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New Delhi: A bill seeking to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangaldesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan was approved by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Piloting the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the Opposition that the bill was not against the provisions of the Constitution and would give succour to persecuted […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated Alok Kumar Verma as CBI Director and set aside the Centre’s decision divesting him of his powers and sending him on leave. The top court, however, restrained Verma from taking any major policy decision till the Central Vigilance Commission inquiry is over. The apex court also said […]

New Delhi: Stepping up his attack on the Modi government over the Rafale deal issue, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday urged all Indians to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers the questions he posed in Parliament on the fighter jet agreement with France. “RM (Raksha Marti) spoke for 2 hrs in Parliament, […]

Srinagar: An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Aripal village of the south Kashmir district this morning following specific information about the presence of militants there, a police official said. He said […]

Sabarimala: Scripting history, two women in their 40s entered the Lord Ayyappa temple in Kerala early Wednesday and offered prayers. Speaking to media, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said “it is a fact that the women have entered the temple”. Following the entry of two women at the shrine, the chief priest has decided to close […]

Srinagar: A major Border Action Team (BAT) action has been foiled along the Line of Control (LoC) in Naugam sector of Jammu and Kashmir by killing two intruders who are “likely Pakistani soldiers”, the Army said Monday. “Army foiled a major BAT attempt to strike a forward post along the Line of Control in Naugam […]

Kolkata: Dadasaheb Phalke award-winning film director Mrinal Sen passed away on Sunday after a prolonged battle with age-related ailments, family sources said. He was 95. The Padma Bhushan awardee, best known for films such “Neel Akasher Neechey”, “Bhuvan Shome”, “Ek Din Achanak”, “Padatik” and “Mrigayaa”, was one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the country […]

Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday conducted the first expansion of his Cabinet by inducting nine Congress MLAs, including a woman legislator, as ministers. Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath to the new ministers at the Police Parade Ground here. The ministers took oath in Hindi. Among the ministers sworn in included Mohammed […]

Jakarta (Indonesia): During a busy holiday weekend, a tsunami apparently caused by the eruption of an island volcano killed more than 222 people around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, sending a wall of water crashing ashore and sweeping away people attending a beach concert along with hundreds of houses including hotels, the government and witnesses said. More […]

New Delhi: The Railway Board and the railways’ personnel cadre are on a collision course with officers demanding that the post of Member (Staff) in the apex body be kept exclusively for them, instead of opening it for officers from across cadres of the national transporter. Recently, the Department of Personnel and Training had approved […]

Panaji: A 42-year-old British national was raped by unknown persons near the popular Palolem beach in south Goa, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred at 4.30 a.m. when the victim was walking from the Canacona railway station to her rented home near Palolem village, Police Inspector Rajendra Prabhudessai told reporters here. “We have drawn […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday granted interim bail till January 19 to RJD chief Lalu Prasad in two Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam cases filed by the CBI and the ED. Special Judge Arun Bharadwaj granted relief to Prasad after he was produced before the court through video conference from a […]

New Delhi: The Ram temple should be built in Ayodhya through mutual consent, and is not a “communal or religious” issue, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Tuesday. The senior BJP leader also said that the issue is linked to India’s rich culture, heritage and history. “Ayodhya issue is not a communal issue and is not […]

New Delhi: 1986-batch IPS officer from the Odisha cadre, M Nageswara Rao, who is holding the post of interim CBI director, was on Tuesday promoted to the rank of additional director by the government. Rao’s name was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the union cabinet. The promotion of Rao, who took over as interim […]

Amritsar: Indian national Hamid Nihal Ansari crossed over into the country at the Attari-Wagah border here after being released from a Pakistani jail where he had spent the last six years. Ansari, 33, was met at the border by members of his family in an emotional reunion. The Mumbai resident was arrested in 2012 for […]