23:40
General Qamar Javed Bajwa will remain as the Pakistan Army chief until November 28, 2022, according to a notification by the Ministry of Defence.The notification was issued on January 28 after the country's Parliament passed a law to settle the issue of the extension of army chief's...
22:57
The anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters at Shaheen Bagh have extended an invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come and celebrate Valentine's Day with them on Friday. The protesters, who are staging a demonstration since December 15 last year demanding withdrawal of the...
22:18
R K Pachauri, a former chief of The Energy and Resources Institute, passed away on Thursday after a prolonged cardiac ailment, TERI Director General Ajay Mathur said. He was 79.It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing away of R K Pachauri, the founder Director of TERI. The...
21:51
Two days after the Delhi assembly election results, Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with senior leaders to review the party's defeat in eight seats. The reasons behind the defeat in each seat were discussed in detail during the meeting, a statement...
21:36
Rajya Sabha Secretariat has demoted a security officer for his offensive, derogatory, demeaning and sarcastic posts against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, saying he violated rules and failed to maintain political neutrality. The officer had also shared a number of posts that...
21:34
The Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, a cultural centre reflecting India's connect with its diaspora, was Thursday renamed Sushma Swaraj Bhavan in honour of the late external affairs minister known for her empathy in reaching out to distressed Indians globally. The Foreign Service Institute, a...
21:10
Senior IAS officer Debasish Panda was on Thursday appointed as the new finance secretary, according to a Personnel Ministry order. Panda, a 1987-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is at present special secretary, department of financial services. The Appointments Committee...
21:09
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has written a letter to Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh saying that the police staff on duty during VIP visits and rallies should be allowed to sit.Pawar said the home department should frame guidelines about making it mandatory for the...
21:07
The newly-constituted Delhi assembly is likely to meet for two days next week for lawmakers to take oath, sources said on Thursday. The assembly is likely to meet on February 18 and 19, the sources said.One of the senior-most legislators will be sworn-in as pro-tem speaker to oversee the...
20:50
Appreciating the high level of commitment to duty shown by officials of Air India and the health ministry who evacuated Indians and Maldivians from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written a letter of appreciation to those involved in the exercise, the...
20:48
Shiromani Akali Dal stalwart Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday said minorities have to be taken along to successfully run a government, asserting that all religions should be respected. The remark came against the backdrop of criticism of the Bharatiya Janata Party, an old ally of the SAD,...
19:54
Senior bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal was on Thursday appointed as the chairman and managing director of Air India, according to a personnel ministry order. Bansal, a 1988-batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, is at present additional secretary in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas. The...
19:38
A memorial to the 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel killed in the Pulwama terror attack in February last year will be inaugurated at the Lethpora camp on Friday, a top official said. It is a way to pay homage to the brave jawans who lost their lives in the attack, Additional Director...
19:15
Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said hate speeches like 'goli maro' and 'Indo-Pak match' should not have been made by BJP leaders during the recent Delhi Assembly election campaign and that such remarks may have resulted in the party's defeat. Shah, however, said the BJP...
18:46
CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday that his party will stage a protest during US President Donald Trump's visit to India later this month, as he was coming to boost the American economy at the cost of India's interest.Yechury said the Left workers will launch agitations...
18:37
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday appointed Indian-origin politician Rishi Sunak as the new finance minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.Sunak, the son-in-law of Infosys Co-founder Narayana Murthy, will join Home secretary Priti Patel on the top government bench as UK Chancellor of...
18:21
Firefighters battled to contain a major blaze that started in one of the floors of a three-storey commercial building on Thursday and later spread to other parts of the structure in suburban Andheri, but no casualty has been reported so far, a civic official said.The fire broke out in the...
18:07
A Delhi court on Thursday sent Sanjeev Chawla, an alleged bookie and key accused in one of cricket's biggest match-fixing scandals that involved former South African captain Hansie Cronje, to 12-day police custody. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhir Kumar Sirohi sent Chawla...
17:18
Baby Mufflerman' Aavyan Tomar, who stole the hearts when he dressed up as AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, will be a special invitee at the swearing-in ceremony at the Ramlila Ground on February 16. An AAP functionary said Tomar has been invited for the oath-taking ceremony. Tomar, who is...
17:01
Ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to India later this month, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is building a wall in front of a slum along the road connecting Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport to Indira Bridge.However, city mayor Bijal Patel denied having knowledge in this...
16:47
Update: A crude bomb reportedly went off in a Lucknow court compound on Thursday, injuring three lawyers in an incident which police said was triggered by rivalry between two groups.Two live bombs were recovered, police said. But they added that nobody appeared to have seen or heard the blast,...
16:41
Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Thursday slammed Maharashtra government for adopting five working days a week norm for the government employees.Nirupam took to his Twitter handle to term the decision as senseless and asked for the reason for giving two holidays a week.A senseless decision by...
16:19
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's name is missing from the invitation of the inauguration of Phase I of East-West Metro corridor between Salt Lake Sector-V to Salt Lake Stadium on Thursday.In the card, Union Ministers Piyush Goyal Babul Supriyo have been invited for the inauguration...
16:17
After the BJP's defeat in the Delhi Assembly elections, poll managers of its West Bengal unit are divided whether to push its aggressive strategy on the CAA-NRC or mellow it down and lace it with alternative policies of governance. The BJP that recently suffered a defeat at the hands of the AAP,...
15:55
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a dig at the BJP over the LPG cylinder price hike by tweeting a UPA-era picture of the saffron party's leaders protesting an increase in prices of cooking gas at the time, and demanded a rollback. Cooking gas LPG price was hiked on Wednesday by a...
15:41
Tihar Jail authorities told a Delhi court Thursday that Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, has refused to take a lawyer offered by DLSA as legal aid. Additional Session Judge Dharmender Rana had on Wednesday offered a counsel to Gupta...
15:19
Travellers arriving in India from the coronavirus-affected countries, including Singapore, have been asked by the Health Ministry to fill up a self-reporting form at the airport, requiring them to share details such as contact number and address, among others, as part of precautionary measure...
15:01
Mobile Internet services was restored in Kashmir on Thursday afternoon, hours after authorities had suspended the facility to prevent rumours about the health of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The services were snapped late Wednesday night after some social media posts claimed the...
14:50
A Delhi Court on Thursday sent all accused arrested, in connection with the alleged molestation of students during a cultural festival at the all-women Gargi College in Delhi, to judicial custody for 14 days.Ten people have been arrested by the Delhi police in connection with the recent incident...
14:18
J&K Chief Electoral Officer, Shailendra Kumar announces that the panchayat polls for the union territory will be held from March 5 to March 20th in eight phases for Kashmir and four phases for Jammu. The first phase of elections will be held on 5th March, second phase on 7th March, 3rd...
14:02
Two passengers who arrived at NSCBI Airport from Bangkok have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Airports Authority of India officials said on Thursday. With this, a total of three passengers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Kolkata. A passenger called Himadri...
14:00
Referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's 'goli se saamna karna padega' remark, Congress leader Kapil Sibal attacked the Centre over rising inflation in the country and said that the government's slogan should be 'Kaam Karo Yaro' (work my friends).Patient unwell, doctor missing,...
13:28
Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra slammed those alleging that he commercialised the pain of Kashmiri pandits with his film 'Shikara' and termed them donkeys.'3 Idiots' earned 33 crores on first day and we knew the first day of Shikara will be 30 lakh. I make a film in the memory of my mother for 30...
13:22
Bottled drinking water in Kerala will henceforth cost Rs 13 a litre with the Left government deciding to bring packaged water under the ambit of the Essential Commodities Act with a view to regulate its price.One litre of bottled water presently costs Rs 20 in the state. Food and Civil Supplies...
13:20
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said the Indian mission in Tokyo is providing all assistance to the crew and passengers of the cruise ship that has been quarantined off the Japanese coast in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Two Indian crew on board the cruise ship...
13:05
Breaking news: Reports coming in say there's been a bomb blast at the Lucknow sessions court. Between two and three live bombs have been recovered from the court premises with reports saying several lawyers have been injured. Early reports say the bomb blast was a result of an internal clash...
12:38
The BJP has reappointed Chandrakant Dada Patil, the party's Maharashtra unit president and Mangal Prabhat Lodha its Mumbai chief, a statement said Thursday. An order issued by BJP national general secretary Arun Singh said the appointments are applicable with immediate effect. Both the...
12:35
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the request of Nirbhaya case death-row convict Vinay Sharma to peruse recommendation for rejection of his mercy plea. Sharma's counsel alleged in the court that the Delhi lieutenant governor and its home minister had not signed the recommendation for...
12:11
Army officials on Thursday briefed the delegation of foreign envoys visiting Jammu and Kashmir on the security situation in Srinagar. The 25-member delegation arrived here on Wednesday on a two-day visit as part of a union government-facilitated trip to help the envoys have a first-hand...
12:04
Sanjeev Chawla, allegedly involved in a match-fixing racket that was busted by the Delhi Police, has been brought to the national capital on Thursday. Chawla was allegedly involved in a match-fixing racket that was busted by the Delhi Police in 2000. He was extradited from London on...
12:02
Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed authorities to take every possible step to help Pakistani students stuck in China's Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus, after mounting pressure about their fate. The government, however, has said that it would not evacuate its citizens from Wuhan...
11:46
The Supreme Court deferred the hearing on Centre's plea seeking separate execution of four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case to Friday and asked the convicts to file their counter replies by then. A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna appointed...
11:42
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking a CBI probe into the alleged molestation of students during a cultural festival at the all-woman Gargi College here last week. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde asked lawyer M L Sharma, who mentioned the matter...
11:23
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday slammed the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over the issue of the women's safety in the state.Priyanka Gandhi also claimed that the crime rate has increased in the state since the BJP came to power.There are shocking...
11:12
Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Thursday called for a time-bound campaign by the states and the Centre to improve the quality of learning in government schools to make India a developed country, saying this is positive politics. Governments shutting down schools are obstacles in the path of...
10:58
Political parties must upload on their websites details of criminal cases against candidates and the reasons for selecting them, the Supreme Court said today, flagging an alarming rise in the criminalization of politics in the last four national elections.The Supreme Court said it would be...
10:30
My more than 30 years of being at odds with BJP and the Hindutva movement was irrelevant to my critics. For them, I had revealed my 'true colours', writes an upset Shashi Tharoor, the Congress party's MP from Thiruvananthapuram. Read the column here
10:17
Here's a confirmation: No chief minister or political leaders from other states will be part of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal's oath ceremony at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on February 16, said a senior party leader on Thursday. Kejriwal will take oath as chief minister for a third term in a...
10:13
More cases of the new strain of coronavirus are highly likely to be reported in the United Kingdom, country's health officials have warned, as they confirmed the ninth case of the deadly virus, involving a woman who flew into the country from China -- the epicentre of the outbreak.Health experts...
09:56
Mobile internet services have been suspended in Kashmir to prevent rumours about the health of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, officials said on Thursday. The services were snapped late Wednesday night after some social media posts claimed the health of the 90-year-old Geelani...
09:54
The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the plea of Vinay Sharma, a convict in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case.The hearing is scheduled to take place at 10:30 am. The bench of Justice R Banumathi will hear the case.Vinay has filed the petition in the top court against President Ram Nath Kovind's...
09:31
China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus, has reported a record 242 new fatalities and nearly 15,000 fresh cases in a single day, local health officials announced on Thursday, the fastest rise in the daily count since the virus outbreak was first identified in December.The...
09:14
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has received a letter from State Election Commission on a complaint filed against the party's new flag which bears Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's insignia.The commission has asked MNS to take appropriate action on the complaint. Yes, we have received it but it...
08:52
The efficacy of Pakistan's decision to convict Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in terror financing cases remains to be seen and whether the country would take action against all other terrorist entities and individuals operating from its soil, government sources said on Thursday.Saeed was...
08:20
Welcoming the conviction of the 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, the United States called it as an important step towards holding the Lashkar-a-Tayiba accountable.Today's conviction of Hafiz Saeed and his associate is an important step forward -- both towards holding LeT accountable...
07:55
US First Lady Melania Trump has said that she is excited for her trip to India along President Donald Trump later this month.In a tweet, Melania Trump said her maiden trip to India as the First Lady is an occasion to celebrate the close ties between the two countries.She also thanked Prime...
01:30
A thorough security check was conducted at Sabarmati Ashram on Wednesday ahead of United States President Donald Trump's visit to Ahmedabad.According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Trump is expected to attend an event at the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad on the lines of the 'Howdy Modi'...
01:27
A thorough security check was conducted at Sabarmati Ashram on Wednesday ahead of United States President Donald Trump's visit to Ahmedabad.According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Trump is expected to attend an event at the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad on the lines of the 'Howdy Modi'...
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