Mumbai: Mounting one of the biggest rescue operations in recent years, Mumbai firefighters saved a total of 84 persons trapped on the terrace and upper floors of the burning Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. exchange building at Bandra here Monday evening. Fireman Sagar D. Salve, 25,...
Read moreNew Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday set August 6 for hearing the plea of senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, challenging the Gujarat High Court order on his 2017 election to the Rajya Sabha. Patel challenged the Gujarat High Court order, which dismissed his plea questioning...
Read moreKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said she has no knowledge about the proposal to rename the state’s Bardhaman railway station after revolutionary freedom fighter Batukeshwar Dutt and claimed that the state government’s clearance is a must for the name change. Union Minister...
Read moreNew Delhi: The Rajya Sabha Monday passed the Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that seeks to allow a Supreme Court judge apart from the Chief Justice of India to be appointed Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) and increases...
Read moreNew Delhi: Denying any leadership crisis in the Congress, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Monday said that Rahul Gandhi is still the captain of the party and will remain so in future. Speaking to mediapersons at the party headquarters here, Gehlot said: “Rahul is and...
Read moreNew Delhi: Leaders from across the political spectrum Monday applauded the successful launch of the Chandrayaan-2 Mission and termed it a proud moment for the country. Soon after India’s second lunar mission ‘Babubali’ GSLV rocket put Chandrayaan-2 into the orbit, President Ram Nath Kovind and...
Read moreBhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh has written to successor Chief Minister Kamal Nath asking him to bring to book the key conspirators in the Vyapam scam. In a letter written to Kamal Nath Monday, Singh said: “In 2013, the rigging of entrance...
Read moreNew Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday granted one year extension to a family court to decide the maintenance case dispute between tennis player Leander Paes and his estranged live-in partner Rhea Pillai. The order by a bench of Justice U.U. Lalit and Justice Vineet Sharan...
Read moreGuwahati: The human toll in Assam floods rose to 67 Monday, while Forest Department officials said that a total of 187 animals including 15 one horned rhinos, an elephant and over 100 deer have died. The toll in the Assam floods increased after the death...
Read moreMumbai/Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala CPI-M leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s son Binoy Kodiyeri Monday moved the Bombay High Court, seeking to quash the FIR registered against him in a rape case. The high court will now hear his petition Wednesday. A 33-year-old Mumbai-based woman had filed an FIR at...
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India is hoping to turn its economy into an US$ five trillion powerhouse, and the Modi government says it will...
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It is a momentous day for Indian space science today. Chandrayaan II should by now be streaking through the vast...
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The Indian Banking sector continues to take major hits in terms of bad debts, or defaults in repayment vis-a-vis huge...
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The political circus in Karnataka is turning murkier and murkier. With chief minister HD Kumaraswamy (HDK) obtaining the resignation of...
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