India

Chennai: Fast food chain KFC India has unveiled ‘KFConscious’ which it claimed to be the most sustainable restaurant in the city, as the outlet aims to tap energy efficiency and use of environment-friendly materials, the company said on Sunday. KFC India has chalked out plans to open 20 more such outlets across the country this […]

Bijapur: A woman Naxalite, carrying a reward of Rs five lakh on her head and wanted in several cases of attack on police, has surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district to reunite with her daughter back home, an official said on Sunday. The rebel, identified as Somli Sodi alias Vanita (32), was working with the banned […]

Hapur: The death toll in the blast incident at a factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur has risen to 13 on Sunday. The police have booked two persons for culpable homicide in the incident. The Uttar Pradesh Police have registered an FIR under sections 286 (Negligent conduct with respect to explosive substance), 287 (Negligent conduct with […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Sunday that India has achieved the target of 10 per cent ethanol blending in petrol five months before deadline. Making the announcement at a programme on the ‘Save Soil Movement’, which coincided with the World Environment Day, Modi cited a number of measures taken by his government […]

New Delhi: Tata Motors is gearing up to strengthen its R&D with fresh hiring as well as upskilling of the current employees this fiscal year in order to scale up capabilities across various business verticals, including the electric vehicle segment, as per a top company official. In the EV space, the company is looking to […]

Chitrakoot: A 13-year-old Dalit girl, who was allegedly gang-raped here a few days ago, died to strangulation, her post-mortem report has confirmed. Police on Sunday said that they received the autopsy report late on Saturday and it also confirmed that the girl had been raped. The girl, resident of a village in Pahadi police station […]

Srinagar: The first Hajj 2022 flight carrying pilgrims to Saudi Arabia left the Srinagar International Airport on Sunday. The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia re-starts this year after remaining suspended for two years due to the Covid pandemic. The Hajj flight is carrying 145 J&K pilgrims to Madina. The flights will carry a total […]

New Delhi: The COVID-19 cases in India have crossed the 4,000-mark for the second time in the past four days on Sunday, as the country logged 4,270 fresh infections in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. On Friday, after nearly three months, the daily tally of COVID-19 cases in India had […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on his 50th birthday and lauded him, saying the state has scaled new heights of progress under his “able” leadership. A five-time MP from Gorakhpur, the monk politician has made rapid strides in politics after being picked by the BJP […]

Jaipur: An eight-year-old girl was allegedly killed after her throat was slit with a sharp-edged weapon in the Amer area of Rajasthan’s Jaipur district on Saturday, informed the police. Police said the girl went missing on Saturday afternoon and later, her naked body was found at an abandoned place near her own residence. “A 7-8 […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has taken suo-moto cognizance of a misogynistic advertisement of a perfume brand being played repeatedly in mass media, stated the notice from DCW chairman Swati Maliwal. “The said advertisement shows a boy and a girl, apparently a couple sitting on a bed when four more boys enter […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based vaccine company Biological E Limited (BE) on Saturday announced that its Corbevax Covid-19 vaccine has been approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) as a heterologous booster dose to individuals aged 18 years and above. This can be used after six months of administration of primary vaccination (two doses) of Covaxin […]

Bengaluru: Police in Karnataka on Saturday arrested a 26-year-man on charges of killing his mother for not buying him a mobile phone. The arrested person has been identified as Deepak, a resident of Lucas Layout in Mylasandra. According to the police, Deepak had allegedly strangled his mother Fathima Mary (50) to death on June 1. […]

Hyderabad: A scheduled talk by US-based Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan was cancelled by Google due to the pressure from employees. Tanuja Gupta, a senior manager at Google News who invited Thenmozhi to speak, resigned over the incident. The talk was scheduled in April as part of the Dalit History Month. The presentation was supposed to […]

New Delhi: The apex child rights body NCPCR has sought an explanation from the Hyderabad police over the delay in the registration of an FIR in connection with the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in the city. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has also sought the registration of an FIR against […]

New Delhi: The murder of acclaimed Punjabi singer Shubhdep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala, has shocked probe agencies as the weapon used was an AN-94 Russian Assault rifle. This is the first time that the AN-94 has been used in a gang war as criminals would earlier carry out killings and encounters with […]

Chandigarh: Parents of slain singer-actor-turned-politician Shubhadeep Singh, alias Sidhu Moosewala, will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Chandigarh on Saturday evening. A day earlier, Moosewala’s father wrote a letter to Shah, demanding a probe into his son’s killing by a central agency. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday pledged to put the killers […]

Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had managed to stop the Russia-Ukraine war for three hours to provide a safe passage to Indian medical students stuck in the conflict zone, former union law minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad has claimed. While interacting with mediapersons here on Friday, Prasad said that the incident took […]

New Delhi: A fire incident was reported at the cargo bay of Delhi Airport on Friday evening after a pushback towing vehicle caught fire. “On Friday at about 5:25 pm it came to notice that a pushback towing vehicle had caught fire at the cargo bay number 262 near celebi export barrier,” an airport official […]

Mandya: Karnataka’s historical town Srirangapatna has turned into a police fortress on Saturday against the backdrop of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) “Srirangapatna Chalo” call to chant Hanuman Chalisa in Jamia Masjid. The district administration has clamped curfew from Friday evening till Sunday morning in the town. District Superintendent of Police Yathish. N […]

New Delhi: On the occasion of World Environment Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a programme on ‘Save Soil Movement’ at Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on Sunday (June 5), the Prime Minister’s Office informed on Saturday. The Prime Minister will also address the gathering during the programme. ‘Save Soil Movement’ is a global movement to […]

New Delhi: Patiala-born Jaskaran Singh and Pune-based Jay Firke are among more than 350 students from 40 countries and regions who have been selected as Apple’s ‘2022 Swift Student Challenge’ winner for showcasing extraordinary coding skills. The ‘Swift Student Challenge’ is part of Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC22). Every year, in the lead-up to WWDC 22 […]

Meerut: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has alleged that the government “wants to get him killed” and that the attacks on him in Karnataka and Delhi are proof enough. He was addressing the farmers and union members at “Kisan Panchayat” in Meerut’s Kanker Khera on Friday. Terming the recent black paint attack on […]

New Delhi: India logged a single-day rise of 3,962 coronavirus infections and 26 fatalities, pushing the overall tally to 4,31,72,547 cases and 5,24,677 deaths, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The data updated at 8 am also stated that the number of active cases in the country increased by 1,239 in 24 […]