23:53
Donald Trump played Santa Claus on Tuesday, telling reporters he was delaying tariffs on Chinese imports to avoid any adverse impact on US shoppers before the festive season.Were doing this for the Christmas season, Trump told reporters.Grateful shoppers, however, should not leave purchases of...
23:22
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dumped former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayees famous policy on Jammu and Kashmir by scrapping the special status granted to the border state under Article 370 of the Constitution.Vajpayee, who was prime minister from...
22:59
Multi-layered security arrangements are in place for the 73rd Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on August 15, officials said on Tuesday. In view of the Centre abrogating the constitutional provisions that...
22:29
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he hoped no one would be killed in Hong Kong amid new protests capping 10 weeks of unrest in the semi-autonomous southern Chinese financial hub. The crisis, which has seen millions of anti-government activists take to Hong Kong's streets, was a...
22:01
Tensions ran high as police dressed in riot gear clashed with protesters at the international airport in Hong Kong. Protesters, who have been demonstrating at the airport for the second consecutive day, had barricaded themselves inside the premises as the police descended at the airport,...
21:19
Commonwealth Games Federation Louise Martin has insisted that shooting will not be a part of the 2022 edition to be held in Birmingham.Martin said that shooting has never been a compulsory sport in Commonwealth Games. A sport has to earn the right to be in the Games, said Martin. Shooting...
21:06
Setting the stage for organisational revamp in the party, the BJP announced on Tuesday elections of its state unit presidents and national council members between December 1-15. The party said in a statement that its national election panel headed by former Union minister Radha Mohan...
20:50
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated on Tuesday a special dynamic system of over 800 LED lights that have been installed on the facade of Parliament House to enhance the building's grandeur. According to Lok Sabha secretariat officials, 875 LED lights, which will change colour every few...
20:48
Days after calling reports on an unrest in Saura region of Jammu and Kashmir, the Ministry of Home Affairs has acknowledged that an incident of stone pelting did take place in Saura on 9 August which later sparked unrest.On 09/08, miscreants mingled with people returning home after prayers at a...
20:20
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday sternly told Pakistan Minister Fawad Chaudhry to not interfere in India's internal matter after he made a provocative statement about the Indian Army. Singh, who served in the Indian Army in the 1960s, told the minister in the Imran...
19:48
J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik's office said Rahul Gandhi was responding to fake news possibly spread from across the border about the situation in Kashmir, which is peaceful with negligible incidents.It also said that the Congress leader can check for himself from various Indian channels which...
19:05
Former finance minister Arun Jaitley, who was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences on August 9, is still in the hospital's ICU and is critical, but haemodynamically stable, sources said on Tuesday. A hemodynamically stable patient has a stable heart pump and good blood...
18:42
The Delhi high court on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the release of movie Batla House on August 15 after the film makers agreed to certain modifications. Justice Vibhu Bakhru passed the consent order and said the film makers are bound by their statement and disposed of the petition.The film...
18:23
Jammu and Kashmir administration will host a three-day global investors summit from October 12 in Srinagar. The summit will provide J-K an opportunity to showcase its strengths, strategies and potential, Principal Secretary Industries Naveen Choudhary told reporters here.It will also...
17:59
CPI general-secretary D Raja Tuesday wrote to Home Minister Amit Shah, highlighting the plight of students of Jammu and Kashmir staying away from home. Urging Shah to help the students, Raja said students were facing financial and security issues and many of them have been unable to...
17:40
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday said it is hopeful of further relaxations in the security clampdown after the dress rehearsal for the August 15 Independence Day celebrations conclude in various districts.Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal told a press conference here that while...
17:36
Indian Meteorological Department: An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on Richter scale struck Jammu & Kashmir at 4:20 pm, today.
17:18
At a press conference, Anand Sharma said, The government should take initiative and start a political dialogue in which all the Opposition parties of the country take it into confidence. Let a group go there so that the situation there can be understood. Also, leaders who are held, including...
16:55
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has praised the flood-hit people of his Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, saying the bravery and dignity displayed by them in the face of tragedy was truly humbling. I left Wayanad with nothing but pride for the people I represent, Gandhi wrote...
16:37
Hundreds of flights were cancelled or suspended at Hong Kong's airport on Tuesday as pro-democracy protesters staged a second day of hugely disruptive rallies, defying warnings from the city's leader who said they were heading down a path of no return.The new protest came as Beijing also sent...
16:14
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today said that rule were not followed while nullifying the Article 370 and the moves is 'completely unconstitutional'.The manner in which it has been done is completely unconstitutional and it's against all the principles of democracy. There are...
15:33
The restrictions imposed in Jammu and Kashmir on people's movement and communications may continue for some more days and any decision on lifting them will be taken by the local administration, a top government official said on Tuesday. Political leaders like former chief ministers Omar...
15:29
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday condoled the demise of former union minister Sushma Swaraj, describing her as an affable person with a humane touch who won the hearts of all by helping Indians in distress abroad. Swaraj (67) passed away on August 6 at AIIMS following a cardiac arrest. The...
15:18
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday filed nomination papers for the bypoll to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. Singh filed the nomination papers in the chamber of the returning officer in the Rajasthan assembly, sources said.He was accompanied by Rajasthan chief minister Ashok...
15:04
Former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has invested in tech-enabled used car firm CARS24, the company said on Tuesday. As part of the partnership, Dhoni will own equity in the company and will become its brand ambassador, CARS24 said in a statement. The size of deal was...
14:45
The Election Commission on Tuesday held informal discussions on the proposed delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir where assembly polls are to be held. Sources in the poll panel said, the ministry of home affairs is yet to formally write to the EC to carry out the delimitation...
14:45
Liam Hemsworth on Tuesday broke his silence on his split from Miley Cyrus saying he wished the singer health and happiness. The 29-year-old actor took to Instagram to speak out about the couple's separation barely seven months after they tied the knot in a private ceremony.Hi all, just a...
14:43
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday said it is hopeful of further relaxations in the security clampdown after the dress rehearsal for the August 15 Independence Day celebrations conclude. Principal secretary Rohit Kansal told a press conference in Srinagar that while...
14:37
Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat on Tuesday said the armed forces are prepared to deal with any security challenge along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, and downplayed reports of additional deployment by Pakistan in the area. The assessment is that should anything go wrong,...
14:24
Metro train services will continue to run normally on August 15, with restrictions on entry and exit at some of the stations on the Violet Line, officials said Tuesday. All metro stations will remain open on Independence Day but parking at the stations will be closed from 6 am on August 14...
14:06
The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to pass any immediate directions to the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government on a plea seeking lifting of all restrictions imposed after the abrogation of Article 370. The apex court said that it will wait for return of normalcy and take up the...
13:50
As many as 10 MLAs of the Sikkim Democratic Front joined the BJP on Tuesday, propelling the saffron party to the status of the main opposition in a state where it had not won a single seat in the recent assembly polls. The MLAs met BJP working president J P Nadda and joined the...
13:39
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday responded to a stinging barb from Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik. You are a responsible person and you should not speak like this, Governor Malik said on Monday targetting Gandhi who had spoken about reports of violence in the Kashmir...
13:31
The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday began its eight-hour long dharna in central Kolkata in protest against the central government's decision to serve income tax notices to Durga Puja committees.Criticising the Centre for issuing the notices to several Durga Puja committees in Kolkata, West Bengal...
13:13
Arguments on whether a temple existed at the disputed site in Ayodhya were presented on Tuesday before the Supreme Court which heard the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case for the fifth day. Senior advocate C S Vaidyanathan, appearing for deity Ram Lalla Virajman,...
12:31
The Supreme Court will hear on August 19 Facebook's petition to transfer the case filed in Madras high court for enforcing traceability on WhatsApp, reports Medianama.A Supreme Court bench of Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice B R Gavai made the announcement on Tuesday morning, reports the...
12:16
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Anuradha Bhasin, Editor of Kashmir Times, to hand over a memo to the apex court registrar for urgent listing of her plea seeking removal of restrictions on the media in Jammu and Kashmir after scrapping of provisions of Article 370. A bench headed by...
12:07
Hong Kong airport reopened on Tuesday, a day after a pro-democracy protest brought the air transport hub to a complete standstill. However, hundreds of flights were still listed as cancelled. On Tuesday morning, stranded passengers were seen lining up to catch their delayed flights,...
11:56
Declining for the ninth consecutive month, domestic passenger vehicle sales dropped 30.98 per cent to 2,00,790 units in July, from 2,90,931 units in the same period a year ago. Domestic car sales were down 35.95 per cent at 1,22,956 units as against 1,91,979 units in July 2018,...
11:46
Multiple people were stabbed in Sydney's Central Business District on Tuesday after a man wearing a balaclava attacked passersby on the busy street with a knife, according to media reports. While the motive of the attack is not yet known, the man has been taken into custody, police...
11:20
Eighty-eight people have died across 14 districts of flood-battered Kerala while 40 are still missing, authorities said on Tuesday.As per official data recorded till 9 am today, 34 people have sustained injuries in the natural calamity.Torrential rains over the last few days in the state have led...
11:12
A New Delhi-bound flight carrying Union minister Nitin Gadkari failed to take off from Nagpur airport in Maharashtra on Tuesday due to a technical fault, an official said.Gadkari was scheduled to travel to Delhi from Nagpur in IndiGo's flight 6E-636 in the morning.His office in Nagpur confirmed...
10:54
An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 shook parts of Palghar district in Maharashtra on Tuesday morning, an official said.No loss of life or damage to property was reported, regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said.The quake, having its epicenter at a depth of 10 km in Dundalwadi...
10:51
United States President Donald Trump has made it clear that his offer of mediation on Kashmir is not on the table anymore, a top Indian diplomat said on Monday.India's Ambassador to the US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, said that America's decades-old policy on Kashmir has been no mediation but to...
10:38
The Sri Lankan Navy detained four Indian fishermen near Delft Island on Tuesday morning. The Lankan Navy also seized one country-made boat which was allegedly used for poaching in the Sri Lankan territorial waters. All the fishermen have been taken to Kangesanthurai...
10:35
A major fire broke out at Gandhi Nagar market on Tuesday morning. At least 21 fire tenders have reached the spot and are making efforts to douse the flame. No loss of life or injuries has been reported so far. More details in this regard are awaited. The...
10:32
The rupee deprecated by 38 paise and fell to 71 per dollar mark in early trade on Tuesday amid strengthening of the American currency and weak opening in domestic equities. Forex traders said the strength of the US dollar against other overseas currencies and concerns about US-China...
10:09
A prominent London university announced on Monday that it would be banning beef burgers and introducing a levy on plastic bottles as part of a wider drive to tackle climate change.Goldsmiths, University of London, said that beef products and bottled water will be consigned to history from the...
09:39
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today a plea challenging the Centre's decision to impose restrictions and other regressive measures in Jammu and Kashmir following the revocation of the provisions of Article 370. The plea filed by Congress activist Tehseen Poonawalla is listed for...
09:06
Around 40,000 people have registered themselves for Indian-American community summit Howdy, Modi! in Houston, which will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 22 during his visit to the United States for the United Nations General Assembly session, organisers of the event...
09:00
Four Twitter handles were suspended for allegedly spreading anti-India propaganda on Jammu and Kashmir following a request by security agencies, officials said on Monday. Four more accounts are expected to be blocked soon for allegedly being engaged in similar activities, they said.When...
08:57
Congress in Tamil Nadu on Monday took potshots at top film star Rajinikanth for likening Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah duo to Lord Krishna and Arjuna and wanted him to read Mahabharat properly. A day after the actor made the remark while appreciating...
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