Sheila toes party line, targets PM in Sahara-Birla pay-off papers
New Delhi: Toeing the party line, Sheila Dikshit today targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi wondering why he was shying away from an independent probe into the 'Sahara-Birla' papers relating to alleged pay-offs, days after her comments questioning authenticity of the...
Famous Bengaluru garden Lalbagh takes toll of 6 year-old Vikram
Bengaluru: Gardens are meant for children to play in, right? Appalling official apathy turned it into a Killing field. Vikram Kumar, an active and playful six year old boy, the only child of his doting parents, had gone to Lalbagh to...
Indigo-SpiceJet face off at Delhi airport!
New Delhi: And another close shave, this time at Delhi airport. Two aircraft -- Indigo and SpiceJet -- came face to face with each other at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport this morning. The incident occurred when the Indigo flight was...
Have record of every single rupee, says Maya after ED crackdown
Lucknow: After ED crackdown, BSP chief Mayawati addresses the media in Lucknow. Mayawati says centre misusing power to malign party after Rs 104 crores is reportedly found in bank account belonging to BSP. The Enforcement Directorate on Monday detected cash...
Indrani Mukerjea out of jail for a day to perform father’s last rites
Representational Pic Guwahati: Sheena Bora murder accused Indrani Mukerjea performed the last rite rituals for her father in Mumbai on Tuesday, after she was allowed out of jail for a day by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation court. Mukerjea...
Election Commission to finalise poll plan on Wednesday
Representational Pic New Delhi: The Election Commission will hold an internal meeting on Wednesday, December 28, to decide the dates for the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur. This meeting is mainly to firm up dates of...
AgustaWestland scam: Ex-IAF chief SP Tyagi granted bail by Delhi court
New Delhi. A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to former air force chief Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi (retd), one of the three accused in the Agusta Westland chopper scam. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel earlier on December 23...
Hyderabad: ATM dispenses Rs 500 notes instead of Rs 100, loses Rs 8 lakh
Hyderabad: The incomplete recalibration of an ATM in Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad led to users getting an unexpected windfall, as the ATM disbursed new Rs 500 denomination notes instead of Rs 100 notes, on Saturday evening. As air travellers...
Russian Military plane crashes with 92 on-board, no survivors
A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, killing everyone on board, Russian authorities said. The Russian Defence Ministry...
Pune software engineer stabbed to death
In a gruesome attack as described by an eyewitness, a 23-year-old software engineer had been stabbed multiple times when she was seen running on a road in Pune on Friday night, possibly to lose her attacker. She was taken to...
PM Modi performs ‘jal puja’ for Shivaji memorial
Mumbai : Ever since it came to power in Maharashtra in October 2014, BJP has been quietly trying to usurp the near-monopoly that bickering ally Shiv Sena has held over the 17th century Maratha king for the last many years. The...
Rs 39.98 lakh in Rs 2,000 notes seized in Kerala, 1 arrested
Representational pic Kerala: Busting a currency exchange racket, police have seized Rs 39.98 lakh in Rs 2,000 denomination notes at Tirur area in Malappuram district of Kerala and arrested a man, already facing a hawala case, in this connection. While Rs...
Sanjay Nirupam alleges he was under ‘house arrest’ ahead of march against PM
Mumbai: Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam, who was supposed to lead a 'silent' march of his party workers at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai, the venue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public meeting, today claimed that he has...
Man suffers cardiac arrest in bank queue, dies
File Pic Mathura: A labourer died after he allegedly suffered a cardiac arrest while standing in a bank queue in Mathura to withdraw money "for the treatment of his son". Uma Shankar, a resident of Durga colony in Goverdhan, was queued...
We will not shy away from taking difficult decisions: PM
Mumbai: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated a new campus of Sebi-run National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) at Patalganga in neighbouring Raigad district near Mumbai, and said that he will not shy away from taking difficult decisions if they...
After I-T raids, ex-chief secretary Rama Mohana Rao admitted to ICU
Chennai: Tamil Nadu's ex-Chief Secretary P Rama Mohana Rao, whose premises was raided by the income tax department was this week, has been admitted to the Ramachandra hospital. Rao was admitted to ICU after he complained of chest pain. Rao was sacked...
Rahul trying to weaken fight against black money: BJP
File Pic New Delhi: Slamming Rahul Gandhi for levelling allegations of corruption against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP today said the Congress Vice President is engaging in "baseless and uncalled for rhetoric" only to weaken the fight against black...
Two men armed with grenades inside hijacked Libyan plane
New Delhi: A Libyan passenger plane with 118 people on board has been hijacked and forced to land in Malta, the airline Afriqiyah Airways has confirmed. Two hijackers armed with grenades reported to be in the plane. The Airbus A320 was...
Be relevant in politics: BJP to Rahul
New Delhi: Asserting that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is flogging a dead horse in the name of evidence against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday advised the former not to make himself a laughing stock,...
PM brings his own dabba to lunch with BJP booth workers in Varanasi
Varanasi: When 26,000 BJP workers in Varanasi broke for lunch yesterday, they were joined by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who brought his own packed lunch. The Prime Minister chatted individually with many of the workers at...
India to provide help on boy’s mother’s request in Norway: EAM
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said India will provide help on the request of the mother of the boy, who has been taken away by the Norway authorities even as Norwegian embassy here asked for "restraint" in...
