Light to moderate rainfall is expected in northern parts of Tamil Nadu under the influence of Cyclone 'Fani', presently lying over southwest Bay of Bengal, area cyclone warning centre director said on Tuesday. It would continue to intensify and travel in northwest direction and gradually pass Odisha on May 3 in north and northeast direction, he said.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a fire that broke out in Delhi's Shastri Bhawan. Taking to Twitter, the Congress president said, "Modi ji, burning files is not going to save you. Your day of judgement is coming."
The Madras high court on Tuesday held that Puducherry Lt governor Kiran Bedi "cannot interfere" in the day-to-day affairs of the elected government of the Union territory, a decision hailed by chief minister V Narayanasamy who termed it as "victory" of democracy.
China has said that the vexed issue of designating Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN will be "properly resolved" but it did not give any timeline. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a media briefing that relevant consultations are going on within the committee and has achieved some progress.
Rajasthan deputy CM and state Congress president Sachin Pilot on Tuesday said his party is aiming to bring 'employment revolution' in the country and accused the BJP of polarising castes and communities to "hide" the NDA government's "failures". He also alleged the BJP failed to counter the narrative set by the Congress in the general elections and is running away from real issues concerning the country.
The SC has directed the Centre to file response by May 4 to the petitions seeking review of last December's verdict by which the apex court had dismissed the pleas challenging India's deal to procure 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. A bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi did not allow the plea of the Centre that it be granted 4 weeks time to file its response.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has apologised to the Supreme Court for linking the top court's order to his "Chowkidar Chor hai" political jibe at PM Narendra Modi. Rahul's apology came after the top court pulled him up over the errors in his affidavit and asked him to accept his mistake.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday said it has arrested six terrorists, including a PhD scholar, for launching an abortive suicide car bomb attack on a CRPF convoy on Jammu-Srinagar highway last month.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra refuted the allegations questioning the nationality of Rahul Gandhi as "baseless" and said that the entire country knows that he is an Indian. Entire India knows that Rahul Gandhi is an Indian. "He was born in front of them. He grew up in front of them. Everyone knows about this. What nonsense is this? the Congress general secretary said.
Maximum city stamped out its image of electoral apathy on Monday by recording a 55.1% turnout, its highest not only in the post-liberalisation era but since 1989, when it had recorded 57.7%. The city turned up to vote in much larger numbers despite the sweltering heat and long weekend, which had triggered concerns that many would choose to holiday instead.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the CBI to furnish evidence for seeking custodial interrogation of former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, who was earlier heading the West Bengal Police SIT probing the Saradha chit-fund scam.
The ministry of home affairs asked Congress president to clarify his position on his nationality after BJP MP Subramanian Swamy cited a British company's document to allege that Rahul Gandhi is a British national. In a letter, the ministry said that Rahul, in an annual return filed by company Backops Limited, has declared his nationality as British.
Indian Army on Tuesday claimed that one of its teams spotted mysterious footprints of mythical creature "Yeti" close to Nepal's Makalu Base Camp. During an expedition, the Mountaineering Expedition team came across mysterious marks measuring 32X15 inches, which the Army believed are of the mythical beast Yeti, the Army said.
With 92 trips to 57 countries since coming to power in May 2014, PM Modi has flown abroad nearly twice as much as his predecessor Manmohan Singh in 5 years. While his visits have won praise from supporters for boosting India's global profile, the costs associated with them have triggered some criticism.
The Centre on Monday asked state transport departments to ensure that all battery-operated vehicles, both existing and new, have green number plates immediately. The road transport ministry in August, 2018, had introduced the new number plate for all battery-operated or electric vehicles.
A 700-year-old idol that went missing from a temple in Melur in Madurai in 1915 was found concealed in the wall of an old house. It had allegedly been stolen by Karuppasamy, one of the two priests at the temple.
This is the most glaring and classic example of the scale of goof-up in Telangana Board of Intermediate examinations with a student getting '0' marks instead of '99'in a subject.
In response to the Supreme Court’s notice on a contempt petition, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday re-filed his earlier affidavit expressing regret for unintentionally linking the SC’s April 10 order in the Rafale review petition to his “chowkidar chor hai” jibe against PM Narendra Modi.
The NIA on Monday arrested Riyas Aboobacker, a resident of Palakkad in Kerala, for being in touch with some members of an Islamic State-inspired module from Kasargod and planning to carry out a suicide attack in the state.
Students will soon be able to pursue higher education programmes offered by Goa University in ancient Indian knowledge systems like vaastu shastra and jyotish shastra, as also take up study of the ancient Indian languages of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit.
The J&K police on Monday claimed to have busted a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) module with the arrest of five more terrorists involved in a car blast in Banihal area of Ramban district on March 30, which targeted a CRPF convoy. “Police was able to bust the HM module responsible for the attack after sustained interrogation of the bomber," said IGP of Jammu Zone.
China’s military expenditure is almost four times that of India, as per the data released by global think-tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). "The five biggest spenders in 2018 were the US ($649 billion), China ($250 billion), Saudi Arabia ($67.6 billion), India ($66.5 billion) and France ($63.8 billion)," it said.
Alternative and herbal medicines may not always be without side-effects. Doctors say unmonitored use of such medication, as also long-term drugs for ailments such as TB and body-building protein supplements, may lead to liver failure even among patients with no history of liver disease.
Charges were framed against Yasin Bhatkal, alleged co-founder of the terror organisation Indian Mujahideen, in the 2010 German Bakery blast case at a trial court here on Monday.
Indians looking for employment in Qatar must be wary of fake job recruiting agents, the Indian embassy in Doha has warned, advising the job-seekers to ask for a copy of the agent's ID proof to ensure authenticity. "Please do not trust any recruiting agent who promises you a job in Qatar on a business/visit visa," the embassy said in a Twitter post on Sunday.
The apex court had on April 10 dismissed preliminary objections raised by the Centre that documents on which it claimed "privilege" cannot be relied upon to re-examine the verdict in the Rafale fighter jet deal.
Actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol on Monday filed his nomination papers as BJP candidate to contest his debut Lok Sabha polls from Gurdaspur, Punjab, against sitting Congress MP and Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar and Aam Aadmi Party’s Peter Masih Cheeda. Earlier in the morning, Deol, whose real name is Ajay Singh Deol, paid obeisance at Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar.
The NDRF and the Indian Coast Guard have been put on high alert and fishermen asked not to venture into the sea as cyclone 'Fani' is expected to intensify into a very severe storm by Tuesday. The cyclonic storm 'Fani' Monday morning was located at 880 km of South-East of Chennai and it will continue to move North-West and change its path to North-East from Wednesday.
The apex court had on April 23 issued criminal contempt notice to Gandhi for his "chowkidar chor hai" remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi while referring to the Rafale judgment, which the apex court said was "incorrectly attributed" to it.
Congress MP Susmita Dev filed a petition in the SC accusing the Election Commission of shying away from taking action against PM Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for model code of conduct violation in their election speeches. The petition comes a day after the Congress questioned the EC's "silence" on over MCC "violations" by the duo.
The six prestigious seats of Mumbai are among the 17 where voting takes place today in the final and biggest phase of elections in Maharashtra, India’s second-largest state in the Lok Sabha with 48 seats.
The 13 constituencies of Rajasthan will kickstart the clash for its prized 25 seats. Add to it 13 seats of UP and six of MP, and the fourth phase seems the most decisive of the 2019 contest in which BJP is seeking a return mandate against Congress and an array of regional parties who have vowed to come together after the polls to form a “secular” government.
Mahakoshal, the upper reaches of the Narmada, was once a Congress stronghold but over the last decade, a saffron surge has taken over nearly the entire region and BJP won five of the six parliamentary seats in 2014. But buoyant after last year’s assembly election win, Congress believes it can reverse the scoreline.
Polling will be held in 17 seats in Maharashtra, 13 each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, eight in West Bengal, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, five in Bihar, three in Jharkhand and a part of the Anantnag constituency in Jammu and Kashmir. The stakes are high for the ruling BJP and its allies as it had swept 56 of these seats in 2014
The phase four of Lok Sabha elections begins today (April 29, 2019), in 72 seats spread across 9 states, including Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. Here's a look at key statistics. 
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