Ruckus at Fadnavis programme in Ralegan Siddhi, CM leaves place in a huff
File Pic Nagpur/Ralegan Siddhi: A youth went berserk and created ruckus at the programme of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday. The youth has reportedly been detained by the security guards of Fadnavis. According to reports, the Chief Minister was attending...
Maha tourism minister demands ban on Bhansali’s ‘Padmavati’
Mumbai: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming film "Padmavati" has once again run into difficulties after Maharashtra Tourism Minister Jaykumar Rawal demanded a ban on the film and said the state government would be writing to the Censor board on the issue. The...
Illegal pandals: Bombay high court issues notice to civic chiefs
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday took a stern view of the "inaction" against the illegal pandals set up during Ganesh Chaturthi and Navratri, and issued notices to commissioners of three civic bodies, asking them to explain why contempt...
Eyeing 2019? Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray meets TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee in Mumbai
Mumbai: Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray met with Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, a development bound to affect the already-strained alliance with the BJP in Maharashtra. Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aditya visited Mamata Banerjee, who is in Mumbai,...
Trump will ask Congress to end green card lottery program
Washington: Calling terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov "an animal," President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will ask Congress to end the immigration lottery program, which he blamed for allowing Saipov to enter the United States. "I am today starting the process...
Gujarat poll is not just a ‘chunav’, it’s a ‘chunauti’ for BJP: Shatrughan Sinha
New Delhi: There is anger among people over good and services tax and demonetisation and the writing on the wall is clear that the Gujarat assembly election is not just a 'chunav' (poll) for the BJP but a 'chunauti' (challenge),...
Explosion at NTPC unchahar plant in Rae Bareli, 15 dead
New Delhi: At least 15 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured after a boiler tube exploded at National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) unit in Unchahar of Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district. The blast reportedly took place...
Cooking gas, jet fuel prices hiked
New Delhi: Cooking gas (LPG) price was today hiked by Rs 4.50 per cylinder, the 19th increase in rates since July 2016 when the government decided to eliminate subsidy on it by raising prices every month. Also, jet fuel or...
Ease of doing corruption replaced by ease of doing business: Jaitley
New Delhi: Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tweeted, "The difference between the UPA & NDA -- The ease of doing corruption has been replaced by the ease of doing business." The tweet comes after...
Fake ‘PMO Director’ held by Delhi police
New Delhi: Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested a man masquerading as a director in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office (PMO), reports said on Wednesday. The man nabbed by the Special Cell has been identified as Kanhaiya Kumar. He's also known...
Indians unhurt in New York city terror attack: Consulate
New York: No Indian casualties have been reported in the deadly terror attack in New York city that killed at least eight people, the Consul General of India in New York said today. At least eight persons were killed and...
Siddaramaiah does a Raj Thackeray
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said that people living in Karnataka should learn Kannada and emphasised that not knowing the regional language would mean showing disrespect to it. Siddaramaiah was speaking at the 62nd Karnataka Rajyotsava celebrated in...
PM credits Team India for WB ranking in ‘ease of doing biz’
New Delhi: Describing World Bank's latest annual 'ease of doing business' report as historic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it is the outcome of the all-round and multi-sectoral reform push of Team India. "Historic jump in Ease of Doing Business...
India jumps 30 notches to 100th rank in ‘ease of doing biz’
New Delhi: India has jumped 30 places to rank 100th in the World Bank's 'ease of doing business' ranking, helped by a slew of reforms in taxation, licensing, investor protection and bankruptcy resolution. The ranking comes as a shot in the...
Man claiming to be Mughal descendant lays claim over Ayodhya site
File Pic Lucknow: A man claiming to be the descendant of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar today staked claim over the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site insisting that the demolished mosque belonged to Babur, therefore, he should be appointed the...
Army’s job is to train for war, not to build bridges: Punjab CM
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today criticized the central governments decision to rope in the Indian Army for rebuilding the Elphinstone bridge in Mumbai, terming it as "deplorable" and "an admission of the failure" of the government and the...
Delhi HC sets aside election of Praful Patel as AIFF president
New Delhi: The Delhi high court today set aside the election of Praful Patel, who was last year elected as the president of All India Football Federation for a four-year term, his third successive tenure. The court set aside the elections...
No Farmer Commits Suicide in Hinglajwadi, and It’s All Thanks to Women. Here’s How!
Hinglajwadi: Droughts, repeated crop failures and overburdening debts are the primary reasons why farmers in India are left with no option other than taking their lives—sometimes it is an entire family that succumbs to the garbling clutches of death. However, the...
Article 35A: Supreme Court Defers Hearing by 8 Weeks
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday deferred hearing into a batch of pleas demanding repeal of Article 35A, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir. During the hearing of the matter, the Government informed the top court about its...
Can’t let shadow economy to be larger than real economy: FM
Mumbai: Terming tax-paying as a "patriotic duty", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said given our aspiration to be a dominant player on the world stage, we cannot afford to be a place where the shadow economy is bigger than the...
Sena slams Maha govt over ‘hasty’ loan waiver scheme roll-out
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena today hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Maharashtra government over "hasty" implementation of the Rs 34,022 crore loan waiver scheme for farmers, alleging it has increased their miseries instead of providing relief. An editorial in Sena...
