Archive Detail
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Major fire engulfs footwear showroom in | Kochi, Feb 20 (IANS) A massive fire engulfed a showroom-cum-godown of a premier footwear company here in Kerala on Wednesday. No casualties have been reported. | 20-Feb-2019 |
Three of family killed in Delhi road acc | New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) At least three members of a family were killed and an infant critically injured after a speeding dumper overturned on a car early on Wednesday here, a police officer said. | 20-Feb-2019 |
Illegal immigrants could not be detained | New Delhi, Feb 19 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said illegal immigrants in Assam who have already undergone the sentence for illegal stay could not be detained again and asked the Centre and the Assam government to create a mechanism for their repatriation. | 19-Feb-2019 |
Pulwama: Rs 2.5 mn, house, job for child | Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 (TIWN / IANS) A cash compensation of Rs 2.5 million, a brand new house, a permanent government job and free education for the two children of CRPF havaldar V.V. Vasanth Kumar were announced on Tuesday after the trooper was killed in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack. | 19-Feb-2019 |
1 pilot dead as 2 IAF aircraft crash in | Bengaluru, Feb 19 (TIWN / IANS) An Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot died on Tuesday after two Surya Kiran aircraft crashed following a mid-air collision while rehearsing near the Yelahanka airbase here where the 'Aero India 2019' air show begins on Wednesday. | 19-Feb-2019 |
Eliminated JeM leadership within 100 hrs | Srinagar, Feb 19 (TIWN / IANS) The Indian Army on Tuesday said within 100 hours of the February 14 Pulwama attack on a CRPF convoy that left 40 troopers dead, it eliminated the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leadership in the valley that planned and executed the deadly carnage. | 19-Feb-2019 |
Veteran actor Biswajit joins BJP, praise | New Delhi/Kolkata, Feb 19 (TIWN / IANS) Veteran matinee idol Biswajit Chatterjee joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi on Monday in the presence of party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and other senior leaders. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Bengal police warns against efforts to s | Kolkata, Feb 19 (TIWN / IANS) The West Bengal Police on Monday warned of strong action against "planned efforts" to create law and order problems in the state by some groups by taking out sudden processions in areas with mixed population and spreading fake message and rumours through social media. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Shiv Sena to contest 23 seats, BJP 25 in | Mumbai, Feb 19 (TIWN / IANS) Ending weeks of speculation and tottering on the brink, the ruling NDA constituents - Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- finally sealed a pact for the ensuing 2019 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Suspended Guwahati woman teacher receive | Guwahati, Feb 18 (IANS) A woman college teacher has gone missing since Sunday morning after being suspended by the college authorities for a Facebook post on the terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu & Kashmir's Pulwama district that left 49 dead last Thursday, police said here on Monday. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Shiv Sena, BJP confirm alliance for Lok | Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Ending weeks of speculation, the ruling NDA constituents - Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - finally sealed an alliance for the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly elections. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Pakistani plotter among 9 killed; top Ar | Srinagar, Feb 18 (IANS) A Pakistani JeM terrorist who plotted the suicide bombing on a CRPF convoy and an Indian Major were among nine people killed in fighting between security forces and militants that also left 10 security personnel, including a senior police officer and three Army officers, injured in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, authorities said on Monday. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Punjab budget: Petrol, diesel rates slas | Chandigarh, Feb 18 (IANS) The Punjab government on Monday slashed the rates of petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Re 1, respectively in the annual budget presented for the state. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Curfew temporarily relaxed in some parts | Jammu, Feb 18 (IANS) The curfew in Jammu, which was imposed on February 15, was relaxed temporarily on Monday in some parts of the city, an official said. | 18-Feb-2019 |
BJP MP Kirti Azad joins Congress, flays | New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Cricketer-turned-politician and suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad joined the Congress here on Monday and flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making what he said were false promises and said there was no internal democracy in the BJP. | 18-Feb-2019 |
Major, 2 JeM commanders among 7 killed i | Srinagar, Feb 18 (TIWN / IANS) Seven people, including an Indian Army major and two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, barely 10 km away from the spot of the deadly February 14 suicide attack on the CRPF convoy, police said on Monday. | 18-Feb-2019 |
4 soldiers killed in J&K gunfight | Srinagar, Feb 18 (TIWN / IANS) Four soldiers were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said on Monday. | 17-Feb-2019 |
Citizenship Bill to figure in BJP manife | Guwahati, Feb 17 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party will make the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 part of the party manifesto for the next elections and pass it on return to power this year, said BJP national President Amit Shah, here on Sunday. | 17-Feb-2019 |
Don't attack innocent Kashmiris: CPI-M | New Delhi, Feb 17 (TIWN / IANS) The CPI-M on Sunday urged people not to attack innocent Kashmiris in the wake of the suicide bombing of a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir. | 17-Feb-2019 |
Leading European maker of missiles under | New Delhi, Feb 17 (TIWN / IANS) At the height of the Rafale jet controversy, dealings of a leading European manufacturer of missiles MBDA has come under the scanner of Indian investigating agencies. MBDA is a major missile supplier for the Rafale jets and is involved in the Rs 30,000 crore offset programme associated with the 36 warplanes. | 17-Feb-2019 |
Modi arrives in Bihar to launch projects | Begusarai (Bihar), Feb 17 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here in Bihar on Sunday to lay the foundation stones of various development projects. | 17-Feb-2019 |
Three Rohingya Muslims detained in Assam | Guwahati, Feb 17 (TIWN / IANS) Three Rohingya Muslims were detained by the Government Railway Police (GRP) at Lumding town in Central Assam's Hojai district on Sunday morning. | 17-Feb-2019 |
Guwahati teacher suspended over Facebook | Guwahati, Feb 17 (TIWN / IANS) A college teacher was suspended here for a Facebook post over the February 14 suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama that claimed the lives of 49 CRPF troopers. | 17-Feb-2019 |
JMB militant involved in Bodh Gaya blast | Kolkata, Feb 17 (TIWN / IANS) The Special Task Force of Kolkata police on Saturday arrested an alleged operative of terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), said to be directly involved in last year's Bodh Gaya blast, an officer said. | 16-Feb-2019 |
Bihar DM adopts daughters of martyred CR | Patna, Feb 16 (TIWN / IANS) Inayat Khan, District Magistrate (DM) of Sheikhpura in Bihar, on Saturday decided to adopt the daughters of two CRPF troopers from the state, killed in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Thursday. | 16-Feb-2019 |
India takes national, international play | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN / IANS) In the aftermath of the terror attack by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 49 CRPF personnel, the government's strategy for retaliation seems clear - launch an international campaign for exposing and isolating Pakistan for its complicity in terror activities, while taking all domestic and global players into confidence as it prepares for a befitting reply on a military level. | 16-Feb-2019 |
'Rapist' Kerala priest gets 60 years in | Kannur (Kerala) Feb 16 (TIWN / IANS) A 51-year-old Kerala Catholic priest Robin Vadakkumchery on Saturday was sentenced to 60 years in jail in three different cases of rape and abuse of minor girls. | 16-Feb-2019 |
Government has zero tolerance over terro | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN / IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that the government has "zero tolerance" towards terrorism and the security forces have been given a free hand to deal with terror groups. | 16-Feb-2019 |
Opposition unity: Friends at Centre, 'fr | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN / IANS) Notwithstanding the bonhomie of the opposition parties and talk of a pre-poll grand alliance gaining ground, it appears unlikely the Congress will be able to forge tie-ups with the ruling parties in non-BJP states particularly West Bengal, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala in the Lok Sabha polls. | 16-Feb-2019 |
Government convenes all-party meet on Pu | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN / IANS) The Union government has called an all-party meeting on Saturday in the wake of Thursday's terror attack on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. | 15-Feb-2019 |
Almost a week before terror attack, inte | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN / IANS) The Kashmir Police on February 8 had sent an intelligence input to the CRPF, BSF, ITBP, SSB, Army and the Air Force warning of a possible IED attack, according to a letter written by the state police Inspector General. | 15-Feb-2019 |
If Centre brings Citizenship Bill as law | Aizawl/Agartala, Feb 15 (TIWN / IANS) Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Thursday said if the Central government again brings the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) as a law in future, all political parties, NGOs and civil society of the northeast region would fight unitedly against such efforts. | 14-Feb-2019 |
J&K terror attack: Two more CRPF trooper | Srinagar, Feb 15 (TIWN): The toll from Thursday's terror attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir rose to 45 as two more troopers succumbed to their injuries, officials said on Friday. | 14-Feb-2019 |
Take concrete steps to prevent terror at | New Delhi, Feb 14 (TIWN / IANS) Strongly condemning the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 30 security personnel, the Congress on Thursday called the Modi-led BJP government the "weakest" and demanded concrete steps to prevent a recurrence of such attacks. | 14-Feb-2019 |
Death toll raises more, 42 CRPF troopers | Srinagar, Feb 14 (TIWN / IANS) In the worst ever terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir since militancy erupted in 1989, a suicide bomber on Thursday rammed his SUV packed with explosives into a CRPF bus on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Pulwama district, killing at least 42 troopers and leaving the security established stunned. | 14-Feb-2019 |
Suicide attack in Kashmir : Death toll o | Srinagar, Feb 14 (TIWN / IANS) At least 20 CRPF troopers were killed and some 25 others injured on Thursday when a van packed with explosives reportedly rammed into a CRPF bus on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, officials said. | 14-Feb-2019 |
Rahul Gandhi Kissed By Woman At Gujarat | Agartala, Feb 14 (TIWN): Rahul Gandhi was caught off-guard as a woman planted a kiss on his cheek at a public rally in Gujarat. The video has been widely shared on social media, which has been particularly active on Valentine's Day. | 14-Feb-2019 |
Congress to tie-up with Left in Bengal | New Delhi, Feb 14 (TIWN / IANS) Notwithstanding talk of a post-poll alliance, the Congress is all set to tie-up with the Left against the ruling Trinamool Congress for the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal where it won 4 seats with a vote share of nearly 10 per cent in 2014. | 14-Feb-2019 |
3 Rafale jets fly into India for Bengalu | Bengaluru, Feb 14 (IANS) French aerospace major Dassault Aviation flew to India three Rafale fighters to participate in the 12th edition of Aero India 2019 air show from February 20-24, an official said on Thursday. | 14-Feb-2019 |
Modi government has made Governors BJP G | Chennai, Feb 14 (TIWN / IANS) DMK President M.K. Stalin on Thursday said the Modi government was converting Governors as BJP General Secretaries and extended his support to Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy who is protesting outside Lt Governor Kiran Bedi's residence. | 14-Feb-2019 |
SC delivers split verdict on Delhi gover | New Delhi, Feb 14 (TIWN / IANS) A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict on the powers of the Delhi government, with the issue now being referred to a larger bench. | 14-Feb-2019 |
CBI lets Kolkata police chief go after f | Shillong, Feb 13 (TIWN / IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday allowed Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to leave Shillong after questioning him in the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scams for five consecutive days. | 13-Feb-2019 |
Major embarrassment for Modi Govt : Rajy | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN / IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die on Wednesday after it returned the vote-on-account, Finance Bill and Appropriation Bill to the Lok Sabha without any discussion and passed two other bills. | 13-Feb-2019 |
Air Force acquisition process needs simp | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN / IANS) Overall the capital acquisition system, as it exists, is unlikely to effectively support the Indian Air Force (IAF) in its operational preparedness and modernization, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has observed on the Rafale deal and called for revisiting the entire process of acquisition to simplify it. | 13-Feb-2019 |
CBI to seek SC permission to grill Sudip | Shillong, Feb 13 (TIWN / IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to move the Supreme Court seeking permission to quiz Saradha Group Chairman Sudipta Sen and his close aide Debjani Mukherjee in connection with the chit fund case. | 12-Feb-2019 |
UNLF involved in Mapal Kangjeibung grena | Agartala, Feb 13 (TIWN): In a significant development, Keithelmanbi Battalion Assam Rifles alongwith Imphal West Commandos arrested an active cadre of UNLF who was involved in the two grenade blasts which took place on 07 February 2019 at Mapal Kangjeibung Polo Ground, Imphal, that left three soldiers of Keithelmanbi Batallion Assam Rifles and one civilian injured. | 12-Feb-2019 |
UNLF cadre arrested in Manipur | Kohima, Feb 13 (TIWN): In a significant development, Keithelmanbi Battalion Assam Rifles alongwith Imphal West Commandos arrested an active cadre of UNLF who was involved in the two grenade blasts which took place on 07 February 2019 at Mapal Kangjeibung Polo Ground, Imphal, that left three soldiers of Keithelmanbi Batallion Assam Rifles and one civilian injured. | 12-Feb-2019 |
FIR lodged against Arnab Goswami | AGARTALA / NEW DELHI (TIWN): court has ordered an First Information Report against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami after Congress leader Shashi Tharoor filed a complaint against him, Bar & Bench reported on Saturday. | 12-Feb-2019 |
Finance Ministry violated own instructio | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN / IANS) The Finance Ministry violated its own instructions in two cases about prior approval of CAG before concurring with re-appropriation orders for increasing funds under "Secret Service Expenditure", an audit report tabled in Lok Sabha said on Tuesday. | 12-Feb-2019 |
Bengal factory outlet fire: Five workers | Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) Five workers were untraceable even after 24 hours of the massive fire at a factory outlet in West Bengal's Sodepur town in North 24 Parganas district, officials said on Tuesday. | 12-Feb-2019 |