a suspected Chinese spy...
09:09
US President Joe Biden has said that Made in America is the top priority of his administration and announced that bridges, roads and highways in the country will be made with American construction materials. Biden in his second State of the Union Address on Tuesday said to maintain the...
09:01
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a Hyderabad-based chartered accountant (CA), understood to be the auditor of Bharat Rashtra Samiti MLC K Kavitha, in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, officials said on Wednesday.The CBI had called the CA, Butchibabu Gorantla, to...
08:42
Asserting that there is no restriction in Kashmir to hoist the national flag after the abrogation of Article 370, Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday said that he was once jailed for hoisting the Tricolor in the Union Territory.I was longest serving BJP Youth Wing...
08:15
The death toll from the earthquakes that jolted Turkey and Syria has risen to at least 7,726, CNN reported.At least 42,259 people have been injured in Turkey and Syria after deadly earthquakes.Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said that at least 5,894 people have died and 34,810 others have been...
00:36
Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant's husband Adil Durrani was arrested on Tuesday night after she filed a complaint accusing him of assault, taking away money and jewellery from her flat without her knowledge and performing unnatural sex, among other charges, a police official said.Earlier in the...
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