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Two young men from Gujarat were detained early Thursday morning after they managed to enter Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's bungalow `Mannat' in Mumbai by scaling the outer wall, the police said. According to a Bandra police official, the men, aged between 19 to 20 years, were caught by...
23:17
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann meets with Union Home Minister Amit Shah/ANI
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and said the Centre and the state will work together on the law and order issue, even as about 1,900 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force and its specialised anti-riot unit were being dispatched to the...
22:52
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday retained the Chinchwad assembly constituency in Maharashtra in a byelection as the party candidate Ashwini Jagtap won by 36,168 votes. The byelection was necessitated due to the death of sitting MLA and her husband Laxman Jagtap. Ashwini Jagtap...
22:38
Making light of Congress party's electoral performance in the North East, party president Mallikarjun Kharge said in Chennai on Thursday they were 'small states' that go with Central government trend. To a poll related question while counting of votes polled for Tripura, Meghalaya and...
22:10
Congress leader Siddaramaiah
A purported video of senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah allegedly asking party leaders to get people to rallies, by paying them Rs 500 each, has gone viral on the social media. It is not clear as to when the video was taken. It seems to have been recorded when the former chief minister...
21:41
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party lost the bypoll to the Kasba Peth assembly constituency in Maharashtra's Pune city because of its use and throw policy. The ruling BJP on Thursday failed to retain the Kasba seat, its stronghold, as Congress...
21:21
Jailed gangster Arun Gawli has approached the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court seeking premature release on the ground that he has crossed the age of 70 years. Gawli is undergoing life imprisonment in the central jail here in the 2007 murder case of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar...
21:09
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday credited the BJP's consistent victory in elections to a 'triveni' of the work done by its governments, their work culture and the dedication of party workers. Addressing party workers at the BJP's headquarters in New Delhi to congratulate them on the...
21:04
Conrad Sangma
Meghalaya Bharatiya Janata Party president Ernest Mawrie said the saffron party will submit a letter of support to the National People's Party on Thursday night to form the next government in the state. BJP, which contested the assembly elections alone and won two seats despite being in an...
20:50
The Congress' haath se haath jodo campaign will begin from March 4 in Goa to reach out to people who are distressed due to inflation, unemployment and price rise, the party's state unit chief Amit Patkar said on Thursday. The yatra will cover all 40 assembly segments of Goa and will involve...
20:25
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni calls on the President Droupadi Murmu/Twitter
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called on the President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday. Welcoming the Italian PM on her first visit to India, Murmu said that she was happy to see a young and confident woman leading Italy. The President noted that Meloni is...
20:04
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The Jawaharlal Nehru University has withdrawn the rules that stipulated students can face a fine of Rs 50,000 for physical violence, abuse and holding dharna on campus, its vice-chancellor said on Thursday. The 10-page document, 'Rules of Discipline and proper conduct of students of JNU',...
19:55
The rupee depreciated by 11 paise to close at 82.60 (provisional) against the US currency on Thursday as a stronger dollar in the overseas market and a muted trend in domestic equities weighed on investor sentiments. Sustained foreign fund outflows further weighed on the local unit,...
19:37
PM Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during a joint press statement/ANI
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday showered fulsome praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referring to him as the most loved leader around the world. She is on a state visit, seeking closer ties in the defence and economic sectors, and is being accompanied by Deputy Prime...
19:22
Market benchmarks ended nearly 1 per cent lower on Thursday amid weak trend in global equities and continuous foreign fund outflows. The BSE Sensex tumbled 501.73 points or 0.84 per cent to settle at 58,909.35. From the Sensex pack, Maruti, Axis Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, Nestle,...
19:12
A court in Delhi on Thursday sent liquor businessman Amandeep Dhall to five-day Enforcement Directorate custody for interrogation in a money-laundering matter related to the Delhi excise policy scam case. Special Judge Vikas Dhull sent the accused to the agency's custody after it produced...
18:46
Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov/File image/Reuters
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov briefly met in Delhi on Thursday, their first contact in months amid escalating tension over the Ukraine conflict. Blinken and Lavrov had a very brief interaction on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers'...
18:29
Conrad Sangma with JP Nadda
Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma wins from South Tura seat by a margin of 5,016 votes. Sangma called Union Home Minister Amit Shah and sought his support to form a new government. 'He also tweeted to say that BJP national president JP Nadda has advised the state unit of BJP in Meghalaya to support the...
18:20
Claiming that BJP's performance in Tripura was on expected lines, Chief Minister Manik Saha, who won the elections from Town Bardowali Assembly constituency, said the saffron party-led government will continue to work for the state's development across all sectors. Expressing his gratitude...
17:57
PM Narendra Modi thanks people for Tripura win. The PM tweeted, Thank you Tripura! This is a vote for progress and stability. @BJP4Tripura will continue to boost the state's growth trajectory. I am proud of all Tripura BJP Karyakartas for their spectacular efforts at the grassroots.Modi also...
17:40
Neiphiu Rio with Himanta Biswa Sarma
Nagaland political stalwart and its longest serving chief minister Neiphiu Rio is set to assume office as chief minister for a fifth consecutive term after a convincing win for his party and its ally, the BJP. Together, the two parties have secured 33 seats in the 60-member Nagaland...
17:32
AJSU Party candidate Sunita Choudhary won the by-poll to Jharkhand's Ramgarh seat on Thursday, defeating UPA-backed Congress' Bajrang Mahto by a margin of 21,970 votes, the Election Commission said. The AJSU Party, which tied up with the BJP for the by-poll, secured 1,15,669 votes,...
17:27
Manik Saha, tipped to be Tripura's chief minister for a second term, on Thursday led his party the BJP to victory for a second term in the brder state of Tripura. The former Congress leader who joined the saffron party half-a-dozen years back defeated his former party's veteran leader...
17:10
BJP-IPFT alliance wins 31 seats in Tripura, secures second term in power, announces the Election Commission. The ruling NDPP-BJP alliance also got majority in the 60-member Nagaland Assembly by winning 33 seats, the election commission said.The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party won 21...
16:49
The Congress on Thursday secured a seat in the present Bengal assembly as its candidate Bayron Biswas won the Sagardighi bypoll, defeating the nearest rival of the TMC by 22,980 votes. After 16 rounds of counting, Biswas, who enjoys the support of the Left, bagged 87,667 votes,...
16:42
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the G20 meet onUkraine: This invasion (of Ukraine as per the West) reflects the reaction to the war the West was preparing for many years and that is why it was arming the Ukrainian regime. It is high time to reform the UN Security Council. If we...
16:15
With early trends in the Sagardighi bye-election showing a tilt towards the Congress, its workers and supporters burst into celebrations at Murshidabad's Sagardighi.In the latest trends, Indian National Congress candidate Bayron Biswas is leading in by-polls for West Bengal's Sagardighi assembly...
16:03
TMC to go it alone in the 2024 general elections, says Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. Be it minority or majority (communities), all are with us, all are equal to me, she said. There goes Opposition unity for the LS polls. In fact, Banerjee has been on the forefront in trying to cobble together a...
15:58
Protests in Australia over the Adani mine in Carmichael
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, a known backer of Adani Group's coal mine projects in his country, on Thursday came out in support of the embattled group's Chairman Gautam Adani, saying he has a lot of admiration and respect for the tycoon and his company. Abbott, who...
15:48
A heated exchange of words was witnessed in the Supreme Court on Thursday between Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Vikas Singh in a case related to allotment of land for lawyers' chambers with the CJI directing the senior lawyer not to raise his...
15:42
Nagaland Chief Minister and Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party candidate Neiphiu Rio on Thursday won the Northern Angami-II Assembly constituency, trouncing Seyievilie Sachu of the Congress by a mammoth margin of 15,824 votes. He bagged a total of 17,045 votes, which comes to...
15:31
After trailing in the earlier rounds of counting for the Nagaland Assembly, the BJP's Nagaland chief Temjen Imna Along won in his constituency, Alongtaki, one of the significant seats in the state assembly. Known for his witty social media posts, the minister posted a 'filmy' update for his...
15:15
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The Congress on Thursday accused the government of indulging in blatant favouristism and giving the Adani group undue advantage in major small arms contracts for the armed forces. Posing a set of three questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of the party's Hum Adani ke Hain Kaun...
15:04
EVKS Elangovan
EVKS Elangovan, the Congress party candidate in Tamil Nadu's Erode by-election, is leading by a comfortable margin against AIADMK's KS Thennarasu, initial trends show. With 31,884 votes Congress is leading ahead of AIADMK, Naam Tamilar Katchi and DMDK. The byelection was...
14:59
AJSU Party candidate Sunita Choudhary was leading by 21,748 votes over her nearest Congress rival Bajrang Mahto after the seventh round of counting in the Ramgarh by-election, an official said on Thursday. The AJSU Party, which has tied up with the BJP for the bypoll, got 83,677...
14:32
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday exuded confidence to form the government in the state once again with the majority with Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leading in the ongoing counting of votes for Tripura assembly polls. We had said earlier also that BJP will again come to power...
14:27
Tripura CM Manik Saha collects his winning certificate as he wins the election from the Town Bardowali constituency. I am feeling good and after winning I am getting this certificate so what can be better than this, he says.
14:20
The Aam Aadmi Party said Thursday the Supreme Court's order for setting up a committee to look into various regulatory aspects of the stock markets, including the recent Adani Group shares crash, is a tight slap on the Modi government. This has today proved that the Modi government is...
14:07
Tripura CM Manik Saha
Celebrations began in Tripura as Bharatiya Janata Party candidates surged ahead of the opposition Left-Congress and Tipra Motha, leading in more than half the seats of the 60-member assembly.Slogans such as 'Narendra Modi Zindabad' and 'Jai Shri Ram' rented the air at the BJP election office in...
13:33
NDPP's Hekhani Jakhalu wins Dimapur-III seat by 1,536 votes, becoming first woman to be elected to Nagaland Assembly.Also from the NE, Meghalaya, Assembly Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh of UDP wins Mairang seat by 155 votes; HSPDP's Shakliar Warjri defeats cabinet minister Brolding Nongsiej in...
13:24
Y Lima Onen Chang of Republican Party of India (Athawale) wins Noksen Assembly constituency in Nagaland.CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury wins Sabroom seat in Tripura by 343 votes.Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath of BJP wins Mohanpur seat by 7,385 votes, IPFT's Sukla Charan Noatia...
13:18
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Congress' EVKS Elangovan established a huge lead of over 26,000 votes against his nearest rival KS Thennarasu of the AIADMK in the Erode East Assembly bypoll. Counting of polled votes was proceeding on Thursday. The clear lead of the ruling DMK backed Elangovan, at the end of the...
13:16
Congress has won the Kasba Peth seat in Maharashtra. Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar won the Assembly seat with 51 per cent of votes polled, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Ashwini Jagtap was leading in Chinchwad seat.In the Kasba seat, Dhangekar polled 52,423 votes over BJP candidate...
13:10
Laddoos were distributed at the CM's office today
Sweets are being distributed at CM Manik Saha's residence in Agartala as the party is set to retain power as it leads on 32 seats out of 60. The CPI-M is at a distant 4.
13:03
Tipra Motha Party chief Pradyot Debbarman
The BJP on Thursday said it was ready to accept all demands of Tipra Motha, except for Greater Tipraland, if the new party led by former royal Pradyot Debbarma extends its support. Speaking to PTI, state BJP chief spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty said his party was marching to form the...
12:57
Conrad Sangma is leading from South Tura
The ruling National People's Party (NPP) in Meghalaya won two seats, and was leading in 21 other constituencies, the Election Commission said on Thursday as the counting of votes for the assembly elections was underway. The UDP was ahead in 10 constituencies, while the BJP is ahead in 4 and...
12:41
Uddhav Thackeray had asked his loyalists not to support the BJP in any way
Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar was just ahead of his rivals in the Kasba Peth Assembly seat, while Bharatiya Janata Party's Ashwini Jagtap was leading in Chinchwad seat, as per the latest trends available of counting underway on Thursday for bypolls to the two seats in Maharashtra's Pune...
12:32
PM Narendra Modi greets Italy PM Giorgia Meloni before commencing bilateral talks at Hyderabad House. An expansive agenda covering political, trade and economic, defence, science & technology, energy, health, consular and cultural spheres awaits.
12:25
Ahead of Meghalaya Assembly election results, Chief Minister Conard Sangma visited the grave of his father and former CM, PA Sangma in Tura on Thursday.CM Sangma was accompanied by his mother Soradini K Sangma, brother James Sangma and sister Agatha K Sangma. NPP is leading in 23 seats...
12:20
The first session of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Thursday commenced on multilateralism, food and energy security and development cooperation.The discussion will realise India's theme of 'One Earth, One Family, One Future' for its G20 Presidency, which signals the need for unity of...
12:09
Bypolls: West Bengal: Congress leads in Sagardighi bypoll. Congress candidate Bayron Biswas was leading in the Sagardighi assembly seat in West Bengal's Murshidabad district where counting of votes was underway for a by-election.BJP wins the Arunachal bypolls.AISU leads in...
12:04
TIPRA chairman Pradyot Debbarma interacts with supporters at a rally
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was on course to retain power in Tripura as the party reached the halfway mark in the latest trends amid the ongoing counting of votes on Thursday. According to the latest data shared by the Election Commission at noon, the BJP was leading in 31 seats...
11:50
Gautam Adani reacts to the Supreme Court order on a panel to probe the Hindenburg report. Adani tweeted, The Adani Group welcomes the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court. It will bring finality in a time bound manner. Truth will prevail. The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered setting up of a...
11:46
Preparations begin for celebrations at Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma's residence in Tura as his party National People's Party leads on 24 of the total 59 seats so far. NPP also registers its first win with Sniawbhalang Dhar winning the Nartiang seat by 2,123 votes, defeating Congress candidate...
11:37
The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a panel consisting of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the Chief Justice of India for the selection of Commissioners in the Election Commission of India.Appointment of an election commissioner shall be on the...
11:24
Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio
The ruling NDPP-BJP alliance is leading in 35 seats in the Nagaland Assembly election as per early trends. The alliance has won one seat.Counting of votes for the 59 Nagaland Assembly seats started at 8 am with postal ballots followed by EVMs. The NDPP and BJP fought the election on a 40:20...
11:11
The Supreme Court has set up an expert committee on the issue arising from the Hindenburg Research report on Adani Group companies.The committee will consist of six-member, headed by former apex court judge Justice AM Sapre. Nandan Nilekani, KV Kamath, Somasekharan Sundaresan are other members of...
11:08
A protest at the JNU campus
Students can face a penalty of up to Rs 20,000 and even cancellation of admission for holding dharnas or a fine of up to Rs 30,000 for resorting to violence at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, its latest rules stipulate. As per the new rules, a student may face a fine of Rs 50,000 fine...
10:20
Congress candidate Bayron Biswas was leading in the Sagardighi assembly seat in West Bengal's Murshidabad district where the counting of votes was underway for a by-election, according to the Election Commission (EC). Biswas, who enjoys the support of the Left, was leading by 515 votes over...
10:14
Tripura CM Manik Sarkar
Tripura: Incumbent CM and BJP candidate Manik Saha is leading from Town Bardowali assembly constituency in early trends. Counting of votes still underway. Nagaland: Incumbent CM and NDPP candidate Neiphiu Rio leading from Northern Angami-II assembly constituency in early...
10:02
Nagaland: Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and its ally the BJP are ahead in 37 out of 60 seats, where the majority mark is 31. The BJP has registered a win in one seat. The Naga People's Front (NPF) is ahead in 4 seats and the Congress is leading in just one.The BJP is a...
09:52
Conrad Sangma with Himanta Biswa Sarma
The ruling NPP in Meghalaya was leading in 24 seats, while Congress and BJP were leading in 6 seats each. The opposition TMC was ahead in two, the Election Commission said on Thursday morning as counting began for the 59 assembly constituencies in the Northeastern state. The GNC...
09:40
Took blessings of Mata Tripura Sundari before the announcement of assembly poll results, tweets Tripura CM Manik Sarkar. Amid the counting of votes for the Tripura Assembly, Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday paid a visit to the Tripura Sundari Maa temple and sought divine...
09:02
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma's National People's Party is leading in 26 seats while the BJP which is contesting all 60 seats is ahead in 12 seats. The Congress is leading in six seats while the TMC is yet to open an account.
08:54
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is expected to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Thursday, official sources said here. The meeting comes against the backdrop of the Ajnala incident in which self-styled Sikh preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh and his...
08:49
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The counting of votes for by-elections to one assembly constituency each in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and two assembly seats in Maharashtra began on Thursday.The voting in all these assembly constituencies was held on Monday. In Tamil Nadu's Erode East Assembly...
08:44
BJP and its ally IPFT leads in 39 Seats in Tripura, NPP ahead in 19 Seats in Meghalaya, Conrad Sangma ahead in 34 Seats.As per leads at 8:30, the BJP has surged ahead in Tripura (39 seats) and Nagaland (NPP ahead in 19 seats). Its former ally - Conrad Sangma's National People's Party - is ahead...
08:40
The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Thursday its order on a batch of PILs on the recent Adani Group shares crash triggered by the Hindenburg Research's fraud allegations. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala is likely to...
08:25
The counting of votes of the Meghalaya Assembly elections has begun across 13 counting centres across the state on Thursday.According to the Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) FR Kharkongor, three-tier security arrangements have been made with Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF)...
08:21
The counting centre at Tura in Meghalaya
Counting of votes began in Meghalaya at 8 am on Thursday amid tight security, a senior election official said. Votes polled in 59 of the 60 assembly constituencies of the state on February 27 are being counted at 13 centres across the state. Polling in Sohiong seat was adjourned due to...
08:12
Tripura BJP president Rajib Bhattacharjee performed a puja ahead of counting of votes. We performed a puja at the party office today and took blessings of Mata Tripureshwari. BJP will return to power in Tripura. We will get a majority, he said.
08:09
Exit polls by various channels predicted a hung house in Meghalaya, a win for the NDPP backed by the BJP in Nagaland, the two states that went to polls on Monday, and seemed to oscillate between predicting a clean sweep for the BJP to a hung house in the state of Tripura, where a new party the...
08:06
Counting of votes for the three north-east states begins. Votes are set to be counted and results will be out on Thursday for Assembly polls in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland with the keenly-fought battle in the three northeastern states marking the first round of polls in an...
00:59
A Delhi court on Wednesday discharged AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in a case of alleged rioting and stone pelting on police personnel in May 2022 while opposing a demolition drive being carried out by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation. Special Judge Vikas Dhull passed the directions on an...
00:40
Students can be imposed a penalty of Rs 20,000 for holding dharnas and face admission cancellation or a fine of up to Rs 30,000 for resorting to violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University, its latest rules stipulate. The 10-page 'Rules of Discipline and proper conduct of students of JNU' has...
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