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Social media must guard itself against misuse, says Ravi Shankar Prasad Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp have changed the manner in which users consume content and communicate with each other, bu...
No mob lynching in Uttar Pradesh, Bulandshahr incident an accident: Yogi Adityanath Stating that there is no incident of mob lynching in his state, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday termed the ...
Exit polls show close contest in MP, Chhattisgarh; give Rajasthan to Congress Exit polls show a close contest between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. In Rajasthan, exit pol...
Michelle Obama opens up about marriage with Barack, seeking counselling Former United States first lady Michelle Obama opened up about her nearly three-decades-long married life with husband Barack Obam...
Sri Lanka top court overturns Maithripala Sirisena president’s order to sack parliament Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled President Maithripala Sirisena’s dissolution of parliament and ordered a halt to pr...
China in ‘communication’ with United States amid report of Xi Jinping-Donald Trump meet China said on Friday it is in contact with the United States amid reports of a planned meeting between President Xi Jinping and Pr...
Donald Trump vows ‘severe punishment’ if journalist killed by Saudi US President Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned...
Thousands protest Sabarimala order, devotees threaten suicide in Kerala Ahead of the Sabarimala Temple opening next week for a monthly ritual, Shiv Sena’s Kerala unit on Saturday warned that its women a...
Country owes you a debt: Rahul Gandhi tells HAL workers Stepping up his attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Rafale controversy, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday de...
Kamal Haasan says ready to ally with Congress if it parts ways with DMK Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has said that his Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) party is ready to join hands with the Congress f...
Can put anything on website, allegations against minister MJ Akbar need to be verified, says Amit Shah Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah has said that he was not in a position to comment on MJ Akbar, who is facing multiple...
Election dates 2018 LIVE: EC to announce poll dates for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh today The Election Commission (EC) is set to announce today the poll schedules for Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram, r...
Pakistan behind those putting up Bhindranwale’s portraits, says Rashtriya Sikh Sangat Supporting Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar’s decision to cancel visit to Karnal gurdwara, where portrait of slain...
Mamata Banerjee to invite Kerala CM, Left leaders to anti-BJP rally in January Indicating that even arch rival CPI(M) is not an untouchable in her fight against the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, West Be...
Pakistan’s allegation of use of chemical weapons in Kashmir false, malicious: India India Friday rejected as false Pakistan’s allegations of reported use of chemical weapons by Indian security forces in Kashmir, sa...
The ball is back in Parliament’s court on cleaning up politics The Supreme Court has stuck to the letter of the law in putting the onus on Parliament to frame a law to prevent people with crimi...
To mount an effective challenge to the BJP, the Opposition could use a bit of stardust \Witnessing in London the political chaos created by implementing Brexit, Britain’s departure from the European Union, has led me ...
Our political class must pay more attention to gender equality The Sabarimala judgment will create deep divisions among Kerala’s Hindus for some time. I say this with some certainty after liste...
Aadhaar verdict: Rahul Gandhi thanks Supreme Court for ‘supporting Congress vision’ (News Agencies)Congress president Rahul Gandhi thanked the Supreme Court for its verdict on the Aadhaar Act on Wednesday, saying i...
Donald Trump to U.N. Refugees Should Return to Their Countries and ‘Make Them Great Agai “Ultimately, the only long-term solution to the migration crisis is to help people build more hopeful futures in their home countr...
US asks Pakistan to act against culprits of Uri, Pathankot, Mumbai attacks A joint statement issued by India and the US after the two-plus-two talks in New Delhi on September 6, mentions Pakistan twice in ...
As China courts central and eastern Europe, whither India? In a rare high-level engagement by India in an increasingly pivotal region, President Ram Nath Kovind is on a visit to Bulgaria an...
Manmohan Singh says Modi govt ‘failing on all fronts’ Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government of failure on all fronts, s...
RSS Invite To Rahul Gandhi Has Message For Modi-Shah Too Rahul Gandhi has pulled no punches while attacking the RSS, the mothership of the Sangh Parivar but has also repeatedly said that ...
Some In NDA Don't Want Narendra Modi As PM Again, Says Union Minister Some people in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA did not want Narendra Modi to be the prime minister of the country again in...
Nitish Kumar Ready To Go It Alone In Bihar, Party Insists It's BJP's Loss PATNA:The BJP has begun testing the waters on seat-sharing with allies in Bihar ahead of the 2019 parliamentary elections, claimin...
Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale in US to lay 2+2 groundwork Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale and other senior Indian officials will hold discussions with their US counterparts in Washington t...
Imran Khan’s biggest challenge would be the economy The toughest task that Imran Khan will have to grapple with soon after he becomes Pakistan’s new prime minister is not the securit...
Another attempt to tarnish govt’s image, says Arun Jaitley on Rafale allegations Union minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday there was not a grain of truth in the “wild allegation” against the government on th...
Sushma Swaraj trolling: Centre avoids direct reply on investigation The Union government on July 24 avoided a direct reply on whether an inquiry was conducted into the recent trolling of External Af...
Trump threatens more tariffs on U.S. trading partners President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that “Tariffs are the greatest!” and threatened to impose additional penalties on U...
Delhi Chief Minister or Lieutenant Governor supreme? Supreme court will decide today Who holds the reins of Delhi — Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal or Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal? It will be known Wednesday when ...
Supreme Court checks govt: Pick DGP from state names shortlisted by UPSC Ordering a slew of measures to push police reforms, the Supreme Court Tuesday directed states to notify the Union Public Service C...
Congress says alliances need to be formed on state-to-state basis The Congress on Monday said alliances need to be sewed up on a state-to-state basis and there can be no ‘one size fit all alliance...
Emergency a ‘black period’, will figure in textbooks: Prakash Javadekar Dubbing the Emergency as a “black period” and an assault on democracy of the country, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today s...
Theresa May says UK to set out new Brexit details after June EU meeting Prime Minister Theresa May told the EU’s Donald Tusk on Monday that Britain would set more details on its vision for a future rela...
Bar Council of India lashes out at Justice Chelameswar for his statements after retirement NEW DELHI: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has lashed out against Justice J Chelameswar for his "controversial" and "irrelevant" st...
Mehbooba Mufti visits Shujaat Bukhari’s ancestral home to pay homage Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visited the ancestral home of slain journalist Shujaat Bukhari today to offer pers...
AAP dharna LIVE UPDATES: Mamata, Kumaraswamy, Naidu, Vijayan to meet Kejriwal at L-G house The ongoing tussle between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal has intensified as West ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticised US “unliteralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said on Sunday he appr...
Penalty collection from excess baggage not a priority, passenger comfort is: Piyush Goyal Even as the railways collected Rs 189 crore by penalising passengers for carrying excess baggage and from booked luggage in 2017-2...
Centre invites lateral entry at joint secretary-level posts: Here are 10 things to know about it The central government has announced opening up 10 senior-level bureaucratic posts in several departments through lateral entry to...
Nitish Kumar dismisses reports of rift with BJP, says rumours being spread by leaders seeking publicity Dismissing reports of a rift in the JD(U)-BJP alliance, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said such rumours were the han...
Rahul Gandhi to appear in court tomorrow in defamation case Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday will appear in a magistrate court in Bhiwandi here in a criminal defamation case filed ...
Trump-Kim talks to take place in Singapore’s Sentosa Island The summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will be on Singapore’s southern island of Sentosa...
Donald Trump aide who mocked McCain has left White House job A Trump communications aide who joked about US Senator John McCain’s battle with brain cancer has left her White House job, a Whit...
Assam PCC chief urges Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider decision Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ripun Bora on Tuesday urged former president Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider his decision to...
Madhya Pradesh polls: Congress-BSP pact would have denied BJP 41 seats in 2013 As the Congress and BSP negotiate the contours of a possible seat-sharing deal ahead of three crucial assembly elections, a poolin...
Amit Shah to meet Uddhav Thackeray today to lay ground for poll tie-up BJP president Amit Shah will meet Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday, setting the stage for possible pre-poll allia...
Pravin Togadia slams Modi govt over farmers’ issue, to visit Mandsaur Supporting the farmers’ agitation against the Central government, Pravin Togadia, who was recently ousted from the Vishwa Hindu Pa...
Gujarat Congress to launch 3-day stir for farm loan waiver, MSP hike from June 8 The Gujarat unit of the Congress on Tuesday announced three-day agitation against the state government from June 8 over farm loan ...
Govt’s bid to change UPSC cadre rules unconstitutional: P Chidambaram Former finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday questioned the BJP government’s proposal to amend rules for allocation of servi...
Donald Trump says White House leakers are ‘traitors, cowards’ US President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted those inside the White House leaking internal deliberations and described them as “tr...
J&K special status: Defer pleas challenging Article 35A, Centre to Supreme Court The Centre on Monday urged the Supreme Court to defer the hearing in the petitions challenging constitutionality of Article 35A, w...
Caution PM Modi on his ‘threatening’ language: Manmohan Singh writes to President Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and top Congress leaders on Monday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind and asked him to cautio...
From a rice mill clerk to south’s first BJP CM, a look back at Yeddyurappa’s political journey From serving as secretary to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to becoming the first BJP chief minister in the south and later...
Will return in 2019, won’t rest until BJP govt in 26 states: Amit Shah Beginning the party’s preparations for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP president Amit Shah gave a pep talk to organisation office-bearer...
Karnataka Assembly elections verdict today, Congress leaders rush to reach out to JD(S) just in case Trying to buck anti-incumbency and retain power in Karnataka for the first time in almost 40 years, the Congress is leaving little...
J&K govt removes officer who issued order for Kashmiri Pandits visiting Kheer Bhawani temple Days after Deputy Commissioner (Relief), Jammu, asked Kashmiri Pandits intending to visit temples in the Valley on Kheer Bhawani f...
West Bengal: Two bodies found charred, CPM claims its poll candidates The CPM Monday alleged that Trinamool Congress workers were responsible for the deaths of two of its candidates who were found bur...
Maharashtra govt to rope in private players for teleradiology Facing a shortage of radiologists, the Maharashtra government plans to set up teleradiology centres in rural and tribal areas to d...
Kairana bypoll: BJP fields Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriganka Singh against Tabassum Hasan The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday named Mriganka Singh, daughter of late MP Hukum Singh, as its candidate for Kairana Lok Sabh...
The unofficial alliance: CPM, BJP and Congress come together against Trinamool Congress in panchayat polls A walk around Mollahad and Manickpara areas in Nadia district shows a graffiti having both CPIM and BJP candidates with their resp...
Karnataka elections: Modi’s speeches ‘don’t fill empty stomachs’, says Sonia Gandhi, PM accuses her of destroying Congress to save dynasty Raising political temperatures in what is perceived as a close fight in Karnataka which goes to polls on May 12, Prime Minister Na...
Pakistan's FIA directed to act against people behind superimposing Imran Khan as Lord Shiva A sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Government Assurances has taken notice of an incident where Pakista...
West Bengal panchayat elections: In record show, TMC wins 34% of seats uncontested With still a fortnight to go for the three-tier Panchayat elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has already won 34 per ce...
West Bengal panchayat elections: In record show, TMC wins 34% of seats uncontested With still a fortnight to go for the three-tier Panchayat elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress has already won 34 per ce...
Lalu Yadav says ‘don’t want to go’ after AIIMS refers him back to Ranchi hospital, alleges political conspiracy The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday referred Lalu Prasad Yadav back to Ranchi hospital saying he is now ...
Modi is looting country, says CPI general secretary Sitaram Yechury Launching a sharp attack on the Prime Minister, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechuri on Sunday claimed that Narendra Modi, fugi...
'Will behead you, chop you into pieces': Union minister Anant Hegde receives threat call Union minister and Uttara Kannada MP Anantkumar Hegde allegedly received a threat call on his landline during wee hours of Sunday....
Venkaiah Naidu may take time to complete consultations on impeachment notice against CJI Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday began consultations on the Opposition parties' notice for an impeachment motion ag...
Venkaiah Naidu rejects notice for impeachment of CJI Dipak Misra, says allegations not tenable Vice-President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu has rejected the notice for impeachment of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, wh...
Naidu has no power to reject CJI impeachment notice, says Prashant Bhushan After Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu rejected the notice to impeach Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, eminent lawyer Prashant Bhu...
We persuaded US President to stay engaged "for long term" in Syria: French President Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that Paris had convinced Donald Trump to stay engaged in Syria "for the long-t...
India's trade deficit with China up two-fold in a decade; can New Delhi benefit from Beijing's 'trade war' with Washington? Mumbai: India's trade deficit with China increased more than two-fold (219 percent) from $16 billion in 2007-08 to $51 billion in ...
Donald Trump morally unfit to be president, says ex-FBI chief James Comey Washington: Former FBI Director James Comey says he thinks it's possible the Russians have compromising information on President D...
Worry about yourself, Sonia Gandhi for 2019: BJP hits back at Rahul Gandhi over his dare to Narendra Modi New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit back at Congress President Rahul Gandhi over his dare that Prime Minister ...
CM Yogi was ready to get rape accused MLA Kuldeep Sengar arrested but a call changed everything: BJP leader Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is facing massive wrath over the rape allegations against its MLA Kuldeep...
'Tricked' into opening a nightclub says Sakshi Maharaj as UP BJP is left red-faced New Delhi: Days after facing the flak for not acting against rape- accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar, the Uttar Pradesh BJP is on...
Dissent in Congress over candidate list for Karnataka Assembly polls, disgruntled workers create ruckus New Delhi: Shortly after the party announced its list of candidates for the Assembly elections, Congress workers in Karnataka revo...
Fifth column: Hindutva against Hindus? Last week when Dalit protesters blocked traffic on highways and burned public property across northern India, I tweeted that we co...
Across the aisle: Southern flames may scald the nation The Constitution of India obliges the President (i.e. the central government) to appoint, every five years, a Finance Commission (...
China’s state media urges US industry to rally against Trump tariff threat Chinese state media on Sunday called on industrial and commercial sectors in the United States to rally against President Donald T...
Another BJP MP targets govt, says Centre has done nothing for Dalits BJP MP from UP’s Nagina constituency, Yashwant Singh, has written to PM Narendra Modi, alleging that even after being in power for...
Govt committed to protecting interests of SC/STs, says Rajnath ahead of review petition hearing Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while speaking in Lok Sabha, said that the Modi government has made no change in the SC/ST Act....
Govt withdraws fake news order on PM Modi directive after massive outrage The government has withdrawn guidelines issued last night that provided for penalties in cases of journalists sharing or reporting...
Punjab Congress MPs climb roof of Parliament to demand compensation for Mosul victims In a bizarre incident, Punjab Congress MPs protested on the roof of the Parliament to demand compensation for families Indians kil...
Congress takes war in Karnataka to Yeddyurappa's bastion Shimoga Congress President Rahul Gandhi's Jana Ashirwad Yatre will resume from Shimoga and will head to Devangere today. Congress Presi...
How to tackle fake news legally without a law in India On the just gone by April Fool's Day, WhatsApp groups were abuzz with messages claiming that the occasion was a creation of "Engli...
Japan PM Abe pledges constitution change amid scandal TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed today to press on with his controversial move to amend Japan's pacifist constitution, undet...
SC/ST Act: Par panel likely to recommend review of SC order A parliamentary committee may recommend that the government file a review petition against the Supreme Court order diluting the pr...
Assembly elections 2018: What results mean for BJP, Congress and the Left Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya may be small states, but in the larger scheme of Indian politics, Saturday’s results will have a r...
North Korea Signals Willingness to ‘Denuclearize,’ South Says SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United St...
Trump Reaffirms Commitment to Tariffs but Opens Door to Compromise WASHINGTON — President Trump, facing an angry chorus of protests from leaders of his own party, including the House speaker, Paul ...
Emboldened by Modi's ascent, India's cow vigilantes deny Muslims their livelihood BEHROR, India – The beating that ended Pehlu Khan’s life was televised nationwide. Cell phone video captured a group of men punchi...
CBI arrests Karti Chidambaram in INX Media case, Congress says vendetta (News Agencies) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Karti Chidambaram for allegedly helping INX Media ...
Costume Drama (News Agencies) Justin Trudeau’s easy and infectious candour, all of it framed by his youthful looks, hasn’t ever missed its mark ...
Controversies during Trudeau visit must not affect the broader bilateral relationship International heartthrob, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, succeeded in having the most controversial State visit to India ...
Indian set to begin operations at Chabahar Port by May-end India is all set to start operations on a part of the Chabahar Port by May-end on borrowed Iranian equipment, two senior governmen...
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh gives Canada PM Justin Trudeau list of 9 ‘radicals’ After weeks of speculation over whether or not they would meet, chief minister Amarinder Singh brought up the Khalistan issue with...
Ministry of external affairs says it is ascertaining how visa was issued to convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal. This is something which we are trying to find out. In due course, we will be able to come up with a reason that how he managed to ...
Friction between the US and China is likely to last through 2018 Ian Bremmer In Davos and during his recent State of the Union address to Congress, Donald Trump made clear that he means to get ...
Modi Still BJP’s Trump Card (SAI Bureau) : The first grim tidings came from the state to its south, with the bar graph of success dipping in height conspicu...
Kejriwal’s AAP must rise above its confrontationist image and deliver on its historic mandate The Aam Aadmi Party, which rode to power on a landslide victory in Delhi, has completed three years in government. The new party h...
India should join BRI, says Chinese expert SINGAPORE: India should leave its bilateral disputes with China aside and join the Beijing-backed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ...
For national and regional players, the stakes are high in the northeast elections In Delhi’s political imagination, the real political battle of 2018 begins in Karnataka. It then ends with the three states of Raj...
Trump Tries for a Reset Where policy was concerned, the story of Donald Trump’s first year in office was simple: The populist of the campaign trail, the m...
The Chief And His Court (SAI Bureau) New Delhi : A pillar crumbled a little. The edifice tottered just that bit. And the world watched, stupefied and tau...
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik suspends MP Baijayant Panda from BJD Seven months after removing BJD’s media-savvy MP Baijayant Jay Panda as spokesperson of the parliamentary party, chief minister an...
Trump APOLOGISES for Britain First retweet Donald Trump has apologised for retweeting videos posted online by Britain First and said he did it because he is a ‘big believer ...
How Trump is making China and India great again Thank you for what you are doing for America; your successes have put India in very positive light and shown us what is possible i...
1984 riots: Delhi court to resume hearing against Jagdish Tytler (News Agencies) 1984 riots: A Delhi Court on Wednesday will continue the hearing in the anti-Sikh riots matter against its prime a...
CJI Dipak Misra needs to reply to grave charges made by SC judges (News Agencies) In two ways, the crisis in the Supreme Court, which erupted publicly on January 13, was long in the making. One is...
India and Israel are all-weather friends There is something intangible yet palpable which makes India-Israel relations special. Every Israeli who has visited India has fel...
Should Trump speak to Mueller? A debate The Washington Post reported last week that special counsel Robert Mueller has told President Donald Trump's legal team that his o...
Turmoil in SC: Time to think in the spirit of utmost deference to duty In the Mahabharata, when Draupadi was gambled away by Yudhishthira, she asked a question: “I belonged equally to all five of them,...
AAP marks entry to Rajya Sabha with three MPs The three candidates nominated by the Aam Aadmi Party — Sanjay Singh, Narain Dass Gupta and Sushil Gupta — were on Monday elec...
For first time, India not being blamed for collapse of WTO talks, says Suresh Prabhu For the first time in the over two-decade old history of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), India was not blamed for the failure ...
All eyes on Gujarat ahead of Assembly election results tomorrow Counting of votes will be held on Monday for the Gujarat Assembly polls, considered a prestige battle for Prime Minister Narendra ...
DRDO has key role in ‘Make in India’ programme, says Nirmala Sitharaman Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has a great rol...

Social media must guard itself against misuse, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp have changed the manner in which users consume content and communicate with each other, bu...

No mob lynching in Uttar Pradesh, Bulandshahr incident an accident: Yogi Adityanath

Stating that there is no incident of mob lynching in his state, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday termed the ...

Exit polls show close contest in MP, Chhattisgarh; give Rajasthan to Congress

Exit polls show a close contest between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. In Rajasthan, exit pol...

Michelle Obama opens up about marriage with Barack, seeking counselling

Former United States first lady Michelle Obama opened up about her nearly three-decades-long married life with husband Barack Obam...

Sri Lanka top court overturns Maithripala Sirisena president’s order to sack parliament

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled President Maithripala Sirisena’s dissolution of parliament and ordered a halt to pr...

China in ‘communication’ with United States amid report of Xi Jinping-Donald Trump meet

China said on Friday it is in contact with the United States amid reports of a planned meeting between President Xi Jinping and Pr...

Donald Trump vows ‘severe punishment’ if journalist killed by Saudi

US President Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned...

Thousands protest Sabarimala order, devotees threaten suicide in Kerala

Ahead of the Sabarimala Temple opening next week for a monthly ritual, Shiv Sena’s Kerala unit on Saturday warned that its women a...

Country owes you a debt: Rahul Gandhi tells HAL workers

Stepping up his attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Rafale controversy, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday de...

Kamal Haasan says ready to ally with Congress if it parts ways with DMK

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has said that his Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) party is ready to join hands with the Congress f...

Can put anything on website, allegations against minister MJ Akbar need to be verified, says Amit Shah

Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah has said that he was not in a position to comment on MJ Akbar, who is facing multiple...

Election dates 2018 LIVE: EC to announce poll dates for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh today

The Election Commission (EC) is set to announce today the poll schedules for Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram, r...

Pakistan behind those putting up Bhindranwale’s portraits, says Rashtriya Sikh Sangat

Supporting Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar’s decision to cancel visit to Karnal gurdwara, where portrait of slain...

Mamata Banerjee to invite Kerala CM, Left leaders to anti-BJP rally in January

Indicating that even arch rival CPI(M) is not an untouchable in her fight against the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, West Be...

Pakistan’s allegation of use of chemical weapons in Kashmir false, malicious: India

India Friday rejected as false Pakistan’s allegations of reported use of chemical weapons by Indian security forces in Kashmir, sa...

The ball is back in Parliament’s court on cleaning up politics

The Supreme Court has stuck to the letter of the law in putting the onus on Parliament to frame a law to prevent people with crimi...

To mount an effective challenge to the BJP, the Opposition could use a bit of stardust

\Witnessing in London the political chaos created by implementing Brexit, Britain’s departure from the European Union, has led me ...

Our political class must pay more attention to gender equality

The Sabarimala judgment will create deep divisions among Kerala’s Hindus for some time. I say this with some certainty after liste...

Aadhaar verdict: Rahul Gandhi thanks Supreme Court for ‘supporting Congress vision’

(News Agencies)Congress president Rahul Gandhi thanked the Supreme Court for its verdict on the Aadhaar Act on Wednesday, saying i...

Donald Trump to U.N. Refugees Should Return to Their Countries and ‘Make Them Great Agai

“Ultimately, the only long-term solution to the migration crisis is to help people build more hopeful futures in their home countr...

US asks Pakistan to act against culprits of Uri, Pathankot, Mumbai attacks

A joint statement issued by India and the US after the two-plus-two talks in New Delhi on September 6, mentions Pakistan twice in ...

As China courts central and eastern Europe, whither India?

In a rare high-level engagement by India in an increasingly pivotal region, President Ram Nath Kovind is on a visit to Bulgaria an...

Manmohan Singh says Modi govt ‘failing on all fronts’

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government of failure on all fronts, s...

RSS Invite To Rahul Gandhi Has Message For Modi-Shah Too

Rahul Gandhi has pulled no punches while attacking the RSS, the mothership of the Sangh Parivar but has also repeatedly said that ...

Some In NDA Don't Want Narendra Modi As PM Again, Says Union Minister

Some people in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA did not want Narendra Modi to be the prime minister of the country again in...

Nitish Kumar Ready To Go It Alone In Bihar, Party Insists It's BJP's Loss

PATNA:The BJP has begun testing the waters on seat-sharing with allies in Bihar ahead of the 2019 parliamentary elections, claimin...

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale in US to lay 2+2 groundwork

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale and other senior Indian officials will hold discussions with their US counterparts in Washington t...

Imran Khan’s biggest challenge would be the economy

The toughest task that Imran Khan will have to grapple with soon after he becomes Pakistan’s new prime minister is not the securit...

Another attempt to tarnish govt’s image, says Arun Jaitley on Rafale allegations

Union minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday there was not a grain of truth in the “wild allegation” against the government on th...

Sushma Swaraj trolling: Centre avoids direct reply on investigation

The Union government on July 24 avoided a direct reply on whether an inquiry was conducted into the recent trolling of External Af...

Trump threatens more tariffs on U.S. trading partners

President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that “Tariffs are the greatest!” and threatened to impose additional penalties on U...

Delhi Chief Minister or Lieutenant Governor supreme? Supreme court will decide today

Who holds the reins of Delhi — Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal or Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal? It will be known Wednesday when ...

Supreme Court checks govt: Pick DGP from state names shortlisted by UPSC

Ordering a slew of measures to push police reforms, the Supreme Court Tuesday directed states to notify the Union Public Service C...

Congress says alliances need to be formed on state-to-state basis

The Congress on Monday said alliances need to be sewed up on a state-to-state basis and there can be no ‘one size fit all alliance...

Emergency a ‘black period’, will figure in textbooks: Prakash Javadekar

Dubbing the Emergency as a “black period” and an assault on democracy of the country, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today s...

Theresa May says UK to set out new Brexit details after June EU meeting

Prime Minister Theresa May told the EU’s Donald Tusk on Monday that Britain would set more details on its vision for a future rela...

Bar Council of India lashes out at Justice Chelameswar for his statements after retirement

NEW DELHI: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has lashed out against Justice J Chelameswar for his "controversial" and "irrelevant" st...

Mehbooba Mufti visits Shujaat Bukhari’s ancestral home to pay homage

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visited the ancestral home of slain journalist Shujaat Bukhari today to offer pers...

AAP dharna LIVE UPDATES: Mamata, Kumaraswamy, Naidu, Vijayan to meet Kejriwal at L-G house

The ongoing tussle between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal has intensified as West ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticised US “unliteralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said on Sunday he appr...

Penalty collection from excess baggage not a priority, passenger comfort is: Piyush Goyal

Even as the railways collected Rs 189 crore by penalising passengers for carrying excess baggage and from booked luggage in 2017-2...

Centre invites lateral entry at joint secretary-level posts: Here are 10 things to know about it

The central government has announced opening up 10 senior-level bureaucratic posts in several departments through lateral entry to...

Nitish Kumar dismisses reports of rift with BJP, says rumours being spread by leaders seeking publicity

Dismissing reports of a rift in the JD(U)-BJP alliance, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said such rumours were the han...

Rahul Gandhi to appear in court tomorrow in defamation case

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday will appear in a magistrate court in Bhiwandi here in a criminal defamation case filed ...

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Madhya Pradesh polls: Congress-BSP pact would have denied BJP 41 seats in 2013

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Amit Shah to meet Uddhav Thackeray today to lay ground for poll tie-up

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Pravin Togadia slams Modi govt over farmers’ issue, to visit Mandsaur

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Gujarat Congress to launch 3-day stir for farm loan waiver, MSP hike from June 8

The Gujarat unit of the Congress on Tuesday announced three-day agitation against the state government from June 8 over farm loan ...

Govt’s bid to change UPSC cadre rules unconstitutional: P Chidambaram

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Donald Trump says White House leakers are ‘traitors, cowards’

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Venkaiah Naidu may take time to complete consultations on impeachment notice against CJI

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Venkaiah Naidu rejects notice for impeachment of CJI Dipak Misra, says allegations not tenable

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India's trade deficit with China up two-fold in a decade; can New Delhi benefit from Beijing's 'trade war' with Washington?

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Dissent in Congress over candidate list for Karnataka Assembly polls, disgruntled workers create ruckus

New Delhi: Shortly after the party announced its list of candidates for the Assembly elections, Congress workers in Karnataka revo...

Fifth column: Hindutva against Hindus?

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Across the aisle: Southern flames may scald the nation

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China’s state media urges US industry to rally against Trump tariff threat

Chinese state media on Sunday called on industrial and commercial sectors in the United States to rally against President Donald T...

Another BJP MP targets govt, says Centre has done nothing for Dalits

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Govt committed to protecting interests of SC/STs, says Rajnath ahead of review petition hearing

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Govt withdraws fake news order on PM Modi directive after massive outrage

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Punjab Congress MPs climb roof of Parliament to demand compensation for Mosul victims

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Congress takes war in Karnataka to Yeddyurappa's bastion Shimoga

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Japan PM Abe pledges constitution change amid scandal

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SC/ST Act: Par panel likely to recommend review of SC order

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Assembly elections 2018: What results mean for BJP, Congress and the Left

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North Korea Signals Willingness to ‘Denuclearize,’ South Says

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Trump Reaffirms Commitment to Tariffs but Opens Door to Compromise

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Emboldened by Modi's ascent, India's cow vigilantes deny Muslims their livelihood

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CBI arrests Karti Chidambaram in INX Media case, Congress says vendetta

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