Current Affairs For The Year 2017 And Month Sep

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Doklam chill remains: India-China ceremonial border meet not held

The Indian and Chinese armies may have disengaged from their eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation on the Bhutanese territory of Doklam after hectic diplomatic parleys but the distinct chill between the rival troops remains on the ground over a month later.
2017-10-01 14:07:24 Read More

Thinking the unthinkable: China deserting NKorea

North Korea's nuclear antics have rattled its alliance with China to the point that Beijing is allowing the previously unthinkable to be discussed: Is it time to prepare for the renegade regime's collapse?
2017-10-01 12:50:24 Read More

L&T Infotech to help govt pin down tax evaders

The ambitious initiative to use social media analytics to identify tax non-compliance is a "$100-million project" for the infotech arm of engineering giant Larsen & Toubro, according to a company official.
2017-10-01 12:09:46 Read More

Scope for reducing GST slabs, hints Arun aitley

"We have almost by the day, space and scope for improvement. We have space for improvement and need for improvement to reduce compliance burden as far as small taxpayers are concerned," Jaitley said at an event.
2017-10-01 10:05:58 Read More

Kamal Haasan might know secret to succeed in politics: Rajinikanth

Rajinikanth went on to joke that Kamal would have told him what that (secret) was if he had asked him two months ago.
2017-10-01 09:19:30 Read More

Italy orders N Korea envoy home over missiles

Italy has ordered North Korea's incoming new ambassador to leave the country in a protest over Kim Jong-Un's missile launches and nuclear tests. Foreign minister Angelino Alfano announced the move in an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica, published on Sunday.
2017-10-01 09:05:12 Read More

Live score: India v Australia, 5th ODI, Nagpur

Check Live Cricket Score, Live Commentary, Scorecard, Ball by Ball updates of 5th ODI between India vs Australia on Times of India.
2017-10-01 09:05:07 Read More

'Unexpectedly' strong solar storm sparks global aurora on Mars

The solar event on Sept. 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora at Mars more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by the MAVEN orbiter, which has been studying the Martian atmosphere's interaction with the solar wind since 2014.
2017-10-01 08:41:46 Read More

Ambala IAF base being readied for Rafale jets

The Indian Air Force has initiated major infrastructure upgrade at its frontline base here for deployment of the first squadron of the Rafale jets which will give India greater "potency" over Pakistan as these will be capable of carrying nuclear weapons and other missiles.
2017-10-01 07:40:34 Read More

India opens 2 border points with Myanmar, B'desh

The remote Zorinpui is 287 km away from Sittwe Port in Myanmar. An agreement on Zorinpui was included in the joint statement issued during the visit of the then prime minister Manmohan Singh to Myanmar in May, 2012.
2017-10-01 06:42:24 Read More

US in direct communication with North Korea, Rex Tillerson says

"We have lines of communication to Pyongyang. We're not in a dark situation, a blackout," Tillerson told reporters during a visit to China. "We have a couple ... three channels open to Pyongyang. We can talk to them, we do talk to them."
2017-10-01 05:58:56 Read More

Bhootonwala mandir: A temple built by ghosts?

Locally known as 'Bhootonwala mandir', the city legends claim that the temple was constructed overnight by ghosts. The villagers say, rather than haunting the village, the temple acts as a protective cover to the village from any type of calamity.
2017-10-01 03:11:20 Read More

5th ODI: India need to win to regain top spot

The last One-dayer in Bengaluru saw a different Australian team. For a change, the Australian middle order held together. The Indian spinners didn't pick a single wicket in the middle overs. The Indian batting couldn't cross the finishing line either. Australia also fielded much better.
2017-10-01 02:41:09 Read More

Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi face-off in Himachal

Sources said that with its Bilaspur rally, the BJP is eyeing to return to power with thumping majority on the back of Modi wave. While Congress is going to the polls with the slogan of â€˜mission repeatâ€™, BJP is eyeing to oust Congress by giving the slogan of â€˜mission 50 plusâ€™.
2017-10-01 02:31:00 Read More

Mumbai bridge widening didnâ€™t need any clearance

There was no reason why a small project costing just about Rs 12 crore sanctioned in the 2016-17 budget could not be implemented in 18 months, that too when Suresh Prabhu as railway minister had delegated the powers to general managers to take up such projects.
2017-10-01 01:19:24 Read More

Goyal defends bullet train, says tech is safe

2017-10-01 00:31:34 Read More

Footpath to football: U-17 boys pin hopes on WC

Striker Aniket Jadhavâ€™s father drives an autorickshaw in Kolhapur, but the journey to the Capital to watch his son play in the World Cup next month is proving a challenge.
2017-09-30 22:20:29 Read More

Amend Constitution to integrate J&K: RSS chief

National security should be paramount in dealing with the Rohingya issue as they were driven from Myanmar due to their violent and criminal activities, he added.
2017-09-30 22:00:32 Read More

Meet 91-year-old India's best tourist guide

On Wednesday, Khandwala received a National Tourism Award in the â€˜Best Tourist Guideâ€™ category to honour her almost 50-year stint as a Mumbai tour guide.
2017-09-30 20:00:40 Read More

Why BJP still projecting a pro-Hindutva image

BJP continues to unabashedly project its pro-Hindutva image as the party continues to thrive on it as a rebuttal to the alleged politics of minority appeasement, a claim coming handy for the party in the recent electoral battles.
2017-09-30 19:52:48 Read More

After Doklam stand-off, China seeks a friend in India

After the Doklam stand-off ended and PM Narendra Modi and ChinaPresident Xi Jinping held a meeting, toasted as a success by both sides, there seems to be a conscious attempt by Beijing to build a favourable public opinion in India, suggesting the two nations can start a new chapter.
2017-09-30 19:06:25 Read More

1/3rd of districts reeling under rain deficit

2017-09-30 18:53:58 Read More

'People living at border are strategic assets'

Asserting that people living at India-China border are â€œstrategic assetsâ€ for the government and security forces, Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that â€œborder population should not migrate from their villagesâ€.
2017-09-30 14:33:59 Read More

Rail min's high-level meet on safety: Highlights

India received below-normal monsoon this year, with the season ending on a 5.2% deficit on Saturday. While 50% of the countryâ€™s districts have had normal rains, more than a third â€” 215 districts â€” are left with deficient rainfall, which could impact the kharif crop to an extent.
2017-09-30 12:28:12 Read More

Alert BSF troops unearth tunnel along Pak border

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday unearthed a 14-feet long tunnel, which was being dug from the Pakistani side along the international border and recovered "war-like" store in Arnia sector here, officials said.
2017-09-30 11:55:49 Read More

Death toll in Mumbai stampede rises to 23

The death toll in the stampede on a foot overbridge (FOB) linking two railways stations here has gone up to 23 with a critically injured person succumbing at the KEM hospital today.
2017-09-30 10:16:07 Read More

Shami and I must take more responsibility in ODIs: Umesh Yadav

India speedster Umesh Yadav on Saturday admitted that being a senior bowler he needs to perform better in the death overs if he has to consistently feature in the playing XI in the limited overs cricket.
2017-09-30 10:04:52 Read More

Stampedes will happen till migrants continue to pour in: Raj Thackeray

MNS chief Raj Thackeray also warned that "not a single brick will be allowed to be placed for the bullet train in Mumbai" until the infrastructure of local railways was made better.
2017-09-30 08:25:15 Read More

'India, China should make one plus one eleven'

Mumbai stampede: Hit by several terror attacks over the past 25 years and a series of other tragedies, Mumbai, it is said, is ready for just about anything.
2017-09-30 05:38:47 Read More

Rohingya a threat to national security: RSS chief

"We should turn the old page and start a new chapter with the same pace and direction. We should dance together. We should make one plus one eleven," Chinese envoy to India Luo Zhaohui said.
2017-09-30 04:06:05 Read More

Tom Alter, Padma Shri actor, writer, dies at 67

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat alleged on Saturday the state governments of West Bengal and Kerala are "on the side of those jihadi elements that are perpetrating the violence" there. He also that Rohingya Muslim refugees in India are a threat to national security.
2017-09-30 02:21:21 Read More

Punjab eyes red ink to tackle stubble burning

2017-09-30 01:58:00 Read More

Donald Trump heads out to first Asia trip with India on horizon

Donald Trump may be making a meal of the U.S Presidency according to his liberal critics stateside, but at least in so far as India and U.S policy towards the subcontinent is concerned, New Delhi has every reason to be pleased.
2017-09-29 20:53:52 Read More

Mumbai: Railways commute, a death sentence

2017-09-29 19:05:12 Read More

Talks can end border dispute with China: Rajnath

2017-09-29 13:16:08 Read More

BSF, Pak Rangers meet over border tensions

2017-09-29 12:57:49 Read More

Authorities were warned of impending stampede

The sector commanders of BSF and Pakistani Rangers on Friday held a flag meeting, first in six months, in the Suchetgarh sector here in the aftermath of the recent cross-border skirmishes. The 105-minute meeting was held on the request of Pakistan Rangers.
2017-09-29 11:50:56 Read More

Mumbai station stampede: 22 dead, 39 hurt; Piyush Goyal orders probe

Hours after at least 22 people were killed and 39 injured in a rush hour stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road station, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced Rs 10 lakh compensation for the victims.
2017-09-29 10:41:08 Read More

Live updates: 15 dead in stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone station

Railways has earned around Rs 540 crore in less than a year after introducing the flexi-fare system, but it was flooded with complaints from the passengers about high prices of tickets. It has also noticed that several seats were left vacant due to high ticket prices in several trains.
2017-09-29 06:17:31 Read More

Your card swipe may cost banks Rs 3,800 crore

An analyst said if the proposal for such a swap was confirmed by authorities in Kabul, it would mean a big success for Pakistanâ€™s narrative about an alleged India-Afghanistan nexus to destabilise Pakistan.
2017-09-29 00:12:47 Read More

BJP â€˜friendâ€™ Rane may get Maha revenue ministry

Former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane will float his own party on October 1, following BJPâ€™s cold response to his induction in the party. Rane confirmed the development to TOI.
2017-09-28 23:11:56 Read More

Sinha sticks to stand, takes on son, other critics

Yashwant Sinha continued his no holds barred criticism of the governmentâ€™s economic management, questioning the defence put by BJP leaders, including his son and MoS for civil aviation Jayant Sinha who had rebutted his claim that the economy is sinking.
2017-09-28 22:12:45 Read More

Did Pak want to swap its Taliban chief for Jadhav?

BHU newly appointed chief proctor Royona Singh â€” the first woman to hold the post in the instituteâ€™s 101-year-old history â€” is named after a French town, and is categorical that there should be no restriction on dress and alcohol for female students at BHU, or ban on non-vegetarian food in the messes.
2017-09-28 21:01:35 Read More

'No dress, alcohol curbs for girls at BHU campus'

Arun Jaitleyâ€™s response to Yashwant Sinhaâ€™s attack: â€˜Job applicant at 80â€™

The political slugfest over the economic slowdown escalated on Thursday, with finance minister Arun Jaitley hitting back at BJP dissident Yashwant Sinha as a â€œjob applicant at 80â€.
2017-09-28 19:47:12 Read More

Pak ducks question on UN gaffe, blames India

Pakistan on Thursday dodged a question on the recent photograph gaffe by its top diplomat in the UN General Assembly, saying the incident cannot be used to deny an "indisputable fact" that Indian security forces were using pellet guns in Kashmir.
2017-09-28 19:19:15 Read More

Railways may slash price for Rajdhani, Duronto

The countryâ€™s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has said in a research report that banks stand to lose Rs 3,800 crore annually due to the investment in card-swipe machines as costs outstrip revenues.
2017-09-28 15:04:07 Read More

Jaitley counters criticism, says 'govt taking decisive steps on economy'

Follow the live score and commentary of the 4th ODI between India and Australia in Bengaluru.
2017-09-28 14:41:02 Read More

'Bihar diesel locomotive project with GE on track'

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) that makes policy decisions for the I-T department has directed the taxmen to undertake "focused efforts to significantly increase the tax base in the current financial year of 2017-18."
2017-09-28 13:41:35 Read More

DATE 2

4th ODI live: Australia set India 335 to win

Follow the live score and commentary of the 4th ODI between India and Australia in Bengaluru.
2017-09-28 11:28:13 Read More>>

How Saudi prince is changing oil-rich kingdom

As the favored son of King Salman, prince Mohammed bin Salman oversees nearly every major aspect of the country's defense, economy, internal security, social reforms and foreign policy.
2017-09-28 10:06:03 Read More

Pakistan's 'Mullah Burqa' calls for caliphate

Abdul Aziz, the former leader of Pakistan's notorious Red Mosque, is inspiring a new generation of extremists with his old rhetoric â€” highlighting Islamabad's ambivalent attempts to bring religious hardliners to heel.
2017-09-28 07:52:54 Read More

I-T department fastens belt to add 1.25 crore new tax filers this fiscal

Can't blame UPA for falling growth, we had enough chance: Yashwant

After igniting a political firestorm with a column criticising the government's economic policy, the BJP's Yashwant Sinha on Thursday went even further by clearly absolving the earlier Congress-led UPA government for a slowdown in growth.
2017-09-28 06:44:01 Read More

Yashwant is right to criticise BJP: Shatrughan

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who helped usher in the 1960s sexual revolution with his groundbreaking men's magazine and built a business empire around his libertine lifestyle, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, Playboy Enterprises said.
2017-09-28 06:10:03 Read More

10 lesser-known facts about Playboy founder

2017-09-28 04:49:44 Read More

Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner dies at 91

2017-09-28 03:31:47 Read More

What Yashwant Sinha's son says about economy

Scientists (including Indians) working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), on Wednesday said that they successfully detected on August 14 the fourth gravitational wave, ripples in space and time, from the merger of two massive black holes.
2017-09-28 03:02:47 Read More

In Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi peddles soft Hindutva to reach voters' hearts

BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Thursday said that not only does party colleague Yashwant Sinha have a right to criticise the BJP's economic policy, he's also accurate in saying India has suffered because of the note ban and demonetisation.
2017-09-28 01:03:58 Read More

26 Cong MLAs shun Sonia-appointed Bihar chief

Veteran BJP leader Yashwant Sinhaâ€™s sharp attack on the government, and finance minister Arun Jaitley in particular, over the â€œmess in the economyâ€ set off a political storm with the opposition hailing his remarks as a vindication of its criticism.
2017-09-27 21:55:09 Read More

UPA could have continued freeze on Quattrocchi's funds but didnâ€™t: CBI

The UPA government had the option to press for a continued freeze on the UK bank accounts of Bofors fugitive Ottavio Quattrocchi even after court proceedings had stalled in 2006 by declaring the Italian as a proclaimed offender but chose not to do so.
2017-09-27 21:47:44 Read More

'Proposal made to swap Jadhav for terrorist'

At least 26 of the 27 party MLAs skipped the function in which newly-appointed working president Kaukab Quadri assumed charge on Wednesday. This assumes significance as Choudhary needs the support of 18 MLAs to overcome the anti-defection law.
2017-09-27 20:48:54 Read More

Stung by Sinha, govt defends performance

2017-09-27 20:07:28 Read More

Terrorists barge into home, kill BSF jawan in J&K

Pakistan received a proposal to swap Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav for a terrorist who carried out the horrific 2014 Peshawar school attack and is now jailed in Afghanistan, foreign minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif has claimed.
2017-09-27 18:57:23 Read More

Scientists detect fourth gravitational wave

2017-09-27 16:36:13 Read More

Hindus recount brutal massacre in Myanmar

A chargesheet filed by Hyderabad Central Crime Station sleuths in the city criminal court has revealed that at least 200 information technology employees, including from Polaris Hyderabad, faked disability and chronic illness of family members in order to fraudulently claim income tax refund.
2017-09-27 09:39:21 Read More

Army conducts ops against Naga insurgents along Myanmar border

The Army's Eastern Command said on Wednesday that it inflicted heavy casualties on the insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagaland in an operation earlier in the day on the India-Myanmar border. t added that a few media reports of casualties suffered by the Army were factually incorrect.
2017-09-27 09:17:32 Read More

Saeed, LeT are liability: Pak foreign minister

2017-09-27 07:24:26 Read More

Rahul Gandhi on economy: Fasten your seat belt, brace for landing

I-T busts scam, 200 techies return tax amount

The Border Security Forceâ€™s use of targeted firepower on farms and residences of Pakistanâ€™s serving and former army officers near the border resulted in Pakistan suing for peace.
2017-09-27 02:06:38 Read More

Andhra official made a cool booty of Rs 200 cr

2017-09-27 01:49:46 Read More

Mukul Roy may turn out to be BJPâ€™s utility man

West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress boss Mamata Banerjeeâ€™s once trusted lieutenant Mukul Royâ€™s decision to quit the party he cofounded is likely to see him in a new role in the stateâ€™s politics.
2017-09-26 23:28:14 Read More

Mukul Roy may turn out to be BJPâ€™s utility man

Cricket goes football way: Red cards to kick in

Players could be sent off for the first time in cricket, starting with Test matches in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates this week, as new regulations come into force.
2017-09-26 21:37:29 Read More

'Was groped on campus, BHU guards did nothing'

The three-page FIR by the molestation victim at the BHU has made shocking disclosure on how men on motorcycles had groped her. She has alleged that security guards posted on the campus, instead of coming to her rescue, questioned why she and her friends were outside their hostel rooms after 6pm.
2017-09-26 20:57:37 Read More

BSFâ€™s Operation Arjun targets border farms, homes of Pak officers

India, US resolve to eliminate terror safe havens, enhance ties

India has made it clear to the US that it will not contribute combat troops towards stabilizing and securing Afghanistan but will further crank up its ongoing security, economic and developmental assistance to the war-torn country battling a resurgent Taliban backed by Pakistan.
2017-09-26 17:11:36 Read More

China seeks to keep Rohingya row a local issue

China will block efforts to internationalize the Rohingya crisis because it has ambitious investment and infrastructure construction plans in Myanmarâ€™s Rakhine state, three different experts told TNN.
2017-09-26 15:54:56 Read More

Delhi HC rejects Honeypreet Insan's bail plea

The ministerâ€™s remark contradicted the recent â€œconfessionâ€ of his colleague, environment minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan, that he had lied about Jayalalithaaâ€™s health condition during her hospitalisation.
2017-09-26 14:32:36 Read More

Army pushes back Pak intruders in J&K

The petitioner, a serving assistant sub-inspector of Intelligence Bureau, claimed that he reported against terrorist groups from various countries but no action was taken. It also names certain IB officials who are allegedly on the payroll of foreign intelligence agencies.
2017-09-26 11:40:10 Read More

Our agencies protect terrorists: Pak intel officer

2017-09-26 09:51:36 Read More

India to US: Won't send troops to Afghanistan, will aid development

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday that she discussed the issue of terror safe havens in Pakistan with her US counterpart James Mattis, adding that they both agreed such sanctuaries shouldn't be tolerated. She also made clear to Mattis India won't contribute troops to Afghanistan.
2017-09-26 08:26:58 Read More

India show they are a class above: Aaron Finch

"We've been in a couple of good positions in the first few games and as soon as you give India a sniff, they'll beat you nine times out of 10. You have to play 100 percent to beat (India) in these conditions," Aaron Finch said.
2017-09-26 07:44:08 Read More

Drug mafia is after me: Honeypreet in bail plea

Honeypreet Singh, the 'adopted daughter' of rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim, claims her life is under threat from drug syndicates in Haryana and Punjab. In an anticipatory bail plea she filed in the Delhi high court on Monday, she also said that "she is a single woman with clean antecedents..willing to join the investigation."
2017-09-26 06:49:08 Read More

All of us met Jaya in hospital: TN minister

The security forces on Tuesday thwarted intrusion attempts by seven to eight armed men, who were backed by Pakistan's Border Action Team. Pak-backed intruders were spotted in north Kashmir's Keran sector in Kupwara district.
2017-09-26 06:22:23 Read More

Kamal Haasan: Will join hands with BJP if needed

On the verge of taking a political plunge, Kamal Haasan says he is willing to dive to any extent - be it joining hands with the BJP or quitting cinema - if it means public good.
2017-09-26 03:05:14 Read More

B'luru: Student drowns as friends click selfies

Student of National College, Jayanagar, drowned in a pond on Sunday, even as his friends were busy clicking group selfies.
2017-09-26 01:51:43 Read More

India, US must strike to destroy Pak's nuclear assets: Ex-US senator

The government has begun work on ensuring a completely paperless aircraft boarding process under which a mobile phone is all that will be required to board domestic flights in India.
2017-09-25 23:19:35 Read More

There is indeed terrorism in Pak: Chinese daily

2017-09-25 22:39:57 Read More

You may soon use biometrics to enter airports

If it wasnâ€™t for the presence of mind of a special police officer (SPO) hired during an extraordinary recruitment drive last year in the Valley, at least 10 security personnel would have either got killed or been badly wounded in a grenade attack in Sopore on Sunday morning.
2017-09-25 21:59:15 Read More

How split-second response by J&K cop saved lives

2017-09-25 19:56:45 Read More

At UN, India rips off Pakâ€™s veil of terror

Terming as "arrogant" external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj's scathing attack on Islamabad at the UN for being the pre-eminent terror factory, a state- run Chinese daily in a grudging admission said "there is indeed terrorism in Pakistan".
2017-09-25 17:28:42 Read More

PM Modi launches Rs 16k cr 'power scheme for all'

PM Modi on Monday launched the 'Saubhagya Yojana,' which is expected to provide 'last mile electricity connectivity to all rural and urban households.' Speaking at the event, PM Modi said his government is "dedicated to 'garib kalyan'," and that this is evident in its working.
2017-09-25 14:50:15 Read More

Dera chief's daughter Honeypreet moves Delhi HC for anticipatory bail

Honeypreet Insan, alleged accomplice of jailed Dera Chief Ram Rahim Singh, on Monday moved Delhi high court for anticipatory bail. Earlier, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh also moved the Punjab and Haryana high court against a special CBI court's verdict in two rape cases.
2017-09-25 14:30:55 Read More

Kejri using delaying tactics in DDCA case: Jaitley

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday accused AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Delhi High Court of adopting delaying tactics in a defamation case by seeking to summon the minutes of meetings of the cricket body DDCA between 1999 and 2014.
2017-09-25 13:56:15 Read More

BHU violence: 3 addl magistrates, 2 cops removed

Three additional city magistrates of Varanasi and two police officers were today removed in connection with the lathicharge on students in the Banaras Hindu University and a high-level probe was ordered into the incident that has spiralled into a major controversy.
2017-09-25 13:11:16 Read More

Have no relatives to benefit from corruption: PM

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley shared the key points of PM Narendra Modi's speech at the meet, where the party also adopted a a six-point agenda to rid the country of poverty, terrorism, casteism, communalism and corruptionâ€‹â€‹.
2017-09-25 12:41:29 Read More

World's 'heaviest' woman Eman Ahmed dies

Eman Ahmed, formerly the 'heaviest' woman in the world, passed away at 4.35am on Monday due to comorbid conditions, including heart disease and kidney dysfunction, according to medical experts at the Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, The National reported.
2017-09-25 08:03:38 Read More

Dynastic succession is Cong culture: Amit Shah

2017-09-25 07:45:53 Read More

DATE 3

Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar are best death bowlers around: Steve Smith

"I think a mixture of guys making probably the wrong decisions on the wrong balls. Also, some pretty well executed bowling. I think Bumrah and Bhuvi are probably two of the best death bowlers going around, particularly when the wicket sort of slows up a little bit as it did," a dejected Steve Smith said.
2017-09-25 06:54:19 Read More>>

Pak wants UN to declare India 'terror sponsor'?

It however didn't make for an auspicious start that Pakistan lied at the august body's General Assembly on Sunday , as its representative waved a photograph of a wounded Palestinian woman, and claimed she was a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.
2017-09-25 05:04:46 Read More

How 'Pythons' are helping railway deliver

BJP president Amit Shah said today that the "BJP believes in the politics of performance, while the Congress believes in dynasty". Shah made these comments in his address at the BJP national executive meeting today that was being attended by all senior party leaders, Cabinet members and party workers.
2017-09-24 20:49:46 Read More

Many students injured as BHU protest turns violent

Protests in Banaras Hindu University against the alleged sexual harassment of a student took a violent turn on Saturday night when seven students, including girls, and two journalists were injured in police lathi-charge.
2017-09-24 20:19:53 Read More

Pak nukes hidden at nine places, at risk of being stolen by terrorists

Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi last week yet again flaunted his countryâ€™s tactical or nonstrategic nuclear weapons, saying they were meant to deter the Indian Armyâ€™s â€˜cold startâ€™ doctrine.
2017-09-24 20:14:37 Read More

â€˜Mallya diverted most of Rs 6k-cr loan to shell cosâ€™

The CBI and Enforcement Directorate are preparing to chargesheet Mallya for allegedly diverting a large chunk of funds from the Rs 6,027-crore loan he took for his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines from a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India.
2017-09-24 19:27:16 Read More

Pak envoy uses fake image at UN, left red-faced

In its zeal to rebuff Indiaâ€™s scathing indictment of Islamabadâ€™s terror policy, Pakistan only managed to embarrass itself at the UN as it displayed a wrong picture of a purported Kashmiri pellet gun victim.
2017-09-24 19:18:56 Read More

India beat Australia to clinch ODI series, grab No.1 spot

Hardik Pandya (78), Rohit Sharma (71) and Ajinkya Rahane (70) scored fifties each to help India beat Australia by five wickets in the third one-day international in Indore on Sunday. India sealed the five-match series with three wins in three matches.
2017-09-24 16:04:43 Read More

Security forces foil Uri-like attack plan in J&K

Security forces on Sunday killed three Pakistani terrorists in an encounter in Kashmir's Uri, thwarting plans to carry out an Uri-like attack, officials said. The encounter took place after the Army and police started searches in Kalgai area Sunday morning following inputs about movement of terrorists.
2017-09-24 14:25:00 Read More

Live Score: India v Australia, 3rd ODI, Indore

The four most senior figures in her Cabinet - chancellor Philip Hammond, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit secretary David Davis and home secretary Amber Rudd - plotted to remove her following an election seen as a failed gamble by the British prime minister, according to the book 'Fall Out, A Year Of Political Mayhem'.
2017-09-24 13:53:47 Read More

4 top ministers plotted to oust Theresa May: Book

2017-09-24 11:42:35 Read More

Pak uses fake image to malign India at UNGA

US Defence Secretary James Mattis is scheduled to arrive in Delhi late Monday and is set to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new defence minister in the first visit by a top US official since Donald Trump became US president in January.
2017-09-24 10:17:27 Read More

After Doklam standoff resolution, Rajnath to visit India-China border

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will this week visit a China-India border area in Uttarakhand which has witnessed transgression by Chinese army in the recent past, officials said. This is the first visit by a senior minister to China border after the resolution of the standoff in Doklam.
2017-09-24 10:00:20 Read More

Jets, drones on table as Mattis heads to India

Follow the live score and commentary from the 3rd ODI between India and Australia in Indore.
2017-09-24 07:04:57 Read More

3rd ODI: India look to seal series against Australia

India are on a verge of winning yet another series when they take on Australia in their third one-day International here at Holkar Stadium in Indore on Sunday.
2017-09-24 03:14:42 Read More

'Iqbal Kaskar called brother Dawood four times, including this month'

Investigators grilling Kaskar are understood to have told the sleuths that he spoke to Dawood over phone and that he made the calls using burner phones and SIM boxes.
2017-09-24 00:12:24 Read More

Development, not votes, our priority: PM Modi

India is about to reach an important milestone shortly. Half of its gigantic student population, the worldâ€™s largest, will be made up of girls. In 2015-16, the last year for which data is available, girls comprised 48% of the student population of about 300 million.
2017-09-23 21:56:07 Read More

Shabir Shah confessed to Hafiz Saeed links: ED

He said the BJP, unlike other political parties, does not decide its priorities on the basis of votes. "Some politicians work only when it gets them votes. But we have been brought up in a different culture. For us, the nation is above all and it's our top priority, not votes," he said.
2017-09-23 21:09:40 Read More

Soon, half of Indiaâ€™s students will be girls

2017-09-23 20:32:28 Read More

Girl students will soon overtake boys in India

2017-09-23 20:32:28 Read More

Swaraj slams Pak, asks China to help tag Azhar as global terrorist

India asked Pakistan on Saturday to consider why after gaining Independence together 70 years ago, India was an IT power and produces engineers and doctors while Pakistan churns out jihadis who are a threat to the world.
2017-09-23 19:58:56 Read More

Full text of Sushma Swaraj's speech at UNGA

Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah has admitted he spoke to 26/11 mastermind and global terrorist Hafiz Saeed on phone and had done so most recently in January this year, the enforcement directorate's chargesheet filed in a Delhi court on Saturday said.
2017-09-23 15:56:51 Read More

Sushma Swaraj to speak at UNGA shortly

A strong earthquake shook Mexico, causing new alarm in a country reeling from two still-more-powerful quakes this month that have killed nearly 400 people. The new temblor was centered around the state of Oaxaca, which was the region most battered by a magnitude 8.1 quake on September 7.
2017-09-23 14:08:24 Read More

Strong 6.1 magnitude quake shakes Mexico City

"India and China are working together. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping had a meeting on September 5 to discuss how to enhance the relationship," Chinese Consul General Ma Zhanwu said. The Chinese and Indian troops were engaged in a prolonged standoff in Sikkim's Doklam area.
2017-09-23 13:32:10 Read More

'Can't say if N Korea quake natural or man-made'

2017-09-23 12:44:09 Read More

'No one was allowed to see Jaya in hospital, we lied about her condition'

"The claims made by us that she ate idlis in hospital were a total lie, because none of the ministers had an opportunity to meet her in the hospital and none of us knew the reality," Sreenivasan said addressing a public meeting on Friday night.
2017-09-23 12:09:33 Read More

Working with India to take ties forward: China

The US Geological Survey said it could not confirm whether magnitude 3.5 quake detected in North Korea was man-made or natural. Chinese officials said it was a "suspected explosion", while South Korean officials and CTBTO, the nuclear proliferation watchdog, said they believed it was natural quake.
2017-09-23 11:21:45 Read More

Will exploding H-bomb over Pacific push North Korea, US to war?

Experts say the most likely way the North would conduct an atmospheric test over the Pacific is to launch a long-range missile â€” probably overflying Japan â€” and have its nuclear warhead detonate in the skies over a remote part of the Pacific.
2017-09-23 08:40:03 Read More

Iran tests new missile defying US warnings

State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which was first displayed at a high-profile military parade in Tehran on Friday. It also carried in-flight video from the nose cone.
2017-09-23 06:01:46 Read More

For us, governance is not about votes: PM Modi

PM Modi said that the BJP does not believe in votebank politics and the party's sole agenda was the country's development. He was addressing farmers' gathering in Shahanshahpur on the outskirts of Varanasi and enumerated schemes introduced by the govt for the benefit of UP's small-scale agrarians.
2017-09-23 05:42:28 Read More

Meet Eenam Gambhir, India's voice at UN

India's biting response to the Pakistan Prime Minister at the UN was again read out with aplomb by Eenam Gambhir, first secretary with India's permanent mission to the UN.
2017-09-23 03:02:36 Read More

Karti closed many foreign accounts: CBI

The CBI informed the Supreme Court on Friday that former finance minister P Chidambaram's son Karti, contrary to his claim that he had only one foreign bank account, had several such accounts which he tried to close during his last visit to the UK. He also shifted money to another foreign account.
2017-09-22 21:02:19 Read More

Compensate victims of cow vigilantes: SC

A fortnight after directing states to take stern action to stop cow vigilante groups from becoming law unto themselves, the Supreme Court said on Friday that states were obliged to compensate victims of violence perpetrated by these criminal gangs.
2017-09-22 20:29:31 Read More

India calls Pakistan â€˜Terroristanâ€™ at UN

In a stinging reply to Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasiâ€™s fulminations against India at the UN, India described its western neighbour as â€œterroristanâ€ which is home to a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism.
2017-09-22 20:16:27 Read More

Amid India-Pakistan row, Saarc summit faces second snub

It' SushmaFor the second year in a row, there may be no Saarc summit. India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan had pulled out of the 2016 Saarc summit citing Pakistan's open support to terror that impacted all three countries. Islamabad was supposed to host the 2016 summit, which had to be cancelled.
2017-09-22 19:45:54 Read More

China snubs 'all-weather ally' Pak on Kashmir

China on Friday refused to join Pakistanâ€™s efforts to internationalise the Kashmir issue as a means to defame India. The Chinese foreign ministry said the Kashmir issue was a matter to be resolved by India and Pakistan alone.
2017-09-22 17:27:34 Read More

NKorean defector reveals Kim's private lifestyle

2017-09-22 10:45:03 Read More

NKorean defector reveals Kim's private lifestyle

2017-09-22 10:45:03 Read More

Markets crash on North Korea nuke scare, Sensex tanks over 400 points

30-share BSE Sensex fell 447.60 points to close on 31,922.44 while the broader 50-share NSE Nifty cracked 157.50 points to finish on 9,964.40. Both the indices lost almost 1.50 per cent during the day. Thus both the major indices crashed below the psychological marks of 32,000 and 10,000
2017-09-22 10:24:31 Read More

Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar were NRIs: Rahul Gandhi

Bhuvneshwar Kumar always knew how to swing the white ball but now he feels more complete as a bowler with an ability to generate pace in the death overs.
2017-09-22 08:59:32 Read More

I knew how to swing, now I also possess pace: Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Bhuvneshwar Kumar always knew how to swing the white ball but now he feels more complete as a bowler with an ability to generate pace in the death overs.
2017-09-22 05:51:50 Read More

B'luru: I-T officer's son murdered by kidnappers

2017-09-22 05:39:21 Read More

India's befitting reply to Pak at UN: Key points

2017-09-22 04:27:44 Read More

India slams Pak at UN, calls it 'Terroristan'

India on Friday responded to Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's debut speech at the United Nations, wherein he mentioned Kashmir a total of 17 times and India 14 times among other things, in his speech. Here are 10 points from India's response.
2017-09-22 03:35:44 Read More

Deeply hurt, Ma is watching everything: Mamata

2017-09-22 03:14:10 Read More

'Honeypreet and Ram Rahim had illicit relations'

Vishvas Gupta, former husband of Honeypreet Insanâ€”the adopted daughter of rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, on Friday alleged threat to his life.
2017-09-22 02:27:00 Read More

Pak PM urges UN to appoint special envoy to J&K

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has urged the United Nations to appoint a special envoy to Kashmir, as he claimed that the struggle of the people in the region is being "brutally suppressed" by India.
2017-09-22 01:16:03 Read More

Kamal reveals 'secret meet' with Rajinikanth

For the first time ever, South Indian film star Kamal Haasan gave a clear indication on the timeline of his entry into politics, saying on Thursday that if elections are held in the next 100 days, â€œI will be thereâ€œ.
2017-09-21 23:10:44 Read More

Dawood in Pakistan, doesn't call fearing phone tap, says his brother

Dawood Ibrahim, Indiaâ€™s most wanted, is presently in Pakistan, a senior police officer has quoted the donâ€™s brother Iqbal Kaskar as saying. Kaskar has given some four-five addresses used by Dawood in the country.
2017-09-21 20:51:53 Read More

Calcutta HC allows idol immersion on Muharram

Calcutta HC on Thursday allowed the immersion of Durga idols till midnight on all days, starting from September 30 (Bijaya Dashami) and including October 1, the 10th day of Muharram, when processions are taken out.
2017-09-21 20:42:22 Read More

DATE 4

SC expresses anguish over 'obstinate behaviour' of BCCI officials

The Supreme Court on Thursday warned three top BCCI office bearers of serious consequences if they do not give suggestions on the cash-rich cricket body's draft constitution, in accordance with its judgement.
2017-09-21 11:23:35 Read More>>

'No scope for me': Narayan Rane quits Congress

2017-09-21 10:41:35 Read More

Setback for Mamata: HC allows immersion of idols during Muharram

2017-09-21 09:19:43 Read More

Sonia writes to PM on women's reservation bill

2017-09-21 09:03:32 Read More

Sonia writes to PM on women's reservation bill

2017-09-21 09:03:32 Read More

Live score: India v Australia, 2nd ODI

Follow the live score and updates from the 2nd ODI between India and Australia from Eden Gardens in Kolkata
2017-09-21 08:54:36 Read More

Leaving the caliphate: The struggle of an 'ISIS wife' to get home

Married at 14, twice widowed at 20, life has been hard for 'ISIS wives'. Unsure with what to do with the fighters' families, officials at the Ain Issa camp have separated the "ISIS wives" from the rest of the residents.
2017-09-21 08:33:41 Read More

China bans anti-Islam words on social media

China has over 21 million Muslims mostly the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and Hui community in Ningxia province, according to unofficial accounts.
2017-09-21 08:24:11 Read More

Medical admission scam: CBI arrests retired Odisha HC judge, 4 others

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested five persons, including retired Odisha high court judge Ishrat Masroor Quddusi, for enabling private medical colleges to admit students to MBBS courses despite a Supreme Court order barring them from doing so.
2017-09-21 06:49:38 Read More

Rohingya not refugees but illegal migrants: HM

Coming down heavily on human rights defenders batting for Rohingya Muslims, including the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the Rohingya were not refugees but illegal immigrants and reiterated that they would be deported.
2017-09-21 06:37:15 Read More

India's 'Cold Start' to deter Pak: Top facts

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday claimed that his country's short-range nuclear weapons can counter India's 'Cold Start' doctrine. But what exactly is the 'Cold Start' doctrine? Here is a short guide.
2017-09-21 04:38:04 Read More

Income Tax raids on Cafe Coffee Day owner

Krishna's con-in-law VG Sidhartha is the owner of the popular Cafe Coffee Day chain. Over 20 locations in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Chikmagalur are being raided, including Cafe Coffee Day offices.
2017-09-21 04:25:53 Read More

Rs 1cr theft: Myntra CEO's maid admits to stealing

Seven diamond necklaces, 24 pairs of earrings, six gold bangles, four diamond bracelets were among the missing jewellery. Bhavani Muppudatti, 25, has confessed to stealing the ornaments from her employer Ananth Narayanan's residence
2017-09-21 02:16:27 Read More

Pak's short-range nukes to counter India: Abbasi

He also asserted that the country's nuclear arsenals are safe. "Time has proved that it's a process that is very secure. It's a process that has complete civilian oversight through the NCA," Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said.
2017-09-21 02:08:32 Read More

Government plans booster shot for economy

The GDP growth rate had fallen to a three-year low of 5.7% in April-June quarter. There are clear indications of an economic slowdown caused by weak private investment, which in turn has slowed down job creation.
2017-09-20 22:45:50 Read More

Kejriwal, Haasan to meet: For lunch or launch?

After returning to Delhi on Tuesday evening following nine days of meditation in Igatpuri, Maharashtra, chief minister Arvind Kerjiwal is going to Chennai on Thursday to meet superstar Kamal Haasan.
2017-09-20 20:18:01 Read More

Pak complains to US about greater role for India

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during a meeting with US Vice-President Mike Pence on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly here on Tuesday expressed concern over the greater role that Trump advocated for India in his new Afghan policy
2017-09-20 16:37:36 Read More

At UN, Trump again targets nations backing terror

After articulating an Afghan strategy a fortnight ago when he described Pakistan as part of the problem in Afghanistan, the US President used his UN speech to go after Pakistan once again â€” as a safe haven for Islamist terror groups that threaten Americans.
2017-09-20 15:21:50 Read More

Rain batters Mumbai, 108 flights cancelled

Air services at the Mumbai airport were hit badly, with 108 flights cancelled due to torrential rain. A SpiceJet aircraft skidded, overshot the main runway and got stuck in mud, blocking it. Efforts are on to tow the aircraft away and clear the runway for operations.
2017-09-20 13:22:00 Read More

Don't draw a line between two communities: HC to Mamata govt

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday told the Bengal government that it could not block a citizenâ€™s constitutional right to practice religion on the mere assumption that there could be disruption of law and order.
2017-09-20 12:49:42 Read More

Isro-Nasa joint team confirms aerosol over Asia

A joint study by Isro and Nasa, which had commenced after satellite images showed the presence of an aerosol layer over the Asia region, has confirmed the same and has also found the presence of nitrate, which is a new finding.
2017-09-20 12:36:31 Read More

Govt mulling measures to boost economy: Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the government is considering additional measures to bolster economy that has hit a three-year low of 5.7 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal.
2017-09-20 12:22:10 Read More

China hits back at Trump's remark over South China Sea in UN speech

"For some time now, some countries have used the pretext of freedom of navigation to bring their planes near the South China Sea," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said. "Actually, I think this is behaviour that has threatened the sovereignty of South China Sea countries," Lu said.
2017-09-20 11:57:25 Read More

Sindhu, Saina, Srikanth reach 2nd round in Japan

Newly-crowned Korea Open champion PV Sindhu dished out another splendid performance edging past Japan's Minatsu Mitani for the second time in as many weeks to reach the second round of the women's singles at the Japan Open Super Series.
2017-09-20 11:32:03 Read More

Reports on quantum of black money held by Indians being examined: Govt

The finance ministry says it is examining three reports on the quantum of black money held by Indians inside the country and abroad that were commissioned by the previous UPA regime and submitted more than three years ago.
2017-09-20 09:48:30 Read More

80,000 returns being uploaded on GSTN portal every hour: Chairman

Businesses have flocked to the GST Network portal on the last day of filing initial returns for August with over 80,000 GSTR-3B being uploaded every hour, its Chairman Ajay Bhushan Pandey said on Wednesday.
2017-09-20 09:37:59 Read More

HC stays TN assembly floor test till further orders

Justice M Duraiswamy passed the interim order on the pleas moved by 18 disqualified MLAs assailing the order of Speaker P Dhanapal.
2017-09-20 08:32:10 Read More

BCCI nominates Dhoni for Padma Bhushan award

2017-09-20 08:17:47 Read More

Cong couldn't deliver on jobs, nor can Modi: Rahul

The Indian cricket board has nominated MS Dhoni for the country's third highest civilian award â€” the Padma Bhushan â€” for his contribution to the game. It was a unanimous decision to nominate India's most successful captain.
2017-09-20 05:34:04 Read More

Modi's visit to Israel 'historic': Netanyahu at UN

More than 140 people were killed when a powerful, 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, toppling buildings in the capital and sowing panic on the anniversary of a devastating 1985 quake.
2017-09-20 04:19:31 Read More

Earthquake kills more than 140 in Mexico

2017-09-20 02:50:00 Read More

India, China would reshape the world: Rahul

In July, Netanyahu said, Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel. "You may have seen the pictures. We were on a beach in Podera. We rode together in a jeep outfitted with a portable desalinisation device," Netanyahu said during his address to the United Nations General Assembly.
2017-09-20 02:43:44 Read More

Earthquake kills over 130 in Mexico on anniversary of 1985 disaster

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 139 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust and thousands fled into the streets in panic.
2017-09-19 21:45:14 Read More

Did netas help Dawood's brother extort Rs 100 cr from businessmen?

Iqbal Kaskar, who was arrested on Monday for issuing extortion threats to a builder is believed to have collected around Rs 100 crore from developers and jewellers in the Thane region in the last three years, a police officer said.
2017-09-19 20:06:07 Read More

We don't fear international scrutiny: Suu Kyi

2017-09-19 19:57:40 Read More

We don't fear international scrutiny: Suu Kyi

2017-09-19 19:57:40 Read More

India, US to further propel their defence ties

Amid allegations of â€œethnic cleansingâ€ in Myanmar in the wake of the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims, state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has said that her government â€œdoes not fear international scrutinyâ€ and is making every effort to restore peace and normalcy.
2017-09-19 17:33:34 Read More

Live: Mumbai schools to be shut today, flights hit

India and US already have â€œa robust military connectâ€ established over the last 15 years during the Bush and Obama administrations, but the political one at the defence ministerial level has been missing since Donald Trump became the US President in January this year.
2017-09-19 17:23:49 Read More

Trump threatens to annihilate North Korea

American President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States would have to annihilate North Korea if Washington is forced to defend itself or its allies from Pyongyang's nuclear threats.
2017-09-19 16:51:27 Read More

North Korea's 'Rocket Man' is on a suicide mission: Trump at UN

Addressing the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Trump called North Korea a "depraved regime" and urged member nations to turn up the pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons - or else the US will have to step in.
2017-09-19 14:55:07 Read More

Terrorists have spread to every corner of the planet: Trump at UNGA

He was master of the sprawling Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters at Sirsa till August 28. But, now incarcerated, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh will spend his time in jail growing vegetables, pruning trees eight hours a day just for Rs 20. He is lodged in Rohtak's Sunaria jail for raping his two disciples.
2017-09-19 14:06:57 Read More

Ram Rahim will grow vegetables, prune trees at just Rs 20/day

The unexpected presence of sleuths stunned Kaskar, as he asked them "Maine kya kiya hai?" (what have I done). However, the police team gave him time to let him finish the meal before taking him into their custody in connection with an extortion case against him.
2017-09-19 13:29:13 Read More

Dawood's brother was watching TV when cops came in

Lockheed Martin and Boeing are both bidding to supply combat jets to India's military, which is running short of hundreds of aircraft as it retires Soviet-era MiG planes, and its own three-decade long effort to produce a domestic jet is hobbled by delays.
2017-09-19 12:39:24 Read More

'The man who saved the world' dies in Russia

2017-09-19 11:34:03 Read More

'The man who saved the world' dies in Russia

Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died aged 77, his son said on Tuesday.
2017-09-19 11:34:03 Read More

US firms want tech control for Make in India plan

Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died aged 77, his son said on Tuesday.
2017-09-19 10:20:01 Read More

Netas being probed in D-Company extortion case

2017-09-19 07:44:17 Read More

India calls Pak 'face of international terror'

A day after Dawood Ibrahimâ€™s younger brother Iqbal Kaskar was arrested on extortion charges, Thane police said they are investigating whether the underworld don too had direct links to the case. Kaskar was arrested Monday from his relativeâ€™s residence.
2017-09-19 06:36:28 Read More

Soon, a brand new, faster Rajdhani Express

According to the chairperson of Dera, Honeypreet had come to Sirsa after the violence on August 25. During her three-hour and 20minute questioning session, the trust head told that she had arranged an SUV and brought Honeypreet from Rohtak to Sirsa.
2017-09-19 05:35:47 Read More

Honeypreet came to Sirsa from Rohtak: Vipassna

2017-09-19 04:27:34 Read More

DATE 5

Revenue concern: Why states may not want petrol, diesel under GST

India has been going after Pakistan hammer and tongs lately at international forums and at bilateral meetings and yesterday at the UN Human Rights Congress, it called its neighbour "the face of international terrorism" and said it is pursuing "perverse political objectives".
2017-09-19 03:37:46 Read More>>

Amit Shah backs Kodnaniâ€™s alibi in riots case

Shah, who arrived at the court amid tight security, deposed for nearly 40 minutes before special judge PB Desai as Kodnaniâ€™s defence witness. He, however, insisted that he did not come â€œto testify to defend Mayaben because we belong to the same political partyâ€.
2017-09-18 23:05:48 Read More

India, Japan, US voice concerns over OBOR

With the US and Japan exhorting India to play a more meaningful role in ensuring full implementation of UN sanctions on North Korea, Sushma Swaraj stated Pyongyang's proliferation linkages be explored and those responsible be held accountable. This is seen as another oblique reference to Pakistan and China.
2017-09-18 21:36:40 Read More

Qaida man on mission to recruit Rohingyas held

He was allegedly setting up base in Delhi, Mizoram and Manipur to radicalise and recruit Rohingya refugees to wage war against India and fight the Myanmar army. He was described as a battle-hardened mujahideen who had fought for the Qaida's al-Nusra front in Syria.
2017-09-18 19:44:17 Read More

Rohingya issue govtâ€™s domain, not courtâ€™s, Centre tells SC

The Centre said it had found that â€œmany of the Rohingya figure in suspected sinister designs of ISI/IS and other extremist groups who want to achieve their ulterior motives in India, including that of flaring up communal and sectarian violence in sensitive areasâ€. It promised to give intelligence inputs and other related documents in sealed cover on October 3.
2017-09-18 19:19:40 Read More

US moves closer to designating Pak terrorist state

After giving Pakistan a taste of the kind of financial vulnerability it is under by banning operations in the US of Habib Bank, the country's leading financial institution, for regulatory violations, the Trump administration has indicated it has more weapons up its sleeve.
2017-09-18 16:42:59 Read More

Hafiz Saeed's JuD to contest 2018 general elections in Pakistan

Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed's Jammat-ud-Dawah will foray into Pakistan's political scene by contesting the 2018 general elections, a senior member of the outfit said, a day after its candidate finished third in a crucial by-poll.
2017-09-18 11:57:17 Read More

US flies bombers over Korean peninsula in drill

Haryana Police on Monday released a list of 43 people wanted for the violence that broke out after Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted in two rape cases last month. Topping the list are Honeypreet and Aditya Insan.
2017-09-18 08:32:35 Read More

Tamil Nadu CM hints at possible alliance with BJP

The Centre told the Supreme Court today it has intelligence inputs of links between some Rohingya Muslims and Pakistan's ISI and the Islamic State, making them "a serious security threat to the country". It added that militant elements among the Rohingya are active in Delhi, Hyderabad, Mewar and J&K.
2017-09-18 07:40:08 Read More

Some militant Rohingya active in Delhi, Hyd, Mewar, J&K: Govt to SC

Rijiju to rights groups: Don't spread lies on India

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday again scolded international human rights groups asking them to not spread "misinformation about India" with relation to the issue of Rohingya refugees in the country.
2017-09-18 06:40:37 Read More

Naroda Gam: Amit Shah backs Kodnani's claim

BJP president Amit Shah appeared before a special sessions court in Ahmedabad to depose as defence witness for former BJP minister Maya Kodnani in 2002 Naroda Gam riot case. The BJP chief backed Kodnani's claim of being in assembly during riots.
2017-09-18 06:39:55 Read More

Dera violence: Honeypreet tops 'Most Wanted' list

TN speaker disqualifies 18 MLAs supporting TTV

AIADMK Crisis: The AIADMK MLAs were disqualified under Schedule 10 of the Indian Constitution which speaks about the anti-defection law. Chief minister EPS earlier accused Dhinakaran of colluding with DMK to topple government.
2017-09-18 05:55:12 Read More

Swaraj in US, trilateral today with Tillerson, Japan's foreign minister

Swaraj, leading a high-powered Indian delegation, is expected to hold about 20 bilateral and trilateral meetings over the next week with leaders attending the session. She is scheduled to meet with her American and Japanese counterparts Rex Tillerson, and Taro Kono respectively, in a trilateral today.
2017-09-18 00:11:50 Read More

Conspiracies were hatched to stall dam: PM

â€œNo other project in the world has faced as many hurdles as the Sardar Sarovar Dam,â€ PM Modi said at a rally. â€œThere was a tirade of false allegations at us and several conspiracies were hatched to stall this project. But we were determined not to take make it a tool for political disputes,â€ he said.
2017-09-17 22:48:52 Read More

Only VVPAT, no paper tallying in Guj, Himachal

After it was noticed that mandatory paper trail count even in a small percentage of polling stations would delay results by at least three hours, coupled with the logistical challenges of implementing it in bigger constituencies, the election commission set up an internal panel to finetune the framework.
2017-09-17 19:22:10 Read More

Only VVPAT, no paper tallying in Guj, Himachal

3 cops for a VIP, just 1 for every 663 common man

Out of a total 19.26 lakh police officers in the country, 56,944 are deployed just for the safety of 20,828 VIPs across 29 states and six Union territories. That makes an average of 2.73 cops for every VIP in the country.
2017-09-17 19:00:22 Read More

1st ODI: India beat Australia by 26 runs (DLS)

Hardik Pandya's all-round flamboyance complemented by Mahendra Singh Dhoni's customary calm enabled India to record a comfortable 26-run win over Australia in the rain-curtailed opening ODI of the five-match series.
2017-09-17 17:04:21 Read More

Rane slams Ashok Chavan, says 'decision' soon

Congress leader Narayan Rane on Sunday hit out at Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan and the party's state in-charge Mohan Prakash for the decision to dissolve the district committee in Sindhudurg.
2017-09-17 15:18:55 Read More

Sharad faction steps up fight against Nitish, reinstates sacked state chiefs

The Sharad Yadav-led rebel JD(U) faction on Sunday appeared to be pushing for a split in the party as it appointed Chhotubhai Vasava as its acting president and formed a disciplinary committee to decide on action against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.
2017-09-17 14:28:13 Read More

Russia keen on joint development of MiG-29K jets

MiG CEO Ilya Tarasenko said his company would submit a detailed proposal to the Modi government shortly, detailing its readiness for the joint development of aircraft for the Navy to deepen its already close engagement with India.
2017-09-17 13:06:45 Read More

Gorakhpur deaths: Oxygen supplier arrested

More than 60 children, mostly infants, had died at the hospital within a week last month. There were allegations that the deaths occurred due to a disruption in oxygen supply over unpaid bills to the vendor.
2017-09-17 10:08:40 Read More

PM on Sardar Sarovar Dam: No other project has faced so many hurdles

Modi, who had earlier dedicated the dam to the nation on his 67th birthday, said "many false allegations were hurled on us. Many people conspired to stop this project. But we were determined not to take make it a political battle."
2017-09-17 09:07:04 Read More

Live Blog: India vs Australia, 1st ODI, Chennai

Get all the live action of the first India v Australia ODI in Chennai.
2017-09-17 08:33:13 Read More

Akbaruddin: Pak raising Kashmir at UN is like 'Miyan ki daud masjid tak'

Taking a jibe at Pakistan, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin said Islamabad's decision to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN, which has not been discussed at the world body for decades, is like 'Miyan ki daud masjid tak'.
2017-09-17 08:32:54 Read More

Dam and development: Highlights of PM's speech

A state funeral will be accorded to Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh and the national flag will fly at half mast in all government buildings here on Monday in his honour, the home ministry said on Sunday.
2017-09-17 07:35:00 Read More

Sindhu beats Okuhara to clinch Korea Open title

Sindhu, who had lost to Okuhara in an epic World Badminton Championships final three weeks back, got the better of the eighth seed in an encounter that lasted one hour and 23 minutes.
2017-09-17 07:05:17 Read More

State funeral for Marshal Arjan Singh tomorrow

2017-09-17 06:01:42 Read More

Kidney racket kingpin Amit arrested, yet again

2017-09-16 23:21:33 Read More

US job offers: IITians face Trump visa hurdle

The brazenness with which Amit Kumar operated his rackets and preyed on the kidneys of the poor -even after being arrested multiple times in the past -had led him to be labelled as `Dr Horror.' In 2013, a CBI special court while terming him a â€œquackâ€œ sentenced him to seven-year rigorous imprisonment. He was granted bail a year later in 2014.
2017-09-16 23:07:44 Read More

Envoy Bambawale set for shift from Pak to China

India's high commissioner to Pakistan Gautam Bambawale has been appointed the ambassador to China and India's ambassador to Poland Ajay Bisaria will be the next high commissioner to Pakistan, top South Block sources told TOI Saturday night.
2017-09-16 20:01:26 Read More

As US dithers, India-Japan reviewing South China Sea position?

US allowed China to change the status quo by force in the SCS without incurring any international costs, and Trump has shown no inclination to challenge Beijing in SCS. The omission of South China Sea from the India-Japan summit declaration may partly have resulted from what many see as the indifference of the US.
2017-09-16 19:48:24 Read More

Arjan Singh, Marshal of IAF & hero of 1965, dead

US dreams of some IITians who had bagged US offers from leading software giants in December 2016 are yet to materialise, thanks to President Donald Trump's visa policy. Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Singapore and some European countries have begun to rise in students' preference list.
2017-09-16 19:08:01 Read More

18-year-old arrested in connection with London Underground bombing

British police say they have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the London subway attack. According to the police, the man has been arrested by Kent police in the port area of Dover on the English Channel.
2017-09-16 10:20:44 Read More

US should stop threats over North Korea: China

2017-09-16 09:39:59 Read More

How India's strategy on Rohingyas has evolved

Within hours of Modi's return, it was clear his failure to address the issue of refugees in Myanmar would create problems both within India and in Bangladesh. Senior Indian officials conferred to tweak the Indian approach.
2017-09-16 09:38:39 Read More

Iran recruits Afghanistan, Pak Shias for Syria

Thousands of Shia Muslims from Afghanistan and Pakistan are being recruited by Iran to fight with President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria, lured by promises of housing, a monthly salary of up to $600 and the possibility of employment in Iran when they return, say counter-terrorism officials and analysts.
2017-09-16 09:31:17 Read More

Virat Kohli drops Pepsi, fairness products

Keen to be seen as a socially responsible youth icon, Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli has stopped endorsing soft drink maker Pepsi and fairness products because of their association with junk food and racism.
2017-09-16 07:56:15 Read More

Tata Sons floats plan to turn into Pvt Ltd Co

The most significant implication of this step will be that it places restrictions on Tata Sonsâ€™ shareholders from selling their stake to external investors. The Mistry family, which holds an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons, has objected to the proposal and may move court.
2017-09-16 00:10:08 Read More

Tata Sons floats plan to turn into Pvt Ltd Co

Commandos were to hide Gurmeet in Himachal

Senior police officials said the cops had plans to shift him to a safer locality in India through Punjab once the dust settled, but till then he was to take refuge in the hill state. So far, 12 cops have been arrested for being part of the conspiracy to free Gurmeet.
2017-09-15 23:37:42 Read More

Beijing opposes foreign funding in â€˜disputedâ€™ NE

China said it was opposed to any foreign investment, including from Japan, in the â€œdisputed areasâ€ in Indiaâ€™s Northeast, adding that it was against any third partyâ€™s involvement in Sino-Indian border disputes. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson was reacting to Japanâ€™s plans to step up investment in the Northeastern states.
2017-09-15 22:13:45 Read More

Isis claims 'bucket bomb' attack on London train

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a packed London Underground train on Friday, that injured at least 29 people. An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on a packed underground train at a London station on Friday, injuring at least 29 people.
2017-09-15 21:43:04 Read More

Hearing today in 2 murder cases against Dera chief Ram Rahim

The cases, related to the murder of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati and former Dera manager Ranjit Singh, allegedly by functionaries and followers of the sect will be held in the court of special CBI judge Jagdeep Singh.
2017-09-15 21:26:42 Read More

NHRC to oppose govt's Rohingya deportation plan

The MHA is set to file an affidavit on deportation of Rohingyas whose stay has been termed as â€œillegal, a security threat and strain on Indiaâ€™s resourcesâ€. NHRC chairperson and former CJI Justice H L Dattu said, â€œWe will intervene in the matter on humanitarian grounds.â€
2017-09-15 19:12:14 Read More

Missed out on coach job for lack of setting: Viru

Virender Sehwag on Friday said he missed out on becoming the Indian cricket team's chief coach for the lack of patronage from the powers that be in the BCCI and will not apply for the position again.
2017-09-15 12:50:45 Read More

Cassini spacecraft's 13-year Saturn mission ends in fiery space crash

Nasa's Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years.
2017-09-15 12:43:29 Read More

Ryan murder case: Haryana govt orders CBI probe

Pradhyumn, a Class 2 student of Ryan International School at Sohna Road in Bhondsi, was found lying in a pool of blood by the school supervisor inside a washroom on September 8.
2017-09-15 11:51:08 Read More

DATE 6

IED used in London train attack: Police

"At 8:20 this morning at Parsons Green station there was an explosion on a Tube train. We now assess that this was a detonation of an improvised explosive device," police counter-terror chief Mark Rowley told reporters.
2017-09-15 11:24:01 Read More>>

Many badly burned in London terror attack

Witnesses reported seeing passengers with facial burns and hair coming off at Parsons Green station and seeing a fire or hearing an explosion on the train.
2017-09-15 10:23:55 Read More

'Rahul may opt for internal poll to become prez'

2017-09-15 09:46:25 Read More

Affidavit on Rohingyas in SC on Sept 18: Govt

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Friday said Rahul Gandhi would like to emerge as the party president through an internal election process, and hinted that he may assume the charge as early as next month.
2017-09-15 09:43:49 Read More

London: Reports of burns among passengers

Soon, Aadhar will be linked to one's driver's licence, said Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday. The minister didn't give a time frame to link the unique identification number with driver's licences.
2017-09-15 08:42:13 Read More

Live: Blast in London metro, services suspended

Kutupalang, Ukhia (Bangladesh) Akhira Dhar sits in stony silence in one corner of the makeshift camp for Rohingya refugees.
2017-09-15 08:17:54 Read More

Soon, Aadhaar to be linked with driver's licence

2017-09-15 07:43:19 Read More

Ancient text pushes back zero's history by 500yrs

2017-09-15 00:50:44 Read More

Ancient text pushes back zero's history by 500yrs

2017-09-15 00:50:44 Read More

Onion prices fall 35% after I-T raids Nashik traders

North Korea fires missile over Japan, UNSC convenes emergency meeting

Friday's missile flew over Hokkaido in northern Japan "at around 07:06 am (2206 GMT) towards the Pacific Ocean", Japan's J-Alert system said, with reports saying it came down around 2,000 kilometres east of Hokkaido. Seoul's defence ministry said it probably travelled around 3,700 kilometres and reached a maximum altitude of 770 kilometres
2017-09-14 23:12:46 Read More

Rohingya Hindus too fleeing to Bangladesh

Kutupalang, Ukhia (Bangladesh) Akhira Dhar sits in stony silence in one corner of the makeshift camp for Rohingya refugees.
2017-09-14 19:51:31 Read More

Rohingya Hindus too fleeing to Bangladesh

The average wholesale onion prices on Thursday declined by 35% to Rs 900 per quintal at Lasalgaon as against Rs 1,400 per quintal on Wednesday. The minimum and maximum wholesale prices were recorded at Rs 500 and Rs 1,331 per quintal, respectively.
2017-09-14 19:51:31 Read More

Rajasthan is 3rd BJP state to waive farm loans

As per the agreement, farm loans up to Rs 50,000 would be written off, putting an additional burden of about Rs 20,000 crore on the Vasundhara Raje government. Other demands of farmers included minimum support price for crops, lifting the ban on cattle trade and protection for cattle traders.
2017-09-14 19:44:36 Read More

Modi, Abe plan Asia-Africa link to counter China

In a not so subtle dig at China, Modi and Abe underlined the importance of all countries in ensuring the development and use of connectivity infrastructure, while ensuring respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. India has accused China of undermining its sovereignty through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project.
2017-09-14 19:07:07 Read More

UK probing Vijay Mallya for money laundering

British investigators are probing alleged use of several companies for laundering money from India to UK through a circuitous route and a complex web of companies, and further to Switzerland and other countries. The UK authorities have sought details of alleged money laundering and assets abroad from CBI and ED.
2017-09-14 19:00:46 Read More

India-Japan joint statement names Pak-based terror groups LeT, JeM

India and Japan on Thursday called for a "zero-tolerance approach" to terrorism and committed to cooperate in the fight against terror, including the Pakistan-based groups Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Muhammed. They also called upon Pakistan to bring to justice those who carried out the 26/11 attacks.
2017-09-14 09:28:06 Read More

Pak: Not our job to satisfy US, reassessing ties

Pakistan's defence minister said yesterday it is not Islamabad's job to satisfy the US, and added that his government is currently "reassessing" ties with Washington, Pakistani media reported. " We will explain our position. But it's not for us to satisfy them," said Khurram Dastgir.
2017-09-14 09:01:55 Read More

'Bullet train will add speed to India's growth'

Contrary to popular belief, Switzerland is no longer the preferred destination. Over 53% of this Indian wealth is now held closer home in Asian tax havens like Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Bahrain and Malaysia. Swiss banks hold 31% of Indian wealth, down from around 58% in 2007.
2017-09-14 06:09:01 Read More

Live: India, Japan sign 15 agreements

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the bullet train project he and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe laid the foundation stone for on Thursday "will add speed to India's growth", "shorten the distance between people and places" and "increase productivity thanks to high speed connectivity".
2017-09-14 03:28:36 Read More

Refugees in Bangladesh recall days of horror

Rohingyas from the Rakhine state of Myanmar have for decades been stateless people. The estimated Rohingya population in Myanmar is pegged at 13L and the diaspora spread across South and South-East Asia is about 15L. The UN in 2013 had called them one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
2017-09-14 01:12:34 Read More

Refugees in Bangladesh recall days of horror

2017-09-14 01:12:34 Read More

Abe tour: Defence, nuclear cooperation on agenda

As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe begins his two-day visit, India and Japan are expected to dig deep into their bilateral relationship, especially with an eye on converging their strategic and economic outlook to take it to the next level.
2017-09-13 23:33:10 Read More

PLA gen snubs hawks baying for Indiaâ€™s blood

The Chinese leadership seems to have sent out a signal that it is unhappy with hawks who demanded military action against India during the Doklam stand-off, and regards them as people with â€œinsufficient knowledgeâ€ of Beijingâ€™s approach and objectives.
2017-09-13 22:12:14 Read More

Forget Swiss, Indians prefer Asian tax havens

Personal touch: Modi chooses where Abe should eat, what he should visit

In what was probably the first such welcome accorded to a head of government on Indian soil, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and his host and counterpart Narendra Modi participated in a roadshow from Ahmedabad airport to Sabarmati Ashram.
2017-09-13 19:56:07 Read More

Suicide bomb near cricket stadium in Kabul kills 2

"Release of Father Uzhunnalil yesterday underlines one thing that the ministry of external affairs works quietly and without noise, but ultimately gets the work done," Union minister of state for external affairs VK Singh said.
2017-09-13 12:09:23 Read More

Crack down on Dera: IT head held for tampering with computers

Police have arrested the IT head of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda, whose chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is undergoing 20 years imprisonment in two rape cases, for allegedly tampering with computers at the sect's headquarters ahead of a search by the authorities.
2017-09-13 11:14:48 Read More

No ransom paid for release of Kerala priest Tom Uzhunnalil: Govt

PM Modi, Abe pay tributes to Mahatma Gandhi

There were no immediate details on the casualties but Tolo News Television quoted the Afghan Cricket Board as saying all players were safe.
2017-09-13 09:44:54 Read More

India to grant citizenship to Chakma refugees

The Centre will soon grant citizenship to nearly one lakh Chakma and Hajong refugees, who came from the erstwhile East Pakistan five decades ago and are living in camps in the northeast. However, they may not get some rights, including ownership of land, enjoyed by Scheduled Tribes in Arunachalâ€‹
2017-09-13 09:37:00 Read More

DU polls: NSUI wins prez, VP posts; ABVP bags 2

The Congress student wing National Students' Union of India (NSUI) made a stunning comeback in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls 2017 by winning President and Vice President posts on Wednesday.
2017-09-13 08:52:20 Read More

India, Japan may finalise defence purchase deal

India and Japan will not break new ground during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abeâ€™s visit, which begins today. The two sides are digging deep in their bilateral relationship. Japan is now possibly Indiaâ€™s closest strategic partner in the world, as both sides converge in their strategic and economic outlook.
2017-09-13 07:09:57 Read More

S Korea's answer to Kim's tests: A beheading unit

A day after North Korea conducted its sixth â€” and by far most powerful â€” nuclear test this month, the South Korean defense minister, Song Young-moo, told lawmakers in Seoul that a special forces brigade he described as a "decapitation unit" would be established by the end of the year.
2017-09-13 04:55:04 Read More

What Amit Shah said about Rahul Gandhi's speech in the US

BJP president Amit Shah yesterday suggested that nobody in India listens to anything that "failed leader" Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has to say. "Failed leaders run off to the US to lecture, as no one listens to them back home", said Shah, referring to speech Rahul delivered in the US..
2017-09-13 04:24:30 Read More

Roadshow to Gujarati 'thali': 10 things Abe will do

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives today in Gujarat where he will be hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Breaking tradition, the Japan PM will skip Delhi on his two-day official visit to India to participate in the 12th India-Japan Annual Summit at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar tomorrow.
2017-09-13 03:04:35 Read More

In AIADMK melee, EPS emerges silent killer

The AIADMK general council has marked the arrival of a master strategist - chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami - in the party. In one fell swoop, he ousted V K Sasikala from the party leadership and pre-empted his deputy O Panneerselvam from occupying the post of party general secretary.
2017-09-13 02:55:51 Read More

In AIADMK melee, EPS emerges silent killer

â€˜Hinduness is not about what one wears or eats'

2017-09-12 23:07:19 Read More

All of India runs on dynasties, why single me out: Rahul at Berkeley

â€œAkhilesh Yadav is a dynast, (M K) Stalin is a dynast, Dhumalâ€™s son (Anurag Thakur) is a dynast... even Abhishek Bachchan is a dynast. I mean thatâ€™s how Indiaâ€™s runs... So donâ€™t get after me as thatâ€™s how the entire country is running,â€ Rahul told an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday.
2017-09-12 22:53:10 Read More

Apple's 3 new iPhones, Watch: Key highlights

The court ruled that the stipulation under the Hindu Marriage Act for a six-month wait could be done away with if all efforts for mediation and conciliation intened to reunite the parties had failed. The waiving off can be considered if the parties had already lived separately for at least a year.
2017-09-12 20:20:52 Read More

Has Rahul realised 'Yuvraj' tag won't go away?

At the University of California in Berkeley, Rahul cited examples from other political parties and in the business world to say that India ran on dynasties. He added that the key criterion for a political person was his competence and not the family he belonged to.
2017-09-12 20:18:27 Read More

iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus smartphones announced

Hinduness is not about what one should wear or eat but accepting others as they are, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Tuesday, in comments that are significant in the context of the current political and ideological debate over intolerance and moral policing.
2017-09-12 19:30:23 Read More

Rohingyas threat to national security: Rajnath

In August, the Centre had declared that the Rohingyas pose serious security challenges as they may be recruited by terror groups, and asked the state governments to identify and deport them.
2017-09-12 16:28:49 Read More

Army's new M-777 howitzer damaged during firing in Pokhran

The field trials of the 155 mm, 39-calibre guns manufactured by BAE systems were being carried out at Pokhran in Rajasthan with an aim to collate and determine various critical data like trajectory, speed and frequency.
2017-09-12 15:45:16 Read More

Centre set to introduce Rs 100 coins soon

2017-09-12 15:28:18 Read More

SC waives 6-month 'cooling off' period for divorce

Centre hikes dearness allowance by 1% for 1.1cr employees, pensioners

For long time we have conducted cooperation on the river data with the Indian side. But to upgrade and renovate the relevant station in the Chinese side, we do not have the conditions now to collect the relevant statistics of the river: Chinese foreign ministry
2017-09-12 12:07:42 Read More

Rohingyas issue: India hits back at UN criticism

2017-09-12 11:49:01 Read More

India hits back at UN criticism on Rohingya issue

Rajiv K Chander, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, expressed disapproval of the remarks of Al Hussein, who had criticised New Delhi's current measures to deport Rohingyas "at a time of such violence against them".
2017-09-12 11:49:01 Read More

DATE 7

Indian priest abducted by ISIS in Yemen rescued

The BJP on Tuesday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for "belittling the PM" on an international stage and for saying "most of India runs" on dynastic succession. The BJP's Smriti Irani called Rahul a "failed dynast" and said Indian democracy runs on merit.
2017-09-12 10:21:03 Read More>>

'Can't share river data now,' says China

Irani on Rahul: 'Failed dynast spoke in US'

2017-09-12 07:20:49 Read More

LoC residents seek 'individual bunkers'

2017-09-12 06:33:05 Read More

Most of India runs like this: Rahul on dynasty

2017-09-12 05:12:22 Read More

Live updates: AIADMK sacks Sasikala as party general secretary

Over 5,000 people living in 23 hamlets along the Line of Control were forced to leave their houses in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district following heavy firing and shelling four months ago.
2017-09-12 04:15:23 Read More

What Rahul said on 'BJP machine', his 'stupidity'

2017-09-12 03:13:39 Read More

Convince Myanmar to end violence against Rohingyas: B'desh to India

Bangladesh high commissioner in New Delhi conveyed Bangladeshâ€™s concerns regarding what they saw as Indiaâ€™s unhelpful stand on the issue during PMâ€™s visit to Myanmar. This coincides with the UN human rights chief calling the ongoing violence â€œa textbook example of ethnic cleansingâ€.
2017-09-12 00:00:41 Read More

Ladakh tense over Buddhist-Muslim marriage

The Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA) is up in arms against the PDP-BJP government in Jammu & Kashmir and has decided to approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the growing feud between Buddhists and Muslims.
2017-09-11 23:26:28 Read More

I-T attaches Tejashwiâ€™s Rs 40-crore Delhi house

The I-T department attached on Monday a property belonging to former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav in Delhiâ€™s New Friends Colony under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act. Just a week ago, the ED had attached a Delhi farmhouse belonging to Laluâ€™s daughter and RS MP Misha Bharti.
2017-09-11 23:07:25 Read More

Karti owns 25 properties abroad, CBI informs SC

The CBI informed SC that investigations had found that former finance minister P Chidambaramâ€™s son Karti owned 25 properties abroad. Responding on Kartiâ€™s behalf, his advocate Kapil Sibal said, â€œIf the govt, I-T department or CBI finds any undisclosed assets abroad, the government can take them over.â€
2017-09-11 21:51:03 Read More

UN body slams India for its stand on Rohingyas

India came under fire yet again from the UN Human Rights Council over its threat to deport 40,000 Rohingyas, cow vigilantism and the recent murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. Earlier this year, the UN body had slammed India for rising communalism, caste violence, attacks on Africans, etc.
2017-09-11 20:04:00 Read More

Honeypreet Nepal bound? Cops step up vigil

2017-09-11 17:55:40 Read More

Aamby Valley auction to go on: Supreme Court

The apex court directed the official liquidator to go ahead with the scheduled auction of the group's Aamby Valley property in Maharashtra valued at Rs 37,392 crore, as it rejected Roy's plea to extend the time till November 11.
2017-09-11 15:58:43 Read More

Aamby Valley auction to go on: Supreme Court

Have more women staff: Javadekar to schools

A greater presence of women â€” employees and bus drivers â€” in schools can help address the issue of safety on campus, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said, days after a 7-year-old Gurgaon student was killed in a washroom.
2017-09-11 15:27:11 Read More

In a first, PM Modi to hold roadshow with Shinzo Abe in Ahmedabad

"This is for the first time in the country when our Prime Minister along with the Prime Minister of another country is doing a joint road show," Gujarat BJP unit president Jitubhai Vaghani told reporters .
2017-09-11 15:16:18 Read More

Sitharaman to meet Service chiefs daily

It had also been decided that the Defence Acquisition Council, the highest decision making body on defence procurements, would meet on a fortnightly basis to ensure a time-bound clearance of proposals on military acquisition, the defence ministry said.
2017-09-11 14:19:42 Read More

Auto industry gears up for electric vehicles push

Indiaâ€™s aggressive push to electrify all new vehicles by 2030 is compelling auto part manufacturers and carmakers to draw up early plans for electrification, company executives said.
2017-09-11 13:09:55 Read More

Live: 'Vivekananda turned ideas into idealism'

The Shiv Sena stirred a hornetâ€™s nest on Sunday with its mouthpiece Saamna claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had offered NCP chief Sharad Pawarâ€™s daughter Supriya Sule, a MP, a berth in the Union Cabinet.
2017-09-11 05:45:28 Read More

Irma knocks out power to nearly 4m in Florida

2017-09-11 03:06:58 Read More

Modi offered Sule Cabinet berth: Sena

4 states, one UT bring down pendency of 10-yr-old cases to zero

Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Chandigarh are the five where the justice delivery system has picked up pace and courts have managed to dispose of almost all cases pending for a decade or more.
2017-09-10 20:48:35 Read More

Aadhaar is free, but centres fleece applicants

2017-09-10 20:32:30 Read More

Haryana govt orders criminal case against Ryan

TOI found centres fleecing applicants in many places. In the Lal Kuan area of Badarpur, South Delhi, Laxmi, who earns Rs 150-200 a day selling momos, was charged Rs 200 to update her address and date of birth when the prescribed fee is only Rs 25.
2017-09-10 20:12:14 Read More

Over 100 Army officers move SC against â€˜biasâ€™

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman faces a new challenge as over 100 lieutenant colonels and majors of the Army have moved the Supreme Court over alleged â€œdiscrimination and injusticeâ€ in promotion of officers of the services corps.
2017-09-10 20:04:36 Read More

'Secret tunnels, irregularities galore detected at Dera headquarters'

No proper record of dead bodies being sent from the hospital running inside the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters was maintained while a skin bank was running without license, a senior official said as the mammoth "sanitisation" exercise of the complex was completed today.
2017-09-10 15:57:38 Read More

PM Modi, Shinzo Abe to kick-start India's first bullet train project

The leaders will lay the foundation stone of the high-speed rail network between Ahmedabad -- the capital city of Modi's home state -- and India's financial hub of Mumbai on September 14, a statement by the Gujarat government said Saturday.
2017-09-10 13:16:56 Read More

Navy's women team embarks on round the globe voyage

The six-member women crew will circumnavigate the globe on an India-built sail boat, INSV Tarini, which is being skippered by Lt Commander Vartika Joshi. Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged off, 'Navika Sagar Parikrama,' the first such expedition by the Indian Navy.
2017-09-10 11:00:32 Read More

10 more airports to end stamping of hand baggage

A photo of your shiny new luxury car on Instagram or a costly watch on Facebook may lead the taxman to your door as the tax department from next month will begin amassing virtual information to trace black money.
2017-09-10 08:32:44 Read More

Return was the hardest: Major on surgical strike

Umesh, Shami return for Australia ODIs

2017-09-10 08:10:06 Read More

Watch: The secret life of Ram Rahim

Ten more airports in the country, including Pune and Ranchi, will soon do away with the practise of stamping domestic passengers' hand baggage tags, a new air travel regime that began at civil airports in April this year.
2017-09-10 07:35:56 Read More

Soon, bulletproof vehicles for J&K cops

2017-09-10 06:59:24 Read More

Fire-and-forget missile set for trials in Pokhran

Inching closer to the induction, the Gen-3 Fire and Forget Anti-Tank Guided Missile Prospina earlier known as Nag is back in the desert ranges of Rajasthan for trials.
2017-09-10 06:49:53 Read More

Taxmen eye social media to trace black money

NSG, CISF may get to shoot down 'rogue' UAVs

A draft policy on operating low-flying, pilot-less objects will come up soon to deal with elements which could carry out terror attacks using drones, gliders, besides others, a home ministry official said.
2017-09-10 06:34:57 Read More

Terrorists planning chemical attacks on planes, warns MHA

Following intelligence inputs that terrorists may launch a chemical attack by releasing toxic gases in aircraft and other modes of public transport, the Union home ministry has issued an alert to all states and security agencies to step up frisking and baggage checks at airports, bus stands, and train and metro stations.
2017-09-09 22:36:35 Read More

With grief leave, firms help staff cope with loss

2017-09-09 20:52:14 Read More

Martyrsâ€™ wives start new lives as Army officers

Swati and Nidhi have joined the Army a day after the force, under new defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, gave finishing touches to a plan to induct 800 women in the military police. â€œIf I become a colonel like my husband one day, it would be great,â€ said Swati.
2017-09-09 20:36:38 Read More

Dera chief had a secret tunnel to sadhvis' hostel

A government team conducting a search operation inside the 750-acre campus, under the supervision of court commissioner AKS Pawar on Saturday, found the tunnel connecting the ground floor of the Dera headâ€™s plush residence (gufa) to sadhvisâ€™ hostel.
2017-09-09 20:23:43 Read More

GST panel softens cess blow on auto firms, cuts tax on 40 items

The GST Council did not raise the cess on auto industry as much as it was expected to, lowered rates on 40 items of daily use, extended the date for filing returns and set up a panel of ministers to monitor issues faced by the GST network.
2017-09-09 19:53:11 Read More

Powerful Hurricane Irma batters Cuba, takes aim at Florida

Hurricane Irma provoked a massive evacuation of Florida after leveling islands in the Caribbean and killing more than 20 people. The US National Hurricane Center said the storm slowed down after slamming into Cuba's northern coast, but that wind speeds would likely regain momentum as it approached the Sunshine State.
2017-09-09 14:18:28 Read More

Gurugram schoolboy murder: Top developments

One day after the brutal murder of a Class 2 boy at Ryan International School in Gurugram, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said he is open to probe by another agency if the initial investigation failed to establish facts. The school management has come under the scanner for alleged non-compliance with prescribed security measures. The latest developments:
2017-09-09 12:53:10 Read More

Terrorists attack police party in J&K, cop killed

Terrorists fired indiscriminately on police personnel near the main bus stand in Anantnag, killing constable Imtiyaz Ahmad while constable Shabir Ahmad was injured. The attack took place a kilometre away from the proposed venue of the meeting of the Union home minister Rajnath Singh with CRPF personnel tomorrow.
2017-09-09 12:51:29 Read More

CBI books Jayanthi Natarajan in corruption case

The CBI on Saturday registered a corruption case against former Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan and raided her premises in Chennai in connection with clearance given during her tenure for diversion of forest land for mining in alleged violation of laws.
2017-09-09 12:39:23 Read More

Tunnel linked Dera chief's gufa to sadhvis' hostel

A tunnel and a passageway connecting Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's quarters to the hostel of his female disciples were on Saturday found by the security agencies during the second day of a massive sanitisation exercise inside the headquarters of his sect.
2017-09-09 10:45:39 Read More

MEA says in touch with Indians hit by Irma

"Our missions in Venezuela, the Netherlands, France and the US are constantly monitoring the situation following destruction due to hurricane Irma. They are in constant touch with the Indian diaspora affected by Irma and with local government officials to provide all possible assistance," the MEA said.
2017-09-09 07:28:37 Read More

Explosives found on dera campus, forensic team inspects 'gufa'

Hordes of police, paramilitary and civil administration personnel were involved in the mammoth search operation which started on Friday on the direction of Punjab and Haryana high court. An unregistered luxury car and some banned currency notes were seized from the dera on Friday.
2017-09-09 06:49:16 Read More

DATE 8

Outrage at boy's murder in Gurugram school, principal suspended

Ryan International School's management has suspended the school principal after intense protests by parents following the gruesome murder yesterday of a seven-year-old student.
2017-09-09 06:45:37 Read More>>

'RBI chief's term must be protected like judges'

2017-09-08 22:30:00 Read More

'RBI chief's term must be protected like judges'

According to Rajan, past bureaucrats who occupied the governorâ€™s chair have taken a stand in favour of the central bank after taking charge. â€œIf you are subservient, you will not get respect from your staff, so people develop backbone very quickly,â€ said Rajan.
2017-09-08 22:30:00 Read More

No-fly: Ban is specific to airlines, not national

2017-09-08 21:30:16 Read More

Paradise in peril: Sikkim hit hard by Gorkha stir

2017-09-08 20:30:35 Read More

Doklam solution: How a three-hour meeting ended 73-day tension

Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has called for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute through political and diplomatic means, a stance divergent from the approach the countryâ€™s army has employed so far.
2017-09-08 20:04:08 Read More

J&K issue: Pak army chief advocates dialogue

Ten people were detained in connection with the death of a class 2 boy in Gurugram's Ryan International School on Friday. A school bus conductor, driver and a school staff member are among those detained.
2017-09-08 19:24:03 Read More

I-T unearths Rs 246cr deposit in benami account

It has also come to light that 441 account-holders with cumulative bank deposits of Rs 240 crore were untraceable in the state, as banks do not have proper details of these customers.
2017-09-08 19:13:00 Read More

7-yr-old killed in knife attack in school toilet

Sandwiched between China to the north and West Bengal to the south, the land-locked state of Sikkim has been brought to its knees as the Gorkhaland shutdown approaches a record-breaking three months. Tourism, one of the primary sources of income for Sikkim, has been hard hit
2017-09-08 13:43:08 Read More

S Korea braces for new missile test from North

South Korea braced for a possible further missile test by North Korea when it marks its founding anniversary on Saturday, just days after its sixth and largest nuclear test, which it marks each year with a big display of pageantry and military hardware. Last year, North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on the September 9 anniversary.
2017-09-08 13:39:44 Read More

Luxury car, old notes seized from Dera headquarters; rooms sealed

A luxury car without a registration plate and old currency notes were on Friday seized from the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters, a sect whose head is in jail after being convicted for rape, an official said.
2017-09-08 13:12:41 Read More

Pilots' body warns of stir against DGCA official

The Indian Commercial Pilotsâ€™ Association (ICPA), union of the erstwhile Indian Airlinesâ€™ pilots, has threatened to launch a protest against a senior official of the DGCA if the regulator acts against any pilot.
2017-09-08 11:47:01 Read More

Unruly behaviour on flight: Be ready for ban

From now on, misbehaving on a flight could ground you anywhere from three months to a lifetime. The aviation ministry on Friday issued Indiaâ€™s first ever â€œno fly listâ€ which comes into effect with immediate effect.
2017-09-08 11:42:46 Read More

Supreme Court bans agitation over NEET issue

It is directed that it shall be the obligation of the chief secretary and principal secretary of Tamil Nadu to ensure that no agitation takes place in relation to the NEET examination that has been upheld by this court, the Supreme Court said.
2017-09-08 10:49:44 Read More

Dera HQ search live: Hard disks, cash seized

Congress Rajya Sabha Parliamentarian Digvijaya Singh on Friday posted an image on Twitter containing decidedly unparliamentary language to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The tweet is a meme - it has a picture of the PM with two jokey sentences both of which have curse words.
2017-09-08 09:21:53 Read More

Misbehave on a flight, be barred from flying for 3 months to 2 years

The Centre has devised three offence categories to put unruly passengers on a 'No-Fly List', with the most severe one, 'life threatening behaviour including assault', carrying a minimum ban on flying for two years.
2017-09-08 08:36:14 Read More

Prasad to Rahul: Don't politicise Lankesh's murder

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for "politicising the murder" of senior activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh and demanded to know why the Congress government in Karnataka "failed to provide security" for the slain scribe.
2017-09-08 07:10:50 Read More

Terror financing: US shuts Pak's Habib Bank

Habib permitted at least 13,000 transactions that were not sufficiently screened to ensure they did not involve sanctioned countries, US Department of Financial Services said. It also used a "good guy" list to allow $250 million in transactions, including those by an identified terrorist and an international arms dealer.
2017-09-08 06:45:55 Read More

Digvijaya posts tweet on PM using curse words

2017-09-08 06:17:13 Read More

'Rawat has such a big mouth,' says Chinese media

Following army chief General Bipin Rawat's statement that India should be prepared for a two-front war, with China and Pakistan, state-backed Chinese media characterised him as having "such a big mouth that he could ignite the hostile atmosphere between Beijing and New Delhi."
2017-09-08 04:11:54 Read More

Dera HQ being searched, govt imposes curfew

The curfew will remain in place as long as the search operations continue. Tight security arrangements are also in place to prevent any incidence of violence. Meanwhile, a Dera spokesperson "appealed to the followers to maintain peace" during the operations.
2017-09-08 03:38:06 Read More

Irma kills 14 in Caribbean, heads for Florida

Across the Caribbean, authorities rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of residents and tourists in the path of the Irma, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
2017-09-08 02:25:39 Read More

Grandparents not part of Trump's travel ban: Court

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people in the US shouldn't be prevented from coming to the country.
2017-09-07 22:52:46 Read More

19 Cong MLAs seek split with RJD, say Lalu's never been faithful

There is speculation that BPCC chief Ashok Chaudhary has the support of 14 Congress MLAs and four MLCs in Bihar. If so, they need four more MLAs to escape the anti-defection law for crossing over to JD(U).Political observers say Nitish has kept eight ministerial berths vacant to lure dissident Congress MLAs.
2017-09-07 20:57:21 Read More

Minister says eat beef and then come to India

Newly sworn-in Union tourism minister K J Alphons has an advice for foreigners visiting the country: Eat beef in your own countries and then come to India.
2017-09-07 19:15:43 Read More

North Koreaâ€™s hydrogen bomb test ignites fresh worries in India

Concerns over the continuing clandestine quid pro quo between Pakistan and North Korea in terms of nuclear and missile proliferation, all under the benign guidance of China, have further accentuated in India after Pyongyang detonated a possible thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb last Sunday.
2017-09-07 18:55:44 Read More

India refuses to join declaration against Myanmar

India on Thursday dissociated itself from a declaration adopted at an international conference as it carried a reference to violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar, from where 125,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh.
2017-09-07 17:13:50 Read More

21,000 people disclosed Rs 4,900 crore black money: I-T dept

The scheme was launched in December last year by the government to enable people with black money to come clean by paying tax and penalty of 50 per cent. It closed on March 31 this year. The Income Tax Department has collected a tax of Rs 2,451 crore till now from these declarations.
2017-09-07 13:36:47 Read More

BJP will fight next Odisha polls alone: Amit Shah

The BJP president, who is on a three-day tour of Odisha, pitched for a younger leadership to run the state and came down heavily on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, saying backwardness and poverty continued due to his government's "misrule, inefficiency and corruption".
2017-09-07 13:10:20 Read More

2,000 SSB staffers to go to Intelligence Bureau

Over 2,000 personnel of a "dying" paramilitary cadre will be "transferred" to the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to boost the on-ground presence of the agency on the eastern borders, where India is bolstering its defences by building roads and other military infrastructure.
2017-09-07 12:05:19 Read More

Switch to clean vehicles or be bulldozed: Gadkari

Carmakers producing vehicles that run on traditional fuel, take note â€” Union minister Nitin Gadkari has a clear message: Go for alternative fuel, else he will not mind "bulldozing" them in his bid to check pollution and imports.
2017-09-07 12:03:32 Read More

Rohingya Muslims: Stateless, persecuted, fleeing

2017-09-07 11:20:52 Read More

How North Korea could block China's goal to replace US as global leader

China has made little secret of its long-term goal to replace the United States as the major power in Asia. But North Korea, which defied Beijing by testing a sixth nuclear bomb on Sunday, has emerged as an unexpected and persistent obstacle.
2017-09-07 10:22:54 Read More

She had no personal enmities: Gauri's siblings

Kavita and Indrajit Lankesh, siblings of journalist Gauri Lankesh who was shot dead late on Tuesday, said that their sister had no personal rivals and that they hope investigators find her killers soon.
2017-09-07 09:09:29 Read More

Mumbai blasts: Death for 2, Salem gets life term

Taher Merchant and Feroze Khan, two of the five convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, were on Thursday sentenced to death by a special TADA court. Abu Salem and Karimullah Khan were sentenced to life in jail. Riyaz Siddiqui, was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
2017-09-07 07:21:49 Read More

How Israel is helping Myanmar against Rohingya

Israel has refused to stop supplying arms to the Myanmar army, which human rights groups say is involved in the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, saying, "the matter is clearly diplomatic", reported online news portal Middle East Eye.
2017-09-07 07:16:24 Read More

Trump 'supports' making of F-16 jets in India

The Trump regime has informed the US Congress that it "strongly supports" transfers of F-18 and F-16 fighter proposals put forth by Boeing and Lockheed Martin respectively. "We need India to be a net security provider in the Indo-Pacific," an official said.
2017-09-07 05:26:29 Read More

'Dera Sacha Sauda gave Rs 5cr to incite violence before verdict'

Apart from Panchkula, the dera had sent money to various places in Punjab, where violence had broken out after Gurmeet's conviction. Sources said the dera followers were also told that they would get compensation in case of loss of life during the violence.
2017-09-07 05:11:16 Read More

Man in helmet shot Gauri Lankesh, SIT formed

Five labourers and a child were killed in a fire that broke out in an under-construction building, Prarthana, at JVPD Scheme in Vile Parle (W) on Wednesday night. At least 11 were admitted to nearby R N Cooper Hospital with severe burn injuries. Of these, eight are critical, said doctors.
2017-09-06 21:14:59 Read More

Fire in Mumbai building: 6 dead, 11 injured

2017-09-06 20:43:17 Read More

Using mobile while on wheel kills 2,100 in a year

The use of mobile phones while driving claimed 2,138 lives last year while faulty speed-breakers, potholes and under-construction roads accounted for 26 deaths on the roads every day, according to data released by the transport ministry.
2017-09-06 20:21:33 Read More

For the first time, Pakistan admits LeT, Jaish are based on its soil

Pakistan on Wednesday admitted for the first time that internationally proscribed terrorist outfits, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammed, were operating from within its territory, with foreign minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif calling for tougher action against these groups.
2017-09-06 19:48:09 Read More

End of DACA: 15 states, DC sue Trump govt

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia sued on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's plan to end a programme protecting young immigrants from deportation, an act Washington state's attorney general called "a dark time for our country.''
2017-09-06 19:01:38 Read More

Live score: India vs Sri Lanka, one-off T20I

Check live score, live commentary & scorecard of one-off T20I between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo on Times of India
2017-09-06 15:41:39 Read More

Can't rule out possibility of two-front war with China, Pak: Army chief

Stating that differences with Pakistan seemed to be â€œirreconcilableâ€, with the country continuing to wage a proxy war against India, Gen Rawat said China too will continue with its efforts to nibble away Indian territory through â€œsalami slicingâ€ and other measures.
2017-09-06 15:27:29 Read More

Up to 10-yr jail for siphoning shell firms' money

The government on Wednesday said that directors or authorised signatories of deregistered companies who try to siphon off money from the firms' bank accounts can face up to 10 years imprisonment.
2017-09-06 15:19:49 Read More

We're not reforming India, but transforming it: PM

2017-09-06 14:20:44 Read More

India, Japan to crank up defence cooperation

2017-09-06 13:42:32 Read More

Gaya road rage case: Rocky Yadav gets life in jail for killing student

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India shared Myanmar's concern about "extremist violence" in its Rakhine state, where a security force operation against Rohingya Muslims has sent about 125,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh.
2017-09-06 10:32:12 Read More

India shares Myanmar's concern on violence: PM

"I have instructed the director general and inspector general of police (DG & IGP) to appoint an inspector general of police (IGP) to head the team. I have told them to take as many officers as possible and exclusively probe Gauri's murder, which appears to be an organised crime."
2017-09-06 09:37:37 Read More

DATE 9

Gauri Lankesh's murder: Karnataka govt forms SIT; Rajnath seeks report

Gauri Lankesh murder: Karnataka govt forms SIT

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and the states to take urgent steps to stop cow vigilantism. The top court asked each state to appoint a senior police officer in each district as a nodal officer to take action against cow vigilantism.
2017-09-06 08:22:49 Read More

All must work to preserve Myanmar's unity: PM

The Supreme Court has sought to know government's stand on a plea challenging its plan to deport Rohingya refugees. India has for decades sheltered people fleeing conflict and disaster, but it wants to deport Rohingyas.
2017-09-06 06:50:47 Read More

SC to Centre, states: Take urgent steps to stop cow vigilantism

Why India is refusing refuge to Rohingyas

The Blue Whale challenge is occupying more mind space than any other online game in recent memory. We take you on a deep dive. Let us get straight to the point. First of all, unlike what most people think, it is not a downloadable game, app or software.
2017-09-06 05:01:39 Read More

Gauri Lankesh's death: Cops hunt for killers

India said that it shares Myanmar's concerns over the violence in the Rakhine state and asked all stakeholders to preserve the country's unity and territorial integrity, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
2017-09-06 03:37:14 Read More

US states to fight Trump's Dreamer decision

2017-09-05 22:48:32 Read More

Billionaire Raj: India's income inequality highest since 1922

Inequality in India may be at its highest level since 1922, when the countryâ€™s income tax law was conceived, with 22% income accruing to the top 1% income earners, a new paper released by economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel showed.
2017-09-05 19:55:52 Read More

Restraint in pellet gun use; fewer deaths in J&K

2017-09-05 19:21:11 Read More

China not likely to change stand on Masood Azhar

Restrained use of pellet guns has resulted in a sharp dip in number of deaths and injuries in J&K. Last year, 15 civilians were killed and 396 were left injured by pellet guns. This year, one civilian was killed and 36 were injured.
2017-09-05 18:49:50 Read More

6k Indians to be hit as Trump scrapped 'Dreamer'

2017-09-05 17:11:12 Read More

Journalist shot dead at her house in Bengaluru

According to eye witnesses, the 55-year-old journalist was standing near the gate of her house when three men on a motor bike sprayed her with bullets. The incident took place at around 8.25pm.
2017-09-05 15:44:46 Read More

Trump scraps program protecting immigrant kids

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, that has protected from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the country illegally as children.
2017-09-05 15:32:43 Read More

North Korea says it is ready to send 'more gift packages' to US

Amid international uproar over North Korea's latest and biggest nuclear weapons test, one of its top diplomats said on Tuesday it was ready to send "more gift packages" to the United States.
2017-09-05 14:32:16 Read More

Pak rejects BRICS' statement on terrorist groups

2017-09-05 12:11:19 Read More

Crack down on shell firms: Bank ops of over 2 lakh companies restricted

An official statement released by the Ministry of Finance said that as many as 2,09,032 companies have been struck from the the RoC and that the existing directors and authorized signatories of such companies will now become ex-directors or ex-authorized signatories.
2017-09-05 12:09:58 Read More

All you need to know about Blue Whale challenge

2017-09-05 11:54:42 Read More

All you need to know about Blue Whale challenge

2017-09-05 11:54:42 Read More

130 Air India pilots, 430 crew may be grounded for skipping alcohol test

These crew members had regularly been "evading" the breath analyser test over a period of time for flights to and from certain destinations such as Singapore, Kuwait, Bangkok, Ahmedabad and Goa, sources close to the development said.
2017-09-05 11:01:54 Read More

111 MLAs attend meet convened by EPS

2017-09-05 09:29:00 Read More

Gambhir to fund education of slain cop's daughter

2017-09-05 08:40:08 Read More

Modi, Xi agree Doklam-like row must not recur

The fracas was recorded by some on their mobile phones and posted on several social media platforms. Stills from the video, which have gone viral online, show the two engaging in a public scuffle.
2017-09-05 06:42:24 Read More

PM Modi describes 10 steps to transform world

Vasant Narasimhan, 41, chief medical officer and global head of drug development at Novartis will take over as the CEO of Europe's largest drugmaker after the company announced the surprise departure of CEO Joseph Jimenez after eight years at the helm.
2017-09-05 04:46:13 Read More

After strategic win, PM to meet Xi today: 10 points

â€œGIC (GST Implementation Committee) decides to extend date of GSTR 1, GSTR 2 and GSTR 3 for the month of July to 10th, 25th and 30th September 2017 respectively,â€ according to an announcement on micro blogging site Twitter.
2017-09-05 02:43:41 Read More

Honeypreet, not wife, on Dera chief's list of jail visitors

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh had given names of his mother Nasib Kaur, son Jasmeet Insaan, daughter-in-law Husanpreet Insaan, daughters Amarpreet and Charanpreet, sons-in-law Shan-e-Meet and Ruh-e-Meet, dera management chairperson Vipasana and an old loyalist Daan Singh, apart from Honeypreet.
2017-09-05 01:55:00 Read More

Govt extends deadline for filing GST returns

2017-09-05 01:43:44 Read More

Airhostess, pilot get into 'spat' at Jaipur airport

2017-09-05 01:35:47 Read More

Desi doctor to head Europeâ€™s biggest drugmaker

2017-09-05 01:06:10 Read More

After border standoff, India, China find common ground at BRICS

There have been problems about definition with some terrorists posing as religious leaders and the Pakistani government allowing them to get away with it. Beijing will now review this approach in defining terror groups.
2017-09-04 20:27:23 Read More

NKorea: Merkel, Trump for tougher UN sanctions

2017-09-04 18:49:44 Read More

Beijing may tell Pak to crack down on LeT, JeM

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump condemned North Korea's nuclear test on Monday and urged the United Nations to quickly agree on tougher sanctions against Pyongyang, a German government spokesman said.
2017-09-04 17:02:31 Read More

Read letter Obama left for Trump at White House

It has been customary for outgoing Oval Office occupants to leave advice for their successors and Mr Obama's letter offered four observations on his eight years at the helm.
2017-09-04 09:14:07 Read More

Second defamation suit by Jaitley: HC imposes cost on Kejriwal

The Delhi High Court today imposed another Rs 5,000 as cost on Arvind Kejriwal over delay in filing his reply to a fresh Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by Union minister Arun Jaitley over use of an objectionable word allegedly by the CM's former lawyer.
2017-09-04 08:32:56 Read More

Pak-based terror slammed in BRICS declaration

The 'BRICS Xiamen Declaration' named the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, among others. In addition, the BRICS members also called for greater efficiency in designation of terrorists
2017-09-04 06:47:40 Read More

Star India pays Rs 16,347cr for IPL media rights

Top companies from across the globe are set to vie for various rights when the IPL media rights auction gets underway in Mumbai on Monday.
2017-09-04 06:30:18 Read More

BRICS under Doklam, N Korea shadow: 10 points

2017-09-04 03:48:31 Read More

Cabinet rejig: Who's up, who's down and why

With a focus on delivery as he prepares for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday handed key portfolios to ministers with "proven" track record and sprang a surprise by elevating Nirmala Sitharaman as the first full-time woman defence minister.
2017-09-04 02:47:31 Read More

Saina starts training at Gopi's academy again

2017-09-04 01:17:26 Read More

Saina starts training at Gopi's academy again

2017-09-04 01:17:26 Read More

Modi-Shah jugalbandi behind smooth recast

In a set-up where Modiâ€™s role as chief vote-getter and leader of the government and party does not need emphasis, Shah has carved a role for himself as a shrewd organisational brain who is completely in sync with the governmentâ€™s political and governance objectives and, in fact, works in tandem with the PM.
2017-09-03 22:19:40 Read More

Meet Modiâ€™s formidable force in run-up to '19 polls

After three years of five-star performance, PM Narendra Modi on Sunday gave two of his governmentâ€™s poster boys â€” Dharmendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal â€” their due by elevating them to cabinet rank but also indicated he expects much more from them by giving new tasks.
2017-09-03 21:46:46 Read More

7 ex-Armymen, bureaucrats in Team Modi

2017-09-03 20:05:38 Read More

Real-time satellite information to help border forces check intruders

The idea is to enable the border guarding forces to monitor the movement of Pakistani and Chinese troops in real time, track terrorist infiltration, map terrain and communicate effectively in remote areas, besides assessing the strength of soldiers and artillery deployed by neighbours near the border in case of a stand-off.
2017-09-03 19:23:39 Read More

PM springs surprise, names first woman full-time defence minister

PM Narendra Modi on Sunday picked Nirmala Sitharaman as Indiaâ€™s first full-time woman defence minister, delivering the biggest surprise in a Cabinet recast that saw nine new ministers being sworn in, elevating the next generation of BJP leaders to key berths and inducting in-house technocrats with an eye on the 2019 polls.
2017-09-03 19:12:04 Read More

Pradhan, Goyal get their due with fresh challenges

The presence of such a significant number of civil servants and ex-Armymen is seen as the PMâ€™s push to get projects implemented in the run-up to the 2019 general elections. Four former bureaucrats â€” Raj Kumar Singh, Hardeep Puri, Satyapal Singh and Alphons Kannanthanam â€” were sworn in on Sunday, taking the number of civil servants and ex-Armymen to seven.
2017-09-03 17:03:08 Read More

'Ganga deadline: Top-performer' Gadkari in charge

The slugging implementation of Namami Gange, a project dear to PM Modi, might be the reason behind Nitin Gadkari getting the additional charge of the department. He is considered one of the top-performing ministers.
2017-09-03 13:43:30 Read More

Goyal takes oath as Railway Minister, Prabhu congratulates

Prabhu, a chartered accountant by profession, retained his cabinet rank in the reshuffle and will take over as the new commerce and industry minister. Goyal, who was the Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy, was elevated to the cabinet rank in today's reshuffle.
2017-09-03 12:11:44 Read More

Sitharaman 'humbled' on getting Defence Ministry

Nirmala Sitharaman, who landed the crucial defence portfolio in a major rejig of the Modi government, said she was "overwhelmed and humbled" and would serve the country with something she was "constantly" thinking about.
2017-09-03 10:26:04 Read More

Full list of PM Modi's council of ministers

Dharmendra Pradhan, who took oath as a cabinet minister, has emerged as the party's face in Odisha and become one of its visible leaders as the party has highlighted the "success" of his ministry's scheme of giving free LPG connections to the poor in its political campaigns.
2017-09-03 09:47:18 Read More

Rejig: Thrust on merit, eye on political goals

2017-09-03 09:09:32 Read More

DATE 10

Rejig: Thrust on merit, eye on political goals

Hydrogen bomb test 'perfect success': NKorea

2017-09-03 07:26:11 Read More

This is BJP reshuffle, not NDA's: Shiv Sena, JD(U)

2017-09-03 07:22:02 Read More

Cabinet reshuffle: Piyush Goyal is new railway minister

Four Union ministers were promoted to Cabinet rank and nine new ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday. Those who got a promotion and were sworn in are Dharmendra Pradhan, Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitharaman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
2017-09-03 06:33:38 Read More

4 ministers elevated to Cabinet ranks, take oath

2017-09-03 05:30:19 Read More

Cabinet rejig live: Jaitley retains defence ministry

North Korea said it successfully tested an advanced hydrogen bomb on Sunday, marking a dramatic escalation in the isolated state's stand-off with the United States over its nuclear weapons programme.
2017-09-03 02:20:48 Read More

Cabinet reshuffle: PM Modi to recast team with 9 new faces

The new inductions include four former civil servants and seem to reflect a mix of caste equations. There are three Brahmins, two Rajputs, one Dalit, one Jat, one Christian and one Sikh. Rajyavardhan Rathore and Jitendra Singh are being considered for more significant assignments in keeping with their record as diligent and competent ministers.
2017-09-02 19:49:33 Read More

Warned govt about cost of demonetisation: Rajan

In his new book, â€˜I Do What I Do: On Reforms Rhetoric and Resolveâ€™, due to be released next week, Rajan said that he first gave his opinion orally in February 2016 and, subsequently, RBI submitted a note to the government outlining the steps that would be needed, and the time required, if the Centre went ahead with the move.
2017-09-02 19:37:03 Read More

Post Doklam, PM Modi goes to BRICS taller

2017-09-02 16:30:42 Read More

9 new faces in PM's Cabinet: All you need to know

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a revamp of the Union Cabinet tomorrow to fill key vacancies and bring in new faces with a thrust on merit and demands of realpolitik. After assuming office in May 2014, Modi expanded his council of ministers twice--first on November 9, 2014 and then on July 5, 2016.
2017-09-02 16:24:40 Read More

Union Cabinet reshuffle tomorrow: Key updates

High Performance Director David John will be in charge till a suitable replacement is found for a smooth transition of the men's team. Though the federation did not say it in as many words, it is apparent that the Hockey India bosses are not impressed with Roelant Oltmans.
2017-09-02 13:57:07 Read More

No talks yet on JD(U) joining Union Cabinet, says Nitish Kumar

Huge landslide near Shimla, many vehicles buried

The Pentagon is planning to conduct more regular patrols in the South China Sea, as many as two to three a month, to assert freedom of navigation in disputed waters claimed by China, the Wall Street Journal reported.
2017-09-02 11:36:18 Read More

Hockey India sacks chief coach Roelant Oltmans

Several vehicles parked along the road were buried under debris after a massive landslide hit Chandigarh-Shimla National Highway near Dhalli Tunnel in Shimla. Fortunately there are no reports of any casualty, or of anyone being trapped. The buried vehicles were parked along the roadside.
2017-09-02 10:38:49 Read More

US mulls more patrols in South China Sea: Report

2017-09-02 09:24:20 Read More

Uncertainty over participation of AIADMK, JD(U) in Union Cabinet

More than half-a-dozen ministers are expected to make way for several new faces in the reshuffle, being seen as a balancing act between Modi's avowed thrust on merit and demands of realpolitik.
2017-09-02 08:03:59 Read More

800 engg colleges to shut over low quality

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) wants to close down about 800 engineering colleges across India as there are no takers for their seats, and admissions are plunging in these institutions every year.
2017-09-02 05:54:14 Read More

What happens to wealth of 'godmen' when they go to jail

Honeypreet Insan, who calls herself â€˜Papaâ€™s angelâ€™ and has shadowed him for over 20 years besides being the director-actress in most of his films, is the strongest contender.
2017-09-02 02:00:00 Read More

Dera chief's daughter was trying to free him: Cops

Indians working in the US may find it more challenging to transition from a work visa (such as H-1B) to a green card. From October 1, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service has made an in-person interview mandatory in such cases. In technical parlance, it refers to an I-485 adjustment of status interview.
2017-09-02 00:23:31 Read More

Dera chief's daughter was trying to free him: Cops

1 tonne of extra weight doomed PSLV mission

The PSLV-C39 rocket, which failed to launch the IRNSS 1H satellite on Thursday, was dragged down by at least one tonne of extra weight. This greatly reduced the altitude it was to reach for a successful mission, say scientists privy to the project.
2017-09-01 23:21:54 Read More

H1-B visa applications see spike in inquiries from US authorities

Indians working in the US may find it more challenging to transition from a work visa (such as H-1B) to a green card. From October 1, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has made an in-person interview mandatory in such cases. In technical parlance, it refers to an I-485 adjustment of status interview.
2017-09-01 21:05:17 Read More

UAE top draw for Indian job seekers in Gulf

While considerable chopping and changing is on the cards, water resources minister Uma Bharati is unlikely to be dropped and road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari remains reluctant to handle railways in addition to his charge.
2017-09-01 20:06:51 Read More

14 Bihar Cong MLAs may crossover to JD(U)

The Congress legislative party in Bihar is on the verge of a split as 14 party MLAs, just four short of the required two-thirds of the total 27 to formalise a division, have formed an informal group and are planning to cross over to the ruling JD(U).
2017-09-01 19:08:24 Read More

Modi Cabinet rejig on Sunday, Uma may stay

2017-09-01 18:59:03 Read More

Modi Cabinet rejig on Sunday, Uma may stay

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Russia ignored China's efforts to malign India

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as the leading destination for Indians migrating to the Gulf in search of work, as per emigration clearance data for the first six months of 2017. The UAE has toppled, by a wide margin, Saudi Arabia which used to traditionally lead the pack.
2017-09-01 16:04:19 Read More

J&K: Terrorists attack police party, 8 cops injured

2017-09-01 14:59:31 Read More

PM Modi to taxmen: Use data analytics to track undeclared wealth

Inaugurating the second edition of the annual 'Rajaswa Gyan Sangam' â€” the joint conference of direct and indirect tax officials â€” the Prime Minister asked taxmen to clear pendency of cases and create an environment that instills confidence among honest taxpayers and uproots corruption.
2017-09-01 14:37:21 Read More

Dhoni not even half finished yet: Shastri

2017-09-01 13:44:18 Read More

Union Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday

Head coach Ravi Shastri said that the India is set on the path of experimentation and rotation ahead of the 2019 World Cup but the 36-year-old former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni remains firmly in their plans.
2017-09-01 09:16:53 Read More

Finding aliens? An Indian scientist's journey

2017-09-01 08:59:36 Read More

'Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday at 10 am': 10 points

The mammoth plan entails linking nearly 60 rivers, including the mighty Ganges, which the government hopes will cut farmersâ€™ dependence on fickle monsoon rains by bringing millions of hectares of cultivatable land under irrigation.
2017-09-01 08:53:51 Read More

'Prisoners angry with Ram Rahim for violence'

2017-09-01 08:13:24 Read More

'Prisoners angry with Ram Rahim for violence'

2017-09-01 08:13:24 Read More

Bofors case final hearing in October last week: SC

At least five central ministers quit on Thursday as part of a larger restructuring, which is expected to take place by Sunday and is likely to see the creation of an integrated transport ministry under road and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari, who could be given charge of railways.
2017-09-01 05:49:32 Read More

To combat drought, floods, 60 rivers to soon be linked in $87 bn scheme

'Lookout notice' for Honeypreet Singh

Haryana police on Friday issued a 'lookout notice' for Honeypreet Singh, 'papa's angel' and adopted daughter of rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Some reports say that Honeypreet has gone into hiding, while others say she is living in the house of a Dera follower in Rohtak.
2017-09-01 04:00:11 Read More

AIADMK drama: EPS may challenge OPS in race to be party chief

Now that the future of the government is uncertain, EPS supporters are prodding him to have a rethink on giving up claims over the party leadership. They want to throw his hat in the ring and campaign for the GS post despite the fact that OPS is more popular among the AIADMK cadres.
2017-09-01 02:57:13 Read More

Pak's terror outfits dodge US censure by forming political parties

The trend to form parties comes in the wake of US imposing sanctions on JuD and Pakistan-based extremists as part of their plan to disrupt their leadership and fund-raising networks.
2017-09-01 00:36:36 Read More

Pak's terror outfits dodge US censure by forming political parties

Black money: I-T lens on 14,000 property dealings

The income tax department has put nearly 14,000 property transactions of over Rs 1 crore under the scanner, and these include those by people who havenâ€™t even filed I-T returns. The exercise has also unearthed a large number of people and clusters with suspect transactions.
2017-08-31 21:12:36 Read More

5 ministers quit ahead of Cabinet reshuffle

Donâ€™t raise 'Pak terror' at BRICS: China to PM

China on Thursday sent out a signal that it would object to any discussion about Pakistanâ€™s role in sheltering terrorists during the upcoming BRICS summit, which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2017-08-31 16:50:42 Read More

Kohli, Rohit fire India to another emphatic win

Kohli and Rohit made merry on a batting beauty to guide India to 375 for five, the highest total posted by a visiting team in an ODI in Sri Lanka. The final flourish was provided by Manish Pandey (50 n.o. off 42) and MS Dhoni (49 n.o. off 42), who achieved a memorable milestone of 300 ODIs.
2017-08-31 16:22:01 Read More

Kohli, Rohit fire India to another emphatic win

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