Amid BJP government facing heat over Lalit Modi controversy, the Centre today said there is no allegation of any corruption against any minister serving in Narendra Modi government.
Asserting that the BJP government was pursuing agenda of “development and good governance”, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu charged the Opposition with playing politics over the issue, saying everybody knows what happened during “previous Congress regime”.
The US President Barack Obama has paid tribute to nine African-Americans who lost their lives in a recent church shooting, saying their deaths should inspire Americans to finally confront the challenges of gun violence and race relations.
The 53-year-old President said at a funeral for the church pastor that as a nation, out of this terrible tragedy, “God has visited grace upon us. For He has allowed us to see where we’ve been blind and to find our best selves where we’ve been lost,” USA Today reported.
Carlos Tevez Argentina’s Carlos Tevez (top), Colombia’s Cristian Zapata (R) and Colombia’s goalie David Ospina crash into each other during their Copa America 2015 quarter-finals soccer match at Estadio Sausalito in Vina del Mar, Chile Reuters
Carlos Tevez fired Argentina into the semi-finals of the Copa America, scoring the decisive spot-kick as the tournament favourites defeated Colombia 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he welcomes the “growing global prominence and engagement” of the UN’s “close partners” China and India, as the Asia-Pacific region rises as a centre of dynamism and influence.
“The engines of growth and economic power continue to shift with the rise of the Asia-Pacific region as a centre of dynamism and influence,” Ban said.
Italy said today it had initiated international arbitration proceedings in the case of two of its marines facing trial in India for the 2012 killing of two fishermen.
The unilateral move by the Italian government follows the failure of direct negotiations with the Indian government aimed at resolving a case which has severely strained diplomatic relations between the two countries, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The internet has pulled out all stops in marking the victory of love after Supreme Court’s historic verdict on gay marriage came out.
With colorful, hilarious and heartwarming posts that flooded social media sites after the big decision, it looked like internet celebrated the marriage equality decision harder than it has celebrated anything ever, reported E! Online.
The world’s message came out clear when hilarious memes such as the Statue of liberty kissing the statue of justice became viral on social networking sites.
India’s acclaimed director Satyajit Ray is among 16 global thinkers and artists whose portraits have been displayed at the UN headquarters in an exhibition that honors them for their contribution to the common good of humanity.
‘The Transformative Power of Art’ exhibition, organized by President of the General Assembly Sam Kutesa, will be thrown open to the public on June 30.
The late director, who received an honorary Oscar in 1992, the same year that he was bestowed with India’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, is among the 16 personalities whose portraits has been displayed.
Voting began at 7 am for the assembly bypoll to Aruvikkara in Kerala which is witnessing a three-cornered contest with voters queuing up at polling booths despite rains.
The bypoll, necessitated following the death of former Speaker and Congress leader G Karthikeyan, is a crucial test for both the Fronts as the Assembly poll is only an year away.
A total of 152 polling booths have been set up in the constituency. Security personnel, including those from BSF, are posted at some sensitive booths to ensure smooth conduct of polling.
The touring women’s New Zealand cricket team outplayed India A by 97 runs in the 50-over warm-up tie before the limited-overs series begins next week.
Electing to bat at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, the visitors rode on a strokeful 45 by captain and opener Suzie Bates to post 256 all out in 50 overs. Katie Perkins also contributed with a well-made 45 in the middle-order.
Off-spinners Preeti Bose, Sushree Pradhan and leg-spinner Daevika Vaidya bagged three wickets apiece.
Andhra Pradesh government targets to achieve 18.2 per cent Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in the current fiscal by focusing on agriculture and allied sectors, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Friday said.
Naidu was heading a meeting with his ministers, district collectors, secretaries and heads of various departments here to review state’s recently launched ‘Primary sector Mission’.
The Hyderabad High Court on Friday reserved till June 30 its order on the bail applications of Telangana TDP MLA A Revanth Reddy and two other accused in the cash-for-vote case.
The high court heard the arguments of the defence and prosecution and reserved its judgement on their petitions.
Earlier, the special court for ACB cases had rejected the bail pleas of Reddy and two others.
The ICC Board has unanimously decided to suspend the membership of the USA Cricket Association (USACA) with immediate effect during its ICC Annual Conference week that concluded here.
The decision was made after careful consideration of the findings set out in a recently constituted Review Group report to the ICC Board on the Status and Activities of USACA – a comprehensive document based on input from over 100 stakeholders, including USACA.
Former TERI director RK Pachauri was questioned for the second time by Delhi Police in connection with the alleged sexual harassment case lodged against him by a woman research analyst.
The 74-year-old was questioned at his posh Golf Link residence on Friday afternoon. The police, however, could question him only for a brief period as Dr Pachauri complained of ill health.
A convicted killer who broke out of a maximum-security New York prison three weeks ago was shot dead by a law enforcement officer, police has said, as they continued to hunt for his fellow escapee.
Richard Matt, 49, was killed yesterday in the upstate town of Malone, less than 16 kilometers from the Canada border, New York state police said.
Officers were still hunting for 35-year-old David Sweat, Matt’s accomplice in the spectacular, Hollywood-style prison break from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, about 40 miles from Malone.
The Islamic State group killed 164 civilians in its offensive on the Kurdish town of Kobane, in what a monitor has called one of the jihadists’ “worst massacres” in Syria.
The killing spree, which took place mostly inside Kobane itself, was widely seen as vengeance for a series of defeats inflicted on the jihadists by Kurdish militia in recent weeks.
At least 120 civilians were killed in a 24-hour rampage on Kobane, and another 26 were executed in a nearby village, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
An Islamic State suicide bomber struck a Shiite mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during Friday prayers, killing 27 people as the Gulf state declared an “all-out confrontation” with terrorism.
Health Minister Ali al-Obaidi told Kuwait Television the number of dead had risen to 27 in addition to 227 wounded in the first ever suicide attack on Shiite mosques in the oil-rich emirate.
The toll in the attack, carried out in the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, is one of the largest in Kuwait’s history.
An Israeli minister today urged French Jews to flee to the Jewish state after a suspected Islamist attacked a factory near Lyon and pinned a severed head to the gates.
“I call on the Jews of France – come home! Anti-Semitism is rising, terror is increasing,” immigration minister Zeev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party said in a statement.
“This is a national mission of the highest priority.”
At least one suspected Islamist launched a daylight raid on an industrial gas factory in France today.
Heavy rains, which caused a flood like situation in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region, claimed lives of five Asiatic lions in the Amreli and Bhavnagar districts, forest officials said.
Three lions, including a three-month-old female cub, were killed after they drowned following heavy rainfall in the Amreli district, while carcasses of two other lions were found from the Bhavnagar district, forest officials said.
The body of an Iraqi pilot whose military plane crashed during a training mission in the United States has been found at the crash site, Iraq’s Defense Ministry said today, as violence continues to strike around the capital, Baghdad.
The ministry statement said search teams found the body of Brig. Gen. Rasid Mohammed Sadeeq at the crash site in southern Arizona.
He was the only person aboard when the F-16 Fighting Falcon plane went down during a Wednesday night training mission with the Arizona Air National Guard’s 162nd Wing, the ministry said.
The Congress party on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to quit following ‘Raje-dharma’ and ‘Modi-dharma’ and come back on the path of ‘Raj-dharma’.
“Congress wants to advise Prime Minister to come back on the path of ‘Raj-dharma’ and quit following ‘Raje-dharma’ and ‘Modi-dharma’,” Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar told ANI.
The Congress party has been mounting pressure on the BJP to sack Rajsthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje from her post.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, has said that there is no concrete evidence of corruption against the former.
Rushing to the defence of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said that there was no concrete evidence of corruption against the former.
“As far as Raje is concerned, she has never denied her relationship with Lalit Modi and other related activities. But as far as investment in his son Dushyant Singh’s company are concerned, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stated that this was a pure business transaction,” BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi told ANI.
A man allegedly set his friend’s wife on fire after a failed rape attempt on her, leaving her with severe injuries, at Pipari village under Bhoganipur of Kanpur Dehat region, police have said.
The woman, 35, has been admitted to Kanpur Medical College Hospital and her condition is stated to be serious, they said.
The incident happened last night after two friends – Ram Autar of Pipari village and Dinesh of a nearby village – drank together, police said.
Keeping in view the Supreme Court ruling of 2012 regarding the health of the Amarnath yatra pilgrims, the ban on the sale of cold drinks and junk food enroute the cave shrine will be strictly enforced from this year by the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board.
“There was a Supreme Court ruling in this regard in 2012, so the decision was taken to completely ban the sale and consumption of cold drinks and junk food enroute the cave shrine,” Pankaj Anand, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, SASB, told PTI.
A top Indian-origin executive at micro-blogging site Twitter has resigned, the latest in a recent string of departures from the company including that of CEO Dick Costolo.
Rishi Garg, the Vice President for Corporate Development and Strategy at Twitter, a role that put him in charge of the Mergers & Acquisition strategy, has announced his departure after a tenure of 13 months.
“After an amazing ride as Twitter’s VP Corporate Development and Strategy, I’m saying farewell today,” he tweeted yesterday.
England captain Alastair Cook believes winning this summer’s Ashes series would be his “best achievement”.
Cook has endured some torrid days since leading England to a 3-0 series win at home to Australia in his first Ashes as captain in 2013.
In the return contest that followed soon afterwards in Australia, England were whitewashed 5-0.
Andy Flower stepped down as England coach following the team’s return and star batsman Kevin Pietersen was sent into an ongoing international exile.