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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the over 10 lakh Rohingyas who fled from Myanmar to her country in the wake of persecution are a threat to the security of the entire region as she urged the global community to resolve the issue. According to the UN, as of May 24,...
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The Congress on Monday announced its third list of 19 candidates for the Jharkhand assembly polls, taking the total number of party's nominees for the elections to 25. Jharkhand will vote in five phases, with the first on November 30 and the last on December 20. Results will be...
23:10
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has disclosed receiving over Rs 700 crore in donations through cheques and online payments during financial year 2018-19, with electoral trust managed by Tatas contributing half of the money. Tatas-controlled Progressive Electoral Trust gave Rs 356 crore in...
23:07
Britain's Prince Charles will arrive in India on Wednesday on a two-day trip that will have a packed schedule, including a meeting with President Ram Nath Kovind, discussions on issues like climate change and sustainable finance, and a visit to a gurdwara to mark the 550th birth anniversary of...
22:37
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has opted out of race for government formation in Maharashtra, has adopted a 'wait and watch' policy in the state which saw hectic activity in camps of major non-BJP parties on Monday.A day after the BJP said it was not in a position to form government due to...
22:27
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Asaduddin Owaisi said his party's two Maharashtra MLAs would not support a Shiv Sena-Congress rule. @aimim_national has 2 MLAs in Maharashtra & we will not be supporting the Shiv Sena-Congress government. A letter to the same effect...
22:06
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Monday night invited the Nationalist Congress Party, which is the third largest party in the state, to Raj Bhavan, state unit chief Jayant Patil said.He said the NCP will discuss the issue with its ally, the Congress, and get back to Koshyari by...
21:40
A private complaint was filed against All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday at a court in Madhya Pradesh's Indore for his remarks on the Supreme Court's Ayodhya verdict. The complainant, lawyer Sunil Verma, contended that Owaisi be prosecuted under IPC...
21:14
Train services in the Kashmir Valley, which were disrupted since August 3 ahead of the abrogation of provisions of Article 370, will resume on Tuesday, a Northern Railway official said. The valley had been under restrictions after August 5, when the Centre revoked the special status...
21:09
Nationalist Congress Party leaders Ajit Pawar, Dhananjay Munde and other party leaders arrived at Raj Bhavan to meet Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. We have been called by the governor, a delegation of our party is meeting him now. We've been called to form the government. As per...
20:52
Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has now called the Nationalist Congress Party for a meeting at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.At 8:30 pm the governor called us and asked me to come to meet him. Along with Chhagan Bhujbal, Jayant Patil and others, I am going to meet him. We have no idea as to why...
20:18
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Brazil on November 13 and 14 to attend the 11th BRICS summit, the theme of which is economic growth for an innovative future. This will be the sixth time Modi will be participating in the BRICS summit, his first being at Fortaleza, also in Brazil in...
20:06
Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray said that the governor has refused to grant more time to the Sena to stake claim to form the government in Maharashtra.However, Aaditya said that Shiv Sena's claim on formation of a government in Maharashtra still stands legally.Aaditya also told mediapersons...
19:57
Industrial output in September contracted by 4.3 per cent from a year earlier due to poor performance in the manufacturing sector, data released by the government on Monday showed.In September 2018, the factory output had expanded by 4.6 per cent. The contraction was largely due to the...
19:39
After a day of hectic parleys, and a call from Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray to its president Sonia Gandhi, the Congress said that it will have further discussion with ally Nationalist Congress Party on supporting the Sena in Maharashtra.The Congress Working Committee met this morning and has...
19:11
Shiv Sena leaders Aaditya Thackeray, Eknath Shinde and other party leaders meet Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.
18:42
The Congress to give outside support to Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena to form the government in Maharashtra, several media reports claimed.Earlier, Thackeray spoke to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and sought her party's support.Meanwhile, Shiv Sena leaders Eknath Shinde and Aaditya Thackeray...
18:05
A day after it declined to form a government in Maharashtra for want of numbers, the BJP is keenly following Monday's political developments which saw its estranged ally Shiv Sena racing against time to enlist support of the NCP and the Congress. The clock is ticking for the Uddhav Thackeray-led...
18:02
In other news, Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not want to disturb constables of the Delhi Police deployed on bandobast duty when he hits the road. And so, for the first time, the PM held the Central Election Committee meeting of the BJP at his 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residence instead of the...
17:49
Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi and Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray had a brief telephonic conversation a short while back. Sonia met Uddhav after the Congress Working Committee met in Delhi to deliberate on extending support to the Shiv Sena.In the phone call to Sonia Gandhi,...
17:35
Queen of melody Lata Mangeshkar had a chest infection and was taken to Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai today. She is now back home and is recovering. She turned 90 on September 20.
17:03
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut's younger brother, who also happens to be the party MLA from Vikhroli in Mumbai told Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com that the party's chief negotiator in the Maharashtra government formation will in fact be undergoing an angiography at around 8 pm today.When...
16:47
Domestic equities ended marginally higher after a volatile session on Monday, with banking stocks coming to rescue. Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty fought bouts of volatility triggered by a sharp fall in Asian equities amid escalating political issues in Hong Kong and uncertainty over...
16:43
The CRPF has taken over the security duties of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her children Rahul and Priyanka on Monday after the Union government withdrew their SPG cover last week, officials said. A contingent of commandos of the central paramilitary force armed with Israeli X-95, AK...
16:37
Some more information on the curious case of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut's hospitalisation. Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Anil Desai and party leader Harshal Pradhan, both considered close to party president Uddhav Thackeray told Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com that Sanjay Raut has been admitted...
16:12
Update on Sanjay Raut's hospitalisation: The Shiv Sena leader was on Monday admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai after he complained of chest pain, an official at the hospital said. Raut, who has been speaking to the media daily on his party's stand on the current political situation in...
16:09
Power services in cyclone 'Bulbul' hit areas in West Bengal and Odisha have been restored on Monday, while telecommunication links are expected to be back soon. This was conveyed at a meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), chaired by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, which...
16:01
A lead counsel for the Muslim parties in the Ayodhya land dispute case has said the decision on seeking a review of the verdict would likely be taken in a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Sunday. In a historic and unanimous verdict, a five-judge constitution bench headed by...
15:56
A senior Congress leader from Maharashtra, who will be a part of the delegation meeting interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi at 4 pm, told Rediff.com that she might just go with the unanimous view emerging among a large section of her party MLAs from the state. This Congress...
15:47
Reports say that Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has been admitted to Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital and will be staying the night there. Raut has emerges as the official and key negotiator of the Shiv Sena ever since the Maharashtra Assembly elections last month. Raut today said if the BJP...
15:37
The Congress Working Committee meeting to discuss the fast-evolving Maharashtra political scene, where the Shiv Sena has dumped electoral ally the BJP and has sought to form a government with the help of the Nationalist Congress Party and Congress, has ended. Emerging from the meeting,...
15:26
Shiv Sena leader Arvind Sawant who just quit as minister in the UPA government has this to say about party leader Aaditya Thackeray: You will get to know his potential if you watch him on YouTube. What a potential that young boy is having! There's a true leadership. He is a visionary leader of...
15:19
The body of a 40-year-old man wearing a sadhu's robe was found with his eyes gouged out in an agricultural field in Budhauli village of Uttar Pradesh's Banda district, police said on Monday. Circle Officer Kuldeep Singh said a post-mortem has established that Krishna Kumar alias Lala was...
15:12
UPDATE: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Monday and is learnt to have requested the latter to extend his party's support in forming government, sources said.Thackeray and Pawar held parleys at a suburban hotel ahead of the 7.30 pm...
14:51
Mumbai: NCP Chief Sharad Pawar leaves after meeting Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray. Updates in a bit.
14:36
As the Congress is holding discussions on whether or not to support Shiv Sena in forming a government in Maharashtra, senior party leader and former union minister Pallam Raju on Monday said there was no question on compromising with principles that the party stands for. There is no question of a...
14:25
In other news, at least 1,950 Sikhs from Maharashtra could not go to Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan after the opening of the Kartarpur corridor as they are facing a financial crunch due to a scam at the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, a senior community leader claimed. Prime...
14:07
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant at the presser to announce that he had tendered his resignation as Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises: BJP went back from their pre election promises. It would not have been morally right for me to continue in the Centre, so I have resigned as...
14:00
With the deadlock over government formation continuing in Maharashtra, NCP leader Nawab Malik on Monday said it is the responsibility of all of us to give an alternative considering the plight of people in the state. Malik, however, said the NCP will take any decision in consensus with its...
13:49
Amid the stalemate over government formation in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met NCP president Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Monday, sources said. The Sena chief was accompanied by his son Aaditya Thackeray as he called on Pawar at an undisclosed location, they said. The...
13:45
What can I say in this? said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday as Shiv Sena exited the BJP-led NDA alliance in the Centre following differences over government formation in Maharashtra.He was responding to a question on the Shiv Sena-BJP tussle in Maharashtra after which Sena MP...
13:42
Amid the impasse over government formation in Maharashtra, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has the discretion to consider all equations and combinations and call each party one by one to stake claim, say legal experts. If the governor, after giving reasonable time to the parties, comes to the...
12:30
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said that his party is working towards a common minimum programme with NCP and Congress in a bid to form a coalition government in Maharashtra.Sharad Pawar and Congress want that we should form the government which should run on a common minimum programme...
12:26
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge speaks to the media after the party's Working Committee meeting ends in Delhi. We have called our Maharashtra leaders to Delhi for further discussions, the meeting will be at 4 pm, he said. Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel, KC Venugopal, and...
12:19
Update on the CWC meeting in Delhi:As its flock of 44 Maharashtra MLAs huddled together in a Jaipur resort, the Congress Working Committee met in New Delhi on Monday to take a decision on whether or not to support the Shiv Sena in forming a government in the state. Party president Sonia...
12:10
Popular Bengali film actor Jisshu Sengupta has joined the cast of Shakuntala Devi - Human Computer and will be seen playing Vidya Balan's husband in the biopic. Jisshu has featured in Hindi films including Piku, Mardaani and Barfi! and will again share screen space with his NTR co-star Vidya,...
11:45
Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said if the BJP was not willing to fulfill its promise of sharing the chief minister's post in Maharashtra, there was no point in continuing the alliance.A day after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari invited the Shiv Sena to stake claim to form...
11:34
A meeting of the Congress working committee is underway on Monday morning to decide on whether to support the Shiv Sena in forming the government in Maharashtra, sources said.Top Congress leaders are discussing the issue at a crucial meeting of the working committee chaired by party chief Sonia...
11:14
As Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena showed signs of a potential alliance to form government in Maharashtra, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Monday said that the political instability in the state cannot be ruled out.The Congress leader also asserted that early elections are likely in...
10:25
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar said on Monday said that he hasn't 'had a word with anyone regarding anyone's resignation'.Pawar's remarks came in the wake of Union Heavy Industries Minister and Shiv Sena leader Arvind Sawant announcing his decision to quit the National Democratic...
10:01
The Congress party will hold a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting to discuss the political situation in Maharashtra at party's interim president Sonia Gandhi's residence in New Delhi on Monday.Earlier today, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said that the meeting will be held at 10...
09:36
Reiterating that Congress will sit in the opposition, senior leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said that his party will hold a meeting at 10 am to discuss government formation in Maharashtra.Today there is a meeting at 10:00 am then we will do whatever the high command will suggest. Our...
09:33
The deep depression weakened into a depression over southeast Bangladesh and adjoining south Tripura at 05:30 am on Monday, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).It will weaken into a low during the next six hours, IMD stated in its latest update over cyclone 'Bulbul'.The deep...
09:29
If you've just joined us, the big news this morning is that former chief election commissioner T N Seshan, who ruthlessly enforced the model code of conduct and led the game-changing electoral reforms in the 1990s, passed away in Chennai yesterday following a cardiac arrest. He was 86. The...
09:13
Against the backdrop of Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari inviting the Shiv Sena to form government, party leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said if he shows concern towards the path, the destiny would not like it. The remark comes a day after the BJP announced it would not form...
09:10
Expressing grief over the demise of former Chief Election Commissioner TN Seshan, CEC Sunil Arora said that he will always be a source of inspiration for all CECs and Election Commissioners.The Election Commission of India deeply mourns the passing away of Sh TN Seshan. Expressing his...
09:06
Latest developments in Maharashtra: The BJP core group meeting is to be held today at the residence of former CM Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai.This comes after BJP chief Chandrakant Patil yesterday, indicated that the Bharatiya Janata party will not stake claim to form the government in the...
08:41
JUST IN: Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises and Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant says that he is resigning from his ministerial post. Maharashtra Governor, Bhagat Singh Koshyari had yesterday asked Shiv Sena to indicate willingness and ability of the party to form the...
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