21:58
Former British prime minister Elizabeth Truss on Saturday pitched for bringing the best of reforms, fixing some arrangement in the powerful bureaucracy in the United Kingdom and creating a movement akin to the one in the US that led to big changes there. Frankly, I think we need a British...
21:05
Shiv Sena-UBT president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said a true Shiv Sainik of Balasaheb Thackeray never stabs anyone in the back and urged people to vote out traitors.He was campaigning for Congress candidate Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan in Chandivali constituency in central Mumbai where the Shiv...
20:19
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday said his party would expose the BJP on the Waqf issue as changes in revenue records favouring the Waqf Board were effected only during the Saffron party's regime.While the BJP is all set to mount pressure on the Congress government by...
19:49
The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday formed a four-member committee to investigate the fire that broke out in the children's ward of Jhansi's Maharani Laxmibai Medical College. The committee has been tasked with identifying the cause of the fire and determining whether any negligence...
19:21
Actor-turned-politician Govinda on Saturday cut short his campaign trail for Mahayuti candidates for the November 20 polls citing ill health. Govinda, who was in Jalgaon to campaign in Muktainagar, Bodwad, Pachora and Chopda, returned to Mumbai.In Pachora, Govinda held a roadshow,...
19:14
A Fazilka-based person was held by Punjab Police in a joint operation with the Maharashtra Police in connection with the murder of NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, a top police officer said on Saturday. Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said the...
18:14
South cinema star Nayanthara on Saturday criticised actor Dhanush, who produced her 2015 Tamil movie Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, for refusing permission to use footage from the film in her upcoming Netflix documentary.In a three-page open letter posted on her Instagram page, the Jawan actor slammed...
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Bihar Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh on Saturday claimed that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's repeated assertions that he was with the NDA for good was an indication that he might be heading somewhere.Singh was addressing a press conference at Sadaqat Ashram, the BPCC headquarters, when...
17:56
In the wake of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress lodging complaints against each other with the Election Commission (EC) for poll code violations, the election panel asked the presidents of the two parties on Saturday to comment on the charges levelled against their leaders.The EC wrote...
17:01
Poll authorities on Saturday checked the bag of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Dhamangaon Railway in Maharashtra's Amravati district. He was here to address a public rally for the November 20 assembly polls.Gandhi's bag was checked after his helicopter landed at the helipad in...
16:41
With only four days left for the Maharashtra assembly elections, NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar has urged voters to reject those who have spoiled the state's cultured politics by breaking parties and families and engineering a social divide.In a public appeal published in Marathi newspapers on...
16:24
Former TDP MLA and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's younger brother N Ramamurthy Naidu passed away at a private super-speciality hospital in Hyderabad on Saturday, while undergoing treatment for health complications, the hospital said.He was 72.Ramamurthy Naidu, who was...
16:05
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he is looking forward to meaningful discussions at the upcoming G20 summit in Brazil that built upon its agenda for the grouping on India's presidency of the bloc last year. Modi made the comments in a statement ahead of his five day visit to...
15:46
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who is locked in an electoral battle against his nephew Yugendra Pawar in Baramati, on Saturday said his aunt Pratibha Pawar never campaigned in the past but is doing so for his rival now. Addressing a rally in Baramati, Ajit Pawar, the head of...
15:14
Sukhbir Singh Badal, 62, has resigned as the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday. The announcement was made by former Punjab Education Minister Daljit S Cheema.The SAD President S Sukhbir Singh Badal submitted his resignation to the working Committee of the party today to pave...
14:17
Five Naxalites were killed and two security personnel injured in an anti-insurgency operation in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region on Saturday, a senior police official said.The gunfight broke out at around 8 am in a forest in north Abujhmad along the border of Narayanpur and Kanker districts when a...
14:13
Former Telugu Desam Party MLA and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's brother N Ramamurthy Naidu, who is undergoing treatment at a private super-speciality hospital in Hyderabad, is critical, hospital sources said on Saturday.Ramamurthy Naidu was admitted to hospital three days...
13:44
Some unidentified miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a cinema hall screening actor Sivakarthikeyan's biographical drama, Amaran, early on Saturday, police said.No one was hurt, police who are investigating the incident, said.Two miscreants hurled the petrol bombs inside the compound wall of the...
13:36
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should leave the election campaign for the ongoing bypolls in the state and focus on the poor condition of health and medical facilities. He also said that the BJP government should pay...
13:09
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and former Maharashtra minister Babanrao Lonikar is under fire from the Marathas over his alleged remark during an election rally that the community's strength can be counted on fingers.Lonikar's remark at a rally in the Partur assembly constituency in Jalna on November...
13:03
The Supreme Court has dismissed a review plea filed by Vedanta group against the closure of its copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi. The top court had on February 29 dismissed Vedanta's plea for re-opening of its copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi, closed since May...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that while previous governments used to frame policies to suit vote bank politics, the current dispensation has ensured that people's faith in government is restored. Addressing the HT Leadership Summit, the prime minister said his...
11:57
Haryana's Jind recorded its air quality index in the severe category while several other parts in the state and many places in Punjab witnessed air quality in the very poor and poor zones on Saturday. Chandigarh saw some improvement in its air quality index (AQI) as it was registered...
11:05
Seven people, including a newly-wed couple, returning from Jharkhand died while two others were injured when a car hit a tempo from behind while overtaking another vehicle in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district, police said on Saturday.After being hit by the car, the tempo rammed into an electric...
10:59
The Israeli military has continued airstrikes on the suburbs of Beirut for the fourth consecutive day, as Lebanese officials evaluate a ceasefire proposal presented by the US, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.Israeli air raids destroyed five buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, including one near...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday condoled the death of children in a fire that engulfed the children's ward of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh for the next of kin of each deceased.At least 10 children died in a fire that...
09:07
Three bodies suspected to be of six persons missing were found near the confluence of Jiri river and Barak river along Manipur-Assam border, officials said on Saturday.The bodies were found around 16 km from Borobekra in Jiribam district on Friday night from where the six persons went missing,...
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Entrepreneur-turned politician Vivek Ramaswamy, who along with Tesla owner Elon Musk has been nominated in-charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, has indicated a massive cut in federal government jobs in the United States.Elon Musk and I are in a position to start the mass...
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An earthquake of 4.2 magnitude was recorded in Patan district of north Gujarat on Friday night, the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) said. While people came out of their houses after feeling the seismic movement, no casualty or loss of property was reported in the region, officials...
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