Pune RTI activist alleges illegal land deal involving Pawars
Mumbai/Nagpur: A Pune-based RTI activist today alleged that NCP leader Ajit Pawar influenced the Pune administration to illegally transfer some forest land in his hometown Baramati to an educational institute headed by his uncle Sharad Pawar, a claim which the...
Sushma Swaraj offered to quit but RSS sought she continued: Sources
NewDelhi/Nagpur: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj offered to resign almost a week before the controversy broke out over her help to former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi in getting travel documents on "humanitarian ground", but her offer was rejected on the...
Prakash Javdekar makes a statement on the Modi-Modi photo – is the BJP in panic mode?
Everything about this 'expose' is peculiar and raises suspicions on many counts about what is happening within the BJP and the Government in Delhi. First, it comes to light that the External Affairs Minister of the country, who has hardly been...
#AsteenKaSaanp: Kirti Azad’s tweets reveal BJP’s internal feud?
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Even as the kerfuffle caused by revelations that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had recommended ex-IPL honcho Lalit Modi for travel documents to the British authorities yet to die down, there is more trouble brewing for the BJP. A senior...
Sakshi Maharaj stirs controversy, calls himself a true Muslim and Prophet
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sakshi Maharaj sparked a fresh controversy by claiming that he is a true Muslim and Prophet Mohammed is the biggest practitioner of yoga. The remarks came just days before the International Yoga Day will be...
Army veterans irked with non implementation of OROP to begin agitation from today
NewDelhi/Nagpur: The outgoing UPA government had cleared it in principle and promised implementation if they were re elected. Modi, Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP had promised to implement it ASAP if he was elected and became PM. In fact in rally...
Sushma Swaraj helped Lalit Modi procure travel documents?
NEW DELHI: In a startling expose by Times Now on the Lalit Modi's travel documents issue, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj accepted that she was indeed in touch with Lalit Modi in the month of July, 2014. It has been...
Missing Dornier Aircraft’s beacon signals picked up by Naval survey ship
Chennai/Nagpur: A naval survey ship has picked up signals from Indian Coast Guard's Dornier aircraft, which went missing with three crew members on board on Monday night along the Tamil Nadu coast, announced the Ministry of Defence on Saturday. ntense and...
Delhi’s ACB reveals details of 35 arrested officials
New Delhi: The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government on Saturday released a department-wise breakup of the 35 officials it has arrested on graft charges. Among those arrested, 12 were from the excise department, nine belonged to the Delhi Jal...
How many insurgents did we ‘take out’ in our Myanmar strikes?
NewDelhi/Nagpur: They claimed first that at least a hundred, if not hundreds had been slain. Four entire terrorirst camps inside neigbhouring Mynmar had been destroyed. There was speculation that even their dreaded leader Khaplang may have been killed. Military officials had...
Delhi court denies bail to Jitender Singh Tomar
NewDelhi/Nagpur: In a setback to Jitender Singh Tomar, a Delhi court today dismissed his revision plea against his police remand and refused to provide any immediate relief to the beleagured AAP leader in the alleged fake degree case, saying granting...
Defense Minister Parrikar says international perception of India has changed after Myanmar ‘action’
Much ado is being made about Tuesday's cross border strikes against NSCN-K carried out by the Indian Army. Ironically, it is not army men but politicians who are making more noise. Pakistan reacted to it yesterday by declaring that "Pakistan is...
Sharad Pawar re-elected NCP chief, nephew Ajit absent at convention
Patna: Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar was on Wednesday unanimously re-elected as the president of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), a post he has occupied since he founded the party in 1999 after parting ways with Congress. 74-year-old Pawar's re-election was declared by...
IRCTC offers passengers an airline ticket against a waitlisted ticket
New Delhi/Nagpur: In some good news, IRCTC is offering passengers who fail to get their waitlisted ticket confirmed an option to convert it into an airline ticket at a competitive fare. The Railway PSU has already tied-up with budget carrier GoAir...
Journalist allegedly burnt to death by Samajwadi Party MLA in UP
Shahjahanpur/Nagpur: In a shocking incident, Shahjahanpur-based journalist Jagendra Singh has died after he was allegedly burnt alive for a Facebook post against Samajwadi Party MLA Ram Murti. Singh's family has claimed that a police officer allegedly set the journalist on fire....
Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar arrested
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar has been arrested by the Delhi Police following allegations that he had faked his law degree. The minister has been taken to the Hauz Khas Police station. A First Information Report was registered by...
L-G Najeeb Jung takes on CM Kejriwal, appoints ACB chief
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Seeking to stamp his authority, Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday appointed a joint commissioner of Delhi Police as the head of the Anti-Corruption Branch superseding Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's hand-picked chief, triggering a strong reaction from the AAP...
Coast Guard Dornier aircraft goes missing with 3 crew members; search operation launched
Chennai/Nagpur: A Coastguard Dornier aircraft with three crew members on board is missing since Monday night off the coast of Chennai. The aircraft took off from Chennai at 5:30 PM yesterday and lost contact at around 10 PM in Tiruchirapalli. A search...
Telangana CM’s son dares Chandrababu Naidu to undergo lie-detector test
Hyderabad/Nagpur: The cash-for-vote scam in Telangana took a dramatic turn on Sunday with the release of an audio tape of a purported telephonic conversation between Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and nominated Telangana legislator Elvis Stephenson. The Andhra...
Nitish Kumar is chief ministerial candidate for Bihar polls: Mulayam
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Nitish Kumar will lead an anti-BJP coalition for this year's Bihar Assembly elections, said Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today, thanking Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for nominating Kumar to be the alliance's presumptive chief minister. Mulayam...
H-1B visa fight to get tougher for IT companies
NEWDELHI/Nagpur: Immigration and visa issues, which have long plagued the information technology sector, could come back to hurt Indian IT services companies this year as the US heads towards presidential election in 2016. In the US, the biggest market for the...
