TOI managing editor Arindam Sengupta passes away
Arindam Sengupta, managing editor of The Times of India, early on Thursday morning after a brief but brave battle against cancer. He was 61. The cremation will take place around 1pm on Thursday at the electric crematorium, Nigambodh...
Arunachal Pradesh crisis ‘too serious’ say judges, want report by Friday
New Delhi/Nagpur: The day-old President's Rule in Arunachal Pradesh is under scrutiny in the Supreme Court, which today asked to see the state governor's report citing a "Constitutional breakdown" and also asked the Center to reply to its notice by...
Die-hard fan of Virat Kohli’s held in Pakistan for hoisting Indian flag
The Pakistan based fan had poster size photographs of Virat Kohli pasted on the walls of his house. New Delhi/Nagpur: Sometimes die-hard fans of musicians, sports etc do about anything for their idols. A Pakistan based die-hard fan of Indian batsman...
Bomb scare on AI, Jet Delhi-Kathmandu flights, planes grounded
New Delhi/Nagpur: Two flights heading from Delhi to Kathmandu have been delayed reportedly after an anonymous phone call warned the Delhi airport police of bombs on the Air India and Jet Airways flights. The Jet Airways flight 9w260 and Air India...
President’s Rule: Submit your report to us in 15 minutes, SC tells Arunachal Pradesh Guv
New Delhi/Nagpur: Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa to submit its report within 15 minutes on the basis of which the President's Rule was imposed on the state dismissing the Nabam Tuki-led Congress government...
Activists Heading For Shani Singnapur Temple At Centre of Gender Row Detained
AHMEDNAGAR/Nagpur: A group of nearly 500 women activists who were en route to a Maharashtra temple have been stopped 40 km away. The women were planning to force their way to the section where a stone considered holy and representative...
Unidentified Object Over Rajasthan Village Intercepted By Fighter Jet
Residents of a Rajasthan village have alleged that "material" dropped by a fighter jet caused cracks in some houses BARMER/NAGPUR: An Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 fighter intercepted what the Air Force says is an "an unidentified balloon shaped object" in...
India displays military prowess, cultural heritage at Republic Day
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Thousands gathered in New Delhi amid tight security on Tuesday for the 67th Republic Day parade, a pomp-filled spectacle of military might featuring camels and daredevil stunt riders, with French President Francois Hollande the chief guest. For the first time,...
Must Guard Ourselves Against Forces Of Intolerance, Unreason, Says President Mukherjee
New Delhi/Nagpur: Ahead of Republic Day celebrations, President Pranab Mukherjee today said peace cannot be discussed under a "shower of bullets". In his address to the nation, President Mukherjee said that there is 'no good or bad terrorism.' Below are the...
Jawaharlal Nehru’s letter calling Netaji ‘war criminal’ fake: AAP
Varanasi/Nagpur: Aam Aadmi party on Sunday said that the purported letter by Jawaharlal Nehru allegedly calling Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose a 'war criminal' is "fake." Addressing a press Conference, AAP leaders Ashutosh and Sanjay Singh seconded the Congress' claims about the...
President’s Rule In Arunachal Pradesh? President ask Centre To Explain Why
NewDelhi/Nagpur: The government has been asked to explain why it has recommended President's Rule in Arunachal Pradesh, top sources said today. President Pranab Mukherjee has reportedly asked the home ministry to explain the need for central rule in the northeastern border...
Amit Shah re-elected as BJP President
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Celebrations broke out at the BJP office today long before Amit Shah was reelected the party's president in the presence of a large gathering of leaders. Seniors LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were missing when Mr Shah was...
Total 3,228 farmers ended lives in 2015 in Maharashra
Mumbai/Nagpur: Figures provided by Relief and Rehabilitation department of Maharashtra government have revealed that the total number of farmers, who ended their lives last year(2015) in Maharashtra stands at 3,228. The state government told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that...
Animation professional held for making series of hoax calls
The Bhubaneswar-Mumbai GoAir flight which made an emergency landing in Nagpur after a bomb scare Pune/Nagpur: A 38-year-old animation professional was arrested today for allegedly making series of hoax calls about bombs being plated at the Pune railway station, city...
ABVP’s office attacked, one injured
Mumbai/Nagpur: The office of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in Matunga in central Mumbai was on Saturday allegedly vandalised by around six men, in which one of the members of the BJP-affiliated student union got injured, the police said. The...
PM Narendra Modi Declassifies 100 Secret Netaji Files On His Birth Anniversary
New Delhi: On the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today put in the public domain, for the first time, 100 files on the freedom fighter that have been classified till now. PM Modi had,...
NIA’s arrests of suspected Islamic State operatives show terror outfit’s growing India footprint
New Delhi/Nagpur: In a major anti-terror swoop across the country ahead of Republic Day, the NIA on Friday took into custody 14 people - suspected to be Islamic State sympathisers and believed to be plotting attacks in different parts of...
Despite new Bihar role, Kishor likely to manage Capt Amarinder Singh’s campaign
Bihar/Nagpur: Prashant Kishor’s new role as cabinet-rank adviser on policy and implementation to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is unlikely to affect his other assignment — as advisor to Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh on the 2017 Assembly elections...
14 IS ‘sympathisers’ detained ahead of R-Day in NIA crackdown
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday detained 14 suspected Islamic State sympathisers including six in Karnataka as part of a multi-location crackdown amidst heightened security measures ahead of the Republic Day celebrations. The crackdown comes in...
PM Modi delivers lecture at Ambedkar University in Lucknow, protesting students made to leave the auditorium
Lucknow/Nagpur: Protesters raised slogans, attempting to disrupt Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow, where he is chief guest at a convocation today. A student was escorted out of the auditorium and some protesters have...
3 hired ‘hijacked’ taxi from Kangra, killed driver on Jan 14
Delhi Police released images of the suspects on Twitter (Photo courtesy-Twitter) Dharamshala/Nagpur: The Kangra police have sent three separate teams to Talwara in Hoshiarpur district and Pathankot in Punjab and Lakhanpur in Jammu and Kashmir to trace the accused of murder...
