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A newly-wed bride allegedly drugged her in-laws and ran away from their house in Rajasthan’s Bundi district, police said on Friday. The incident happened in Dharghadi village on Thursday night…
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday invited Union Home Minister Amit Shah and three other Union Ministers to attend the ‘Praja Palana Dinotsavam’ (celebration of people’s governance day)…
Senior IPS officer Amrit Mohan Prasad was on Friday appointed as the Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), according to an official order. Mr Prasad, a 1989-batch Indian Police Service…
The BJP suffered a rude shock ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections when a senior Vidarbha leader Gopaldas S. Agrawal quit to make a return to the Congress after five…
At least 65 students of a government school were taken ill after consuming mid-day meal in Jharkhand’s Dumka district on Friday, an official said. A dead chameleon was allegedly found…
India on Friday successfully conducted the preliminary automotive trials of the light tank, Zorawar, a highly versatile platform being developed to boost the Army’s combat capabilities along the frontier with…
Uttar Pradesh minister Kapil Dev Aggarwal surrendered before a local court on Friday after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him in connection with a Model Code of Conduct violation.…
At least eight persons drowned while bathing in the Meshwo river in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district on Friday evening, an official said. Those drown were residents of Vasna Sogthi village in…
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday travelled by a local train, the lifeline of lakhs of Mumbaikars, and chatted up with commuters. Mr Vaishnaw boarded the suburban train at Chhatrapati…
Former Haryana finance minister and BJP nominee from the Narnaund assembly seat for the October 5 assembly polls, Captain Abhimanyu is the richest candidate in the state with declared assets…
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by six people, including three minors, in Bijdhari area of Bihar’s Motihari, police said on Friday. The three minors have been arrested, they…
A railway employee was beaten to death by a girl’s family members and other passengers aboard a train to New Delhi early on Thursday after he allegedly sexually assaulted the…
A day after fast-paced developments, when talks between them and the West Bengal government failed to take place for the third straight day and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offered to…
In a veiled rebuke to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks made in the US, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said a person holding a constitutional post behaved…
A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her landlord’s son in Rajasthan’s Bundi city, police said on Friday. They said that teams have been formed to arrest the 24-year-old accused…
A total of 117 roads were closed for vehicular traffic in Himachal Pradesh as rain continues to lash several parts of the state, officials said on Friday. The meteorological office…
Consider the full magnitude of Kamala Harris’ challenge coming into Tuesday’s debate. She is half Black and half Indian in a predominantly white nation where they are in a growing…
Seven people died on Friday after a Bengaluru-bound APSRTC bus they were travelling in collided with a truck in Andhra Pradesh’s Palamaneru, said police. The accident occurred at Mogili Ghat…
NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday said the bail granted to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal proves that the foundation of democracy in the country is still strong. The…
Much like Bollywood potboilers, Maharashtra politics is going through all the drama and suspense ahead of the state election later this year. The tenure of the 288-member Maharashtra assembly ends…
Forty-seven per cent Gen Z professionals plan to leave their jobs within two years, while as many prioritise work-life balance when evaluating potential employers, according to a survey. The report,…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government will pay compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of 29 people who died, allegedly after not getting…
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges – including murder and provocation with intent to cause riot – relating to the killing of three men outside…
The men who allegedly attacked two Army officers and raped their woman friend near Mhow in Madhya Pradesh were drawn to the picnic spot after hearing loud music, police said…
As weather patterns grow more unpredictable due to climate crisis, India is taking a giant leap with “Mission Mausam” to improve weather understanding and forecasting through expanded observation networks, better…
The Supreme Court today granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the corruption case lodged by the CBI in connection with the liquor policy case, saying prolonged incarceration…
An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Phuket was diverted to Penang in Malaysia on Friday due to bad weather conditions, according to the airline. Some people took to social media…
The Supreme Court on Friday directed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to be released on bail in connection with the corruption case linked to the alleged liquor policy scam. While…
India on Friday successfully test-fired the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VLSRSAM) for the second consecutive day from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur on the…
Automotive giant Ford Motor Company has announced its plans to resume operations in Tamil Nadu. The American automaker says it has submitted a ‘Letter of Intent’ to the Tamil Nadu…
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted raids at multiple locations in Punjab in connection with a March 2023 incident when pro-Khalistan supporters protested outside the High Commission of…
Having been granted bail to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year, Delhi Chief Minister and Arvind Kejriwal will be released from jail again just ahead of the…
Brazil’s aircraft maker Embraer is eyeing suppliers from India for its defence, commercial aviation and executive jet businesses. India is a strategic market for Embraer and has customers in commercial…
Over two years after he decided to never travel by IndiGo, former LDF convener EP Jayarajan on Thursday night travelled to Delhi on the airline from Karipur airport here. Mr…
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Muslim petitioners’ challenge to last month’s Allahabad High Court verdict that allowed 15 suits, including those filed by the Krishna Janmabhoomi deity, which…
The ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu has come out in support of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s proposal to convene a conclave of chief ministers to discuss the…
Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has said he would socially boycott Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In practice, it translates to not sharing any public platform with the Chief Minister, he…
US President Joe Biden is set to host the fourth in-person Quad leaders summit in Delaware on September 21 and is looking forward to welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as…
Twelve people were killed in rain-related incidents across Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours, officials said on Thursday. Five people in Mainpuri and two in Mathura died in rain-related…
A local court in Sangareddy district of Telangana on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 56-year-old man, a labourer from Bihar, for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in October…
The Madras High Court on Thursday said the report of the Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority (TNSLSA) relating to the alleged sexual abuse of girls at a fake National…
Police on Thursday said they have arrested three of the six persons who allegedly assaulted two army officers and raped their woman friend near Mhow in Madhya Pradesh. The announcement…
The National Medical Commission on Thursday issued revised guidelines for its competency-based medical education curriculum, removing sodomy and lesbianism as “unnatural sexual offences”. It has also scrapped topics such as…
A man, his two sisters and 11-month-old nephew were killed on Thursday in Chhattisgarh’s Balodabazar-Bhatapara district on suspicion that a member of the family was practising black magic, a police…
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday said it hopes that action against officers, who facilitated the interview of dreaded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi when in police custody, would not…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his controversial remarks abroad and asked if the Congress party endorsed his statements, especially those…
The BJP on Thursday announced a star-studded list of 40 campaigners for the October 5 Assembly elections in Haryana, including heavyweights like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah,…
Over two dozen labourers engaged in erecting BSNL towers and construction of an Army post got stranded near Lal Dhak in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Thursday due to snowfall…
The Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pvt Ltd (DRPPL), the firm redeveloping Asia’s largest slums, on Thursday, performed the groundbreaking ceremony (Bhoomi Poojan) of the Dharavi redevelopment project at the RPF grounds…
Karnataka Police on Thursday submitted a charge sheet naming Telugu actress Hema and 87 others in connection with a rave party at a farmhouse near Bengaluru that was busted in…
The Indian Army and the Manipur Police in a joint operation with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force recovered significant quantities of arms, ammunition and…
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stood up by junior doctors who were invited at the state secretariat for a meeting today, in an emotive speech said she was not enamoured…
Four people, including two children, died in rain-related incidents in Barmer and Dholpur districts as downpour in Rajasthan led to waterlogging in low-lying areas, officials said. Urmila Sagar Dam located…
The Congress on Thursday condoled the demise of CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury with Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi saying he was a protector of the…
A POCSO court here on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a five-year-old boy over three years ago. Government Counsel Pradeep Balyan said, “Special Judge Shrimati…
AAP MP Raghav Chadha gave a “triple engine” pitch for development while campaigning in Haryana for the Assembly elections scheduled next month. Mr Chadha said, “On one side of Haryana…
A statue of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar installed in a village of Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district was desecrated by some unknown persons, police said on Thursday. Angered over the incident,…
A team of doctors here successfully performed a complex, emergency surgery to save the life of a critically premature baby boy with Amyand’s hernia – a rare condition where the…
Prashant Kishor, the chief of the Jan Suraaj campaign, on Thursday criticised Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his alleged anit-reservation remarks, saying that he…
The Supreme Court on Thursday held the fixed tenure of an arbitral tribunal to pass an award can be extended even after the expiry of term, saying the courts must…
About seven in 10 Indians believe the government’s move to provide health coverage to all above 70, under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), will significantly…
A man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 15-year-old daughter in Sikkim’s Namchi district, police said on Thursday. The incident came to light after the girl lodged a police…
Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday condoled the passing away of CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, saying he was fierce in his determination to protect India’s diversity…
A special POCSO court here has sentenced two men to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment each in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old girl in 2019. Special Judge POCSO…
The Indian Navy and the DRDO on Thursday successfully carried out a flight test of a vertical launched short-range surface-to-air missile off the coast of Odisha. The flight test was…
Launching a stinging attack on Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi without naming him, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said there is nothing more “condemnable and despicable” than someone…
Veteran Left leader and CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury died this afternoon after battling pneumonia. The veteran leader was 72 and was admitted to Delhi’s All India Institute of…
In a booklet being distributed among BSP workers, Mayawati has claimed the 2019 alliance with the Samajwadi Party failed because Akhilesh Yadav stopped receiving her phone calls following the combine’s…
President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday condoled the demise of CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and expressed heartfelt condolences to his family and colleagues. She said Mr Yechury, a committed…
Three workers were killed and as many injured after a storage tank containing methanol exploded during welding work at a chemical factory in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Thursday, police said.…
Forty five Indians who were illegally made to join the Russian army and fight for them on the battle fronts against Ukraine have been rescued from the war zone and…
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday drew the attention of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the Water Resources portfolio, to the irrigation sector backlog in Washim…
In a fresh incident of arson in Manipur, a primary health centre (PHC) was torched by unidentified people in Jiribam district on Thursday, officials said. The incident took place in…
Mumbaikars’ traffic pains are set to lessen, thanks to a bow-string bridge connecting the Coastal Road directly to Bandra-Worli Sea Link. With this bridge, travel time from Marine Drive to…
Bollywood actress Malaika Arora’s father, Anil Kuldip Mehta, died by suicide on Wednesday, police said. According to sources, the post-mortem report has revealed that Mr Mehta died from multiple fractures…
The severed bodies of a man and his 5-year-old son were recovered from railway tracks, while his wife was found hanging in their home in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district on…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said today that there has been “some progress” with China on the boundary issue. The minister said that approximately 75 per cent of the “disengagement”…
Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav underwent angioplasty at a hospital in Mumbai, sources said on Thursday. Mr Yadav, who was admitted in Asian Heart Institute here on September…
Former Haryana Congress MLA Lalit Nagar Thursday broke down in tears on being denied a ticket for the October 5 assembly polls, saying even though he worked hard to strengthen…
The Congress stuck to its plans for the Haryana Assembly polls by not fielding any of its MPs, despite some of them harbouring such aspirations, but assuaged ambitions by giving…
The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) verdict which directed the closure of a garbage processing plant at Pune’s Baner, saying shutting it down would be…
The Manipur government has restored access to the internet via broadband connections in five valley districts, three days after it snapped mobile and broadband internet due to protests by students…
Polyglot, amiable and an eclectic conversationalist who could hold forth on film songs as much as politics, CPI-M’s fifth general secretary Sitaram Yechury was the pragmatic leader with friends across…
Seven persons were killed when an old wall adjacent to a house collapsed on Thursday due to heavy rains in Madhya Pradesh’s Datia town, an official said. The incident took…
A three-year-old boy playing near his house died after a motorcycle hit him before falling on him when its rider lost control over it in Bhiwandi area of Maharashtra’s Thane…
At least 14 people, including Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader, Sitaram Prasad were arrested by the Bihar Police for allegedly being involved in a liquor and gambling party in Nalanda district.…
Seven people, including two children, lost their lives after an old wall collapsed in the Khalkapura locality of Datia early Thursday morning. The incident occurred when the wall of a…
A married couple drowned while crossing a check dam when they were returning to their home from work in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda, police said on Thursday. The incident happened on…
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the CBI to inform it the reason behind the heavy waterlogging in Old Rajinder Nagar on July 27 when three civil services aspirants…
Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala’s son Aditya Surjewala and BJP candidate Shruti Choudhry, former chief minister Bansi Lal’s granddaughter, were among several leaders who filed nomination papers on Thursday…
Maoists hanged two men to death in a remote village in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, accusing them of being police informers, police said. The police have received information about the…
A massive political row has erupted over a video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud’s home for Ganesh Puja. A section of opposition…
The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought former probationary Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Puja Khedkar’s response on a plea by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) seeking initiation of…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said India’s aim is to unite and move forward with other nations at a time when some countries are at war with each other.…
Ajmer Sharif Dargah will prepare and distribute 4,000 kg of vegetarian “Langar” food to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 74th birthday on September 17. “In celebration of the birthday of…
Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have halted their protests after a dean of the institute, Professor Kanduru V Krishna, resigned on Wednesday. The students also claim…
India has demonstrated a largely successful inflation targeting regime compared to advanced economies such as the USA, Germany, and France, according to a research report by the State Bank of…
US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti on Wednesday highlighted the close friendship between the two nations when it comes to solving border issues, saying that “we’re always here when you…
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday released its sixth list of 19 candidates for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections. With the latest list, the party has declared its 89 candidates…
Two women were killed in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai after the compressor of a fridge exploded at a private working women’s hostel in the city around 500 km from the capital…