Pak's Sindh Province Plans To De-radicalise Militants By Studying Their...
ISLAMABAD -- Seeking to rehabilitate and de-radicalise about 300 militants in various jails of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, authorities are planning to create their psychological profiles to...
View ArticleAfter Trinamool's Tapas Pal, Who Will Be Summoned Next By The CBI In Bengal?
After the CBI arrested Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal on December 30, the question doing the rounds in the political circles of West Bengal is: who's next? At a press conference on the day Pal was...
View ArticleUP Only Wants 'Mangal' And Not 'Dangal', Says Rajnath Singh
LUCKNOW -- Hitting out at the Samajwadi Party over the ongoing family tussle, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said Uttar Pradesh wants development and not 'dangal' (fight), adding the...
View ArticleIf SC Feels BCCI Can Do Better Under Retired Judges, I Wish Them All The...
NEW DELHI -- Anurag Thakur, who was on Monday sacked as BCCI president for obstructing Lodha panel reforms, took a subtle dig at the Supreme Court's order saying that if the apex court feels the...
View ArticleOpposition Insulted The National Anthem By Creating A Ruckus While It Was...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that opposition party members "insulted the national anthem" while disrupting house proceedings on the first day of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly's budget...
View ArticleModi's Speech At Lucknow An Anti-Climax
LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh -- After one week of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) building up the "biggest" political rally ever to be held in Lucknow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at the Ramabai...
View ArticleIrom Sharmila To Take On Manipur CM Ibobi In Assembly Polls
IMPHAL -- Irom Sharmila, who fasted for 16 years to demand the repeal of AFSPA, on Monday formally announced she will take on Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh in assembly polls. Sharmila ended...
View ArticleDiners Can Decline To Pay 'Service Charge' At Restaurants, Hotels, Says Govt
Good news for diners: The government has clarified that paying service charge -- which usually ranges between 5 and 20 per cent -- and is added to bills by hotels and restaurants is, in fact, optional...
View ArticleApple's Partner Wistron Submits Application To Expand Its Bengaluru Facility
MUMBAI -- Smartphone component maker Wistron Corp, which counts Apple Inc among its customers, has applied for permission to expand its plant in Bengaluru, a high-ranking regional government official...
View ArticleNewspaper Ads Of PM Announcing Packages Violate Model Code Of Conduct: BJD
BHUBANESWAR -- The ruling BJD today alleged that the newspaper advertisement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing packages for farmers, self-help groups and others is in clear violation of the...
View ArticleBihar CM Nitish Kumar's Son, His Deputy Tejashwi Yadav Richer Than Him
PATNA -- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also owns cows and calves just as Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi do, officials said on Monday. According to the details of...
View ArticleHere's Why Shahid Believes Arranged Marriages Work Better 'In The Long Run'...
For the first Koffee With Karan episode of 2017, host Karan Johar pulled off a coffee coup. He managed to get Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput (people from outside the industry didn't even know what she...
View ArticleNow A Mobile App For Hajj Application Process
MUMBAI -- Giving a digital push to the Hajj application process for the first time, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi here today launched a mobile application which will...
View ArticleIncidents Like The Mass Molestation Do Happen On New Year's Eve And...
BENGALURU -- Reacting to the incidents of large groups of men molesting women in Bengaluru during the New Year celebrations, Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara on Monday said that such incidents...
View ArticleNandita Das Separates From Husband Subodh Maskara After 7 years Of Marriage
Mumbai, Jan 2 (PTI) Actress Nandita Das and her entrepreneur-turned-actor husband Subodh Maskara have decided to part ways after seven years of marriage. Nandita and Subodh have a six-year-old son,...
View ArticleModi's Assistance For Pregnant Women More Modest Than Many Existing Schemes
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of a ₹ 6,000 cash benefit to pregnant women sounds promising, but might actually be a more modest effort than existing government schemes. India's first...
View ArticleHere's A 2017 Book Resolution That's Really Easy To Keep
For a change, we have a suggestion for a New Year's resolution you may want to consider, one that won't cost you much or kill you. And no, it doesn't involve making sacrifices regarding your eating or...
View ArticleBabul Supriyo To File Defamation Case Against Tapas Pal For Dragging His Name...
KOLKATA -- Union Minister Babul Supriyo said he is planning to file a defamation case against Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul for dragging his name in the Rose Valley chit fund scam. "I am talking to...
View ArticleDelhi Metro's Drive To Turn 10 Stations 'Cashless' Grounded Amidst Criticism
NEW DELHI -- Delhi Metro's ambitious drive to turn 10 stations 'cashless' has been grounded against the backdrop of criticism against the move from several quarters including Chief Minister Arvind...
View ArticleYadav Family Feud Moves To Delhi, Mulayam Stakes Claim to Cycle Symbol
The war within the ruling Samajwadi Party of Uttar Pradesh on Monday moved from Lucknow to Delhi where Mulayam Singh Yadav approached the Election Commission to stake claim over the 'cycle' symbol,...
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