MCD Polls: Kapil Sibal calls out Congress for ‘sidelining’ veteran leaders
New Delhi: Admitting that lack of unity was a contributing factor to the Congress not winning the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls which was swept by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal called out the...
Vinod Khanna dead, he was 70
Mumbai: Vinod Khanna, the original heartthrob of Hindi films, died this morning. He was reportedly battling with cancer for years.The actor was 70. In his long Bollywood career, he worked in more than 100 films, and was an active politician, and...
Separatist leader Asiya Andrabi arrested in Jammu & Kashmir
Srinagar: Separatist leader Asiya Andrabi was arrested in Srinagar late on Wednesday night. A heavy contingent of police, along with the SHO, arrested Andrabi from her residence in Soura at 11:30 pm on Wednesday. Andrabi is the founder of a separatist organisation...
Contempt notice to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for blaming centre, NGT over floodplains damage
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal on Thursday issued a contempt notice against Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for blaming the government and the green panel over damage to the Yamuna floodplains. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson...
Facing multiple resignations after poll losses, Kejriwal calls MLAs’ meet
New Delhi: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will be holding a damage control or rather an emergency meet with his MLAs in the wake of the drubbing in the MCD polls yesterday. A barrage of MLAs have offered to resign after...
3 army men martyred as terrorists attack army camp in Kupwara
Kupwara: An Army camp in Panzgam area of Kupwara was attacked allegedly by terrorists early Thursday morning. At least two attackers have been killed, NDTV reports, adding that searches are being carried out to ascertain if there are any more attackers. Reports...
Kept telling govt to speed up road work: CRPF DIG after Sukma attack
Raipur: Two days after Maoists killed 25 men from the Burkapal camp of the CRPF 74 Battalion while they were trying to secure an under-construction road in south Sukma, a top CRPF officer said he had repeatedly raised the terribly...
Days after Sukma attack, CRPF gets new chief
New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar was today appointed as the Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force, two days after 25 personnel of the force were massacred by Naxals in Chhattisgarh. The paramilitary force was headless for...
Harbhajan complaint: Pilot de-rostered, says Jet Airways
New Delhi: Jet Airways says a full-fledged internal investigation is underway over the complaint by cricketer Harbhajan Singh that an expat pilot with the airlines hurled 'racist' comments at and physically assaulted a woman on a flight. The airlines said the...
Harbhajan appeals against ‘racist’ Jet pilot for abusing flier
New Delhi: An expat pilot with Jet Airways hurled "racist" comments at and physically assaulted a lady on a flight, cricketer Harbhajan Singh claimed today. Stating that the pilot also abused a physically challenged man, Singh termed the incident as "disgraceful"...
EC bribery case: Delhi court sends TTV Dinakaran to five-day police custody
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday sent AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran to five-day police custody. Dinakaran was arrested by the Delhi police on Tuesday night after four days of grilling in the EC bribery case. He was accused of...
You can’t Google in Kashmir for a month
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered the suspension of internet services in the trouble-hit valley for a period of one month or till further orders. In an order, the Home Department has said that internet services in Kashmir valley...
Chetan Bhagat in plagiarism row; courts stays sale of ‘One Indian Girl’
New Delhi: Writer Chetan Bhagat has been accused of plagiarism; his latest book ‘One Indian Girl’ is the subject of litigation in a Bangalore court. Bhagat has been accused of plagiarising the work of Anvita Bajpai, who wrote a book...
Centre has no plan to tax farm income: Arun Jaitley
New Delhi: Union Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs Minister Arun Jaitley has categorically dismissed any prospect of the government bringing agricultural income into the income tax net, a day after the Centre’s think tank NITI Aayog mooted the idea. “I have...
Kulbhushan Jadhav case: Indian high commissioner demands consular access to Naval officer
New Delhi: Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale on Wednesday said he met Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry to reiterate demand for consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been awarded death sentence by the Islamabad military court. The Pakistan Army...
Adityanath govt cancels 15 public holidays in schools, colleges
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday cancelled 15 public holidays marking the birth or death anniversaries of eminent personalities. Instead, students in schools and colleges would now be taught about them on these days, the Cabinet decided today at a...
Bill Gates praises PM Modi for executing ‘Swachh Bharat’ mission
File Pic New Delhi: Bill Gates, world’s richest man and co-founder of Microsoft, has applauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ mission, saying that he has put a spotlight on a subject that most of us would rather not even...
Delhi Results: BJP Set For Huge Win, Arvind Kejriwal Spurned
New Delhi: The BJP is set to retain all three municipal corporations in Delhi for which elections were held on Sunday. It is leading in all three by huge margins, with Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress neck and...
Fake passport case: Underworld don Chhota Rajan sentenced to 7 years in jail
New Delhi: A special court on Tuesday awarded a seven-year-jail term to underworld don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan and three other government officials in a fake passport case. Patiala House Court had on Monday convicted Chhota Rajan and three...
We will continue to wail over coffins without CRPF reform: Lt Gen Panag
Raipur: Lt General HS Panag, who was vilified and viciously trolled recently for criticising the Indian army for using a "human shield" to protect themselves from stone pelters in Kashmir's Budgam district, weighs in on the CRPF operations in Naxal...
Public sector bank merger healthy for banking system: RBI governor
New York: RBI governor Urjit Patel has said the Indian banking system could be better off if some public sector banks are consolidated to have fewer but healthier entities, as it would help in dealing with the problem of stressed...
