6 killed after gunmen open fire at mosque in Canada’s Quebec City
Quebec: Six people were killed and eight more injured after gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque, police said today. Police spokeswoman Christine Coulombe told journalists that two suspects were arrested following the attack that police were treating as...
Tax rates may be slashed, says top Modi minister
New Delhi: With less than 48 hours to go for the Union Budget to be presented, the government has dropped a hint that tax rates may be slashed. Speaking at Budget Aajtak, micro, small and medium enterprises minister Kalraj Mishra said...
NCP will never support BJP and compromise on secularism: Pawar
Mumbai: NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has scotched rumours that his party was cosying up to BJP, saying it will never support the saffron party nor join hands with communal forces and compromise on secularism. "There are rumours being spread that...
Woman techie found dead on Infosys Pune campus, guard arrested
Pune: A 25-year-old woman working with Infosys was found murdered at her office in Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park in Hinjewadi in Pune on Sunday. K Rasila Raju, who hailed from Kerala, was allegedly strangled with a computer wire. The incident took...
Rahul and I are like two wheels of a cycle: Akhilesh Yadav
Days after stitching up an electoral alliance for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav are addressing a joint press conference in Lucknow on Sunday. Highlights: Akhilesh Yadav: Rahul Gandhi and I are...
Muslims fear that Trump’s visa ban will boost terrorist groups
Washington: Across the Muslim world, the refrain was resounding: President Donald Trump's freeze on refugee arrivals and visa requests from seven predominantly Muslim countries will have major diplomatic repercussions, worsen perceptions of Americans and offer a propaganda boost to the...
Dare Bhansali to make movie against Hitler in Germany: Karni Sena chief
Rajasthan: Defending its action of vandalising the sets of upcoming Indian period drama Padmavati and assaulting its director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the Rajput Karni Sena on Saturday warned that they will not let the history of their ancestors be tarnished,...
Sena feels “wasted” quarter century in alliance with BJP
Mumbai: After deciding to go it alone in civic polls in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena today unleashed a stinging attack on BJP, saying it feels it had wasted a quarter century by being in an alliance with the saffron party for...
Was molested by Jallikattu protesters, says Chennai woman cop
Chennai: When M Durga Devi on Tuesday first narrated her experience of being caught in the blazing Ice House police station the previous day, she hadn't told the whole truth. On Thursday, the head constable held back nothing, revealing to...
Rajasthan home minister says attack on Bhansali will be probed
Rajasthan: Condemning the attack on filmmaker Sanjay Lela Bhansali by Rajput Karni Sena workers, Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Singh Kataria on Saturday said that flouting law to express anger is not called for, adding that a probe would be initiated...
Donald Trump Signs Order to Bar Citizens From 7 Muslim Countries
WASHINGTON: US President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries. In...
Heartbroken by Donald Trumps order: Malala
Representational Pic New Delhi: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate, said she was heartbroken by Donald Trumps order on refugees and urged the US president not to abandon the worlds most defenseless. I am heartbroken that today...
PM fist-thumps Badal: You will rarely see a person like him
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing a public gathering in Jalandhar, Punjab, ahead of the assembly polls, scheduled for February 4. Highlights... -- On the one hand, we have preparations for Basant Panchami, and on the other, preparations are being...
Assam Governor Purohit to hold Meghalaya charge as Shanmuganathan quits
Banwarilal Purohit (File Pic) Nagpur: In a fast development, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday appointed Banwarilal Purohit, Governor of Assam, to discharge the functions of the Governor of Meghalaya. The President accepted the resignation of V Shanmuganathan, as Governor of...
Sena-MNS alliance for BMC polls? Answer in 48 hours
Mumbai/Nagpur: With Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray precluding all chances of an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming civic polls, including Mumbai, in the state, there is a possibility of the party sewing an alliance with...
Amarinder is Cong CM candidate: Rahul in Punjab
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is addressing a rally in Majithia, Punjab where the party will be launching a mega offensive against the Badals. Rahul announced that Capt Amarinder Singh will be the next Punjab CM. Rahul is on a...
I’m Indian, Salman tells court on being asked about his religion
Salman Khan, who appeared in a Jodhpur Court today in the 1998 black buck poaching case, told the court that he has been falsely accused of killing black buck during a film shoot in 1998. "I am innocent," he told...
Meghalaya Governor V Shanmuganathan resigns after controversy over alleged sexual misconduct: sources
Shilong: Meghalaya Governor V Shanmuganathan has resigned, days after a controversy was triggered by reports in local media, which accused him of sexual misconduct. The reports had quoted a woman who had come to seek a job at the Governor's...
Akhilesh writes to PM to defer Budget till polls end
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to defer presentation of the Union Budget till the completion of poll process in five states. The letter sent to the prime minister...
SC rejects PIL seeking total ban on cow slaughter across India
Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking complete ban on cow slaughter in every state. "One state may ban slaughter, the other may not... We will not interfere in state laws," the Supreme Court said as it rejected the petition seeking...
14 jawans killed in Gurez avalanche, 4 bodies recovered
Bodies of four missing soldiers recovered from Kashmir avalanche site in Gurez sector; death toll reaches 14, says the police. Ten soldiers were killed as two avalanches hit Gurez Sector of Kashmir, an army official said on Thursday. An avalanche hit an...
