California University shooter Mainak Sarkar an IITian
California/Nagpur: Los Angeles police on Thursday identified the man who killed a professor before committing suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles as Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student and an IITian. Meanwhile, the 'kill list' police discovered through his...
CM Fadnavis submits ‘factual report’ to Amit Shah on row surrounding Khadse
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The BJP will decide 'appropriate action' on Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, who is in the eye of a storm over allegations of corruption, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Thursday. After a meeting with party chief...
Fire breaks out at Colaba causeway in Mumbai
Mumbai/Nagpur: A major fire broke out in a building in Mumbai on Thursday evening. As per reports, the fire broke out in the Metro House located near Regal Cinema in Colaba. TV channels broadcast visuals of the fire in which thick black...
Will take govt to court, says Indira Jaising on NGO licence suspension
New Delhi: Days after the Union Home Ministry suspended for six months the FCRA registration of non-government organisation Lawyers Collective for alleged violations of foreign funding norms, its founder Indira Jaising has termed the government action as mala fide and...
Activist Anjali Damania begins fast seeking inquiry against Khadse
Mumbai: Social activist Anjali Damania begins fast unto death protest at Azad Maidan, Mumbai seeking inquiry against Bharatiya Janata Partys senior-most minister in Maharashtra, Eknath Khadse. Khadse has been facing charges of corruption. Damania, who released a set of documents alleging Khadses...
Gulbarg Society case: 23 convicted; BJP corporator among 36 acquitted
File Pic: Gulbarg Society Ahmedabad/Nagpur: A court of Ahmedabad on Thursday acquitted 36 of the 66 accused in the 2002 Gulbarg society communal riots case relating to the massacre of 69 persons, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri. BJP corporator Bipin...
Sachdeva murder: Patna HC defers bail plea of Bihar MLC Manorma Devi
Patna: The Patna High Court on Thursday deferred the hearing of the bail plea of suspended JD-U legislator Manorama Devi, mother of Rocky Yadav who is accused of killing Aditya Sachdeva on May 7 in Gaya town, to June 6. Manorama...
India’s largest tricolour unfurled in Telangana
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday unfurled a 300 feet high national flag at an event commemmorating the state's second foundation day at Sanjeevaiah Park. After much consideration, the Airports Authority of India and Director General of Civil...
Journalist Rajdeo’s murder: Shahabuddin aide surrenders
Siwan: In a major development in Bihar journalist Rajdeo Ranjan's murder case, key accused Laddan Miyan, a close aide of former RJD MP Shahabuddin, surrendered before court on Thursday. Rajdeo Ranjan, district bureau head of a leading vernacular newspaper, was shot...
Modi has been invited to Washington because of the country he represents and not his name: Senator
File Pic Washington: Underscoring that relationship between India and US is "not about one person", key American Senator Ben Cardin on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited to Washington because of the country he represents and not...
CBI raids residences of wanted accused in Dabholkar assassination case
Narendra Dabholkar (File Pic) New Delhi/Nagpur: The CBI on Wednesday conducted a raid at the residence of an alleged ‘Sanatan Sanstha’ member Sarang Akolkar, wanted by NIA in connection with the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar. 34-year-old Akolkar is alleged to...
Over 50000 Muslims sign petition against ‘un-Quranic practice’ of talaq
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Over 50,000 Muslims have signed a petition spearheaded by Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) seeking a ban on triple talaq. The online petition calls the triple talaq system ‘un-Quranic practice’. Commenting on the ongoing movement, BMMA co-founder Zakia...
Akhilesh questions authenticity of Dadri beef report
File Pic Lucknow/Nagpur: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today questioned the authenticity of the forensic report which stated that the meat found from Dadri lynching victim Mohammad Akhlaq's house was of "cow or its progeny", even as BJP leader...
Time for baton to be handed over Sonia tells senior Cong leader
New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi has said that it's time for "the baton to be handed over to someone else," senior Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh told NDTV today in Chandigarh, donating the latest installment to talk that her son, Rahul,...
Cabinet reshuffle in Mid June, 7 Union ministers may be dropped
File Pic New Delhi: If sources are to be belived than seven Union ministers are to be dropped in a reshuffle whenever it happens. "But God knows when it will happen!" he exclaims. Rashtrapati Bhavan was told to prepare for the...
PM will extend Raghuram Rajan’s tenure: Sources
Mumbai: Facing continuous attack from BJP MP Subramanian Swamy and other sections, questions have been raised as to whether Raghuram Rajan would be considered for a second term as RBI Governor when his tenure ends in September. The answer, according to...
Arms dealer Bhandari ‘admits’ to email from Robert Vadra
New Delhi/Nagpur: Alleged arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari has admitted before Income Tax officials that e-mails were exchanged among him, Robert Vadra and his assistant Manoj Arora, a report said on Wednesday. During his interrogation, Bhandari is reported to have confessed that...
Compliance window for domestic black money opens today
New Delhi/Nagpur: The 4-month disclosure window giving an opportunity to domestic black money holders to come clean by paying tax and penalty of 45 per cent on such assets will open today. People who have made money through corrupt means will...
Dadri lynching: Meat in freezer was beef, says new report
Dadri: New test, new result. A meat sample recovered from the Dadri incident victim's house, belongs to cow or it's progeny, says a new forensic report. The meat was found in the freezer of 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq, who was attacked by...
Case against Kejriwal for calling PM ‘psycopath’ dropped
New Delhi: Defamation case against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for defaming PM Modi has been dropped. A private criminal complaint had been filed against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a Delhi for using defamatory words against Prime Minister Narendra Modi following...
Conspiracy to deliver Congress-mukt Bharat, says Sonia on Vadra probe
File pic New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has dared the government to "conduct an inquiry if you have proof " over the NDTV report into whether her son-in-law, Robert Vadra bought a benami house in London by an arms...
