Can’t hurt Indian woman’s pride: Uma Bharti on Padmavati row
New Delhi: Union Minister Uma Bharti is the new entrant in the controversy surrounding the release of movie Padmavati. Uma tweeted an open letter on November 3 stating she cannot remain neutral over the Padmavati controversy and urged people not to...
Shell companies deposited Rs 17,000 cr after demonetisation
New Delhi: Around 2.24 lakh companies have been struck off till date for remaining inactive for two years or more, the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs said on Sunday in a release. Some of these companies are suspected to be...
Poachers kill rhino, calf in Kaziranga; 3 rhinos dead in 48 hours
Representational Pic Kanchanjuri: Assams Kaziranga National Park -- a World Heritage Site -- on Saturday night lost a rhino and her calf after poachers used an AK-series weapon to gun down the animals. This was the second incident of poaching...
ATS arrests Islamic State suspect at Mumbai airport
Mumbai: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad on Sunday nabbed an ISIS suspect from Mumbais International Airport. Identified as Abu Zaid, the suspect is believed to have run an ISIS network involving several youths from Western Uttar Pradesh while staying in Dubai. He...
Hyderabad’s biryani, Tirupati laddoo & idli-dosa get India Post stamp
Hyderabad: The aroma of Hyderabad's trademark cuisine biryani, baghare baingan and seviyan -- may 'waft' through the air the next time you receive a mail from the India Post. These three signature dishes of Hyderabad have made their way into India...
Maharashtra govt okays new township in Palghar
Navi Mumbai: The new township development project in the vast expanse of Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) is Palghar district where the Devendra Fadnavis government has allotted 440.37 hectares to Cidco to develop the chunk of landmass in the district, close...
Station manager suspended after Hema Malini escapes bull attack
Mathura: Days after Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hema Malini narrowly escaped a bull attack at the Mathura Junction railway station, the station manager has been suspended for allegedly failing to curb the menace, an official said today. Station manager K L...
Uddhav hails Mamata, says she defeated Left ‘without tampering with EVMs’
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today hailed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a 'tigress' for decimating the communists in her state, a task, which the saffron party said, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party had 'failed'...
Niti Aayog sees India to be free of poverty, corruption by 2022
File Pic New Delhi: Government think tank Niti Aayog has envisaged a New India by 2022 which will be free of poverty, dirt, corruption, terrorism, casteism and communalism. According to New India @2022 document presented by Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv...
Rashtrabhasha Row : HC sends contempt notice to Chief Secy over change of user
Nagpur/Mumbai: The row over Maharashtra Rashtrabhasha Sabha seems to be far from over even though it got a reprieve from State Government. The original petitioner Citizens Forum has filed a contempt petition before High Court against top officials charging them...
Ruckus at Fadnavis programme in Ralegan Siddhi, CM leaves place in a huff
File Pic Nagpur/Ralegan Siddhi: A youth went berserk and created ruckus at the programme of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday. The youth has reportedly been detained by the security guards of Fadnavis. According to reports, the Chief Minister was attending...
One life, one mission — bringing change to my country, says PM
Addressing at India's Business Reforms event in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that his life's only mission is to bringing change in the country and to its 1.25 billion people is my mission. Here are some highlights: - One...
3 killed in stampede in Bihar’s Begusarai
Three people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a stampede which broke out in Bihar's Begusarai district, news agency ANI reported. The incident took place at Simaria Ghat in Begusarai, where devotees had thronged for Kartik Purnima celebrations. ...
Mangle couple arrested for demanding Rs 10 crore from tainted MSRDC chief Mopalwar
Thane: A couple, who had demanded extortion money from the tainted MSRDC chief Radheshyam Mopalwar, was arrested by the Anti-Extortion Squad of Thane police on Friday. The accused, Satish and Shraddha Mangle, had demanded Rs 10 crore as extortion from...
WhatsApp back after global outage
WhatsApp, which suffered a global outage today for a brief period, with users reporting problems accessing the app, is now back and running. According to downdetector.com, WhatsApp was down in India, parts of the Middle East, Philippines, Germany, USA and...
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...
