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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today said her finances had nothing to do with those of her husband Robert Vadra's or his company Skylight Hospitality which is under Haryana government's scanner over its land deals with realty major DLF.A statement from Gandhi's office came after a media house purportedly...
22:53
The Central Reserve Police Force today rejected news reports that the bodies of some of its 25 personnel killed in the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh's Sukma were mutilated. With all authority, I deny that any martyred jawan's body was mutilated, acting chief of the force Sudeep Lakhtakia told...
22:22
Kalpit Veerval, hailing from Udaipur in Rajasthan, has become the first candidate to score a perfect 100 per cent score in the Joint Entrance Examination-Main, results of which were announced today.Out of the over 11.8 lakh students who appeared for the examination for admission to various IITs...
21:56
When his camp came under fire from terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara on Thursday, gunner Rishi Kumar, who was on a sentry duty, single-handedly killed two assassins and injured the third as he gave death the slip twice.Three terrorists stormed the army camp in Kupwara at around...
21:49
Nearly all of Bollywood attended the funeral of Vinod Khanna at Worli crematorium in Mumbai.Vinod Khanna, who was suffering from cancer, passed away today in Mumbai. The 70-year-old actor, who was in hospital for over a month now, died of bladder cancer.Vinod Khanna, who was admitted to...
21:33
The Dalai Lama today played down the possibility of an Indo-China military conflict, suggesting that the situation inside Tibet mitigates such an eventuality.The 81-year-old spiritual leader said Tibet will weigh on China's mind in the event of any conflict and for it, handling both...
21:03
The Maharashtra police today lodged a criminal case against Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra in a Thane police station for allegedly duping a textile firm owner of Rs 24 lakhs. FIR has been registered in Bhiwandi police station against Shetty and Kundra under...
20:53
The Election Commission has sought an unprecedented 74,000 paramilitary personnel from the Centre for deployment during the bypoll to the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency on May 25. The EC has conveyed to the home ministry that 740 companies of paramilitary forces should be put at its...
20:24
Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government of being apathetic to the issue of appointing Lokpal, social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday said it is clearly the 'ego' of the government that is not appointing the act even after the Supreme Court's direction.I think the government is...
19:46
The Centre has released an amount of Rs 19,000 crore out of the Rs 80,000 crore development package for Jammu and Kashmir announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.This was disclosed at a high-level inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday, home...
18:59
India has sought from Pakistan a certificate on the health condition of Kulbhushan Jadhav, sentenced to death by a military court there, the external affairs ministry said today.MEA spokesperson Gopal Baglay said that the well being and state of Jadhav's health is a matter of great concern to...
18:48
Alibaba-backed Paytm has partnered with gold refiner MMTC-PAMP to launch 'digital gold' that will allow customers to buy and sell gold through the electronic platform.Using their Paytm mobile wallets, consumers can purchase 24K 999.9 purity gold online and store it in MMTC-PAMP's secure vaults...
17:21
Vinod Khanna's mortal remains being taken to the Worli crematorium. Picture courtesy: ABP News. Regal even in death.
17:14
Actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna, a four-time MP from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab, was popularly known as Sardar of bridges for connecting remote villages in his constituency. 70-year-old Khanna died of bladder cancer at a hospital in Mumbai today. As the news of his death spread, his...
17:06
MEA statement on Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row in Pakistan. MEA spokesperson Gopal Baglay's (pictured) statement: Efforts are on to save Kulbhushan Jadhav; 16 consular requests have been made so far. We have informed Pakistan his mother wants a visa to visit him.The retired Indian Navy...
16:50
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with his MLAs in the wake of the drubbing in the MCD polls yesterday and asked them to take an oath of allegience to the party. Swear upon God, you will not leave this pure party. Swear upon God you will not abandon this movement. If you betray us, you...
16:29
Sadhvi Pragya Thakur addresses her first press conference in Bhopal after she was granted bail in the Malegaon blast case on April 25.She begins by paying tribute to the 25 CRPF jawans killed in Sukma.The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to the sadhvi, a key accused in the 2008 Malegaon...
16:13
Chennai-based Prakash Swamy, who had filed affidavit on a firm's behalf intending to buy Sahara's New York hotel, fails to deposit Rs 10 cr as per last order. The SC orders Swamy's arrest. He will be in jail for one month for contempt of court.
16:12
Sensex retreats from record close, ends 103.61 points lower at 30,029.74; Nifty falls 9.70 points to 9,342.15.
15:46
Around 1,000 women will be hired in Jammu and Kashmir for a police battalion, which will primarily deal with incidents like stone pelting in the Valley. The policewomen will be part of the five India Reserved Battalions (IRBs), the central government has already sanctioned. As many as 1,40,000...
15:43
The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday issued notices to the Central Election Commission (EC), the State Election Commission and Bharatiya Janata Party Vikasnagar MLA M.S. Chauhan.The action was taken upon a plea filed by Congress Vikasnagar runner-up candidate Navprabhat on alleged tampering of...
15:41
The Supreme Court has asked the Bombay High Court's official liquidator to prepare the terms for auctioning Aamby Valley for its approval on June 19.Sahara chief Subrata Roy undertakes in the court to pay Rs 1,500 crore in the SEBI-Sahara account on or before June 15. Roy furnishes a post-dated...
14:51
A Tamil Nadu minister today described his party as one without father and mother, and said people's aspirations for unity in the now divided AIADMK was being reflected among the leaders in both camps. Cooperation Minister Sellur K Raju said 'works' for holding the keenly anticipated merger...
14:13
Vinod Khanna's funeral will take place at Banganga crematorium, Mumbai, at 4:30 pm today.
14:09
Rishi Kapoor @chintskap who has worked with Vinod Khanna in the blockbuster film Amar, Akbar, Antony, changes his Twitter profile picture to a smiling picture of the actor, who passed away today. His second tweet today, on the Khanna's demise, reads, Remembering the good times with you, Vinod....
13:56
Just in: Uttarakhand High Court directs all EVMs used in the polls to be taken into judicial custody. The order comes after a petition filed by Congress MLAs alleging EVM fraud. Details awaited.
13:34
Karan Johar @karanjohar As a mark of respect to our beloved Vinod Khanna the entire team of Baahubali has decided to cancel the premiere tonight...
13:24
Vinod Khanna followed Osho Rajneesh to Oregon, US, in the early eighties. Reports say he worked the gardens at the Rajneeshpuram ashram and sang to the flowers every morning. He rarely visited India during this period. Osho Rajneesh with Vinod Khanna (Photo courtesy: Twitter).
13:18
Admitting that lack of unity was a contributing factor to the Congress not winning the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls which was swept by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal called out the party for sidelining veteran leaders responsible for the...
13:01
In other news: Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who co-founded the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Thursday said the people of Delhi rejected the latter in the recently-held MCD polls as he failed to deliver any of the promises he made to them during the...
12:56
When you're sexy and you know it!
12:54
Vinod Khanna, the politician, on the campaign trail.
12:46
Feroz Khan, who was Vinod Khanna's co-star in the blockbuster film Qurbani, also died on this date in 2009.
12:41
Anupama Chopra @anupamachopra My memory of Vinod Khanna - him and Kavita singing Aaj jaane ki zid na karo at a party. He was warm, smiling and so handsome. RIPIsha Ambani @TheIshaAmbani Rest In Peace Legend Actor Shri Vinod Khanna Ji !!SantoshSivanASC....
12:37
Rishi Kapoor @chintskap tweets: Will miss you Amar. RIP.The actor played the role of 'Amar' to Rishi Kapoor's 'Akbar' and Amitabh Bachchan's 'Anthony' in the superhit film Amar, Akbar, Anthony.
12:33
Veteran actor Vinod Khanna (70), who was admitted to HN Reliance Foundation and Research Centre in Girgaum in south Mumbai, passes away. He was suffering from cancer.The actor had been hospitalised since March 31. At the time, pictures of the frail and emaciated actor had gone viral, sparking...
12:32
Mr Hotness! Vinod Khanna in the Cinthol soap ad in the eighties.
12:29
For the people of Gurdaspur, inhabiting a world of numbing ordinariness, a vote for Vinod Khanna is a vote for a sea-change in their world. A chance to reach out, to grab a star, and to anchor it in their midst.From the Rediff.com archives, our 1998 piece on the campaign trail with Vinod Khanna...
12:19
That's the young Vinod Khanna in the 1960s. The image was tweeted by @IndiaHistorypic
11:57
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will be holding a damage control or rather an emergency meet with his MLAs in the wake of the drubbing in the MCD polls yesterday. A barrage of MLAs have offered to resign after the party's sorry performance in the polls. Yesterday, AAP MLA Alka Lamba offered to resign...
11:24
PM Narendra Modi has launched the UDAN scheme, a regional air connectivity programme under which the fares of flights will be capped at Rs 2500 for an hour-long flight of 500 km.The PM launched the UDAN scheme from Shimla. UDAN an acronym for Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik, is aimed at boosting regional...
11:09
As India's most restive region stares down the abyss of what a commentator calls another hot summer of violence, the doom-laden headline has returned with a vengeance: Is India losing Kashmir?Last summer was one of the bloodiest in the Muslim-dominated valley in recent years. Following the...
11:05
... Thus it was that Bijaykumar Bhattacharya, Jyotishchandra Roy, and Upendranath Das came to the village of Nabagram (literally 'new village'), some 17 kilometres south of the town of Burdwan, in 1935, and set up a school called Vidyalaya, where they hoped to put into practice the...
10:57
Update on the Damascus airport explosion: Explosions were heard near Damascus's airport on Thursday morning, allegedly caused by an Israeli airstrike.Foreign media reports suggest that Israel was responsible for the attack, and that an initial missile strike against a weapons warehouse...
10:52
Stock markets came off their peak and turned weak today after three back-to-back sessions of gains as the benchmark Sensex slipped in view of April derivatives expiry. Besides, weak Asian cues weighed on sentiment. Investors are looking forward to US President Donald Trump's plan for the US tax...
10:51
The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) has apprehended 23 Indian fishermen and seized their four boats off the Gujarat coast, according to an official of the National Fishworkers' Forum. The fishermen had sailed from Porbandar a few days ago and were apprehended by the PMSA near the...
10:37
Following Monday's ghastly Maoist strike in Sukma that claimed the lives of 25 CRPF personnel, the government has asked the security forces to focus counter-offensive operations on high value targets, including south Bastar divisional commander Raghu, head of Jagargunda area committee Papa Rao,...
10:33
JUST IN: AAP's Sanjay Singh offers his resignation as Punjab's in-charge.
10:19
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will meet officials on Thursday to review the situation in Jammu and Kashmir which has been hit by violent protests following the killing of 8 civilians since the Srinagar by-elections, which saw one of the worst turnouts in the state’s history.The valley has...
10:03
A massive explosion hit near the Damascus International Airport in the early hours of today, a monitoring group said, without specifying the cause. The blast was huge and could be heard in Damascus, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
10:01
JUST IN: Separatist leader Asiya Andrabi arrested under the Public Safety Act
09:17
Two days after Maoists killed 25 men from the Burkapal camp of the CRPF 74 Battalion while they were trying to secure an under-construction road in south Sukma, a top CRPF officer said he had repeatedly raised “the terribly slow pace of road construction” with the Chhattisgarh government.D P...
08:28
Security forces are worried about three major terrorist groups operating together in Kashmir after a video, being circulated on social media, purportedly showed 30 militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad together in south Kashmir.The armed terrorists of the three...
08:15
An Army camp in Panzgam area of Kupwara was attacked allegedly by terrorists early Thursday morning. At least two attackers have been killed, NDTV reports, adding that searches are being carried out to ascertain if there are any more attackers. Reports added that 3 army personnel...
00:33
Amid hectic negotiations over a joint presidential candidate by the opposition, Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and discussed the current political situation.Gandhi has been spearheading the opposition unity in putting up a joint...
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