Ayodhya verdict : Supreme Court dismisses intervention applications; Swamy’s plea to be heard by separate bench
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday began the hearing on Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid land dispute case. While hearing the issue, Supreme Court told Subramanian Swamy that he is not a party to the core issue of Ayodhya matter. Replying...
Bihar By Election Results 2018: RJD Surges Ahead in Araria & Jehanabad, BJP Leads in Bhabua
Bhabua: After completion of the 20th round, BJP's Rinky Rani is leading by 13,130 votes with 55,838 votes in Bhabua. This is the first electoral battle in the state since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who also heads the JD(U), walked...
Chants of Bua-Bhatija Zindabad ring out in Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur: SP's Praveen Kumar Nishad leading with 2,12,061 votes, BJP's Upendra Dutt Shukla second with 1,92,860 votes after 14th round of counting. Termed by Yogi Adityanath as a "rehearsal" for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the by-elections are witnessing a triangular...
Gujarat shocker! Congress, BJP MLAs scuffle in state Assembly
A ruckus was reported in Gujarat Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress reportedly exchanged blows over tabling of the report of Justice DK Trivedi Commission in Asaram Bapu case. As per media reports, Congress MLA Pratap Dudhat...
Prof Stephen Hawking dead, reports British media
British media as saying that Professor Stephen Hawking has died, says their family spokesperson. An update by the BBC also said that Prof Hawking has died at the age of 76. Prof Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of...
Gadkari says big dams won’t help, time to build rubber dams, check dams
New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has pushed for the irrigational reforms in farm sector and viewed that larger dams would not help in benefitting the farmers as less authorities are interested in getting the water to the farms. Gadkari...
How can Rane be BJP’s RS candidate without membership: Sena
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena today asked how Narayan Rane be the ally BJP's candidate for Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra when he is not a member of the saffron party. Rane quit the Shiv Sena in 2005 on a bitter note and...
Sonia’s dinner with Opposition: Tejashwi, Pawar among attendees
New Delhi: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhis dinner with leaders of the Opposition parties, on Tuesday, is being attended by the likes of Tejashwi Yadav, Sharad Pawar, Omar Abdullah and Kanimozhi. The dinner is expected to set the tone of a united...
Mumbai cops book Sri Lankan citizen for forgery, links with terror groups suspected
Mumbai: The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Mumbai has registered a case of cheating, forgery and other cases against a Sri Lankan citizen named Mohd Khizar Hussain Tuhan alias Kaizar Khan (50). Based on the complaint of ATS, the Azad Maidan...
State to pay Rs 9.45 cr compensation, withdraw cases against Bhima-Koregaon rioters: CM
Pune/Mumbai: After witnessing state-wide bandh and violence over January 1 Bhima-Koregaon caste riots in Pune, the State Government has decided to withdraw cases against the accused, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the Assembly on Tuesday. Fadnavis also said that the...
60% of Narendra Modi’s 40.3 million followers are fake
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has many credentials to his name, but his most talked about credential of being the most followed Indian leader on Twitter with 41 million followers should be underplayed given that more than 60% of...
SC extends deadline for linking Aadhaar to bank accounts, phones
New Delhi: The Supreme Court extends the deadline for linking Aadhaar to bank accounts and telephone linking. The deadline was supposed to be March 31 for linking Aadhaar with both bank accounts and mobile phones. The deadline has been extended...
Dawood Ibrahim Protected by Pak, Impossible to Deport Even HIs Servant, Says Farooq Takla
New Delhi: Underworld don and 1993 Mumbai serial blasts prime accused Dawood Ibrahim is being guarded by Pakistani rangers in Clifton, Karachi, revealed Farooq Takla. Takla also revealed that Dawood has been kept at a Karachi safe house with his...
Industrialist Brijlal Khurana passes away
Hingoli: Brijlal Khurana (85), owner of Hingoli Industrialist and Khurana Travels, passed away at a private hospital in Sambhaji Nagar this morning. Khurana has made significant contribution in the field of transport, education and co-operatives, and he has also worked...
Chhattisgarh: 9 CRPF personnel killed in Naxal attack in Sukma district
File Pic Sukma: At least nine personnel of the 212 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and two injured in a powerful IED blast by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Tuesday. Personnel were conducting an area-domination...
Is party hopping a sign of machismo: Renuka Chowdhury on Naresh Agarwal
New Delhi: Ministers unite across party lines to condemn Naresh Agarwal's comment on Jaya Bachchan. Congress party's Renuka Chowdhury reacts: Jaya-ji is an achiever, even before marrying Amitabh Bachchan she was famous as Jaya Bhaduri. Saari party ghumte hain (Naresh...
Amitabh Bachchan falls ill during shoot in Jodhpur
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has fallen ill while shooting the Aamir Khan film, Thugs of Hindostan, in Jodhpur. He was taken suddenly ill during the middle of the shoot. A team of doctors were flown in from Jodhpur to check on...
Delhi HC judge recuses herself from hearing Karti’s bail plea
New delhi: Justice Indermeet Kaur of the Delhi High Court today recused herself from hearing the bail plea of Karti Chidambaram, arrested by the CBI in the INX Media corruption case. Justice Kaur, who did not give any reason for...
Judge Loya case: Lawyers’ body brings on SC record order passed by Bombay HC in case involving Devendra Fadnavis
New Delhi: A Mumbai-based lawyers' body today brought on record in the Supreme Court an order of the Bombay High Court to allege that one of the two judges, who had given statement in the Judge B H Loya death...
BJP IT Cell Fails to Discredit the #KisanLongMarch
As the Kisan March in Maharashtra caught the fancy of Social Media, the BJP IT Cell went into panic mode and tried to trend #KisanThanksDevendra. They circulated a 22-page Google document which was a collection of talking points in support...
Eleven Airbus 320 (neo) planes of both IndiGo and GoAir will have to be grounded: DGCA
File Pic New Delhi: Eleven Airbus 320 (neo) planes of both IndiGoBSE -0.68 % and GoAir will have to be grounded, as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered grounding of all planes fitted with even one affected...
