Dubai: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called the Citizenship Amendment Act unnecessary while terming it and the National Register of Citizens as “internal matters” of India. She also said the relationship between India and Bangladesh is currently at its best with cooperation in a “wide spectrum of areas”.
New Delhi: WhatsApp witnessed a big spike in reports of an outage around 4:15 pm on Sunday, according to tracking website Downdetector, as users complained of being unable to share multimedia on the instant messaging platform.
Bengaluru: A coveted series-win is at stake as a resilient India clash with fiery Australia in the third and final ODI in M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on Sunday.
Though there is no dearth of Ram devotees in Tamil Nadu, Dravidian outfits and political parties have been critical about the Ram and Ravana narrative.
Los Angeles: Actor Hank Azaria has announced he will no longer voice the controversial Indian-American character, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, on The Simpsons. Azaria has been the voice of Apu for 30 years since the character first appeared in the episode ‘The Telltale Head’ in 1990.
Dehradun: Uttarakhand has decided to replace the names of its railway stations in Urdu with Sanskrit, the second official language of the hill state. An official said the move is in line with the Railway Manual which says the name of a railway station on platform signboards should be written in the second official language of the state concerned after Hindi and English.
While commercial establishments remained shut in Shirdi in response to a call for bandh over Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s decision to develop Pathri town in Parbhani as Sai Baba’s birthplace, the Sai Baba Temple administration decide...
The Congress-ruled Rajasthan government has decided to bring in an Assembly resolution against the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the state in the budget session beginning on January 24.
Ahead of the Union Budget on February 1, the Prime Minister’s Office has instructed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman not to set overambitious tax and fiscal deficit targets. According to reports, the ministry in deference to the PMO’s instructions, is likely to set the nominal GDP at 9.5-10% in the FY21 Budget.
Blindfolded, they shouted, "The oppressive state is a rapist." "This is rape, the rapist is you". A group of women marched in coordinated rhythm, challenging what they called "hyper-masculine attitude of the state". Kolkata and earlier New Delhi have erupted in a new wave of resistance — The Rapist You movement, that began in Chile. In India, protesters also highlighted the alleged use of rape as a political tool to suppress political voices and the plight of women. Click here to know more.
Though there is no dearth of Ram devotees in Tamil Nadu, Dravidian outfits and political parties have been critical about the Ram and Ravana narrative.
Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Tuesday stormed into a Bengaluru college, which had anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) graffiti painted outside its campus, and allegedly warned the staff against allowing students to continue their protest against the contentious legislation.
Nearly nine months after suffering humiliating rout in the general elections, the opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh are now showing signs of revival.
The National Security Act allows preventive detention of an individual for months if the authorities feel that the individual is a threat to the national security, and law and order.
Ahead of the Union Budget on February 1, the Prime Minister’s Office has instructed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman not to set overambitious tax and fiscal deficit targets. According to reports, the ministry in deference to the PMO’s instructions, is likely to set the nominal GDP at 9.5-10% in the FY21 Budget.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed review petitions of top telecom firms including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea seeking review of its earlier order asking them to pay Rs. 1.47 lakh crore in past statutory dues by January 23.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday (January 16) partially stayed the Bombay High Court order allowing shifting of HDIL promoters Rakesh Wadhawan and Sarang Wadhawan, accused in the multi-crore Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank scam case, from Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail to their residence.
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned senior executives of Air Asia including CEO Tony Fernandes for questioning in connection with a money laundering case, officials said on Thursday (January 15).
The agency had registered a case und...
Mumbai: Market benchmark Sensex on Thursday (January 16) scaled the 42,000 mark for the first time ever and Nifty hit its record peak in opening session tracking positive cues from global equities after the US and China signed an initial trade deal.
Kolkata: Bank unions on Wednesday called for a two-day countrywide strike on January 31 and February 1 after talks over wage revision with the Indian Banks’ Association failed to arrive at a solution. This would be the second bank strike this month, the first being observed on January 8. Also, this would coincide with the Budget day.
Rome: The Rome Ranking Series took a swift turn in India's favour as wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Ravi Kumar Dhaiya bagged gold medals to kick-off the Olympic year in style on Saturday.
Chennai: Mahendra Singh Dhoni "will be retained" by Chennai Super Kings in the 2021 IPL auctions irrespective of whether he plays for India again or not, asserted former BCCI president N Srinivasan.
Mumbai: Derara Hurisa wasn’t the favourite for Tata Mumbai Marathon 2020 but the Ethiopian upset the odds to win in a course record of 2:08:09 on Sunday. The 22-year-old Hurisa took home ₹42,62,621 his biggest ever pay day ever. ₹31,96,96...
Bengaluru: A coveted series-win is at stake as a resilient India clash with fiery Australia in the third and final ODI in M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on Sunday.
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Saturday invited applications for the post of national selectors with only two slots to be filled in the senior panel vacated by incumbent chairman MSK Prasad and his colleague Gagan Khoda.
Recounting Iranian General Qassem Soleimani's killing, President Donald Trump said he was saying "bad things about our country" before the strike, which led to the decision of authorising his killing.
London: Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have agreed to give up their royal titles and public funding as part of a settlement with the Queen that lets them spend more private time in Canada.
Tehran: Iran will send the black box flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner that it accidentally shot down last week to Ukraine for further analysis, an Iranian official said on Satu...
After nearly four weeks of jostling after the House of Representatives voted on two articles of impeachment of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, the final proc...
New Delhi: As many as 109 children were sexually abused every day in India in 2018, according to the data by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), which showed a 22% jump in such cases from the previous year.
New York: College students who post about their feelings of depression on Facebook may not be encouraged by their friends to seek help from a mental health professional, according to a new study.
Chennai: According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 1.5 lakh cases of snakebite deaths are witnessed every year across the world. Of this, India accounts for nearly one third of the total deaths, claimed Dr Sakthivel Vaiyapuri, associate professor, venom pharmacology, University of Reading, UK, quoting a report by the health agency.
New Delhi: The resignation of Allahabad University Vice-Chancellor Ratan Lal Hangloo, who was under the scanner over alleged financial and administrative irregularities, has been accepted.
Chennai: The students of class V and VIII in Tamil Nadu may have already started dreading the new year – for they will have to take a public examination in March and April respectively.
Coimbatore: Cyberspace and cybercrime, its control, impact and all other aspects should be made part of the school and college syllabi to make students aware of the field, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra said on Saturday.
