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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor found himself on a sticky wicket Saturday as his tweet, following a visit to the fish market in Thiruvananthapuram, kicked up a row, with the Communist party of India-Marxist and the Bharatiya Janata Party alleging that he had insulted the fishermen community and...
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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said if the party is voted to power, then lakhs of rural youths will be employed in gram sabhas to improve the environment. He tweeted that the country needs to repair and restore its water bodies, and also regenerate and afforest wasteland and...
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Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy Saturday accused the Income Tax department of harassing Congress and JD(S) workers in the state and sought the immediate intervention of the Election Commission in the matter. In a pre-dawn raids on Thursday, I-T sleuths had carried out coordinated...
19:16
Suspected terrorist on Saturday shot dead a civilian in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The alleged terrorists fired upon Arjumand Majid Bhat at main town Baramulla in the north Kashmir district, a police officer said. Bhat was critically injured...
18:58
Hitting back at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for advocating repeal of special status of Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said on Saturday that the relationship between the Union and the state would be over if Article 370 of the Constitution is revoked. ...
18:47
Former Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar's sons released a statement on Saturday hinting they could enter politics to continue the legacy of their father's dedication to the state and the nation. Parrikar, 63, died on March 17 after a prolonged battle with a pancreatic ailment.Speculation...
18:46
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar Saturday called on NCP chief Sharad Pawar at his residence 'Silver Oak' in Mumbai.NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said it was a courtesy call and the two did not discuss politics during the meeting that lasted for around half an hour.A party source said Pawar had backed...
18:32
Veteran actor Nicolas Cage has ended his fourth marriage just four days after the wedding, which took place in Las Vegas. Cage and makeup artiste Erika Koike applied for a wedding license on March 23 (Sunday) and were wed the same day. By Wednesday, the actor applied for an...
18:29
The Samajwadi Party on Saturday announced Ram Bhuwal Nishad as its candidate from the prestigious Gorakhpur seat in Uttar Pradesh. The announcement comes after the Nishad Party had on Friday night sprang a surprise by parting ways with the SP-BSP-RLD alliance and met Chief Minister...
18:12
Union minister Smriti Irani said on Saturday those who do not have the courage to bow before Ram Lalla in Ayodhya would not be able get the votes of the devout followers of Lord Ram. Irani's comments come a day after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra prayed at the...
18:11
The Congress on Saturday alleged mismanagement of the economy by the government and that it has suffered due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reckless decisions. Senior Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said that in the past five years, India's economy is gasping instead of...
17:39
The Border Security Force constable who was dismissed in 2017 after he posted a video online complaining about the food served to the troops has said he would take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. I will contest against Prime Minister...
17:32
A security force personnel was injured in a grenade attack by militants in Pulwama town in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said in Srinagar. The terrorists threw a grenade at security force personnel posted on law and order duty in Pulwama town this afternoon, a police...
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A Delhi court on Saturday framed various charges, including criminal conspiracy to commit rape and penetrative sexual assault, against all accused persons in the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual assault case. Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha put 21 accused on trial, saying...
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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for announcing that India had demonstrated anti-satellite missile capability, saying only a foolish government would make such a disclosure and betray a defence secret. In an address to the...
15:58
A civilian car exploded near a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Banihal town of Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district on Saturday, officials said, adding that there were no casualties among the security personnel. The incident occurred around 10.30 am, triggering memories of the...
15:35
Shanghai claimed on Saturday that it has become the world's first district using both 5G coverage and broadband gigabit network as China seeks to establish lead over the US and other countries in the race to develop next generation cellular mobile communications. 5G is the next generation of...
15:06
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that the National Democratic Alliance government is committed to the Assam Accord and mulling granting Scheduled Tribe status to six communities in the state. The Assam Accord provides for deportation of all illegal immigrants who entered...
15:05
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday criticised Janata Dal-Secular and Congress leaders for organising a protest outside the Income Tax Office at Bengaluru for conducting searches on PWD contractors and engineers. Stating that the disproportionality of the reaction of the Congress and...
14:36
An Indian man died and his wife sustained injuries after they were stabbed by an immigrant near Munich in Germany, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday. Indian couple Prashant and Smita Basarur were stabbed by an immigrant near Munich. Unfortunately, Prashant has...
14:33
Tax offices, for both income tax and goods and services tax, will remain open on Saturday and Sunday as the departments race against time to meet the revenue collection targets. As per past practice, all field offices of the CBIC (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs) will...
14:12
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah files nomination from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in the presence of Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Rrajnath Singh and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. Shah said he is blessed to contest from the seat which leaders like party veterans Atal Bihari...
13:47
Congress leader PC Chacko, while referring to the Gandhi family as India's first family, opined that the country is obliged to them.Speaking to ANI, Chacko on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a negative opinion regarding India's first family. Prime Minister Modi has...
13:20
The Congress on Saturday said the Modi government was set to borrow Rs 7.1 lakh crore and cited that the fiscal deficit had risen to 134 per cent in the first 11 months of the current financial year. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the Modinomics had flopped in the...
13:20
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked the people of Arunachal Pradesh to vote for a 'chowkidaar' who would provide security to the country even as he attacked Opposition parties, saying they were disheartened by India's growth and success. Kicking off his campaign in Aalo for...
12:42
A galaxy of top leaders, including Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and leaders of BJP's allies such as Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Shiromani Akali Dal supremo Parkash Singh Badal and Lok Janshakti Party founder Ram Vilas Paswan shared stage with BJP chief Amit Shah as he...
12:02
The Election Commission of India has served notices to the ministry of railways and the ministry of civil aviation regarding two different complaints raised regarding the alleged violation of the model code of conduct.In a notice to the ministry of railways in connection with a viral picture of...
11:55
A Delhi court hearing the 2016 JNU sedition case on Saturday observed that the city police's role regarding sanction was complete and it will now ask the Delhi government about the same. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat made the observation after being told by police that...
10:56
Over 1,000 pilots of the struggling private carrier Jet Airways have decided to go ahead with their no flying call from April 1 following the airline failing to receive funds from the banks Friday, its pilots guild has said.The airline said in a statement that every effort was being made to...
10:26
BJP president Amit Shah pays tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel before he files his nomination for Gandhinagar parliamentary constituency today.
10:09
India has shared critical evidence with the US that the Pakistan air force indeed used F-16 fighters in its attempted strike on February 27 in Jammu and Kashmirs Nowshera sector as a counter to the Indian Air Force strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp in Balakot, Pakistan, the previous...
09:41
Former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman and BJP member G Madhavan Nair has received death threats and a high-level probe was on into it, police said on Friday. The threat to Nair, who resides in Thiruvananthapuram was made in an anonymous letter on Wednesday, police...
09:12
Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari and leaders of BJP's allies such as Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, SAD supremo Parkash Singh Badal and LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan will be present during party president Amit Shah's filing of nomination from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat on...
08:51
Bollywood actor Sonakshi Sinha on Friday came out in support of her father Shatrughan Sinha leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party and joining the Congress and said that he should have done it long ago.Speaking at HT Indias Most Stylish 2009 awards, Sonakshi Sinha said, I think he should have done...
08:05
The Pentagon has strongly denied the reports that the US spied on India's anti-satellite missile test by sending a reconnaissance aircraft from its base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to monitor the development.It, however, said the United States was aware about India's first test-fire of an...
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Celebrated Indie filmmakers such as Anand Patwardhan, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan and Devashish Makhija have come together to issue an appeal to defeat fascism in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, saying the country is going its most testing times ever. In a joint statement issued on the...
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