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NEW DELHI: Even as the government tries to sell underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s properties, his empire across the world has diversified and become consolidated. According to latest reports, D-company – Dawood’s terrorist outfit based out of Pakistan – has diversified in multiple fields and built a “powerful transnational crime-terror organisation in ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: Cracking the whip on alleged misuse of user data on Facebook, the government today issued a notice to UK-based Cambridge Analytica, asking it to give a list of clients and the source of data it had collected. The notice came after reports that political parties had used the ... Read More »

Mumbai: Bravery is not always about rescuing damsels in distress and bringing down bad guys. Real life courage has many forms and facets, and it is one such form and facet that Mumbai Police honoured on Friday when they fulfilled the dream of a seven-year-old cancer patient by making him ... Read More »

New Delhi: Unruly scenes of violence broke out on Friday afternoon when a protest march of JNU students and members of JNU Teachers’Association (JNUTU) to Parliament was brought to a halt by Delhi Police. The protestors were demanding suspension of Professor Atul Johri – accused of sexually harassing students. Students ... Read More »

New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the biometric and demographic information of people who have enrolled for Aadhaar was secure, while no one will suffer the loss of benefits for its lack. In a first-ever power point presentation in the ... Read More »

New Delhi: Every year, on March 23, Martyr’s Day or Shaheed Diwas is observed in memory of three freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives for the country. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev were hanged till death on March 23, 1931, in Lahore jail by the colonial British. Born on September ... Read More »

Ludhiana: India is committed to peace but will defend its borders with full might, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Thursday. He was addressing a gathering at the presentation of President’s Standard to the 51 Squadron and President’s Colours to the 230 Signal Unit of the Indian Air Force (IAF) ... Read More »

The government on Thursday continued its attack on Congress president Rahul Gandhi over Facebook data leak scandal involving British consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. In fresh allegations against the Congress chief, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the Gandhi scion used the services of Cambridge Analytics in Gujarat Assembly ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force has lodged an against unknown persons for duping job seekers by creating a fake website of the force. The FIR was lodged on 16 March. Police said that they acted on the complaint from the Indian Air Force and filed the FIR saying that ... Read More »

PORBANDAR: A Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) of the Indian Navy crashed on Thursday soon after taking off from Porbandar in Gujarat. The crash took place close to the air base at around 10 am on Thursday. There have been no injuries. As per preliminary inputs, the aircraft had an engine failure. Read More »

The Union government has decided to remove the cap of Rs 10,000 per month on education allowance for children of armed forces personnel who got killed, went missing or suffered disability in the line of action. An official memorandum was issued by the Department of Expenditure of the Ministry of ... Read More »

Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has initiated the process to withdraw as many as 131 cases in connection with the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, which had claimed more than 60 lives officially and rendered over 50,000 people homeless. The cases that the Adityanath government wants to withdraw include 13 ... Read More »

New Delhi: The Rahul Gandhi-led Congress will now bring a privilege motion against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for misleading the nation regarding the fate of 39 Indians who went missing in Iraq and later killed by global terrorist outfit ISIS. Accusing Swaraj of lying in the case of 39 ... Read More »

The statewide bandh in Andhra Pradesh against the Narendra Modi government’s Budget 2018 has seen widespread response across the state. Government and private buses stayed off the roads, schools and colleges were shut and a majority of shops downed their shutters. The statewide bandh was called by Left parties, and ... Read More »

MUMBAI: App-based taxi aggregators Ola on Wednesday withdrew the strike here which was called by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), while Uber chose to continue the protest. MNS transport union called off the strike for Ola drivers in Mumbai following discussions with Ola officials today evening. The union is, however, ... Read More »

New Delhi: Union Minister Ashwini Chaubey has blamed local police administration of turning blind in its investigations into clashes that broke out last Saturday in Bihar’s Bhagalpur. His son – Arijit – has been accused of leading one of the two clashing groups and of making speeches with communal overtones. ... Read More »

Just days after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s warning to Pakistan over protection of India’s territorial integrity, the foreign office of Pakistan has said that the Indian leadership must end “constant blustering” and “stop creating an atmosphere of war mongering”. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Muhammad Faisal issued a statement, carrying ... Read More »

New Delhi: The opposition parties including Jagan Radey’s YSR Congress and N Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP will press for a no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government at the Centre over various issues. The no-confidence motion could not be taken up on Tuesday due to pandemonium in both houses of Parliament. ... Read More »

Lucknow: Ahead of Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s announcement of his new team, resignations have begun in the party with actor-politician Raj Babbar now quitting as party’s Uttar Pradesh Congress chief. A source close to the party was quoted as saying that Babbar has been asked to continue on his post ... Read More »

KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress on Tuesday asked 10 MLAs to vote for party supported Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi in the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. These 10 MLAs are legislators of the Congress, but have actually switched to the ruling TMC. Confirming the development, a senior Trinamool leader said, ... Read More »