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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Antony Blinken met in Washington DC and discussed working together to address regional and global challenges. Mr Jaishankar — on his…
Union minister Chirag Paswan has caused a flutter by stating he would choose to give up his ministerial berth instead of a compromise on his principles, in keeping with the…
The Madras High Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the alleged assault and harassment of a minor rape survivor’s parents by a woman police inspector…
In a first, a total of 217 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel serving in the lowest rung of the paramilitary force as sweepers and peons were given promotions and…
After a 56-year-long wait, the body of Sepoy Malkhan Singh, who went missing in a 1968 aircraft crash at the snow-clad mountains of Himachal Pradesh’s Rohtang, will be arriving at…
A Kerala court on Tuesday sentenced a 57-year-old man to a cumulative of 79 years imprisonment for the repeated rape of a 10-year-old girl two years ago. Nadapuram Fast Track…
A chilling video has gone viral on social media, highlighting the alarming issue of women’s safety on Indian roads. The video shows an attempted break-in while a woman was waiting…
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly dragged from her home to a paddy field and sexually assaulted by her uncle in Assam’s Cachar district on Sunday evening. The police have arrested…
Ruldu Ram’s joy knew no bounds after he voted for the first time in his life at the age of 90, nearly eight decades after migrating from Pakistan during the…
The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday said 98 per cent of the Rs 2,000 denomination notes have been returned since its May 2023 move to withdraw the currency notes.…
Two persons were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly placing an iron rail piece on a railway track in an attempt to derail a train for robbing passengers in Gujarat’s Botad…
A total of 1,492 people died in India during extreme weather events in the 2024 monsoon season, according to data compiled by the India Meteorological Department. The data revealed that…
Japan got a new prime minister on Tuesday, with Shigeru Ishiba setting out to jumpstart a lacklustre economy, defuse a demographic crisis and build an Asian NATO to face down…
A massive sit-in protest is being held in Manipur’s Thoubal today, with hundreds of women gathering to demand the immediate and safe release of two abducted students. The roads were…
Seven children were injured, three of them seriously, in an explosion near a garbage dump in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district on Tuesday, a senior police officer said. Senior Superintendent of Police…
Amid reports that megastar Rajinikanth has been hospitalised and a lack of clarity about exactly why, a hospital in Chennai has released a reassuring statement saying that he has undergone…
Amid the heated campaigning ahead of the Haryana Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lambasted Congress for its politics of “false promises” and said that the party is…
Union Minister Dr Virendra Kumar on Tuesday launched the country’s first Indoor Navigation Application for a national institute, marking a step toward greater inclusivity and accessible spaces. The Canary Indoor…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will lay down pan-India guidelines on demolition of properties and any religious structure in the middle of a road, be it a ‘dargah’…
A junior doctor was allegedly hit on the head several times with a metal tool by a patient’s family members at Lala Lajpat Rai Medical College here, officials said on…
The Mysuru land authority at the centre of a financial and political storm – involving Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and alleged losses of Rs 45 crore to the state – has…
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Tuesday said he has conveyed to senior BJP leader that his party RPI (A) wants to contest on eight to 10 seats in the upcoming…
Marking the completion of 10 years of the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in Swachh Bharat Diwas 2024 and lay the foundation stone…
Junior doctors in West Bengal, demanding better security at state hospitals after the rape and murder of a colleague at a medical college in Kolkata, have resumed their ‘total cease-work’.…
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is on the rise globally and India is also seeing a surge in sleep disorders. More than 104 million, working-age Indians suffer from OSA, of whom…
Highlighting the complex nature of dealing with tensions with China, Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said that India must compete, cooperate, coexist, confront, and contest with China. He stated,…
In the run-up to the Maharashtra election, the Congress has launched a ‘Laapataa Ladies’ campaign — named after the Kiran Rao-directed movie — to shine the spotlight on the Eknath…
As Jan Suraaj founder and election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor is set to launch his party on October 2, he has said he does not wish to become the leader of…
They were happy and sad at the same time; excited and equally emotional. That was the condition of the family of Thomas Cheriyan, a resident of Kerala, whose body had…
British rock band Coldplay’s upcoming tour of India has triggered a police investigation and dismayed fans after scalpers bought up cheap tickets to resell online for more than Rs 83000…
When spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev got his own daughter married, why is he encouraging young women to tonsure their heads and renounce worldly lives to live like hermits, the…
Junior doctors in Bengal – protesting the rape and murder of a colleague at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital on August 8 – resumed their ‘indefinite’ strike Tuesday, pressing, once again,…
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who along with his supporters was detained at Delhi’s Singhu border while marching to Rajghat to pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, is leading a mission to…
BRS MLC K Kavitha will be undergoing medical tests at a private hospital here on Tuesday, sources close to her said. Based on the test results, doctors will decide whether…
Financial Rules October 2024: Several key changes to income taxes will come into effect on October 1. As outlined in the Union Budget 2024, modifications were made to the Aadhaar…
The oil marketing companies on Tuesday announced a hike in the prices of commercial LPG gas cylinders, effective from today (October 1st), according to the sources. As per the official…
Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal resumed their indefinite “total cease work” on Tuesday to press the state government on various demands, including ensuring their safety and security at all…
Five days after 45-year-old Vimal Anil Gaikwad died – she fell into an open manhole she could not see on a waterlogged road in Mumbai’s Andheri – an internal report…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to his Israel counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu today. The two leaders, he said, had discussed the situation in West Asia. “Terrorism has no place in our…
A heartwarming gesture by popular Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh has been winning hearts. He met one of his fans during his “Dil-luminati Tour” in Manchester and gifted her a box…
Two teenage girls died on Monday after being hit by a train on the Lucknow-Varanasi route, police said. The incident happened on rail tracks within the Chanda police station limits…
The owner of a YouTube-based news portal has been arrested here for allegedly putting out defamatory content against former Army chief and former Union minister V K Singh, police said…
Three workers died of suffocation inside a diesel chamber of an animal feel manufacturing factory, a police official said. According to the police, about 45 minutes after the incident, the…
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and his supporters were detained by Delhi Police at the Singhu border on Monday night. Section 163 of the BNS has been imposed at Delhi borders,…
Married off at the age of just four months, a woman came out of a 20-year unwanted situation on Monday when a family court annulled her child marriage. Unlike the…
The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed ANI Technologies, the parent company of OLA Cabs, to compensate a woman with Rs five lakh after she allegedly faced sexual harassment by…
Jammu and Kashmir is set for the third and final phase of Assembly elections on Tuesday, with 39.18 lakh voters eligible to decide the political fate of 415 candidates in…
Family travel in India is increasingly guided by the preferences of Gen Alpha and Gen Z, revealed a new survey that found an overwhelming 93 per cent of young travellers…
India on Monday issued helpline numbers for its citizens stranded in Nepal due to floods and landslides during the past few days. The advisory follows severe flooding and landslides triggered…
The government on Monday extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) by another six months in Manipur excluding 19 police station areas falling under the Imphal valley and a…
A government teacher has been arrested in Rajasthan’s Tonk for allegedly molesting and showing obscene videos to the girls of class 5, police said on Monday. The education department has…
The Economic Offence Wing of the Odisha Police arrested a person from Mumbai for allegedly cheating Rs 1.20 crore from 189 people of the state, promising them the Haj pilgrimage,…
In an ongoing hearing, the Supreme Court of India has decried the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for not serving its purpose. The Commission was set up in 2021…
Maharashtra Government on Monday declared desi (indigenous) cows as ‘Rajyamata-Gomata’ considering factors like their significance since Vedic period, an official notification said. The other factors include the importance of indigenous…
The US Mission to India opened an additional 250,000 visa appointments for Indian travelers, including tourists, skilled workers, and students. The recently released new slots will help hundreds of thousands…
As he closed in on the car of two men he had been chasing after rebuking them for drinking on the road, Delhi Police Constable Sandeep did not realise it…
The last date to file income tax audit reports has been extended to October 7. The government decision came after several taxpayers faced technical difficulties in electronic tax filings. The…
The reinstatement last week of money-laundering accused DMK leader V Senthil Balaji as Tamil Nadu’s Electricity, Excise, and Prohibition Minister has prompted a rival politician to lob the ‘washing machine’…
The circulation of photos of the woman doctor raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital in August has hugely upset the Supreme Court, which said the Central government must…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is soon expected to book Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and some others in a money-laundering case linked to the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), taking cognisance…
A recent study has shed light on the increasing trend of solo ageing among India’s elderly population, one of the key reasons for this shift is the increasing preference for…
A Samajwadi Party MLA’s remark in which he said the population of Muslims is increasing and the BJP’s rule will come to an end soon has sparked a political row…
Religion and politics cannot be allowed to mix, the Supreme Court said Monday while hearing three petitions over allegations that animal fat was found in the ghee used to make…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the bank holidays for October, with a total of 15 closures across the country. These holidays include public and regional observances, such…
Congress leader Kumari Selja shared the stage with her party colleagues Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi in Haryana today, negating reports of her possible switch to the BJP with…
A died by suicide after jumping off the Atal Setu in Mumbai which connects the city with neighbouring Navi Mumbai, the police said. The body is yet to be recovered…
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and the ministers on her team hit the streets today to inspect the condition of roads in the national capital as part of the Aam Aadmi…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has described as “distasteful and disgraceful” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s speech in which he said he would stay alive till Prime Minister Narendra Modi is…
Air Marshal AP Singh succeeded Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari as the new Air Force chief today. Before assuming the charge, he served as the Vice Chief of the Air…
Hearing a petition for transfer of a matrimonial dispute case, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud advised a couple to agree to divorce by mutual consent and said a long…
Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has agreed to requests from the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) for cuts in her directorial “Emergency”, the Bombay High Court was told today. During the…
India is gearing up for a massive economic boost as the upcoming wedding season is projected to generate Rs 5.9 lakh crore in business, according to a recent study by…
Expressing delight at veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty being conferred with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded him as a cultural icon. In a post on…
Yet again a suspicious object was found on a railway track in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur. The police said the loco pilot of Pushpak Express noticed the red cylinder lying on…
The campaign vehicle of Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid was attacked Sunday by an assailant who stomped on the bonnet and the front windshield, damaging the glass. Sheikh Abdul Rashid (57),…
The heavy rainfall over the past three days has resulted in the season’s first snowfall in Thangu (3900 metres) and Gurudongmar Lake (5425 m) in the tundra belt of North…
A man-eating leopard killed a three-year-old child after picking him up from outside his house here while he was playing with his cousins, with officials saying his mutilated body was…
A two-year-old girl was killed due to suffocation after an airbag opened in the car she travelled in met with an accident in Kerala’s Malappuram district, police said on Sunday.…
A 62-year-old woman was tied to a tree and allegedly burnt alive by her two sons in West Tripura, officials said on Sunday. Police said they have arrested the sons,…
A fake branch claiming to be of the State Bank of India (SBI) was unearthed in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district following which police booked its three operators, a police official said…
A teenage boy was detained for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old kindergarten girl student on the premises of a school in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam city, police said on Sunday. The…
Army and police personnel participated in the first-ever high-altitude marathon organised by the Indian Army in Sumdo in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul and Spiti district. As many as 640 participants, including…
Justice Manmohan on Sunday took oath as the 32nd chief justice of the Delhi High Court. Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena administered the oath to the 61-year-old judge at a…
Three Tamil Nadu MLAs took the oath of office as ministers in the DMK government this afternoon as part of a cabinet reshuffle in Chief Minister MK Stalin’s team. DMK…
In a possible first, police on Sunday recovered a television set from a Maoist dump in Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, a senior official said. The television, made by electronics firm…
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday claimed that BJP leaders had been directed in a closed-door meeting to break the Opposition ranks and target himself and NCP (SP)…
Ahead of the Haryana Assembly polls, Congress on Sunday expelled its two leaders for six years for indulging in anti-party activities. As per an official letter, Virender Gogria and Somvir…
CBI officials probing the financial scam at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital have traced crucial clues of the “influential nexus” of its former and controversial Principal Sandip Ghosh from…
Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday said that the people in J&K want Article 370 reinstated but they have no expectations from the BJP. “We…
A 20-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a minor girl in Siddipet district of Telangana, police said. The accused, noticing the girl alone, entered her house in…
Illegal sand miners attacked forest officials and fled with two tractor-trolleys loaded with the construction material that the team had seized in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district, an official said on…
An FIR was registered against Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari over his alleged remarks that large amounts of ganja was consumed at the Kumbh Mela, police said on Sunday. The…
The Delhi Police has arrested two Afghan nationals for allegedly running a drug syndicate, police said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Hashimi Mohammad Waris (19) and Abdul…
Senior CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat will be the coordinator of the party’s Polit Bureau and the Central Committee as an interim arrangement until the 24th Party Congress to be held…
The Jannayak Janta Party-Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) alliance on Sunday released its poll manifesto for the Haryana assembly polls, promising to procure all grains at MSP, unemployment allowance of…
Leptospirosis is an extremely rare bacterial disease that spreads to humans via the urine of infected animals like dogs, and rats, said an expert on Saturday, after Punjab Chief Minister…
“I don’t know whether I will win or lose…But I will fight sincerely till the very end,” from Udhayanidhi Stalin’s Tamil flick ‘Manithan,’ would help understand how he in politics…
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday the matter where it has taken suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run…
With his government’s flagship ‘Make in India’ initiative completing 10 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India has become a manufacturing powerhouse and it is because of the…
Four workers were killed and one was seriously injured when a glass consignment fell on them while they were unloading it from a vehicle at a glass manufacturing unit in…