23:17
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday told the voters of Jammu and Kashmir not to vote for the party if they are satisfied with the decision of the abrogation of Article 370.He also appealed to the people of the Union Territory to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party and its 'B'...
22:46
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee went to the Raj Bhavan on Monday night to lodge a complaint with West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose regarding the detention of party leaders by Delhi Police for holding a dharna outside the EC office demanding the removal of Central Burau of...
22:32
Manoj Sinha
Manoj Sinha may resign as the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir and contest the Lok Sabha elections from Ghazipur, sources said on Monday. Sinha, who became the L-G of Jammu and Kashmir on August 7, 2020, hails from Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur, and has been a Union minister in the...
22:08
Hours after Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders were detained for staging a dharna outside the Election Commission in New Delhi, party leader and MP Derek O'Brien said they will continue their protest at the Mandir Marg police station.A 10-member delegation of the TMC had announced the dharna after...
21:58
Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
The income tax department on Monday said it has found mismatch between rent paid by salaried employees vis-a-vis rent received by the recipient for 2020-21 fiscal year and conducted data analysis for high-value cases.Refuting reports that there is a special drive by the department to reopen cases...
21:20
In a relief to Tamil Nadu Rural Development Minister I Periyasamy, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed till further orders the proceedings against against him in a corruption case.A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Prashant Kumar Mishra said since the top court is examining the appeal of the...
20:58
Rajeev Chandrasekhar vs Shashi Tharoor
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has accepted the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar's challenge to have a debate on the development of Thiruvananthapuram. In his post on X, Tharoor said that he welcomed the debate but also accused Chandrasekhar of evading the debate till...
20:38
Leading stock exchanges BSE and NSE on Monday declared a trading holiday on May 20 on account of voting for general elections in Mumbai. There will be no trading on that day in equity, equity derivatives and SLB (Securities Lending and Borrowing)...
20:16
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will stay overnight in Shahdol district in Madhya Pradesh as his helicopter could not take off due to inclement weather, a party functionary said on Monday.Gandhi is in MP for his party's Lok Sabha campaign and he addressed two rallies in Mandla and Shahdol, which...
19:53
The Delhi high court is scheduled to deliver on Tuesday its verdict on a plea by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in judicial custody in a money laundering case linked with the alleged excise scam, challenging his arrest.As per the cause list uploaded on the high court's website, Justice...
19:30
Union minister and BJP leader Shantanu Thakur on Monday claimed to have received a letter from terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), threatening him that if NRC is implemented in West Bengal, they will burn the entire country. The purported letter, typed in Bengali, also threatened to raze...
19:05
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi has donated Rs 5 crore to the Jana Sena party. Chiranjeevi's younger brother Pawan Kalyan is the chief of the Jana Sena party which is contesting the Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly elections, alongside the...
18:33
'The Delhi police has kidnapped us 5 TMC MPs & 4 former MPs. We were protesting at EC & were told we'll be taken to Mandir Marg Police Station. And then, suddenly, the bus has been diverted & going to an unknown location,' TMC MP Saket Gokhale has posted on X. 'Note this - 5...
18:18
Courtesy: @ChBirenderSingh on X
Former Union minister Birender Singh on Monday said he has quit the BJP and will join the Congress, the move coming almost a month after his son Brijendra Singh joined the grand old party.His wife Prem Lata Singh -- a former BJP MLA from Haryana -- also quit the party.I have resigned from the...
17:54
The Congress and the National Conference on Monday announced contesting the Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh in alliance, with each fielding candidates in three seats.At a joint press conference in Srinagar, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said the Congress would contest...
17:22
KBK Infographics
Automobile retail sales in India saw double-digit growth in 2023-24 driven by record offtake of passenger vehicles, three- wheelers and tractors, dealers' body FADA said on Monday. The retail sales across segments rose by 10 per cent to 2,45,30,334 units last fiscal as compared with...
17:19
Leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) sat on a 24-hour dharna outside the Election Commission's office here, demanding that the chiefs of CBI, NIA, ED and Income Tax Department be changed. A delegation of the TMC leaders, including Derek O'Brien, Dola Sen, Saket Gokhale and Sagarika Ghose,...
17:17
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty reached their fresh record highs on Monday, amid optimism in global markets and foreign fund inflows. Buying in index major Reliance Industries also fuelled the rally in equities. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 494.28 points or 0.67 per cent...
17:00
Political strategist Prashant Kishor has said that Bihar has a lot of space for a new party as it has maximum anti-incumbency following the nearly 35-year rule of ideologically similar formations headed by either Lalu Prasad Yadav or Nitish Kumar. His comments came as his ongoing 'Jan...
16:28
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that an exodus of Congress leaders began after Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' passed through the state. In an interview with PTI at Titabor in Jorhat district, Sarma slammed Gandhi for raking up topics such as caste census and...
16:14
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday exuded confidence to win the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and said the new government will transfer Rs 1 lakh annually into accounts of women belonging to SC, ST, and backward categories. Addressing a rally at Dhanora in Seoni district, which is part of...
16:11
Air Commodore (Retd) CM Singla has passed away. Read this story to understand why the air commodore played such a crucial role in the Bangladesh War of 1971. Read the story here.
15:58
Facing attack from PM Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and their daughters and sons, will visit the Ram temple in Ayodhya after the campaigning ends for the Lok Sabha polls, reports MI Khan.
15:47
Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh tweets: My colleagues @salman7khurshid, @MukulWasnik, @Pawankhera and @gurdeepsappal have just met with the Election Commission and presented and argued 6 complaints, including 2 against the PM himself. This is the time for the Election Commission to...
15:22
The biker crashed into the open door of Karandlaje's car
A biker died allegedly after he crashed into the open door of a car belonging to Union Minister of State for Agriculture Shobha Karandlaje at KR Puram in Bengaluru on Monday. According to police, the incident occurred near Ganesha Temple in the locality. The deceased has been...
15:10
The Congress on Monday alleged that the BJP and its allies first cheated their way into power in Maharashtra and have since left the state in shambles, asking how much did the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi cost. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh attacked Prime Minister Narendra...
15:01
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asserted that no Indian, irrespective of their faith, will lose citizenship with the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. He charged the opposition Congress and DMK with creating confusion over the issue. Rajnath was...
14:48
Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit. He is the sitting MP from Pilibhit
After three-time MP from Pilibhit, Varun Gandhi was denied a BJP ticket for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, Maneka Gandhi, his mother and a party candidate from Sultanpur on Monday said that the decision of fielding someone is taken by the party's high command. Speaking to ANI, the...
14:23
Let there not be a contest between the Union and the state, the Supreme Court said on Monday while hearing the Karnataka government's plea seeking a direction to the Centre to release financial assistance from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to the state for drought...
14:07
Rahul Gandhi at a rally in MP
The Congress was left red-faced after a video surfaced on social media, showing a picture of Union Minister and BJP candidate Faggan Singh Kulaste on a banner at Rahul Gandhi's rally in Madhya Pradesh's Mandla Lok Sabha seat on Monday. While the Congress termed the goof-up a human...
13:55
Pic: Umar Ganie
A mustard field in Kashmir in full bloom.
13:51
Pic: Umar Ganie
If there is paradise on Earth, Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast...Sheep graze on gorgeous almond flowers in a pasture in Srinagar as spring begins.
13:48
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed by AAP leader Sanjay Singh challenging an order of the Gujarat High Court which refused to quash summons issued against him in a defamation case for alleged comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's educational qualification.We are not inclined...
13:40
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of taking action against the corrupt after June 4 meant that opposition leaders would be imprisoned post Lok Sabha elections. Results of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections from...
13:08
NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar addresses public rally in Maharashtra Baramati.When I was the Union agriculture minister, I helped the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi without any partiality, but today the same person is making personal comments against me. Today, if someone comments against the PM, then...
13:07
KC Venugopal with Rahul Gandhi
Senior Congress leader K C Venugopal on Monday said some leaders quit the party the moment they receive notices from Central investigating agencies and 'fall at the feet of BJP and Union government.' Venugopal, who is AICC general secretary (Organisation), however, hailed leaders like...
12:29
India agreed to give up the Poonch salient as well as Uri.To the north India also proposed to give up land in the Gurez sector giving the entire Neelam/Kinshanganga valley to Pakistan.In return, India sought control of the post dominating Kargil town, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd)....
12:26
Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and with a saffron scarf around his neck, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Pilibhit Jitin Prasada reads out the names of a few local party workers from a paper at a public meeting in Pilibhit. I might not know the names of...
11:24
Kangana's 2021 post on Twitter
BJP candidate and actress Kangana Ranaut makes a meaty claim. I don't consume beef or any other kind of red meat, it is shameful that completely baseless rumours are being spread about me, I have been advocating and promoting yogic and Ayurvedic way of life for decades now such tactics won't work...
11:16
The more progressive and successful part of the country is drifting away from the poverty-ridden north and its majoritarian leader. Read the column here.
11:11
Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, BJP MLA Ashish Shelar has met Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and his family members and discussed the social work being carried out by them in the fields of healthcare and assistance to the needy persons. Shelar in post on X on Sunday mentioned about his meeting...
11:09
An altercation broke out between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers during BJP MP Dilip Ghosh visit to Durgapur on Monday morning. Later, police officials controlled the situation.Visuals from the spot showed two groups pushing each other and shouting slogans...
10:53
A court in Delhi on Monday denied interim bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in the Delhi excise policy-related money laundering case. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja dismissed the plea, saying the stage was not right to enlarge her on interim bail. Kavitha had approached the court for interim...
10:50
MDMK's Vaiko
Founder of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Vaiko has said that his party will strive to get Katchatheevu back from Sri Lanka.The veteran leader of MDMK, which is part of the Opposition INDIA bloc, told reporters on Sunday at Tiruchirapalli, said that he wants the island to be...
10:23
Sanjay Nirupam with Rahul Gandhi in 2019
In a two-part interview, former Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam tells Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com why he quit the Congress, how five power centres within the Congress are ruining the party, the reasons why the Congress has been in a tailspin since the party's 2014 defeat.Nirupam has...
10:10
Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun
Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has released a video in which he is purportedly heard saying that his group will challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the former Research and Analysis Wing chief Samant Goel,...
09:54
Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor shares this image saying, I have been blessed to have had the presence of my mother in all my campaigns. This time, at the age of 88, she gamely came out yesterday, to hand over some food she wanted me to eat during the pariyadanam! I didn't argue, though the...
09:51
Representational image
A 25-year-old Delhi-based man died shortly after using a slide at a water park located in a mall's premises in Noida, prompting an investigation by the local police, officials said. Dhanjay Maheshwari along with his four friends had on Sunday afternoon visited the Entertainment City...
09:45
Banks across India will remain closed for multiple days in the upcoming week. National banks, including the State Bank of India have announced a five-day holiday streak beginning April 9. The holidays are slated for various festivals and occasions, including Gudi Padwa, Ugadi, Telegu New...
09:41
Indian American physician, researcher, and best-selling author Siddhartha Mukherjee will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania commencement on May 20 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. He will also receive an honorary doctor of sciences degree. Read more here.
09:37
Manipur will vote on April 19 and 26
Why should I vote to elect a representative of a place which is no longer mine... elections mean nothing to us, says a distraught Nobi who lost her home 11 months ago to ethnic violence in Manipur, and is living in a relief camp. The 42-year-old is not alone as 'right to live before...
09:26
The Matua-majority Thakurnagar area in West Bnegal's North 24 Parganas district witnessed dramatic scenes on Sunday night with supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shantanu Thakur and Trinamool Congress MP Mamata Bala Thakur coming face to face over the control of a house where community...
08:42
Slamming the Centre for doing injustice to the state, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has thanked Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for admitting the delay in releasing drought relief funds to the state. Speaking after a meeting with apartment owners in...
08:17
The Bharatiya Janata Party betrays those who help it in times of need, claimed Shiv Sena-UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday.Addressing a rally for his party's Mumbai North East Lok Sabha candidate Sanjay Dina Patil, Thackeray said the BJP betrayed the Shiv Sena by contesting the 2014 assembly...
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