Centre has given impetus to infrastructure projects in last 5 yrs: Union minister Nitin Gadkari
Chandigarh: Union minister Nitin Gadkari Thursday said development has always been the top agenda of the Narendra Modi government and in the last five years the Centre has given impetus to infrastructure projects. Addressing an intellectuals' meet here, Gadkari said...
Governors condemns Naxal attack in Gadchiroli; Cancels Maharashtra Day reception
Mumbai: The Governor of Maharashtra CH. Vidyasagar Rao has strongly condemned the Naxal attack in Gadchiroli district and conveyed his deepest condolences to the kin of the police personnel who lost their lives in the attack. In a message, the...
SP’s Varanasi candidate’s nomination rejected
Sacked soldier Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination for the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat has been cancelled by the Election Commission after he allegedly failed to meet the deadline for submission of certain documents. The Samajwadi Party candidate said the nomination has been...
15 Security Personnel Injured In Blast By Maoists in Gadchiroli
Fifteen security personnel have been injured in an explosion set off by Maoists in Gadchiroli. An improvised explosive device (IED) blast was triggered on a police vehicle in the Maoist-affected district. The incident comes weeks after an IED blast near...
Naxals torch 27 vehicles of road construction company in Gadchiroli
Naxals set ablaze more than 27 machines and vehicles at a road construction site in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on Wednesday. The incident took place at Danapur area in Kurkheda Taluka of the district on late Tuesday. According to reports, a...
Rahul: Burning files won’t save you, Modiji
Spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi may have quit the Congress, but the party's witty repartes are intact. Congress president Rahul Gandhi reacted to the fire at Shastri Bhavan tweeting, @RahulGandhi "Modiji burning files is not going to save you. Your day...
Bombay Dyeing-GoAir Owner Ness Wadia sentenced for drug possession
New Delhi: Ness Wadia, son of industrialist Nusli Wadia and inheritor of one of Indias wealthiest business families, has been sentenced for drugs possession while on a skiing holiday to Japan. Financial Times has reported that Ness Wadia, heir to the...
Rahul gets 15 days to prove Indian citizenship
Rahul Gandhi has been given a fortnight by the Home Ministry to explain his "factual position" over a complaint about his Indian citizenship. The complaint is from BJP parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy, who has for years been alleging that the Congress...
AI continues to face software shutdown impact; 29 flights delayed on Monday
As many as 29 Air India flights were delayed by over an hour on Monday as the airline's operations continued to be impacted by the software shutdown that happened on Saturday. While the glitch experienced by the check-in software...
Low voter turnout in Mumbai, State records 51% till 6 pm
Mumbai: Even though stakes are high for political parties vying for the reigns of India’s financial capital, Mumbaikars are seemingly failing to break the jinx of a low voter turnout. The overall voter turnout across 17 constituencies in Maharashtra including six...
Clashes in Asansol, Babul Supriyo’s car vandalised
Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Babul Supriyo's car was vandalised during poll related violence in West Bengal's Asansol on Monday. There were also reports of clash between Trinamool workers and security personnel at a polling booth in Asansol. Babul Supriyo accused the...
Don’t know PM’s caste, Congress fighting polls on development plank: Priyanka
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted the opposition over "politics of caste", Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said her party never made personal remarks against the PM and was fighting the ongoing Lok Sabha polls on...
Long queues at Delhi airport as immigration server goes down
New Delhi: Hundreds of passengers faced a harrowing time at the Delhi airport early Monday as the server of the immigration system encountered technical glitches. An Air India official told news media that the immigration system server was down for more...
Mumbai, Hindi heartland states vote in 4th phase
Voting began on Monday for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls in 72 parliamentary constituencies spread across nine states. About 12.79 crore people are eligible for voting in the fourth of the seven-phase elections. The Election Commission has set...
1 killed, 3 injured in shooting at US synagogue
At least one woman was killed and several others suffered injuries when a man opened fire at a synagogue in the Californian city of Poway on Saturday. CNN quoted Poway Mayor Steve Vaus, who described the shooting as a possible hate...
7 states including Maharashtra put on alert after terror attack call
Mumbai: Seven states, including all south Indian ones, were put on alert late on Thursday after the Bengaluru police received a tip-off about a possible terror attack on multiple cities and the gathering of a group of terrorists in Tamil...
3 blasts at Tata Steelworks plant in UK
At least three blasts were reported at the UK's largest Tata Steelworks plant in Port Talbot, injuring two persons, according to a media report. The blast at the plant in Port Talbot, Wales occurred around 3.35 am (local time), BBC...
SC reserves order on ‘conspiracy against CJI’
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the issue of setting up an inquiry committee to probe an advocate's claim that there was a "conspiracy" to frame Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in a sexual harassment case. A special bench...
Army begins recruitment of women jawans
Opening up a new avenue for females, the Indian Army on Thursday kicked off the process of inducting women as jawans by starting their online registration for recruitment in the corps of military police. This is being seen as...
Withdraw Pragya’s candidature: Ex-bureaucrat
A group of 71 retired civil servants have taken strong objection to Bharatiya Janata Party's Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur's statement that her "curse" killed decorated IPS officer Hemant Karkare, and demanded withdrawal of her candidature. ...
Egyptian Envoy wants Twin City pact between Alexandria and Mumbai
Mumbai: The newly appointed Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to India Dr Heba Salaheldin Almarassi on Wednesday said that she is working on establishing a Twin City arrangement between Mumbai and Alexandria city to promote bilateral trade and...
