Chidambaram meets his son Karti and Congress leaders in Tihar jail
Sep 18, 2019, at 03:26 pm
New Delhi: Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ahmed Patel visited former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, incarcerated in Tihar jail in connection with INX media corruption case.
Can't impose any language: Rajinikanth counters Amit Shah's Hindi push
Sep 18, 2019, at 02:16 pm
Chennai: After Kamal Haasan, another actor-turned politician Rajinikanth countered Union Home Minister Amit Shah's Hindi push saying no one can impose any language, media reports said.
United Left grabs all the four posts in JNUSU polls
Sep 18, 2019, at 01:37 pm
New Delhi: In a set back for saffron backed student politics, the united front of Left student parties AISA, SFI, AISF, DSF defeated the arch-rival ABVP, bagging all the central panel posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru Students' Union elections, the varsity's election committee informed on Tuesday.
Rajnath Singh gives nod to writing of India's border history
Sep 18, 2019, at 01:33 pm
New Delhi, Sept 18 (UNI): Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given approval for initiating work of writing the history of the country's borders.
Pakistan violates truce on IB in Samba
Sep 18, 2019, at 01:14 pm
Jammu, Sept 18 (UNI): After continuously shelling forward areas along the Line of Control, Pakistan on Wednesday violated the ceasefire on International Border by firing unprovoked in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mamata Banerjee comes across Modi's wife Jasodaben in Kolkata airport, gifts sari
Sep 18, 2019, at 12:04 pm
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jasodaben at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Monday and they exchanged greetings.
Ayodhya case: CJI Gogoi asks to conclude hearing by Oct 18
Sep 18, 2019, at 11:39 am
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi has asked for the conclusion of hearing in the Ayodhya case by Oct 18, media reports said.
Amit Shah expresses 'people's doubt' over multi-party democracy, Congress, CPI-M hit back
Sep 18, 2019, at 11:23 am
New Delhi: The Opposition has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after its national president Amit Shah, who also happens to be the country's Home Minister, stirred a row by expressing "people's doubt" over the multi-party democracy just days after giving a call for a national language.
Mamata Banerjee likely to meet Modi today
Sep 18, 2019, at 09:19 am
Kolkata/New Delhi, Sept 18 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet PM Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Sep 17, 2019, at 11:27 pm
New Delhi, Sept 17 (IBNS): Slamming the Centre over Farooq Abdullah's detention, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the government is trying to remove nationalist leaders like the National Conference (NC) chief and fill the political vacuum with terrorists.
Sep 17, 2019, at 09:29 pm
New Delhi, Sep 17 (UNI) Asserting that there is a need to spread awareness to curb plastic usage, Union Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday said the aim of his Ministry is to phase out plastic use in packaging and move towards 100 per cent use of jute in packaging foodstuff.
Pregnant Muslim woman and two sisters stripped, tortured inside Assam police station
Sep 17, 2019, at 08:27 pm
Guwahati, Sep 17 (IBNS): In a horrific incident, a pregnant Muslim woman and her two sisters were allegedly stripped and tortured inside a police station in Assam’s Darrang district.
We will see when that happens, says Jaishankar on his possible meet with Pak FM
Sep 17, 2019, at 08:17 pm
New Delhi, Sep 17 (UNI) "We will see when that happens....." remarked External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar when asked how would he would interact or give any message to his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi when they would probably meet on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly in the United States later this month.
Media hardly pointed out that Art 370 was only 'temporary' provision: Jaishankar
Sep 17, 2019, at 08:15 pm
New Delhi, Sep 17 (UNI) External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday expressed surprise that most media reports especially the international ones have never referred to the fact that Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir was only a 'temporary' arrangement.
India expects to have jurisdiction on PoK one day: Jaishankar
Sep 17, 2019, at 07:59 pm
New Delhi, Sep 17 (UNI) Days after Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh have maintained that India has the right to take a pro-active stance on Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK), External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that that the region definitely is "part of India" and New Delhi expects to have 'jurisdiction' on it.
India, US relationship in very good health: Jaishankar ahead of Howdy Modi in Houston
Sep 17, 2019, at 06:39 pm
New Delhi, Sept 17 (IBNS): Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump appearing jointly in a rally in Houston together on Sept 22, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said the relationship between India and the USA is in a 'very good health' .
CBI to form special teams to trace former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar
Sep 17, 2019, at 06:24 pm
New Delhi, Sep 17 (UNI) Central Bureau of Investigation is constituting special teams to trace the locations and whereabouts of former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, as he has so farfailed to join the probe in the Saradha ponzi scam case, sources said.
Haryana police steps up security in Railway stations after terror threat
Sep 17, 2019, at 06:03 pm
Chandigarh, Sep 17 (UNI) Haryana police has increased the security arrangements in and around the railway stations across the state, after terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) threatened to target major railway stations in different parts of the country.
Miscreants torch 10 houses in Manipur’s Senapati district
Sep 17, 2019, at 05:34 pm
Guwahati, Sept 17 (IBNS) : Manipur’s Senapati district remained tensed after some miscreants suspected to be volunteers of Maram Khullen Circle Union, who were equipped with sophisticated weapons, destroyed and torched more than 10 houses at Makhan village area in the wee hours ton Tuesday.
Sep 17, 2019, at 05:24 pm
Guwahati, Sep 17: Former Assam Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday hit out at Narendra Modi-led government over the detention of former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah under the Public Safety Act and said that such draconian methods have exposed their dictatorial attitude.
21st century is India's century, says Amit Shah praising Narendra Modi's government
Sep 17, 2019, at 04:49 pm
New Delhi, Sept 17 (IBNS): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the PM Narendra Modi-led government has been able to install a feeling in the heart of citizens that 21st century belongs to India.
India successfully test-fires Air-to-Air missile Astra from Su-30 MKI
Sep 17, 2019, at 04:13 pm
New Delhi, Sept 17 (IBNS): Air-to-Air missile Astra has been successfully flight tested off the coast of Odisha, officials said.
Rahul Gandhi greets Narendra Modi on 69th birthday
Sep 17, 2019, at 03:31 pm
New Delhi, Sept 17 (IBNS): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, one of the major political opponents of Narendra Modi, wished the PM on Tuesday as he turned 69.
Incomplete works of 1947 are now being accomplished, says PM Modi alluding to Kashmir
Sep 17, 2019, at 02:45 pm
Kevadia, Gujarat, Sep 17 (UNI) In strong defence of his government's neo assertive but aggressive policy in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government has undertaken a new journey for the country including in onetime militancy hit province and some works those remained incomplete during Independence struggle, are now being achieved.
Furious Mayawati slams Congress for poaching her Rajasthan MLAs
Sep 17, 2019, at 02:25 pm
Lucknow, Sep 17 (UNI) Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Tuesday called the Congress ''unreliable'' after six of her MLAs switched over to the grand-old party in Rajasthan.
Tamil Nadu leaders pay rich tributes to Periyar
Sep 17, 2019, at 02:18 pm
Chennai, Sep 17 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and leaders of various political parties on Tuesday paid rich tributes to Rationalist leader Periyar E V Ramasamy on the occasion of his 141st birth anniversary.
Sep 17, 2019, at 02:05 pm
Kolkata, Sep 17 (UNI) The CBI today sought non-bailable warrant (NBW) against former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar in connection with Saradha Chit Fund scam even as the Barrackpore Sessions Judge Court will hear the anticipatory bail application of Rajeev Kumar moved by his advocates after 1400 hours.
Last 70 years of separatism in J&K and Ladakh led to separatism: PM Modi
Sep 17, 2019, at 02:01 pm
Kevadiya (Gujarat), Sep 17 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday strongly defended his government's decision to abrogate Article 370 and bifurcate the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and maintained that 'discrimination' faced by people in the northern state had led to violence and separatism.
Not under jurisdiction: Court rejects Rajeev Kumar's anticipatory bail application
Sep 17, 2019, at 12:16 pm
Barrackpore/Kolkata, Sep 17 (UNI): The Barasat Court on Tuesday rejected ADG CID Rajeev Kumar's anticipatory bail application, saying, " It's a trial court and has no jurisdiction."
Setback for Mayawati as 6 BSP MLAs join Congress in Rajasthan
Sep 17, 2019, at 11:52 am
Jaipur: In a setback for Mayawati, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)'s six MLAs have joined the Congress in Rajasthan, media reports said.