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Sunaina Kejriwal, the director of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Hall and Art Gallery, died on Saturday in Mumbai after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 53. Sunaina, the daughter of…
The Adani Group is in talks to buy the Indian cement operations of Germany’s Heidelberg Materials in a deal that could be worth about $1.2 billion, the Economic Times newspaper…
Noting lapses in quality control and delays in project timelines, a temporary freeze has been put on all projects under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Assam, the state government…
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Monday said Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid’s suggestion for delaying government formation till restoration of statehood was playing into the hands of the…
In a coordinated effort, troops of the Indian Army, Assam Rifles, Manipur Police, and other security forces deployed in Manipur successfully recovered 18 weapons, ammunition, and warlike stores, according to…
An Aam Aadmi Party worker was shot dead allegedly by three unidentified persons here on Monday, police said. The worker was identified as Rajvinder Singh, a resident of Talwandi Mour…
It is festival season in Bihar, with Durga Puja, Diwali and Chhath, all in the same month. But the joy is missing for 15 lakh people stranded, marooned or displaced…
Stubble burning in Punjab, shows data, has been lowest in the last three years. Data from NASA’s Worldview satellite, which detects fire events around the world, corroborates the assertion made…
India and Maldives on Monday sought to reset – boosted by a US$400 million – Rs 3,000 crore currency swap deal – a relationship fractured by two diplomatic squabbles over…
It’s result day. Votes for Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir polls will be counted today. Exit polls have predicted a sweeping win for the Congress in Haryana, adding that the…
As the political heat rises in poll-bound Jharkhand, Union Minister and BJP incharge for the state, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday that they will implement the National Register of…
Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) General Secretary Digvijay Chautala said on Sunday that Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini was given a “dead snake” by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and he…
Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, on Sunday said he has accepted the Chancellorship of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) Pune, 10…
The Centre has extended the deadline to file income tax audit reports for FY 2023-24. Originally set for September 30, the new October 7 deadline offers businesses and professionals a…
The Odisha government regularised the services of 9,200 junior teachers engaged in primary and upper primary schools under the Samagra Shiksha scheme, according to an official document. The School and…
The Odisha government regularised the services of 9,200 junior teachers engaged in primary and upper primary schools under the Samagra Shiksha scheme, according to an official document. The School and…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today conducted searches at the residence of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjeev Arora in Punjab’s Ludhiana. Officials said the raids were held in a money…
Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) General Secretary Digvijay Chautala said on Sunday that Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini was given a “dead snake” by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and he…
Cryptocurrency exchange WazirX, which suffered a massive Rs 2,000 crore (about $234 million) cyber theft in July as millions of users still wait for their money in digital assets to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday marks 23 years of ascending to Constitutional posts, first as Chief Minister and then as Prime Minister. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who has…
Political parties and leaders wait with bated breath as the counting day approaches in Haryana, with the ruling BJP confident of retaining power for a third term, and the Congress,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday shared a video clip highlighting some “memorable moments” of his ride on the Mumbai Metro. In the video, the Prime Minister was pictured interacting…
A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to RJD chief and former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav in the land-for-jobs money laundering…
Junior doctors protesting August’s rape and murder at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital are on a fast-unto-death, setting up another potential face-off with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Six people are…
Canada has said its position on the territorial integrity of India is absolute — the first such statement since the wedge driven between the two nations last year over President…
An Air India flight from Delhi to London was diverted to Copenhagen on Sunday due to a medical emergency, according to an airline official. A male passenger who was feeling…
The bodies of two missing children were found inside the water tank of an unoccupied house near their home in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer, police said on Sunday. The parents of Adil…
Padma Shri awardee tribal artist Durga Bai Vyam has joined the BJP after being impressed by the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi is supporting her community, said Madhya Pradesh Chief…
AAP leaders on Sunday lodged two police complaints against BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta, accusing him of caste discrimination and physically assaulting a female…
External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar on Sunday said that artificial intelligence (AI) will be a profound factor for the world, after nuclear weapons. Participating in the third edition of…
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren was hospitalised following blood sugar-related complications, an official said on Sunday. He was admitted to the Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur around 9 pm…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday greeted Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, who arrived in New Delhi for his first bilateral visit to India. S Jaishankar expressed appreciation for Mr…
The CBI, police, customs, Enforcement Directorate or judges do not arrest people through video calls, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) said in a public advisory issued in view…
JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday hit out at Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for accusing the opposition of dragging his wife in the MUDA case and blamed the latter’s ‘wrongs’…
Ten doctors considered close to Sandip Ghosh, arrested former Principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital, have been expelled by the hospital authorities for multiple irregularities, including issuing threats, coercion and…
Three persons who went to watch the air show at Chennai’s Marina Beach have died. Doctors said at least one of them had heat stroke. Enthusiastic families had gathered at…
Two foreign women mountaineers, who were stranded at a height of 6,015 metres on their way to the Chaukhamba III peak in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, were rescued on Sunday morning,…
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Sunday sat on a fast at the Ladakh Bhawan where he was staying, after the protesters were denied permission to stage the stir for Ladakh’s…
A second-year MBBS student of a private medical college was found dead on the campus under suspicious circumstances in Shahjahanpur district, police said on Sunday. The student has been identified…
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu and First Lady of Maldives, Sajidha Mohamed arrived in New Delhi on Sunday, for his first bilateral visit to India. During this visit, President Muizzu will…
AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide free electricity in the NDA-ruled states before the Delhi Assembly elections, promising to campaign for the saffron…
Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that India is moving towards becoming the next semiconductor hub for the world as big investment is happening in this…
Typing this essay on a MacBook Air, tethered to an iPhone Pro (not the latest model) for accessing the internet, reeks of hypocrisy. Yet, certain issues need to be highlighted…
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, which was hoping to find a toehold in Haryana — the next logical choice after ruling Delhi and Punjab — could fail to open its…
Apple has officially commenced the assembly of its entire iPhone 16 series in India, marking a significant step in the company’s efforts to diversify its manufacturing operations beyond China. The…
A court in Himachal Pradesh today ordered the demolition of three floors of a disputed mosque in Shimla. The Shimla Municipal Commissioner Court has given two months to the Masjid…
With exit polls predicting a Congress win in Haryana, the focus has moved to who would be the next Chief Minister. Health warning: exit polls often get it wrong. Former…
In the first conviction under new criminal laws, the Delhi Police on Saturday claimed to have got a 20-year-old man convicted in a case of burglary, officials said. Neeraj, a…
A teenage girl was allegedly raped by unidentified persons, who restrained her male friend, on a deserted stretch on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Vadodara city, police said on Saturday. The…
A Rajasthan Police circle officer was suspended on Saturday, two days after a rape accused man allegedly hanged himself to death while in police custody, officials said. Lohawat Circle Officer…
The alliance of the Congress and the National Conference (NC) is predicted to win the most seats in Jammu and Kashmir, according to a poll of polls. Health warning: exit…
The Congress is poised to win and win big in Haryana, a state ruled by the BJP for the last decade, show exit polls. An aggregate of eight exit polls…
The SAARC is “not moving forward” and meetings of the regional grouping have not happened in the last few years as one of its members is practising “cross-border terrorism”, External…
The junior doctors, protesting over the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar hospital, went on fast unto death on Saturday evening, claiming that their demands were…
An aircraft carrying 146 passengers from Muscat suffered a tyre burst while landing at the international airport here on Saturday, authorities said. All the passengers are safe, Chennai airport authorities…
The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its February 15 verdict, which had scrapped the Modi government’s electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding. A…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetings with the top leaders of Russia and Ukraine were “beginnings of a communication process” between two countries engaged in a serious conflict that has had…
The demand for an ethnocentric homeland is untenable and obsolete in Manipur, where at least 35 communities co-exist, a group of activists and academics from the violence-hit state bordering Myanmar…
Former president Ram Nath Kovind, who headed a panel on ‘one nation, one election,’ on Saturday said the idea of simultaneous polls was perceived by the framers of the Constitution…
IndiGo Airlines is facing a major technical glitch and there have been reports of long queues at airport check-in counters as well as difficulties booking tickets. The problems began around…
Three people died and 10 others were injured after a car carrying a marriage party fell into a deep gorge in Pauri district, officials said on Saturday. The incident happened…
A critically-ill patient died when an ambulance in which he was being shifted to a hospital rammed into a wayside house in Kanjirappally in Kottayam district in the early hours…
Police on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly trying to derail a train by placing iron rods on the railway track in Jakhoura police station area of Lalitpur district in…
Police on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly trying to derail a train by placing iron rods on the railway track in Jakhoura police station area of Lalitpur district in…
The voting for 90 seats in Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, the first in almost a decade, took place in three phases – September 18, September 25 and October 1.…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the BJP-led government, saying there was no use bowing before Shivaji Maharaj after scaring people. He also alleged that Shivaji Maharaj’s statue collapsed…
Mere pendency of a criminal case does not automatically disqualify a person from exercising his right to seek long-term opportunities abroad, the Delhi High Court has noted. The court also…
Twenty-one policemen were injured after a mob threw stones at them in Maharashtra’s Amravati city to demand registration of a case over a controversial seer’s “objectionable” remarks against Prophet Mohammad,…
Santa N Marak, 57, was working in a kitchen with her 28-year-old daughter Moralistic Marak when a fatal landslide struck Koinadubi in Dalu village on Friday morning, leading to her…
Ahead of the Janata Dal-United’s executive committee meeting on Saturday, a party leader, Chotu Singh, grabbed headlines after he put up posters demanding Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour in…
A male elephant brought for a Telugu movie shoot panicked during the filming after another tusker bumped into it from behind and ran into the nearby forest near Kothamangalam here…
India will witness the steepest rise in living standards of the common man on the back of the government’s initiatives and the efforts towards doubling per capita income in a…
The servitors of the famous Sri Baladevjew temple in Odisha’s Kendrapara district on Friday alleged the use of adulterated ghee to prepare prasad and bhog in the 300-year-old temple. Sarat…
A special court in Pune has summoned Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case filed by the grandnephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, accusing the Congress leader of making objectionable remarks…
Haryana Jan Sevak Party nominee from the Meham assembly constituency Balraj Kundu on Saturday alleged that former Congress MLA Anand Singh Dangi assaulted him and his personal assistant at a…
Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton today told NDTV that the United Nations is a huge organisation and that many bodies of the global body are irrelevant. He…
As the polling for 90 assembly constituencies in Haryana began today, Congress MP Kumari Selja said that the BJP is ready to welcome her because they are already “very weak”.…
The National Investigation Agency on Saturday conducted searches at 22 locations across states as part of its probe against Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists’ outfit, officials said. Searches were underway in Jammu…
Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker today cast her vote at a polling station in Charkhi Dadri for the 2024 Haryana assembly elections. After casting her vote along with her father,…
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a man’s petition seeking to quash an FIR against him for allegedly uploading an objectionable post on his Instagram account against Lord Ram,…
An exchange of fire was reported between security forces and terrorists in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officials said. “On 04 Oct 2024, based on intelligence…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to embark on a tour of Maharashtra on Saturday, where he will inaugurate the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Mumbai Metro Line 3, the city’s first fully underground…
A Bajrang Dal leader and activist filed a complaint on Friday against Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao for his controversial remarks on Veer Savarkar. Tejas Gowda, the complainant, stated…
The Delhi High Court on Friday directed Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to release the frozen sperm of a dead man to his parents for the reproduction of a child. The…
The Ministry of External Affairs expressed deep concern over the escalating tensions in West Asia, involving Israel, Iran, and Lebanon, and asserted that “it is important that this conflict doesn’t…
The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Forum (WBJDF), spearheading the movement against the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in August this…
An employee of an institute under the Department of Atomic Energy was duped of Rs 71 lakh by fraudsters using the “digital arrest” modus operandi, a police official said in…
A sudden major cyberattack in Uttarakhand brought the entire IT system of the state to a standstill, which has had a serious impact on government work. Due to the cyberattack,…
The Delhi High Court on Friday directed Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to release the frozen sperm of a dead man to his parents for the reproduction of a child. The…
Centre has introduced a new system to identify and block incoming international spoofed calls before they can reach Indian telecom subscribers. This comes amid a spate of incidents where users…
In a concerning development, the Karnataka Food Safety and Quality Department has issued a warning that cancer-causing ingredients may be present in cakes sold by some bakeries in the state.…
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected 10 petitions to review its August decision on permitting sub-classification within Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories to provide reservation in jobs and education…
The Supreme Court on Friday said it will lay down the law on the issue of high courts revoking orders dictated in open courts after coming across a case in…
Travel tech platform EaseMyTrip – which suspended flight bookings to Maldives in January after a diplomatic row with India – on Friday said it has resumed bookings to the island…
Bollywood star Govinda, who has been discharged from the hospital after undergoing treatment for injury caused after his gun misfired, has recalled how the incident happened. He said it fell…
The Supreme Court on Friday cautioned authorities in Gujarat over demolitions in the state, saying if it finds that they acted in contempt of its recent order against such action,…
A man in Gujarat allegedly took revenge for the murder of his father and mowed down his killer about 22 years after the incident. On October 1, the police in…
Ashok Chandana, a former minister in the Ashok Gehlot cabinet and the current Congress MLA from Bundi, has caused a huge controversy with his latest speech, this time threatening police…
Two persons were arrested on Friday in connection with the death of a boy who was hit by an excavator in south Kolkata’s Bansdroni area, a senior officer said. A…
Sri Lanka on Friday released 50 Indian fishermen arrested by its Navy for allegedly poaching in the island nation’s waters, the Indian mission here said. Fishermen from both countries are…