Category: India

Zeeshan Siddique, the NCP candidate from Bandra East, voted today in the Maharashtra Assembly elections and said that it was the first time he came to a polling booth without…

India has witnessed a disturbing surge in cases of reckless driving and performing risky stunts on roads, primarily for social media reel videos. This alarming trend poses a significant threat…

Days after the attack on the residences of several lawmakers in Manipur, a state minister has increased security at his home. Manipur’s cabinet minister Leishangthem Susindro Meitei has fortified his…

Security has been ramped up in Mumbai ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly Election, to ensure a smooth and secure voting process. The police are checking vehicles and have made elaborate…

For the first time in any election, 75% of polling booths will be webcast, and 205 vehicles used in the election process will be monitored via GPS, as per official…

As Jharkhand gears up for the second phase of the assembly elections tomorrow, the state faces a fierce battle between the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress alliance looking to retain power…

The Border Security Force (BSF) claims to have arrested a civil engineer and seized 50 gold biscuits from his possession in the North 24-Parganas district of West Bengal. “Acting on…

With no major incident reported from any of the districts in Manipur, curfew was relaxed in four Imphal Valley districts on Wednesday and the suspension on broadband internet was lifted,…

Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States is going to be “pro-business and pro-growth” and good for the tech services industry, Wipro Executive Chairman Rishad Premji said at an event…

India and Australia on Tuesday officially launched the Renewable Energy Partnership aimed at boosting two-way investment in the renewable energy sectors as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his…

With the recent spate of killings starting a new cycle of violence in Manipur, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to President Droupadi Murmu and sought her intervention to bring…

Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR, which had crossed the 500-mark on Monday and stayed there, has started dropping, indicating that the stringent GRAP 4 measures have started taking effect. In an…

A Mumbai court on Tuesday extended till November 23 the police custody of Shivkumar Gautam, the alleged main shooter arrested in NCP leader Baba Siddique’s murder case. The police sought…

The main accused in the 1993 Deoband bomb blasts, Nazir Ahmed Wani, has been arrested from Srinagar by a joint operation of the UP Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the local…

Palestine on Tuesday expressed its deep gratitude to India for releasing the second tranche of $2.5 million financial aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…

Defying curfew, members of various civil society organisations on Tuesday held a rally in Manipur’s Imphal West district to protest against the reimposition of AFSPA in parts of the northeastern…

Moving a step ahead of quacks running clinics, a group of fake doctors opened a full-fledged hospital in Gujarat’s Surat and named top administrative and police officials as guests at…

An MLA from Manipur’s Churachandpur district has raised a huge controversy over his social media posts calling 10 “militants” who were killed in an encounter on November 11 “martyrs”. Churachandpur…

The Madras High Court has restrained the Music Academy in Chennai from presenting its Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subbulakshmi Award 2024 to renowned Carnatic singer TM Krishna. The Music Academy is,…

The recent U.S. presidential election defied expectations, delivering results that will shape American politics in unpredictable ways. For only the second time in US history, a president won non-consecutive terms…

Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit India next year, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The two sides are looking at the possibility of the visit but nothing has been finalised,…

Two bikers died and nearly three dozen people were injured in separate accidents due to smog conditions in Noida and other parts of western Uttar Pradesh in the early hours…

An 18-year-old MBBS student of a medical college in Gujarat died after allegedly being made to stand for three hours during ragging by his seniors in the hostel. Anil Natwarbhai…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for the success of the maiden maritime event – Sagarmanthan, The Ocean’s Dialogue – to build consensus for partnerships of a prosperous future for humanity.…

A Bengaluru auto driver’s innovative approach to seeking funds for his start-up has turned him into a viral sensation. Samuel Christy is a graduate and works as an auto driver…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron, and World Bank President Ajay Banga could be seen sharing a light moment on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in…

TV actor Tandasvhwara, popularly known as Thandav Ram, has been arrested for allegedly opening fire at film director Bharath Navunda after an argument over a stalled movie. The incident reportedly…

The voters in Maharashtra will cast their votes in the single phase on Wednesday (November 20) for the state Assembly elections. Polling will be held on all 288 constituencies will…

West Bengal’s Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and the West Bengal police have countered each other on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) over clashes that erupted in Beldanga in…

In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), three-fourths of those aged three or four years lack — nearly 182 million children — access to adequate nurture, thereby risking healthy development, according…

The Andhra Pradesh government has done away with the rule that candidates having more than two children are ineligible to contest the elections for local bodies, on Monday, by passing…

The Supreme Court has granted Malayalam actor Siddique anticipatory bail in a rape case that emerged amid a spate of sexual assault charges by former actresses in the southern film…

The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of NTPC Green Energy Ltd (NGEL), a subsidiary of the Maharatna public sector enterprise NTPC Ltd, opened for subscription from today, Tuesday. The IPO is…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid homage to India’s first woman Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, on the occasion of her 107th birth anniversary. Posting a message on X, the…

Indian Railways is set to test the nation’s first hydrogen-powered train on the Jind-Sonipat route in Haryana. The trial run is expected to begin next year. The project aims to…

Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid tribute to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Shakti Sthal on her birth anniversary. Taking to social media X,…

After the Competition Commission imposed a Rs 213-crore penalty on Meta in relation to WhatsApp privacy policy, the company said it disagrees with the watchdog’s decision and plans to appeal.…

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced the relaunch of the stalled talks for a free trade agreement with India and said Britain will seek a “new strategic partnership”. After…

The voter count in Mumbai has crossed the one crore mark, up from 98.95 lakh during the Lok Sabha polls held earlier this year, a civic official said. At the…

Police on Monday arrested 15 second-year students of a medical college in Gujarat’s Patan district and charged them with culpable homicide not amounting to murder after the death of their…

At the stroke of midnight on Tuesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s most sophisticated communications satellite, which will provide broadband services in remote areas and in-flight Internet in passenger…

In an eight-point resolution released minutes before midnight, the state cabinet resolved “to start mass operations against the Kuki militants responsible for the killing of six innocent women and children…

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde ripped into Congress’s Rahul Gandhi today for opposing the Dharavi Redevelopment Project, alleging that he is out to rob Maharashtra. “This is Asia’s biggest project…

Anmol Bishnoi – the younger brother of notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who runs a global criminal syndicate despite being in jail – has been arrested in the United States, sources…

The Manipur government on Monday said it has constituted a two-member inquiry committee to look into the causes that led to a firing in the Jiribam district, which left one…

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s brother-in-law, B M Mallikarjuna Swamy was on Monday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) site allotment case,…

Punjab Police’s Cybercrime Division has busted an inter-state gang involved in digital arrest cyber fraud with the arrest of two Assam-based men for their involvement in the fraud, said Director…

The government on Monday said K Sanjay Murthy will be the next Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Murthy, a 1989 batch IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, will…

India’s competition watchdog directed WhatsApp to refrain from sharing user data for advertising purposes with other applications owned by Meta for a period of five years and fined the U.S.…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met United States President Joe Biden at the 19th G20 Summit being held at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and said it is “always…

The postmortem examination of five bodies of the six missing people of Manipur’s Jiribam district has been completed at a state-run hospital in Assam’s Silchar town, officials said on Monday.…

Raghuvinder Shokeen, the AAP legislator from Nangloi Jat, was inducted into the Delhi Cabinet on Monday, a day after another Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot resigned from the cabinet as well…

As exit polls for Maharashtra are released on the evening of November 20, they are likely to err on the side of caution, thanks to recent experience. In all likelihood,…

The enforcement agencies have seized over Rs 1,000 crore worth of cash, liquor and other inducements in the ongoing elections in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and across 14 states where bypolls are…

The Manipur government on Monday extended the suspension of mobile internet and data services for two more days in seven trouble-torn districts, officials said. Home Department officials said that the…

Two days after chaos erupted at a feast in Uttar Pradesh’s Majhawan organised by a BJP MP, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that the “mutton war” has been…

A protester was shot dead during a clash between security forces and a mob in Manipur’s violence-hit Jiribam district, officials said Monday. A police official in Imphal said a young…

The Ministry of Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, is working on a code of conduct for companies working with artificial intelligence (AI) in India, according to a report by…

A court in Ahmedabad has denied bail to journalist Mahesh Langa in a GST fraud case, observing that the offence alleged against him is serious and the offence being an…

A teacher at a school in Andhra Pradesh’s Alluri Seetharamaraju district has stoked a controversy after she allegedly chopped off the hair of the students who arrived late for the…

A total of 14 flights were diverted and many were delayed at the Delhi airport on Monday as bad weather conditions in the national capital resulted in poor visibility impacting…

A woman who underwent a C Section operation at a hospital in Bihar became a victim of massive medical negligence. A large piece of gauze was found to have been…

Ahead of the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, Mumbai is set to observe four dry days this week, with liquor sales prohibited across the city. The Election Commission has implemented these…

Netizens have been left confused after bizarre “one-dish” restaurants seemingly appeared on their Zomato delivery feed. A Reddit post has claimed that such restaurants have come up in the northern…

Tamil actor-politician Vijay has junked talk of an alliance between his fledgling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam before the 2026 Assembly election. In a…

The initial public offering (IPO) of state-owned NTPC Green Energy Limited is set to open on Tuesday, November 19. The renewable energy arm of the state-owned power sector company NTPC…

A woman has come forward with a disturbing account of street harassment in Bengaluru. The incident occurred on Horamavu Main Road, where she was walking with her boyfriend after taking…

A Supreme Court hearing on Monday on a batch of pleas related to the worsening air quality in the National Capital Region (NCR) saw a petitioner questioning the Delhi government’s…

A key member of Bharat Rashtra Samithi, Konatham Dileep, has been arrested by the Telangana police for spreading misinformation on social media, escalating the face-off between the BRS and the…

The son of a former BJP corporator was stabbed to death by a criminal and his eight accomplices on the campus of a government hospital in Gujarat’s Vadodara city in…

A criminal was injured in an encounter after he snatched a policeman’s revolver in an attempt to escape custody in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district, police said on Monday. The encounter…

A first-year student of a Gujarat-based medical college has died allegedly after he was made to stand for three hours as part of a ragging exercise by seniors. Anil Methania…

A 12-year-old boy sustained a serious eye injury after being allegedly beaten by his teacher at a school in Bihar’s Arwal district for not completing his homework, police said on…

Yakub Mansuri was sleeping on the pavement outside the children’s ward of the medical college in Jhansi Friday night when a fire broke out in the neonatal intensive care unit.…

AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday compared the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections to a ‘dharamyudh’, akin to the one in the Mahabharata. Assembly elections in Delhi are due in…

A veteran NCP-SP leader Eknath Khadse, who quit BJP in 2020 blaming the leadership for his neglect, on Monday announced his retirement from electoral politics citing health issues. However, in…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Brazil on Monday on the second leg of his three-nation visit, during which he will attend the G20 Summit. PM Modi arrived in the…

The Supreme Court today fumed at the Centre after no one appeared for it during the hearing on the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, who has…

BJP Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla hit out at the ruling Aam Admi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and alleged that the party has turned from “fighting corruption to doing corruption”. Speaking…

It was a moment of great pride for India when the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, conferred Nigeria’s highest civilian award, the ‘Grand Commander of…

The Jharkhand BJP has been asked to take down a social media post the Election Commission says violates the Model Code of Conduct. The party has also been asked to…

Actor Kartik Aaryan joined Punjabi sensation Diljit Dosanjh during his show in Ahmedabad. The two were seen dancing and hugging while they were on stage. Kartik took to Instagram, where…

For Laisharam Herojit, a relief camp inmate from the Meitei community in Manipur’s Jiribam district, the worst fears have come true – his family has been executed. Mr Herojit, in…

India accords high priority to its strategic partnership with Nigeria and it will work towards boosting ties in a range of areas, including defence, energy and trade, Prime Minister Narendra…

An 18-year-old MBBS student of a medical college in Gujarat’s Patan district died after allegedly after being made to stand for three hours during ragging by his seniors, an official…

A newborn rescued from a fire that engulfed a children’s ward at a government hospital in Jhansi died due to illness on Sunday, officials said. With this, 11 newborns who…

Going against the stand of Manipur government, a key Kuki-Zo civil society group has urged the Centre to extend the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to all 13 remaining…

A 20-year-old man went missing when he jumped into the water in a dam for the shooting of a social media reel in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district on Sunday, police…

India’s most advanced satellite which will enable broadband communications and named GSAT-20 or GSAT N-2 is set to be launched on Tuesday on board Elon Musk owned SpaceX’s Falcon 9…

At least 40 people have been injured in a cylinder blast that occurred at a ‘chaat’ stall in Chhattarpur, Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, officials said. Upper Collector Milind Kumar Nagdev…

Many believe that the dead visit their loved ones during their funeral. The same happened at a remembrance meeting in Gujarat’s Mehsana this Thursday. Only, the visitor was alive as…

India has successfully test-fired a long-range hypersonic missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday. The missile was test-fired…

Chairs were thrown and threat slogans raised as a mob attacked a rally by BJP leader and former MP Navneet Rana at Maharashtra’s Amravati last night. A police case has…

The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Thane has awarded compensation of Rs 31.39 lakh to a businessman who was injured in a road accident in 2019. Gopichand Shankar Patil…

The Supreme Court has flagged the “complete failure” of agencies in implementing the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 in the national capital and directed the chief secretary of the Delhi…