Women power all the way for the ruling BJP in the Rajya Sabha election for the three seats from Madhya Pradesh. BJP leader Kavita Patidar and Sumitra Valmiki filed their nominations for the Rajya...
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced steep, across-the-board tax hikes to shore up revenue as the country suffers its worst economic downturn and seeks an IMF bailout.
Russian forces control half of the east Ukraine city of Severodonetsk, a Ukrainian military official said Tuesday, as Moscow's army continues an unrelenting push deeper into the Donbas region.
An appeal was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the Gauhati High Court order upholding The Assam Repealing Act, 2020, under which all provincialised (government-funded) Madrassas are...
Former Karnataka Minister and BJP MLA KS Eshwarappa on Sunday said that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) flag would become the national flag some day and that the saffron colour had been followed...
The Health Department declared the consumption of water being supplied to residents of Westend Heights society in Gurugram, three days after around 100 people fell sick after allegedly drinking...
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday condemned the murder of Congress leader and Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala in Mansa district, a day after his security was withdrawn by the...
The Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed a plea for taking suo motu cognisance of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee's comments on the judiciary, observing that it does not find the utterances...
Janata Dal (United) has named its Jharkhand unit chief and former Member of Legislative Assembly(MLA) Khiru Mahto as the party's candidate from Bihar for Rajya Sabha elections, JD(U) national...
The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has issued summons to Maharashtra Chief Secretary Manu Kumar Srivastava, asking him to appear before it on June 1 in connection with a matter...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday said her party, the TMC, will organise protests on June 5 and 6 in various blocks, seeking an explanation from the Centre for the alleged non-payment...
Seven people, including three women, were killed and nine grievously injured when a tourist bus collided with a truck on the Bahraich-Lakhimpur highway here on Sunday, police said.
Hours after Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) passed a resolution to oppose the Uniform Civil Code, Uttar Pradesh Minority Welfare Minister Danish Azad Ansari on Sunday clarified that the UCC is not against...
The Congress has finalised the name of Vivek Tankha for the Rajya Sabha elections slated for June 10, the party's Madhya Pradesh unit chief Kamal Nath said today.
Alleging that Congress dishonoured Veer Savarkar, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that had the grand-old party "accepted what the freedom fighter used to say", the...
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today unveiled a bronze statue of late DMK President and former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi here, and hailed the Dravidian leader as one of India's most dynamic CMs...
Punjab Lok Congress chief spokesperson Pritpal Singh Balliawal on Saturday said his party chief Amarinder Singh will meet Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann soon and share a list of former alleged corrupt...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat has become the "gateway of drugs" to the country under his watch, the Congress alleged Friday, questioning the "silence" of the PM and Home...
The Texas head of public safety said Friday that in "hindsight" it was the wrong decision for police not to immediately breach the Uvalde classroom where a gunman ultimately shot dead 19 children and...
The Government of India has set a target to increase coal gasification to 100 million tonnes (MT) by 2030, V K Tiwari, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Coal, said on Friday.
A man in his 60s was found dead on Friday evening in the lift duct of his building in Thane city in Maharashtra after going missing post a marriage event late on Wednesday.
EU countries scrambled on Friday to reach a deal that would embargo seaborne deliveries of Russian oil but still allow deliveries by pipeline, a compromise to win over Hungary and unblock new...
A 30-year-old well-known social media star, who allegedly committed thefts and house break-ins to fund his lavish lifestyle, was arrested on Thursday in Mumbai, a police official said.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 52 kg of cocaine, estimated to be valued at over Rs 500 crore in the international illicit market, from an import consignment received from...
With the blame game still on between the present and former governments in Pakistan over the ongoing economic crisis in the country, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto called the ongoing bailout deal...
Drugs worth Rs 100 crore were seized in Madhya Pradesh's Itarsi town on Thursday and two traffickers were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials, according to sources.
With the Election Commission announcing the date for the bypoll to Sangrur Lok Sabha seat, political parties in Punjab have geared up for the first major election after the Aam Aadmi Party formed the...
About 200 confirmed and more than 100 suspected cases of Monkeypox have been detected so far outside of the countries where it usually spreads, a World Health Organization official said on Thursday.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai met the CEO of Ingka Group (Ikea), Jesper Brodin, at the World Economic Forum Meet, being held in Switzerland's Davos.
Maharashtra Department of Education on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Byju's Institute at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland's Davos to provide modern education to the...
West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee was on Wednesday grilled by CBI sleuths for over eight hours in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in appointments in government-run and aided...
In a first, a 12-year-old boy and his family threw a birthday party for his friends on board the Aqua Line of the Noida-Greater Noida Metro today. The NMRC in February 2020 announced offering the...
Six people including five trekkers from West Bengal were killed on Wednesday when the SUV they were travelling in fell into a gorge in Tehri district and caught fire.
Congress is set to stake a claim for a Rajya Sabha berth from Jharkhand as Chief Minister Hemant Soren is likely to meet party interim president Sonia Gandhi and hold a discussion over upper house...
Quad Summit 2022: US President Joe Biden today praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for handling the COVID pandemic "successfully", a senior Indian official said. President Biden's remarks appeared to...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gifted a wooden hand-carved box with Rogan painting to his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida during his meeting with him in Tokyo, Japan.
Authorities of the Mekhliganj school where Ankita Adhikari, the daughter of West Bengal minister of state for education Paresh Chandra Adhikari was employed as a teacher, Tuesday formally decided to...
Starbucks Close Cafes In Russia: Starbucks today it will cease operations in Russia, shuttering its 130 cafes in the country. The coffee chain, which suspended its operations in early March following...
JD(U) leader Anil Hegde was on Monday declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar in a bypoll which was necessitated by the death of a party MP.
Opposing madrassa education for children, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday that schools should impart modern education so that students have the choice to do anything in the...
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Manoj Pande who is on a two-day visit to Kashmir, visited forward areas along the Line of Control and formations in the hinterland on Sunday.
Delhi on Sunday reported 365 fresh COVID-19 cases and one more death, while the positivity rate stood at 1.97 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that reading namaz on the roads on the occasion of Eid has stopped since the BJP came to power in the state.
The unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) formally came into existence on Sunday, with IAS officers Ashwani Kumar and Gyanesh Bharti assuming charge as the new civic body's special officer and...
A magistrate's court in Maharashtra has ordered a farmer who unintentionally triggered a massive wildfire to plant 1,000 saplings and take care of them.
Australia's Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is no stranger to India, Australian High Commissioner Barry O'Farrell said after incumbent Scott Morrison conceded defeat in the election on Saturday.
The workers were buried under debris following a massive landslide after an under-construction tunnel cave-in at Khoni Nallah along the Srinagar- Jammu highway.
An airline in Saudi Arabia has completed the country's first flight with an all-female crew, officials said today, framing it as a milestone for women's empowerment in the conservative kingdom.
Congress' Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered in a court in Punjab's Patiala, 24 hours after the Supreme Court sentenced him to one year jail in a three-decade-old road rage incident in which a man was...
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced his government will launch its flagship 'Mohalla clinic' programme on August 15 with 75 such facilities being inaugurated in the first phase.
Doctors should not resort to strike as it affects the services rendered by them and the impact is grave as it may put the life of patients in jeopardy said the Delhi High Court on Friday while...
European and Asian markets took a beating Thursday after Wall Street suffered one of its worst batterings in two years over recession fears after decades-high inflation.
Standing in queues to collect ration from fair price shops is not against the right to dignity and privacy and it is "only civil" to queue up if several people land up at an outlet at the same time,...
Bollywood superstars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn have been accused of "promoting consumption of gutkha and tobacco" in a petition filed on Thursday before a court in Bihar.
Patients at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will not be charged for tests costing upto Rs 300, the premier institute announced on Thursday in a big relief to those from the...
Passenger train services between India and Bangladesh will resume from May 29, an official order said. Kolkata-Dhaka Maitree Express from Dhaka by Bangladesh Railway rake and Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan...
West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee today appeared before the CBI sleuths for questioning in connection with their probe into the SSC recruitment scam. A single bench of Justice Abhijit...
Taylor Swift, an American singer-songwriter, today received an honorary doctorate from the New York University in fine arts. Ms Swift turned up at New York's Yankee Stadium in a cap, blue gown, and a...
President Joe Biden expressed strong backing Wednesday for the bid by Finland and Sweden to join NATO in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and offered US support in the event of "aggression"...
Russia's defence spending was up nearly 40% in the first four months of the year, according to preliminary data released by the finance ministry on Wednesday, almost three months into Moscow's...
Russia will finance the reconstruction of territories in Ukraine that it has taken control of and will repair roads that link those areas with Russia, RIA quoted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat...
Flight data from a black box recovered from a China Eastern jet that crashed earlier this year indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed the jet, the Wall Street Journal
Unidentified bike-borne men allegedly shot dead a 45-year-old man at a busy intersection in Haryana's Yamunanagar on Tuesday, and robbed Rs 50 lakh from him belonging to his businessman boss, police...
Armed burglars struck at the residence of a judicial officer in Bihar, beat up his wife and daughter, and decamped with cash and other valuables worth more than Rs 3 lakh, a senior police officer said...
Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) suspended licenses of two Alliance Air pilots for one year after the plane they were operating overshot the runway in Jabalpur on March 12. DGCA said the...
Taking a dig at the RSS chief's planned visit to the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday asked the police to greet him with "sweets and fruits" while ensuring there are no...
Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Surya Kant took note of the Madhya Pradesh High Court order and said that there is nothing wrong with directing Bank of Maharashtra accept the One Time Settlement...
Large swathes of north India witnessed a marginal drop in maximum temperatures on Monday and the weather department said thunderstorms and rain in parts of the region over the next few days are likely...
A pair of mobile phones of former prime minister Imran Khan were stolen after he claimed to have made a video clip containing names of all those allegedly plotting to assassinate him, it emerged on...
Congress workers staged protests and shouted slogans against the Centre over price rise at two different venues during the visit of Union Cabinet minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani to Pune on...
The evacuation of about 2800 passengers of two trains, which were stranded in Lumding-Badarpur hill section in Assam for two days due to massive landslides and waterlogging on the tracks caused by...
Any agreements by Egypt's government to purchase Indian wheat will not be affected by an export ban announced by New Delhi, Egypt's supply minister said on Sunday.
US President Joe Biden offered a potent condemnation of racist extremism Sunday after a murderous rampage in Buffalo, and he called for citizens to end the hate that remains a "stain on the soul of...
This year's Buddha Purnima on Monday might mark a new milestone in India-Nepal relationship as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Lumbini in Nepal, the birthplace of Lord Buddha.
A passenger from Dubai was held at the airport in Amritsar for allegedly smuggling gold while an aerobridge operator was caught for conniving with him, officials said on Sunday.
The Russian missile turned Vera Kosolopenko's small home into a fiery pyre that consumed the bible and all of the other precious mementoes that she cherished of her late husband.
Searing heatwave gripped North India as temperatures crossed 45 degrees Celsius in many parts, while pockets of Delhi saw an upwards of 47 degrees Celsius, with little relief expected in the next...
In a veiled swipe at MNS chief Raj Thackeray over Hindutva, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday drew parallels between his estranged cousin and the lead character from the...
Survivors of the Mundka fire tragedy, that claimed at least 27 lives, on Saturday said smoke and narrow escape route made it difficult to evacuate everyone timely from the building.
A 17-year-old boy was killed after a container bomb found in a garbage dump exploded when he tried to open it in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday, police said.
Maharashtra Tourism Minister and Shiv Sena MLA Aaditya Thackeray will visit Ayodhya on June 15 instead of June 10 as scheduled earlier in view of the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, Sena MP Sanjay...
India has said that it is exploring options to minimise the impact on the education of Indian students in Ukrainian universities, as several of them, mostly studying at medical colleges, were worried...
Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena head Uddhav Thackeray will hold a rally here on Saturday, during which he is expected to hit back at parties like the BJP and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)...
Twenty seven people were killed in a massive fire that broke out at a four-storey building in Delhi. More than 40 people sustained burns and have been hospitalised.
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday took a veiled dig at the powerful army for allowing the Opposition's crucial no-confidence motion filed against him to become a success, saying he...
An NCP youth wing leader on Friday approached the cyber cell of Mumbai police seeking action against the BJP for uploading an alleged edited version of Sharad Pawar's recent speech in order to portray...
Russian government has put forward a law to force ride-hailing apps to share their data with FSB domestic intelligence agency. "The document prescribes the obligation of the taxi ordering service to...
More than 18.5 million children in Nigeria have no access to education, with girls accounting for more than half the number, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.
Revenue intelligence officers intercepted a consignment at Delhi air cargo complex and recovered 61.5 kilograms of smuggled gold having a market value of Rs 32.5 crore, the finance ministry said on...
RRR (Hindi) will be exclusively available on BookMyShow Stream from May 20. You can buy it Rs. 899 and rent it for Rs. 349. RRR pre-booking on BookMyShow Stream has started. RRR - in Telugu, Tamil,...
The United Nations Human Rights Council voted overwhelmingly Thursday to launch an inquiry into alleged serious violations committed by Russian troops in Ukraine, putting their conduct further under...
Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee hit back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah today on his complaint that the centre is not "getting support" from the Bengal government in its...
Google has announced an update to its multisearch feature that allows users to click an image of a product or object and perform a search with additional text. In the coming months, users will be able...
A Maharashtra government doctor in Nagpur was duped of Rs 11.12 lakh by three men under the pretext of helping him buy a new SUV at a cheap rate, police said on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka's ex Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family have taken shelter at a naval base as lethal protests continue amid the country's worst ever economic crisis. Public Emergency was...
The 22-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday from Dhankot village inGurugram for allegedly setting a woman on fire, two days before her marriage, police said.
A day after a rocket-propelled grenade or RPG was fired at its intelligence wing headquarters in Mohali, the Punjab Police on Tuesday said it has recovered the launcher used in the attack and that a...
A 24-year-old woman was set on fire on Monday -- two days before her wedding -- allegedly by a jilted lover in Farrukhnagar, a municipality in Gurugram, police said.
The battery of an electric two-wheeler exploded while it was being charged in Ramadugu mandal in Karimnagar district here, though no one was injured in the incident, police said on Monday.
At least 11 fishermen from Odisha, who were stranded for around eight hours in the rough sea due to the raging severe cyclone Asani, were rescued on Monday with help of the Indian Coast Guard, an...
A 44-year-old property dealer was killed in a street fight after he was attacked by his neighbour over his urinating in front of his house, police on Monday said.
A 65-year old man was detained by police on Sunday on the charge of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in the Fulbari area of Siliguri city three months ago, an officer said.
Eight people, including six women, died and 20 others were injured in a collision involving a lorry and a mini truck in Telangana's Kamareddy districton Sunday evening.
A man in Ujjain has submitted a complaint to the police over the theft of his slippers saying he won't be responsible if someone places them at a crime scene.
Cyclone Asani, formed over southeast Bay of Bengal, further intensified into a severe cyclonic storm this evening as it moved north-westwards in the direction of north Andhra Pradesh-Odisha coasts.
The United States will sanction three major Russian television stations, and deny all Russian companies access to consulting and accounting services offered by US firms, according to a statement...
A petition has been filed in the Allahabad High Court, seeking a fact-finding inquiry into the "history" of the Taj Mahal, and also opening of the doors of its "22 rooms" to see "the truth, whatever...
A total of 24 students of the city-based National Institute of Design (NID) have tested positive for COVID-19 in three days, with 16 cases being reported on Sunday alone, officials said.
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a plea by a former Uttar Pradesh minister to quash an FIR, lodged against him for allegedly running his meat processing business in Meerut without a valid...
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that he cannot afford to lose in Ukraine and is "doubling down" on the war, but shows no signs of planning to use tactical nuclear weapons, CIA director Bill...
A teenager was raped and murdered after she was allegedly kidnapped by two men from Matwari Bhuiyan Toli in Hazaribag district, a senior police officer said on Saturday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to present the President's Colour award to Assam Police on May 10 here for its exemplary service during the last 25 years, a senior police official said on...
US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said on Saturday that Beijing is closely monitoring Russia's conflict in Ukraine and that it is affecting China's calculations over Taiwan.
A 58-year-old advocate allegedly thrashed a woman litigant in full public view outside a courtroom in Beohari area of Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, after which the former was booked, a police...
Amidst several discussions in Afghanistan over the Taliban decree banning secondary schools for girls, the Nimroz education department has agreed to reinstate female teachers in the school.
The two persons arrested for the murder of a Hindu man allegedly over his interfaith marriage have been sent to judicial remand even as Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Friday sought a...
The Andhra Pradesh government has asked the Centre on why the state cannot name a legislation after Disha, a victim of gang-rape and murder in Hyderabad.
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Thursday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has apologised for remarks made by Moscow's top diplomat, Sergei Lavrov, who claimed Adolf Hitler may have had...
AAP alleged that BJP was behind the clashes between two groups in Punjab's Patiala district, claiming that the special investigation team (SIT) set up by the Bhagwant Mann government will soon come up...
Ahead of its 'Chintan Shivir' in Rajasthan's Udaipur, the Congress' top decision-making body CWC will meet at the AICC headquarters in Delhi on May 9 to deliberate on the agenda for the brainstorming...
Delhi reported 1,354 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 7.64 per cent and one fatality due to the disease on Wednesday, according to data shared by the city health department.
The Gurugram police has arrested seven people for allegedly beating to death a 22-year-old auto-rickshaw driver over a monetary dispute between the driver's brother and one of the arrested accused.
A 23-year-old woman from Delhi, who was doing her internship with a hospital, immolated herself at a park here on Wednesday, with officials saying it is suspected that she was battling a mental health...
Against the backdrop of the language controversy in some parts of the country, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said that a language should neither be imposed nor opposed.
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his comment on cheap internet saying that data alone do not suffice people's needs.
A case has been registered against six people, including a station house office (SHO) for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur district.
No Indian woman can "share her husband" with anyone else and stay sane in such a case, the Allahabad High Court has observed, dismissing an appeal for discharge of a polygamous man, accused of...
Three labourers died in a blast in an under-maintenance ammonia tank at a Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd (ZACL) plant in the port town of Vasco, South Goa on Tuesday, a state cabinet minister said.
Gujarat independent MLA Jignesh Mevani on Tuesday arrived in Ahmedabad after being in jail in Assam for nine days and alleged that he was incarcerated at the behest of the Assam government's...
Members of the Indian community raised '2024, Modi once more' slogan as they waited for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address at the community event in Berlin on Monday.
India has ended the politically unstable atmosphere of the last three decades by pressing a button, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday while interacting with the Indian diaspora at Potsdamer...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the partnership between India and Germany could serve as an example of success in a complex world as the two sides inked several agreements.
Eid-ul-Fitr marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims across the world. The festival falls on the first day of Shawwal in the Islamic calendar, which does not correspond to a specific...
A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly pushing a woman who had resisted his molestation bid out of a moving train between Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district and Mahoba in...
Speaking during an interaction organised by Marathi daily 'Loksatta', Uddhav Thackeray accused the BJP of deceiving Bal Thackeray during the latter's lifetime when the two parties were still partners.
The average air quality index (AQI) in Delhi in April this year was 256, the worst for the month since 2016, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data.
A 17-year old student died following a fight with three of his schoolmates over one of the trio wearing a wrist band, seen as a caste marker, and two teachers have been suspended, police said here on...