Dehradun: Uttarakhand has been battered by the rain fury. The torrential rain has caused landslips in the higher reaches and swept away several roads and bridges in Uttarkashi and Chamoli districts. It has also led to suspension of the Char Dham Yatra.
The rain has caused havoc in Kedarnath Valley, one of the four Hindu pilgrim [...]
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, whose judicial custody ends on Monday, will be produced before a Hyderabad court via video conferencing.
The Kadapa MP and the YSAR Congress chief has been lodged in Chanchalguda prison since his arrest by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on corruption charges.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had on May 31 [...]
New Delhi: LK Advani seems to be worried about the political fallout of the split between his party, the BJP, and Janata Dal (United).
Sources say that hours after Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar announced that its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP has ended, Mr Advani phoned BJP president Rajnath Singh and urged [...]
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday will review its mid-quarterly monetary policy and pressure is on the apex bank to cut policy interest rate as well as cash reserve ratio (CRR) to boost sagging industrial growth.
However, experts feel that the falling rupee may restraint the RBI from taking bold measures during [...]
Mumbai: Despite forecasts of heavy rain and a warning to residents to stay home as much as possible, it was business as usual in Mumbai this morning.
There were lighter showers than had been predicted.
After the met department warned of intense rainfall over the next two days, the city’s municipal corporation had asked residents [...]
Hyderabad: A day-long bandh began Saturday morning in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh in response to a call given by TRS, which accused the Congress government of resorting to repressive measures to put down the statehood rally.
Initial reports reaching here from the region indicate the Road Transport Corporation (RTC) bus services were partially affected as [...]
New Delhi: Oil marketing companies may declide to increase petrol prices by Rs 2 per litre in their scheduled meeting on Saturday.
Oil companies are under tremendous pressure due to weakening rupee.
Petrol price was last hiked by 75 paisa per litre and diesel by 50 paisa a litre on May 31.
Petrol price in Delhi is [...]
New Delhi: A case has been registered against eight Indian cricketers and Sahara-Q shop owner Subrata Roy by the Department of Food Safety, Uttarakhand for misleading advertisement.
The eight Indian cricketers who have been booked in the case are Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Virendra Sehwag, and Zaheer Khan. [...]
New Delhi: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday landed himself in a blazing row after he described Narendra Modi as ‘Bhasmasur’, a mythological character known for trying to destroy his creator, and said the Gujarat Chief Minister has “consumed” his mentor LK Advani and forced the Congress to distance itself from his remarks.
“What Ramesh said [...]
Hyderabad:Several leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and Bharatiya Janata Party were arrested by the police on Friday as they were trying to march to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly to press the demand for a separate Telangana state, leading to tension in the State Capital with reports of lathi-charge to disperse the crowds.
Members [...]
Ahmedabad/New Delhi: The CBI says that it has proof that one of the most senior officials in the Intelligence Bureau was involved in the fake encounter of 19-year-old college student Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in Gujarat in 2004.
“We have evidence that will stand legal scrutiny,” CBI Director Ranjit Sinha told NDTV on Thursday about [...]
Jasidih: Pranav K Choudhary, a journalist from Bihar, was on the Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express which was attacked by over 100 Maoists today. He had boarded the train from Jasidih in Deoghar less than two hours before the attack.
He tells us his experience:
It was 1:15 pm and there was an eerie of silence in the train. [...]
New Delhi/Bangalore: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was at the receiving end of fresh barbs from rivals today with Union Minister and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh likening him to “Bhasmasur”. His Uttar Pradesh counterpart Akhilesh Yadav also said that the famed Modi magic only worked on television and in Gujarat.
“Modi is Bhasmasur. He will consume [...]
New York : For the past several years, friends of Rupert and Wendi Murdoch had noticed that the couple seemed to live separate lives. She developed an interest in producing movies, and he busied himself steering his $73 billion media conglomerate, News Corp.
By most accounts the couple had grown apart and spent long stretches away [...]
Patna: Days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) elevated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its poll panel chief, it now appears certain that the NDA is headed for a split with the JD(U) not willing to move from its stand.
In the wake of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar failing to give any assurance to [...]