PM-led selection panel to meet tomorrow to pick new CBI director: Sources

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2BcMd2p

Poor across all religion benefited under Modi govt; no major riot happened in BJP-ruled states: Amit Shah

BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday said the Modi government has ensured welfare of poor irrespective of their religious background and asserted that no major communal riot has happened in the states where his party is in power.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TpiTwG

Don't push for contentious bills: Oppn to govt at all-party meet

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WxQHKb

Painting is my passion, don't eke out living by selling artwork: Mamata

The reaction comes after BJP national president Amit Shah alleged on Tuesday that Mamata Banerjee's paintings were bought by chit fund owners for crores of rupees. In a counter attack, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo, on Wednesday, dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah to prove the allegation against her. She said her only source of income was the royalty she received from her published books.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Ru64iY

Defence ministry approves changes to procurement procedure

Major changes in this phase are focused on making the procedure industry-friendly and simplifying certain unwieldy aspects to ease the conduct of business and facilitate smoother and faster procurement of operationally urgent requirements of the armed forces, officials said.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2GewtiI

JNU writes to Sumitra Mahajan, Naidu after MPs participate in campus protest

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FZjX7z

Akali Dal skips NDA meeting over interference in gurdwara, package for farmers

In signs of emerging strain, the Shiromani Akali Dal, one of the BJP's oldest ally, on Thursday "boycotted" a meeting of the NDA, saying it is "extremely upset" over RSS' alleged interference in internal affairs of Sikhs.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2GidT9o

Opposition parties to meet on Friday, might discuss EVM's issue

The meeting is expected to take up the issue of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in detail, among other issues, against the Narendra Modi government in Parliament as well as outside of it. The parties will also finalise on a date to take a delegation to the Election Commission jointly to take up the EVM issue.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WzZwD4

Opposition parties to meet on Friday to discuss EVM issue

Top leaders of various opposition parties will meet on Friday to discuss their future course of action on the issue of alleged tampering of EVMs and might also move the Election Commission thereafter, opposition leaders said.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RrELG4

Pak invites India to visit Indus basin on its side: Official

The invitation was extended after the Pakistani delegation led by its Indus commissioner concluded a four-day site visit to the Chenab basin on the Indian side on Thursday.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Wxs6oU

Pak statement on Qureshi's phone call to Mirwaiz anguished India: Govt sources

India was particularly anguished over Pakistan's statement on Tuesday, sharing details of the conversation that centred around the Kashmir issue, they said. Though Pakistani leaders may have telephoned separatists in Kashmir in the past but perhaps, it was the first time in recent years that Islamabad put out a statement highlighting the talking points which New Delhi felt was a clear case of violation of the red lines, the sources said.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Tk3aPK

Over 9 crore toilets constructed under Swachh Bharat: Kovind

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2BaYCnO

Long-pending project to build six stealth submarines will be under strategic partnership model: Govt

Dubbed the “mother of all underwater deals” because it will cost at least Rs 50,000 crore, the submarine project called “Project-75 India (P-75I)” was first approved by the defence ministry in November 2007 but has been languishing in general politico-bureaucratic apathy, files and committees ever since.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Sfr81c

Won't hesitate from taking action, Assam CM warns protesters over violence

A day after BJP’s Dibrugarh district president was assaulted by Citizenship (amendment) bill protesters at Dibrugarh, chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that the state government would not restrain itself from taking actions against people involved in violent protests against the bill.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2G0l72y

CBI questions Mamata Banerjee's aide in Saradha scam

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2GcYAir

Amit Shah to begin BJP's MP Lok Sabha campaign in Bundelkhand

"During assembly elections, Amit ji could not visit some areas of Bundelkhand. We are hopeful that his visit will enthuse party workers to win maximum number of seats in the Lok Sabha elections,” said leader of opposition Gopal Bhargava.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2G0lJFo

Long-pending project to build six stealth submarines will be under strategic partnership model, says govt

Dubbed the “mother of all underwater deals” because it will cost at least Rs 50,000 crore, the submarine project called “Project-75 India (P-75I)” was first approved by the defence ministry in November 2007 but has been languishing in general politico-bureaucratic apathy, files and committees ever since.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RrBGWw

Up to 600 Indian students entrapped by US homeland security in immigration racket

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FZhGcA

MoD decides long-pending project to build six stealth submarines will be under strategic partnership model

Dubbed the “mother of all underwater deals” because it will cost at least Rs 50,000 crore, the submarine project called “Project-75 India (P-75I)” was first approved by the defence ministry in November 2007 but has been languishing in general politico-bureaucratic apathy, files and committees ever since.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2GbwxQy

Court junks Modi, Choksi's plea for cross-examination in FEA case

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2ToeyKp

Karnataka crisis: Can't keep quiet now, is this the way to run a coalition govt, says Deve Gowda

"I am in pain, today six months have completed since Kumaraswamy became chief minister. All kinds of things have happened in these 6 months, till now I have not opened my mouth but I can’t keep quiet now," Deve Gowda said.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MIS44e

Swine flu death toll rises to 169; Over 4,500 test positive

Rajasthan recorded 1,911 cases and 75 deaths till Monday followed by Gujarat with 600 cases and 24 deaths. Delhi reported 532 people being infected with the H1N1 virus. No death has been reported in the national capital. Punjab reported 27 deaths and 174 cases, Haryana recorded eight deaths and 372 cases. Maharashtra recorded 82 cases and 12 deaths till Monday.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sZJ9Cq

Why speak of Thugbandhan when NDA has 42 parties: Shatrughan Sinha

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sYX4sj

Press Council seeks report from Tripura govt over assault on journalists

A report has been sought from the state's chief secretary and the director general of police over the alleged attack on Asish Chakraborty of Dainik Sambad and freelance journalist Sadek Mila.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MJQcIg

PM thanks people of Jind for selecting BJP candidate in Haryana assembly bypoll

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sYX0ZB

1984 riots: Delhi court directs CBI to expedite investigation in Tytler case

CBI informed Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Arora that lie detector test of controversial businessman Abhishek Verma, who volunteered to support the case by deposing as a witness, was conducted last December but that report could not be finalised due to non-availability of scientists. The court asked the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to expedite the process of finalising the report and granted it two weeks time and listed the matter for hearing on March 8.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2G4IgkL

Omar promises Abdullah to revoke PSA if voted to power

Making the announcement at militancy-hotbed Pulwama district in south Kashmir, Omar Abdullah said: "I do not wish to see the youth of the state behind bars without trial for months together. The parents crying for their children picked under the act."

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Wq7yyq

Alok Verma may face departmental action for defying govt order

Ousted CBI director Alok Verma may face departmental action for defying a government order asking him to join as chief of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards, officials said on Thursday.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TkFQ45

11-year-old moves HC seeking ban on PUBG

Ahad Nizam, who filed the public interest litigation through his mother, said the game promotes violence, aggression and cyber-bullying. The court should direct the Maharashtra government to ban it, the PIL said.PUBG or 'Playerunknown's Battlegrounds' is an online game where two or more online partners play on the backdrop of a battlefield.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2HRH1GW

Victory in Ramgarh poll shows vote of confidence by people: Congress

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot said the people in Ramgarh "took right decision on a right time" and the party will now focus on winning all 25 seats in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MMzLLG

AP govt writes to Sushma Swaraj to provide legal help to Indian students who face arrest in US for joining fake university

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sUYSTe

Family, friends, admirers bid emotional farewell to Fernandes

Chants of 'George Sahab amar rahe' (long live George Sahab), 'Jab tak suraj chand rahega, Goerge tera naam rahega' (Your name will be as immortal as the sun and the moon) also rent the air at the crematorium as his body was placed at a platform there for people to pay respect.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MHp1xU

No one who cheats India can hide anywhere in the world: Jaitley

His statement comes against the backdrop of Dubai-based businessman Rajeev Saxena and corporate aviation lobbyist Deepak Talwar getting deported to India. They have been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate. In a series of tweets, Jaitley said "The UPA Skeletons are tumbling out by the day. Why did all defence purchases need middlemen?".

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Sl9p8s

BJP slams Shashi Tharoor for tweet over 'Hindutva ideology dividing country'

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Gdaysd

Gehlot announces raise in unemployment allowance for youth

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot announced to raise the unemployment allowance for the youth of the state from March 1. "Girls will get Rs 3,500 and boys Rs 3,000 as unemployment allowance for two years," he said. Gehlot said that the Congress in its election manifesto had promised to raise the unemployment allowance for the youth.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2UwGwnq

PM Modi has told opposition that govt will present interim budget: Ghulam Nabi Azad

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conveyed to the Opposition that his government will present an interim budget, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Thursday.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2HINK63

Sabarimala verdict: Supreme Court to hear review petitions on Feb 6

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2GanH5k

Pak summons Indian envoy; protests summoning of its top diplomat over Qureshi-Mirwaiz phone call

India's foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale on Wednesday summoned Pakistan's envoy Sohail Mahmood in New Delhi and categorically told him that foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's telephonic conversation with separatist Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was a "brazen attempt" to subvert India's unity and violate its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RWVVQU

Triple talaq bill aimed at liberating Muslim women from life of fear: President

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WwXe7Z

VVIP chopper case: Delhi court grants 4 days ED custody of Dubai-based businessman

A Delhi court on Thursday granted ED a 4-day custody of Rajeev Saxena, a Dubai-based businessman wanted in the VVIP chopper case. Meanwhile, the ED produced Deepak Talwar, also wanted in the same case, in a Delhi court. Saxena and Talwar were picked up by Dubai authorities early on Wednesday and deported to India in the evening.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2BeHmxI

President's address a summary of 'lame' excuses for non performance: Cong

"The government's account of five years was given in the President's speech in Parliament. It is unfortunate that the government, through the president, tried to create credibility for its false promises," Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said at a press conference.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TnR5ZP

Jind, Ramgarh bypoll results: Congress scores 100 in Rajasthan; relief for BJP in Jind

BJP wrests Jind in Haryana from INLD even as Randeep Singh Surjewala comes on the third position. Congress defeats BJP in Ramgarh in Rajasthan but is still short of majority in the western state.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2B81Doz

Supreme Court directs Sahara group chief to appear in court

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2BbVXKq

Citizenship bill to give justice to persecuted minorities of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan: President Kovind

those victims who were persecuted and were compelled to seek refuge in India.These people cannot be blamed since they were victims of circumstances," he said.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Sfvfu9

Bihar list of seats before Modi-Nitish rally on March 3

The JDU has constituted a three-member committee to negotiate the final seat-sharing arrangement with the BJP.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2BavPQg

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat calls for Hindu unity at Maha Kumbh

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said that attempts are being made to break the society for political benefits and the Hindus need to unite to thwart these attempts. "The society is naive, it needs to be educated. The conspiracy to break the Indian society has been going on for years. If the Hindus stand united there is no power which can break it,” he said.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TnQPtH

India protests UK stage for Pakistan's Kashmir rant

The UK, for its part, is believed to have assured India that Qureshi will not be on an official bilateral visit and no formal meetings are scheduled for him with the British government.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MJslIK

ED conducts raids in Lucknow in connection with Rs 1400 Crore memorial scam

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sVsO1x

My talks with Pakistan minister shouldn’t irk India: Mirwaiz Farooq

“I believe Imran Khan is open to suggestions and has a good understanding,” said Mirwaiz Qureshi.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MOhy0h

Army Chief met Parrikar, inquire about his health

The Chief of Army staff was in Goa to address the officers of the three services who are undergoing a course at the Naval War College at INS Mandovi. He met the officers and discussed the type of threats that the Indian Army faces in the modern battle arena, including assymetic warfare

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2t13C9L

BJP governments, Vishva Hindu Parishad find common ground

While VHP pilloried Vajpayee ‘for not doing enough’ as PM to build the temple, Modi has maintained a good equation with the VHP, which had backed him for PM long before he was chosen.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Behxhw

Govt to pay half of extended maternity leave benefit

The finance ministry had wanted to know the labour ministry’s intent behind the scheme and had sought clarifications on the proposal twice.

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MMeMso

Don't let Ram temple issue go the Kashmir way: Shiv Sena

It also wondered why Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders were not holding the prime minister and other BJP leaders accountable for the delay in temple construction, instead of targeting judges hearing the case. "The construction of Ram temple should not become as complicated as that of Jammu and Kashmir, where no solution is in sight in near future," the Sena said in an editorial in its party mouthpiece 'Saamana'

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2sYCXKO

Parrikar-Rahul meeting row: Smriti Irani calls Congress chief 'congenital liar', Congress hits back

In a Facebook post, minister of textiles irani said: "Unquestionably, he (Gandhi) is a congenital liar. The political system is increasingly realising that it is dangerous to even maintain social contact with him in terms of basic political courtesies."

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2MMeNMY

Rahul's meeting with Parrikar a "political gimmick": Sardesai

Sardesai said Gandhi's gesture was nullified due to his "political gimmick", which was unfortunate, and that the Congress president's "utterances later made him look small".Hours after meeting Parrikar, who has been suffering from a pancreatic ailment, at the Goa Assembly complex in Panaji Tuesday, Gandhi said in Kochi that the former defence minister told him he had nothing to do with the 'new' Rafale fighter jet deal

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WsE4jH

Ramgarh and Jind bypoll results: Key points

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2HGTDRl

12-hour Assam bandh hit life in 4 Bodo-dominated districts

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2WsSHDs

Terrorists hurl grenade of security forces in J&K

from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Rp3PgY