On Birthday, 107-Year-Old Wishes To Meet Rahul Gandhi, why? She whispers … He’s handsome !
It was her birthday, and the 107-year-old had a wish. She wanted to meet Rahul Gandhi, the 47-year-old chief of Congress. Her grand-daughter, who tweeted the conversation, also reported why. Her tweet was accompanied by a photograph of the birthday girl,...
After surgical strike, Indian Army crosses over LoC and kills 3 Pak soldiers
Jammu: In retaliation to an earlier ceasefire violation, the Indian Army soldiers crossed over the Line of Control to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Tuesday and killed three Pakistani troops, as per Intelligence sources. One Pakistani soldier was also injured. This was in retaliation...
Rajinikanth meets fans, likely to make political announcement this week
Chennai: Superstar Rajinikanth, who has kept everyone guessing on whether he will join politics, began meeting fans in Chennai today in a six-day outreach that is widely expected to end with him revealing his plans on December 31, New Year's...
Mumbai: Fire Breaks Out in 31-Storey Building, Rescue Work on
Mumbai: A major fire broke out in a residential building in the Malabar Hills area of Mumbai on Monday. Reports said that 17th and 18th floors of Legend Building were engulfed in fire. Dense smoke could be seen billowing out...
Modi takes a ride on Delhi Metro’s new magenta line; no Kejriwal at event
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a ride today on Delhi Metro's new Magenta Line connecting the capital with neighbouring Noida for the first time. A 12.6-km section of the line connects south Delhi's Kalkaji and Noida's Botanical Garden. PM...
17 train cancelled, 26 delayed due to fog in north India
New Delhi: At least 17 trains were cancelled while several others arrived late as fog enveloped parts of north India today. According to a Northern Railway spokesperson, at 6 am, 17 trains stood cancelled, 26 were delayed and six others were...
Kulbhushan Jadhav’s wife and mother reach Islamabad to meet him
New Delhi: Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav’s wife and mother on Monday arrived in Islamabad for a meeting with him at the foreign affairs ministry, officials said. TV footage showed a convoy of around seven vehicles escorting Jadhav’s family in the...
School in Mumbai bans Muslim female students from wearing Hijab
Mumbai: A private school in Thane, Maharashtra has taken a decision to ban Muslim female students from wearing hijab citing security on the premises. This decision was resented by parents and they protested against the school management. Going into the details,...
Smuggle cows and you will get killed: BJP MLA in Rajasthan
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja has courted a controversy by saying that people who will smuggle and slaughter cow will be thrashed to death. Ahuja's statement comes days after a man was beaten up by mob in Alwar district...
Do not go by the quarterly (GDP) data; they are all bogus claims Subramanian Swamy
Ahmedabad: BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has been unapologetic in openly deriding his party, lately. In what can be seen as a major allegation, the senior party leader alleged that the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) data on GDP should not be...
Vajpayee turns 93; VP, PM wish him
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee turned 93 today. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished him on his birthday. "His phenomenal as well as visionary leadership made India more developed and further raised our prestige at the...
Major Prafulla Ambadas Moharkar from Bhandara killed in Pak firing
Jammu: Pakistani troops opened fire on an Indian Army patrol, killing a Major and three soldiers, along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keri sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Saturday, officials said. The latest violation of the...
Eight-year-old Dies of Dengue at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital; Family Charged Rs 15.88 Lakh
Gurugram: The family of an eight-year-old boy suffering from dengue, who later died, was charged Rs 15.88 lakh for 21 days by Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. The case is similar to that of Fortis Hospital which charged the family of a...
Indian Railways bust ‘Make in India’ by seeking to import over 7 lakh tonnes’ of rails
File Pic New Delhi: Is this a blatant case of one Ministry of the Indian government itself flouting the P.M.'s Make in India diktat? Or are their hands tied due to availability compulsions? The steel and rail ministries are at loggerheads...
Victory for The Wire as Court Lifts Injunction Granted to Jay Amit Shah
New Delhi: The civil court, Mirzapur, Ahmedabad on December 23, 2017, vacated the ex parte ad interim injunction imposed on The Wire in the wake of its recent story on the the meteoric rise in the business activities of BJP...
2G and the ‘notional loss’ caused by Yoga Guru Ramdev
Has the Government and the nation suffered any ‘notional loss’ because of the enormous tracts of land given away for the Yoga Guru’s FMCG business at throwaway rates? Has Yoga Guru Ramdev caused any “notional loss” to the nation? The question...
Lalu Prasad Yadav convicted in Deoghar fodder scam case
Ranchi: Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and 22 others accused in the fodder scam were acquitted by a special CBI court in Ranchi today. The case relates to embezzling of more than Rs 89 lakh from the Deoghar Treasury...
The whole foundation of BJP is based on lies: Rahul after CWC meet
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi addresses the media after chairing first Congress Working Committee meet as the party president: "The whole architecture of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) is about lies, the whole structure is about lies." "Everyone knows about 2G, the truth has...
Is the tide turning for Modi?
New Delhi: Yesterday, it was a shocking negation of all the 'explosive' 2G scam charges - a scam that was supposed to have robbed the country of a whopping Rs. 1760000000000/ !!! The amount was so humongous that of course the...
PM Modi, shed raaj-hatth, clarify remarks on Manmohan: Cong
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to shed his "raaj-hatth" (stubbornness) and clarify in parliament his 'conspiracy with Pakistan' remarks against his predecessor Manmohan Singh to end the stalemate and enable a discussion on issues...
Anti-India editorial in Maldives paper sparks political row
New Delhi: A pro-Abdulla Yameen paper has kicked up a fresh political storm in the Maldives by describing in an editorial Indian PM Narendra Modi as a Hindu extremist who is also anti-Muslim. The editorial in the local Dhivehi language...
