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After his much-applauded address to the United States Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan hosts a banquet for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.'More Congressional honours. @SpeakerRyan hosts banquet lunch for PM @narendramodi on Capitol Hill,' tweets MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup.
22:20
United States Congressmen were impressed with Prime Minister Naredndra Modi's Capitol Hill speech. Very good speech by PM Modi, his points on terrorism was the highlight, said Congressman Rodney Davis.Another Congressman Paul Cook said, It was a great speech by PM Modi, fantastic....
21:46
For us in India, to live in harmony with mother earth is a part of our ancient belief, PM Modi said at US Congress.Constraints of the past are behind us and foundations of the future firmly in place, PM Modi said concluding his address.The PM proceeded to meet members of the US Congress.
21:35
Terrorism remains the biggest threat. From West of India's border to Africa, it may go by different names, LeT,Taliban or ISIS, PM Modi said.But the philosophy of terrorism is common, of hate, murder and violence, the PM said.Those who believe in humanity must come together as one & speak...
21:24
My dream is to economically empower our billion citizens through many social and economic transformations, PM Modi says.I see US as an indispensible partner. Many of you believe that a stronger & prosperous India is in America's strategic interest, PM Modi said.Speaking about India's growth...
21:17
Taking a dig at the Congress and the Opposition at large, the prime minister said, You are well-known for your bipartisanship.I also witnessed similar spirit in Indian Parliament, especially in Upper House.
21:17
While speaking on the Indian diaspora as bridgebuilders between the two nations the PM said, They are among your best CEOs; academics; scientists; economists; doctors; even spelling bee champions.Connecting our two nations is also a unique and dynamic bridge of three million Indian Americans, the...
21:16
SIRI tells us that India's ancient heritage of Yoga has over 30 million practitioners in the USA, he added.And, we have not yet claimed intellectual property right on Yoga, the PM quipped.
21:11
The genius of Baba Saheb Ambedkar was nurtured in the years he spent at the Columbia University a century ago, PM Modi stated.No wonder then, that President Obama has called our ties the defining partnership of the 21st century, said PM Modi.India will never forget the solidarity shown by US...
21:04
Today, India lives as one,India grows as one and India celebrates as one: PM Modi at US Congress, the PM said.Mahatma Gandhi's non violence inspired Martin Luther King's heroism, he stated.Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee called India and the US, 'natural allies': PM Modi at US Congress, the PM...
21:01
PM Modi addresses US Congress, says this temple of democracy has encouraged & empowered other democracies the world over. US Congress leaders give a rousing welcome to Prime Minister Narendra Modi This temple of democracy has empowered and encouraged other democracies of the world, PM Modi...
20:45
Maria Sharapova has been banned for two years by the International Tennis Federation after failing a drugs test.The Russian was provisionally banned in March after testing positive for meldonium at January's Australian Open.The heart disease drug, which 29-year-old Sharapova says she has been...
20:43
PM Modi meet up with member of the Congressional Escort Committee ahead of his speech before the US Congress.
20:34
'One of my most cherished memories is a statue of Gandhi gifted by a student named Modi decades ago,' Senator Harry Reid tweeted.
20:15
PM Modi arrives at US Capitol complex ahead of his historic joint addressto the US Congress.The prime minister met the Congressional Leadership at Capitol Hill include Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.'A beautiful morning and stunning US Capitol complex...ready for a historic joint address by...
20:12
Actor and producer Aamir Khan has taken a strong stand on the Udta Punjab censorship controversy.The actor, who was in the midst of the intolerance debate late last year, has come out in support of the film-makers. I think whatever I've read is sad. Its very unfortunate that the film is...
19:33
'Suryanamaskar asana' will not be part of this year's Yoga Day celebrations and chanting of 'Om' won't be compulsory even though Yoga is incomplete without it, Ayush Minister Shripad Naik said today about the June 21 event which is expected entail a collective cost of hundreds of crores of...
19:24
Acclaimed filmmaker Shyam Benegal has thrown his weight behind the Shahid Kapoor starrer Udta Punjab. Its a very well made film, Shyam Benegal, who heads the government-appointed censor board revamp committee, said.Benegal also commended the film's technical proficiency.
18:47
Asserting that the 2017 Punjab elections are going to fought on the grounds of the rampant drug abuse in the state, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani in his pocket and using him as a pawn to further his...
18:41
Delhi Police is likely to seek full life term for five convicts for gang-raping a 52-year-old Danish woman at knife point near the New Delhi railway station two years ago, in a city court tomorrow. Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar II, who on June 6 had convicted the five men, is scheduled...
18:27
Shirish Kunder @ShirishKunder I appeal to everyone to think calmly. If Pahlaj Nihalani is made to resign from Censor Board, he'll be made RBI Governor. That'll be worse.
18:22
Film makers can approach tribunal and courts, only problem is censoring comes near the release of a film: Amitabh Bachchan
18:17
Hillary Clinton today made history as she became the first woman to clinch the presidential nomination of a major American political party by winning crucial California and three other state primaries but her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders remained defiant. Thanks to you, we've reached a...
18:07
Amitabh Bachchan lends a tenuous voice to the Udta Punjab controversy saying while he was not aware of the details of the issue, creativity should not be killed.
18:03
Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani says he will not apologise to Udta Punjab co-producer Anurag Kashyap that he was being funded by the Aam Aadmi Party. I said what I heard, the censor board chief said after the film industry united in support of the Udta Punjab team and said Nihalani owes...
17:41
The BJP has asked the Mehbooba Mufti government to revise the 'soft policy' towards separatists as it was affecting business and tourism in Kashmir, on Wednesday. The party demanded that security given to separatists be withdrawn and they be put behind bars.The party also demanded that...
17:38
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday added to what could well become his own equivalent of Bushisms - the errors and malapropisms made by American President George W Bush in his speeches. And, again it was with history that he chose to take liberty. Konark ke Sun Temple mei 2000 saal pehle...
16:56
Bollywood heavyweights lend their support to Udta Punjab in a joint-press conference with the makers Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Chaubey. At the press conference are filmmakers Zoya Akhtar, Sudhir Mishra, Mahesh Bhatt, Mukesh Bhatt, Satish Kaushik, Ekta Kapoor, Imtiaz Ali, Rahul Dholakia and...
16:09
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hotfoots to the Udta Punjab controversy. The CM slammed the head of Censor Board of Film Certification Pahlaj Nihalani for introducing 89 cuts in the film Udta Punjab.Kejriwal said that that Pahlaj Nihalani censored the contents of Udta Punjab on the direction...
15:42
Eminent journalist KK Katyal passed away this morning after a brief illness. He was 89 and is survived by wife and two daughters. Katyal had worked with various newspapers including The Statesman, Hindustan Times and The Hindu, where he had joined just after Emergency and retired on...
15:06
The Shiv Sena on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop maligning India on foreign shores with his public utterances on corruption in the country.The Sena took strong objection to Modis repeated statements criticizing the corrupt systems in India during his foreign trips, saying...
15:03
Just in: The Producers of Udta Punjab move the Bombay High Court to seek an 'A' certificate for the film and other relief. Filmmakers Vikas Bahl and Anurag Kashyap move court against the CBFC's 89 cuts. The hearing is scheduled to take place at 3 pm today.Anurag Kashyap, one of the most vocal...
14:57
The shape of things to come. An employee of Aamla municipal body suffered bullet injuries after he was shot at by a man following a squabble over acute shortage of water in the town here, police said today.The injured employee was admitted to a missionary hospital at Padhar where doctors removed...
14:51
A bomb threat forced an EgyptAir aircraft en route to Beijing from Cairo to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan on June 8, Egyptian officials said. All the 135 passengers and crew on board the Airbus A-330-220 were evacuated and the aircraft was being searched, the officials said.The plane...
14:19
A six-year-old Pune girl suffering from a heart disease wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking financial help which was promptly granted following which she underwent surgery and is now recovering. Vaishali Yadav, hailing from a poor family, suffered from a hole in her heart. Her...
13:57
Patiala House Court frames charges against gangster Chhota Rajan and three others in a fake passport case.The Central Bureau of Investigation had earlier in February filed a chargesheet against Rajan and three passport officials -- Jayshree Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal Shah and Lalita Laxmanan -- at...
13:50
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a meeting with Indian ambassadors at the Annual Conference of Diplomats in new Delhi commended them for their chaste Hindi. You have not forgotten Hindi though you all have been out of India for over 25 years on foreign postings in various capitals of the world, he...
13:29
Here's the weather report from Thiruvananthapuram.The South-west monsoon has set in over Kerala and Lakshadweep, said K Santosh, head of India Meteorological Department's regional centre in the state capital. Several parts of the state has been receiving heavy rains since last night. The IMD had...
13:24
A bipartisan group of 18 American lawmakers has written to House Speaker Paul Ryan, asking him to raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Religious minority communities ' including Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and Sikhs -- have endured...
13:05
Pranab Mukherjee is not seeking a second term as President of India. This is evident from the fact that from today onwards, he will pose for group photographs with the 1800-strong staff members of the President's Secretariat. The staff includes both civilian and armed forces serving the President...
12:45
Five Indian-origin people, including two women, are among the 200 candidates contesting for next month's general elections in Australia. In the House of Representatives all 150 seats will be contested, as well as the 76 Senate seats -- the first time this has happened in an early election since...
12:36
The US has recognised India as a major defence partner, a significant development which paves the way for the country to be treated on par with America's closest allies for defence related trade and technology transfer. Noting that the US-India defence relationship can be an anchor of stability...
12:26
Just in: The Indian Meteorological Department says that the monsoon has arrived in Kerala. While Kerala and Karnataka have been receiving plenty of rainfall for the past 10 days, the onset of monsoon was announced on June 9. The Met however announced that the monsoon has hit Kerala today. This...
12:06
India's largest cow hospital provides care for 1,600 cows, bulls, oxen, that are sick, diseased, injured or deformed. With wards for cows with breast cancer, cows that have lost their legs in road accidents, cows that have been operated upon to remove plastic from their bellies, the hospice is...
12:00
The Aam Aadmi Party has said it is ready to face elections in Goa any time. The elections to the 40-member Goa Legislative Assembly are due in March next year.People are so sick and tired of this BJP government. People can demand an early election as well, AAP leader Ashish Khetan told PTI. We...
11:49
Heather Constructions to move court against Sonia Gandhi, KPCC President VM Sudheeran and Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala over non-payment of dues. Heather Constructions to move court over 'non payment of dues amounting to Rs 2.8 crore over construction of Rajiv Gandhi's statue at Neyyar Dam.
11:29
Prabhu Chawla @PrabhuChawla RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan is an Indian national holding Indian passport, claims @RBI in response to RTI query.
11:27
Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani says Udta Punjab director Anurag Kashyap's charges are baseless. He said the film's cuts have nothing to do with the polls in Punjab. Only if one sees the film can one understand why the word Punjab was deleted, he told NDTV. He also added that the Centre...
11:16
At one level, we are still a $1,500 per capita economy. All the way from $1,500 per capita to $50,000, which is where Singapore is, there is a lot of things to do. We are still a relatively poor economy and to wipe the tear from every eye, one would at least want to be middle-income around...
11:07
Beyond the magic figure of 7.6 lies the bigger challenge for the Modi Government. Read more
11:02
Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on Tuesday dropped its case against Indian-origin journalist Hasan Suroor on the ground that it had no evidence' to support the allegation of sexual grooming' made against him by a vigilante group last November. Following a further review of the case...
10:52
The reappointment, or not, of Reserve Bank of India head Raghuram Rajan has caused enough of a stir to be known locally as Rexit, a play on Britain's EU referendum, reflecting the esteem in which the governor is held at home and abroad.Were Rajan to leave when his tenure ends in September, Indian...
10:39
Islamic State, the world's deadliest terror group, is reported to have tried hard but failed to make its presence felt in India.And now, the IS is reported to have changed its tactics and is believed to be co-ordinating with regional terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayiba to carry out attacks in...
10:23
An exclusive screening of Abhishek Chaubey's controversy-ridden Udta Punjab has been organised today for eminent filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who heads the government-appointed censor board revamp committee. The move comes in the wake of the movie's producer Anurag Kashyap slamming the...
10:22
India's first bullet train project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai appears to have hit a roadblock, and that too a major one.As per a report in The Indian Express, the Maharashtra government has told the Indian Railways that it would not allow the most crucial station of the Rs 98,000-crore project...
09:46
Amazon will invest an additional $3 billion in its India operations to take its investment in the country to over $5 billion, the American e-commerce giant's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said today.Bezos said this at an event in Washington attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Amazon will invest...
09:40
The onset of southwest monsoon has been delayed further with India Meteorological Department on Tuesday saying rains would hit Kerala coast on June 9.On May 15, IMD had predicted monsoon would hit Kerala around June 7, a delay of six days from its normal onset.In view of the strengthening of...
09:27
MP economic offences wing summons Digvijaya Singh in connection with a case wherein he's accused of unduly favoring a private institute: ANI
09:26
The Malabar Hill police in Mumbai have registered a case of cheating against online shopping portal Flipkart for delivering a bar of soap to a customer who had ordered a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.Anand Bhalakia, a resident of Walkeshwar, was excited to receive the parcel, but was shocked to find a...
08:36
Already the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton sailed to victory in the June 7 primary in New Jersey, one of six states voting across the country. Rival Bernie Sanders hoped a strong showing in California, the night's biggest prize, would raise doubts about Clintons historic...
08:21
The World Bank in its report released on Tuesday, downgraded its 2016 global growth forecast to 2.4% from the 2.9% pace projected in January. It claimed that the world economy is facing sluggish growth, stubbornly low commodity prices, weak global trade, and diminishing capital flows.As per...
03:38
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a round table meet with key business leaders in Washington DC.After the meet, the PM will address the 40th annual general meeting of the United States Business and Industry Council.'An evening dedicated to business. PM Narendra Modi arrives for the USIBC event...
02:51
US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter meets PM Narendra Modi at Blair House, Washington, DC.'Deepening a multi-faceted partnership. US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter calls on PM,' Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted.
02:19
Treating Pathankot attack at par with 26/11, President Barack Obama today sent out a clear message to Pakistan, asking it to punish its perpetrators amid the US vow to stand with India against terror threats from Pakistan-based groups like JeM, LeT and Dawood 'company'.'They (Obama and Modi)...
01:12
Read the full text of India-US Joint Statement issued on Tuesday after the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President Barack Obama at the Oval Office HERE.
00:33
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar is briefing the media after the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States Presidents Barack Oabama. Here are a few excerpts:- India recognised as a major defence partner for the US, we would be treated at a level similar to the closest allies of the...
00:14
Modi thanks 'friend' Obama for backing India's NSG membershipIndia inches closer to NSG, gets entry to Missile Technology Control RegimeNPCIL, Westinghouse agree to begin engineering work on 6 N-reactorsAlleged kingpin of Apollo kidney racket arrested; 10 docs to be quizzed Read yesterday's live...
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