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ISRO to launch exclusive satellite to help MHA

NEW DELHI, Jan 17: A satellite will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) exclusively for the Home Ministry to help it further strengthen its frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh among others, according to an official statement issued Thursday....

PM-led Selection Panel to meet on Jan 24 to decide on new CBI director

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Agencies): The Selection Panel led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on January 24 to decide on the new CBI director. Other members of the committee include Chief Justice of India and the Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge. T...

Nitish recalls his exit from Mahagatbandhan in Bihar, blames it on Rahul’s 'inability'

PATNA, Jan 16 (Agencies): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday attributed his sudden exit from the opposition alliance to Congress president Rahul Gandhi's "inability" to take a stand on corruption charges against his former deputy and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav...

In ‘Lion’ Tej Pratap’s poster, Rabri is ‘Durga’, Paswan ‘Mahisasura’

PATNA, Jan 16 (Agencies): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tej Pratap Yadav took to microblogging site Twitter on Tuesday to target Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) supremo Ram Vilas Paswan, depicting the latter as Mahisasura, the mythological figure who was killed by goddes...

CBI registers FIRs against 2 shelter homes in Bihar for abuse of minors

PATNA, Jan 16 (Agencies): The CBI has registered fresh FIRs pertaining to alleged abuse of children in two shelter homes in Bihar, officials said on Thursday. The agency has registered FIRs against Bhagalpur-based Boys' Children Home run by Rupam Pragati Samaj Samiti ...

Another AAP Punjab MLA resigns from party, calls Kejriwal 'dictatorial'

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Agencies): Accusing the party leadership of "giving up its basic ideology and principles” and party chief Arvind Kejriwal of being "dictatorial and arrogant", rebel Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Baldev Singh on Wednesday resigned from the party's primary...

Rahul recalls meeting with crying Afghan MP, says 'democracy our greatest strength'

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Agencies): Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said democracy is India's greatest strength and must be defended at any cost, as he cited an incident when an Afghan lawmaker had told him that arguments that take place in Indian Parliament, ar...

Front row seat for Tytler sparks row at Delhi Cong event for Dikshit's takeover

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Agencies): Veteran Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday took charge as the party's Delhi chief just months ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The event held at the Congress office in Delhi had many dignitaries in attendance. However, the one le...

Sushma awestruck by Tunisian woman who speaks four Indian languages

NEW DELHI,Jan 16 (Agencies): Union minister Sushma Swaraj was on Tuesday moved by a Tunisian woman's professed love for India, prompting the senior politician to say that she must have been "an Indian in her previous life". Maha Gaida, 31, who speaks four Indian langu...

CBI registers FIRs against 2 shelter homes in Bihar for abuse of minors

PATNA, Jan 16 (Agencies): The CBI has registered fresh FIRs pertaining to alleged abuse of children in two shelter homes in Bihar, officials said on Thursday. The agency has registered FIRs against Bhagalpur-based Boys' Children Home run by Rupam Pragati Samaj Samiti ...

Is Sitharaman giving Pakistan clean chit on Uri, Pathankot attacks: P.Chidambaram

NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (Agencies): Attacking Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for claiming that no major terror attack took place since the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday questioned her if she was giving a clean c...

Yadav meets Akhilesh, claims 'BJP will be decimated in UP and Bihar'

NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (Agencies): A day after meeting Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday met Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow. Following the meeting, ...

NCP forms 22-member manifesto committee under Walse-Patil

MUMBAI, Jan 14 (Agencies): The Nationalist Congress Party Monday announced the formation of a 22-member manifesto committee for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. The committee will be headed by Dilip Walse-Patil and will have Supriya Sule, Nawab Malik, Dhananjay Munde,...

Woman crashes Republic Day rehearsal at India Gate, shouts 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans

NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (Agencies): Delhi Police on Sunday arrested a woman for allegedly shouting 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans at India Gate. The woman, who is believed to be mentally unstable, managed to sneak into a high-security area when the Republic Day rehearsal was o...

Tahawwur Rana, who plotted 26/11 Mumbai attacks, may get extradited to India: Reports

MUMBAI, Jan 14 (Agencies): There is a "strong possibility" of Pakistani Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana's extradition to India before the completion of his 14-year jail term in the US in 2021 for plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, an informed source in Washington h...

AgustaWestland case middleman Michel granted 15 minutes time in a week to speak to family, lawyers

NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (Agencies): A special CBI Court on Monday granted 15-minute time in a week to AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case middleman Christian Michel to speak to his family and lawyers. Christian Michel James, a middleman in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal,...

1200-page chargesheet filed against Kanhaiya Kumar, others

NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (Agencies): The Delhi Police on Monday filed a 1200-page chargesheet in the JNU sedition case against former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar and other activists, including Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, Delhi Police commissioner Am...

Modi receives first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential award

NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (Agencies): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday received the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential award here. The award focuses on the triple bottom-line of 'people, profit and planet'. It will be offered annually to the leader of a nation, a st...

National Security Act invoked against 7 accused in Bulandshahr violence

LUCKNOW, Jan 14 (Agencies): The Uttar Pradesh administration invoked National Security Act against the seven accused arrested in the December 3 cow slaughtering case in Bulandshahr on Monday. Two people were killed in the violence including a police inspector. On Dece...

Fire breaks out at Kumbh Mela venue in Prayagraj

LUCKNOW, Jan 14 (Agencies): A cooking gas cylinder exploded in a tent at the Digambar Ani Akhada at the Kumbh Mela site, triggering a massive fire on Monday, a day before the fair officially opens, police said. There were, however, no reports of any one being injured,...

Civil surgeon sacked after kissing video with nurse inside operation room goes viral

UJJAIN, Jan 14 (Agencies): A civil surgeon at Ujjain district hospital has landed himself in a soup after a video allegedly showing him kissing a woman in an operation theatre has gone viral on different social media platforms. Sources said the woman in the video is a...

Opposition wants to build their empire, we want to empower people: Modi

NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (Agencies): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday derided opposition efforts to cobble up a grand alliance against the BJP and pitched for his party's re-election in the coming parliamentary election, saying these "opportunistic" alliance and "dynast...

Rajbhar mocks SP-BSP alliance in UP, calls it a 'used cartridge'

NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (Agencies): Controversial Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar has mocked the newly announced pre-poll alliance between Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and the BSP headed by Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh. The minister said that the SP-BSP allianc...

15 committees with stakeholders from all fields

How BJP will make its poll manifesto
NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (Agencies): The Bharatiya Janata Party's panel which is entrusted with making the party's election manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election met at the party headquarters in Delhi on Sunday. The meeting of the 20-member committee was chaired by Un...

BJP frustrated, its workers restless after SP-BSP alliance in UP: Akhilesh

NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (Agencies): Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav took a potshot at the BJP on Sunday and said that central leadership of the saffron party has become restless ever since he announced a pre-poll tie-up with M...

How can you build Ram Temple when allies like Nitish, Paswan opposing it: Uddhav to BJP

MUMBAI, Jan 13 (Agencies): Hitting out at BJP chief Amit Shah for his remarks that the saffron party will thrash former allies if a pre-poll alliance did not materialise ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said one who will trounce ...

Govt should enact law for construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya: VHP

AYODHYA, Jan 13 (Agencies): The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday reiterated that the Centre should enact a law for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, claiming that matters of faith did not come under the purview of courts. VHP international president Vi...

169 complaints of sexual harassment at workplace in private industries: WCD Ministry

NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (Agencies): A total of 169 complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace have been received in private industries since 2017, the Women and Child Development Ministry has said. The complaints were received through 'SHe-box', an online system for f...

Gujarat govt to implement 10% quota law from today

AHMEDABAD, Jan 13 (Agencies): The Gujarat government said on Sunday that it will implement the 10 per cent reservations in government jobs and higher education for the economically backward sections in the general category from January 14. The Constitutional amendment...

Kolkata Police arrest 8 with improvised firearms and fake currency

KOLKATA, Jan 13 (Agencies): Kolkata Police have arrested eight people with improvised firearms and fake Indian currency notes (FICN). The arrests were made by Kolkata Police's Special Task Force (STF) on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, the anti-FICN team from STF inter...

BJP lost 3 state elections but we are not defeated: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Agencies): BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday said although the party lost in the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh Assembly polls, it has not been defeated yet. Addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party National Council on the second day of i...

NIA arrests member of ISIS-inspired group from Ghaziabad

GHAZIABAD, Jan 12 (Agencies): The National Investigation Agency made a fresh arrest from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh in connection with its probe against an ISIS-inspired group, which was allegedly planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians and go...

Body of woman found hanging on railway station footbridge in Jharkhand

JHARKHAND, Jan 12 (Agencies): The Government Railway Police(GRP) officer on Saturday said a body of a woman was found hanging from a pillar of the footbridge connecting two platforms at Dhanbad railway station in the early hours of the day. The woman, who appeared to ...

8 arrested for allegedly lynching a 70-Yr old man in Maharashtra

MUMBAI, Jan 12 (Agencies): Eight persons on Saturday were arrested for allegedly lynching a 70-year-old man from Vasai in Palghar district of Maharashtra. The incident took place late Friday evening in Rangaon area of Vasai. The septuagenarian was allegedly lynched by...

AAP ties up with Apna Dal for Lok Sabha Polls 2019

NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Agencies): On a day the SP and BSP sealed an alliance for the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also concluded a deal with the Apna Dal (Krishna Patel) on Saturday. Announcing the alliance, AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh...

BSP, SP alliance for their survival; Not in interest of country: BJP

NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Agencies): The BJP on Saturday termed the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party alliance a desperate effort for survival against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a press conference here on the second day of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

RLD hopeful of finding place in SP-BSP alliance for LS polls in UP

PATNA, Jan 12 (Agencies): On a day when the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) announced a tie-up in Uttar Pradesh for the coming Lok Sabha polls, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) kept its hopes alive, saying the talks for finding a place in the alliance...

Cong refuses to comment on SP-BSP tie-up

Expected to contest alone in UP in Lok Sabha Polls
NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (Agencies): Left out of the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is likely to contest the Lok Sabha polls on its own in the crucial Hindi heartland state, sources said. The Congress leadership maintained a stoic silence and refused to comme...

With Akhilesh on her side, Mayawati recalls 1995 guest house incident to hit out at BJP

LUCKNOW, Jan 12 (Agencies): Arch rivals Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday announced that they will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections together on 38 seats each of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, while leaving Rae Bareli and Amethi for Congre...
 

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