Nitish govt moves SC to challenge prohibition order
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The Bihar government has moved the Supreme Court to challenge a Patna HC order which scrapped the Nitish Kumar government's decision banning sale of liquor in the state. The state's appeal will be filed and mentioned before...
Parrikar holds closed-door meet with army, navy, air force chiefs
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar chairs high-level security meet. Army Chief Dalbir Singh, Air Force Chief Arup Raha and Navy Chief Sunil Lanba present. This comes in the wake of the attack on an army camp in Baramulla,...
Black money worth Rs 65,250 crore disclosed: Arun Jaitley
New Delhi/Nagpur: A whopping Rs 65,250 crore in black or untaxed money has been disclosed by 64,275 declarants under the centre's Income Declaration Scheme so far, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. The four-month window for tax evaders to come...
Pakistan in shock after army’s surgical strikes: Manohar Parrikar
New Delhi/Nagpur: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday warned Pakistan against taking India's silence as weakness, days after the Indian Army stunned Islamabad by conducting surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control. Parrikar said Pakistan did not...
Pakistan to ban all Indian channels nationwide
Representational Pic The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has taken the decision of banning all Indian channels nationwide. It said that strict action would be taken as per law after October 15 if TV channels and distribution networks failed to follow...
Artists should realise ‘Nation first’: Raj Thackeray on banning Pakistani actors
A day after Salman Khan backed Pakistani actors working in India saying terrorism and art are two different things and should not be mixed, Maharashtra Navnirma Sena's Raj Thackeray slammed the Bollywood actor saying that artists should realise nation comes...
Difference between terrorists and artists, says Salman on Pak ban
Salman Khan holds forth on Indian Motion Picture Producers Association announcing a ban on Pakistani actors and technicians from working in India. The superstar said, "There is a difference between terrorists and actors; Pakistani artists come with permission and visa issued...
SC cancels ex-RJD strongman Shahabuddin’s bail
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court has cancelled former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin's bail today. "He will be taken to jail forthwith," said Prashant Bhushan who had filed an appeal with the apex court. Earlier in September, the...
Only DGMO, not ministers, will brief media on surgical strikes
New Delhi/Nagpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed members of the Cabinet Committee on Security not to speak to the media about Wednesday night's surgical strike across the Line of Control, and has said that only the director-general of military...
Fadnavis fights like ‘women at community water tap’: Supriya Sule
Taking a jibe at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for being 'short-tempered', Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule has said that he 'fights like the way women squabble over water at community taps'. Addressing women workers of NCP in Maval tehsil...
Surgical strike effect: Sensex crashes over 550 points
Representational Pic Mumbai/Nagpur: The BSE benchmark Sensex crashed over 550 points in afternoon trade Thursday on all-round selling following the news of surgical strikes by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. The Sensex, which...
Uri avenged: Indian Army conducts surgical strikes along LoC, kills Pak-trained terrorists
New Delhi/Nagpur: The Indian Army on Wednesday night conducted surgical strikes and caused "significant casualties" on terrorists along the Line of Control, announced Director General Military Operations (DGMO), Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, on Thursday. Reports said India conducted eight surgical strikes...
MFN on backburner as PM calls meet on Pak’s LoC violations
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: PM Narendra Modi chairs Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting on situation on the LoC. The meeting that was to be called by the PM to review the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan has...
Will ensure SAARC summit is on time: Nepal
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Refusing to support India's decision to pull out from the scheduled 19th SAARC Summit followed by Bhutan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Nepal, the present Chair of SAARC, has strongly urged the member countries to ensure the summit...
Against RSS ideology, says Rahul in court to fight defamation case
Guwahati/Nagpur: Rahul Gandhi in Guwahati: "I am against the ideology of the RSS and other organisations that try to divide this nation. I'm fighting against the RSS ideology that divides the country; my work is to fight poverty. Such cases...
Don’t escalate situation with Pakistan: Kerry to Sushma Swaraj
The United States has asked India not to escalate the situation with Pakistan even as New Delhi explores a range of diplomatic options to isolate Islamabad. It has been reported that US Secretary of State John Kerry has had two conversations...
Lodha panel moves SC seeking removal of BCCI top brass for non-compliance orders
The Lodha panel has submitted a report to the Supreme Court on Wednesday saying that the Board of Control for Cricket in India is ignoring its recommendations on bringing changes in its governance. The Lodha panel has requested for an urgent...
Playboy features first Muslim woman in hijab
Playboy magazine, once famous for bunnies and soft porn, for the first time is featuring a Muslim woman wearing a hijab, in a spread that is drawing both praise and criticism. American journalist Noor Tagouri appears in the magazine's October "Renegades"...
Ex-Delhi bureaucrat, accused of corruption, commits suicide along with son
Former bureaucrat BK Bansal, who was out on bail in a corruption case, today committed suicide along with his son, two months after his wife and daughter had hanged themselves for the same reason. BK Bansal, who was a former...
Indian-origin lawyer shoots 9 in US, killed by police
A cars windows are shattered by bullets at the scene of a shooting along Wesleyan at Law Street in Houston that left multiple people injured and the alleged shooter dead. Houston: An Indian-origin lawyer with apparent Nazi sympathies went on...
Pakistan can abandon the dream of having Kashmir: Sushma@UNGA
New Delhi/Nagpur: In a sharp rebuke to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's "tirade" on Kashmir, India on Monday said those accusing others of rights violations must introspect as it censured Pakistan for the first time at the UNGA for perpetrating the...
