India

New Delhi: Outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday urged political parties must rise above a partisan approach and work with the spirit of “nation first”. At his farewell function in the Central Hall of Parliament, he said that he remains eternally grateful to the people of India and for giving him an opportunity to […]

Jeddah: Most Indian schools in the Gulf region have excelled in the latest CBSE exams of grade 10 and 12 despite challenges posed by the pandemic that not only disrupted classes but also changed the format of exams. The students were surprised to find the news of examination results as they were unaware of the […]

Thiruvananthapuram: Among the 140 Kerala legislators from the two political parties — CPI(M) and the Congress-led UDF — one legislator had voted for the BJP-led NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu. In the Kerala Assembly, the CPI(M) has 99 legislators while the Congress-led UDF has 41. During the counting of votes for the recent presidential polls in […]

Guwahati: The death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis in Assam rose to 38 after one more death was reported in the state due to the viral infection in the last 24 hours on Saturday. As per the reports, two deaths were reported in Golaghat and Darrang districts on July 21 (Thursday), while as many as […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan donned the role of a physician to attend to a co-passenger who took ill aboard New Delhi-Hyderabad flight on Saturday. There was a panic call from the air hostess while the IndiGo flight was mid-air. Is there any doctor on this flight, the air hostess asked. Dr Soundararajan tweeted that […]

Kolkata: After over 24 hours of marathon grilling, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials probing the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scam, finally arrested state minister and the Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee on Saturday morning. A decision to this effect was taken after Chatterjee went into a total non-cooperation mode following the […]

Hathras: As many as five people died while one person was seriously injured after a speeding truck ran over Kanwar devotees returning to Gwalior from Haridwar in the early hours of Saturday in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district, police said. The incident took place near Sadabad Police Station in Hathras. Rajeev Krishna, Additional Director General of […]

New Delhi: Actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Kishan on Friday said he was going to introduce a private member’s bill on population control in the Lok Sabha. A Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur constituency, Kishan has four children, three daughters and a son, with his wife Priti. “We can be Vishwa Guru […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 4,38,68,476 on Saturday with 21,411 fresh cases, while the number of active cases increased to 1,50,100, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,25,997 as 67 more people succumbed to the viral disease, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]

New Delhi: Isn’t it fulfilling to see your parents’ hearts swell with pride when they watch you do good in life? Everyone waits for that one opportunity in life to show their parents that they’ve made it in life. An Indian pilot recently shared a video on his Instagram account that went viral and made […]

New Delhi: The body of a 50-year-old man was found stuffed in a refrigerator at his house in Northeast Delhi’s Seelampur area on Friday, Delhi police said. According to the police, a caller informed them on Friday around 7.15 pm that her relative was not attending phone calls. When the caller reached Gautampuri, she found […]

New Delhi: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Friday called upon countrymen to join the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav by hoisting the tricolour from their homes. Shah appealed to citizens to hoist the Tricolour from their homes from August 13 to […]

Hyderabad: Senior IAS officer K Siva Prasad, Financial Commissioner, Rural Development and Panchayats, Govt. of Punjab, Chandigarh has written an amazing and worth reading book on Bhagavad Gita. The book is titled “Gita Acharan- A beginner’s perspective”. It is also translated in Hindi as Gita Acharan – ek sadhak ki drishti se. A copy of […]

Puducherry: As many as 160 rats and mice that were illegally bred and used for unauthorised experimentation have been rescued from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry. The animals were removed from the JIPMER animal facility Thursday, and handed over to animal rights organisation PETA India for rehabilitation in a sanctuary […]

Hyderabad: The Aviation Ministry on Thursday announced that airlines cannot charge an additional amount for issuing boarding passes at airport check-in counters. At present, Airlines including IndiGo, SpiceJet, and Go First charge a fee of Rs 200 if a passenger wants the boarding pass to be issued at the check-in counter. “It has come to […]

New Delhi: Strong likelihood of a sharp rise in interest rates by the US Fed and other central banks to rein in the red-hot inflation has melted international gold prices to a nearly one-year low. In India too, the prices of the yellow metal in physical markets fell to a multi-month low and breached the […]

New Delhi: Akasa Air, the airline promoted by billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, is set to launch its commercial operation with its first flight on August 7 on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route. The airline said that it will deploy a Boeing 737 Max plane on the route for commercial operation. Flight operations will be conducted on two […]

Pratapgarh: A ‘terahvin’ ceremony was organised as a part of the post-death rituals of a pet rooster that had died trying to save his master’s lamb from a stray dog. The rooster, Lalji, was kept in the backyard of the house on July 7 and the family was sitting out. Lali’s owner Dr Saligram Saroj said, […]

Thiruvananthapuram: A laboratory report from Bhopal, which was received here on Friday, has confirmed the presence of African Swine fever at a pig farm in Mananthavady in Kerala’s Wayanad district. It was early this week that the samples collected from dead pigs were sent to Bhopal. Now that the results have turned positive for African Swine […]

New Delhi: Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday met and congratulated Droupadi Murmu for being elected as the 15th President of the country. The Vice-President met Murmu at her residence on Umashankar Dikshit Marg in the national capital and spent around 15 minutes there. Later, the official twitter account of the Vice President tweeted: “The […]

New Delhi: Online hospitality major Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia has announced to step down after 14 “wild years” and is set to open a new chapter. Gebbia, who formed Airbnb more than a decade ago, wrote a letter to employees, saying he will remain on the board of directors but transition to an advisory role, supporting […]

Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 7 paise to 79.92 against the US dollar in opening trade on Friday tracking the strength of the dollar in the overseas market and firm crude oil prices. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 79.90 against the US dollar, then fell to 79.92 against the greenback, registering a […]

Dakshina Kannada: Karnataka police have booked eight students under Pocso Act (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) in connection with hosting a kissing challenge at a private residence in Mangaluru city, police said on Friday. A video of minor students of a reputed college smooching in the presence of others at a private residence […]

New York: Two Indian brothers and their Indian-American friend have been charged in the US in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading scheme in which they made illicit profits totalling over a million dollars. Ishan Wahi, 32, and his brother Nikhil Wahi, 26, are citizens of India and were residing in Seattle while Sameer Ramani, 33, […]