India

Mumbai: Days after the formation of the Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said that the party is “still hopeful” of the rebel MLAs’ returning to former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s side. The leader said that they were “always in talks” with the rebels and exuded confidence that they […]

New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday reached television channel news anchor’s residence in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, after an FIR was registered against him following the broadcast of a misleading video on Rahul Gandhi for which the channel had issued an apology. The anchor Rohit Ranjan, however, was taken in custody by Noida Police after he […]

Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court without making a direct reference has observed that the society at large should be sensitive about people with different sexual orientation. “Certain things might appear different in the current social structure and if that difference is evident in any individual the society should be sensitive and […]

Mansa: Several attempts were made to attack Sidhu Moose Wala during the Punjab assembly elections in April and the Aam Aadmi Party-led state “government too left no stone unturned” to curtail his security and “publicized” the withdrawal of his security, said Balkaur Singh, father of the Punjabi singer-politician. “Sixty to eighty people were after him […]

New Delhi: A Dubai-bound SpiceJet aircraft from Delhi was diverted to Pakistan’s Karachi due to technical malfunctioning, a senior airline official told IANS. In the last two weeks, two SpiceJet flights faced different technical problems. Further details are awaited.

New Delhi: A group consisting of 15 retired judges of various high courts, 77 retired bureaucrats and 25 retired armed forces officers have issued an open statement saying that ‘unfortunate and unprecedented comments’ were made by a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Surya Kant and Justice J.B. Pardiwala, while hearing a petition […]

Assam: An earthquake of magnitude 3.7 on the Richter scale occurred in Assam, informed the National Center for Seismology (NCS) on Tuesday. The depth of the earthquake was 35 km which occurred at 11:03 am early in the morning. “Earthquake of Magnitude:3.7, Occurred on 05-07-2022, 11:03:48 IST, Lat: 24.61 & Long: 93.02, Depth: 35 Km […]

New Delhi: Micro-blogging website Twitter has complied with the IT Ministry’s last notice within the final July 4 deadline, after receiving a warning to either comply with new IT Rules, 2021 or face stricter action. Reliable sources told IANS on Tuesday that the company finally complied with the June 27 notice sent by the Ministry […]

Ghaziabad/Raipur: A police team from Chhattisgarh reached Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad town on Tuesday to arrest a TV news anchor from his home for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi out of context but he was taken into custody by Noida police instead, officials said. Both the teams, one from BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh […]

New Delhi: India reported 13,086 Covid cases in past 24 hours against previous day’s 16,135 count, Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. In the same period, 19 fatalities took the nationwide death toll to 5,25,242. Meanwhile, the active caseload has also risen to 1,14,475 cases, accounting for 0.26 per cent total positive cases. The recovery […]

New Delhi: In what seemed as a real inspiration taken from the Bollywood potboiler ‘Special 26’, over a dozen people, impersonating as Anti-Corruption and Income Tax officials, conducted a raid in the national capital, an official said on Monday. The police have so far managed to nab four of the accused, including one woman, who […]

Colombo: Sri Lankan Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera has issued a stark warning over the country’s fuel stocks as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years. On Sunday, Wijesekera told reporters that the country had 12,774 tonnes of diesel and 4,061 tonnes of petrol left in its reserves, reports the BBC. “The […]

New Delhi: Within days of the Navy opening registrations for the Agnipath recruitment scheme, around 10,000 females have registered themselves for the programme. For the first time ever, the Indian Navy is allowing women to be recruited as sailors in the force who would also be deployed on warships as per operational requirements. “Around 10,000 […]

Jaipur: In a daring daylight robbery, around six armed robbers looted cash and gold worth around Rs one crore from a branch of Axis bank in Rajasthan’s Alwar on Monday. Officials said that the miscreants came with weapons, carried the robbery within 30 minutes and escaped from there on bikes. “The Axis Bank branch located […]

Bhimavaram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call to the youth to draw inspiration from revolutionary leader Alluri Sitarama Raju for taking the nation in the path of progress. Addressing a public meeting here on Monday after unveiling a 30-foot bronze statue of Alluri Sitrama Raju during the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of the […]

Chennai: DMK leader A Raja has implored Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to provide ‘state autonomy’, and not push them to seek an independent country. Addressing a party meet of representatives of urban local bodies, Raja said though the icon of the Dravidian movement, Thanthai Periyar stood for an independent […]

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday said the use of cellular signal jammer, GPS blocker or other signal jamming device is illegal, except specifically permitted by the government, warning e-commerce platforms against illegally selling such wireless mobile jammers online. Alarmed at its open online sale, the department warned all e-commerce companies from selling or facilitating […]

New Delhi: The Indian government on Monday warned e-commerce platforms against illegally selling wireless jammers, along with directing the general public on the proper use of wireless jammers and booster/repeaters. The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) said that the use of cellular signal jammers, GPS blocker or other signal jamming devices is generally illegal, except specifically permitted […]

New Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested the third shooter, who was involved in the brutal killing of Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala and another most wanted gangster of the Lawrence Bishnoi – Goldy Brar gang alliance, an official said on Monday. The shooter, identified as Ankit, […]

Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has alleged that Riaz Akhtari — one of the accused in Kanhaiya Lal murder case — has links with BJP after his pictures with saffron party leaders appeared on social media. In two back to back tweets on Sunday night, Tejashwi said: “Some photographs appeared in public domain indicating that the […]

Chaibasa: Three Maoists were arrested in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, a senior police officer said. Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Shekhar on Sunday said acting on a tip-off that some Maoists would enter the Saranda forest from neighbouring Gumla district, a joint team of CRPF and district armed police started searching of vehicles. The security forces […]

Shimla: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from PMNRF for the kin of the deceased in the Kullu school bus accident. “Prime Minister has approved an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from PMNRF for the next of kin of those who have lost their lives due to […]

Mumbai: As expected, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s government supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday won the critical ‘vote of confidence’ in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. In the final tally with a division of votes, the government secured 164 votes and the Opposition got only 99 votes in the 288-member Lower House. This is […]

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has termed as fake media reports, which claimed that one of two most-wanted Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists, who was overpowered by locals and handed over to the police, was in-charge of the party’s IT cell. The BJP on Sunday said that Talib Hussain who […]