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...
Samsung meets DGCA to extinguish fire over exploding phones
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Senior executives of Samsung today met officials of aviation regulator DGCA, two days after one of the company's high-end smartphones caught fire inside an IndiGo aircraft. During the meeting, which lasted for more than an hour, the...
Shoe thrown at Rahul Gandhi during roadshow in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur
Uttar Pradesh/Nagpur: A shoe was thrown at Rahul Gandhi on Monday during his roadshow in Uttar Pradesh. The shoe missed the Congress leader narrowly but the attacker was arrested. Mr Gandhi was riding in an open top vehicle on a prominent...
Rain fury in Telangana: 1000 evacuated; Godavari in full spate
With heavy downpour pummelling Telangana over the past few days, authorities are keeping a watch on the flood situation even as over 1,000 villagers were evacuated in Karimnagar district. The water from the under-construction Mid Manair Dam in Boinapally mandal of...
ISRO’s multiple-satellite rocket launched
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is gearing up for its longest and most complex mission till date - launching multiple satellites from one rocket into two different orbits. The 37th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV takes off from...
Patient at Ranchi hospital served food on floor, staff say no plates
In one of the most disturbing visuals to surface in the middle of a debate over poor facilities in hospitals across the country, a patient eats straight from the floor of a hospital ward in Jharkhand capital Ranchi. Palmati Devi, her...
Lata Mangeshkar to be conferred with Bengal’s highest civilian honour
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to confer state's highest civilian honour, the 'Banga-Bibhushan', to legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. Mamata announced on her Facebook page that the 86-year-old singer has accepted the proposal in a letter. "I...
4 dead as gunman opens fire in Washington mall
Four people were killed in a shooting at a mall in Burlington, Washington, a spokesman for the state patrol tweeted. Police are searching for at least one shooter, and are sweeping stores in the mall, Sergeant Mark Francis said. Burlington...
DGCA summons Samsung officials after Note 2 phone catches fire on Chennai flight
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: India’s aviation regulator has summoned officials of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd to appear before it on Monday after a Samsung phone caught fire on a Chennai-bound IndiGo flight in the first such incident on an Indian...
Delhi HC okays WhatsApp privacy policy
New Delhi/Nagpur: In other news, the Delhi High Court has reportedly okayed WhatsApp's new privacy policy under which the company will share some user data, including phone number of a user, with its parent company Facebook. According to media, the court...
Scarlett Keeling murder verdict: Both accused acquitted of all charges
New Delhi/Nagpur: Scarlett Keeling murder verdict: Two Indian men charged with raping and causing the death of British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling on a Goa beach in 2008 have been acquitted of all charges. Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Keeling was found bruised and half-dressed...
