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...
Cricket fans stunned as Lasith Malinga steps down from captainship of Sri Lanka ahead of World T20
Colombo / Nagpur: After another breakdown during a disappointing Asia Cup campaign in Bangladesh, injury-ravaged pacer Lasith Malinga has deicide to step down from Captainship of Sri Lanka Team ahead of the World Twenty20 in India. Lasith Malinga, who had led...
Fiery pic showing Dhoni’s ‘severed head’ held by Desh player creates net ripples
Courtesy Image : Twitter The below image of Bangladeshi bowler Taskin Ahmed carrying detached head of Indian skipper MS Dhoni is doing the rounds on the internet at the moment. The image has been reportedly posted by a Bangladeshi fan and...
BJP youth leader expelled from party for his crude barb against Kanhaiya Kumar
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Going overboard and issuing an inflammatory statement proved nemesis for a BJP youth leader as he was expelled from the party forthright. Kuldeep Varshney of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) who had said that he...
BJP youth wing leader announces Rs 5 lakh reward for one who cuts off Kanhaiya’s tongue, expelled for 6 year
New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing leader has said that he will pay Rs 5 lakh to anyone who cuts off Jawaharlal Nehru Students'Union president Kanhaiya Kumar's tongue. Party leader Kuldeep Varshney has said that Kanhaiya should be...
Afzal Guru is not my icon, Rohith Vemula is: Kanhaiya Kumar
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union leader Kanhaiya Kumar today said that no students of the university can be anti-national. Addressing the students in JNU campus, Kanhaiya also said that the taxpayers' money is absolutely safe. "I want...
Assembly elections in 5 states begin on April 4, counting on May 19
New Delhi/Nagpur: The election commission announced dates for assembly polls in West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Friday, a 42-day long process where the BJP will lock horns with regional satraps and the Congress to expand its...
Barkha Dutt gets threat, abuses for her pro-Kanhaiya article, supporters storm Twitter
New Delhi/Nagpur: Even as the overnight star of the Indian political scene aka JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar came out in the open air after 21 days of jail, nothing seems to have changed, for Kanhaiya and even for...
RSS compares Kanhaiya Kumar with ‘rat’
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Stunned by the fiery speech of Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday night at JNU campus, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has compared the JNUSU president with a rat. “The example of communists is that of ‘rats’. What the High Court has...
Jeweller’s 10-year-old son kidnapped, murdered
Mumbai/Nagpur: A ten-year-old boy from Kalyan was kidnapped and murdered by a gang of three who wanted a ransom of Rs 15 lakh from his father, a prosperous jeweller and stock market investor. Hours after kidnapping the boy, the accused lost...
Former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma dies. He was 68
NewDelhi/Nagpur: PA Sangma, who was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998, passed away after brief illness in Delhi on Friday. According to reports, Sangma died of a heart attack at his Delhi residence. Sangma, who unsuccessfully contested the...
Missing Noida-Based Fashion Designer Found In Gurgaon
Noida/Nagpur: A Noida-based fashion designer who had gone missing from Delhi under mysterious circumstances has been found in Gurgaon, senior Uttar Pradesh police officer Sujit Pandey today said. Shipra Malik, 29, left her home in Sector 37 Noida on February 29...
We are not asking for freedom from India, we are asking for freedom in India, says Kanhaiya
NewDelhi/Nagpur: JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar made a fiery speech on the university campus late tonight taking on the Narendra Modi-led government, hours after his release from jail. "I come from a village. Where there are a magic shows. People...
