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Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday broke his silence on The Kashmir Files movie, which is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, saying the film was far from reality and nothing but ''propaganda'' to polarise the nation. Abdullah,...
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Unemployment rate for persons of age 15 years and above in urban areas dipped to 9.8 per cent in July-September 2021 from 13.2 per cent in the same quarter of the previous year, showed a periodic labour force survey by the National Statistical Office. Joblessness or unemployment rate...
22:39
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to his United Kingdom counterpart Boris Johnson on Tuesday with the two leaders having a detailed discussion on the situation in the war-hit Ukraine. In their telephonic talk, Modi reiterated India's consistent appeal for cessation of hostilities and...
21:55
A month into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said this absurd war is unwinnable and inevitably it will have to move from the battlefield to the peace table as he voiced concern that reverberations from the conflict threaten to spiral into...
21:26
Independent MLA Sanyam Lodha on Tuesday described himself as a slave of the Nehru-Gandhi family, saying he will remain so till his last breadth. The Sirohi MLA, who is one of the advisers to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, made the statement in the state Assembly during a debate on the...
20:57
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has relaxed COVID-19-related regulations stating that cabin crew members need not wear PPE kit, airlines need not keep three seats vacant on international flights for medical emergencies and security personnel at airports can resume pat-down search of...
20:43
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann declared a holiday on March 23, the martyrdom day of legendary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. He made the announcement on the concluding day of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha session in Chandigarh on Tuesday.The House also passed a resolution...
20:33
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday refused to grant a permanent exemption from appearance to actor Kangana Ranaut in the defamation complaint filed by Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar. The Andheri metropolitan magistrate rejected the...
20:14
The Union Home Ministry on Tuesday sought a report from the West Bengal government after eight people were found burnt to death in Birbhum district, officials said. The move came after a nine-member delegation of BJP MPs from West Bengal met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and sought...
19:58
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has attached assets worth Rs 6.45 crore of a company owned by the brother-in-law of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in connection with a money laundering investigation. In a statement, the Enforcement Directorate said it has...
19:31
Over a day after a passenger aircraft with 132 people on board crashed in south China, a Chinese official announced on Tuesday that no survivors have been found, official media in Beijing reported. No survivors have been found in the China plane crash, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted a...
19:27
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday, official sources said on Tuesday. It is going to be Mann's first meeting with Modi after being sworn in as the chief minister of Punjab. Mann will be meeting Modi at 11 am on Thursday, the...
18:44
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday again raked up the Kashmir issue at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation foreign ministers' meeting in Islamabad, saying the 57-member body has not been able to make any impact at all as it's a divided house.Khan's comments came at a time when he...
18:09
The Indian Premier League 2022 to kick off from March 26 with a high-profile opening encounter between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and the Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai.Check out the IPL 2022 Schedule.
18:06
The National Investigation Agency registered 103 cases of terror financing since its inception in 2008 and arrested 786 accused, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said charge sheets were filed against 865 accused in 92 cases. He said the...
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Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party in Lok Sabha, saying its government has turned Parliament into Rome's Colosseum where Prime Minister Narendra Modi enters like a gladiator to the chants of 'Modi, Modi', an apparent reference to the rousing welcome...
17:22
From the 30-share pack, Tech Mahindra, Reliance Industries, Bajaj Finserv, ITC, TCS, Indusind Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Infosys and Power Grid were the biggest gainers. In contrast, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Nestle India, NTPC, and Sun Pharma were the laggards.
17:21
Jammu & Kashmir Police: In a brief shootout in the Soura area of Srinagar, SgCT Amir Hussain Lone from Kupwara was injured and attained martyrdom. We pay rich tributes to the martyr and stand by his family at this critical juncture.Pic: Umar Ganie
17:19
Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv early Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol raged unabated. Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a...
16:58
India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 181.56 crore (1,81,56,01,944) as per provisional reports till 7 am on Tuesday.This has been achieved through 2,14,38,677 sessions, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Meanwhile, more than 34 lakh vaccine doses were administered...
16:56
Vikramaditya Singh, the son of senior Congress leader Dr Karan Singh, tenders his resignation from the Congress. He tweets My position on critical issues vis--vis J&K which reflect national interests do not align with that of Congress. The party remains disconnected from ground realities.
16:47
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has ordered discontinuation of certain misleading advertisements of Sensodyne toothpaste within seven days and imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on the manufacturer. An official release on Tuesday stated that advertisements of Sensodyne...
16:25
Kejriwal and Mann will hold a road show in Ahmedabad
Delhi and Punjab chief ministers and top Aam Aadmi Party leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann will hold a roadshow in Ahmedabad on April 2 in what is likely to be the party's first major event in the run up to the Gujarat Assembly polls scheduled for later this year. A senior AAP leader...
16:21
Virat Kohli shares this picture, tweeting, IPL around the corner and the excitement is in the air.Kohli joined the Royal Challengers Bangalore's squad on Monday for preparations ahead of the 2022 edition of the Indian Premier League beginning March 26.
16:15
These are the indicative estimates of Russia's losses as of March 22, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:01
RIL was one of the top gainers
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded from early lows to close over 1 per cent higher on Tuesday, helped by heavy buying in index heavyweight Reliance Industries, Infosys and TCS amid gains in global equities. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed up by 696.81 points or 1.22 per cent...
15:43
Claiming to understand western civilisation better than others, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said Islamophobia grew after the 9/11 terror attacks and went on unchecked because the Muslim countries did nothing to check the wrong narrative that Islam was equated with...
15:31
BJP legislators walked out of the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday at the end of the first half of the day's session demanding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee make a statement on the floor of the House on the death of eight people allegedly after their houses were set on fire at Rampurhat in...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav is being taken to the AIIMS Delhi from Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here on Tuesday after his health condition worsened.It was found that he has issues in his heart and kidney. He is being sent to AIIMS Delhi for better...
15:12
The UN refugee agency says more than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion, passing another milestone in an exodus that has led to Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.UNHCR reported Tuesday that 3.53 million people have left Ukraine, with Poland taking in the...
14:49
Road projects worth Rs 62,000 crore have been undertaken in the national capital to ease traffic congestions, and tackle the problem of pollution, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. Replying to a debate on the Demands for Grants for Road Transport and Highways...
14:44
Kerala, Maharashtra in the lead as always. Karnataka overtakes Mizoram for third spot.
14:40
Delhi was found to be the most polluted capital in the world for the fourth consecutive year in 2021 and 35 of the 50 cities with the worst air quality were in India, according to a new report. In 2021, none of the cities in India met the prescribed World Health Organization air...
14:17
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav hands over his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla from his membership of the House. In the recently held Uttar Pradesh elections, he was elected as an MLA from the Karhal seat. He was the MP from Azamgarh. SP leader Azam Khan also resigns from...
13:44
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued fresh notices to several prominent political leaders, activists and others while hearing a batch of petitions in connection with North East Delhi violence and alleged hate speeches of political leaders.The court on Tuesday issued fresh notices after noting...
13:37
The deep depression over north Andaman Sea is unlikely to intensify into a cyclonic storm and is expected to cross the south Myanmar coast at Thandwe with relatively less ferocity than expected earlier, the IMD said on Tuesday. The weather office had earlier said the deep depression...
13:28
Online food delivery platform Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal on Tuesday clarified the 10-minute food delivery plan stating that the service will be for specific nearby locations, popular and standardised items only.Taking to Twitter, Goyal said, Hello Twitter, good morning. I just want to tell...
13:25
Senior Congress leaders Anand Sharma (pictured alongside) and Manish Tewari leave from the residence of party chief Sonia Gandhi in Delhi.
13:25
MoS Home Nityanand Rai to Lok Sabha on the number of mob lynching cases in the country: No separate data for mob lynching is maintained by NCRB. NCRB publishes crime data from all the States/UTs under various crime heads which are defined under the IPC and Special & Local Laws.This government...
12:58
Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, tweets, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, says that according to Russian ministry of defense numbers, 9,861 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine and 16,153 were injured. The last official Russian KIA...
12:54
Smoldering remains of a victim's home
The charred bodies of seven persons were on Tuesday recovered from a few burnt houses at Rampurhat in Birbhum district of West Bengal, a senior police officer said. The incident took place following the alleged murder of a Trinamool Congress panchayat leader on Monday. The...
12:44
Goa CM-designate Pramod Sawant to take oath on March 28. PM Modi is also likely to attend the oath ceremony.Invites have also been sent to BJP chief JP Nadda, union ministers, chief ministers of party-ruled states and party presidents of state units.The BJP won 20 out of the 40 Assembly seats in...
12:42
Madhya Pradesh: The District Administration demolishes the residence of the main accused in a rape case in Shahdol.
12:09
Congress leader and LoP in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge protesting outside Parliament House: By increasing fuel prices Modi govt is making money worth Rs 10,000 crore by plundering the poor. Many say prices are rising due to Ukraine-Russia crisis, but as per Petroleum Ministry, we didn't buy 1%...
11:47
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) will vote Wednesday on a draft resolution on Ukraine, the second such resolution since the start of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, a spokesperson said Monday.The 11th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly will be held after a...
11:37
Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for a little less than an hour on Tuesday as opposition parties, including the Congress and TMC, voiced their protest against the hike in petrol, diesel and cooking gas LPG prices. While TMC members stormed into the well of the House carrying placards...
11:22
... and I learn more about economic trends than from books, observes Ajit Balakrishnan. Read the column here.
11:18
PM Narendra Modi is holding a meeting with Union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman and Nitin Gadkari in Parliament, to discuss various issues and government strategy for the ongoing Budget Session.
10:51
BJP leader Pushkar Singh Dhami, who was elected leader of the legislature party in Uttarakhand on Monday, will take oath as Chief Minister of the state for a second term on Wednesday at 3:30 pm.The swearing-in ceremony will be held at Parade Ground in Dehradun. Along with Dhami, the cabinet will...
10:47
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
-- Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will pay his first official visit to India from April 3 to April 5, at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Ministry of External Affairs.-- Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to address a press conference on the issue of education at noon today.-- BJP...
10:32
60 stories that define the bigger India. Read it here.
10:26
Equity indices opened in red on Tuesday with Sensex plunged by 164.59 points and Nifty down by 42.30 points. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 164.59 points or 0.29 per cent at 57127.90 at 9.45 am. The 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17075.30 at 9.45 am, down by 42.30 points or 0.25 per...
10:07
India reported a single-day rise of 1,581 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally to 4,30,10,971, while the active cases further declined to 23,913, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday. The death toll has climbed to 5,16,543, with 33 daily fatalities, the ministry data...
09:49
Russian forces shelled along a humanitarian corridor on Monday, wounding four children who were among the civilians being evacuated, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation. He said the shelling took place in the Zaporizhzhia region,...
09:31
A Russian court on Monday ruled to ban Instagram and Facebook in the country, labelling its parent company Meta as extremist, according to a media report.Specifying that the ban on Meta's activities will not apply to the WhatsApp messenger, the Tverskoy district court of Moscow said that the...
09:30
Authorities here on Monday ordered imposing of section 144 across district from March 22 to April 21 exercising caution ahead of several festivals as the movie The Kashmir Files is screened in cinema halls.The order signed by district collector and district magistrate (acting) Raj Kumar Singh...
09:26
Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday turned down the invitation from the Communist Party of India-Marxist to attend a seminar of CPI-M, on the orders of All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi.According to sources, CPI-M has invited Tharoor and K V Thomas to...
08:41
The United States has formally determined that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.I have determined that members of the Burmese military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against Rohingya, announced US...
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Petrol and diesel prices on Tuesday were hiked by 80 paise a litre each while domestic cooking gas prices were increased by Rs 50 per cylinder, ending a over four and half month election-related hiatus in rate revision, sources said.Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 96.21 per litre as against Rs...
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BJP's S Phangnon Konyak is all set to become the first woman Rajya Sabha member from Nagaland as no other candidate filed nomination for the March 31 election to the lone seat from the state on Monday, which was the last day. Konyak, the consensus candidate of the ruling United Democratic...
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