Congress to skip iftaar party, hand out ration to poor
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has announced the cancellation of her customary Iftaar party this year, sending ripples down the line. Partymen say the cancellation is the result of a combination of factors. The first is that Rahul...
Gurudas Kamat withdraws resignation, returns to Congress
Mumbai: Gurudas Kamat withdraws his resignation from the Congress. Kamat, who had quit the party recently said, "During last fortnight a large number of senior party leaders tried to convince me to rethink the decision. Meeting with party president Sonia...
21-year-old Raped at Gunpoint, Pistol Inserted in Her Private Parts
The girl is grievously injured and has been hospitalised where her condition is critical. Motihari: A 21-year-old girl was raped at gunpoint and a pistol and wooden particles were inserted in her private parts in Motihari in Bihar. The girl is...
Focus now on creating jobs: NITI Aayog tells government
New Delhi: The government should focus on labour-intensive sectors such as electronics, food processing, leather, textiles and garments to create good jobs, weaning away people from agriculture, says the mid-term appraisal by the NITI Aayog of the 12th Five-Year Plan...
Won’t go after Arvind Subramanian if govt sees him as patriotic: Swamy
File Pic New Delhi: Seemingly unrepentant, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today said he will "suspend" his demand for sacking the chief economic advisor if the government considers him patriotic despite his attempts in the past of trying to twist India's...
Pakistani Sufi singer Amjad Sabri shot dead in Karachi
Amjad Sabri died on his way to hospital after being shot in his car Karachi/ Nagpur: One of Pakistan's most famous singers, Amjad Sabri, has been shot dead in the southern city of Karachi. Two gunmen fired on his car in the busy...
Prez tweets pics ‘Abode of Gods’
Dehradun/Nagpur: President of India @RashtrapatiBhvn Dehradun, India More pictures of beautiful Uttarakhand, also known as Dev bhoomi or abode of the Gods. President Pranab Mukherjee's scheduled visit to the Kedarnath shrine in the Rudraprayag district of Uttaranchal was cancelled at the...
Have a list of 27 people I need to fix: Subramanian Swamy
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: After waging war on Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said that he has a list of 27 people with him, who are working within the government and...
ISRO continues to break new barriers: PM Modi
Image: The prime minister tweeted this TV grab of him watching the PSLV-C34 putting the 20 satellites into orbit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation following the successful launch of...
Swamy now wants Arvind Subramanian, Modi’s chief economic adviser, sacked
New Delhi: After targeting RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, BJP parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy's next target seems to be Arvind Subramanian, the Chief Economic Adviser to the government. In a series of tweets today, Swamy targetted Subramanian saying: "Modis chief economic adviser Arvind...
ISRO launches 20 satellites in a single mission
Sriharikota: Indian Space Research Organisation's trusted workhorse PSLV-C34 lifted-off with 20 satellites at 9.26 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. In its 36th flight, the PSLV-C34 will launch the 727.5 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation and...
Sanjay Valvani, accused of insider trading found dead
Brooklyn: Sanjay Valvani, the Visium Asset Management partner charged with insider trading last week, was found dead in an apparent suicide at his Brooklyn home. New York City police were called to his home on Monday night, where they found a...
Pakistan High Commission invites separatists for Iftar
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Separatist leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, have been invited by the Pakistan High Commission for the annual Iftar party in New Delhi on June 25. Most of the...
Ragged nursing student critical, forced to drink toilet cleaner
File Pic Karnataka/Nagpur: A female nursing student from Kerala who was subjected to cruel ragging in a nursing college at Gulberga in Karnataka has been hospitalised in a serious condition. The student was forced to drink cleaning fluid. She has been...
JD (U) corners PM Modi, says ‘masters of event management’ branding yoga
Patna/Nagpur: The Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is indulging in unwarranted politics in the name of yoga and dubbed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to be 'masters of event management'. JD (U) leader Sanjay...
NCW gives Salman 7 days to apologise for rape comment
New Delhi/Nagpur: Lalitha Kumaramangalam, National Commission for Women chief, told some news agency that the commission has Salman Khan a letter asking why he made the remark. This is very sad. Just because he is Salman Khan doesn't mean he...
Income Tax Department to Block PAN, LPG Subsidy of Defaulters
Representational Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: In order to cripple and check the activities of wilful tax defaulters, the Income Tax department has decided to "block" Permanent Account Number (PAN) of such entities, get their LPG subsidy cancelled and take measures to...
I’m not a chappal to be worn and thrown, says sacked K’taka Cong MLA
Karnataka/Nagpur: Smarting over his removal as a minister, Kannada mega-star MH Ambareesh offered this message to his party, the Congress, today: "I am not a chappal (Slipper) that can be worn and then thrown away," he told media. Ambareesh, 63, was...
Delhi: Rape victim kills self
New Delhi: A 21-year-old woman, who was allegedly raped by a friend on the pretext of marriage, allegedly committed suicide at her residence in east Delhi's Harsh Vihar area, police said today. The woman was allegedly being pressurised to agree to...
Embrace Yoga as part of daily life: PM Modi, leads Yoga Day celebrations in Chandigarh
Chandigarh: Earlir in the morning, calling on the world to embrace Yoga as a discipline in everyday life, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the ancient Indian art was the most selfless of its kind, as it did not discriminate,...
Govt relaxes FDI norms, allows 100% in Aviation and Defence sectors
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: In a strategic move, the Government eased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms for nine sectors, including Defence, Food Products, Civil Aviation, Pharmaceuticals, Broadcasting, Retail Trade, suggesting a plucky drive to push reforms. The latest move comes two...
