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Junior doctors on Thursday continued their sit-in outside the West Bengal Health Department’s office as well as their ‘cease work’ over the alleged rape and murder of a young medic…
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has held wide-ranging talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in St Petersburg and discussed important issues of “mutual interests” amid fresh calls for India’s…
The Centre on Wednesday approved health coverage for all senior citizens aged 70 and above under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) scheme. This decision will…
In what could raise troubles for senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought a report from the Punjab Police’s Special Investigation Team…
A woman was allegedly duped of Rs 1.46 lakh by a person she befriended on a social media platform in a customs fraud case, officials said on Wednesday. The woman…
The US has decided to sell High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare (HAASW) sonobuoys worth USD 52.8 million to India, a move that would enhance New Delhi’s capacity to conduct anti-submarine warfare…
The Congress late Wednesday night released a list of five candidates for the Haryana Assembly elections. Earlier in the day, the party announced its candidates for 40 seats. The party…
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh over the alleged encounters state, saying a “pattern has been set”. In a…
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh over the alleged encounters state, saying a “pattern has been set”. In a…
The Madhya Pradesh government has signed a five-year agreement with the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to manage and run the state’s cooperative dairy federation and its associated milk unions.…
The ruling BJP late Wednesday released its third and final list of candidates for the Haryana polls as it denied ticket to its senior leader Ram Bilas Sharma from Mahendragarh.…
Ford Motor held talks with Tamil Nadu to explore producing vehicles for export, chief minister MK Stalin said, potentially signalling that the US carmaker could restart production in India after…
Wrestler-turned-politician and Congress candidate for Haryana Assembly polls Vinesh Phogat filed her nomination from the Julana seat on Wednesday and appealed to people for their support so that her party…
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday announced five guarantees for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, including five lakh interest-free loan for women entrepreneurs and Rs 25 lakh health insurance…
Amid deepening schisms within the ruling BJP in Haryana over poll ticket distribution, party leader Karan Dev Kamboj on Wednesday indicated that the rebellion could have been prevented had Chief…
The Union government has approved health coverage to everyone who is 70 and above under the national insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…
After trying and failing to impose their will on a fellow student, some students from a private university in Himachal Pradesh kept him confined to a room for the entire…
A 26-year-old software engineer was arrested from Bengaluru for allegedly misappropriating cryptocurrency worth Rs 56 crore from a city-based firm where he had worked previously, police said on Wednesday. The…
As 24-year-old Shruti was barely coming to grips with the loss of her entire family in the recent catastrophic landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad district, she suffered another devastating blow as…
Three people attending a birthday party at a house here were booked for allegedly consuming ganja, police said on Wednesday. Based on information, police teams raided the apartment at around…
The Congress-Aam Aadmi Party alliance in Haryana has also gone south, the way it did in Punjab. On Monday, Aam Aadmi Party released its first list of 20 candidates, putting…
Israel is “anticipating” the arrival of over 1,000 Indian construction workers soon after it expressed “satisfaction” with the workers who arrived under the bilateral agreements between our two countries. An…
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal of the Department of Rural Development for implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana-IV during financial year 2024-25 to 2028-29. The…
The BJP is looking to get a third consecutive victory in the Haryana Assembly polls, which will be held on October 1, while a resurgent Congress is hoping to oust…
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, which failed to win a single seat in Haryana in the last state election and ended up with 1 per cent votes, hopes to play…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has nominated former professional wrestler Kavita Dalal to contest the Julana Assembly seat in Haryana’s Jind, facing off against Congress’ Vinesh Phogat and BJP’s Captain…
An explosion occurred at a house here on Wednesday evening, said police sources. Following the explosion, a team of the bomb detection squad was called in to collect the samples,…
The Kejriwal government is pulling out all the stops to combat stubble burning in the national capital. The government has launched preparations for free bio-decomposer spraying across 5,000 acres of…
Police in Maharashtra’s Palghar district have arrested two people for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl, an official said on Wednesday. The accused offered some allurement to the minor and took…
A woman doctor was attacked by a patient at Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad here on Wednesday. The incident occurred in the casualty ward when a patient, who was intoxicated, tried…
Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid walked out of Tihar Jail on Wednesday, a day after a court here granted him interim bail till October 2 in a terror funding case so…
Fifteen nurses received an award from President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday for their outstanding commitment to duty and service to the community. At a function held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan,…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday announced 40-star campaigners for Haryana Assembly Elections. The list includes the names of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife, Sunita Kejriwal, Punjab Chief…
With West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dismissing allegations that she had offered money to the RG Kar doctor’s family after the rape-murder incident, the victim’s father on Wednesday said…
Reacting to statements made by other Ministers about replacing him from the Chief Minister’s chair in Karnataka, Siddaramaiah asserted on Wednesday that he will continue as the Chief Minister. “When…
A 77-year-old German national of Indian origin, who was arrested in connection with the alleged recovery of illegal contraband from the IGI airport, died during treatment at West Delhi’s Deen…
A school student brought a machete to class on Wednesday by hiding it inside his bag, a teacher stumbled upon it and an enquiry revealed that the boy had a…
Seven people, including three minors, have been detained for allegedly damaging a Ganesh idol at a pandal and putting their religious flag atop a nearby temple in Gujarat’s Kutch district,…
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has attached fresh assets worth Rs 29.75 crore of fugitive diamond trader Nirav Modi under the anti-money laundering law. A provisional order has…
A man allegedly shot dead his elder brother after an argument over a petty issue involving a tractor in a village in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, a police official…
Health officials in Maharashtra’s Latur district have ordered a probe after a man alleged that a piece of gauze was left inside his wife’s abdomen when she underwent a C-section…
A medical doctor from Navi Mumbai has been defrauded of Rs 26.52 lakh by a cyber gang that threatened to implicate him in a fictitious crime involving money laundering and…
The Patna High Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentences of four accused, involved in the 2013 serial blasts case, to life imprisonment. The blasts took place at Patna’s Gandhi…
Eight men have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar after they allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint two women who work as dancers at music shows, police have said. The accused, police…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday flayed Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in the US and said it is “extremely shameful” that the Leader of Opposition is hurting the dignity…
A man along with his wife and three-year-old son were killed after being hit by a passenger train here while recording a video on the tracks on Wednesday morning, police…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) released a list of 21 candidates for the Haryana Assembly polls on Wednesday, fielding Kavita Dalal from Julana against the Congress’s Vinesh Phogat and BJP’s…
Police have filed a case against five members of a family on charges of sexual harassment and causing hurt to a woman at Puranpur police station of Pilibhit district. The…
In an incident that is more in sync with medieval times than the 21st century, a man put his wife – a mother of three young children – at stake…
A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to AAP leader Durgesh Pathak in a corruption case related to the alleged excise scam. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja also extended the judicial…
An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the upper reaches of Basantgarh in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. The gunfight took place…
Senior BJP leader Agnimitra Paul was greeted with “go back” slogans by agitating junior doctors on Wednesday when she was seen near the site where they were holding a sit-in…
Four fishermen from Seruthur village in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu were injured when a Sri Lankan Naval ship allegedly rammed into their fishing boat, officials said. The fishing boat…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the United States on India’s democracy, border dispute with China and issues related to minorities have prompted Union Minister Kiren Rijiju to counter the…
The burglary alarm at a bank in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi went off late last night, sparking panic and drawing a large posse of police personnel. On searching the bank, however,…
A “meticulously restored” railway coach from the bygone era, symbolising Mahatma Gandhi’s famous train journeys that were instrumental in his mission to unite the nation during the freedom struggle, was…
A 40-year-old man was killed by a tiger in the Maheshpur range of the South Kheri forest division in this Uttar Pradesh district on Wednesday, marking the second such fatality…
The lives of over a dozen farmers in Gowari village in Maharashtra have been transformed. Thanks to a cement nala bund built by the Adani Foundation and ACC, a cement…
A Delhi court on Wednesday extended till September 25 the judicial custody of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam. Mr Kejriwal was produced…
BJP leaders have severely criticized Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi following his meeting with US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in the United States. BJP IT Cell…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the resilience of supply chains is critical for the economy as he made a pitch to boost investments in domestic manufacturing of semiconductors…
Driven by the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, Apple has reached around $5 billion in iPhone exports from India in the April-August period this fiscal. According to industry data, this is…
As the nation celebrates the Digvijay Diwas, honouring the legacy of Swami Vivekanand and commemorating his historic speech in Chicago, here is a throwback on how his historic address, 131…
After meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the SEMICON India 2024 Summit, Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron, appreciated PM Modi’s vision of developing semiconductors in India and said policies…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed penalties totalling Rs 2.91 crore on Axis Bank and HDFC Bank for certain deficiencies in statutory and regulatory compliance. In a statement…
Congress MP from Inner Manipur A Bimol Akoijam has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, expressing deep anguish over the “unprecedented violent crisis” in Manipur and calling for “corrective…
A painting by noted artist Sayed Haider Raza, valued at more than Rs 2.5 crore, has allegedly been stolen from a warehouse in south Mumbai, police said on Wednesday. The…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing allegations of financial irregularities at the state-run R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has traced ‘questionable’ properties purchased by the controversial former principal…
Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi police and Labour Enforcement Department personnel on Tuesday raided Samajwadi Party MLA Zahid Beg’s house here and rescued a 14-year-old girl engaged in child labour, officials said.…
A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was injured when Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing on Indian posts in violation of a ceasefire agreement along the border here on Wednesday,…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington DC, said that our party was politically forced to take up the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Nyay…
The Manipur Police have strongly reacted to what they called “immature” comments by the former Assam Rifles chief, who indicated the state force could be partisan amid the ethnic tension…
The prospects of senior leader Eknath Khadse’s return to the BJP appeared dim on Tuesday after he stated that he was never keen to join the party again, and also…
The Aam Aadmi Party late Tuesday released its third list of 11 candidates for the Haryana assembly polls. Earlier in the day, the party released its second list of nine…
Police have arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl residing in his neighbourhood in a village in North Goa, an official said on Tuesday. A senior police…
BJP leader Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday refused to take up the responsibility as “communication chief with the Election Commission of India for Maharashtra assembly polls”, stating that he should have…
A 24-year-old ward boy allegedly sexually harassed a female patient undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhiwandi town of Thane district, police said on Tuesday. The ward boy working…
A group of Congress leaders have written to Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to warn party leaders and state ministers, who are weighing in for…
Israel is planning a major investment in India in the semiconductor sector, its envoy said today, calling the development a “big news”. “Israel will soon invest in the semiconductor industry…
SpiceJet said on Tuesday that Carlyle Group’s commercial aviation investment and servicing unit will write off $40.2 million of the airline’s lease arrears and convert $30 million of its arrears…
The students at IIT Guwahati campus continued their protests on Tuesday, boycotting classes for the second straight day over the alleged suicide by a student on Sunday night. Thousands of…
The United Aarb Emirates or UAE has inked an agreement with India that provides a framework for giving services for operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants in the emirate.…
A 13-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and molested by a property dealer in Delhi’s Nihal Vihar area, officials said on Tuesday. The accused identified as Safaraz is a resident of…
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Left government in the state saying its inaction on the Justice Hema Committee report was “alarmingly lethargic”. A special division bench…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today held wide-ranging discussions with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock and took stock of the India-Germany Strategic Partnership, covering areas such as trade, defence and…
RSS Sarsanghchalak (chief) Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said that if women are given freedom they can help everyone grow, as they work for the good of the society. “Works that…
The West Bengal Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to a proposal to set up five more special POCSO courts in the state, taking the total number of such courts…
Looking to defend the Communist Party of India (Marxist) bastion of Kulgam, which he has won since 1996, Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami is now facing a very different challenge in the…
In a relief for Shashi Tharoor, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed proceedings before a trial court in a defamation case lodged against the Congress MP for his alleged “scorpion…
The Bengal government has written to the junior doctors protesting against the rape-murder of a colleague, asking them to participate in a discussion. The email came as the doctors marched…
In another case of a huge online trading scam, a woman has been accused of duping Rs 100 crores of at least 8,000 villagers in Assam’s Baksa district, police said…
Former Maharashtra home minister and NCP (SP) leader Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday alleged Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was trying to get him arrested with the help of central agencies.…
A constable posted with the Uttar Pradesh Police has been booked for allegedly raping a married woman and threatening her of making the video of the act viral in northeast…
A court here sentenced a man to 20 years in jail for raping a minor girl in Haryana’s Sohna, police said on Tuesday. The court of Additional Session Judge Ashwani…
Motorists using private vehicles with a functional global navigation satellite system (GNSS) will be allowed to travel toll-free on highways and expressways up to 20 kilometres daily with effect from…
“Oye…Oye…Oye…,” shout policemen as scores of men, like bees to honey, swarm a spot and try to run away with liquor bottles laid out on the ground to be destroyed,…
An outsourced employee of the forest department was mauled to death by a leopard in Chhota Udepur district of Gujarat, officials said on Tuesday. The attack occurred at Pavi Jetpur…
The CBI has arrested a Deputy Commissioner of the Customs, two of his colleagues along with others for alleged bribery to issue customs clearance for import consignments here, officials said…
A 16-year-old girl was shot at by a minor boy inside the classroom of a private coaching centre in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Tuesday, police said. The injured girl was…
The mpox patient admitted to the LNJP Hospital here is in stable condition, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said on Tuesday. Mr Bharadwaj conducted a surprise inspection at the hospital…