J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and one of India’s most charismatic leaders passed away at 11:30 PM on Monday in Chennai. She was 68-year-old. Jayalalithaa had suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening and was rushed to the ICU. The 68-years-old politician who was under the watch

The new Rs20 and Rs50 notes come against the backdrop of the government last month scrapping Rs500 and Rs1000 currency notes to crack down on black money New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Sunday said it will issue new currency notes of Rs20 and Rs50 denominations with numerals in ascend

CHENNAI:  After Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had a cardiac arrest this evening, arrangements have been made to airlift anti-riot police to Tamil Nadu if needed, said Press Trust of India. The news agency said that nine units of the Rapid Action Force with about 100 members each would be airlifte

Nagpur: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat here. Thackeray, who arrived here this morning, drove to the RSS headquarters where he met Bhagwat. Their meeting lasted for about an hour. What transpired between the two leaders is not known, but Sangh sources cla

Amritsar: In a hard hitting attack on Pakistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday accused it of launching an “undeclared war” on his country by covertly supporting several terror networks including the Taliban, and noted that there were no hidden deals in India’s growing engagement in the war-

Veteran poet and former Rajya Sabha MP Bekal Utsahi passed away at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Saturday. He was admitted in the hospital on December 1 following brain haemmorhage. He was 88. ANI quoted poet Ashok Chakradhar as saying: “He was like a father to me, so it is a personal loss.

SRINAGAR | NEW DELHI: On a day when General Qamar Javed Bajwa took over as the new Pak Army Chief, militants struck at two locations in Jammu, leading to firefights that left seven Army personnel dead and at least six militants killed. Several security personnel, including a BSF DIG, have also been

Mumbai: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on Monday registered a victory by winning 08 wards in the Municipal Council election of Umerkhed, Yavatmal district of Maharashra’s Vidarbha region, reports ummid.com The report further said that AIMIM with 08 seats is so far is the highest tal

New Delhi: Days after UPSC topper, Tina Dabi announced her plans to marry second ranker Athar Aamir-ul-Shafi Khan, the couple has ended receiving a flak for their ‘love knows no boundaries’ relationship. In a letter to Tina’s father, Hindu Mahasabha’s National Secretary, Munna Kumar Sharma asked

New Delhi: Former Army Chief Bikram Singh, under whom the new Pakistan Army Chief Lt Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has served on a UN assignment, tonight said India should be “careful” and watchful with regard to his approach. Gen (retd) Singh described Lt Gen Bajwa as a “thorough professional” who gave

Mumbai: Terming demonetisation as a “once in a lifetime event” that requires mammoth logistics, Governor Urjit Patel today said RBI is taking all necessary actions to “ease the genuine pain of citizens who are honest and who have been hurt” and hoped things will normalise at the earliest. Speakin

Mumbai: Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Sunday claimed that there has been no misuse of funds by his banned NGO and rejected all allegations of involvement in terror-related activities. Remaining non-committal on returning to India, where he has been booked for hate speech and under

New Delhi: Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari cannot take advantage of being a mosque head and try to browbeat powers of courts under “fictitious” and “imaginary” threat of communal tension, a court said while refusing to quash a criminal case against him. While terming as “funny and hilar

BHATINDA: In election-bound Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that Indus river waters "belong to our farmers" and India has the right to the waters flowing into Pakistan. "The Indus waters, India has the right to those waters...it flows into Pakistan. Flowing through Pakistan, the w

"Modiji promised that he would bring back Rs 80 lakh crore black money back to India. Has he fulfilled that promise? No," Congress spokesperson Kapil Sibal said. The Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "not being worthy of trust" as he has failed to fulfil any of his promises. Co

NEW DELHI: They were meant to replace the demonetised currency, but some new 500-rupee notes are causing some confusion -- because of printing errors. Apparently, in a rush to go to print, an unspecified number -- no one knows exactly how many -- of notes of Rs. 500 denomination have visible erro

Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik issued another open letter on Friday reiterating he has always advocated peace and condemned violence in all its forms. The statement comes amidst a case being registered and several raids being conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Na

Aman Mani Tripathi is the son of former UP minister Amar Mani Tripathi, who is already in jail in connection with the murder of poet Madhumita Shukla in 2003. Samajwadi Party leader Aman Mani Tripathi, son of jailed politician Amar Mani Tripathi, was on Friday arrested by CBI from Delhi in connec