India

Jaipur: A Pakistani national, who was apprehended by the Border Security Force (BSF) from the Hindumal border in Rajasthan’s Srigangagar district, has confessed that he crossed the International Border aiming to kill Nupur Sharma for her remarks against Prophet Mohammad, confirmed police on Wednesday morning. The Pakistan national, identified as Rizwan Ashraf, crossed the border […]

Hyderabad: TRS MPs on Tuesday staged a protest in Parliament against the rise in prices of essential commodities, GST on food items and inflation besides rising prices of petrol, diesel and LPG cylinder. They staged the demonstration with placards in front of the Gandhi statue on the Parliament premises. Soon after the session began, the […]

New Delhi: The ruling parties of at least four States including Telangana Rashtra Samithi, objected to the States’ finances being discussed at an all-party meeting on the Sri Lanka crisis. While the Centre maintained that it was mentioned to underscore bad consequences of fiscal prudence and freebies, the Opposition parties asserted that it was not […]

Kollam: Five women, who were on NEET exam duty held in an educational institute in Kerala, were arrested on Tuesday here for allegedly asking girl students to remove their innerwear for appearing for the test held on Sunday, police said. Police told PTI that they were arrested after hours-long interrogation by police probing the case. […]

Hyderabad: The BJP government at the Centre, which has consistently short-changed Telangana in devolution and allocation of funds in various areas of economic activity and development, has, by its own admission, turned a blind eye to the sufferings of the people of the State even at times of natural calamities. Given its blatant discrimination of […]

Imphal: The around three-week long search operation, launched after the catastrophic landslide at a railway construction site in Manipur’s Noney district on June 29-30, which left dead more than 56 people, mostly Territorial Army soldiers, is likely to be called off on Wednesday, a minister said on Tuesday. Manipur Relief and Disaster Management Minister Awangbow […]

Hyderabad: The Centre has once again refuted the World Health Organization’s projected estimate of 47 lakh excess Covid-19 deaths in the country, stating that as on July 16, as reported by States and union Territories, there were 5,25,660 deaths due to Covid-19 in India. Replying to a question by senior Congress MP Digvijaya Singh in […]

Hyderabad: The Godavari floods at Bhadrachalam has sparked a fresh row between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar blaming it on Polavaram project and demanding reduction in the height of the project. He also sought merger of five villages in Andhra Pradesh near Bhadrachalam with Telangana that would help in taking […]

Gurugram: A deputy superintendent of police investigating illegal stone-mining was killed when a truck he signalled to stop in Haryana’s Nuh district drove into him, officials said. Tauru DSP Surendra Singh had signalled a dumper-truck to halt to check documents. But the driver sped on, running over him. The officer’s gunman and his driver jumped […]

Jamnagar (Saurashtra): With the arrest of a man, the Jamnagar police on Tuesday claimed to have busted an international child pornography racket run from the state capital Gandhinagar. The arrested will be produced before a court from where police will seek his remand. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Jayveersinh Zala: “Our cyber crime vigil […]

Tumakuru: A family that rears parrots at home here have announced Rs 50,000 cash for those who can find their favourite bird which went missing. According to Ravi, an animal activist and the owner of the bird, their family nursed two African grey parrots at their home in Jayanagar locality of Tumakuru district. One of […]

New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was moved in the Delhi High Court seeking resumption of all previous recruitment processes cancelled following the Centre’s newly-launched Agnipath Scheme. The plea of a candidate, filed through Advocates Vijay Singh and Pawan Kumar, said the petitioner had applied for the post of Soldier General Duty in Army […]

New Delhi: An unmarried woman on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court of India against the Delhi High Court which refused to grant permission to abort her 24-week-old pregnancy out of a consensual sexual relationship. Advocate Amit Mishra appeared for the woman on Tuesday and mentioned the matter before the bench headed by the Chief Justice […]

New Delhi: IndiGo Airlines has put Kerala ruling front Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) convenor EP Jayarajan and two Youth Congress workers on ‘no fly list’ over their unruly act inside the aircraft when Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was on board. The action was taken following Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) guidelines on unruly […]

New Delhi: India reported 15,528 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, which is a decline from the previous day’s count of 16,935, said the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday. In the same period, the country has reported 25 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide toll to 5,25,785. The active caseload has marginally declined […]

New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has arrived in the national capital to discuss Other Backward Class (OBC) reservations in the state. This is Shinde’s second visit to Delhi after being sworn in as chief minister of Maharashtra on June 30. Earlier, he visited Delhi with deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and met Prime […]

Hyderabad: Indian rupee on Tuesday sunk to its lowest 80 to a US dollar as the Indian currency continued to be in the free fall. Later in the day, it recovered to close at 79.92 (provisional) against the US dollar. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened lower at 80.00 against the US […]

Bengaluru:  In an important judgment, the Karnataka High Court has said that using a wife without any emotional attachment as “a cash cow and ATM” amounts to mental harassment. The court also granted divorce to the wife in the case setting aside the order of the lower court. The division bench headed by Justice Alok […]

Lucknow: he Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has said that the revision petition filed against the acquittal of all 32 accused persons, including former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, the then Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, senior BJP leaders — Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar, Sadhvi Ritambhara, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh […]

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has hauled up the district and police administration over the protests organised outside Lulu mall in state capital Lucknow. He has directed the Lucknow administration to check anti-social elements from disturbing communal harmony and lawlessness. “It should take the matter seriously and such lapses will not be tolerated. […]

New Delhi: The BJP government at the Centre obviously doesn’t believe in the ‘give and take’ policy when it comes to sharing revenues generated through the new GST regime. This was evident from union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s response on Monday when she remained mum on the issue of extending GST compensation to States even […]

Hyderabad: The union government’s blatant lies about Telangana being a major recipient of Central funds for the development of Karimnagar and Warangal under Smart Cities Mission (SCM) were exposed with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Monday admitting that no assistance was extended to the State in the last three years. In fact, […]

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala has registered India’s second case of monkeypox, Health Minister Veena George said on Mondayd. A 31-year-old man, who had arrived from Dubai and was under treatment at the Pariyaram Medical College hospital at Kannur, has turned positive for the disease, she said. George said that the patient’s condition is fine and he is […]

New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-politician Harbhajan Singh, Misa Bharti, daughter of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, and BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla on Monday took oath alongwith nearly 25 other leaders as Rajya Sabha members. Others included A Rao Meena, Vijay Sai Reddy, Kheeru Mahto, Shambhala Saran Patel, Ranjeet Ranjan, Maharashtra Majhi, Aditya Prasad, Praful Patel, […]