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Authorities in Gwalior district on Saturday banned shooting of reels, photography and videography at public places and structures of historical importance, the move coming after a video of a woman…
Delhi Police has recovered a damaged car with a human skeleton in it after the water decreased from the Munak Canal on Friday, officials said on Saturday. The matter came…
A 34-year-old woman died of electrocution on Saturday morning when she placed her foot in the rain water collected at a roadside in northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura, police said. The incident…
Four individuals, including a minor, were arrested in connection with the extortion from gym owner case, an official said. “4 members, including a juvenile in Conflict with the Law (CCL)…
CPI(M) leader Badal Shill, who was critically injured in an attack in South Tripura’s Rajnagar area, died while undergoing treatment at a hospital on Saturday, police said. The opposition CPI(M)…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the media’s natural role is to create discourse by discussing serious issues. Speaking after inaugurating INS Towers, the Indian Newspaper Society’s secretariat in…
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said India has the tradition of Hindus and Muslims working and living together in cohesion. Sen, a noted economist, was speaking at a programme…
The first World Skydiving Day saw a rare event take place in India as well, when Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat took to the skies to experience the thrilling sport…
A wedding in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia was called off, and four people, including the groom, were arrested after an argument broke out over who would sit in front of a…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched and laid the foundation stone of various projects worth more than Rs 29,400 crores in Mumbai on Saturday. PM Modi was felicitated by Chief Minister…
A woman was booked for allegedly killing a 3-year-old boy by throwing him in a pond following a quarrel with his mother in Bijnor district, police said on Saturday. Police…
As heavy rains lashed several parts of Kerala, the India Meteorological Department on Saturday issued an orange alert in three northern districts of the state for the day. The IMD…
A 14-year-old boy died in a leopard attack in Somaigaurhi village of Katarniaghat Wildlife Division of the district, officials said on Saturday. The boy Arvind Kumar was attacked by the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday emphasised that creation of eight crore new jobs in the last three to four years has “silenced” those spreading fake narratives about unemployment. Quoting…
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Saturday said that over the past 14 months, the government has been working diligently to prevent shortages of essential items. Mr Singh, who…
A woman has lodged a complaint against her husband for allegedly circulating private videos of their 18-year-old daughter on social media platforms, police said on Saturday. Following her father’s act,…
A 20-year-old, Dalit man allegedly died by suicide by setting himself on fire here after he was beaten by his employer and his associates, police said on Saturday. On July…
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana met Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who is in jail in a corruption case related to…
A 50-year-old woman was shot at by two people while she was asleep in her house in northeast Delhi on Saturday, police officials said. The woman, identified as Shakila, received…
Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol today said the Navi Mumbai International Airport is slated to commence operations in March 2025. Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu…
Uttar Pradesh police, which often shares road safety messages on its social media channels, released a video highlighting the severe consequences of filming a reel while riding a motorcycle. The…
A Raj Bhavan employee in Odisha has alleged assault by Governor Raghubar Das’s son Lalit Kumar and six others on the night of July 7. A complaint has been registered…
Internet has been snapped and large gatherings have been banned in a district in Tripura following mob violence over the death of a tribal youth. Four people have been arrested,…
Defence minister Rajnath Singh was on Saturday discharged from AIIMS here, two days after he was admitted to the hospital with complaints of back pain, an official said on Saturday.…
The Opposition INDIA alliance, which gave a tough fight to the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls, has come out on top in the by-elections to 13 Assembly seats across…
The family of Siddhant Vitthal Patil, who went missing in the USA after he took a trip to the Glacier National Park in Montana have urged the Indian government to…
India’s net direct tax collection posted a robust 19.5 per cent growth to Rs 5.74 lakh crore as on till July 11 of the current financial year (2024-25) compared to…
After the central government amended the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019 enhancing more powers of the Lieutenant Governor, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Saturday said…
Three persons were killed and 14 injured on Saturday after a bus in which they were travelling hit a truck from behind in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, police said. The accident…
With seven more deaths, the total death count in flood in Assam has mounted to 90 so far, said Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA). According to the flood reports…
Alleged false claims in the UPSC candidature, misuse of power after assuming the post, and now a complaint against her mother for threatening people with a gun – the troubles…
A 24-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur was allegedly bitten by a snake for the seventh time in 40 days. The man has been identified as Vikas Dubey. Reacting to…
Himachal Pradesh Congress leader Kamlesh Thakur defeated her nearest rival, BJP nominee Hoshyar Singh, by over 9,000 votes in the Dehra constituency. Her party colleague is also leading in the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to embark on his first visit to Mumbai since taking the oath as the Prime Minister for the third consecutive term on June 9,…
The Bombay High Court has granted parole to a man to bid farewell to his son, who is going to Australia for further studies, holding that if parole can be…
The government is considering the option of handing over operations of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) to BSNL through an agreement, instead of pursuing a merger route, a source privy…
The Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Priyank Kanoongo, has expressed concern about children’s rights, particularly of non-Muslim children in madrasas. In a post on…
A man who was involved in a murder at a Burger King outlet in Delhi was among three gangsters who were shot dead by a joint team of the Delhi…
A day before Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ lost a vote of confidence in Parliament, he gave a nod to an agreement to connect the Himalayan nation with…
An altercation between two factions of the right wing group Karni Sena led to a shootout in Rajasthan on Friday. The incident took place at upscale Chitrakoot in Jaipur. Mahipal…
Hitting out at the Congress Party over the Emergency imposed in 1975, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Kiren Rijiju said the Union government has taken a big step to observe June…
Harpreet Singh, brother of jailed radical Sikh preacher and Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh who once ran an anti-drug campaign, along with his associate Lovepreet Singh was arrested by…
The director of a school in Kalyan in Thane district was arrested in connection with the suicide of a 16-year-old student, a police official said on Friday. Class XI student…
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani attended the wedding of the youngest son of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Mr Ambani’s youngest son Anant and fiancee Radhika Merchant, both 29, got…
In his maiden visit to the Northeast after taking over as Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi reviewed the security situation along the China border in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. In…
Another MLA of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Friday joined the Congress, taking to eight the number of BRS MLAs who defected to the ruling party since the Assembly elections…
A Minister and MLA of the Naga People’s Front in Manipur tore into what he called Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s “deceit” in visiting Manipur to play politics amid the ethnic…
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a phone conversation on Friday with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan amid some indication of unease in India-US ties following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
About one in 10 women who acquire COVID-19 infection during pregnancy are likely to suffer longer from long-term COVID symptoms like fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, and feeling drained in routine life,…
In a major breakthrough, a team of Indian scientists has created a user-friendly way to generate unpredictable random numbers crucial for stronger quantum data encryption and provide robust cybersecurity, the…
After the successful implementation of the e-Office platform in Central Secretariat between 2019 and 2024, the Modi government said that it will be implementing e-Offices in all attached and subordinate…
Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has called for stepping up oil and gas hunt to cut India’s reliance on imports and making available fuel at an affordable and sustainable way.…