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The official Twitter handle of Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal was hacked tonight, the L-G Secretariat said.A complaint has been filed with the Delhi Police and the matter is being investigated, an official said.The L-G's Twitter handle was hacked tonight, the official said, adding a complaint has...
22:48
Sridevi's mortal remains brought to her Lokhandwala residence.About a dozen police personnel and as many private security men have been deployed for crowd management.Family members, including her film-maker husband Boney Kapoor and stepson Arjun Kapoor, brought her body in a private jet after...
22:21
Sridevi's mortal remains being taken to her Lokhandwala residence. Photograph: ANI
21:49
JUST IN: The plane carrying mortal remains of Sridevi lands in Mumbai, reports ANI.Actor Anil Kapoor present at the airport with daughter Sonam Kapoor.Reports say Reliance ADA Group chairman Anil Ambani is also at the airport.The Embraer aircraft on which the body was flown-in belongs to Ambani's...
21:13
Actor Anil Kapoor has arrived at Mumbai airport as chartered plane carrying mortal remains of Sridevi to land shortly.Anil Kapoor's elder brother and Sridevi's husband Boney Kapoor boarded the chartered plane with the mortal remains of Sridevi from Dubai in the evening.Their youngest brother...
21:07
A Mumbai court has issued summons to Nirav Modi to appear on March 12, failing which the court may issue a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against him.The Enforcement Directorate today had moved a special court, seeking issuance of a NBW against Nirav Modi, a key accused in the over Rs 11,000-crore...
20:10
A chartered plane carrying the mortal remains of Sridevi took off this evening from Dubai for Mumbai where film personalities and fans are eagerly waiting to see her one last time.The Embraer aircraft belonging to Anil Ambani's ADAG group departed from Dubai at around 7 pm (IST), a senior Mumbai...
19:05
Following is a statement on behalf of Kapoor family:On behalf of Khushi, Janhvi, Boney Kapoor, the entire Kapoor and Ayyappan families, a sincere thanks to the media for your continued sensitivity and support during this emotional moment.Kindly find all the details for tomorrow:- Condolences and...
18:53
A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father in Parmar Nagar in Phagwara, police said today.The incident took place last night and based on a complaint by the girl's mother, the man was arrested today, Sub-Inspector (SI) Manpreet Kaur said.The 35-year-old man was booked for rape and...
18:22
The plane carrying Sridevi's body is expected to take off from Dubai airport at around 6:30 pm. The body will be flown to Mumbai in a private jet belonging to Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani, which was on standby for the last 2 days in Dubai.A flight from Dubai to Mumbai takes...
17:56
In other news, bank stocks today fell by up to 7 per cent as investor sentiments remained weak amid fresh disclosures by scam-hit Punjab National Bank. Bank of India shares slumped 7.18 per cent, IDBI 6.78 per cent, Indian Bank 3.66 per cent, UCO Bank 2.42 per cent on BSE. The scrip of Bank of...
17:39
The embalming certificate (see image alongside) basically gives details like her name, sex, age (incorrectly states 52 instead of 54), nationality, passport number, the cause of death (accidental drowning) and embalming particulars. India Today has said that Sridevi's funeral is expected to...
17:19
Just in: Sridevi's body is likely to reach Mumbai by 10:30 pm. The body has been embalmed and has left for Dubai airport. The embalming report says the 'body is fit to travel by air or sea and has been sealed in a coffin'. The body is now at the Dubai airport, the paperwork is in the process of...
16:51
Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash today attended a cabinet meeting to finalise dates for the Delhi assembly's Budget Session, his first official meet with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal since he was allegedly assaulted by Aam Aadmi Party MLAs last week.Hours before the meeting, Prakash in a letter to...
16:35
Sridevi's body has reached the embalming centre in Dubai. The process, say reports, will take between four and five hours. The body will then be flown to Mumbai by a chartered flight. Boney Kapoor, his son Arjun, and brother Sanjay, will be accompanying the body back to Mumbai, tonight. The...
16:27
In other news, and there has been some of that, smoke was today detected in a communication set in a chopper, minutes before Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was to fly in it from Karimnagar district, a police official said. The incident was reported at around 10.30 am, following...
16:06
Adil Hussain spent 30 days with Sridevi, filming her comeback film English Vinglish. During this time, he gained an interesting perspective into the iconic actress's way of working, and realised just why she was so popular with audiences. Adil shares his memories of Sridevi with Rediff.com's...
15:54
Update on the Sridevi death story. Khaleej Times reports that the actress' body has left the Dubai morgue and is on its way to the embalming unit. Boney Kapoor's nephew Saurabh Malhotra was outside the morgue to collect the body and will be accompanying the ambulance carrying the body to the...
15:11
Sridevi death update: The Dubai police hands over clearance letters for the release of Sridevi's mortal remains to the Indian consulate and her family members, so that they can proceed for embalming, reports say. The body will be released to the family shortly. Her family is at the Dubai police...
14:44
India Tourism Development Corporation's flagship hotel in Delhi, the five-star Ashoka Hotel in Chanakyapuri, is in the red for many years now. The 65-year-old hotel, which is located near the Prime Minister's official residence, is facing a severe financial crunch, so much so that there is a...
14:07
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramaniam Swamy on Tuesday said that veteran actress Sridevi was murdered, even as the forensic report rules out any kind of foul play in her death.Swamy also pointed a finger at the underworld terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, saying that we...
13:49
US President Donald Trump today said he would have entered the Florida school to save the students from a gunman even without a weapon as he criticised the inaction of a sheriff's deputy assigned to the school. Last week, Trump called out the armed school resource officer who stayed outside...
13:25
A senior United States National Security Council official has been quietly visiting Islamabad amid reports that both sides are giving 'behind-the-scenes' efforts aimed at fixing the strains in ties more chances to avoid a complete breakdown of the increasingly dysfunctional relationship. Read more
13:24
Bringing extensive experience in live events, the former Vanity Fair deputy editor succeeds Robert Safian, who spent 11 years in the role. Read
13:02
India Today reports that Boney Kapoor's son Arjun has rushed to Dubai to help his father. Boney Kapoor has been in Dubai since Saturday evening, February 24, the day Sridevi died. Sridevi's body is yet to be repatriated to India with reports saying that Boney Kapoor's family and friends have been...
12:26
#NewsKiMaut: The way Indian media has covered Sridevi's death has been shameful. Barkha Dutt weighs in. Do read
12:23
The legendary Waheeda Rehman makes her way to Anil Kapoor's residence to pay her condolences. The Kapoor family, including Boney Kapoor's daughters are at Anil Kapoor's home for the past two days. What we know so far is that the Dubai police recorded Boney Kapoor's statement yesterday. Kapoor...
12:00
The date for the assembly election in Karnataka is likely to be May 15, according to a highly placed source in the Election Commission.The Election Commission is likely to announce the date in New Delhi in mid April.Our sources tell us that by early April, the three election commissioners will be...
11:34
Even if one overlooks this ulterior motive, one still has to grapple with the inherent irony in someone who can't produce his degree lecturing students on how to prepare for examinations. That's like me writing a book as an authority on astrophysics just because I saw the movie Interstellar....
11:27
Around 17 per cent polling was registered in the first two hours of voting for the 60-member Nagaland Assembly today, a top election official said. Nagaland's Chief Electoral Officer Abhijit Sinha said a blast was reported from a polling booth at Tizit village in Mon district about an hour before...
11:26
Pitching for foreign investments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India is one of the most open economies in the world and is ready to do business with the world. Speaking at the India-Korea Business Summit, he said his government has worked towards creating a stable business...
10:53
The Pakistan Army on Tuesday morning resorted to an unprovoked and indiscriminate firing at Manjakote sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistan army used small arms, automatics weapons and mortars in along the Line of Control. Indian army is...
10:43
A gutsy woman took a man to task for harassing her and passing lewd comments in Delhi's Gaffar Market area. The incident took place on February 25 when the woman was travelling in a rickshaw on her way to the Gaffar Market area.The two accused followed her for quite some...
10:21
Election to the 60-member Nagaland Assembly began at 7 am today amid a tight security as more than half of the 2,156 polling stations in the north-eastern state have been declared critical. With Nationalist Democratic People's Party chief Neiphiu Rio winning the Northern Angami-II seat unopposed,...
10:17
The benchmark BSE Sensex gained over 132 points to 34,578.39 in early trade today, rising for the third straight session today on buying by domestic institutional investors amid strong global cues. Investors are also eyeing Q3 GDP data, to be released tomorrow. Market sentiment was...
10:15
Shares of Punjab National Bank today slumped as much as 9 per cent to hit their 52-week low level in morning trade on bourses after the lender said the amount of fraudulent transactions could be as much as Rs 12,700 crore. Shares of the company opened weak at Rs 107.80, then cracked...
10:13
Voting for the 60-member assembly in Nagaland and Meghalaya has begun on Tuesday morning amid tight security arrangements. While the two states have a 60-member house each, voting will be held only for 59 constituencies in both.In Meghalaya, the election has been countermanded in Williamnagar in...
09:18
Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said that had he been in Finance Minister Arun Jaitleys position, he would have resigned. He also said that it was time to amend the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act to address the unrest in Jammu and Kashmir.Chidambaram...
09:08
JUST IN: Sources says a crude handmade bomb was lobbed at Tizit polling station around 5.45 am, where one village council member sustained a leg injury.
08:53
In a striking new turn of events, sources at the Dubai Police informed Khaleej Times that the Public Prosecution will conduct further investigation with regard to circumstances that led to the drowning of Sridevi. The investigation into her death began in the wee hours of Sunday morning, and...
08:24
Amid the multi-agency probe into the PNB scam, the state-run bank today said the amount of fraudulent transactions could be Rs 1,300 crore more than the current estimate of about Rs 11,400 crore. The latest announcement from the public sector lender assumes...
08:14
Security arrangements have been beefed up as Meghalaya and Nagaland go to polls. Voting for the 60-member assemblies will be held from 7 am till 4 pm, except in some polling stations of the interior districts of Nagaland, where the process is scheduled to conclude at 3 pm.While the two...
07:46
Bollywood actress Sridevi passed away in her hotel room in the Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Dubai, at 11 pm on Saturday, a source in the Indian Consulate in Dubai revealed.She reportedly had a fainting spell in her bathroom and was immediately rushed to Rashid Hospital in Dubai. The hotel, however,...
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The Election Commission is likely to announce the schedule for Karnataka Assembly elections in the second week of April, after the school board examinations are over, highly-placed sources said in New Delhi on Monday.They said the Election Commission will visit the state sometime in the end of...
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