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Filmmaker Karan Johar
Filmmaker Karan Johar on Sunday said for the past year, his banner Dharma Productions has been involved in the shooting of a film, starring a superstar from the south, a massively loved actress and a legacy debut actor. In a statement shared on Instagram, Johar said it is not a film...
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A murder convict, who had been granted parole, has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman and her minor daughter in Nagpur, an official said on Sunday. Bharat Goswami (33), a resident of Jaripatka area in the city, was convicted in 2014 in a murder case. He was recently out on...
21:31
SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar
At least five leaders of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party suffered minor injuries when a portion of a dais collapsed during a public meeting of party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. The incident took place around 3 pm and Om Prakash Rajbhar escaped...
21:19
Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar, who took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for a record ninth time on Sunday after a dramatic volte-face, asserted that there is now no question of him going anywhere else, leaving the NDA-fold. Kumar was sworn in by Bihar Governor Rajendra Arlekar at...
20:37
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday congratulated Nitish Kumar for taking oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar. In a post on 'X', Adityanath said, Hearty congratulations to Shri @NitishKumar ji on taking oath as as the Chief Minister of Bihar and Shri Samrat Chaudhary ji...
20:15
BJP national president JP Nadda/File image
Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday described the party's alliance with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as natural and asserted that the coalition will benefit the state. Addressing a press conference in Patna, shortly after he attended Kumar's swearing in with his party as an alliance...
19:59
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that the rule of Lord Ram was a source of inspiration for the Constitution makers, noting his, Sita's and Lakshman's pictures adorned the pages of the Constitution. In the first Mann Ki Baat broadcast of this year, Modi said the consecration...
19:45
A suspect in a major Maoist attack died a few hours after he was taken into custody by police in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, a senior official said on Sunday. Podia Madvi (40) was taken into custody at 5 pm on Saturday for interrogation in connection with the Aranpur IED...
19:30
DMK leader TR Baalu/File image
Janata Dal-United president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said 'only Hindi should be spoken' and the party tolerated it for the sake of cordiality in INDIA alliance, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader TR Baalu said in Chennai on Sunday. Speaking to reporters after holding seat sharing...
19:07
Nitish Kumar
The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) on Sunday said Nitish Kumar will be remembered in political history as the great paltu Ram who loves jumping on command of BJP. It is not surprising that he has done this 'Volte - Face' once again because he seems to be addicted to this...
18:35
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Sunday that the newly sworn-in NDA government in Bihar will leave no stone unturned for the state's development and to fulfil people's aspirations, as he congratulated Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his two deputies on taking oath. In a post on X,...
18:32
An earthquake of 4.0 magnitude hit Gujarat's Kutch district on Sunday evening but there is no report of damage to property and life, officials said. The epicentre of the earthquake was located near Bhachau in Kutch district, as per the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR). The...
18:08
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, whose party on Sunday lost power following Nitish Kumar's latest volte-face, claimed that the latter's Janata Dal-United will be finished in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The former deputy chief minister described his ex-boss as a respectable but...
18:03
Protesters targeted the iconic Mona Lisa painting in Paris on Sunday, hurling soup in an act of vandalism, CNN reported. Fortunately, the famous artwork, displayed at the Louvre Museum, remained unharmed as it is protected by a clear casing. An environmental group, Riposte...
17:41
Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar on Sunday took oath as the chief minister of Bihar for a record ninth time. He was administered the oath of office by Governor Rajendra Arlekar at the Raj Bhavan in Patna. Along with Kumar, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Vijay Kumar Sinha and...
17:39
Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar's newly-formed alliance with BJP would unravel before the 2025 assembly polls in Bihar, political strategist turned activist Prashant Kishor claimed on Sunday. Kishor also claimed that the BJP could end up paying a huge price for realigning with...
16:58
Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday welcomed Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar's decision to join the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, calling it better late than ever. The central minister of state for social justice and empowerment said Kumar has taken...
16:42
Rana Talwar (rear)
Veteran banker Rana Talwar, who was the first Indian to head a global bank -- Standard Chartered Plc, died at the age of 76 years. Talwar, son-in-law of DLF Group chairman emeritus K P Singh, breathed his last on Saturday, sources said. He is survived by his wife Renuka and son...
16:12
A 26-year-old woman IT professional has been shot dead allegedly by a male friend with whom she was in a relationship in Maharashtra's Pune district, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place at a lodge in Hinjawadi area of Pimpri Chinchwad on Saturday and the police got the...
16:08
The Rahul Gandhi-led harat Jodo Nyay Yatra' resumed from West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Sunday after a two-day break. Sitting atop an SUV along with state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Gandhi traversed through the town of Jalpaiguri, as he waved at onlookers. The...
15:24
Frost forms on plants and roads in Ooty, Tamil Nadu on Sunday/ANI on X
Ooty, a popular hill station in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district, saw the minimum temperature on Sunday drop to 1.3 degree Celsius while continuing to report frost. The sharp drop in the mercury along with the frost turned the sleepy and idyllic hill station into a mini-Kashmir on Sunday...
15:03
BJP MP from West Bengal Dilip Ghosh
Describing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's volte-face as political opportunism, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from West Bengal Dilip Ghosh on Sunday said there should be an end to it. Ghosh, the former president of West Bengal BJP, was speaking to reporters after Kumar dumped the Rashtriya...
14:21
Janata Dal-United leader KC Tyagi/ANI on X
Janata Dal-United leader KC Tyagi has on Sunday alleged that the Congress wanted to steal the INDIA bloc's leadership and for this purpose, the party hatched a conspiracy. Tyagi said, ...Congress wanted to steal the leadership of INDIA alliance. In the meeting that took place on 19th...
14:19
JD-U chief Nitish Kumar
In an apparent dig at Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar who resigned as the Chief Minister of Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya on Sunday said the garbage has gone into the dustbin. Kumar resigned as the chief minister of Bihar, saying things...
14:02
JD-U chief Nitish Kumar
In an apparent dig at Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar who resigned as the Chief Minister of Bihar, Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya on Sunday said the garbage has gone into the dustbin. Kumar resigned as the chief minister of Bihar, saying things...
13:46
Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar will take oath as Bihar chief minister for the 9th time at 5 pm today.Bringing closure to the fast-unravelling political events earlier in the day, Nitish handed his resignation letter to Governor Rajendra Arlekar along with letters of support from the BJP...
13:24
Bharatiya Janata Party MP and former Bihar deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi says, We welcome Nitish Kumar's decision. We knew that the RJD-JDU alliance was an unnatural alliance and would not last long. We are happy and now JDU and BJP will together form the government. I hope that the new government...
13:12
As Nitish Kumar once again does what he is famous for, allow us to blow our own trumpet. M I Khan, our man in Patna, is known to be on the ball with his reports, and his January 23 report on Janata Dal-United ministers favouring a return to the NDA ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, is a case...
12:42
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Ram Janaki temple in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur received a bomb threat on Sunday, six days after the Pran Prathishtha ceremony of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. Several posters mentioning bomb threats were pasted on the walls and scattered on the floor of the ancient temple. BJP leader...
12:29
BJP's Vijay Sinha (second from right)
Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs approved proposal to form NDA government in Bihar with Janata Dal-United's support, says party leader Vinod Tawde.Bihar BJP president Samrat Choudhary elected leader of legislative party, Vijay Sinha elected deputy leader, Tawde added.
12:04
Outgoing Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
Speaking to the media soon after submitting his resignation to governor Rajendra V Arlekar, Nitish Kumar said, Things were not working out well, therefore I had to resign.I will leave the earlier alliance and form a new alliance, the longest serving chief minister of Bihar said. The Bihar...
11:56
Moments before Nitish Kumar handed over his resignation to the Governor, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday that parties in the INDIA bloc had expected that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would fight the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideology till the very...
11:40
Bihar outgoing Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar said, Today, I have resigned as the Chief Minister and I have also told the Governor to dissolve the government in the state. This situation came because not everything was alright...I was getting views from...
11:26
BREAKING: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar submitted his resignation to Governor Rajendra V Arlekar on Sunday morning, officials said.The governor accepted Kumar's resignation, and asked him to continue as caretaker CM till a new government is formed, they said.Kumar was accompanied by...
11:10
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visits Raj Bhavan after meeting Janata Dal-United MLAs.He is likely to resign
10:54
A 45-year-old woman died and 17 people were injured when a stage set up for a religious function at the Kalkaji temple here collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, police said.The tragic incident occurred around 12.30 am, they said. The identity of the deceased is yet to be identified.According...
10:21
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to resign after chairing a meeting of Janata Dal-United MLAs at his official residence on Sunday, party sources said.Kumar is expected to address the meeting after 10.30 am, they said.Following the meeting, he is likely to visit the Raj Bhavan and...
10:09
Faced with the possibility of imminent loss of power in Bihar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal on Sunday put out full-page advertisements in newspapers to thank its young leader Tejashwi Yadav for his contributions as the deputy chief minister.Dhanyawad (thank you) Tejashwi, say the advertisements put...
09:54
BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde
Amid the turmoil in Bihar's ruling Mahagathbandhan, a meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party MPs and MLAs is underway in Patna.BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde is attending the meet at the party office in Patna. Meetings are going on for the Lok Sabha elections. The decision that...
09:26
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said he will soon share the name and address of the body double purportedly used by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the state.Sarma had brought up the allegation of the Congress MP using a body double during the Yatra at a...
07:04
Nitish Kumar
Just In: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought time to meet the Governor in the first half today, ANI reports quoting sources.
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