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Actress Himani Shivpuri, who hails from Uttarakhand, has joined BJP ahead of next year’s assembly elections in the state. Himani, who joined the party at its state office here in the presence of state BJP vice president Jyoti Prasad Gairola and organisational secretary Naresh Bansal last evening, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision and leadership […]
The BSE benchmark Sensex fell over 133 points and the Nifty slipped below the 8,100-mark in early trade today as banking stocks led fall on fresh selling amid mixed Asian cues. Other sectoral indices like consumer durables, PSU, FMCG and capital goods were trading in the negative zone, falling up to 1.56 per cent. The […]
A Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist was killed and two army personnel were injured in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said today. “An encounter broke out between security forces and militants at Wangam in Shopian after the security forces launched a search operation following specific intelligence inputs,” a police official said. In the gun […]
Over four years after the infamous Park Street gangrape case, Kolkata Police has arrested the prime accused Kader Khan from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district. Kader along with his accomplice Ali Khan was arrested by a special team of Kolkata Police in a joint operation with Delhi Police from their hideout in an apartment in Ghaziabad […]
A day after the surgical strikes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to review today the situation at the LoC and the international border with Pakistan at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS). As the tensions have heightened, Modi is expected to assess the situation on the ground, sources said. Pakistan has […]
High alert was today sounded in Pathankot following inputs about suspicious movement of some people and a massive search operation has been launched on Pathankot-Dalhousie road. Around 400 security personnel including SWAT team were deployed for conducting the search operation by the Punjab police in the district where terrorist from across the border had struck […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today greeted his predecessor Manmohan Singh on his 83rd birthday, wishing him a long and healthy life. He also spoke to Singh and extended birthday greetings to him. Warm birthday wishes to Dr. Manmohan Singh ji. May God bless him with a long and healthy life. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September […]
PSLV C-35, carrying India’s SCATSAT-1 meant for ocean and weather studies and seven other satellites including from the US and Canada, today lifted off from the spaceport, here. Besides SCATSAT-1, the 44.4 metre tall ISRO’s workhorse PSLV rocket is carrying two Indian university satellites, three from Algeria and one each from the US and Canada. […]
Highly confidential information on 6 submarines that are being built in Mumbai have been leaked. An Operating Manual with more than 22,000 pages of the Scorpene submarine have been made available with excerpts released online by an Australian newspaper.The Scorpenes, being built for 3.5 billion dollars at the Mazegaon docks in Mumbai, are considered some […]
On Tuesday, Praful Patel former minister of state for Home, Gujarat state has been appointed as Administrator of Daman and Diu. Praful Patel has been made the Administrator by the President of India.
