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A digital show was going on at the pandal and 300-400 people were inside it when the fire broke out on Sunday night. The pandal was reduced to ashes, they said.

"Deeply saddened by the tragedy at the football stadium in #kanjuruhan #Malang. Extend my condolences to the bereaved families and to our Indonesian friends. Wish the injured a speedy recovery," Jaishankar tweeted.

"This yatra is like a river that will flow from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. This journey will not stop due to heat, storm, rain or cold. In this river, you will not see any hatred or violence. The river will showcase love and brotherhood."

"We condemn the hate crime at the Shri Bhagvad Gita Park in Brampton. We urge Canadian authorities and Peel Police to investigate and take prompt action on the perpetrators," High Commission of India in Ottawa said in a tweet.

Guwahati: The second T20I between India and South Africa had to be stopped after a snake invaded the cricket field, however, the match was resumed after a couple of minutes. While there were expectations of rain during the match, it was the snake who took the all highlights in the seventh over of India’s innings […]

Gurugram: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has been shifted to the Intensive Care Unit-(ICU) of Medanta Hospital here after his health condition deteriorated, reports said on Sunday. The 82-year-old former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has been undergoing treatment at the Medanta Hospital for several days. However, he was shifted to the ICU after his […]

Bengaluru: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have joined hands with AIIMS Rishikesh to create an algorithm that can help decipher brain scans and identify the occurrence and type of epilepsy. The development has the potential to do away with the current practice of manual evaluation of Electroencephalogram (EEG) which can be often […]

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde‘s security cover was tightened after specific inputs indicating threats to his life through a mystery phone call on Sunday. The Home Department, handled by Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has also ordered a probe with efforts on to trace the call and the unknown caller. Simultaneously, security at Shinde’s […]

Hyderabad: A major conspiracy to carryout terror attacks in the city at the behest of Pakistan intelligence agency ISI was foiled by the Hyderabad police and three persons who were allegedly involved in the case were arrested by the police on Sunday. The police seized four hand grenades, Rs. 5, 41,800 cash and a motorcycle […]

Hyderabad: A video of a man trying to kiss a King cobra on the head but instead getting bit on the lip is insanely going viral on the internet. According to media reports, the man is a snake rescuer from Karnataka. In the video, the man is seen trying to kiss the snake after rescuing […]

Chandigarh: Deepak Tinu, an accused in the killing of famed Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala and a close aide of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, escaped from the custody of the Crime Investigations Agency (CIA) of Punjab Police in a dramatic way. It is learnt that Tinu, who was charge sheeted in the Moosewala murder case, was […]

Hyderabad: In a development that exposes large scale corruption in state owned entities under the Indian Railways, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed that that Oracle Corporation paid a bribe of more than US$400,000 to officials from a company owned by the Indian Ministry of Railways in 2019. The revelation came […]

Chikkaballapur(Karnataka): A 14-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly tied to a pole and badly beaten in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka on Thursday, the police said on Saturday. The police said that the accused thrashed the victim after suspecting him of having committed theft. According to the police, the boy was allegedly assaulted by a group […]

On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, on Sunday raised the issue of assassination of the father of the nation, and said the battle of ideologies continues and exhorted people to join him in this.

New Delhi: India and Taiwan are threatened by “authoritarianism” and it is high time for both sides to engage in “strategic collaboration”, Taipei’s de-facto Ambassador Baushuan Ger said on Sunday while referring to China’s aggressive behaviour in the region. In an interview to PTI, Ger said Taiwan and India need to join hands to “fend […]

India has reported 3,375 fresh Covid-19 cases and 18 deaths in the last 24 hrs, Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.

PM Modi on this occasion also shared glimpses of Shastri's gallery in the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya in Delhi and urged the people to visit the museum.

The first skin bank in Uttar Pradesh will soon come up at the King George's Medical University and will aid in the speedy recovery of burns' patients.

After suffering poll defeats in successive elections, the Congress today has been reduced to having its own government in only two states -- Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

For the last two years the people of Kolkata were unable to enjoy the states biggest festival of Durga Puja to the fullest due to the pandemic and the host of restrictions on pandal hopping imposed by the Calcutta High Court.

At least 26 people were killed while several injured after a tractor-trolley carrying devotees overturned and fell into a pond near a village in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district on Saturday evening.

As per the latest guidelines of the UGC, a student can pursue two full time academic programmes in the physical mode or one in physical mode and another in Open and Distance Learning/Online mode or up to two online programmes simultaneously.

Hyderabad: Protests against the Centre’s move to privatise power supply systems are getting louder, with the latest being reported from Puducherry, where the Electricity Department employees and engineers have been on strike. Irate employees, who have been on strike for four days now, raised slogans against the Centre and threatened to intensify their stir if […]

New Delhi: Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat and Navi Mumbai followed it on the next two spots in the Central government’s annual cleanliness survey, the results of which were announced Saturday. In the category of best performing states in ‘Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022’, Madhya Pradesh […]