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The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over its “high handed” demolition in Prayagraj saying it had shocked its conscience. A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka…
Russia is developing “privileged strategic partnership” with India, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Lavrov said at an event that Russia is actively expanding ties with countries like…
A gas agency truck caught fire in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district on Monday afternoon, triggering a series of explosions in more than 300 LPG cylinders loaded on it, officials said.…
Comedian Kunal Kamra’s Mumbai event was disrupted by Shiv Sena leaders on Sunday after he made jokes that were seen as directed at their party chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief…
Schools must go beyond academics and equip children with the ability to live meaningfully with others in the age of Artificial Intelligence, former Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia said while…
India’s oldest paramilitary force the Assam Rifles celebrated its 190th Raising Day at its headquarters in Meghalaya’s capital Shillong today. The 4 Assam Rifles received the ‘DGAR Banner’ for 2023-24,…
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has given the Home Ministry four weeks – the ask was for eight weeks, i.e., April 21 – to decide on the…
Police on Monday arrested Shiv Sena functionary Rahul Kanal and 11 others for ransacking the venue at a Mumbai hotel where stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra made the controversial ‘traitor’ jibe…
The CBI has arrested a general manager of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and three others, including a general manager of a private company, in connection with alleged…
A 23-year-old woman sustained injuries after jumping out of a moving train to escape a man who allegedly attempted to rape her in the coach, the Government Railway Police (GRP)…
The Punjab government has decided to immediately release 450 more farmers from police detention, it was announced on Monday. Sharing details, Inspector General of Police, Headquarters, Sukhchain Singh Gill on…
Justice Yashwant Varma, the sitting judge of the Delhi High Court from whose house a stash of burnt cash was recovered on Holi, should be transferred to the Allahabad High…
Muskaan Rastogi, the prime accused in her husband Saurabh Rajput’s murder, used three Snapchat accounts to convince her boyfriend Sahil Shukla to join the plot, investigations into the chilling case…
Brendan Lynch, the assistant US trade representative for South and Central Asia, will pay a five-day visit to India beginning Tuesday, days before US President Donald Trump’s tit-for-tat tariff kicks…
Maharashtra police on Monday said they have arrested Nagpur journalist Prashant Koratkar, booked for making derogatory remarks about Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his son Chhatrapati Sambhaji, from Telangana. Koratkar was…
The Delhi Transport Corporation’s (DTC) liabilities rose from Rs 28,263 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 65,274 crore in 2021-22, as it incurred operational losses of more than Rs 14,000 crore…
A woman Intelligence Bureau officer was found dead on a railway track here on Monday, police said. The body of Megha, 24, was discovered on the railway track near the…
Senior bureaucrat Ajay Seth was on Monday designated as the new Finance Secretary, according to an official order. Mr Seth, a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Karnataka cadre,…
The Assam Assembly on Monday witnessed a ruckus after the ruling party accused Congress MLA Nurul Huda of allegedly attacking Deputy Speaker Numal Momin outside the House, leading to adjournment.…
Kunal Kamra – the stand-up comic whose comment about ‘gaddar‘, or ‘traitor’, has been seen as referring to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, and one-time rebel Shiv Sena leader, Eknath Shinde…
In the ongoing row over stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s recent remarks, several political figures, including Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan and Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs have come forward to defend…
While major powers of the world are either engaged in or worried about the two ongoing wars between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas, there are other theatres in…
Former Union Minister and technocrat-turned-politician Rajeev Chandrasekhar assumed office as the BJP’s state president on Monday, declaring his mission to bring the NDA government to power in Kerala, a state…
Bank Strike March 2025: The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), representing over 800,000 bank employees across nine unions in India, had planned a two-day nationwide strike on March 24-25…
A 23-year-old man allegedly ended life by jumping before a moving train on Delhi-Mumbai railway line in front of his wife over an altercation, police said on Monday. The man…
Outlining a disturbing pattern of student suicides in educational institutions, the Supreme Court on Monday directed Delhi Police to register an FIR and probe the suicidal deaths of two IIT-Delhi…
A Delhi woman’s quick thinking and calm demeanour saved the day when her Uber driver suddenly fell ill during their journey from Gurugram. With her young daughter, mother, and grandmother…
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced on Monday that her government will present a “white paper” on the tenure of the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) regime in the national…
Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora on Monday rebuked the comedian Kunal Kamra for distasteful display of humour and claimed that the political elites have “hired classist elitists as paid agents”…
A video of a huge crocodile roaming a lakeside road on the IIT Bombay’s Powai campus has sent shock waves. The reptile, prima facie came out from the Powai lake,…
A plea in the Supreme Court has sought a direction to Delhi Police to lodge an FIR over the alleged discovery of semi-burnt stash of cash from the official residence…
Meerut’s Muskaan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla, accused of brutally murdering her husband Saurabh Rajput, had a plan to dispose of the body once they were back from their…
The number of people killed in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war reached a new milestone over the weekend. More than 50,000 people have now died, including 15,613 children, according to…
Prasanna Sankar, a tech entrepreneur, has made serious allegations against his estranged wife, including claims of an extramarital affair and the filing of false police complaints. These accusations surfaced in…
Amit Gupta, Tech Mahindra’s country head in Qatar, has allegedly been in detention since January 1 over an alleged data theft case. His family members have alleged that they are…
A 38-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Thane district was allegedly duped of Rs 47.47 lakh by fraudsters who lured him to invest in cryptocurrency, police said on Monday. Unidentified persons contacted…
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has said that a memorial to Chhatrapati Sambhaji should come up in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar instead of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb being removed. The Republican Party…
A man accused of blackmailing and raping a government hospital nurse in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi has allegedly shared her objectionable videos and photos on social media to extort money, police…
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and National Conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah, on Sunday, attended an Iftaar party hosted by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti…
In December 2024, Shahbudeen spent Rs. 4.5 lakh – almost his entire annual farming income – to dig a borewell for irrigation. After hours of labor, the digging reached 600…
A 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman — both cousins involved in a romantic relationship — allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a tree at Deer Park in south Delhi’s…
The average ambulance response time in the national capital has now increased, despite more vehicles being added to the fleet, according to a recent report tabled in the Delhi assembly.…
The proposed caste-based survey will be conducted in Jharkhand in the next financial year, a minister said in the state Assembly on Monday. He said the Personnel department has already…
Samajwadi Party MP Virendra Singh, responding to the controversy surrounding 16th-century Rajput king Rana Sanga, said on Sunday that the BJP is digging up history to divert people’s attention from…
A third-year nursing student, who attempted suicide in her hostel room in December last year, died on Sunday after being in a coma for more than three months. Chaithanya Kumari,…
In a new twist to the ‘cash at judge’s home’ episode, burnt currency notes of Rs 500 denomination were spotted by a sanitation worker on Sunday while sweeping a road…
The Rajya Sabha witnessed a heated exchange on Monday as the BJP accused the Congress government in Karnataka of providing Muslim reservation, and also claimed that the Congress leaders were…
The Mumbai Police on Monday registered an offence against Shiv Sena social media in-charge Rahool Kanal, Bandra Vibhag Pramukh Kunal Sarmalkar and 18 others on Monday in connection with the…
The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash a criminal case against a man accused of uploading an intimate video of himself and his wife on Facebook, observing that marriage…
An undated audio clip of the purported conservation of a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the ruling BJP’s youth wing, with a police officer has triggered a…
Parliament Live Updates: The Parliament resumed on Monday with discussions expected on various bills in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. However, chaos erupted within a few minutes of the…
A student from Ambedkar University Delhi has been suspended for allegedly using “derogative and disrespectful language” against the Vice Chancellor, triggering a call for protest from the All India Students’…
A Delhi-Bengaluru flight turned into an unforgettable moment for a Bengaluru entrepreneur when a fellow passenger – a pilot – unexpectedly recognised his startup. Udayan Walvekar, founder and CEO of…
A joint team of Sashastra Seema Bal and Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a South Korean woman who was “illegally” entering India through Nepal by changing her name from the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, expressed grief over the passing away of Krishna Bharati, a Gandhian and daughter of noted freedom fighter late Pasala Krishna Murthy, who was completely…
A tragic car accident took place in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Sunday, leading to the death of two women doctors and injuries to four other doctors, the police confirmed.…
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday accused the BJP of disregarding the legacy of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and social reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar. The former Delhi chief minister also said…
A prisoner, who was allegedly beaten up in police custody in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, died during treatment in a Ranchi hospital on Sunday, an officer said. The man who dies,…
Three men were allegedly burnt alive after their motorcycle came in contact with a broken high-tension wire in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district on Sunday, police said. The incident took place on…
The recent filing of closure reports by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the death cases of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput (SSR) has sparked fresh debates and controversies.…
Jama Masjid Sadar Chief and Shahi Mosque Committee Chief, Zafar Ali, on Sunday claimed that he did not incite any violence regarding the November 24 Sambhal incident. “I did not…
Krishna Bharati, a Gandhian and daughter of noted freedom fighter late Pasala Krishna Murthy, passed away here on Sunday. She was 92. Krishna Bharati breathed her last at her residence…
Weeks after Punjab Police registered a sexual harassment case against self-styled pastor Bajinder Singh, a chilling video of him assaulting a man and a woman in his office has emerged.…
Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha posted an old speech he gave in parliament about the need to honour freedom fighter Bhagat Singh with the Bharat Ratna. Mr Chadha was…
A massive protest broke out in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district after a married woman was allegedly killed by her in-laws over a dowry demand. The victim’s family, along with dozens…
India is on track to become the global consumption capital, outpacing major economies, according to a new report. The consumption in India accounts for 56 per cent of the country’s…
BJP leader and former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar is likely to become the state president of the saffron party, as he is the sole nominee for the post, party sources…
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said on Sunday the Union government has taken several administrative steps to bring normalcy in Manipur, which has raised hopes for restoring peace in the…
India has imposed anti-dumping duty on five Chinese goods, including vacuum flasks and aluminium foil, during the month so far to guard domestic players from cheap imports from the neighbouring…
Amid the ongoing debate over the Karnataka government’s decision to provide a four per cent reservation for Muslims in government contracts, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Sunday asserted that…
Alimony, also known as maintenance, is financial support provided by one spouse to the other during or after divorce or separation. Its primary purpose is to help the financially weaker…
In a somewhat strange case, a veterinary doctor named Dr Pawan Singhal, a locally popular veterinarian and committed yoga enthusiast from Madhya Pradesh’s Ashoknagar district, tragically passed away on Sunday…
Union Minister G Kishan Reddy alleged here on Sunday that the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu is spreading false propaganda in the name of delimitation and Hindi imposition to shield…
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday summoned the Jama Masjid Sadar chief and the Shahi Mosque Committee chief, Zafar Ali for questioning regarding the violence which broke out in the…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has officially nominated its former Gujarat unit chief, Gopal Italia, as the party’s candidate for the upcoming Visavdar Assembly by-election. The announcement was made by…
A total of Rs 3,48,69,621 in cash, 32 grams of gold and 1.24 kg of silver have been donated at a temple in Karnataka’s Raichur. A video has gone viral…
A corporate employee moved from Pune to Bengaluru for a lucrative 40 per cent salary, only to regret his decision within a year. His story was shared by a friend…
A 24-year-old Indian woman and her 56-year-old father were shot dead at a departmental store in Virginia, US, where they had been working. The shooting took place on Thursday, shortly…
Amid the ongoing debate over the Karnataka government’s decision to provide a 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in government contracts, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Sunday asserted that…
Muskaan Rastogi, one of the prime accused in the brutal murder of her husband, Saurabh Rajput, has requested a government-appointed lawyer after her family refused to support her legal battle.…
India is extending all possible assistance to Amit Gupta, an Indian citizen from Gujarat’s Vadodara, who has been wrongfully detained in Qatar for allegedly stealing data for which there is…
A 35-year-old man allegedly died by suicide after attempting to kill his ailing mother in Kerala’s Kollam. The man, Ranjith, a resident of Elamadu, and his 58-year-old mother, Sujatha, reportedly…
India will make a significant strides in the global trade over the next five years, contributing about 6 per cent in the world’s trade growth, just behind China at 12…
Four members of a Meitei insurgent group that signed a ceasefire agreement with the Centre and the Manipur government in November 2023 were injured in an attack by a group…
A total of Rs 3,48,69,621 in cash, 32 grams of gold and 1.24 kg of silver have been donated at a temple in Karnataka’s Raichur. A video has gone viral…
US aircraft maker Boeing gave pink slips to up to 180 employees at its engineering technology centre in Bengaluru as part of a global workforce reduction exercise, according to a…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India, as the world’s fifth-largest economy, must necessarily develop a broad and diverse set of energy relationships. After decades of hearing the…
In the wake of sporadic attacks on Himachal Pradesh buses in Punjab and scribbling of pro-Khalistani slogans on them, Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri said Saturday they will not be…
A report submitted by Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya into alleged finding of a cash stash at the house of high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma has been…
Cities across India observed Earth Hour on Saturday night. The lights were turned off between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm as part of the event. Many iconic buildings and places…
An explosion in a house in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh on Saturday claimed the lives of three children and a woman, while a man sustained serious injuries. The blast was reportedly caused…
Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Saturday asserted that people are not casteist but political leaders are “for their selfish interests”. Speaking at an event here, he…
Bodies of two residents of J&K’s Baramulla district, missing after they reportedly jumped into the Jhelum River earlier this month, were handed over to Indian authorities by officials of Pakistan-occupied…
The RSS on Saturday expressed serious concern about the allegedly planned violence, injustice and oppression faced by the Hindu and other minority communities at the hands of radical Islamist elements…
Manipur witnessed a historic event with the visit of five judges of the Supreme Court where Justice BR Gavai, who is also the Executive Chairman of NALSA, virtually inaugurated free…
In a surprising development, a huge number of megalithic structures have been discovered during a recent archaeological excavation conducted near the Malampuzha dam in Palakkad, Kerala. Taking to X, the…
The central government on Saturday withdrew 20 per cent duty on the export of onions imposed in September 2024. The decision will come into effect on April 1, 2025. The…
The DMK-led Joint Action Committee (JAC), holding its first meeting today over the impending delimitation exercise proposed by the Union government, cited a lack of transparency and insufficient consultation with…
In a shocking incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district, BJP leader Yogesh Rohilla allegedly shot his wife and three children in the Gangoh police station area, officials said. The attack…
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar said that any attempts to intimidate the Muslim community or create communal discord would be met with strict action, and the…