Category: India

The Aam Aadmi Party and the Jannayak Janata Party made it clear on Thursday they were not in talks for a pre-poll alliance in Haryana. Speaking at Fatehabad, senior AAP…

A day after a video of a woman in torn clothes alleging she was raped became widely circulated on social media, police on Thursday said she was mentally challenged and…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Poland, paid tribute to Jam Saheb of Nawanagar Memorial in Warsaw. The Prime Minister highlighted the humanitarian contribution of…

A man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in Kamptee area near here, police said on Thursday. The alleged incident, which took place on August 20,…

The announcement of poll schedules for the assembly elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir has generated considerable interest among voters and poll watchers alike. The Election Commission of India…

The Assam government on Thursday said over 47,900 foreigners have been detected in the state from 1971 to 2014, out of which more than 43 per cent are Hindus. In…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his landmark visit to Poland, called upon Polish companies to join the ‘Make in India, Make for the World’ initiative. He visited Poland to hold…

The Aam Aadmi Party today launched the “Kejriwal Aayenge” in the run-up to the assembly polls in Delhi next year. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is lodged in Tihar jail…

A man was arrested under the POCSO Act for allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-and-half-year-old girl in Latur, a police official said on Thursday. The incident took place last week in…

AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Thursday hailed the Allahabad High Court order that stayed the execution of the sentence awarded to him by a Sultanpur court in a 2001 protest…

The Delhi High Court today referred a dispute between BharatPe, an online money transaction platform, and its former managing director Ashneer Grover to a sole arbitrator. In its plea filed…

Resident doctors at Delhi’s AIIMS hospital have called off a nearly two week-long strike and protests over the rape and murder of a colleague at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital earlier…

For the first time in at least two decades, more Indians are leaving Sweden than moving in, data show. While the number of Indians migrating to Sweden has time and…

Six people lost their lives, and another 22 were injured after a private bus travelling from Leh to Eastern Ladakh fell into a 200-metre-deep gorge, said police officials. As soon…

Four years after switching over to the Rashtriya Janata Dal, former Bihar minister Shyam Rajak claimed he felt “cheated” and decided to quit the party. The ex-minister switched over from…

The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on GST for rate rationalisation met for the first time on Thursday. West Bengal finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya says she has put in a…

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud today corrected himself on the pronunciation of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and said he had been pronouncing “Kar” as “Kaar” and Supreme…

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge today expressed willingness to forge an alliance with other opposition parties for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls and termed BJP’s promises to the people…

The Sri Lankan government has announced visa-free access for citizens of 35 countries, including India, for six months. The Cabinet made the decision and will come into effect from October…

A CISF personnel saved the life of a Srinagar-bound passenger who collapsed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport by promptly performing a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure on him, a spokesperson…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday underlined the need for dialogue and diplomacy to resolve disputes between nations – with specific reference to Russia’s war on Ukraine and military tension…

The Bombay High Court made strong observations Thursday as it took suo moto cognisance of a plea regarding the sexual assault of two children last week at a school in…

The body of the trainee pilot who was on board the two-seater aircraft that went missing after taking off from Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur was found in the Chandil dam on Thursday,…

The insolvency of education technology company Byju’s threatens to be the biggest upset in a celebrated startup sector, unleashing a long battle by thousands of panic-stricken employees to recover dues…

An internal committee of the Income Tax Department will review the 1961 direct tax law to eliminate redundant clauses as well as adopt best global practices to simplify it for…

Speaking at the Indian Diaspora event in Warsaw on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the significance of digital transactions by drawing a comparison, noting that the daily volume of…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral ties. PM Modi arrived in Poland on Wednesday on the first leg of…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Poland and Ukraine extends the geopolitical scope of India’s foreign policy. No Indian Prime Minister has visited Poland for the last 45 years. In…

Pitching for laws that mandate convictions in sexual assault cases within 50 days, senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee today said that while protests were underway over the rape and murder…

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap, who is an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, would be heard together with a separate…

The auto and taxi associations in Delhi-NCR are on a two-day strike starting August 22. The strike, which comes on the heels of the Bharat Bandh observed across the country…

Parliament’s Joint Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill met in Delhi for the first time today where officials from the minority affairs and law ministries are briefing them about the…

The Supreme Court today said it would soon constitute a multi-member committee to amicably resolve the grievances of farmers “for all times”. A bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar…

Khadi is a handspun and hand-woven cotton cloth that originated in India and is considered an important national icon of the country’s freedom struggle. Sonia Gandhi accused the Modi government…

The CBI today submitted its status report to the Supreme Court on the progress of the investigation into the rape and murder of a woman doctor in state-run RG Kar…

The Bombay High Court has taken cognisance of the alleged sexual assault of two four-year-old girls at a school in Badlapur near Mumbai. The case has sparked massive protests across…

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge arrived in Srinagar on Wednesday on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to take stock of…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that India and Poland have agreed on social security agreement. He stated that partnership between two nations has been strengthening in areas like new…

Following the incident of sexual abuse at a school in Badlapur, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday issued a directive to all the schools in the state to install CCTV cameras…

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that he will be visiting Washington and looks forward to meeting his US counterpart Lloyd Austin. Mr Singh said that he will discuss…

The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday issued an Office Memorandum on the National Task Force, formed by the Supreme Court for the medical professionals’ safety. The panel will be headed…

Jamsaheb Shatrusalyasinhji Jadeja, scion of the Jamnagar royal family, on Wednesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for interacting with his extended family in Poland and paying tribute at the Jamsaheb…

As many as 10 people have died and more than 34,000 have been displaced amid a worsening disaster situation in Tripura on Wednesday, officials have said. Over 34,000 people belonging…

In a late-night development, the West Bengal Health Department on Wednesday announced the transfer of three top officials of state-run R.G Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, including its…

The pilgrimage to holy shrine of Amarnath was successfully completed and a record number of more than 5.12 lakh pilgrims visited it, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday.…

The MSP Guarantee Kisan Morcha (MSP GKM) Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, urging them to push for the enactment of a…

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Wednesday paid a visit to the residence of the woman doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and…

A 68-year-old man died in his car in a traffic jam on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, police said on Wednesday. Rajender Singh, a native of Bhiwadi in Rajasthan, was alone in…

The UPSC on Wednesday opposed in the Delhi High Court an anticipatory bail plea by former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota…

Days after the sexual assault of two kindergarten girls at a school in Maharashtra’s Badlapur, the house of the accused was vandalised this evening. Visuals showed a broken ceiling fan…

The US on Wednesday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ukraine on August 23 as “important” that comes around six weeks after his trip to Moscow. Richard R Verma,…

A 22-year-old woman died of wounds after she jumped from a coaching centre building near the Aeroplane crossing in Prayagraj allegedly after a fight with her purported boyfriend, police on…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said humanity and compassion are vital foundations of a “just and peaceful world” as he paid homage at the ‘Good Maharaja Square,’ a monument…

A 34-year-old woman was harassed by a man on a skywalk in Kurla area, police said on Wednesday. The accused, who was beaten up after the incident by some passersby,…

The Centre on Wednesday accorded the highest category of armed VIP security cover — Z plus — to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) chief Sharad Pawar, official sources said. The Union…

The Kerala Health Department on Wednesday announced that the Nipah outbreak in Malappuram district has been successfully contained. In a statement, it said that the restrictions imposed in the area…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Poland – the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country in 45 years. PM Modi landed in Warsaw this evening…

Kerala police have issued a notice to Google to remove apps from its Playstore that are selling fake lotteries online in the name of the lottery run by the state.…

An Indian-origin woman attending an Albanian music festival was racially targeted by a group of girls. A video circulating on X shows a visibly frustrated Dr. Pranoti Kshirsagar sharing her…

As Poland rolled out the red carpet for Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, hundreds of ‘Indian Poles’ are commemorating a historic facet of India-Poland relations which has been the bedrock…

E-commerce has been a key driver of employment generation in India and online vendors have likely generated 15.8 million (almost 1.6 crore) jobs in the country that includes about 3.5…

Internet services at Badlapur in Maharashtra’s Thane district were suspended on Wednesday a day after a massive protest over the alleged sexual abuse of two kindergarten girls, and 72 persons…

The Special Intelligence Bureau had not taken permission to tap phones of selected people, a Telangana home department official has said in an affidavit filed in the phone tapping case.…

Former Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren said he would not quit politics, asserting that an option to float a new political outfit was always open to him. The development comes…

India is likely to begin conducting a long-delayed population census in September, two government sources told news agency Reuters. India’s once-a-decade census was due to be completed in 2021 but…

As political controversy continues over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, senior BJP leader and former Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, said the Bill is the need of…

India’s economy is projected to grow to $55 trillion by 2047 if the country is able to register an average real growth rate of 8 per cent in the coming…

The Indian stock market outperformed the world’s richest investor Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway in terms of return in the last 25 years, an AMC company report said. Helios, an…

An emergency room in a hospital in Bihar with no electricity and a man on a bed with burn injuries being treated under torchlight were the elements of a picture…

Former Law Minister Veerappa Moily has called for the creation of a central statutory body or authority to oversee ‘lateral entry‘ recruitment into the higher ranks of the civil services,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on being rated “A+” for the second consecutive time in the ‘Global Finance Central Banker Report Cards…

Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has questioned the Opposition objections to lateral entry, saying it was present even during the time of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. And he…

A reactor exploded in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalle district, injuring over 18 people. The explosion took place at the Achutapuram Special Economic Zone. The explosion occurred at the Escientia Company, a…

An Indian Air Force fighter jet “inadvertently” released an “air store” today at the Pokhran Firing Range in Rajasthan. The Air Force said no injuries have been reported and a…

JNU Vice-Chancellor Santishree D Pandit on Wednesday met the students protesting against the university’s alleged unresponsive attitude to their various demands, including increasing scholarship amounts, and urged them to end…

A 71-year-old man died on Wednesday allegedly because there was no one to give him CPR at a hospital in Ramban district, an official said. Ghulam Nabi Bhat, who was…

A key meeting between the Uttar Pradesh government and the BJP’s ideologcal mentor RSS will be held this evening at the house of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

An Indian astronaut will fly to the International Space Station by April next year as part of the NASA-ISRO collaborative initiative, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said today. Two…

In August last year, India became the first country to soft land a spacecraft near the South Pole of the Moon. A nail-biting 20 minutes of “terror” consumed most of…

Chandipura virus has claimed the lives of 28 children under the age of 14 in Gujarat since the first case was reported in July, the state legislative assembly was informed…

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led demand for data centres in India is projected to drive about 500 MW of capacity addition over next four years, according to a report released by Avendus…

As many as 151 sitting MPs and MLAs have declared cases related to crimes against women in their election affidavits, with West Bengal having the highest number of lawmakers facing…

Two days ahead of his crucial visit to Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he was looking forward to sharing perspectives with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on a…

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday claimed that the protest at Badlapur in Thane district over the alleged sexual abuse of two kindergarten girls was politically motivated and aimed…

The aunt of the minor girl, who was allegedly raped by former block head Nawab Singh Yadav at a private college here, has been arrested, police said on Wednesday. According…

The Badlapur school, where two young girls were allegedly sexually abused, preferred to cover up the crime instead of helping their parents file a police complaint, said Susieben Shah, chairperson…

Air India has launched its new ‘VISTA’ wireless in-flight entertainment (IFE) service across the existing wide-body fleet, except the newly inducted B777 and the A350 aircraft. Powered by Bluebox Aviation,…

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought the police’s reply on the pleas filed by Mihir Shah, the main accused in the BMW hit-and-run case, and his driver Rajrishi Bidawat,…

The district administration in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore has invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against a miscreant arrested for publicly beating a 22-year-old tribal man and forcing him to…

Senior IAS officer Govind Mohan on Thursday will take charge as the new Union Home Secretary from Ajay Kumar Bhalla, who completes his five year tenure at the sensitive post,…

A school teacher in Maharashtra’s Akola district has been arrested for molesting six girl students and exposing them to obscene videos, police said. The accused, Pramod Manohar Sardar, who taught…

In a replay of the pigeon scene from web series Panchayat, a pigeon released by a senior police officer at an Independence Day event in Chhattisgarh’s Mungeli dropped to the…

The Kerala High Court has come to the aid of a childless couple where the husband is critically ill, by permitting extraction of his gametes and cryopreserving them for use…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of several students from reserved categories who had been denied admission to MBBS courses under the Unreserved Category Government School (UR-GS) quota…

A bandh to protest the Supreme Court’s ‘quota within a quota’ decision about quota in state government jobs and colleges for SC and ST candidates was held in parts of…

A new report reveals that 72 per cent of employers across India intend to hire freshers in the latter half of 2024. This upward trend in hiring intent is based…

A man from Tripura’s Sepahijala district returned home after spending 37 years in Bangladesh jails. Shahjahan returned to India through the Srimantapur land customs station with the assistance of BSF…