23:46
Veteran politician Amar Singh met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today, triggering speculation in political circles that he might be planning to join the BJP. Though the meeting was confirmed by official sources, it was not immediately known what transpired between...
23:27
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today held the BJP responsible for increasing number of lynching incidents in the country and said that instead of merely condemning them, the saffron party should control its leaders. Rajnath-ji (Union home minister) condemned the incident in...
23:11
A Goa BJP spokesperson on Monday called Congress president Rahul Gandhi a loafer for winking in Parliament, a day after the state Congress chief called Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar a kathputli for bowing to unreasonable demands of ruling coalition allies in the coastal state.Rahul Gandhi, who...
22:34
US President Donald Trump today slammed the Washington Post daily for being biased in its coverage of his administration and accused it of being nothing more than a lobbyist for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who now owns the newspaper.“The Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me ever since...
22:16
Pakistan's powerful army assisted by a partisan judiciary is blatantly meddling the July 25 elections, the country's top former envoy to the US has alleged.Over 12,570 candidates, including a number of hardline clerics, are contesting the elections to the parliament and four provincial...
21:48
The Election Commission today adjourned for August 20 its hearing on a plea to disqualify 20 Delhi AAP MLAs for allegedly holding office of profit as they moved the Delhi High Court challenging the poll panel decision rejecting their demand to cross examine the petitioner who had sought...
21:29
In yet another move to stem the spread of fake news and misinformation through its instant messaging app, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is testing a label, which marks “unusual” links sent on chats as “suspicious”.The company is testing this feature in a beta version of its Android app, in a...
21:11
David Headley, Pakistani-American convicted in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is battling for his life after being attacked by two inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.Headley was reportedly attacked on July 8 by two other inmates as he had been a double agent working with...
20:40
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will gift 200 cows in a symbolic gesture to a village in Rwanda, his first stop in a five-day, three-nation tour of Africa which begins Monday.The locally sourced cows will be a contribution to Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s flagship programme Girinka in which the...
20:13
Bharatiya Janata Party leader T Raja Singh said that he did not say anything wrong in the video he had released in the wake of the Alwar lynching incident.In the video, Singh had stirred controversy when he said that incidents like the Alwar lynching happen in the name of protecting cows, adding...
20:11
Author and columnist Rakesh Sinha, who was recently nominated to Rajya Sabha by the President, joins BJP
19:44
At a time when the Alwar police is facing flak for not timely attending the lynching victim, the kin of the deceased on Monday said they don't doubt the police.We do not doubt the police at all. We want justice and severe punishment should be given to those who killed him, Ilyas Khan, brother of...
19:16
The Union finance ministry has invited bids to auction one of the three properties of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his family located on the Pakmodia Street in Mumbai.With a reserve price of Rs 79.43 lakh, the auction for the Masulla Building in the Bhendi Bazaar area in central part of the...
19:10
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the central government is open to further review of the goods and services tax rates of different items as it has just reduced taxes of 88 consumer-centric products such as refrigerators, washing machines and sanitary napkins.Inaugurating the National...
18:51
Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over incidents of mob lynching, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena today said cows were safer than women in the country.We are a part of the government but if something is wrong, we will definitely talk about it. We are friends of...
18:30
The Madras high court today quashed a look out circular (LOC) issued by the Central Bureau of Investigation against Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union minister P Chidambaram, in connection with the INX Media case.A bench comprising Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose gave...
18:07
JUST IN: Centre to set up a high-level committee headed by Union home secretary to prepare a report on incidents of mob lynching.The government has also decided to constitute a Group of Ministers headed by the Union home minister to consider recommendation of the high-level committee.They will...
18:00
A two-month-long campaign by candidates and political parties for Pakistan's general election on Wednesday will come to an end at midnight tonight amid low voter enthusiasm and a tense security situation.The Election Commission of Pakistan said as per rules the campaign must end at midnight so...
17:32
Attacking Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his 'brutal new India' comments against the Modi government, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal today called him a 'merchant of hate' and accused him of dividing the society for electoral gains.Gandhi, in a tweet, on the lynching incident in Rajasthan...
17:01
The Bombay high court expressed annoyance today over the non-functioning of the Debts Recovery Tribunal, whose premises in Mumbai were closed following a fire over a month ago, and sought to know 'if the finance minister of the country was sleeping' over the shutdown of a key body.The court said...
16:47
Gitanjali Gems promoter Mehul Choksi, a key accused in the multi-crore PNB scam, today moved a special court in Mumbai seeking cancellation of non-bailable warrants issued against him, claiming that he apprehends mob lynching if he is brought to India.A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act...
16:16
Just In: Sensex climbs 222.23 pts to close at fresh life-time high of 36,718.60; Nifty gains 74.55 pts to end at 11,084.75.
16:01
RJD National Spokesperson Shankar Charan Tripathi has been expelled from the party.Tripathi had criticized Rahul Gandhi for hugging PM Modi in Lok Sabha during #NoConfidenceMotion debate.
15:55
BJP president Amit Shah is seriously considering the dissolution of the Maharashtra Assembly. If that does go through, Maharashtra will also go to the polls this year along with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhatisgarh.The Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP at the Centre and the state, shares a...
15:43
Deepika Padukone is the newest addition at Madame Tussauds with her wax figure set for attractions in London and Delhi The team of Madame Tussauds expert artistes met Deepika in London for the sitting for her figures, where they took over 200 specific measurements, photographs to create an...
15:27
The lynching of a man in Rajasthan's Alwar district was today raised in the Lok Sabha by a Congress MP, triggering protests from BJP members. Karan Singh Yadav of the Congress raised the issue during Zero Hour and said it was the fourth such incident in the state. Those who claimed to be...
15:05
The Rajasthan police today set up a high-level committee to probe the allegations of delay against the Alwar police in taking Akbar Khan to a hospital after he was allegedly lynched by a group of people of suspicion of cow smuggling. Allegations of delay in taking Khan to the hospital and...
15:05
The Rajasthan police today set up a high-level committee to probe the allegations of delay against the Alwar police in taking Akbar Khan to a hospital after he was allegedly lynched by a group of people of suspicion of cow smuggling. Allegations of delay in taking Khan to the hospital and...
14:57
The figure of 325 to 126 is a vote of no-confidence -- against the Opposition, of course. Given these numbers it was not clear to what end the issue had been moved in the Lok Sabha, and nobody was surprised at the vote. Other than the Shiv Sena (and we will look at what its intent is later)...
14:49
I will take tuition from you, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today told TMC leader and Professor Saugata Roy as they differed over the use of the word 'predatory journals' in the Lok Sabha.The minister's remarks came while responding to supplementary questions related to academic journals.During...
14:20
And off he goes on his 42nd trip. The PM is now travelling to Rwanda. Narendra Modi will undertake a state visit to three African countries, namely Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa, over five days, starting today.The Prime Minister will first arrive at Rwanda, marking the first ever visit by an...
14:13
India placed the (Rafale) order, primarily due to the IAF's 'critical operational necessity'. The complexity of the IAF's requirements delayed the process for months. It is these requirements which cannot be made public. Can you image Indian politicians publicly discussing the pros and the cons...
14:11
The Congress today said there was no clause in a 2008 pact between India and France that prevents the government from divulging price details of the Rafale deal. Former defence minister and senior Congress leader A K Antony said the government's claim that a secrecy clause in the pact was...
13:49
Muzaffarpur shelter home alleged rape case: Digging starts in shelter home premises after statement of one of the victims that a girl was beaten to death and buried in the premises after a disagreement with staff members. Out of the 21 reports of medical examination that have been...
13:19
Omar Abdullah @OmarAbdullah tweets: You know the world has been turned upside down when the Shiv Sena starts sounding more reasonable than the BJP.This is what Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said: Don't accept the idea of Hindutva that is being adhered to in the country. Our women are unsafe...
13:14
And that's another picture of the meeting with Lata didi. When was the last time we saw Amit Shah beaming?
13:11
Anyone seeing the picture alongside would assume the second most powerful person in India had called on Lata didi merely to brief her about the BJP's programmes, as he has been doing around the country, accompanied as he was by Maharashtra's CM and the state BJP chief.But after the political...
13:04
Rahul Gandhi' @RahulGandhi tweets, Policemen in #Alwar took 3 hrs to get a dying Rakbar Khan, the victim of a lynch mob, to a hospital just 6 KM away. Why? They took a tea-break en route. This is Modi's brutal New India' where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed and left...
12:14
A donation of Rs 1 crore has been made to the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala by the chairman of tech major HCL, Shiv Nadar. Nadar handed over a demand draft for Rs 1,00,00,001 to a temple official on Sunday night after offering prayers at the shrine, TTD public...
12:05
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on August 28 the pleas seeking contempt action against the Rajasthan government in the recent mob lynching case at Alwar. In the contempt pleas filed by Tushar Gandhi and Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala, they alleged that incidents of mob...
12:01
The Supreme Court today said there cannot be a complete ban on holding protests and sit-ins at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, and asked the Centre to frame guidelines for according sanctions to such events. A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said there was a need for...
11:48
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today skipped the annual puja at the Lord Vitthal Temple in Maharashtra's Pandharpur town due to protest threats by Marathas and instead performed rituals at his home in Mumbai.Fadnavis performed the puja at his home around 4 am.As part of a...
11:34
TDP MPs protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament over special category status to Andhra Pradesh and implementation of AP re-organizing Act.
11:29
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12:00 noon after uproar in the house on Anand Sharma's comment on Central Investigation agencies.
11:29
United States President Donald Trump today warned Iran of consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered, if it threatens the US. Never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever...
11:25
NASA is on schedule to launch mankind's first mission to the Sun, a car sized probe that will swoop to within 4 million miles of the solar surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before. The Parker Solar Probe, which is expected to take off no earlier than August 6...
10:33
A woman has died and a young girl is in critical condition after a gunman opened fire Sunday night in the Toronto neighborhood known as Greektown, police said. Thirteen people were injured and the gunman has also died, police say. Witnesses told the Toronto Star that a man dressed in...
10:07
Facing criticism, the Election Commission of Pakistan has restricted the magisterial powers of military personnel set to be deployed at the polling stations during the July 25 general elections. The ECP had issued a notification on July 10, giving extended powers to the armed forces...
09:55
Toronto police says nine people have been shot and the shooter is dead after a gunman opened fire in city's Greektown. Toronto police tweets that the condition of the victims is not known yet and said a young girl is one of the victims. They say the dead shooter is not among the nine...
09:45
A leading jewellery chain has withdrew a one-and-a-half minute long advertisement featuring bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and his daughter after it came under attack from a bank union which said it was aimed atcreating 'distrust' in the banking system. We sincerely regret...
09:42
Justice Madan B Lokur, the chairman of the Supreme Court Juvenile Justice Committee, has said that juvenile convicts cannot be handed down capital punishment in every case pertaining to heinous crimes such as rape and murder. He said judgement in such cases had to be delivered on the basis...
09:21
A number of people have been shot in Toronto, Canadian media report, quoting police.Reports say that the shooting began outside a restaurant on Danforth Avenue near Logan Avenue in Greektown, TorontoUnconfirmed reports say that as many as 10 people were shot. Their condition was not...
08:49
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said it was safer to be a cow than a Muslim at many places in India, remarks that may trigger a controversy. Tharoor's remarks comes close on the heels of his Hindu Pakistan statement that invited criticism from his political opponents.Why BJP Ministers'...
08:39
United States President Donald Trump claimed that his predecessor, Barack Obama, was aware of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential polls before the elections itself.Trump lashed out at Obama on Twitter, asking why the latter did not alert anyone about the same.So President Obama knew...
08:31
Five people have died in a massive fire that broke out in a residential complex in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi. LPG cylinder blast seems to be the reason behind the fire, Rajiv Kumar, ADM Mandi, said.Many people are feared trapped in the building at Ner Chowk in Mandi, say district...
08:21
German footballer Mesut Ozil on Sunday announced his retirement from the national team, in the wake of the controversy surrounding his recent meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Ozil was heavily criticised after he, along with his teammate, Ilkay Gundogan, who has Turkish...
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