Worldwide WhatsApp outage, WhatsApp down
WhatsApp users worldwide are experiencing problems with the app with reports coming in from India, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Germany, USA an Sri Lanka, reports www.express.co.uk. Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social comments around a certain topic to monitor outages across...
Final hearing on all Aadhaar cases by Nov end
New Delhi: The Supreme Court issues a notice to the Centre on pleas challenging the linking of bank accounts and mobile numbers with Aadhaar. All Aadhaar-related pleas to be taken up for final hearing by SC's constitution bench in November...
Constitution Bench to go into note ban, hear plea on depositing old currency
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has disposed of 14 individual petitions seeking its nod to deposit demonetised currency and asked the petitioners to file a plea before the Constitution Bench. Besides examining the Centre's decision on demonetisation, the...
Powerful explosion rocks nightclub in Sweden
A powerful explosion mangled the doors of a nightclub in Malmo, Sweden, on Thursday, but no casualties have so far been reported. The city has recently been hit by a series of blasts, reports RT. A bomb squad and a team...
Maha tourism minister demands ban on Bhansali’s ‘Padmavati’
Mumbai: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming film "Padmavati" has once again run into difficulties after Maharashtra Tourism Minister Jaykumar Rawal demanded a ban on the film and said the state government would be writing to the Censor board on the issue. The...
Illegal pandals: Bombay high court issues notice to civic chiefs
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday took a stern view of the "inaction" against the illegal pandals set up during Ganesh Chaturthi and Navratri, and issued notices to commissioners of three civic bodies, asking them to explain why contempt...
Eyeing 2019? Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray meets TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee in Mumbai
Mumbai: Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray met with Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, a development bound to affect the already-strained alliance with the BJP in Maharashtra. Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aditya visited Mamata Banerjee, who is in Mumbai,...
Co-op bank Chief BJP MLC Pravin Darekar accused by Shiv Sena of violating loan norms
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -Shiv Sena tussle has now reached the banking sector. The Mumbai District Central Cooperative Bank Limited is once again embroiled in controversy after it approved a loan worth Rs68 crore to an irrigation firm...
Trump will ask Congress to end green card lottery program
Washington: Calling terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov "an animal," President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will ask Congress to end the immigration lottery program, which he blamed for allowing Saipov to enter the United States. "I am today starting the process...
Mumbai : Worli Unit of Anti Narcotics Cell bust interstate drug cartel, 2 peddlers arrested , 2kg 80 gm heroin worth Rs. 2 cr 8 lakh seized
Mumbai: Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested for allegedly possessing heroin worth Rs 2.08 crore from Sion here, police said today. Deputy Commissioner of Police (ANC) Shivdeep Lande told newsagency that last night sleuths attached to the Worli Unit of Anti...
Gujarat poll is not just a ‘chunav’, it’s a ‘chunauti’ for BJP: Shatrughan Sinha
New Delhi: There is anger among people over good and services tax and demonetisation and the writing on the wall is clear that the Gujarat assembly election is not just a 'chunav' (poll) for the BJP but a 'chunauti' (challenge),...
Explosion at NTPC unchahar plant in Rae Bareli, 15 dead
New Delhi: At least 15 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured after a boiler tube exploded at National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) unit in Unchahar of Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district. The blast reportedly took place...
Cooking gas, jet fuel prices hiked
New Delhi: Cooking gas (LPG) price was today hiked by Rs 4.50 per cylinder, the 19th increase in rates since July 2016 when the government decided to eliminate subsidy on it by raising prices every month. Also, jet fuel or...
Ease of doing corruption replaced by ease of doing business: Jaitley
New Delhi: Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tweeted, "The difference between the UPA & NDA -- The ease of doing corruption has been replaced by the ease of doing business." The tweet comes after...
Fake ‘PMO Director’ held by Delhi police
New Delhi: Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested a man masquerading as a director in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office (PMO), reports said on Wednesday. The man nabbed by the Special Cell has been identified as Kanhaiya Kumar. He's also known...
Indians unhurt in New York city terror attack: Consulate
New York: No Indian casualties have been reported in the deadly terror attack in New York city that killed at least eight people, the Consul General of India in New York said today. At least eight persons were killed and...
Everyone knows truth but let Jaitley be happy: Rahul on Ease of Biz report
New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has taken on the government over India's promotion in the World Bank rankings on Ease of Doing Business, saying, "everyone knows the truth". "Sabko maloom hai 'ease of doing business' ki hakikat, lekin khud ko...
Siddaramaiah does a Raj Thackeray
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said that people living in Karnataka should learn Kannada and emphasised that not knowing the regional language would mean showing disrespect to it. Siddaramaiah was speaking at the 62nd Karnataka Rajyotsava celebrated in...
He has arrived: Rahul Gandhi, the new Twitter rage, is on cloud 9
Rahul Gandhi's leadership has blossomed in the last two months. Gone are the days when he was ridiculed as a “Pappu” by Modi bhakts. He is now a rage on Twitter giving Modi punches through one-liners. This author decodes...
Vyapam: CBI gives clean chit to Shivraj Singh Chouhan
New Delhi: Giving a clean chit to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the Vyapam scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) rejected allegations that the computer hard discs seized from a suspect were tampered. The agency also filed...
8 killed in New York terror attack, suspect in custody
At least eight people were killed and 11 others injured in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon local time after a gunman in a truck plowed through a busy bike path, an incident the United States termed as an "act of...
