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Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday defeated Beijing Olympic silver medallist Andrey Stadnik in an exhibition match during the Pro Wrestling League in New Delhi.Ramdev overpowered the Ukrainian 12-0, showing his wrestling acumen as he pulled out the best of technical moves such as take-down,...
23:32
In a powerful testament to the warming of the planet, two leading U.S. science agencies Wednesday jointly declared 2016 the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set just last year which, itself, had topped a record set in 2014.Average surface temperatures in 2016, according to...
22:45
A delegation of ruling AIADMK MPs will call on President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Jallikattu issue to seek an ordinance to facilitate holding of the bull taming sport.Amid raging protests seeking the nod for holding Jallikattu, AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala...
22:41
As his time in the White House comes to a close, President Obama's approval ratings are at a high not seen since the early days of his first term, according to a new poll.The ABC News/Washington Post survey found that 60% of Americans approve of Obama's job performance. The last time he saw...
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An ex-serviceman today sought to return his gallantry award received for his participation in the Kargil War, upset over non-conduct of Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. R Selvaramalingam, a former Indian Air Force personnel hailing from Konganapuram village in Salem district, met District...
22:19
US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard made a rare secret visit to Syria as part of her effort toward ending the years-long conflict in the Middle Eastern nation, her office said. House Democrat Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran, made a fact-finding mission to the capital Damascus despite...
21:58
Unruffled by Central Information Commission 's order to CBSE asking it to allow inspection of her Class X and XII records, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said people are free to ask for her nursery details too. Replying to question on the matter, an unperturbed Irani said: Aap...
21:40
As many as 85,000 paramilitary personnel have been made available to the Election Commission for deployment in the upcoming assembly elections in five states, including in politically-crucial Uttar Pradesh, beginning February 4. At a high-level meeting recently, the Union home ministry has...
20:59
After two IPS officers, it was the turn of a senior IAS officer to get sacked on grounds of non-performance, in a rare action taken by the government in 'public interest'. K Narasimha, a 1991 batch IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories cadre,...
20:47
Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel on Wednesday escaped possible grilling by a parliamentary committee over the demonetisation issue but for the intervention of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.Patel, who along with other RBI and finance ministry officials appeared before the Parliamentary...
20:21
An IndiGo plane, carrying 186 passengers and crew including two infants onboard, from New Delhi to Dibrugarh was diverted to Kolkata due to a technical snag, where it made an emergency landing.The no-frill carrier, however, claimed that the commander of its flight 6E-3645 decided to divert the...
19:36
Amid massive protests over the SC ban on Jallikattu, AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala has called a special assembly session to remove the ban.We will move and adopt resolution in ensuing Assembly session for removal of ban against Jallikattu, said Sasikala.Faced with mounting anger on the...
19:17
Rashtriya Janata Dal President Lalu Prasad on Wednesday said his party would not field any candidate in Uttar Pradesh elections and he would campaign for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to ensure victory of socialist forces. Addressing party workers after former Union minister...
18:40
No compensation has been paid to the next of kin of slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani or his brother Khalid Muzaffar Wani, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said today while revealing that such exgratia has been given to the next of kin of 77 soldiers killed in the state since January...
18:30
Sweeping aside objections raised by opposition parties, the government will present the Union Budget 2017-18 on February 1 but will refrain from making any announcements pertaining to poll-bound states.The government has before the Election Commission vehemently defended its move to advance...
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V K Sasikala's husband M Natarajan today expressed hope that Jayalalithaa's niece Deepa Jayakumar will soon join the AIADMK, a day after she indicated to float a new political party.Both Deepa and her brother Deepak are our children and some politicians must have misguided her but I hope she will...
17:54
US President-elect Trump has written his inauguration address draft himself, two senior Trump transition officials told CNN Tuesday.Last month, Trump told guests at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, as well as presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, that he planned to write the speech himself,...
17:36
JUST IN: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Pannerselvam to meet PM Modi tomorrow to urge ordinance on Jallikattu. The CM has also requested the youth and protesters to give up their agitation.
17:35
US President-elect Donald Trump, whose sensational announcements and criticism on Twitter has the world hooked on, has said he does not like tweeting but has to use the social media platform as a defence against dishonest media.Look, I don't like tweeting, I have other things I can be doing. But...
17:04
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will visit the Government Press located in the basement of North Block where printing of the Union budget 2017 is underway. The Economic Survey has been printed and the binding work has also been completed. As part of the annual ceremony Jaitley will...
16:52
Deepika Padukone has made her debut on hit American TV series, The Ellen DeGeneres Show.The Bollywood beauty will be going on the show to talk about her latest Hollywood release xXx: Return Of Xander Cage, which opens up in cinemas in America on January 20, 2017. She has been promoting the film...
16:38
Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel today told a parliamentary panel that the process of demonetisation started in January last year. This was an apparent contradiction of his earlier written response to the panel that said the government advised the central bank to cancel...
16:17
Who would have thought that a communist country will ultimately turn out to be the flag carrier of globalisation, which was originally designed as a smart way of reallocating the world's resources that kept the industrial world chugging along as the locomotive of world growth and helped sustain...
16:15
In a vitriolic attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday said he had dropped a 'nuclear bomb' on the country through the decision and turned the economy into 'Hiroshima-Nagasaki', the Japanese cities devastated by the United States during the World War...
16:01
Two of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case have been shifted to a separate cell in Tihar jail after they alleged threat from a co-prisoner, prison authorities told a Delhi court today. The response came on a plea by two convicts Pawan Gupta and...
15:33
The legal row involving Cambata Aviation has resulted in one of Mumbai's landmarks, Eros cinema in Churchgate, being sealed by the collector's office on Wednesday. Phone calls to the iconic cinema confirmed that the theatre has been sealed and all shows have been cancelled on...
15:15
Michael Moore on Why Donald Trump Will Build a Wall and Ban Muslims. Read
15:15
Former United States President George H W Bush has been admitted to a hospital in Houston Texas.The Houston Chronicle quoted his chief of staff Jean Becker, as saying that the 92-year-old former 41st President of the United States is doing fine and is responding to the treatment offered by the...
14:53
To provide pop-culture buffs an international platform to showcase their fandom, Comic Con India today announced a nation-wide costume play contest, the winner of which will represent India at Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo to be held on later this year. Cosplay is a...
14:50
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday filed his nomination from Amritsar East seat, while Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh filed from Lambi on the last day for filing of nominations for the February four assembly polls in Punjab.Besides the two, Aam Aadmi Party leader...
14:43
A jailed Pakistani doctor who allegedly helped the Central Intelligence Agency hunt down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will be neither released nor handed to the United States, Pakistani media quoted the country's law minister as saying.Dr Shakil Afridi, hailed as a hero by US officials, was...
14:35
Tennis legend Andre Agassi was named ambassador for the True North Brand at an event in Mumbai on Wednesday.True North is one of India's largest equity firms.This is the American tennis star's second visit to India -- he came to Mumbai in December 2012 when he partied with Bollywood...
14:34
Just In: Delhi HC refuses to restrain AAP government from going ahead with its 2-day assembly session commencing today.
14:32
P Vaidyanathan Iyer, national affairs editor of the Indian Express tweets: 'Interesting factoid: It will take 600 days for RBI's 60 machines to count the 500s & 1000s that have returned to the system.'
14:30
Former Pak army chief General Raheel Sharif (retd) said 2016 witnessed a significant decrease in terrorism and that 'intelligence sharing is a very important component of strategy to combat terrorism'.Addressing a session at the World Economic Forum titled 'Terrorism in the digital age', he said:...
13:59
Did a senior TMC leader visit Sudip Bandyopadhyay in jail to verify whether he had taken the names of TMC's top leadership in the Rose Valley scam? West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee apprehends that the CBI will go to any length to implicate her in the case. So...
13:55
Kumar Vishwas, poet turned close aide of Arvind Kejriwal and Anna Hazare, is likely to resign from the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday and join the Bharatiya Janata Party, say sources.Kumar Vishwas contested against Rahul Gandhi from Amethi during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and had come a...
13:51
The Election Commission has converted its meeting room into a makeshift judicial court to hear the petitions against the disqualification of 27 AAP MLAs over holding office of profit. The EC has been reeling under a severe space crunch, which was brought home to it during the...
13:42
Congress leaders and workers are holding a protest against demonetisation across the country today.Reserve Bank of India offices in different cities are being gheraoed by the party.Congress workers protested at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.In Ahemdabad, Senior party leaders Sushil Kumar Shinde,...
13:26
JUST IN: Former United States President George H W Bush hospitalised, says Reuters.
13:19
'Would you have been selling kites had your brother been the prime minister?' asks a video posted by the Bharatiya Janata Party on their Twitter account.The video shows how all the cousins of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are in ordinary jobs while other political families like the Gandhis, the...
12:45
Actor Salman Khan took to Twitter to thank fans and supporters after his acquittal in the Arms Act case related to the 18-year-old poaching case.'Thank you for all the support and good wishes,' the actor tweeted.Earlier, the lawyer of the Bishnoi Samaj, the community which holds the black buck...
12:35
Actress Priyanka Chopra has resumed work on the sets of Quantico, after sustaining an injury while shooting for a scene on-location. The 34-year-old star is getting back to normal post her hospitalisation and happy to be working again, Priyanka's representative told E! News....
12:16
Election Commission-appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams have recovered over Rs 64 crore in cash, including Rs 56.04 crore from Uttar Pradesh alone, and liquor and drugs worth over Rs 8 crore from the five poll-bound states.As per official data, Punjab has witnessed the maximum...
12:08
Salman Khan's acquittal: Prosecution lawyer said the actor was given 'benefit of doubt' by the court.Salman's lawyer said he was 'acquitted after the prosecution failed to provide conclusive evidence'.
12:00
The DNA sample of Raj Narayan, son of alleged mastermind of the Jawahar Bagh incident, which left 29 persons dead, has been sent for forensic examination, police said.The blood and hair sample of Raj Narayan, son of Ram Vriksha, has been sent to forensic lab, SP Crime Rajesh Sonkar said.M Bansal,...
11:49
Salman Khan has been acquitted in the 1998 Arms Act case. A case under sections 3/25 and 3/27 of the Arms Act was filed against Khan for allegedly keeping and using the fire arms with expired licence in the poaching of blackbucks in Kankani near Jodhpur on October 1-2, 1998.Over the years, Salman...
11:23
Cyberabad Police has booked a journalist for allegedly 'unauthorisedly' entering into the University of Hyderabad campus on the first death anniversary of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula.The journalist Kunal S, working with an English magazine, was booked on charge of trespass and other relevant...
11:01
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Swami Prasad Maurya on Wednesday expressed unhappiness over distribution of tickets for Uttar Pradesh polls by the saffron party.As per sources, the leader might decide on party affiliation after candidates list is announced, ANI reportedMaurya has demanded tickets not...
10:45
JUST IN: Actor Salman Khan, along with his sister Alvira, reaches a court in Jodhpur which will pronounce its verdict on an Arms Act case against the actor shortly. Also read: What is the case against Salman?
10:41
An earthquake of 3.0 magnitude was felt in New Delhi on Wednesday morning at around 7.16 am.Tremors of 3.7 magnitude were also felt in Aizawl and elsewhere in Mizoram at the same time. No reports of any casualty have been reported so far from New Delhi and Mizoram. A low-intensity...
10:38
Indian advertising guru and author Suhel Seth has become one of the largest individual donors and supporters of India's first Partition Museum, being set up at Amritsar Town Hall in Punjab. Seth donated Rs 50 lakhs towards a gallery within the museum to be dedicated to his parents,...
10:25
Former Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari, along with his son Rohit Shekhar, will join the Bharatiya Janata Party today, an ANI report said.According to reports, Tiwari wants a BJP ticket for his son from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand and,...
09:58
Almost a year after imposing prohibition in Bihar, the state government has decided to shut down liquor factories, too, reported Satyavrat Mishra in Business Standard. The state government on Saturday ordered that the licences of beer and extra-neutral alcohol units and Indian-made...
09:55
Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel is likely to appear before the Standing Committee on Finance on Wednesday.The committee, headed by former Union minister and senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily, has called Patel to brief the panel about governments demonetisation drive.The secretaries...
09:25
Just In: At least five bogies of a goods train derailed near Hubli station in Karnataka. No casualties have been reported so far. However, traffic movement has been affected. Further details are awaited.
09:22
As pro-jallikattu protests across Tamil Nadu continued to gain steam, with a group of youngsters continuing their agitation in Chennai through Tuesday night, the state government held talks with agitators and assured them of its commitment to hold the bull-taming sport in the state. ...
09:20
One of the six inmates who had scaped from Punjab's Nabha jail and carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh was arrested along with another person, who is accused of heinous crimes in Punjab, from Indore on Tuesday night, a senior police officer said. Kulpreet Singh Deol alias Neeta (the...
09:19
To make the case watertight against Sunil Rastogi, who was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting several minor girls in east Delhi, the Delhi police is planning to conduct DNA and brain-mapping tests on him. The accused has told the police he had sexually assaulted many minor...
09:17
Rajeev Sharma tells us: Expect a concrete forward movement in the United Arab Emirates's long-awaited pledge of investing $75 billion (Rs 5 lakh crore) in India when Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan comes calling to India on a State visit from January 25 to 27, during...
09:01
The man accused of shooting five people dead and injuring six others at a Florida airport has confessed that he was under the influence of Islamic State terror group, agency reports said.The accused had earlier blamed his action on 'government mind control', but later accepted that he was...
08:13
United States President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who is serving 35 years behind bars for giving classified US data and documents to Wikileaks, allowing her to go free nearly three decades early.According to the commutation granted on Tuesday, Manning would now be...
00:25
A court in Jodhpur will today pronounce its verdict in the case under Arms Act against actor Salman Khan.This is one of the four cases against the actor. While the Rajasthan High Court has acquitted him in two cases of poaching of chinkara, trial in the third case of alleged poaching of two...
00:22
The New York Times has deftly adapted to the demands of digital journalism, but it needs to change even more quickly, according to an internal report that recommends the company expand training for reporters and editors, hire journalists with more varied skills and deepen engagement with readers...
00:21
The US dollar dipped after Donald trump raising a red flag over the currency's rise. The dollar first rose after Trump's election win thanks in part to an idea the president-elect would increase infrastructure spending. But on Tuesday, the US Dollar Index slid 1.2% to 100.35 and hit a low it...
00:20
Chinese President Xi Jinping at the World Economic Forum in Davos: World history shows that the road of human civilization has never been a smooth one, and that mankind has made progress by surmounting difficulties. No difficulty, however daunting, will stop mankind from advancing. When...
00:19
Less than 100 hours before demitting office, outgoing US President Barack Obama has appointed two Indian-Americans to key administration positions.While Maneesh Goyal has been made Member of the J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, D J Patil has been named as Member of the National...
00:18
ISI hand in Kanpur train disaster? Bihar police thinks soFor talks to happen, Pakistan must walk away from terror: PMParliamentary panel to quiz Urjit Patel on note ban on WedAllow access to Smriti Irani's board record, CIC tells CBSEFreeze Congress's poll symbol over Rahul's 'hand' remark: BJP...
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