I am being hunted down by media in UK: Vijay Mallya
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who faces pressure to repay nearly a billion dollars owed to banks by his collapsed airline, tweeted early this morning that he is "being hunted down by media in the UK." The 60-year-old industrialist, who built his...
World Culture Festival organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living begins
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with many foreign dignitaries, attend the opening function New Delhi/Nagpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday afternoon arrived at the venue of the World Culture Festival, a mega global event being organised on the banks of...
Nuclear power plant in Surat develops leak
File pic Gujrat/Nagpur: In a statement issued some time ago, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, a Government of India enterprise said that Unit-1 of Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in south Gujarat which was operating at its rated power was...
Kanhaiya attacked at JNU by outsider, guards nab assaulter
New Delhi/Nagpur: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday was allegedly abused and attacked inside the university campus. The attacker, Vikas Chaudhary, claims to a student from Ghaziabad. According to students and teachers present there, the attacker called Kanhaiya for an interaction...
Indian Air Force admits can’t fight China, Pak at the same time
New Delhi/Nagpur: Indian Air Force vice-chief, Air Marshal BS Dhanoa, admitted on Thursday that it did not have sufficient number of warplanes to fight a two-front war, setting off alarm bells about the country’s ability to tackle a combined threat...
How did Vijay Mallya leave the country: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi/Nagpur: Trying to push the government on the backfoot, a combative Rahul Gandhi today asked how it allowed liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who owes over Rs 9,000 crore to banks, to leave the country and said Prime Minister Narendra...
Accident victim’s son writes to President seeking action against Smriti Irani
File pic Agra/Nagpur: The son of a doctor, who was killed in a road accident allegedly involving a vehicle in the cavalcade of Union minister for human resource development Smriti Irani, has sought the intervention of President Pranab Mukherjee for...
Tension rises as JNU PhD scholar commits suicide in South Delhi
New Delhi/Nagpur: A PhD scholar of the Jawaharlal Nehru University committed suicide in south Delhi's Ber Sarai area today. Police recovered Dushyant's body from his rented flat in Ber Sarai today morning. The 25-year-old student was from Bareilly in Uttar...
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar event gets green signal with 5 Crore fine
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has accorded permission to yoga guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living foundation to organise ‘World Cultural Festival’ on the bank of river Yamuna in New Delhi. The NGT has fined the foundation of...
Six telecom companies robbed government of Rs 12,400 crores: CAG
New Delhi/Nagpur: In a startling revelation, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has mentioned that six major telecom companies have allegedly understated the gross revenues during two different time periods. As per reports, the Reliance Communications, Tata, Aircel, Idea, Airtel and...
Vijay Mallya left country on March 2: Govt. tells Supreme Court
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Vijay Mallya went abroad last week, the government today told the Supreme Court, which had been asked by banks to stop the liquor baron from leaving the country. "I am told by the CBI that he has...
Indian Army rapes women in Kashmir: Kanhaiya Kumar at JNU
New Delhi/Nagpur: After being charged with sedition, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar has stoked another controversy by saying that the Indian soldiers rape women in Kashmir. Addressing students in JNU on the occasion of International Women's Day, Kumar...
Sri Sri Mega cultural event under a cloud – Will Modi attend with safety concerns being raised by MHA?
New Delhi/Nagpur: The National Green Tribunal, a quasi govt. body headed by former CJI Swantantra Kumar has already expressed its displeasure and doubt over the mega event scheduled to begin in two days, on Friday 11th March. It has questioned the...
No Tax on EPF, Finance Minister Withdraws Proposal
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: In the face of stiff opposition, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today withdrew his Budget proposal to tax employees' provident fund (EPF) at withdrawal. Jaitley had in his Budget for 2016-17 proposed to tax withdrawal of 60 per...
Journalist Barkha Dutt claims she has been receiving threat calls
New Delhi/Nagpur: Journalist Barkha Dutt on Tuesday claimed that she has been receiving threat calls for her reportage on the JNU row over which she has lodged a police complaint and appeared before a Metropolitan Magistrate court to get her...
Telangana, Maharashtra sign historic inter-state irrigation agreement
Hyderabad/Nagpur: Making a new beginning, Telangana and Maharashtra governments on Tuesday signed a historic agreement on construction of projects. The agreement will facilitate construction of five barrages on Godavari river and its tributaries Penganga and Pranahita -- projects which have been...
Rift within ABVP as Vice President of JNU unit will burn Manusmriti copy today
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The rift between members of the right wing students' organisation ABVP over the Manusmriti, the ancient text that outlines the laws of India's caste system and the status of women in society, widened on 7 March...
Pappu Yadav’s wife Ranjeet Ranjan rides Harley to Parliament on Women’s day
New Delhi/Nagpur: On International Women's Day, politicians like Sonia Gandhi and Hema Malini delivered impassioned reminders in parliament about the stalled proposal that sets aside a third of all seats for women. Outside parliament, the high point belonged to Ranjeet Ranjan...
RSS activists attack police personnel and vehicles
Kottarakkara/Nagpur: Five police personnel were injured and three police vehicles damaged in an attack by RSS workers, who surrounded the police station here, demanding release of an arrested activist, police said today. The workers, who encircled the Kottarakara police station late...
Why is Shivlinga off limits for women? Ask women on Shivratri
The Bhoomata brigade of women activits' who had targeted Shani temple recently have chosen the occasion of Maha Shivratri to resume their campaign, this time at Trimbakeshwar near Nasik. Lakhs of devotees come to this temple from all over the country...
Smriti Irani Says She Helped After Accident, Victim’s Family Says Not True
New Delhi: Minister Smriti Irani's office today denied that she had left without helping after an accident on the highway on Saturday in which a doctor was killed and his young nephew was critically injured. She has also rejected the...
