Pankaja Munde may not contest Lok Sabha seat
Pankaja MundeBJP MLA and daughter of late leader Gopinath Munde, Pankaja is said to not be keen on contesting the Lok Sabha seat Beed vacated after death of her father. Sources in the party said dean...
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US Secretary of State John Kerry meets FM Arun Jaitley. (Photo: ANI Twitter)U S Secretary of State John Kerry met India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday as part of his strategic dialgoue...
View ArticleWill write my own book, everyone will know the truth then: Sonia Gandhi on...
Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Photo: PTIWith former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh creating a row with his comments about Sonia Gandhi, the Congress President on Thursday said that she will...
View ArticleIn Nepal, Narendra Modi to reunite boy with parents
Indian PM Narendra Modi with Jeet Bahadur. (Photo: ANI Twitter) In a virtual diplomatic masterstroke by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he struck a very personal note on the eve of his two-day Nepal...
View ArticleBihar flood alert: Over 20,000 evacuated, Army called in for help
A massive landslide killed at least eight people and blocked a mountain river in northern Nepal on Saturday. Photo: APThe Bihar government has issued a flood alert in its northern state and has begun...
View Article1,000 rakhis for PM from Varanasi widows
Sulabh International founder Bindeshwar Pathak with widows of Varanasi send 1,000 Rakhis to their brother Narendra ModiOver a thousand widows from Varanasi will be sending ‘rakhis’ and sweets to Prime...
View ArticleMaharashtra might get a non-Maratha CM
Talk of a non-Maratha chief minister has begun in the Maharashtra Congress circles with the party insiders viewing this would help in consolidating the Congress’ political constituency in the upcoming...
View ArticleCongress fears rebel after reshuffling
Reshuffle in the Congress organisation is being delayed perhaps deliberately with the party high command assessing whether those who would be dropped or marginalised in this exercise, would turn rebel....
View ArticleBihar: Over 44,000 people evacuated
NDRF jawans evacuate villagers after heavy inflow of water into the Kosi river in Supaul district of Bihar on Sunday. — PTIGiving all-out support to Bihar to tackle any emergency due to the impending...
View ArticleIndia mulls transfer pact with Australia
A little red faced after Australia flagged the issue of illegal migrants from India trying to enter that country, India is working on a treaty for transfer of sentenced prisoner with that country. The...
View ArticleMontane Trinket snake caught in Maharashtra
The discovery of a Montane Trinket snake, otherwise known to inhabit the Western Ghats and a few places in Central India, from a housing society in Lalbagh in south Mumbai has surprised...
View ArticleFirms must recruit from employment banks: Mamata Banerjee
Mamata BanerjeeIn a clear bid to curb militant trade unionism, the Mamata Banerjee government has urged the companies and factories to make recruitment of workers from the employment bank...
View ArticleEditorial backing IPS man justified: Uddhav Thackeray
Uddhav Thackeray Reacting to Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana that had written an editorial backing rape accused DIG Sunil Paraskar, party president Uddhav Thackeray said that the editorial was...
View Article‘Enough proof against Maran’
The CBI on Monday received attorney-general (A-G) Mukul Rohatgi’s opinion on the agency’s probe into the Aircel-Maxis deal case, involving former communications minister Dayanidhi Maran. The country’s...
View ArticleHealth ministry may revive CET
The health ministry is considering to make the test mandatory by incorporating it in the Indian Medical Council Act The Common Entrance Test (CET) for under graduate medical students, scrapped by the...
View ArticleHawala operators under CBI lens
The CBI has intensified its effort to nab hawala operators who allegedly helped suspended chairman and managing director of the Syndicate bank, S.K. Jain, in receiving the bribe money. At least four...
View ArticleRailways to serve pre-cooked branded meals
The Railways will begin trial of providing pre-cooked branded meals in three trains from this week. Railway minister Sadanand Gowda had announced the proposal in the Rail Budget in July to introduce...
View ArticlePM Modi wins Nepal hearts, minds
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who offered special prayers at Nepal’s famed centuries-old Pashupatinath Temple near Kathmandu-PTIReady to revise ’50 treaty With the intent of opening a “new chapter” in...
View ArticleTerror groups could rise again, John Kerry told
Ajit DovalWithdrawal may let terror groups like LeT neutralise whatever gains made, Doval told John Kerry India wants the United States to delay its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan which is...
View ArticleIndia to develop Pashupatinath
The temple, listed in Unesco World Heritage Sites, is one of the most significant Hindu temples of Shiv in the world India has pledged to develop and conserve Nepal’s 5th-Century Pashupatinath Temple...
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