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Two days after the husband of the co-pilot of the small plane which crashed in Mumbai's suburban area of Ghatkopar questioned the air-worthiness of the ill-fated plane belonging to the UY Aviation, the company today said that all necessary requirements and approvals were in place.In a statement...
20:42
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today appealed to all political parties to unite to demand complete statehood for the national capital and announced a city-wide campaign for the same. It's not just the Aam Aadmi Party's fight... All parties should come together to support this...
20:12
Lok Sabha members can ask only up to five questions per day now from the upcoming session of the House instead of 10 allowed till now, said an official release. The Lok Sabha 'Questions Cell' in a bulletin said the members are aware that as per direction 10B of the Lok Sabha speaker, no...
19:53
Britain's Defence Minister Gavin Williamson is reportedly under fire from within the UK Cabinet for turning down a bilateral meeting with his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman, who was due to attend the first-ever UK-India Week, a media report claimed today.The meeting was requested over a...
19:24
Amid coalition worries, the first full-fledged assembly session in Karnataka after the H D Kumaraswamy led Congress-JD-S government came to power willbegin here tomorrow with Governor Vajubhai Vala addressing the joint session.This will be for the third time the fifteenth assembly will be meeting...
19:04
BJP leader Sanjeev Mishra on Sunday announced a bounty of Rs 5 lakh for beheading Mandsaur rape accused.On June 28, an eight-year-old girl was abducted and allegedly raped by an unidentified person before being abandoned at a secluded place in Mandsaur.The BJP leader said if the court fails to...
18:34
JUST IN: Suicide bombing in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan kills 10, including Sikhs, Hindus
18:13
Five persons were killed in Maharashtra's Dhule district today by villagers, who suspected that they were part of a gang of child lifters, police said.The five, along with a few others, were seen getting down from a state transport bus in the tribal Rainpada hamlet, police said.When one of them...
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The Indian side was prepared for escalation -- in case Pakistan chose to do so -- while conceiving and executing the 2016 surgical strikes by crossing the Line of Control along the Jammu and Kashmir border, according to the army general who oversaw the strikes.We had sort of war-gamed all the...
17:35
The Indian side was prepared for escalation -- in case Pakistan chose to do so -- while conceiving and executing the 2016 surgical strikes by crossing the Line of Control along the Jammu and Kashmir border, according to the army general who oversaw the strikes.We had sort of war-gamed all the...
17:13
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday he will visit the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Monday to assess for himself the gravity of the problem.Guterres said that the United Nations intends to ramp up pressure on the government of Myanmar to speed...
16:58
In yet another incident of attack on migrant labourers, two persons were today thrashed by locals in Chennai on suspicion that they were trying to abduct a child, police said. However, the duo was rescued and admitted to a hospital, they said. The incident...
16:34
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti today said she was horrified by the vicious trolling of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on social media and described it as outrageous. Horrified by the vicious trolling @SushmaSwaraj ji has been subjected to....
16:29
Suspected bike-borne terrorists on Sunday fired upon joint naka party of security forces at Pulwama -Sirnoo Road in Pulwama district's Dalipora in Jammu and Kashmir.No casualty and injury have been reported yet.More details are awaited.This comes a day after the security forces gunned down three...
15:47
JUST IN: Tremors felt in Delhi and adjoining areas
15:28
The government has cancelled the export of sheep and goats to the United Arab Emirates that was to begin from the city airport from Saturday, following protests by the members of Jain community.The export project, an initiative of the ministry of commerce and industry, was spearheaded by Rajya...
15:22
A volunteer, working at a community kitchen of Amarnath yatra, died due to cardiac arrest in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said. Bano Bhai Ghadiya, 62, a 'sevadar' (volunteer) from Surat in Gujarat, died at the Nunwan base camp in the Pahalgam area, a police official...
15:03
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today ruled out a single tax rate under the GST, saying Mercedes car and milk cannot be taxed at the same rate and accepting Congress party's demand for a uniform 18 per cent rate would lead to a spike in food and essential items' taxation.Modi said the Goods and...
14:42
After at least four aborted attempts since March 2016, the service tax authorities managed to get a buyer for the confiscated luxury jet of the runway businessman Vijay Mallya, with a Florida-based Aviation Management Sales emerging as the highest bidder for Rs 34.8 crore last Friday, a sourcehas...
14:28
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday raised questions on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence over the black money issue.Addressing the media, Mayawati said, People of the nation want to know why the government, especially the Prime Minister, silent on black money is. Is it because most...
14:04
India is in the process of inducting the first batch of its intercontinental ballistic missile system -- Agni-V -- which will bring targets across China within its range, and is expected to significantly bolster the country's military prowess. The missile system, with a strike range of...
13:49
Priyanka Chopra says women have always been treated as second-class citizens and unlike men, they are forced to adhere to certain standards of beauty. The 35-year-old star believes rather than submitting to the societal norms, women should focus on loving themselves and being confident...
13:21
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram today attacked the government on the first anniversary of the GST regime, claiming it had raised the tax burden on the common man and become a bad word among the people. The design, structure, infrastructure backbone, rate or rates and...
13:08
Crucial issues relating to the publication of final draft of Assam's National Register of Citizens would come up before the Supreme Court tomorrow, days after the NRC state coordinator said it would not be possible to release it as scheduled on June 30 due to floods in state. The NRC...
12:53
The president of the United States, one of the most protected people on the planet and among the least accessible to the public, would seem to be a long-shot target for a prank caller looking to have some fun.But US President Trump, who likes to field his own telephone calls and prefers...
12:34
Forty-four passengers were killed after their bus fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand's Paudi Garhwal district this morning. Three are critically injured.The accident happened on the Pipali-Bhoan motorway in Pauri Garhwal's Nainidanda block. The police and a team from the National Disaster Response...
12:12
The Goods and Services Tax has not delivered on the promised formalisation of the economy as yet, criticised the Congress party on Sunday.This criticism by the Congress comes on the first year anniversary of the implementation of the GST in the country.The Congress took to Twitter today and in a...
11:51
India has moved up to 73rd place in terms of money parked by its citizens and companies with Swiss banks, while the UK remains on the top. India had slipped to 88th place with a 44 per cent plunge in such funds during 2016, but the latest data from the Swiss National Bank shows an increase...
11:13
After remaining suspended for a day due to inclement weather, the Amarnath Yatra resumed today, as the fourth batch of 6,877 pilgrims left for the twin base camps in Kashmir, officials said. The pilgrims, including 1,429 women and 250 sadhus, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here in...
11:05
Father of the eight-year-old Mandsaur rape victim has demanded death sentence for the accused.Speaking to ANI, the father said that he wants nothing, except justice for his daughter.I do not want any compensation. I just want the accused to be hanged till death, he said.Meanwhile, Women and Child...
10:28
Union minister Satyapal Singh on Saturday stood by his claim that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution of man was scientifically wrong and said that as a science student, he believes that his ancestors were not apes. The junior minister in the HRD ministry denounced those who attacked...
10:06
On the first anniversary of the goods and services tax regime, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hailed the tax as a tool that has brought growth, simplicity and transparency. It is boosting formalisation, enhancing productivity, furthering 'Ease of Doing Business', benefitting small and...
09:37
Sri Lanka will move its southern naval headquarters to the Hambantota port which is now leased to China, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday.In his talks with Chinese leaders, Wickremesinghe made it clear that the port will not be allowed to be used for any military purposes, the...
09:28
The Central Board of Direct Taxes on Saturday extended the deadline for the PAN-Aadhaar linking to March 31 next year. This is the fifth time the government has extended the deadline for individuals to link their Permanent Account Number to their biometric ID, Aadhaar. The...
09:22
In a shocking incident, 11 bodies were found inside a house in Delhi's Burari on Sunday morning.According to reports, the bodies were found hanging with their mouths and eyes gagged. The dead include seven women and four men of the same family, the police said.Police teams were at the spot...
08:30
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Indresh Kumar said that the surgical strikes sent a message to Pakistan that India can enter Lahore anytime. Delivering a lecture on the present situation in the country, he said that security forces eliminated about 300 terrorists under the...
