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The panel set up by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation after the death of renowned gastroenterologist Dr Deepak Amrapurkar, who fell into an open manhole during the torrential rain of August 29, has given aclean chit to civic body employees.It said there were no slip ups on part of the BMC...
23:23
The BJP today said that although it has not received any formal communication from former Congress leader Narayan Rane, any decision about his joining the party will be taken by the top brass.Putting an end to months of speculation yesterday, Rane announced his resignation from the party amid...
23:04
Uber, after losing its licence to operate in London, has stoked the rage of its customers by sending a strongly-worded email about TfL and encouraging them to sign a petition.A petition, on Change.org, was receiving about 1,000 signatures a minute Friday morning, as people reacted to the Sadiq...
22:39
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's wife Mehajabin Shaikh had visited Mumbai to meet her father last year, police officials said, quoting the fugitive gangster's brother Iqbal Kaskar, who has been held in an extortion case.The sensational revelation came after Kaskar had earlier told interrogators...
22:09
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said demonetisation was a shake-up which achieved its principal objectives of decreasing cash transactions,expanding the tax base and increasing digitisation.Confiscating the money was not the aim, he pointed out.Demonetisation was certainly a shake-up, Jaitley...
22:04
JUST IN: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir's Arnia sector.
21:31
The Election Commission will hear the dispute over the 'two leaves' symbol of the AIADMK on October 6, six months after it was frozen when the two warring factions of the party had staked claim to it.Earlier in the day, it had decided to hear the two sides on October 5. But in a fresh...
21:24
Pakistan today summoned India's High Commissioner here even as it condemned the alleged firing by Indian forces across the Line of Control, in which six Pakistani civilians were killed.Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza also established contact...
20:33
The Centre is planning to give out cash rewards to the tune of Rs 1 crore to secret informers who provide information to investigative agencies about benami properties.The initiative is likely to be announced by next month.In simple terms, if you rat out on those who deal with benami properties,...
20:19
China said today that the Kashmir issue should be resolved bilaterally by India and Pakistan, while dismissing calls by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for the implementation of the UN resolution on the dispute.Asked about the contact group of the OIC calling for the implementation of the...
20:17
Pakistan's top anti-graft body today froze the bank accounts and seized the properties of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members who are facing corruption and money laundering charges.Sharif, 67, stepped down after a Supreme Court bench disqualified him on July 28 from...
19:46
Pakistan's top anti-graft body today froze the bank accounts and seized the properties of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members who are facing corruption and money laundering charges.Sharif, 67, stepped down after a Supreme Court bench disqualified him on July 28 from...
19:32
The CBI today told the Supreme Court that Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union Minister P Chidambaram, was prevented from travelling abroad as he was allegedly closing several of his foreign bank accounts.Justifying the issuance of a look out circular against Karti, the agency also claimed...
19:03
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a jobs problem.He swept to power three years ago promising Indias poor and middle classes hed restore their dignity after years of swelling inequality, with job creation central to his pitch. But now, the jobs market has been slugged by last Novembers shock cash...
19:01
Vishwas Gupta, ex-husband of absconding Honeypreet Insan on Friday revealed the relation between self styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and her ex-wife and claimed that she is not the daughter of the rape convict as no legal adoption was done.Gupta denied claims made by Insan and Rahim and...
18:46
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the sidelines of UNGA. Photograph: Mohammed Jaffer/SnapsIndia
18:33
The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken over the Pradhyumn Thakur murder case. Sources said that the officials will file the FIR today itself. Earlier, the lawyer of Barun Thakur said that if the CBI failed to begin formal investigation into the killing of his seven-year-old son in a...
18:07
JUST IN: CBI summons Lalu Prasad Yadav on September 25 and Tejashvi Yadav on September 26 in connection with railway hotel tender case
18:05
A 18-year-old man has been charged with carrying out the attempted bombing on a London tube train.Ahmed Hassan, of Sunbury-on-Thames has been charged with attempted murder and explosives offences.Hassan was arrested in the port of Dover on Saturday, a day after a fireball ripped through a packed...
17:41
The Supreme Court today quashed a non-bailable warrant issued by a trial court in Srinagar against activist Madhu Kishwar, against whom a criminal defamation case has been filed by a Kashmir-based scribe.A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud...
17:20
Donald Trump has made what might be his most aggressive threat to North Korea yet via Twitter.The US presidents tweet called North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un a madman, and warned that he will be tested like never before.He also accused Kim of starving his own people, referring to the food...
17:15
JUST IN: Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu announces cash reward of Rs 75 lakh for Arjuna awardee tennis player Saketh Myneni.
16:50
Fashion designer Rohit Bal was arrested, along with three other men, for threatening his neighbour under the influence of alcohol in south Delhi's Defence Colony in the early hours of Friday, the police said.The four men were subsequently granted bail.The police received a complaint from one...
16:45
The Election Commission was today informed about the merger of the two factions of the AIADMK and the resolutions adopted at its general council meeting, including on the ouster of interim general secretary V K Sasikala, the party said today.An AIDMK delegation met the Commission and countered...
16:33
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a visit Varanasi for the first time since the BJP's grand victory in the Uttar Pradesh elections earlier this year. The PM had camped for three days in Varanasi in March that helped in fetching the BJP 312 of the 403 seats, the biggest majority for any...
16:11
Transport regulator in London announced today that Uber's licence to operate in the city will not be renewed once it expires on September 30.Authorities have cited 'safety reasons' for the decision.However, the company has three weeks to appeal.'Transport for London has concluded that Uber London...
15:43
Just In: Sensex tanks 447.60 points to close at 31,922.44; Nifty falls 157.50 points to 9,964.40.
15:25
DGMO level talks held between India and Pakistan. India put across that the trend of infiltration along the Line of Control continues with active support of Pakistan forward posts. India also emphasized that no targeted firing on civilians was carried out.
14:53
In a boost to the K Palaniswami-led faction of the ruling AIADMK, a party MP from the rival TTV Dnakaran camp today switched sides to extend support to the chief minister. M Vasanthi, the AIADMK MP from Tenkasi (SC), alleged that Dnakaran, the party's sidelined leader, had aligned with the DMK to...
14:48
NDTV has denied reports that Ajay Singh, the owner of SpiceJet, has picked up majority holdings in the news channel in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange. It has been variously reported that Singh, who was part of the BJP's 2014 poll campaign, had picked up a majority stake in the news...
14:02
BJP to field Swarn Singh Salariya from Vinod Khanna's Gurdaspur seat.
13:54
Rajkummar Rao-starrer 'Newton' is India's official entry in the Foreign Language Film category at the 2018 Oscars. Rao, who played the lead role in the film, took to Twitter to share the news. Very happy to share this news that #NEWTON is India's official entry to the #OSCARS this year....
13:38
The Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Jyoti and two Election Commissioners T Rawat and Sunil Arora, will be in Shimla on Sunday, September 24, to review Himachal Pradesh's election preparedness.The term of the 68-member Himachal Pradesh assembly will end on January 7, 2018. The Election...
13:08
An Income Tax officer's son who was kidnapped 10 days ago was found murdered near a lake on the outskirts of Bengaluru today, with police arresting four persons including a friend of the victim in connection with the crime. The decomposed body of 19-year-old Sharath was found...
12:47
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will meet United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today, the State Department said.It will be the first bilateral meeting and the highest-level exchange between India and the US after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington in June.The...
12:34
Superstar Rajinikanth said today that he extended 'full support' to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swachhata Hi Seva' mission.Cleanliness was godliness, the 66-year-old said on Twitter, backing the initiative under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.'I extend my full support to our hon Prime Minister...
11:59
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the new Mahamana Express from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The third Mahamana Express will be flagged off via video conferencing at 3.30pm Friday by the Prime Minister. Read more
11:59
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the new Mahamana Express from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The third Mahamana Express will be flagged off via video conferencing at 3.30pm Friday by the Prime Minister. Read more
11:56
Experts and staff at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly are all set to meet an unusual' request from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office.IVRI director RK Singh was informed about the PMO's request on Wednesday giving him a very narrow window to make...
11:53
Upset over being punished by teacher, a class five student in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison.The 11-year-old, Navneet Prakash, a student of St. Anthony's Convent School, was allegedly punished in his school on September 15, after...
11:52
A retired nuclear scientist working with Indian Agricultural Research Institute was found dead inside the abandoned government quarters on Pusa Road on Thursday. His brother and sister, Harish and Kamla, were found staying with the highly-decomposed body for at least the past fortnight. ...
11:13
Over 500 meat and chicken shops were allegedly shut down by Shiv Sena workers in view of the Navratri festival here. The workers yesterday assembled at Palam Vihar and forced shut down of meat markets in Surat Nagar, Ashok Vihar, Sector 5 and 9, Pataudi Chowk, Jacobpura, Sadar Bazaar, Khandsa...
11:11
We knew we had to hit the adversary so hard that he would be humiliated. Soldiers who took part in last year's surgical strikes on terror camps inside PoK tell Nitin A Gokhale what happened in those hours. An exclusive excerpt from Nitin's fascinating new book, Securing India the Modi Way:...
11:08
The party which was once averse to take part in religious festivals, is now banking on social festival Durga Puja to reach out to the people and revamp its dwindling mass base in West Bengal. The CPI(M), which is facing a tough time in the state in coping with the ruling Trinamool Congress and...
10:49
At a rare open session of the BJPs national executive on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to deliver a speech that might shape the political discourse in the run-up to the winter session of Parliament, and assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.The speech, which will be open...
10:40
Also read: Pradhyumn is not dead. He gives me the strength to fight, says father.
10:38
The Gurugram Police today summoned the owners of Ryan International School for interrogation on 26th September in connection with murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur on school campus on September 8.The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday had denied anticipatory bail to the founding...
10:15
The rupee today dropped by 31 paise to a four-month low level of 65.12 against the US dollar on frenetic dollar demand from importers and banks.Dealers said early losses in domestic equity markets and unabated foreign fund outflows weighed on the rupee. Yesterday, the rupee plummeted by a...
10:08
Security forces on Friday arrested two terrorists involved in the attack on Sashastra Seema Bal personnel at Banihal in Jammu and Kashmir.Two terrorists involved in Wednesday's terrorist attack at Banihal have been arrested and a hunt for the third is on, a police spokesman said in...
09:46
Heiress of cosmetics giant L'Oreal Liliane Bettencourt, the world's richest woman, has died at the age of 94. On Thursday, her daughter Franoise Bettencourt Meyers, 64, released a statement saying that her mother had passed away. Bettencourt Meyers told the New York Times in an email...
08:55
India's reply at UNGA continues:- 'Terroristan' is in fact a territory whose contribution to the globalisation of terror is unparalleled.- Pakistan can only be counselled to abandon a destructive worldview that has caused grief to the entire world.- If it could be persuaded to demonstrate...
08:51
India exercises its Right of Reply at the United Nations General Assembly and responds to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbas's statements on Kashmir, seeking UN intervention.It is extraordinary that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar should have the...
08:23
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has urged the United Nations to appoint a special envoy to Kashmir, as he claimed that the struggle of the people in the region is being 'brutally suppressed' by India.In his maiden address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Abbasi accused India...
00:16
In signs of fresh strains in the Samajwadi Party ahead of its state and national convention, its patron Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday removed Akhilesh-loyalist Ram Gopal Yadav from the post of secretary of the Lohia Trust and appointed his brother Shivpal Yadav in his place.The SP is holding...
00:15
- India beat Australia by 50 runs - Calcutta HC revokes Mamata govt's restrictions on Durga idol immersion - Trump signs new order targeting North Korea's trade partners- First Scorpene submarine Kalvari handed over to Indian NavyMissed Thursday's commentary,...
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