Suicide bomber kills nine at Baghdad mosque: Sources
Baghdad/Nagpur: A suicide bomber killed at least nine people when he detonated an explosive vest after Friday prayers at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in southwestern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. A second suicide attacker at the mosque in al-Radwaniya district was...
10 Shiv Sena protesters marching to Ghulam Ali function held in Gujrat
Gujarat/Nagpur: Police detained 10 people on Friday for staging demonstration against Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali who arrived in Gujarat’s Mahuva to receive an award by a local religious organisation. The detained people are said to be members of the right-wing Shiv...
16 people killed in landslide in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang area
Itanagar: In an unfortunate incident, at least 16 people were killed in a landslide in Tawang area of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday. The landslide took place near village Phamla in Tawang. As per ANI news agecny, rescue operations have now ended and...
ISIS executes 250 women for refusing to become sex slaves: Report
Representational Pic London/Nagpur: The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists...
Heat wave kills more than 160 across India; Met Deptt. forecats monsoons still weeks away
Hyderabad/Nagpur: Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said Tuesday, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still likely weeks away. Most of the heat-wave victims were laborers and farmers in...
Sachin Tendulkar collaborates with PepsiCo to tackle Maharashtra drought
Mumbai/Nagpur: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and PepsiCo will jointly help Maharashtra government tackle the drought in Marathwada. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis today held a meeting with Tendulkar in this regard. "Delighted to meet Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar. He & Pepsi are putting...
India closing in on Rafale deal with France, says Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
New Delhi/Nagpur: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said the negotiation with France for 36 Rafale jets is in advanced stage but added it can't be said that the negotiation is totally cleared until India signs it. "While the deal is...
Maharashtra mulls law to make it must for units to use recycled water
File Pic Mumbai/Nagpur: With the drought situation in Maharashtra worsening day by day and the storage in dams hitting a low, the state government is mulling bringing in a law making it mandatory for industries to use recycled water. As part...
GST Bill: Govt will try to convince opposition again, says Venkaiah Naidu
New Delhi/Nagpur: Stressing that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill is the need of the hour, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the government will again try to convince the Opposition so as to ensure passage of the legislation...
Uttarakhand crisis: HC quashes President’s Rule
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday sought assurance from the Centre that the President's Rule will not be revoked in the state for at least a week. Coming down heavily on the Centre, the two-judge bench of the high court...
Another quake, magnitude 6.2, hits Ecuador
Cojimies, Ecuador/Nagpur: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador on Wednesday, just days after a major quake hit the country killing nearly 500 people. The latest quake was centred 70km (44 miles) off the Pacific coast town Esmeraldas...
Bombay High Court allows IPL match in Pune on May 1
Mumbai/Nagpur: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed one Indian Premier League (IPL) match to be played in Maharashtra. A division bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice M S Karnik allowed the May 1 to be played between Rising...
President can be wrong, says Uttarakhand HC to Centre
Dehradun/Nagpur: "Even the President can go wrong," said the judges today who are deciding whether President's Rule was used in the hill state of Uttarakhand to get rid of the Congress government. In successive hearings, the judges of the Uttarakhand High...
New PF withdrawal norms put on hold till July 31 after protests
New Delhi/Nagpur: Facing protest, the government today kept in abeyance for three more months the proposed move to bar withdrawal of employer's contribution to the provident fund corpus until the employee attains the age of 58 years. "The notification (tightening PF...
Will do everything to get it back: Govt’s U-turn on Kohinoor
New Delhi: 24 hours after it told the Supreme Court that the Kohinoor diamond cannot be brought back to India from UK as it was "gifted" to the British queen, the Modi government has done a U-turn over the issue. Government...
Ishrat Jahan encounter case: Congress on defensive as BJP ups ante
Controversy flared afresh after ‘Times Now’ revealed that P. Chidambaram signed original affidavit describing Ishrat Jahan as being part of a Lashkar module New Delhi: With less than a week to go before the start of the second half of the...
Government rolls back restrictions on withdrawal of provident fund
New Delhi: Confronted by protests - including a riot in Bengaluru that saw buses and police jeeps set on fire - the government has cancelled controversial new rules on when you can withdraw money from your provident fund, which serves...
Non-bailable warrant against Vijay Mallya paves way for red corner alert!
New Delhi. Calling troubled times for fugitive business tycoon Vijay Mallya, a special court has issued an open-dated non bailable warrant against him in a Rs 900 crore money laundering case. Special judge PR Bhavake passed the orders on a plea...
Dipa Karmakar becomes 1st Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Rio Olympics
RIO DE JANIERO: Dipa Karmakar today created history by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics as she booked a berth for the Rio Games after a strong performance at the final qualifying and test event here. The...
Sakshi Maharaj stirs up hornet’s nest again, says ‘Women in Islam are no better than footwear’
Slug: BJP parliamentarian sparks another controversy again by hurting Muslim sentiments. Nagpur / New Delhi: Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi aka Sakshi Maharaj who is the Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentarian from Unnao has stired the hornet’s nest once again and in-turn triggered a controversy...
Kashmir ‘molestation’ victim’s mother saw Army jawan inside toilet and had screamed
Almost four days after the molestation rumours of a teenage school girl in Handwara town in Kashmir ignited violent protests, the girl's mother has said that her daughter and husband are in police custody and she is not allowed to...
