New Delhi: Actress Priyanka Chopra, who features in a Youtube video launched on International Day of the Girl Child on Thursday, says girls must be given a chance to follow their dreams and they will do everything. The video is aimed at generating awareness around the importance of girls’ education in India. As part of […]
New Delhi: The #MeToo movement will work only if people listen to the victims, says actress and former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen. Sushmita, who is known for raising her voice for social issues, told IANS here: “Though the (#MeToo) movement is copied from the West, it doesn’t mean we will overlook it. It feels great […]
New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Thursday demanded the resignation of Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar over allegations of sexual assault against him by several female journalists. “Seven women journalists have come forward recounting their experience of sexual harassment and unacceptable behaviour from M.J. Akbar when he was the […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to political leader Jayaprakash Narayan and Sangh Parivar veteran Nanaji Deshmukh on their birth anniversaries. “India remembers the great Loknayak JP on his Jayanti. His unflinching commitment to protect our democratic fabric will never be forgotten,” the Prime Minister tweeted. “We also remember his notable […]
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said that it has attached properties worth Rs 54 crore of former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram and Advantage Strategic Consulting Pvt Ltd (ASCPL) in connection with its ongoing probe into the INX media money laundering case. A senior official of the financial probe agency […]
Rae Bareli: Six persons died on Wednesday after nine coaches and the engine of an express train heading to New Delhi from Malda town in West Bengal derailed here in Uttar Pradesh, a railway official said. Two passengers trapped in the bogies were feared dead, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Anand Kumar […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and the Election Commission on a plea by Tripura People’s Front (TPF) seeking updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Tripura. The bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice K.M. Joseph sought the Centre and EC’s […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed the CBI plea seeking permission to file its closure report into the disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student who went missing from here in October 2016. A bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation […]
New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of the Constitution bench judgement which lifted the ban on entry of women into the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala. The plea, filed by Shylaja Vijayan, president of National Ayyappa Devotees Association, said the September 28 judgment which had allowed entry of women […]
New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices witnessed an increase across the four metro cities on Sunday, two days after the government announced an excise duty cut on the fuel to give relief to the common man. In the national capital, petrol was priced at Rs 81.82 per litre, up from Rs 81.68 on Saturday, data […]
New Delhi: By concluding the S-400 Triumf long-range surface-to-air missile system deal with Russia in the face of Washington’s sanctions on Moscow, India reasserted its independence on foreign policy in adherence with New Delhi stated stand that its ties with one country are free of that with a third country. After the signing of the […]
New Delhi: The average temperature in the national capital increased by one degree Celsius, by 0.7 degree in Mumbai, 0.6 degree in Chennai and 1.2 degrees in Kolkata in over a century-and-a-half. These startling revelations by Britain-based CarbonBrief came when all eyes are on South Korea as scientists discuss stricter cuts on emissions. Its newly-developed […]
New Delhi: Indian Navy Commander Abhilash Tomy who was under medical observation at Ile Amsterdam was brought to Visakhapatnam on friday safely onboard INS Satpura, Ministry of Defence said in a statement. “On September 21, his (Tomy) sailing vessel ‘Thuriya’ was dismasted when the boat was caught in a violent storm in the south Indian […]
New Delhi: Attacking the opposition parties over their stance on the high oil prices, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday accused Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his “reluctant allies” of only committing to tweets and media statements on the issue while looking the other way when it came to giving relief to people. Accusing the […]
New Delhi: Facing the uphill task of tackling election-related interference on its platform as India gets ready for polls next year, Facebook on Saturday said it is establishing a task force comprising “hundreds of people” in the country to prevent bad actors from abusing its platform. “With the 2019 elections coming, we are pulling together […]
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