20:39
India imported about 2.4 million dollars worth of iron and steel, iron and steel products, copper and zinc from North Korea last year and exported precious metals and stones worth USD 578,994 to the country in violation of UN Security Council resolutions banning such trade with North Korea,...
20:05
The Supreme Court has refused to accord an urgent hearing to a plea for direction to the government to request the President to start the process for removing four senior most apex court judges who had held a press conference on January 12. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and...
19:53
India and Pakistan should try to resolve their differences and make the quest for normalisation and peace the noblest of goals in the region, taking a cue from the recent thaw in the relations between North and South Korea, a media report here said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the...
19:40
Congress president Rahul Gandhi today announced that he would undertake the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage post-Karnataka Assembly polls, saying the thought struck him when he was travelling to the state in a chartered aircraft that suddenly came down by 8,000 feet four days ago. ...
19:30
Reliance Industries plans to shut oil and gas production at its main fields in KG-D6 block in the coming months and begin complying with the government's guidelines for decommissioning facilities in the Bay of Bengal block where output has hit its lowest ever. Adhering to Site...
18:54
The rift in the extended family of V K Sasikala, the jailed aide of former Tamil Nadu chief minister, late J Jayalalithaa, today spilled over with her brother V Dhivakaran floating a new outfit in Thiruvarur. Divakaran inaugurated the office of the Amma Ani in Thiruvarur and said plans were...
18:51
Pakistan's interior ministry has abruptly removed the chief prosecutor from the Mumbai terror attack case for not taking the government line, an official said today, in a major setback to India's efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice.Ten Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists had sailed into Mumbai...
18:17
The 'appam' and 'aravana', the sweet ball and jaggery dessert, which are sold as prasadam (offering) at the famed Lord Ayyappa temple in the state, are set to get a makeover from the next pilgrim season. The Central Food Technological Research Institute, which provides guidance...
17:59
Showing urgency in dealing with absconding loan defaulters, the government has come out with series of rules to operationalise the fugitive economic offenders law, for which an ordinance was promulgated by the President last week. The Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance, 2018, is aimed at...
17:48
The engine troubles hit budget carrier IndiGo again with the airline forced to ground two of its Airbus A320 Neo planes due to technical glitches, according to a source.The two Pratt & Whitney engine-powered A320 Neo planes were taken out of operations on Friday, the source said.IndiGo, which...
17:40
Days after sparking a controversy with his critique of model-actor Diana Hayden, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is at it again.Deb advised the educated youth in his state to set up paan shops instead of running after political parties for several years to get government jobs and waste...
16:42
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today attacked the Modi-led government for not fulfilling its several poll promises and said the state assembly elections among other things will also be about broken promises of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The assembly elections in Karnataka are...
16:35
Terrorists targeted an army patrol in south Kashmir's Shopian district today, a police official said. No casualties were reported. A patrol party of army's 34 Rashtriya Rifles was fired upon by terrorists in Malikgund area, he said. The official said the army personnel retaliated,...
16:31
Brahmos, the fastest missile in the world co-developed by India and Russia, will be breaching the mach 7 barrier to be a 'hypersonic' system in the next decade, a top official said.We will require seven to ten years from now to become a hypersonic missile system, Sudhir Mishra, the chief...
16:28
Actor Anil Kapoor today remained tight-lipped on the reports of his daughter Sonam Kapoor's wedding and said people will get to know everything at the right time. There have been reports that Sonam is set to tie the knot with beau Anand Ahuja early next month. The pictures of Anil's...
16:26
Under fire from the opposition over delay in financial aid to farmers for crops damaged by pests, the Maharashtra government is set to release Rs 1,100 crore for cultivators in the next few days, an official said.Bijay Kumar, the principal secretary, agriculture, said that a sum of Rs 1,100 crore...
15:48
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is attempting to stitch a coalition of non-BJP, non-Congress parties ahead of the next year's Lok Sabha elections, today met Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M Karunanidhi at his residence in Chennai. Rao, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi...
14:56
Pakistan is set to launch an ambitious space programme during the next fiscal year with an aim to keep an eye on the Indian side and reduce its dependence on foreign satellites for civil and military purposes, according to a media report. Several projects will be initiated to develop...
14:54
In a first, arch rivals India and Pakistan will be part of a multi-nation counter-terror exercise in Russia in September, which will also be joined by China and several other countries. The military exercise will take place under the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a...
14:06
Janata Dal-Secular state President H D Kumaraswamy today said he would not be a kingmaker and instead people of the state would bless him as king in the May 12 Karnataka assembly polls, which he conceded was a battle for survival for his party.Expressing confidence about the JD-S coming to power...
13:53
The Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to rule the Chakma Autonomous District Council in Mizoram with the support of six Congress members after the election threw a fractured mandate, a top state BJP leader said.The CADC is an autonomous council for ethnic Chakma people living in South-Western...
13:32
As many as 3,292 NGOs and institutes, including some top academic centres like Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indira Gandhi National Open University, IIT Delhi and Madras, besides the Infosys Foundation in Bangalore have not disclosed their annual foreign donations and expenditure for the last...
13:06
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked youngsters to join the 'Swachh Bharat Summer Internship 2008' launched by his government and announced incentives, including credit point by the UGC, for participants, saying it is an opportunity for those who want to make a change in the society. In...
12:50
A bomb exploded today at the office of a hydroelectricity project in Nepal developed with Indian assistance, weeks before its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a media report said. The compound wall of 900 MW Arun III Hydroelectric Power Plant's office in Khandbari-9,...
12:43
Now, Congress president Rahul Gandhi is addressing party's Jan Akrosh rally in New Delhi. Here some of the highlights of his speech.- Under PM Modi, for the the first time in the history of our country, Supreme Court judges have had to reach out to people for justice- The PM never speaks on Nirav...
12:23
Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi today launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 'Jan Akrosh' rally, saying roots of corruption became stronger in his regime.The Modi government is muzzling dissenting voices, weakening institutions, dividing communities eyeing poll...
11:54
Hitting out at the Congress over its 'Jan Akrosh' rally, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah today said it was in fact a 'Parivar Akrosh' rally that highlights increasing irrelevance of a dynasty and their courtiers, who have been sent out of power from one state after another in...
11:14
The Indian Navy on Sunday responded to reports of its plane, Il-38, making a crash landing in Russia, saying that the aircraft was in the country for overhaul and mid-life upgradation.'The aircraft is in Russia for Overhaul (OH) and Mid Life Upgradation (MLU). No...
10:41
A 24-year-old woman has levelled serious allegations of wrongful confinement and rape against Central Reserve Police Force personnel inside a camp in Jammu, prompting police to register a case and start investigations, police said. The woman, hailing from the Mandi area of Poonch district, lodged...
10:21
Two members of the Nationalist Congress Party were shot dead by some unidentified persons in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar on Sunday.Both members have been identified as Yogesh Ralebhat and Rajesh Ralebhat.The duo was sitting at a tea stall when the miscreants came on a bike and...
09:53
Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address a public rally at the Ramlila Ground in New Delhi on Sunday to showcase 'Jan Aakrosh' (public outrage) over alleged 'failures and corruption' of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.This rally will be Gandhi's first...
09:26
Thousands of devotees braved early morning chill to flock to Kedarnath as portals of the Himalayan shrine were thrown open today after the six-month winter break.Uttarakhand Governor K K Paul and Speaker Premchand Aggarwal were among the first to offer prayers at the shrine as its gates were...
08:52
A first information report has been lodged in Ghaziabad against two television news channels for allegedly broadcasting 'false stories' following a complaint by the Ghaziabad Development Authority.The GDA has alleged that the Hindi news channels had aired stories, levelling charges of Rs two...
08:40
While speaking at the inauguration of the three-day International Virat Gurukul Sammelan in Ujjain on Saturday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the state will register 'gurukuls', which will be treated like mainstream schools.The state will...
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