23:20
Delhi's air quality deteriorated through the day and was recorded in the 'very poor' category as authorities predicted further rise in the pollution level in the next two days.The Central Pollution Control Board recorded an overall air quality index (AQI) of 337, which falls in the very poor...
23:16
WWE on Monday announced it will visit India in search of the next generation of superstars by holding its first-ever talent tryout in Mumbai in March next year. The four-day tryout will give up to 40 athletes from India the opportunity to showcase their abilities with the goal of...
23:14
Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said Monday he would file a defamation case against a television channel for allegedly running a fake video about slogans purportedly in support of Pakistan during his rally in Rajasthan's Alwar district two days ago. He said the slogans were of 'jo...
23:09
A N Jha, Secretary, Expenditure, has been appointed as new Finance Secretary, a government order said Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared Jha's appointment to the post after incumbent Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981-batch Gujarat cadre...
22:16
The acrimonious end to coach Ramesh Powar's tenure Monday split the Indian women's cricket team with T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur and her deputy Smriti Mandhana demanding his return despite senior player Mithali Raj's fallout with him. Committee of Administrators chairman Vinod Rai told PTI...
22:09
Crisil Monday cut India's growth forecast for current fiscal to 7.4 per cent on the back of weakening global GDP and trade growth. India's growth in the July-September quarter slipped to 7.1 per cent from 8.2 per cent in the April-June quarter. For fiscal 2019, we are lowering...
21:53
A former Chief Justice of India on Monday said it is for Justice Kurian Joseph to come out with the basis on which he has levelled serious allegations against former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra that he was being remote controlled by some external source. His views was shared by...
21:12
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Monday asserted all intruders would be pulled out of the country if BJP was voted back in 2019, as he appealed to people to return the Vasundhara Raje government in Rajasthan and the Modi government at the Centre. Addressing a public...
21:03
A complaint case was filed against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray in a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Monday for allegedly insulting the Hindi language. The case was filed by social activist Tamanna Hashmi in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Arti Kumari Singh in...
20:29
Attempting to do some damage control, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Monday that the Kartarpur corridor's opening was not a googly but a straight-forward decision, contradicting his foreign minister's remarks that led to a war of words with his Indian counterpart. Union ministers...
20:25
A fire broke out Monday near the IT Park in suburban Goregaon, a fire brigade official said.The spot is an open plot adjacent to Arun Kumar Vaidya Marg in Goregaon which is in vicinity of Aarey Colony, the biggest green lung in the metropolis.Fire brigade control room received the information...
20:21
The player auction ahead of the 2019 Indian Premier League will be held in Jaipur on December 18, the BCCI announced on Monday. The auction will be a one-day affair and there is also a change in venue with the event moving to the Pink City from Bengaluru. Only 70 players -- 50...
19:52
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India chapter on Monday called out newlyweds Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas for using elephants and horses at their wedding procession. PETA India took to Twitter to blast the couple who tied the knot as per Hindu traditions on Sunday in Jodhpur....
19:38
United States President Donald Trump has written to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, seeking Pakistan's support in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table to end the 17-year brutal war in trouble-torn Afghanistan, officials here said on Monday.The development came weeks after Trump said...
19:18
The Central Bureua of Investigation has filed a chargesheet against Delhi health minister Satyendar Kumar Jain, his wife and a few others in a disproportionate assets case, officials said Monday. The move comes days after the ministry of home affairs granted to the CBI the sanction to...
18:47
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar set tongues wagging Monday after he met former Congress leader Narayan Rane amid the speculation of the latter's possible return to the opposition-fold ahead of the 2019 general election. Pawar, who is currently touring Sindhudurg district in...
18:14
Days after he retired, Justice Kurian Joseph, one of the four Supreme Court judges who held an unprecedented press conference in January, on Monday made a sensational claim that the previous Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra was working under some influence of an external source, adding this...
17:17
A police inspector was killed in violence that broke out on Monday in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district after reports of illegal cow slaughter, the police said. Additional Director General of Meerut zone Prashant Kumar said a mob pelted the police with stones and indulged in arson,...
17:04
A Delhi court on Monday discharged chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and six others in a case of alleged rioting in front of the house of the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2012. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal passed the order.According to the prosecution, on...
16:28
An employee of a television news channel has been arrested for allegedly raping his colleague in west Delhi's Punjabi Bagh area, the police said on Monday. Based on a complaint filed by the victim at the Punjabi Bagh police station, the man was arrested in connection with the incident last...
16:25
The six-member Monetary Policy Committee, headed by RBI governor Urjit Patel, began its three-day policy review deliberations on Monday amid expectations of status quo on interest rate. Experts are of the view that the RBI may not change the benchmark lending rate (repo) despite moderation...
16:22
Two modules of militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad were busted in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir in which 10 persons were arrested and huge quantity of incriminating material recovered, the police said on Monday. A police spokesperson said a special team was constituted to...
16:02
A Sri Lankan court on Monday barred Mahinda Rajapaksa from acting as prime minister, in a major set back to President Maithripala Sirisena who had installed his former rival in place of Ranil Wickremesinghe in a controversial decision. The Appeal Court issued notice and an interim...
15:22
The National Green Tribunal on Monday imposed a fine of Rs 25 crore on the Delhi government for failing to check the menace of air pollution in the city.The NGT came down hard on the Delhi government for being unable to check the consistently polluted air quality. The NGT also said that the fine...
15:15
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas leave from Jodhpur. The couple tied knot in a two-day event at Jodhpur's Umaid Bhawan Palace on December 1-2. Photograph: ANI/TwitterPlease see: When Priyanka-Nick danced and danced!
14:59
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas leave from Jodhpur. The couple tied knot in a two-day event at Jodhpur's Umaid Bhawan Palace on December 1-2. Photograph: ANI/TwitterPlease see: When Priyanka-Nick danced and danced!
14:54
A petition was filed in the Bombay high court on Monday challenging the Maratha Reservation Act. It was filed soon after the Maharashtra government filed a caveat on the Act before the Supreme Court. Advocate Gunaratna Sadavarte, who filed the petition, argued that the reservation...
14:52
Driven to despair by being offered a meagre 20 paise per kilogram for his brinjal production, a farmer in Maharashtra destroyed the entire plantation on his land to save himself from incurring further losses. Rajendra Bawake, from Sakuri village in Rahata tehsil of Ahmednagar...
14:31
A controversy erupted in the Aligarh Muslim University on Monday after a group of vegetarian students alleged that they were served food cooked in oil used to prepare non-vegetarian dishes, a charge denied by the university. Students at the Sir Syed Hall (North), in a...
14:10
The Indian Navy is looking at inducting 56 warships and submarines and the process for bringing in a third aircraft carrier has been moved, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said Monday, vowing to enhance the force's maritime capability. He also assured the country that the navy is...
14:00
The Supreme Court on Monday deferred till the third week of January the hearing on a plea filed by Zakia Jafri challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 Godhra riots. Zakia, the wife of Ehsan...
13:57
Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference coming together? The idea could not have been countenanced a few years ago, given the difference of approach in the politics of the two parties. But now, the proposal is being actively discussed. Whenever the J&K assembly...
13:54
Sully H W Bush, a yellow Labrador service dog who worked with the late former US President George H W Bush, will be travelling with Bush's casket on his flight to Washington, DC, according to a source familiar with the plans.Jim McGrath, Bush's spokesman, posted an image of Sully next to Bush's...
13:29
Several research scholars and hostel inmates of IIT-Madras have alleged harassment and violation of their privacy by vigilance officers during checks conducted in their rooms, a charge denied by the Dean of students.The hostel residents, both men and women, allege that officers barge into rooms,...
13:05
Captain Amarinder Singh is a fatherly figure, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said, in response to the raging controversy over him calling Congress Rahul Gandhi his 'captain'.Sidhu had referred to Rahul as his captain when reporters asked him about going to Pakistan, despite Singh's...
12:48
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao and AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi were one and urged the people of Telangana to not be fooled by them. He also claimed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi was the BJP's B team...
12:24
SC directs Maharashtra Police to submit before it by Dec 8 the chargesheet filed against activists in the Bhima-Koregaon violence case. SC fixes Maharashtra's appeal in Koregaon-Bhima violence case for hearing on December 11.
12:13
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas got married in a lavish, Hindu ceremony that ended in the early hours of Monday at Umaid Bhawan in Jodhpur tying the knot twice over after a Christian I do wedding the night before. Doffing their hats to their Indian and American origins, the Indian actor...
11:59
JUST IN: Qatar to withdraw from OPEC from January.
11:57
Posters of Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh have been put up in different parts of the state. Interestingly, the poster reads, Punjab da Captain, Sadda Captain.Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sindhu kicked up a controversy a few days ago when he had said that Congress president Rahul...
11:54
Former Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat on Monday said that there was no impact of demonetisation on the misuse of money in elections. After demonestisation, it was thought that misuse of money during the election will be brought down. But it couldn't be proved on basis of the data of...
11:33
Former Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat on Monday said that there was no impact of demonetisation on the misuse of money in elections. After demonestisation, it was thought that misuse of money during the election will be brought down. But it couldn't be proved on basis of the data of...
11:01
Jet Airways has claimed that the reason behind the cancellation of at least 14 flights on Sunday was not non cooperation from pilots but operational circumstances. The reason for cancellations of 2 December flights was due to an unforeseen operational circumstance and not pilot...
11:00
Who is going to contest the Bengaluru South constituency from the BJP? The death of Union minister Ananth Kumar, image alongside, a six-time MP from constituency, is giving rise to speculation. The party feels it has a chance of retaining the seat only if Kumar's wife Tejaswini...
10:33
China has agreed to scale back tariffs on imported US cars, President Donald Trump said Sunday, one day after agreeing with Xi Jinping to a ceasefire in the trade war between the world's top two economies. Asia stocks had rallied on the news that Washington and Beijing would not impose...
10:12
Taking a dig at the BJP government, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh wondered why an act cannot be passed for the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya while a huge statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel can be built in Gujarat.Addressing a public rally, senior Sangh leader Dattatreya Hosabale...
09:30
Former US first lady Michelle Obama canceled part of her book tour so she can pay her respects to US President George H W Bush who died Friday at the age of 94.Its important for me to join the Bush family in celebrating President George HW Bushs exemplary life. This will unfortunately preclude my...
09:15
India is my father's country. Nobody can force me flee, was how AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi reacted to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's comment that if BJP comes to power in the Telangana, Owaisi will have to flee.It is my religious belief that Prophet Adam, when he descended...
08:32
Parties in Jammu and Kashmir alleged governor Satya Pal Malik was trying to change rules for issuing permanent resident certificates - a touchy issue in the state. The governor, however, denied any move to tamper with the existing law.Former chief minister and National Conference leader Omar...
08:12
The World Bank on Monday unveiled $200 billion in climate action investment for 2021-25, adding this amounts to a doubling of its current five-year funding. The World Bank said the move, coinciding with a UN climate summit meeting of some 200 nations in Poland, represented a significantly...
07:59
The World Bank on Monday unveiled $200 billion in climate action investment for 2021-25, adding this amounts to a doubling of its current five-year funding. The World Bank said the move, coinciding with a UN climate summit meeting of some 200 nations in Poland, represented a significantly...
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