23:47
Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari protests against the arrest of ISKCON monk.
A hospital in north Kolkata's Manicktala area on Friday said it would not treat patients from Bangladesh amid protests over the alleged atrocities on minority Hindus in the neighbouring country. An official of the JN Ray Hospital said the decision was forced by insults meted out to the...
23:15
Actor and Big Boss contestant Ajaz Khan
Fallon Guliwala (40), actor and Big Boss contestant Ajaz Khan's wife, has been arrested by the Customs department in a drugs case, an official said on Friday. Customs officials raided her residence in the western suburb of Jogeshwari on Thursday and seized 130 grams of marijuana, he...
22:52
Maharashtra caretaker CM Eknath Shinde
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Shirsat said that the name of the chief ministerial face for Maharashtra should be announced by Friday midnight and caretaker CM Eknath Shinde, will take a big decision in the next 24 hours. The Shiv Sena leader also asserted that Eknath Shinde will take any position...
22:19
A Mumbai court on Friday extended till December 2 the police remand of the boyfriend of an Air India pilot, who allegedly committed suicide, after cops contended they need to retrieve deleted WhatsApp chats between the two from his mobile phone. Pilot Srishti Tuli (25), who lived in a rented...
21:42
Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav/ANI Photo
Ahead of the Delhi assembly polls scheduled to be held early next year, state Congress chief Devender Yadav said on Friday that the party will contest on all 70 seats and there would be no alliance. After attending the Congress Working Committee meeting on Friday in New Delhi, Yadav spoke to...
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A 15-member delegation of Samajwadi Party will go to UP's Sambhal on Saturday to gather information about the violence that broke out after a survey in the Shahi Jama Masjid complex, the party said on Friday. SP state president Shyam Lal Pal said that on the instructions of party chief...
20:53
Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu on Friday evening shared the heartbreaking news of her father Joseph Prabhu's demise. Taking to Instagram Story, Samantha penned an emotional note. On a black background, the Citadel star wrote, Until we meet again, Dad. Her post was accompanied by a...
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Mumbai recorded a minimum temperature of 16.5 degrees Celsius, its lowest in November in the last eight years, the India meteorological department said on Friday. This temperature was recorded by the Santacruz observatory from Thursday night till Friday morning. Before this, this...
20:07
At least 11 passengers were killed and 23 others injured after a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus overturned in Gondia district of the state on Friday afternoon, the police said. The bus, operated under the service name 'Shiv Shahi', was carrying 36 passengers and heading to...
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The famous Tulja Bhavani temple in Maharashtra's Dharashiv district will undergo repairs and conservation work, during which unauthorised constructions on the premises will be pulled down, an official has said. The famous 12th century temple dedicated to Goddess Tulja Bhavani is located at...
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A porter working with the Army was injured in a landmine blast in a forward area along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Friday, officials said. The porter was engaged in some work in the forward area when a landmine exploded, resulting in injuries, they...
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Additional director general of police, Jammu Zone, Anand Jain on Friday said the deployment of National Security Guard has been done in Jammu to assist the security forces. The ADGP said massive search operations are underway in the Jammu region to dismantle the terror ecosystem and...
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who took oath as the MP of Wayanad, will be holding a joint public meeting with her brother and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in the hill constituency on November 30, party sources said on Friday. This will be her first visit as...
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As many as 42 petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court and various high courts questioning the electronic voting machines, with the higher judiciary repeatedly holding that the machines are credible, reliable and tamper-proof, the government said in Lok Sabha on Friday. Responding to a...
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Traffic was affected on Ashoka Road in Lutyens' Delhi after a portion of the road caved in on early Friday, the police said. Taking to X, the Delhi traffic police said, Traffic is affected on Ashoka road in the carriageway from C-Hexagon towards Windsor Place due to road cave-in near Windsor...
17:27
ISKCON on Friday held a protest 'kirtan' at its Albert Road centre in Kolkata for the second consecutive day demanding the release of jailed Hindu spiritual leader Chinmoy Krishna Das and expressed concern over the plight of religious minorities in Bangladesh. Disciples chanted kirtans...
17:24
Persistent food inflation continues to delay potential rate cuts by the central bank.
17:19
It is unlikely that the Indian Cricket team will travel to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy next year due to 'security concerns' there, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday. Due to strained political relations between the two nations, India has not toured Pakistan since 2008,...
17:11
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested rectification in short-term farm loan limit, Rs 10,000 crore in financial support and urgent clearances for the Mekedatu Balancing Reservoir and Kalasa Bandhuri projects. In the meeting in...
16:57
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded on Friday, surging nearly 1 per cent each, amid buying in frontline stocks Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries. The BSE benchmark Sensex jumped 759.05 points or 0.96 per cent to settle at 79,802.79. During the day, it soared 880.16 points...
16:29
On the Adani indictment issue, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says: This is a legal matter involving private firms and individuals and the US Department of Justice. There are established procedures and legal avenues in such cases which we believe would be followed. The Government of India was...
16:06
India's statement on the situation in Bangladesh and the arrest of an ISKCON seer. MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says, India has consistently and strongly raised with the Bangladesh government the threats and targeted attacks on Hindus and other minorities. These developments cannot be...
15:59
At least eight people died after a Maharashtra State Transport bus overturned near Bindravana Tola village on the Gondia-Arjuni road in the Gondia district on Friday afternoon. The bus was on its way from Nagpur to Gondia. A State transport bus met with an accident in Gondia...
15:31
Every year during the rains tracks get flooded
Devendra Fadnavis shares this post on X, an announcement that should please harried Mumbaikars.Fadnavis writes: 300 new local trains for Mumbai, mega rail terminal in Vasai! Thank you Hon. Prime Minister Modi and Ashwini Vaishnav! Heartfelt gratitude to Hon'ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji...
14:58
Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske says, CM Eknath Shinde expressed in a press conference two days ago that we are not interested in the CM's chair. Whatever decision the leaders of Mahayuti take, we stand behind them. We are not Uddhav Thackeray, we will not leave the alliance for the chair.Yesterday a...
14:41
Eknath Shinde's presser two days ago
Outgoing Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who returned to Mumbai from New Delhi on Friday morning, is travelling to his native village in Satara district amid continuing suspense over his successor a week after the assembly poll results. Shinde had told reporters in New Delhi...
13:50
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Shirsat on Friday said if their party head Eknath Shinde doesn't accept the deputy chief minister's post, then it will be given to someone from their outfit. Talking to reporters, Shirsat said Shinde will certainly not go to the Centre as a Union...
13:08
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut launched a scathing attack on Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar on Friday, saying that since the Mahayuti victory in Maharashtra, all the decisions of the government will be taken in Delhi instead of in the state. Now the thing is all the things related to...
12:44
At 13, he left Bihar to work in a saw-mill in Bhutan. He learnt the craft of making sofas, and some of the pieces he made found a place in the royal palace. He returned home after spending 35 years in the Himalayan kingdom, and has continued making sofas, restoring old furniture and creating...
12:40
Supreme Court orders the trial court not to proceed with the case till the Shahi Idgah committee of the Sambhal mosque moves the High Court. The Supreme Court orders that the advocate commissioners' survey report be kept in a sealed cover. The court keeps the case pending before it and posts the...
12:20
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra outside Parliament yesterday
A day after taking oath, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday came to the Lok Sabha and joined the opposition protest, standing in solidarity near her seat. The Wayanad MP entered the House when several opposition members, including those from the Congress and the Samajwadi...
12:10
A NSG team at the site
The Delhi Police has registered an FIR regarding the explosion near a cinema hall in Rohini on Thursday, officials said. The low-intensity blast that occurred nearly 40 days after an explosion took place at a CRPF school in the same area left one person injured and triggered panic among...
11:55
Alcohol-related incidents on flights have decreased in the past two years after reporting of such incidents to authorities has increased, said CEO of Air India Campbell Wilson on Thursday. In a media briefing, the Air India CEO said that there is an education process required for the...
11:40
The meeting in New Delhi etc is just the BJP being nice to the man who helped it realise its dream by stabbing Uddhav in the back, notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy. Read the column here.
11:20
ED raids premises of Raj Kundra, husband of Shilpa Shetty, in money laundering case linked to pornographic material distribution. The raids were conducted at Kundra's home and office.Kundra was arrested in June 2021 on charges of allegedly producing 'pornographic' films and his arrest was...
11:16
Bob Blackman, a Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East in the United Kingdom condemned the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh.Addressing the parliament on Thursday, Blackman showed his concern by the attempt of a High Court in Bangladesh to ban ISKCON from the country.In a post on X, he...
11:00
Douglas Emhoff, Second Gentleman of the United States (Kamala Harris' husband) shares this image on Thanksgiving yesterday. There's nothing like having the kids home for the holidays. Happy Thanksgiving!
10:37
Will Devendra Fadnavis be the next CM?
Seventy-eight first-time poll winners will enter the 288-member Maharashtra assembly, comprising about 27 per cent of its strength. Of these, 33 are from the BJP, 14 from the Shiv Sena and eight from the NCP. While the Shiv Sena (UBT) has 10 newcomers, six such MLA-elects are from the Congress...
10:34
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded in early trade on Friday amid buying in frontline stocks Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank. The BSE benchmark Sensex climbed 216.18 points to 79,259.92 in early trade. The NSE Nifty went up by 78.6 points to 23,992.75. From the 30-share...
10:09
The meeting yesterday
Mahayuti leaders Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar met with Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi last night. According to reports, the BJP may make Fadnavis the CM to 'right the wrongs' done to him when he was forced to play second fiddle to Shinde to keep the alliance...
09:54
On the fourth day of the Parliament winter session, Congress MP Manickam Tagore filed an adjournment notice in Lok Sabha on Friday to discuss the Adani indictment in the lower house. Congress MPs have continuously sought to discuss the Adani indictment in the Lok Sabha since the start of the...
09:24
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Tribal icon Birsa Munda's great-grandson Mangal Munda, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Ranchi after being injured in a road accident, died of cardiovascular failure on Friday, an official of the health facility said. He was 45. Mangal Munda breathed his last at 12.30 am at the...
08:57
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a moving ambulance in Mauganj district of Madhya Pradesh, police have said.The alleged crime in the ambulance being operated under '108' emergency service took place on November 22 and two of the four accused in the case, including the driver, have been...
08:31
After meeting with Union Minister Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda in New Delhi, Maharashtra caretaker Chief Minister Eknath Shinde described the meeting as good and positive. He added that another meeting would be held, which is expected to decide who will assume the role of Chief...
01:06
Actor Nagarjuna
A local court on Thursday summoned Telangana Minister Konda Surekha to appear before it on December 12 over a criminal defamation complaint filed by actor Nagarjuna. The actor accused the minister of making defamatory statements against him and his family. The special judicial first...
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The police on Thursday arrested two terror associates allegedly conspiring to execute subversive activities in Doda and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. A police team arrested a hardcore terror associate named Firdous Ahmed Wani from the Dandi area in Doda district's...
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The Manipur government on Thursday announced that classes in schools and colleges in Imphal Valley districts and Jiribam would resume from November 29 after a hiatus of 13 days. Educational institutes in these districts have remained closed since November 16 after the dead bodies of three...
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