Category: India

Job aspirants have staged a protest in Indore, raising questions over a candidate getting 101.66 marks out of the total 100 due to the adoption of “normalisation” process in a…

Twelve years after the horrific Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder that shook the nation’s collective core, the victim’s mother on Monday said the daughters are still not safe in the country.…

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today alleged “some agencies” have been sending “manipulated” information about the violence-hit state to New Delhi. He said the Centre is aware of the…

The winter session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly began today with a dramatic show of opposition by the Congress. Inside the House, outside on the streets, and on tractors, Congress…

The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to Sushil Singhania, uncle of Nikita Singhania, in the suicide case of Artificial Intelligence engineer Atul Subhash. The order was passed…

Kangpokpi district reported the largest area under illegal opium poppy cultivation in Manipur at 17.49 square kilometres (sqkm), or 4,322 acres, in 2023-24, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate…

The Supreme Court on Monday evening ordered an interim stay on grant of the prestigious Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subbulakshmi award – which was conferred Sunday – on TM Krishna. The…

In an unfortunate incident, tourists in Kerala’s Wayanad dragged a tribal man on the car’s bonnet following a verbal duel between two groups with the Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi calling…

As part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Ease of Living mission, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has announced the installation of “Mist Sprayers” on electric poles to combat rising…

The special two-day Lok Sabha debate on the Constitution, necessitated by the Opposition’s campaign that the Constitution is under threat—their key campaign theme during the Lok Sabha elections—saw government benches…

A social media influencer was arrested for allegedly causing an explosion using sodium in an agricultural pond in the district, police said on Monday. N M Prathap, also known as…

The Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging a contract awarded by the Maharashtra government to Adani Group for supply of renewable and thermal power electricity, noting the…

Senior BJP leader from Maharashtra, Sudhir Mungantiwar, on Monday, claimed his name had figured in the list of ministers who took the oath a day before but it was removed…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today met families of jawans who died in the line of duty in Maoist attacks and also civilians affected by violence on the second day…

The Mundra Port operated by Adani Ports and SEZ Limited, said the port reached a “significant milestone” by handling 396 vessels and executing 845 vessel movements in November this year,…

A meagre 28 per cent of the urban wastewater and sewage generated in India undergoes treatment while the rest flows directly into rivers, lakes and land, according to a report…

Several members of the youth wing of the Congress were seen fleeing in panic to escape an attack by a swarm of bees during a protest in Bhubaneswar on Monday.…

The world of music is mourning Ustad Zakir Hussain, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential tabla players of all time. The legendary musician died due to…

Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain died on Monday in a San Francisco hospital. He was 73. Mr Hussain died of complications arising from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare and progressive lung…

Starting the debate to mark the Constitution’s 75th anniversary in Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched an all-out attack on the Congress and accused it of repeatedly trying to…

Shantanu Deshpande, the founder and CEO of men’s grooming brand Bombay Shaving Company, has expressed grave concerns over the growing trend of fast food delivery in India, underlining its negative…

The Union Cabinet has cleared the “One Nation, One Election” (ONOE) Bill and it is likely to be tabled in the ongoing winter session of Parliament. The party argues that…

Consuming drugs is “not cool” at all, observed the Supreme Court on Monday, adding that substance abuse in India cuts across groups and communities and profits from it are channeled…

Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has written to Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, asking that a special sitting of Delhi Assembly be convened for immediately laying the pending 14 reports of the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid condolences to tabla maestro Zakir Hussain who died at the age of 73 in a San Francisco hospital on Monday. PM Modi described Ustad…

The Congress has claimed that ally Omar Abdullah’s approach to issues concerning the opposition has changed since he became Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. The dig followed the National…

Union Minister Amit Shah offered his condolences on Monday over the demise of the tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Taking to social media X (formerly Twitter), Mr Shah wrote in…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday commended the Chhattisgarh government for its determined efforts in combating Maoism in the state. Addressing a gathering in Jagdalpur, Mr Shah praised the…

Newly-elected Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday carried a bag to Parliament that had “Palestine” written on it, drawing a sharp reaction from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).…

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and billionaire Gautam Adani led India Inc in mourning the death of Zakir Hussain, considered one of the greatest players of the tabla. Hussain,…

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to various union government ministries and departments to respond to a plea – by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association – for guidelines…

The Supreme Court on Monday expressed concern over the illicit drugs trade substance abuse in the country and said there was a need to rehabilitate the youngsters affected instead of…

For Haridas Vhatkar, tabla making won’t be the same again, as he mourns the passing away of his most celebrated customer, Ustad Zakir Hussain. “I first began making tablas for…

Claim: The video shows visuals of a cyclone that occurred at Kulasai Beach on December 13. Fact: The claim is false. The video shows a waterspout at Ayia Napa Beach…

The magic of his dexterous fingers on tabla echoed through the world of music, both Indian classical and jazz, transcending genres and borders. Rightfully considered one of India’s best percussionists,…

“I am the happiest person today, more than you or your family, as our painstaking efforts to convince you to surrender and join the mainstream has bore fruit,” Union Home…

Speed limits for light and heavy vehicles have been reduced on the Yamuna Expressway and the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway from Sunday. New speed limits have been put in place due…

Parliament Winter Session Live Updates: The fourth and final week of the Parliament Winter Session begins. The Rajya Sabha is set to have a two-day Constitution debate amid a no-confidence…

A criminal, handcuffed with a rope and accompanied by a police constable sitting pillion, was seen riding a motorbike on the streets of Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri. The peculiar scene, recorded…

President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh led the nation in commemorating Vijay Diwas on Tuesday, paying homage to the martyrs of the 1971 war.…

A 32-year-old man in Surat, Gujarat severed four fingers on his left hand due to work-related stress, according to the city police, as cited by news agency PTI. The man,…

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday expressed grief over the killing of two migrant workers from the state in Manipur’s Kakching district, and announced ex gratia of Rs 2…

Nearly a dozen students fainted after thick fumes engulfed a coaching institute in Jaipur on Sunday evening. According to the police, the cause of the smoke that enveloped Utkarsh Coaching…

A threat letter along with a hand grenade was found at a contractor’s house in Manipur’s Imphal East district on Sunday, triggering panic in the neighbourhood, the police said. The…

“Nasbandi (vasectomy)” is a very common word in Maoist lexicon. Cadres who wish to get married are forced to undergo the procedure on the directive of senior CPI (Maoist) leaders.…

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar highlighted concepts for understanding Indian Foreign Policy to create a multigenerational foreign policy. He was speaking at India’s World magazine launch event in the national…

Indian Railways has responded to a passenger’s tweet after he discovered that his booked window seat on a Vande Bharat train was actually an aisle seat when he boarded. The…

Two sisters were trampled to death by a wild elephant after it attacked their house in Odisha’s Sundargarh district on Sunday, officials said. The incident happened in Kantapalli village in…

Veteran Telugu actor Mohan Babu, who had assaulted a video journalist last week, visited the victim to personally apologise to him and his family, in a Hyderabad hospital on Sunday.…

After AAP released its final list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in Delhi, party supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who will contest from the New Delhi constituency, took a swipe…

Alert loco pilots of a goods train and a passenger train applied brakes in time to save the lives of eight lions that had wandered onto railway tracks in Gujarat’s…

As authorities reopened a temple in Sambhal locked since 1978 following communal riots, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the temple did not reappear overnight and represents “our enduring…

Acceding to the locals’ long-standing demand, the Centre has approved subsidised helicopter route services connecting the Mendhar sector to Poonch and Jammu. The green signal by the Ministry of Home…

Pooh-poohing the BJP’s criticism of dynasty politics, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that political lineage is not a “lifelong ticket” to success and questioned why the…

The Congress on Saturday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 11 resolutions he articulated in his speech in the Lok Sabha as “hollow” and called him a “distorian” par excellence who…

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday hit out at the Opposition for initiating impeachment notices against Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Allahabad High Court’s Justice Shekhar Kumar…

Attacking Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Congress leader’s “source of inspiration” for raising issues is abroad…

Taxpayers with an income tax liability exceeding Rs 10,000 must pay advance tax by December 15 to avoid penal interest and penalties. This “pay-as-you-earn” tax applies to individuals, businesses, and…

A section of Akasa Air pilots has raised concerns about alleged training and safety issues at the airline and sought the intervention of the civil aviation ministry, while the carrier…

Investigations have revealed that the driver of the bus crash in Maharashtra’s Kurla in which seven people were killed and several others injured, was not under the influence of liquor.…

Haryana Women Commission vice chairperson Sonia Aggarwal and her driver Kulbir were arrested on Saturday by the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) over bribe charges, an official statement said here. The…

In a bizarre incident, a man chopped off four fingers of his left hand with a sharp knife to make himself unfit for his job as a computer operator at…

The Assam Rifles alone destroyed 354 acres of illicit poppy cultivation this year, primarily in three Manipur districts — Ukhrul, Churachandpur and Chandel. A defence spokesman said that through meticulously…

A physically challenged woman was burnt to death during a violent clash between two groups in Laharwadi village of Haryana’s Nuh district over the arrest of the accused in an…

The woman, whose severed head was found at a garbage dump in south Kolkata’s Tollygunge area, was allegedly killed by her brother-in-law as she had snubbed his advances, police said…

A suspected militant was killed and six members of his gang were arrested following a gunfight with security forces in Manipur’s Thoubal district on Saturday, the police said. Acting on…

Two teenage migrant workers from Bihar were shot dead in Manipur’s Kakching district on Saturday evening, the police said. The incident happened near the panchayat office in Keirak on Kakching-Wabagai…

An 85-year-old man died after he jumped from a flat in a high-rise in Maharashtra’s Thane district, an official said on Saturday. Shyamal Kumar Nilambar Fani, who had retired from…

A 33-year-old police head constable died by suicide in Bengaluru on Friday night, allegedly jumping in front of a train in Byappanahalli, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred after…

A 19-year-old man was burnt alive allegedly by his friends here over a monetary dispute, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in the Bagru police station area on…

In a bizarre and shocking incident, a man raped a stray dog in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district on Saturday. Police said that the public noticed the man indulging in the unnatural…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday targeted the Congress-led UPA government for the largest power outage in the country in 2012 and said his government has worked towards ‘One Nation,…

A goods train split into two parts after its coupling broke near the Kharia-Pipra halt on the Bhagalpur-Jamalpur in Bihar on Saturday, affecting the traffic on the route. The incident…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lauded the power of ‘Nari Shakti’ in shaping the Constitution and made a strong pitch for ‘united Bharat’ in realising the country’s dreams in…

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has revoked the suspension of veteran party leader and former MLA Tanmoy Bhattacharya, who was accused of sexual harassment by a woman journalist associated…

The prestigious New Delhi Assembly seat is likely to witness a fierce electoral contest with sitting MLA and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal pitted against the sons of former Delhi chief…

Former Union minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at the Congress on Saturday, saying its leader Rahul Gandhi needs to change his tutor as he is unaware…

Paracetamol, a common over-the-counter medication, may increase the risk of gastrointestinal, heart- and kidney-related complications among adults aged 65 and above, a new study has found. Taken commonly for treating…