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Ahmedabad: Firebrand Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Sunday tied the knot with his long-time girlfriend Kinjal Parekh in a simple ceremony at a community temple in a village in Gujarat’s Surendranagar, nearly 150 km from here. As he, flanked by his newly-wedded wife stepped out of the temple in Digsar village, an elated Hardik Patel […]

New Delhi: Citing Union Minister Arun Jaitley’s criticism, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday hit out at the CBI for its “indiscriminate targeting” of “distinguished” IAS officers and others in cases involving “small sums of money” and said the government was in “deep slumber” when it was being done. “CBI has received the ultimate […]

Gurugram: The owner of the building that collapsed here on January 24 in which seven people were killed has been arrested, police said on Sunday. Dayaram, 50, a resident of Ullawas village, was booked under Sections 288 (negligent conduct with respect to pulling down or repairing building), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as a “heroic soldier” and “skilled organiser” and said that his government has fulfilled the long demand of making the files related to the freedom fighter public. In his first “Mann Ki Baat” address of 2019, Modi said: “Subhash babu will always […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged first time voters to register and cast their ballots in the coming Lok Sabha polls. Delivering his first “Mann Ki Baat” address of 2019, Modi said: “This year, the Lok Sabha elections will be held in our country and this will be the first time that […]

New Delhi: Continuing his style of greeting the crowd after the Republic Day parade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday walked on the Rajpath greeting people amid chants of “Modi, Modi”. Modi has undertaken similar walks earlier too. He broke his security cover after last year’s Independence Day speech at the Red Fort when he […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid homage to the martyrs by laying a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate here. The Prime Minister was flanked by the chiefs of the three services. An eternal flame burns at the Amar Jawan Jyoti to commemorate the indomitable courage of soldiers who […]

New Delhi: India and South Africa on Friday signed an agreement to further deepen their strategic partnership following delegation-level talks led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa here. The Three-Year Strategic Programme of Cooperation is aimed at enhancing the Strategic Partnership Agreement that was signed in 1997 by Prime Minister […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s residences here and in Rohtak. “Over 30 places in Delhi and the National Capital Region, including Hooda’s Delhi residence, were raided in connection with alleged irregularities in land allotment between 2004 and 2007,” a senior CBI official […]

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the state government’s Law Department was looking into whether sanction can be given to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a sedition case. A court recently rapped the Delhi Police for filing the chargesheet without receiving the sanction […]

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): India on Thursday night opened the year’s space campaign by putting into orbit defence imaging satellite “Microsat R” for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in a copy book style. The notable aspects of this space mission are flying of a new variant of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), switching off […]

Jammu: Indian and Pakistani troops were locked in heavy clashes on Thursday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. Defence Ministry spokesman Lt Col Devender Anand accused the Pakistan Arny of using small arms and mortar shells to target Indian positions in Sunderbani sector without any provocation in violation of […]

Beijing: India and China have reviewed progress in the bilateral ties and discussed ways to strengthen them as Indian envoy Vikram Misri met Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou here. Both of them took stock of positive developments since the Wuhan informal summit and exchanged views on further strengthening of India-China relations, the Indian embassy […]

Vijayawada: Congress party in Andhra Pradesh has decided to go alone in the ensuing simultaneous elections to the State Assembly and Lok Sabha. Party’s central leader Oommen Chandy, who is incharge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday said Congress had decided to contest all 175 Assembly and all 25 Lok Sabha seats. The […]

Ranchi: Two persons involved in illegal mining died on Wednesday when a coal mine in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district caved in, police said. Rescue operations are on fearing more miners may be trapped. Some persons were extracting coal illegally from an Eastern Coalfields Ltd mine in Nirsa when the accident happened, a police official said. Villagers […]