21:06
A poster erected outside a local shop in Kerala has now become the subject of a heated political debate.The poster which has huge symbol of the Communist Party of India-Marxist carries a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.The BJP was quick to resort to political mudslinging, accusing the...
20:24
Anybody living in India is a Hindu, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said today, asserting that the meaning of Hindutva is to unite all communities.Hindutva is different from Hinduism, he told a public function at the Swami Vivekananda Maidan in the heart of Tripura's capital.The...
19:49
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today hit out at Rahul Gandhi for accusing the BJP of spreading hatred and violence in the country, saying it was his party which is dousing the fire lit by the Congress. Addressing a party rally in Bengaluru, Singh posed several questions to...
19:31
Sprint legend Milkha Singh today advocated resumption of sporting ties between India and Pakistan, as sports help in developing friendship between countries.In sports, our teams should go there (Pakistan) and their teams should come here, Singh, popularly known as 'the Flying Sikh', said.He was...
18:50
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam today has alleged that Rs 100 crore were given to voters by the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ahead of the byelections in Chennai's RK Nagar, represented by former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the state assembly. DMK working president MK...
18:29
Veteran actor Rekha said Smita Patil was a far better actor than her and she has no qualms accepting that.Rekha, who received the first Smita Patil Memorial Award in Mumbai last night, said she will always consider Patil as her younger sister. I am here to receive this award which signifies...
18:02
British Prime Minister Theresa May today said she will not allow Brexit to be derailed as she claimed that her government had proved doubters wrong by moving negotiations with the European Union to the next phase.Writing in UK newspapers today, May said she is determined to get the most ambitious...
17:42
Censor board chairman Prasoon Joshi today took a dig at television debates, saying byte- based, one-line sort of arguments are resulting in language extremism.The noted lyricist-poet said the country will have to find a new way to listen to the arguments and also win them.We, in this country,...
17:29
The National Investigation Agency has lodged a case against five alleged Islamic State sympathisers, hailing from Kerala's Kannur district, the agency said today.The central probe agency said it took over the case from the Kerala police, which had booked the five men in October.The NIA case...
16:46
The Wi-Fi service at a college in Surat was suspended after the Congress candidate from the Kamrej assembly seat complained of possible hacking and tampering with the electronic voting machines, used in the recently held Gujarat assembly polls, kept on its campus.Following a complaint by Congress...
16:05
In a major development reported after decades of cross-border insurgency along India's eastern frontier, the Border Security Force has said that camps and hideouts of Indian Insurgent Groups across the country's frontier on the Bangladeshi soil have been reduced to almost zero.The director...
15:29
A tribal village in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur district got electricity connection for the first time since IndependenceThe Jokapatha village, situated in mountainous region, had been deprived of power supply.Expressing happiness over the development, a villager said that the electricity supply...
14:51
Cold wave tightened its grip over Kashmir as the night temperature decreased by several degrees at most places owing to dry weather, even as the weather office predicted a further drop in the minimum temperature.The night temperature dropped at most places in Kashmir division, including Ladakh...
14:17
Hailing Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jamaat-ud Dawah terror groups as patriotic, former military dictator Pervez Musharraf has said that he was ready to enter into an alliance with them for Pakistan's safety and security, according to a media report.The 74-year-old retired general, who is on self-exile...
13:35
A day before Gujarat election results, Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani today rubbished the exit polls and said the Bharatiya Janata Party would not form the government this time.These exit polls are fake and rubbish. These are nonsense. The BJP is definitely going to lose this time and will not form...
13:25
After heading the party for 19 years, Sonia Gandhi on Saturday handed over the reins of the Congress to her son, Rahul Gandhi.The 71-year-old Member of Parliament was once seen as an unlikely heir to the Gandhi political legacy, but crowned her innings by becoming the longest serving president of...
13:01
Former Union minister P Chidambaram has said that the Congress will create an alternative narrative based on fairness, equal opportunity and jobs for the youth under the leadership of new party chief Rahul Gandhi.In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said Gandhi's inaugural speech yesterday laid...
12:27
A rising tide of hate is surging through India, of toxic speech and attacks on religious minorities, mostly Muslims. A permissive environment that tacitly or openly encourages hate speech and assaults is actively, even aggressively, fostered by the majoritarian anti-minority ideology of the...
12:11
Controversial writer Taslima Nasreen says the condition of religious minorities is much better in India than in neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh.The exiled Bangaldeshi author alleged that atrocities are committed against Hindus and Buddhists in Bangladesh.Though I have never been to Pakistan,...
11:11
Election officials in Chennai have seized Rs 12.6 lakh unaccounted money from RK Nagar, where the by-poll will be held on 21 December.On a tip-off the officials searched a physiotherapy centre at Tamil Nadu's Korukkupet, falling within the constituency and seized the amount...
09:53
As most exit poll surveys predicted the Bharatiya Janata Party to win the Gujarat assembly polls, its Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Kakade has claimed that the party would not win enough seats to form the next government in the state.Forget absolute majority, the party will not even get enough number of...
09:44
A civilian was killed allegedly in army firing during an ambush in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said today.Asif Iqbal, a driver by profession, was injured in firing by army personnel during an ambush at Thandipora area of Kupwara last night, a police official said.He said the...
08:49
Mani Shankar Aiyar writes, 'Indeed, the prime minister has darkly hinted that I was hiring a contract killer ('supari') to get him. Invoking a fake Facebook post, he slyly let slip that the dinner was a 'secret' conclave to hatch a 'conspiracy' with the Pakistanis to make -- horror of horrors --...
08:37
Re-polling begins at six polling booth in Gujarat.The Election Commission had said yesterday that re-polling will be conducted at six booths in four assembly constituencies in Gujarat today.Fresh voting is being held at two booths each in Viramgam and Savli constituencies and one each in Vadgam...
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