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...
PM credits Team India for WB ranking in ‘ease of doing biz’
New Delhi: Describing World Bank's latest annual 'ease of doing business' report as historic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it is the outcome of the all-round and multi-sectoral reform push of Team India. "Historic jump in Ease of Doing Business...
India jumps 30 notches to 100th rank in ‘ease of doing biz’
New Delhi: India has jumped 30 places to rank 100th in the World Bank's 'ease of doing business' ranking, helped by a slew of reforms in taxation, licensing, investor protection and bankruptcy resolution. The ranking comes as a shot in the...
Man claiming to be Mughal descendant lays claim over Ayodhya site
File Pic Lucknow: A man claiming to be the descendant of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar today staked claim over the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site insisting that the demolished mosque belonged to Babur, therefore, he should be appointed the...
Army’s job is to train for war, not to build bridges: Punjab CM
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today criticized the central governments decision to rope in the Indian Army for rebuilding the Elphinstone bridge in Mumbai, terming it as "deplorable" and "an admission of the failure" of the government and the...
Delhi HC sets aside election of Praful Patel as AIFF president
New Delhi: The Delhi high court today set aside the election of Praful Patel, who was last year elected as the president of All India Football Federation for a four-year term, his third successive tenure. The court set aside the elections...
No Farmer Commits Suicide in Hinglajwadi, and It’s All Thanks to Women. Here’s How!
Hinglajwadi: Droughts, repeated crop failures and overburdening debts are the primary reasons why farmers in India are left with no option other than taking their lives—sometimes it is an entire family that succumbs to the garbling clutches of death. However, the...
