23:34
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Wednesday made contradictory statements about the MVA's ongoing rallies with Patole saying that it was not certain whether they would continue. The Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance of the Shiv Sena (UBT), the NCP and...
22:31
Amid strong protest from the Sangh Parivar against the Congress manifesto mentioning a ban on Bajrang Dal, senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said there was no suggestion before the party to ban Bajrang Dal if elected to power. ...
22:16
Indian-American business leader Ajay Banga was on Wednesday appointed as the next President of the World Bank, which said it looks forward to working with him on the World Bank Group Evolution process. The Executive Directors of the World Bank today selected Ajay Banga as President of the...
21:28
Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Wednesday said the BJP can be defeated at the national level only when it is defeated in the states and asked everyone to work together to achieve this. It is necessary to defeat BJP in different states. We can defeat BJP at the national level only...
21:12
A day after Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar announced that he would step down as party head, Union minister and BJP leader Narayan Rane Wednesday said the 82-year-old leader's presence was needed in politics as well as his party's president. Pawar on Tuesday dropped a...
20:56
The Railway police in Andhra Pradesh have apprehended six people, including three juveniles, for hurling stones at a Vande Bharat train recently, which delayed the train by four hours. With the help of CCTV footage from surveillance cameras installed on the train bound to Secunderabad...
20:44
A Delhi court on Wednesday issued summonses to the BBC, Wikimedia and Internet Archive on a criminal complaint filed by a BJP leader seeking to restrain them from publishing a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots, or any other material defamatory to the RSS and Vishva Hindu Parishad. The...
20:03
The Election Commission on Wednesday issued a notice to Congress leader Priyank Kharge for his nalayak remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying prima facie he has violated provisions of the model code. The Commission has asked Priyank, son of Congress President Mallikarjun...
19:43
A small Ahmedabad-based chartered accountancy firm, whose appointment was questioned by a US short seller in its scathing report against the conglomerate run by billionaire Gautam Adani, has resigned due to pre-occupation, Adani Total Gas Ltd said. Hindenburg Research in its January...
19:03
Russian authorities accused Ukraine of attempting to attack the Kremlin with two drones in an effort to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said it considered the attack to be a planned terrorist action, RIA reported, adding that two drones had been used in the...
18:39
In a move aimed at ensuring women's safety as well as keeping tabs on women drug peddlers, female constables have been deployed at various vital checkpoints in Jammu city during night hours, officials said. This is for the first time that women constables have been deployed during...
17:51
The Bharatiya Janata Party was keen on a post-poll alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party in 2019, but its party president Sharad Pawar made it clear to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that there can be no truck with the saffron party. In his revised autobiography ‘Lok Majhe Sangati',...
17:16
Shares of InterGlobe Aviation, the parent of IndiGo, and SpiceJet jumped on Wednesday after Go First sought voluntary insolvency resolution proceedings and decided to cancel flights for three days starting May 3.InterGlobe Aviation stock climbed 4.52 per cent to settle at Rs 2,163.90 on the BSE....
16:50
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore from Karnataka in the last three and a half years. While addressing a public meeting at Indi, Vijayapura, the Congress leader said, In the last three and a half...
16:24
I am not a contender; not interested in becoming NCP president, says Praful Patel. Patel's remarks comes after Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar announced his resignation from the party president's post yesterday. Praful Patel said yesterday said that the prominent leaders of...
15:52
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has credited late Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh with having a proper understanding and maturity to lead a coalition government in Maharashtra, and said he had doubts on the capability of Prithviraj Chavan under whose leadership the Congress-NCP...
15:11
A 30-year-old man was killed after a car allegedly crashed into his bike and drove half-a-kilometre with him on the bonnet on Kasturba Gandhi Marg here, police said on Wednesday. The accident took place on Saturday night when the SUV car allegedly crashed into the bike that Deepanshu...
15:05
The weather office on Wednesday said it has picked up early signs of a cyclone developing in southeast Bay of Bengal and warned fishermen and the shipping community against venturing into the region. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of the India Meteorological Department, said a cyclone is...
14:49
Mumbai police have exposed a ring of cybercriminals that stole money from people from across the country by posing as police personnel and arrested its kingpin, who has studied till Class 12 and used to do transactions of more than Rs 5 crore a day in his accounts, an official said on...
14:38
Heavy is the head that wears the crown?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting at Ankola in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Opposition only knows 'Gaali politics'. They cannot defeat us so they abuse us. The people of Karnataka reject abuse politics and all the voters will teach them a lesson to Congress for...
14:11
Bommai with BS Yediyurappa
The BJP asserted on Wednesday that people of Karnataka will give a befitting reply to the Congress on its promise of action against Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of RSS-affiliated Vishwa Hindu Parishad, while noting that an earlier ban on the organisation was rejected by authorities due to absence...
13:59
Edible oil major Adani Wilmar on Wednesday reported 60 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 93.61 crore for the quarter ended March 2023 on lower revenue. Its net profit stood at Rs 234.29 crore in the year-ago period. Total income fell to Rs 13,945.02 crore in January-March...
13:52
Facing criticism from all quarters for being insensitive towards the protesting wrestlers, IOA President PT Usha on Wednesday met them at Jantar Mantar and assured them support for their cause. Former sprinter Usha had come down heavily on the wrestlers for resuming their protest...
13:37
As 'Operation Kaveri' continues to bring stranded Indians back to the country from conflict-hit Sudan, another flight with 231 passengers landed in Mumbai on Wednesday. Taking to Twitter, the official spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs, Arindam Bagchi, informed about the...
13:20
Jagdish Shettar will be contesting on a Congress ticket
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar -- contesting on a Congress ticket hoping to reclaim his lost self-respect -- still has photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah hanging on a wall in his home-office and says it is not good to remove...
12:59
No-frills carrier Go First filing for insolvency proceedings and cancelling flights is bad for the airline industry as the move will reduce capacity and could push airfares in certain routes, travel agents' grouping TAAI said on Wednesday. Bogged down by an acute financial crunch due...
12:32
Go First chief Kaushik Khona has told employees that the airline has been crippled by recurring Pratt & Whitney engine troubles and assured that the carrier is doing everything possible to navigate the situation with utmost care and concern for all staff. The no-frills carrier has filed...
12:10
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Two terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The encounter took place near Pichnad Machil area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir, a police official said. Two terrorists have been killed. The search operation...
11:56
The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a committee headed by the cabinet secretary would be constituted to explore administrative steps for addressing some concerns of same-sex couples without going into the issue of legalising their marriage. Solicitor General Tushar...
11:38
Balwant Singh Rajoana
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to commute the death penalty of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, to life imprisonment. Rajoana has been in jail for the past 26 years. A bench comprising Justices B R...
11:36
A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar announced his decision to step down as the political outfit's chief, he stuck to his daily routine of meeting people including party functionaries here on Wednesday. Pawar (82) on Tuesday dropped a bombshell by saying...
11:15
Budget carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday said it is working to revive 25 grounded planes and has so far mobilised Rs 400 crore for revival of these aircraft. The announcement comes a day after competitor Go First filed for voluntary insolvency resolution proceedings and decided to cancel flights...
11:07
Dabbawalas buy a Puneri pagdi
Ahead of the coronation ceremony of Britain's King Charles, the famous dabbawalas of Mumbai were seen purchasing gifts on Tuesday. 74-year-old King Charles will be formally crowned as monarch on May 6 at Westminster Abbey in London. The dabbawalas bought Puneri Pagadi and a shawl...
10:44
Siddaramaiah has accused the Bommai of encouraging moral policing
In an alleged case of moral policing, a student was assaulted by a group of right-wing activists for talking to a girl at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, police said. The first-year PU student was allegedly assaulted by the activists in the incident on Tuesday and has been...
10:28
After Go First filed for bankruptcy blaming jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney (P&W) for grounding half of its fleet, the US aerospace major hit back stating that the budget airline has a lengthy history of missing its financial obligations. A source at P&W told ANI that the budget...
10:06
The Maharashtra Congress has demanded that a special session of the state legislature be convened to discuss issues including the death of more than a dozen people due to sunstroke last month and protests against a proposed oil refinery project at Barsu in Ratnagiri district. A Congress...
10:00
More things change more they remain the same. Tribal people of Bordhapada village in Nashik have to walk 2 km to fetch water from a well amid a water crisis in the area. There are 2 wells in our village, but they have dried up so we have to fetch water from the bottom of the hill which is...
09:57
Alia Bhatt, who made her debut at the Met Gala 2023 in New York, was called Aishwarya (Rai Bachchan) by the paps on the red carpet. The 'Raazi' star won the hearts of millions with her sartorial choices at Met Gala. Alia opted for a pristine white gown with a billowing silhouette from the...
09:38
Umesh Pal's wife Jaya Pal issued a poster in Prayagraj on Tuesday, expressing her gratitude for the decimation of the killers of her husband and Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal.The poster carried the images of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Sidharth...
09:03
As Go First Airlines grounded flights amid bankruptcy, passengers who booked their tickets with the airlines are left in the middle of nowhere.Go First Airlines on Tuesday announced that its flight operations will remain cancelled from May 3 to May 5 adding that a full refund will be issued to...
00:08
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday hit out at the makers of the movie The Kerala Story, accusing them of indulging in gross exaggeration and distortion of the state's reality. Tharoor's assertion came in response to those accusing him of double standards over his...
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