Amit Shah to meet Fadnavis over Maratha agitation
MUMBAI: Keeping in the ongoing agitation by Maratha community demanding reservations in education and jobs, National President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah is expected to meet Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Phadnavis on Monday evening. The Maratha community has...
14 Naxals killed in Sukma
In a massive victory to the security forces in Chhattisgarh, at least 14 Maoists were killed in an encounter on Monday near Sukma's Konta and Golapalli police station limits. The security forces also recovered 16 weapons from the spot.According...
Hearing on J-K’s Article 35A adjourned to August 27
NEW DELHI: A two-judge bench hearing petitions on the repeal of Article 35-A on the Constitution has adjourned the hearing, saying the third judge was not present. The three-judge bench will now hear the case on August 27. The court...
Those not in NRC draft won’t be jailed or deported: NRC coordinator
New Delhi: The conflagration over the Assam NRC may have been doused just a bit. Prateek Hajela, State Coordinator of NRC on Sunday, said people, whose names have not been mentioned in Assam's National Register of Citizens draft, will not...
Where are the jobs, Gadkariji: Rahul launches fresh attack on Center
New Delhi: You've got to hand it to the Congress Party's social media head Divya Spandana for taking on the Centre and the BJP at every available instance, which in these trying times, is enormous. @RahulGandhi pat response to Union...
Shweta Bachchan Nanda’s Father-in-Law Passes Away in Delhi
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda’s father-in-law, Rajan Nanda passed away in Delhi. The Chairman and Managing Director of Escorts Limited was the husband of late actor Raj Kapoor’s daughter Ritu Nanda. He was declared brain dead...
Fire Breaks Out at Kolkata’s Priya Movie Theatre; no Casualties Reported
A massive fire broke out at the Priya Cinema, one of the most popular movie theatres in Kolkata, on Sunday night. According to media reports, at least three people are feared trapped in the fire. Five fire engines have reportedly reached the...
Amit Shah meets MSD
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah today met Indian cricketer M S Dhoni as a part of party's "Sampark for Samarthan" initiative. The BJP's programme is meant to reach out to political allies -- as well as prominent personalities -- ahead...
Maratha reservation will be granted by November, says Maha CM Devendra Fadnavis
MUMBAI: Devendra Fadnavis today said that all constitutional obligations in connection with the granting of reservations to the Maratha community in the state would be completed by November this year. Fadnavis, making a 15 minute address on state television and radio,...
Man commits suicide, mentions lack of reservation for Marathas
A 25-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in neighbouring Navi Mumbai today, with his purported suicide note mentioning his anguish over the Maratha community not getting reservation, police said. It would be the eighth such suicide in the state in...
Man beaten to death in Haryana over suspicion of cattle theft
JAIPUR, INDIA - APRIL 06: A cow wanders the streets at the local markets in the walled city centre on April 6, 2010 in Jaipur, India. Jaipur which is the captial city of Rajasthan state is popularly known the...
Man carrying knife enters Kerala House, tries to attack CM Vijayan
A man tried to barge inside Kerala House in Delhi with a knife today. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was present inside. According to the police report, the man in question is 80 per cent mentally unstable and has been...
Imran Khan’s swearing-in ceremony to be postponed?
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, who is set to be sworn in as the next prime minister of the neighbouring country, may not take oath of office next Saturday, as expected earlier. The swearing in ceremony is now expected to...
Osama bin Laden’s mother breaks her long silence
For the first time, Osama bin Laden's mother, Alia Ghanem, has given an interview. Conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Martin Chulov of The Guardian, the interview is noteworthy because bin Laden, the architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and...
Man enters ex-CM Farooq Abdullah’s Jammu home, shot dead
In a serious security breach, a man forcibly drove into the residence of former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar, both Z-plus protectees, and ransacked the house before being shot dead by Central Reserve Police Force personnel guarding...
Maharashtra Civic Polls Results: BJP wins from both Jalagaon and Sangli
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday won both Jalgaon and Sangli civic polls. Celebrations began outside BJP office in Mumbai as the results were announced. As many as 754 candidates contested for 153 seats in these two cities...
Maharashtra Crime: Child Pornography Racket Busted, Five People Held
Five people were arrested on Friday from Maharashtra's Navgarh district on charges of running a child pornography racket on social media. Following a tip off, the Navghar police raided several places in the state. "After receiving information via our sources, we...
Ambassador of El Salvador meets Maha Governor
The Ambassador of the Central American Republic of El Salvador Ariel Jared Andrade Galindo met the Governor of Maharashtra CH. Vidyasagar Rao at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on Friday (3 Aug). The Ambassaodor told the Governor that El Salvador is...
Jet Warns Airline May Be Grounded In 60 Days Unless There Are Pay Cuts
New Delhi: India's biggest full-service carrier Jet Airways Ltd has told its pilots the airline may be grounded in 60 days unless cost-cutting measures including pay cuts are put in place, a senior company executive told Reuters on...
Maharashtra civic polls: BJP takes lead in Jalgaon, Sangli
Mumbai: The results for the Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad Municipal Corporation (SMKMC) in western Maharashtra and Jalgaon Municipal Corporation (JMC) in the north of the state have started tricking. The BJP has taken a clear lead in Jalgaon (75 wards), miles ahead of the...
