23:58
Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden/Democratic National Convention/Pool via Reuters
Hunter Biden, the eldest living son of the US president, has been convicted of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver when, prosecutors argued, the president's son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs, CNN...
23:55
Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh (left)/Courtesy Raja Singh on X
A 40-year-old man was arrested in Hyderabad on Tuesday for allegedly making threatening calls to Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh, the Hyderabad police said. The Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police traced the accused Mohammed Wasim, 40, using call data analysis to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and arrested...
23:36
The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday released a sketch of a terrorist involved in the attack on a passenger bus in Reasi district and announced a Rs 20 lakh reward for information about him. On Sunday, terrorists opened fire at the 53-seater bus carrying pilgrims when it was en route from...
23:32
Chinese President Xi Jinping/Florence Lo/Reuters
A Chinese ex-navy captain, claiming to be a defector, caught Taiwan's navy off-guard by driving his speedboat directly to a pier outside the capital Taipei on Sunday. The intrusion by a mainland Chinese man amid high-security measures in the midst of recurring tensions with China came in for...
23:16
Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi will be the next Chief of Army Staff succeeding incumbent Gen Manoj Pande, the government announced on Tuesday night. Lt Gen Dwivedi is currently serving as the Vice Chief of Army Staff. Gen Pande will retire on June 30. In appointing Lt Gen Dwivedi, the...
23:02
Former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad/File image
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday appointed former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and its national general secretary Tarun Chugh central observers for the meeting of its Arunachal Pradesh MLAs to elect the state's next chief minister. The party in a statement said the two leaders...
22:41
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A man climbed atop a 125-ft-high mobile tower in Chandigarh on Tuesday, insisting on meeting Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for the resolution of his land dispute. Five hours later, police managed to convince him to come down. He was brought down with the help of a skylift...
22:20
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A terrorist was shot dead by security forces during an encounter after ultras on Tuesday evening opened fire at a village in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said. The terrorists struck Saida Sukhal village near Koota Mode in the Hiranagar sector, a police spokesperson said,...
22:12
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The flow of blue water after heavy rainfall in Mhasla village in Dharashiv district of Maharashtra drew attention when videos of the unusual occurrence went viral on social media platforms on Tuesday. The spot inspection suggested that the blue hue was not a natural phenomenon. An...
21:27
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde/ANI Photo
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said there was apprehension among people about changing Constitution and removing reservations following the '400 paar' pitch in the recent Lok Sabha elections. The BJP had set itself a target of winning 400 plus seats, including its NDA...
20:56
BJP leader Uma Bharti/ANI Photo
An officer deployed for the security of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti received phone calls from Pakistan and Dubai, with the callers seeking her location, Bharti's office said in a statement on Tuesday evening. The callers repeatedly asked...
20:30
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan/ANI Photo
US national security advisor Jake Sullivan is likely to visit India next week to review overall progress in implementation of the ambitious iCET initiative, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The top Biden administration official will hold wide-ranging talks with NSA Ajit...
20:08
Narendra Modi signs the register after being sworn in as PM, June 9, 2024/ANI Photo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged his supporters to remove Modi Ka Parivar suffix from their social media handles, saying the election win of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has effectively conveyed the message it was meant to. BJP members and his supporters in huge...
19:54
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu/ANI Photo
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is set to be sworn in as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday for a fourth term. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Ministers J P Nadda and Bandi Sanjay Kumar as well as several other leaders are expected to attend...
19:36
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Two people have been arrested for allegedly consuming liquor during a shikara ride in Dal Lake in Srinagar, the police said on Tuesday. The step was taken by the city police after a video of the episode made rounds on the internet, they said. Consuming liquor in public places as...
19:31
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima/Reuters
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people, including his wife, were killed as the plane they were onboard crashed in the Chikangawa mountain range, CBS News reported, citing the government. Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera declared Tuesday a national day of...
18:47
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra/File image/ANI Photo
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Tuesday that had his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contested the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have lost by two or three lakh votes. Addressing a thanksgiving meeting in Raebareli, he said the INDIA coalition parties fought...
18:24
Two persons, including a police constable, were arrested with heroin worth Rs 25 crore in North Tripura, officials said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a vehicle coming from Mizoram's Champhai district was intercepted at Damcherra on Monday, they said. On searching the vehicle, heroin...
18:12
BJP's Mohan Charan Majhi (right) will be CM of Odisha/ANI on X
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mohan Charan Majhi will be the new chief minister of Odisha, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. The Keonjhar MLA was selected for the top post at the BJP legislature party meeting in Bhubaneswar. Apart from Singh, Union...
17:53
PM Narendra Modi hold first cabinet meeting of third term in New Delhi/ANI Photo
Twenty-eight ministers in the third Narendra Modi government have criminal cases against them with 19 of them facing serious charges such as attempted murder, crimes against women and hate speech, poll rights body Association of Democratic Reforms said. Among the ministers facing the most...
17:35
Outgoing Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
The Bharatiya Janata Party, all set to form its maiden government in Odisha, on Tuesday invited Biju Janata Dal president and outgoing chief minister Naveen Patnaik for the swearing-in ceremony scheduled on June 12. The first invitation card for the ceremony was, however, given to Lord...
17:10
Lalu cuts his cake and eats it too. Seen here with Rabri Devi and Tej Pratap
RJD chief Lalu Prasad celebrated his 77th birthday on Tuesday by cutting a 77-pound cake in the presence of his family and leaders of his party. A large number of RJD workers also gathered outside 10 Circular Road, the official residence of his wife and former CM Rabri Devi, where he lives, and...
17:06
Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia is the son of Madhav Rao Scindia
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted the Modi government over dynastic politics and dubbed the NDA ministry a parivar mandal as he pointed out several ministers in the Modi 3.0 government who hail from political families. Those who call the tradition of struggle, service...
16:45
Rajnath Singh and Bhupender Yadav are observers
The BJP legislature party meeting to select the chief minister of Odisha began here on Tuesday evening, a party leader said. Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Bhupender Yadav are attending the meeting as observers, he said.
16:35
Electricity went out in several parts of Delhi this afternoon after a power grid in UP's Mandola -- which supplies 1,500 megawatts of electricity to the national capital -- caught fire.The temperature in the city hovered around 42 degrees Celsius. Delhi Power Minister Atishi said, A fire...
16:27
KBK Indographics
Automakers dispatched over 3.47 lakh passenger vehicles to dealers in domestic market in May, recording an year-on-year growth of 4 per cent over same month last year, industry body SIAM said on Tuesday. The overall passenger vehicle (PV) dispatches from companies to dealers stood at...
16:07
TMC MP Saket Gokhale said on Tuesday that he has filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) alleging stock market manipulation, and demanded an investigation into statements by senior BJP leaders asking people to invest in stocks, hinting at election results. Gokhale...
15:35
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Tuesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Mohan Bhagwat's remarks expressing concern over peace eluding Manipur, saying it is not in the DNA of the PM to listen to the advice of the opposition but he should heed the words of the RSS chief.Sibal...
15:22
Amit Shah with Chandrababu Naidu. File pic
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday will travel to Andhra Pradesh where he is likely to meet TDP chief and chief minister-designate N Chandra Babu Naidu ahead of his swearing in, sources said. The TDP, Jan Sena Party and BJP alliance comfortably won the just-concluded assembly...
14:45
Amit Malviya
Days after BJP's IT-cell head Amit Malviya filed a defamation suit, RSS member Santanu Sinha clarified on Tuesday that his social media post on 'sexual exploitation' of women was not intended to malign Malviya's image. Sinha also called it humiliating that the Congress party was spreading a...
14:18
Gaurav Gogoi with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi yesterday
The BJP's approach to parliamentary democracy will not change as long as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at the helm but in footballing terms, the wall of defenders is now bigger and much more robust with over 230 INDIA bloc MPs in the Lok Sabha, says Congress' Gaurav Gogoi. In an...
14:04
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday claimed that BJP allies Nitish Kumar and N Chandrababu Naidu were dissatisfied souls following the allocation of portfolios in the Union cabinet. Talking to reporters in Mumbai, he also latched onto the term bhatakti aatma used by Prime...
13:27
Annapurna Devi assumes the office of Minister of Women and Child Development. With her is Smriti Irani who held the portfolio in the last term.
13:18
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In a horrifying incident a woman allegedly brutally beat to death her eight-year-old son in West Joynagar in Agartala apparently as she could not handle the minor's misbehaviour as per her statement to the police. The incident took place on Monday evening under the jurisdiction of West...
13:07
File pic of security forces in Kashmir
Three over ground workers of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have been arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district in connection with the recovery of two improvised explosive devices, police said on Tuesday. The explosive devices, weighing about six kgs, were recovered on Sunday and were...
12:53
Singapore Airlines on Tuesday offered monetary compensation and a full refund of the airfare to the 211 passengers onboard the flag carrier's turbulence-hit London to Singapore flight last month, which led to the death of one passenger and injured many others. On May 21, Flight SQ321...
12:46
The word 'ally' in a coalition is misleading because it suggests someone who is always for you and with you. This is incorrect. They are always for themselves and sometimes with you, explains Aakar Patel. Read the column here.
12:31
Top BJP leader Amit Shah on Tuesday took charge as the Union Home Minister for the second consecutive term. Shah has been holding the portfolio since 2019. Before taking charge of the ministry, Shah visited the National Police Memorial in the national capital's Chanakyapuri area to pay homage to...
12:10
Chandrababu is the NDA's CM candidate in Andhra
TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu was on Tuesday elected as NDA leader in the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly. In a meeting of Telugu Desam Party, Janasena and BJP legislators, held in Vijayawada, the MLAs elected Naidu unanimously. Andhra Pradesh BJP chief D Purandeswari and...
11:54
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the National Testing Agency's response to a plea seeking fresh conduct of medical entrance exam NEET-UG, 2024, on the grounds of alleged question paper leak and other malpractices. A vacation bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Ahsanuddin...
11:37
Universities in India will be allowed to offer admissions twice a year on lines of foreign institutions, says UGC chief Jagadesh Kumar. Biannual admissions in universities to be offered in July-August and January-February from 2024-25 session, UGC says and adds that industries can conduct...
11:20
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorm with moderate to heavy rains in Mumbai on Tuesday, a civic official said. The island city recorded 37.74 mm of rainfall, eastern Mumbai 17.13 mm and western Mumbai 12.39 mm of rainfall in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am, he...
11:16
An injured pilgrim being taken to hospital in Reasi
The bodies of four people, including a two-year-old boy, killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, arrived here by train on Tuesday, police said. According to them, the bodies arrived in Jaipur on the Pooja Express and were taken to Harmada and Chomu by the deceased's family members and...
10:49
In his first public remarks on the outcome of the elections in which the BJP fell short of a majority in the Lok Sabha, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said Monday while referring to the bitter poll campaign, that decorum was not maintained.Bhagwat also said that a true sevak (one who serves the people)...
10:35
Suresh Gopi takes charge as Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Tourism. His boss will be Gajendra Singh Shekhawat who also handles the Ministry of Culture.
10:19
Ahead of the annual Amarnath Yatra and in the wake of the terror attack in which nine people were killed in Jammu's Reasi, the Inspector General of Police Kashmir VK Birdi chaired a security review meeting.The Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra (SANJY)-2024) is scheduled to begin on June 29 from the twin...
10:13
RIL was among the laggards this morning
Benchmark equity indices declined in early trade on Tuesday amid profit taking after a record-breaking rally and selling in bluechips Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank. Both Sensex and Nifty hit their all-time high levels in early trade on Monday. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined...
10:03
Vice President of Malawi, Saulos Chilima and nine other people have gone missing after the plane failed to land at a scheduled time on Monday, reported CNN.The presidential office and cabinet announced in a statement that Chilima and other passengers were on the Malawi Defence Force Aircraft that...
09:58
Suresh Gopi takes charge as Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry. His boss, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri was welcomed him to the ministry.The actor-politician yesterday decried as grossly incorrect reports, which indicated that he wanted to give up...
09:48
The national capital on Tuesday recorded a minimum temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the year, according to the India Meteorological Department. Humidity was recorded at 37 per cent at 8.30 am. The weather department has predicted that Delhi will experience a...
09:29
Diplomat-turned-politician S Jaishankar on Tuesday assumed charge as external affairs minister for the second consecutive term. Jaishankar, 69, was among the senior BJP leaders, including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman, who retained the ministries that they handled...
09:22
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking the oath of office for a historic third successive term, NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar sought to know whether he had the mandate to lead the country. The saffron party fell short of majority in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections and had to take...
08:44
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Kanimozhi, who was elected from the Thoothukudi Lok Sabha constituency, has been appointed as the party's parliamentary leader, the DMK said.She replaces the Sriperumbudur MP T R Baalu, who will now head the DMK in the Lok Sabha.Dayanidhi Maran, representing the...
08:37
In a sharp criticism following the announcement of the new cabinet ministers under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi expressed concerns about the treatment of coalition partners and said that they will be regarded as second class citizens in the...
01:24
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday night held a meeting here with Shiv Sena candidates who lost the just concluded Lok Sabha polls. The Shinde-led Sena, a constituent of the ruling Mahayuti alliance, contested on 15 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra and won seven of...
01:01
A woman -- mother of two children -- allegedly died by suicide in Noida on Monday after her husband asked her not to use Instagram, the police said. The family lives in Sadarpur colony under Sector 39 police station limits of Noida, they said. On Monday, the woman had an argument with...
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Ajit Pawar (left) and uncle Sharad Pawar/File image
NCP leader and Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday used the party's foundation day platform to thank his estranged uncle Sharad Pawar for leading the party since its inception in 1999, days after the NCP suffered a crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a party...
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