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The firm of Nirav Modi, the main accused in the $2 billion PNB scam case, has moved the Bombay High Court against a special court order which permitted the Income Tax Department to auction 68 paintings seized as part of its probe against the diamantaire. In a petition filed before the...
Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar alleged on Monday that the varsity students forcibly entered his house and confined his wife inside for several hours. Seven students have been on a hunger strike since last week in protest against the online system of entrance...
The Congress on Monday moved the Election Commission to stall the release of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biopic on the grounds that it is a politically-motivated film aimed at getting extra mileage for the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls. Omung Kumar-directed film 'PM Narendra Modi'...
Britain's PM Theresa May says she does not have enough support to win a vote on her EU withdrawal deal as things stand.She said she would continue trying to get MPs to back it before putting it to the Commons for a third time this week.The PM will also order Tory MPs to vote against a bid by a...
Donald Trump claims he has been completely exonerated by an inquiry into allegations Russia conspired to help him win the 2016 election.A summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report released on Sunday found the Trump campaign had not conspired with Russia.However it was...
Naresh Goyal, who is quitting as chairman of Jet Airways under a debt resolution plan, Monday said no sacrifice is too big for him to safeguard the interest of the airline and the families of its 22,000 employees. Goyal is also the founder of the full-service airline, which has been...
The Congress on Monday appointed former union minister Milind Deora as Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chief, replacing Sanjay Nirupam. Nirupam had been at loggerheads with senior party leaders in the state and the move has come as a bid to quell the intense infighting within the...
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today slammed Congress president Rahul Gandhi for promising India's poor a historic minimum income guarantee scheme, saying that a party with such a terrible track record of poverty alleviation has no right to make such assurances.Jaitley claimed that the...
Former Union minister Milind Deora appointed new Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chief, replacing Sanjay Nirupam.
Low-cost airline SpiceJet said on Monday that it was a sad day for Indian aviation as Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal stepped down from the board of financially-strapped Jet Airways.Today is indeed a sad day for Indian aviation. By launching a truly world class airline, Naresh and Anita...
The government-owned Air India on Monday decided to withdraw its boarding passes bearing photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani after they came in for criticism.The airline's statement comes after former Punjab Director General of Police Shashi Kant...
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi,former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former cricketers Navjot Singh Sidhu and Mohd Azharuddin, actors Kushboo and Nagma will be among 40 star campaigners for the April 11 Lok Sabha polls in Telangana. The leaders's names...
State Bank of India on Monday said that it expects investors for the cash-strapped Jet Airways by the end of May and promoter Naresh Goyal has option of increasing his stake in the beleaguered airline to beyond 25 per cent in the future.Consortium of lenders led by the SBI has agreed to put in Rs...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally in the outskirts of Jammu city on March 28 in support of party candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, a senior BJP leader said Monday. Sitting BJP MPs Jugal Kishore Sharma and Jitendra Singh are seeking re-election from the Jammu and...
The BJP Monday expelled one of its senior Lucknow-based leaders after he dubbed the party's top leadership as Gujarati thugs and asked if the BJP has chosen a 'pradhan mantri' (prime minister) or a prachar mantri (advertisement minister). While attacking the BJP's top leadership in a series...
@dp_satish: Mysore Paints is the only authorized manufacturer of indelible ink for elections across India. EC has placed Rs 33 crore order this time.
Former Union telecom minister Sukh Ram and his grandson Aashray Sharma on Monday joined the Congress, AICC in-charge for Himachal Pradesh Rajni Patil said. Sukh Ram and Aashray Sharma met Congress president Rahul Gandhi and joined the Congress. Aashray Sharma, son of cabinet minister Anil...
Kamal Haasan, Makkal Needhi Maiam after meeting West Bengal CM: Meeting was excellent we are proud to say that Makkal Needhi Maiam is an ally of TMC in Andaman. We hope this relation evolves in future. I'm going to campaign for their candidate (in Andaman).
A Delhi court Monday extended Robert Vadra's interim protection from arrest till March 27 in a money laundering case. Special judge Arvind Kumar granted the interim relief to Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Senior advocate KTS Tulsi, appearing for Vadra, denied...
The lady is not amused: Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan meets Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna in Howrah.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday took a swipe at Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his sons over an alleged disproportionate assets case, claiming the court will punish the ancestral corrupt for their deeds. He shared a news report on Twitter which said...
Government-owned Air India on Monday decided to withdraw boarding passes with advertisements of Vibrant Gujarat. Shashi Kant, a former Director General of Police from police, had complained that the airline his boarding pass carried pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister...
A Congress delegation comprising Randeep Singh Surjewala, Kapil Sibal, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi to meet Election Commission of India over the biopic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi later today.
Food inflation in the country is likely to go up to 2 percent in fiscal year 2019-20 from the 0.7 percent estimated for FY19, a report said Monday. It can be noted that the low food prices have been one of the prime factors which has aided the RBI to be more accommodatory in its rate setting...
Sitting Mathura MP Hema Malini files her nomination papers from the Lok Sabha constituency as BJP candidate for the LS polls.
Just in: Former Union minister Sukh Ram, his grandson Aashray Sharma, join Congress: AICC in-charge for Himachal Congress Rajni Patil.
Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy files his nomination papers as the Congress-JD(S) coalition candidate from Mandya for the LS polls.
Rahul Gandhi tweets: Today is a historic day... It is on this day that the Congress party launched its final assault on poverty. 5 Crore of the poorest families in India, will receive Rs. 72,000 Per Year #NyayForIndia is our dream & our pledge. The time for change has come.
Jet Airways founders and principal promoters Naresh Goyal and his wife stepped down from the board and quit the airline they founded nearly 25 years ago.Naresh Goyal is in London, and is likely to address his employees from there. The current CEO Vinay Dube is expected to stay on and steer...
Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh on Monday said that as a party worker he genuinely wants the Bharatiya Janata Party to win in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Speaking to media persons in Aligarh on Saturday, Singh said, As a worker of BJP, I genuinely want BJP to win. We want that once...
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has promised to give Rs 72,000 per annum to 20% of India's most poor families under the minimum basic income guarantee scheme if the Congress comes to power after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The scheme will benefit 5 crore families and 25 crore individuals...
Imran Masood, Congress candidate from Saharanpur on UP CM's remark that Saharanpur also has a son-in-law of Masood Azhar: It's unfortunate, you can't question somebody's patriotism. If the country needs my head I will lay down my head. Mother India is as much mine as it is Yogi-ji's.Chief...
Delhi Congress president Sheila Dikshit and other leaders of the unit Monday discussed the possibility of an alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha polls in the city in a meeting with party chief Rahul Gandhi. The opinion on the issue remained divided and everyone in the meeting was...
Mere naam ka matlab akalmand hain (My name means being mindful), 21-year-old Daanishtha Siddiqui says with a wide grin. She shot the video which showed how at least 25 men from the Hindu Gujjar community brutally attacked her family on Holi in Gurugram's Bhondsi district. Read the...
A boarding pass issued by Air India with pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has come under criticism, days after the PM's photo on railway tickets created a furore. The airline said the passes featuring the photographs, which were third-party...
The AAP government on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking the constitution of a larger bench to expeditiously decide the issue of who controls the services in Delhi. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi told the Delhi government counsel that it will look into the matter. The apex...
India has periodically raised with Islamabad the subject of the treatment of minorities in Pakistan, but has always treaded carefully for fear of jeopardising their lot further.Just as Muslims in India are forced to carry the baggage of being identified with Pakistan because of their religion,...
This is why Indian courts have such a huge backlog of cases. The Supreme Court today rejected a PIL challenging the bus fare of Rs 49 to go to the temple in Sabarimala in Kerala. A bench of the apex court, headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi said,Sorry, we can't decide here what should be the bus...
Makkal Needhi Maiam leader Kamal Haasan to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata today. Haasan did not figure in the second and final list of candidates for the Lok Sabha election and bypolls to the 18 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu. Announcing the...
Yes, that's Deepika Padukone essaying an acid attack survivor... The actress took to social media to unveil her look in the film inspired by acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal. A character that will stay with me forever...#Malti Shoot begins today!#Chhapaak Releasing-10th January, 2020....
Former Dawood Ibrahim aide Shakeel Ahmed Shaikh also known as Lambu Shakeel has passed away at Mumbai's Jaslok hospital. He was suffering from a heart disease. His former boss is yet to return to India, 26 years after the Mumbai serial blasts killed 257 people.
Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa on the induction of the Chinook choppers: Country faces a multiple security challenges; we require vertical lift capability across a diversified terrain. Chinook has been procured with India specific enhancements; it's a national asset.Chinook helicopters can carry out...
The benchmark BSE Sensex plunged over 325 points and slipped below the 38,000-mark in early trade Monday, in tandem with weak global cues and depreciating rupee. The 30-share index, which had lost 222.14 points on Friday, was trading lower by 325.49 points, or 0.85 per cent, at 37,845.24....
The Indian Air Force will be inducting the first unit of four US-made Chinook heavy-lift helicopters on Monday. The first four of such 15 choppers have arrived at Chandigarh's Air Force Station 12 Wing for their deployment by the IAF. Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa will induct the aircraft, the IAF...
Makkal Needhi Maiam president Kamal Haasan did not figure in the second and final list of candidates for the Lok Sabha election and bypolls to the 18 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu. Announcing the list of candidates at massive public meeting in Coimabtore on Sunday, Haasan...
This business of monopoly of one family must end.Here, they picked up a few leaders for him as he needed support which was okay, but later, they became his cronies.Tom Vadakkan, a Congress spokesperson who was perceived to be close to Sonia Gandhi recently resigned from the party and joined the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to prominent personalities from different fields to inspire people to vote in the Lok Sabha elections. As part of his #VoteKar campaign on Twitter, the prime minister urged personalities from the fields of sports, entertainment, and media to...
Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said choking the democratic space and punishing people collectively was a new policy adopted by the Centre to deal with Kashmir. The purpose behind the repressive measures being taken in Jammu and Kashmir by the BJP-led government is to show...
Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is a key person for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Northeast and is above party chief Amit Shah for the affairs related to the region, its general secretary Ram Madhav said on Sunday. Madhav made the statement when asked why Sarma cannot contest...
United States Attorney General William Barr has said Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not find proof that Donald Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections, following which the US president claimed complete and total exoneration.In his four-page...
