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After a gap of two years, the Congress has decided to hold Iftar on June 13 with party President Rahul Gandhi playing host to a galaxy of leaders who are likely to attend the event. For Rahul Gandhi this will be the first occasion to host an Iftar since he took charge as the Congress...
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Romania's Simona Halep was third time lucky as she edged American Sloane Stephens to win the French Open women's singles title at Roland Garros.Playing her third French Open final, the World No 1 rallied from a set down to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 and claim her maiden grand slam title.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation for a Wuhan-style informal summit in India next year, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said in Qingdao today. The two leaders had their first informal summit in the Chinese city of Wuhan on April 27-28 to...
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It is all systems go for the summit between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Singapore is ensuring that there would be no last-minute spoilers or difficulties for the historic meeting, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan today.Balakrishnan, who visited...
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27 flights were diverted between 5 pm and 6 pm in New Delhi due to rain and dust storm. Normalcy of operations have been restored at Indira Gandhi International Airport, ANI reports.
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The Congress today demanded an investigation into reports that the Maoists planned to assassinate the prime minister and made it clear that the issue should not be politicised. Any threat received by anyone against the prime minister, howsoever suspicious the threat is,...
19:13
A severe dust storm hit Delhi this evening, as the weather took a sudden turn. The weatherman said light rain was witnessed in many areas. The dust storm, with winds gusting up to 70 kmph, pushed the temperature down by a few notches on what was a sultry day. According to reports....
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The Afghan Taliban has announced a three-day ceasefire over the Eid holiday, two days after the Afghan government-announced ceasefire.However, the militant group warned that it would strongly defend itself if attacked, and will retaliate against any aggression initiated during the...
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Former United States President Barack Obama took to Twitter to pay a touching tribute to the globetrotting celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain who apparently committed suicide in a hotel room in France. Obama shared a photo of the celebrated USD 6 lunch he shared with Bourdain at a Hanoi...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader B S Yeddyurappa today claimed that several disgruntled leaders from the ruling Congress and Janata Dal-Secular are eager to join his party. Yeddyurappa's comments come as dissident activities of the MLAs intensified in the Congress over not getting...
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today alleged that the Central Bureua of Investigation and the Anti Corruption Branch have started random picking of files from the Delhi Jal Board, of which he is the minister-in-charge, to somehow frame him in something. In a series of tweets, Kejriwal...
18:08
Two men, suspected of being child lifters, were lynched by unidentified people in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, police said. Nilotpal Das, 29, a sound engineer based in Mumbai and his friend Abhijeet Nath, 30, a businessman had gone to the picnic spot Kangthilangso in Karbi Anglong last...
17:48
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Qingdao and the two leaders discussed a range of topics to further strengthen the bilateral ties.Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Shavkat Mirziyoyev...
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After the Congress, disgruntlement is brewing in coalition partner the Janata Dal-Secular too as two senior ministers from the party are said to be miffed over the portfolios allotted to them following the recent cabinet expansion. JD-S sources said G T Deve Gowda, who has been...
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The Congress today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise to the country for his remarks during the Gujarat election last year that his predecessor Manmohan Singh and other party members had colluded with Pakistan to influence the poll results. Party spokesperson Pawan...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Chinese President Xi Jinping soon after his arrival in Chinese port city, Qingdao, where the two leaders are to take stock of the progress in the implementation of decisions they had taken at their first informal summit in Wuhan.The meeting took place on the...
16:02
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Secretary General Rashid Alimov today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed various issues relating to the bloc's activities and India's contributions to it.The meeting came hours after Modi landed in this picturesque coastal city of China's...
15:51
Union Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Choubey, today said that the Nipah virus has been contained and there was no need to run away from Kerala, where it originated.He said that though 17 deaths due to the virus have been reported from Kerala, no fresh cases of infection were filed.There...
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Six persons were injured in a clash between members of two communities in Godhra following an argument over a traffic-related issue, the police said today. The incident took place in the Khadi Falia locality late last night. Two groups belonging to different communities clashed...
14:57
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath meets Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt at former's official residence in Lucknow as a part of Bharatiya Janata Party's 'Sampark for Samarthan' initiative.
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Four suspected criminals carrying rewards on their head were shot dead in an encounter with Delhi police's Special Cell in south Delhi's Chhatarpur area today, a senior official said.Three police personnel also sustained injuries, he said.The accused, suspected to be members of the Rajesh Bharti...
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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has handed over the keys of the official bungalow allotted to him on Vikramaditya Marg in Lucknow to the Uttar Pradesh estate department, an official said. The move comes after the Supreme Court on May 7 observed that former Uttar Pradesh chief...
14:44
David and Victoria Beckham have denied the divorce rumours, labelling them as nonsense. A representative for Victoria shut down the reports in statement to E! online, This is nonsense. Victoria also posted a message to her husband on Instagram saying she loves and...
14:06
Apparently not satisfied with her Class X marks, a 16-year-old city girl allegedly committed suicide in Maharashtra's Nashik.Sakshi Eknath Bendkule, a resident of Panchavati, hanged herself in her house yesterday afternoon, hours after the declaration of the results of the Class X exams of the...
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Senior Congress leader and former Union minister L P Shahi died early today at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He was 98. Shahi, who hailed from Bihar, was a freedom fighter and a former CWC member. He was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in...
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People use a rubber dinghy to ferry themselves across a waterlogged road at Hindamata in Mumbai's Parel area. Photograph: Sahil Salvi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in China's Qingdao to attend the two-day long 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit meeting. Modi will also hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit, where they will take stock of the implementation...
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Vehicles wade through waterlogged road at Mahim. Photograph: ANI
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As predicted by the Indian Meteorological Department, Mumbai received a fresh round of rainfall today.Waterlogging has been reported in several parts of city particularly in Mahim, Worli and Hindmata.Local trains are also running late.The trains on Central Railways suburban are running with delay...
11:58
A dominant India sailed into the final of the women's Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament with a seven-wicket drubbing of arch-rivals Pakistan in their last round robin match Kuala Lumpur today. Electing to bat after winning the toss, Pakistan were restricted to 72 for seven in the allotted...
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More than two weeks after 13 people were killed in police firing during anti-Sterlite protests in Turicorin, two deputy tahsildars who allegedly gave the order to the force to open fire, have been transferred. Deputy tahsildars Kannan and Sekar were transferred to Kayathaaru and...
10:54
A major fire broke out in an old building in South Mumbai early today and a part of it collapsed, injuring two fire brigade personnel, an official said.The fire brigade personnel were injured when a portion of the building, called Kothari building (also known as Light Of Asia), collapsed during...
10:52
JNU student leader Umar Khalid has filed a complaint with the Delhi police, alleging that he has received death threats from a man who identified himself as fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari, a senior official said today. Dalit leader and Independent MLA from Gujarat Jignesh Mevani too had...
10:34
Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir has stated that the country's security forces will make sure that the alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not succeed. Security forces of the country will never let anything like this (assassination plot) happen. The...
09:49
Kerala Congress-M has decided to field its leader Jose K Mani as the candidate of the Congress-led UDF for the Rajya Sabha election. The decision to field Mani as its candidate to the Upper House of Parliament was taken at a meeting of KC-M leaders held last night in Pala, hours after the...
09:33
Former Rajya Sabha MP and ex-Goa Congress chief Shantaram Naik died after suffering a heart attack today, party officials said. Naik, 72, was taken to a private hospital in Margao town from his residence after he complained of uneasiness, where he was declared brought dead, Goa Pradesh...
09:27
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday morning departed for China's Qingdao to attend the two-day long 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit meeting. On Friday, the prime minister posted a message regarding the summit on his official Facebook account. The SCO has a rich...
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The Communist Party of India-Marxist said on Friday that it was open to form alliance with all political parties opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar and in other states if it is offered a 'respectable' share of seats in the Lok Sabha election next year.CPI-M General Secretary...
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