I can’t be neutral, Punjab’s interest paramount, Sidhu on quitting RS
New Delhi/Nagpur: BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who put his papers as a Rajya Sabha MP today reacted to reports that he was headed to the Aam Admi Party. Refusing to corroborate or rebuff reports, Sidhu said Punjab's interest was paramount. "In...
Rane raises objections to govt ordinance
Congress Leader Narayan Rane (File Pic) Pune/Nagpur: Congress leader Narayan Rane today raised strong objection to the ordinance moved by BJP-led government in Maharashtra for creating MMRDA-like authorities in Pune and Nagpur. He contended that the government was violating the spirit...
BJP’s Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns from Rajya Sabha
New Delhi/Nagpur: Navjyot Singh Sidhu resigns from Rajya Sabha. The veteran cricketer and three-time Amritsar MP, seemed to have headed towards a rehabilitation within the Punjab unit of the BJP after the Narendra Modi-led government nominated him to the Rajya Sabha. Sidhu...
Over 100 Nude Women Pose Against Donald Trump In Cleveland
Women participate in a photo shoot by artist Spencer Tunick in his latest large-scale art installation. Cleveland: More than a hundred women stripped and posed naked with mirrors in Cleveland, answering a photographer's call to blend art with politics and...
Repentant Kejriwal cleans dishes at Golden Temple
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday morning apologised at the Golden Temple for mistakes made by that party that included equating a manifesto with the Guru Granth Sahib and printing its symbol, the broom, on the cover of the...
Pak model Qandeel Baloch murdered by her brother; honour killing suspected
Multan: Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch was murdered by her brother in Multan on Saturday. According to the Express Tribune, the actor-cum-model was shot dead by her younger brother. However, conflicting reports claimed she was strangled to death. "Baloch was killed by her...
In the path to welfare, there are fewer friends and more critics: PM
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired the 11th meeting of Inter-State Council in national capital New Delhi. The meeting assumes significance in wake of the BJP-led NDA regime's efforts to ensure the passage of the Good and Services...
Kashmir’s first IAS topper slams media for ‘sadistic propaganda’
Kashmirs first topper in the Indian civil services examination on Friday accused a section of the electronic media of "pitching one Kashmiri against another and breeding more alienation" in the state rocked by violence over the killing of militant leader...
Watch Video: Sania Mirza’s fitting reply to Rajdeep Sardesai who later apologises!
Karaara Jawaab is the word we call it in our desi lingo! This is certainly what ace tennis player Sania Mirza belted out to journalist Rajdeep Sardesai who ruffled the wrong feathers while interviewing here. Rajdeep simply posed a question...
2002 Hit-and-run case: SC declines victim’s plea against Salman’s acquittal
New Delhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear victim Niyamat Shaikh's plea challenging Salman Khan's acquittal in the 2002 hit-and-run case. While rejecting the plea, the apex court said that the 'petition of Maharashtra Government challenging Salman Khan's acquittal...
Zakir Naik, ‘Messenger of peace’, says suicide bombing permitted as tactic of war
Condemns terror attack in Nice...accuses Zee News reporter of not having tameez... Mumbai/Nagpur: Pleading that he has never encouraged terrorism, controversial Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik on Friday, July 15, alleged that the Indian media was pillorying him just because...
Mamata’s escort vehicle falls into gorge near Darjeeling, CM safe
File pic Kolkata/Nagpur: One of the escort vehicles in the convoy of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee falls into a gorge, while it was on its way from Darjeeling to Bagdogra airport. CM Mamata Banerjee was in a separate vehicle in...
Pune’s ‘gold shirt man’ bludgeoned to death in front of son
Pune/Nagpur: A 48-year-old businessman from Pune, who shot into the limelight after buying a 'gold shirt' worth over Rs 1 crore some years back, was allegedly bludgeoned to death in front of his son, police said today. Datta Phuge, the businessman...
US deported 54 Indians in April, another batch coming
Fifty-four Indians were deported back from the US in April and another set of Indians from the country will be sent back to India this month, a top US official said. "India has improved its timeliness in issuing travel documents to...
At least 80 killed as truck rams Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France
Nice, France:: An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said. Counter-terrorist...
It’s official: Sheila Dikshit is Congress party’s CM candidate for UP
New Delhi/Nagpur: Sheila Dikshit announced as the Congress Party's CM candidate for UP. The state goes to the polls in 2017. The announcement was made at a press conference today by senior leader and UP poll-in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad. Speculations on the...
26/11 plotter Hafeez Saeed’s Twitter handle suspended
New Delhi/Nagpur: The official Twitter account of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was suspended on Thursday. The Twitter handle - @hafizsaeedlive was suspended by Twitter following reports by Indian security agencies that it was being used to incite violence following the...
Rape remark: Salman refuses to apologise, says NCW has no jurisdiction
Mumbai/Nagpur: Salman Khan refuses to apologise to the Maharashtra Commission for Women over his rape remark. Salman replies to the National Commission for Women saying it does not have the jurisdiction to take up the case. The National Commission for Women...
Jigisha Murder: All three accused found guilty
New Delhi/Nagpur: All the three men - Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik and Ravi Kapoor - accused in the murder of IT executive Jigisha Ghosh, have been found guilty. The three men are also accused of killing TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, who...
We Pakistanis should support our Kashmiri brothers: Hafiz Saeed
Kashmir/Nagpur: Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed said that the ongoing protests on the Indian side of Kashmir would be intensified and warned that the deaths in the region would not be in vain. Addressing a meet in Lahore on Tuesday, Saeed...
Sheila Dikshit set to become Cong face for UP polls
Uttar Pradesh/Nagpur: Congress veteran Sheila Dikshit is set to become the party's chief ministerial candidate for next year's Assembly polls in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh. Election strategist Prashant Kishor had recommended that Dikshit should play a major role in the...
