23:32
Taking Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's #HumFitTohIndiaFit campaign forward, Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Wednesday gave a fitness challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, star cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and his wife and actress Anushka Sharma.In a...
23:19
A German company has apologised after posting an image of a chocolate-covered marshmallow sweet in a bridal dress on the day of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.Super Dickmann's post of a Schokokuss (chocolate kiss) included the caption: What are you looking at? Wouldn't you also...
22:38
While the oath-taking ceremony of Janata Dal-Secular's HD Kumaraswamy was a display of the Opposition's unity, sources suggest that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was not entirely happy with the traffic arrangements made for the big day.As per sources, Mamata was forced to walk a...
22:07
In an apparent swipe at the Centre, former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today said a muscular policy on Kashmir is a brainless one as muscles do not have brain.Speaking at an event to launch a book, written jointly by former chiefs of intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan - A S Dulat and Asad...
21:15
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly is scheduled to meet on May 25 for the floor test of the newlyformed Congress-JD(S) coalition government headed by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.The adjourned meeting of the first session of the newly constituted 15th assembly has been convened to meet at 12.15...
20:37
Indian Army Major Leetul Gogoi, who became front-page news for tying a civilian to the bonnet of his vehicle in Badgam district last year, was today detained by Jammu and Kashmir Police from a hotel with a local girl. The major was later taken to the police station from where he was handed over...
20:17
Pakistan's Deputy High Commissioner Syed Haider Shah was today summoned and a strong protest was lodged over the killing of a seven-month-old infant in unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistani forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Bhimber sector. The MEA said it was conveyed to Shah that the...
19:48
The historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong un is set to take place on June 12, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told lawmakers today.Testifying before a powerful Congressional committee, Pompeo identified de-nuclearisation of North Korea as one of the top...
19:11
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated H D Kumaraswamy on taking oath as the Karnataka chief minister and extended his best wishes on his new assignment. I congratulate Shri @hd_kumaraswamy Ji and @DrParameshwara ji on taking oath as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief...
19:01
Neighbouring districts of Kozhikode and Mallappuram in Kerala have been put on high alert by a central health ministry team sent to the state in the wake of the outbreak of Nipah virus, which has already led to at least 11 deaths. In an advisory, the central team has also asked for...
18:33
Janata Dal-Secular leader HD Kumaraswamy took oath as Karnataka chief minister on Wednesday, a week after the state election threw up a hung assembly and resulted in BJPs BS Yeddyurappa serving as chief minister for a little over two days.The ceremony was attended by a host of...
18:01
The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will end next week, the country's transport minister said Wednesday, more than four years after the plane disappeared in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished in March 2014 with 239 people -- mostly...
17:35
As the JD-S made a grand comeback in Karnataka politics after over a decade of political isolation with HD Kumaraswamy taking oath as the state's 24th chief minister at the Vidhana Soudha, on Wednesday evening, the focus was as much on him as the line-up of Opposition...
17:11
The non-BJP leaders who lent heft to Kumaraswamy's big day today: CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury, NCP president Sharad Pawar, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,...
17:03
Earlier today, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee expressed their willingness to work together with HD Kumaraswamy. We've come here to witness the swearing-in of HD Kumaraswamy and express our solidarity to him. In the future, we'll...
16:47
CPM's D Raja gives Congress Party's DK Shivakumar a hug.
16:45
Almost the entire Opposition is on stage waving to the crowds. Quite a line-up. Raising their arms up in unison, probably the only leader missing is the Odisha's Naveen Patnaik. Mamata and Mayawati being led to the front of the stage; the leaders have their hands around each other. Is this what...
16:39
All the bitterness of the past week is buried as Kumaraswamy presents a bouquet of flowers to Governor Vajubhai Vala after taking oath as Chief Minister of Karnataka at Vidhana Soudha.
16:37
Kumaraswamy sworn-in as Karnataka CM. Karnataka Congress president G Parameshwara has also been sworn-in as the deputy chief minister.Congresss Ramesh Kumar, a former minister, will be the next Assembly speaker, while the deputy speakers post will go to the JD-S, Venugopal told PTI.The...
16:33
If that's the warmth Sonia, Rahul and Mayawati share, a 3rd front can be ra reality.
16:29
WB CM Mamata Banerjee talks to HD Deve Gowda
16:28
HD Kumaraswamy arrives on the dais for his swearing-in ceremony.
16:23
The lady in the yellow sari is HD Deve Gowda's wife Chennamma
16:22
Akhilesh gets a hug from Deve Gowda.
16:19
Less than 15 minutes to go for the swearing-in ceremony of HD Kumaraswamy. BSP's Mayawati and SP's Akhilesh Yadav wave to the crowds. This is a historic photograph, since they have never shared the dais. The swearing-in ceremony of Karnataka Chief Minister-designate H.D. Kumaraswamy will be used...
15:59
Prep at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru for HD Kumaraswamy's swearing-in ceremony which should take place in 30 minutes.
15:32
Just in: Sterlite protests: One person dead, 3 injured in fresh violence at Anna Nagar in Thoothukudi.
15:31
The Opposition converges in Bengaluru for the oath taking ceremony of HD Kumaraswamy as the next CM of Karnataka. So far, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi,...
14:47
In the wake of the anti-Sterlite protests which took place on Tuesday in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi claimed that the protestors were killed for rejecting Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's ideologies.Tamilians have been massacred because they refused to accept Rashtriya...
14:41
Amnesty International has said that it has evidence that Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) killed around 99 Hindu civilians in August 2017.Masked ARSA fighters killed scores of Hindus near a remote village named Kha Maung Seik, after launching the...
14:39
Six civilians were injured in a grenade attack in Anantnag's Bijbehara. The area is cordoned off.
14:38
Heavy rains coupled with thunderstorm today affected road traffic as well as train services in Odisha, officials said. The regional meteorological centre said a cloud mass that had formed near the Odisha-West Bengal border was moving southwards, triggering heavy rains in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and...
14:13
And here's NCP chief Sharad Pawar. HD Kumaraswamy will be the second Chief Minister to take oath in Karnataka within a week, after BS Yeddyurappa stepped down without facing the floor test on May 19 in the face of an imminent defeat.
14:13
CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury also in Bengaluru as Kumaraswamy set to take oath as Karnataka CM at 4:30 pm today.
14:05
Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav arrives in Bengaluru.
14:00
Countdown begins for HD Kumaraswamy's swearing-in. Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee have reached Bengaluru. Speaking to ANI, Naidu says, We've come here to witness the swearing-in ceremony of HD Kumaraswamy and express our solidarity with him. In future we'll work...
13:48
A Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Air Force carrying two passengers and two aircrews crash-landed during a routine sortie from Jammu to Natha Top at 9:50 am today. All aircrew and passengers safe. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident.
13:35
They should have spoken to the Sterlite protestors when they were sitting in the villages. They should not have waited for them to come to Tuticorin. What started off as a lone village grumbling about ground water pollution on Tuesday turned into a battlefield. reports A Ganesh Nadar. Full report...
13:26
National Human Rights Commission issues a notice to the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary and Director general of police over the police firing during the anti-Sterlite protest in Thoothukudi that claimed 11 lives, seeks report within two weeks.The Tamil Nadu government today appointed a one-person...
13:00
Sterlite Copper today said its factory in Tuticorin district is currently non-functional and the company is awaiting approval from the authorities to resume operations at the site. At least 9 people were killed, according to PTI (news agency ANI puts the figure at 11, while TV channels puts the...
12:52
Amid rising criticism over steep hike in fuel prices, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today claimed it was possible to cut up to Rs 25 per litre in petrol prices but the government will not do so. In a series of tweets, the former finance minister said the bonanza to central government is Rs...
12:41
Retired Judge Aruna Jagadeesan appointed by the Tamil Nadu government to probe the police firing during the anti-Sterlite protests in Thoothukudi that claimed 11 lives.
12:29
Shares of Vedanta fell 6 per cent today on reports that nine people were killed in police firing after protests against the closure of Vedanta group's Sterlite Copper plant turned violent in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin. After opening the day on a weak note, the stock further lost 5.80 per cent to...
11:58
DMK calls for an all-party protest on May 25 over the deaths of 11 people killed in police firing during protests against Sterlite industries yesterday in Tamil Nadu. At the General Hospital in Thoothukudi, relatives of patients injured in the violence at the Sterlite protests ask Kamal Haasan to...
11:47
Update on the Sterlite agitation: The Home Ministry has sought a report from the Tamil Nadu government over the Thoothukudi incident where 11 people were killed yesterday in police firing during protests against Sterlite industries.The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has stayed...
11:21
The Uttar Pradesh cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday approved the introduction of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks in the Madrasa Board.NCERT books in Urdu, Hindi and English languages will be introduced to give students a...
11:16
The Kerala cabinet is set to offer a government job to the husband of the nurse who died treating Nipah Virus patients. Lini Puthussery's two sons will get a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each. The Kerala government has also announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakhs to the kin of the other victims....
11:13
A bizarre story if there is one. Students of Kasturba Gandhi school on Tuesday accused their warden of dressing up as a ghost and molesting them at night.The girls also alleged that the warden walks around the premises mysteriously and touches them inappropriately....
10:56
For the past few years, like several female journalists critical of the Hindu nationalist politics and government, I have been targeted by an apparently coordinated social media campaign that slut-shames, deploys manipulated images with sexually explicit language, and threatens rape. Mr. Modi and...
10:47
Pakistani troops violated ceasefire in the RS Pura sector in Jammu and Kashmir today damaging houses and cars. No casualties have been reported. However, 2 civilians were killed and 3 injured in heavy shelling and firing by Pakistani Rangers on civilians areas along the IB in...
10:14
A warm, personal, tweet from the President. @rashtrapatibhvn tweeted this picture yesterday writing, Took my grandchildren to a bookshop in Shimla; bought them books for their summer holiday reading. Happy to experience the spreading digital payments culture in our country #PresidentKovind.
10:07
Undeterred by the failure in its electoral ventures in Gujarat and Karnataka, the Samajwadi Party is all geared up to contest all 230 seats in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls scheduled later this year. Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav was on a three-day visit from May 18 to MP during which he made...
09:55
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is in Mumbai today. He was admitted to to the Asian Heart Hospital for treatment of heart and kidney related ailments.The RJD chief was accompanied by son Tej Pratap, daughter Misa...
09:45
About 150,000-200,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar are at risk from flooding and landslides during the monsoon season, the UN has said. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said yesterday that more than 7,000 Rohingya refugees were affected by...
09:39
One dead, two injured after heavy shelling from Pakistan in Kathua's Hiranagar sector.Yesterday, an eight-month old baby died after he was hit by a bullet in Akhnoor. The baby died instantly. ANI reported that the baby was struck by the bullet during cross-LoC firing by Pakistani troopers in the...
09:25
Novelist Philip Roth, a dominant force in American literature throughout the latter half of the 20th century, has died, US media said late Tuesday. He was 85 years old. The New Yorker magazine first reported the death of Roth, who won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his acclaimed novel...
08:55
Former union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Bandaru Dattatreya's 21-year-old son died of a massive heart attack last night.Bandaru Vaishnav was a third year medical student. According to NDTV, Vaishnav was reportedly having dinner with his family at their Ramnagar residence in...
08:44
The United States is committed to achieving denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and creating conditions such that the North Korean regime no longer threatens the world, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said.Pompeo made the comments after attending a White House meeting between President...
08:32
A Janat Dal-Secular-Congress coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy will be sworn-in today in Karnataka at a ceremony attended by a galaxy of opposition leaders and chief ministers, a development that could plant a seed for a broad-based anti-Bharatiya Janata Party platform before the Lok...
00:41
The fate of the much-awaited June 12 Singapore summit between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un loomed large as the United States President met his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in at the White House on Tuesday.As he welcomed Moon in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that...
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