18 girls dead in fire at school dormitory in Thailand

Bangkok/Nagpur: A nighttime fire at a boarding school dormitory in northern Thailand killed 18 girls ranging from 5 to 12 years old, police and school officials said Monday. Five others were injured. The two-story wooden structure, which caught fire Sunday night,...

Police give Eknath Khadse a clean chit

Mumbai/Nagpur: Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse on Sunday virtually got a clean chit from the police who said no calls were made from or received on his phone from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s number as claimed by the Aam Aadmi...

India Launches First Ever Indigenous ‘Space Shuttle’ RLV-TD

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully test launched the first 'Made in India' space shuttle — called the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) — early on Monday morning from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The test launch is considered a...

Anurag Thakur Unanimously Elected as New BCCI President

Mumbai/Nagpur: Anurag Thakur was unanimously elected as BCCI President in the Board's Special General Meeting (SGM) here on Sunday. Thakur will be replacing Shashank Manohar who stepped down from the position to take up the ICC chief's job. Thakur, who was...

BJP leader Eknath Khadse on Dawood’s most-dialled list, Maharashtra govt orders probe

New Delhi/Nagpur: Days after the news reports that a phone number in the name of Maharashtra BJP minister Eknath Khadse was the most-dialled number by the underworld don and India's most-wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, Maharashtra government on Saturday ordered a...

Delhi court dismisses defamation plea against Arvind Kejriwal for ‘thulla’ remark for police

File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: A Delhi court on Friday dismissed a criminal defamation complaint filed against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by a police constable for allegedly using a slang "thulla" to describe policemen. Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg's order came as...

Congolese man beaten to death in Delhi

Representational Pic Noida/Nagpur: A 23-year-old Congolese national was allegedly beaten to death by a group of men in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area, police said on Saturday. What led to an argument that triggered the fight is yet to be ascertained. The...

UP farmer Manmohan Singh listed as Vijay Mallya’s guarantor; bank seizes accounts

File Pic Pilibhit/Nagpur: In a bizarre incident, Bank of Baroda bank has frozen the account of Manmohan Singh, a Uttar Pradesh-based farmer, for being a guarantor to liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is embroiled in charges of money laundering. Singh, a...

Harish Rawat visits injured BJP MP Tarun Vijay, says ‘God belongs to all’

File pic Dehradun/Nagpur: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Saturday visited Rajya Sabha member Tarun Vijay who was attacked by a mob on Friday after he came out of a temple with Dalit leaders in Chakrata, 180 kilometres from here. The...

Rajasthan’s Phalodi sizzles at 51°Celcius

• Ahmedabad breaks 100-year record

EgyptAir Flight MS804: Parts of Debris Found, says EgyptAir

Cario/News: In a latest development, EgyptAir has confirmed that the Egyptian armed forces have recovered debris of Flight MS804 from the Mediterranean Sea that went missing yesterday. According to EgyptAir, the Egyptian armed forces located wreckage and passenger belongings 290...

Powerless: ‘Batti Gul’ at Power Minister’s press meet!

New Delhi/Nagpur: Power minister Piyush Goel left red-faced on Friday when he was addressing a press conference in NDMC and suddenly the electricity supply cut down. Goel who is the minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New and...

Modi magic didn’t work, BJP couldn’t defeat Jayalalithaa, Mamata and Left

File Pic MUMBAI: Even after scoring in the state elections, the ruling BJP hasn't caught a break from its oldest but most fault-finding ally, the Shiv Sena. "The Modi magic has not worked. It is unfortunate but the BJP hasn't achieved...

Five state elections results is a Setback to NDA’s “reforms” agenda?

New Delhi: The BJP has finally won a state assembly, Assam, after losing Delhi and Bihar, but its problems in the Rajya Sabha will continue. The National Democratic Alliance has 66 MPs in the upper house. The lack of a...

Arnab Goswami’s BJP connection in Assam

Arnab Goswami on Times Now today marvelled at the decimation of Congress in Assam and the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party. This was the end of dynasty and the emergence of a more rooted set of BJP leaders. Here’s a...

Assembly Election 2016 Results disappointing, shouldn’t we go for a major surgery: Digvijay Singh

File Pic NEW DELHI: Soon after its crash on Thursday in another set of state elections, the Congress received lacerating, unsolicited advice from one of its senior leaders. "Today's results disappointing but not unexpected. We have done enough Introspection shouldn't we...

EgyptAir flight from Paris carrying 66 crashes in Mediterranean Sea

File Pic Cairo/Nagpur: An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning, Egyptian aviation officials said. EgyptAir Flight 804 was lost from radar at 2:45 am local time...

Earthquake of magnitude 8 or greater may hit Jammu and Kashmir: study

Washington/Nagpur: A major earthquake, of magnitude 8 or greater, may strike Jammu and Kashmir, endangering the lives of as many as a million people, latest geologic mapping in the Himalayan mountains of the state suggests. Scientists have known about the Riasi...

Election Results: TMC in WB, LDF in Kerala, AIADMK in TN, DMK+ Puducherry, BJP in Assam

New Delhi/Nagpur: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has scripted history and is set to form government for the first time in Assam routing the Congress while Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is returning back to power with an even bigger mandate than...

As Nagpur reels under scorch, Chennai gets alarming rains, cyclone alert issued

Chennai. While the heat waves continue to prevail in Central India, its raining cats and dogs downsouth. The centre of torrential rains is Chennai which has been witnessing heavy downpour for the last 48 hours. The condition is expected to worsen...