Conducted 3 cross-border strikes in 5 years: Rajnath
Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said apart from the surgical strike after the Uri terror attack and the air strikes in Pakistan's Balakot after Pulwama, there was a "third strike" but stopped short of giving details. "In the last five years,...
EC to review poll readiness today
The Election Commission today to hold a key meeting to finalise modalities the high-voltage Lok Sabha elections. The meeting will be chaired by chief election commissioner Sunil Arora. Two other election commissioners and other officials of the poll commission will attend...
Start probe into “missing” Rafale papers from Parrikar: Rahul
The probe into the "missing" Rafale papers should start from Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar who had claimed files related to the deal were with him, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said Friday. Parrikar was Defence Minister when the Rafale deal was...
AG Venugopal makes U-turn, says Rafale documents not stolen
Attorney General K K Venugopal Friday claimed the Rafale documents were not stolen from the defence ministry and that what he meant in his submission before the Supreme Court was that petitioners in the application used "photocopies of the original"...
Chief Ayodhya mediator Kallifulla: Will resolve issue amicably
First reactions from Justice (Retd) FM Ibrahim Kalifullah on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case. "I understand the Supreme Court has appointed a mediation committee headed by me. I'm yet to receive the order copy. I can say if...
SC gives 8 weeks to complete mediation in Ayodhya case
Supreme Court says mediation process has to start within four weeks and to be completed within eight weeks. The next hearing is in six weeks. The SC has said that the mediation process must be kept extremely confidential, which means...
Sri Sri among three mediators in Ayodhya case
Supreme Court's Constitution Bench refers Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case for court appointed and monitored mediation for a "permanent solution'. Justice Khaliifulah (Retd) to be the chairman, for court appointed and monitored mediation for a "permanent solution', and also...
Sonia to contest LS polls from Rae Bareli, Rahul from Amethi
New Delhi: Congress releases first list of 15 candidates for Lok Sabha elections. The list contains 11 candidates from Uttar Pradesh and four from Gujarat. United Progressive Alliance chairman Sonia Gandhi to contest from Rae Bareli and Congress president Rahul Gandhi to...
Shut down BARC and Tarapur nuclear plants to avert mega-disaster: Student’s PIL
Mumbai: Expressing apprehensions of a potential mega-disaster in view of recurring earthquakes in Maharashtra’s Palghar, a Mumbai student on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court, demanding a safety review and shutting down of all the nuclear facilities at the Bhabha...
‘We will not reveal sources of Rafale docs’
The Hindu Publishing Group Chairman N Ram on Wednesday said that no one could force them to reveal the confidential sources who provided them with Rafale documents. "We are well protected. We didn't steal any documents," N Ram said while speaking...
Rafale documents stolen from Defence Ministry: Govt tells SC it will to take action
Certain documents pertaining to the Rafale fighter jets deal were stolen from the Defence Ministry and a probe has been initiated into the matter, the Government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Attorney General (AG), KK Venugopal made the submission during...
Not concerned about what Babur had done: SC on Ayodhya case
The Supreme Court Wednesday said it was conscious of the gravity of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute and the outcome of mediation on the body politic of the country. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi...
VK Singh’s proposal to count casualties in air strikes: Tie Oppn to planes
A belligerent VK Singh tells news agency that the next time India conducts an air strike, Doubting Thomases in the opposition should be tied to the IAF jets and dropped at the location of the strike so that they...
Digvijaya Singh dares PM to file case against him
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to file a case against him over allegations from BJP leaders that he was an anti-national and a Pakistan supporter. In a series of tweets, Singh, who stirred...
Maharashtra MoU conversion rate higher than national average: CM Fadnavis
Mumbai: The rate of conversion of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) into actual investments in was far higher in Maharashtra than the national average, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday. Fadnavis was addressing a gathering after unveiling a new 5-year industrial...
Police busts cricket betting racket, arrests 2 bookies
Hyderabad: The Task Force of Police have busted a cricket betting racket at Old Bowenpally, Secunderabad on Tuesday and arrested two bookies accepting cricket betting amount from punters directly and over phone for the ongoing Indian Premier League 2019 Cricket...
Fire breaks out at Delhi’s CGO complex, 24 fire engines rushed in
New Delhi: A fire broke out at a building that houses government offices in central Delhi this morning. The fire broke out on the fifth floor of the Pandit Deendayal Antyodaya Bhawan at CGO Complex. 24 fire engines have been rushed...
Explosive devices found airports, station in London
Suspicious packages were found on Tuesday near London's major transport hubs of Heathrow Airport, Waterloo station and London City Airport, prompting Britain's counterterrorism police to launch an investigation. The packages – all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags -...
Huge Quantity of Explosives, Detonators Seized From a House in Palghar
Palghar: A large quantity of detonators and explosives were seized from Maharashtra's Palghar district on Monday. According to a tweet by ANI, the explosives were found in a house in Palghar when police was conducting a search in the area...
PM slammed for joke on dyslexia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced severe backlash from the opposition and the general public alike, after he cracked a 'joke' on people with dyslexia at the expense of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi, though neither...
Jaish chief Masood Azhar is ‘not dead’, says Pak media report
India's most wanted terrorist and Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar is "alive", a Pakistani media report said on Sunday, quoting unnamed sources close to his family. The media reports claiming that JeM leader is dead are false, Geo Urdu News reported. The report...
