Cauvery violence: Central forces deployed in Bengaluru
Central forces -- Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Railway Police Force -- have been deployed to assist Bengaluru City Police to maintain law and order all over the city. Quick Reaction Teams of Karnataka State Police have also...
Stung by tweet, Kejriwal calls journalist Shekhar Gupta a Modi agent
Early this morning, Arvind Kejriwal tweeted this in Hindi: 'If you want to do politics come out in the open. Earlier you were an agent of the Congress, now of Modi? Such people have given journalism a bad name.'
Domino’s to go pure veg during Navaratri in north, central India
United States pizza giant Domino's will turn all its outlets in north and central India completely vegetarian on the occasion of Navarati festivities starting early next month. According to an Economic Times report, about 500 Domino's stores in north, central and...
SC modifies order on Cauvery water release
Modifying its September 5 order on Cauvery water dispute, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Karnataka government to release 12,000 cusecs water to Tamil Nadu per day till September 20. Earlier, it had ordered Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs for...
Firing resumes in Poonch, one terrorist still holed up
Firing has again started in Poonch between terrorists and security forces and the encounter which was believed to have ended after elimination of three terrorists has again commenced. Reports say one terrorist is still holed up in the area where the...
JNU election results: Left alliance sweeps all 4 seats
New Delhi/Nagpur: The Left alliance on Saturday swept all the four seats in Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union elections. The elections that took place on Friday saw a good voter turnout of 60 per cent, significantly higher than the last two...
4.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Haryana, Tremors In Delhi And Gurgaon
New Delhi: Strong tremors were felt in Delhi and neighbouring Gurgaon and Noida on Saturday evening when an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter Scale struck Jhajjar in Haryana. Reports said strong tremors were felt in Gurgaon for nearly two seconds....
IT Capital Bengaluru comes to a standstill over SC decision on Cauvery water sharing
Bengaluru/Nagpur: As per the Supreme Court order, and despite many protests, water did flow from Karnataka to File Pic Tamilnadu - 15,000 cusecs of it from various water reservoirs near Mysore but two days later life in most of Karnataka came...
Army back in Kashmir’s crisis zone after 2 years
For the first time since 2014, the army took up positions in rural areas of four trouble-tossed South Kashmir districts of Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam and Anantnag, which witnessed the bulk of violence in the last two months, accounting for more...
DU Students’ Union Polls: ABVP Wins 3 Top Posts, NSUI Gets 1
New Delhi ABVP, the student's body linked to the ruling BJP, has won three of the top posts of the Delhi University Students' Union but ceded one position to the Congress's student wing NSUI. Elections of the Delhi University Students'...
Freed After 11 Years, Shahabuddin Of Lalu’s Party Jabs At Nitish
Bhagalpur: Nitish Kumar is a chief minister of "circumstances", said former RJD MP Mohd Shahabuddin, who was released from a jail in Bihar this morning after a decade of imprisonment. "My leader is Lalu Yadav," said Shahabuddin, whose name has...
SC seeks Centre’s response on AAP’s appeals against HC order on LG’s powers
New Delhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court on Friday issues notice to the Centre on Arvind Kejriwa I-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government's appeals, challenging the Delhi High Court verdict that the Lieutenant Governor is the administrative head of the national capital. The...
Separatist leader Geelani’s press conference foiled
Police on Friday foiled a press conference called by Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani at his residence by sealing off Hyderpora locality and forcing journalists to leave from the area. Police and paramilitary forces were deployed in strength in the area...
Apollo doctor arrested for allegedly raping dengue patient in ICU
Gandhinagar: A doctor of a major private hospital in Gujarat has been arrested for allegedly raping a dengue patient in the ICU earlier this week. The woman, who is being treated in the Apollo hospital in Gandhinagar, was allegedly raped twice...
Arvind Kejriwal’s car meets with minor accident in Jalandhar
The car in which Aam Aadmi Party supremo and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was travelling met with a minor accident in Jalandhar on Friday. The accident occurred when Kejriwal’s cavalcade was descending a flyover. His car was hit by...
Cauvery river strike brings Bengaluru to a halt, many stranded at airport
Bengaluru: A Karnataka bandh called by pro-Kannada outfits on Friday to protest against the Supreme Court's direction to release Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu threw normal life out of gear in many parts of the state including Bengaluru. Flights at...
Kapil Sharma Questions PM Modi’s ‘Achche Din’, Alleges BMC Demanding Bribe
The usually jovial Kapil Sharma seems quite unhappy with the nation's Prime Minister these days. The stand up comedian and host vent out his frustration on prevailing corruption in BMC on twitter. Kapil tweeted, “I am paying 15 cr income tax...
Stampede During Naval Exam in Mumbai’s Malad
Mumbai: Many people are feared injured in a stampede at a naval base in Mumbai's Malad, where thousands of candidates had gathered for a recruitment drive on Friday morning. Reports suggest the situation went out of control when around 6,000 candidates...
North Korea nuclear test suspected after ‘artificial’ quake
North Korea is suspected of carrying out its fifth test of a nuclear bomb, after a magnitude 5.3 earthquake was detected close to its test site. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said it had been an "artificial quake". An unnamed South Korean...
Writing on the wall for Amit Shah in Surat: Posters call him ‘General Dyer’
Ahmedabad/Nagpur: Posters saying ‘General Dyer Go Back’ have come up in Surat’s Patidar-dominated areas like Varachha on Thursday, hours before BJP chief Amit Shah is to be felicitated by the community’s business lobby. In other posters, Shah has been accused of...
Kejriwal only wants yes men, says Navjot Sidhu launching Awaaz-e-Punjab Party
Chandigarh/Nagpur: Navjot Singh Sidhu, dressed in black and white, spoke mostly in Punjabi as he launched a new political party, the Awaaz-e-Punjab, and broke his long silence on his aborted talks to join Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party. Mr Kejriwal wants...
