India

New Delhi: With 8,084 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,32,30,101, while the daily positivity rate was over three per cent after nearly four months, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,771 with 10 fatalities, the data […]

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered completion of 150 hi-tech nurseries in 75 districts of the state within next six months. The nurseries are being set up in the Krishi Vigyan Kendras of the state, campus of agricultural universities, research centre of the Horticulture Department for easy training of farmers in mordern […]

Lucknow: Cyber thugs have duped the manager of a nationalised bank and an adviser of a private dental college in the state capital. A woman bank manager Snehlata Singh has informed the Hazratganj police that some unidentified miscreants withdrew Rs 50,000 from her account between June 1 and 6. “I got to know about the illegal […]

New Delhi: Marking the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Russian-Indian diplomatic relations, Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said that S-400 Triumf air defence missile system is proceeding well and in accordance with the schedule. “The best-of-a-kind S-400 systems delivery is proceeding well according to the schedule”, Alipov said. Notably, India had inked […]

Hyderabad: The ongoing surge of Covid-19 infections — widely believed to be driven by the BA4 and BA5 variants of Omicron — in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana, could peak sometime in July, a preliminary assessment by the SUTRA mathematical model for forecasting pandemics has revealed. For the past one week, the South […]

New Delhi: New Delhi is in the grip of hectic political activity ahead of the Presidential election. The ruling BJP is reportedly making moves to rope in at least 15 MPs from Congress to vote for the BJP Presidential candidate. To ensure a good margin, the party is also planning to woo Congress MLAs from […]

New Delhi: Sharad Pawar and Yashwant Sinha are likely to be fielded in the Presidential election by the Congress and the Trinamool Congress parties respectively. There has been no clarity on the BJP candidate. While Sonia Gandhi is backing Pawar, following her hospitalisation, it is unclear as to when an announcement in this regard will […]

New Delhi: The continuing erosion in the support base of the BJP in national politics is turning into a major cause of concern for the central leadership of the saffron party, particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and this has prompted them to look elsewhere, particularly the newer groups, to fill the yawning gap. In an […]

Patna: Two Chinese nationals were arrested on Sunday for illegally crossing the India-Nepal border in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, the Sashastra Seema Bal said. The two Chinese nationals are identified as Lo Lung, 28, and Yung Hai Lung, 34. SSB personnel apprehended them over 300 metres inside Indian territory near pillar number 11/6. Nepalese passports, 3 […]

New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi will be travelling to United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the last week of this month. The Prime Minister’s Office is said to have finalised the itenary and the visit could be part of his visit to Germany, where he will be going to take part in the G7 summit. […]

Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao came to the rescue of the victims of a road accident at Timmareddypally in Siddipet district on Sunday. When he was proceeding to Siddipet from Hyderbad, he saw a car overturned near Timmareddypally. He stopped his convoy immediately and instructed the local officials to shift the victims to the […]

Hyderabad: Remember the days of demonetisation, when many of us heard and believed the news about nano-GPS chips being embedded into Rs 2000 notes to be true? Sony TV has now released a promo regarding the same. The ad targets the spread of fake news and misinformation and explains the importance of news verification. In […]

Jeddah: Kuwait is likely to arrest and deport protestors who held a demonstration in the country against the comments of now suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. The security agencies initiated the process of identifying protestors and arresting them to be deported, reported prominent local daily Al Rai. The report quoted unnamed government sources that expatriates […]

Chennai: Even after several complaints from locals against unabated bike racing at Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR), racing still continues. On Sunday morning, the bike racers hit a 60-year-old woman who was seeking directions to turn to Tambaram area in Chennai. The unidentified woman was hit by a high-end race motorbike which had two youths mounted […]

Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao said Telangana puts India on the world map of advanced high-tech manufacturing. India’s first Display FAB to manufacture the most advanced AMOLED displays is coming up in the State with a whopping investment of Rs 24,000 crore. The Minister on Sunday tweeted, “Historic day for Telangana. Rajesh Exports (Elest), […]

Mumbai: In a blood-splattered instance of life imitating art, a memory that Mumbai hasn’t been able to shake off even after 25 years, 41-year-old music mogul and film producer Gulshan Kumar, founder of the Super Cassettes Industries, now famous as T-Series, was gunned down on August 12, 1997. A religious man, Kumar was outside the Jeeteshwar […]

New Delhi: Amid a big push for the Aatmanirbhar Bharat scheme by the PM Narendra Modi-led government, the Indian Air Force is planning to acquire 114 fighter jets of which 96 would be built in India, and rest 18 would be imported from the foreign vendor chosen for the project. The Indian Air Force has […]

Ahmedabad: Even as the Aam Aadmi Party sees itself the main contender to the ruling BJP in Gujarat, where the Assembly polls are due later this year, some political experts and the Congress feel the AAP will split the opposition votes, benefitting the BJP. The Congress also claimed that the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP was the […]

Mangaluru: A 42-year-old man has scripted history by starting a donkey farm at a village in Dakshina Kannada district. The farm, which opened on June 8, is the first of its kind in Karnataka and the second in country after one in Ernakulam district of Kerala. Srinivas Gowda, the owner of the farm, says he […]

New Delhi: As the battered edtech platforms enter the physical tuition centre space, knives are out and the traditional coaching institutes have threatened their teachers on leaving the institutes. As schools and colleges reopen, leading edtech platforms like Unacademy, BYJU’s, Vedantu and the rest are facing the heat. While BYJU’s has already opened offline tuition […]

Bhopal: A woman was attacked on her face with blade by few men for resisting attempts of eve teasing which led to 118 stitches on her face in Bhopal. The incident took place in the TT Nagar area of Bhopal. Some youths attacked the woman in broad daylight in Bhopal. The woman’s one eye is […]

Ujjain: Accepting Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s fund for weight loss challenge, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Ujjain Anil Firojiya claimed to have reduced 15 kg weight in less than four months and is entitled to get Rs 15,000 crore fund for development in his constituency as promised by Gadkari. Firojiya, a first-time MP said […]

New Delhi: The 23-year-old woman who has accused Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Mahesh Joshi’s son of rape, suffered an ink attack in the national capital, an official said on Sunday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast District) Esha Pandey said a PCR call was received on Saturday night that some miscreants had thrown something on the woman and […]

New Delhi: “The situation is not in our favour these days… For some time you carry out your work from inside the central jail, do not worry about anything,” Nana Patekar told Ajay Devgan in the 2005 Bollywood flick ‘Apaharan’. Patekar and Devgan both played gangsters in the film and in the aforementioned scene, the former […]