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New Delhi: Mid-sized motorcycle maker Royal Enfield on Monday said it is recalling 26,300 units of its Classic 350 motorcycles to rectify issue with a brake part. In a statement, the company said its technical team has discovered a potential issue in one of the parts – the brake reaction bracket attached to the motorcycle […]
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Ahmedabad: A Pakistani fishing boat with six crew members and carrying 77 kg of heroin worth around Rs 400 crore was apprehended in the Indian waters off the Gujarat coast, officials said on Monday. The drug seizure was made on Sunday night in a joint operation by the Indian Coast Guard and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist […]
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Hassan: In a case of drunk driving, a truck driver hit several vehicles before colliding with a bike, killing three of the four riders, including twins and their mother in Hassan district of Karnataka, police said. The accident happened on Sunday at midnight. The deceased have been identified as three-year-old Pranathi, Pranav and their mother […]
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Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex plummeted over 1,000 points in early trade on Monday, tracking across-the-board losses amid a selloff in global markets as concerns over rising Omicron cases spooked investors. Persistent foreign fund outflow too weighed on investor sentiment. The 30-share index slumped 1,028.61 points or 1.80 per cent to 55,983.13 in the opening trade. […]
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Bengaluru: A vaccine to control goat pox disease among India’s significant goat population, which has high economic importance for rural livestock growers, was launched on Sunday. ‘Raksha Goat Pox’, of leading Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL), is a live attenuated vaccine I.P. (Uttarkashi strain) grown on vero cell culture. The primary vaccination has to be done […]
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New Delhi: The DRDO scientist, who was arrested by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell in connection with the December 9 Rohini Court blast, on Sunday tried to commit suicide, sources said. According to the sources, arrested scientist, Bharat Bhushan Kataria, tried to consume some poisonous substance while he was in police custody, and has been […]
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New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s decision to increase the age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years has come in for sharp criticism from several quarters, and the CPI-M has assailed the measure on various counts. CPI-M Politburo member Brinda Karat told IANS that the government’s proposal is not going to help […]
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Colombo: The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 43 Indian fishermen and seized six trawlers for allegedly poaching in the country’s territorial waters, an official statement said on Sunday. The Navy arrested the fishermen in seas Southeast of the Delft Island in Jaffna on Saturday. “A special operation conducted by the Navy in seas Southeast of […]
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Hubballi: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday appealed to people to respect iconic personalities and avoid lending ears to rumours, after miscreants targeted statues of freedom fighter Sangolli Rayanna and Shivaji in Belagavi and Bengaluru. Tension prevailed in Belagavi bordering Maharashtra on Saturday after alleged activists of Maharashtra Ekikarana Samiti (MES) vandalised the statue […]
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Panna: An Indian desert cat known as ‘Asiatic Wildcat’ has been spotted for the first time in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR), a senior forest official claimed. “A tourist has shared the pictures taken by him of an Indian desert cat in the reserve’s Akola buffer zone of the reserve recently during the night […]
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Mumbai: A suspected chemical powder from a refinery fell on the food and vehicles of residents of Mahul village in Mumbai, triggering panic in the area, officials said on Sunday. The incident took place around 11 pm on Saturday, when residents of Gawan Pada at Mahul village in suburban Chembur were celebrating a festival outside […]
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New Delhi: The Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), Agra conducted a flight demonstration of Controlled Aerial Delivery System of 500 kilogram capacity (CADS-500) on Saturday, informed the Ministry of Defence on Sunday. As per the Ministry, ADRDE, Agra is an R&D laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the flight […]
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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar in the Rs 200 crore money laundering case has mentioned that he has an association with several Bollywood celebrities including actor Shraddha Kapoor and Shilpa Shetty. According to the disclosure statement of Sukesh Chandrashekhar, he has disclosed that he knows Sharadha Kapoor since 2015 and […]
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New Delhi: Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have pulled out Rs 17,696 crore from the Indian markets in December so far amid uncertainty due to a new coronavirus strain, Omicron, and expectations of faster tapering by the US Federal Reserve. According to the depositories data, FPIs took out Rs 13,470 crore from equities, Rs 4,066 crore […]
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Hyderabad: Internet usage has seen a steep increase over the last year. Due to Covid-19 much of the productivity work was done from home and all credit goes to the World Wide Web which helped in communicating messages and making the working process easy with the click of a button from homes. At the same […]
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Mumbai: Stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui, who was last month denied a nod to hold a show in Bengaluru amid protests by some right-wing outfits, is set to perform in Kolkata in January. The comedian took to Twitter on Saturday evening and shared a link to book tickets for his two-hour comedy act “Dhandho”, to be […]
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New Delhi: Severe cold grips northern India as the mercury dropped to near freezing temperature in Rajasthan’s Churu on Saturday. As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), cold wave to severe cold wave conditions have been prevailing in some parts of north Rajasthan and Punjab, while cold wave conditions prevail in isolated pockets over Jammu […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Islamist organisation, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and the BJP have entered into political clashes in Alappuzha district of Kerala with state-level leaders of both getting killed within a spate of hours. The issues commenced when Nandu, an ABVP leader was killed a few months ago allegedly by the SDPI workers and […]
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Beed: Two monkeys, reportedly involved in the killing of over 250 dogs, have been captured by the Forest Department in Maharashtra’s Beed on Saturday. The killings are believed to be an act of revenge after a few dogs killed an infant monkey. These monkeys would be released in a nearby forest. Sachin Kand, Beed Forest […]
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Muzaffarnagar: Khaps in western Uttar Pradesh have strongly opposed the Centre’s decision to raise the eligibility age of women for marriage to 21 years. The Khap leaders have said that the decision will lead to an increase in crime against women. They also said that the government should not interfere in the personal lives of […]
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Etawah: A 33-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide after strangling his wife to death in Etawah district. Station House Officer (SHO) Sudhir Kumar said that the farmer Rajneesh Kumar Dubey, on Saturday, first killed his wife Kanchan, 25 in his house in the Nagla Nariya village under Jaswantnagar police circle and then consumed some poisonous substance. […]
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Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday transfer Rs 1,000 crore into the accounts of 1.60 lakh self-help groups (SHGs) and Rs 20.20 crore to 1.01 lakh beneficiaries of the Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana in Uttar Pradesh. He will also lay the foundation stone of 202 supplementary nutrition manufacturing units when he visits […]
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New Delhi: A platoon of the Indian Navy hoisted the Tricolour in the island of Anjadip off Canacona for the first time in the history of the last colonial outpost in the country. That was the beginning of the end of 451 years of Portuguese rule over Goa, Daman and Diu. Officially, India intervened militarily […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Kozhikode Police in Kerala have registered a case against India’s ‘golden girl’ P.T. Usha and six others under Section IPC 420 (cheating and dishonesty) based on a complaint filed by a former athlete, Jemma Joseph. Speaking to IANS, a police officer on the condition of anonymity has confirmed that the case has been […]
