India

Jaipur: In a strange case of domestic violence, a school principal in Alwar district of Rajasthan has move the court seeking protection from the physical and mental harassment of his wife. According to the man, his wife has been beating him black and blue leaving him weak mentally. In a police complaint, the troubled principal, […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Central Government on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that sought direction to declare that the song ‘Vande Mataram’, which played a historic part in the struggle for Indian freedom, shall be honoured equally with ‘Jana-Gana-Mana’ and have equal status. The Bench of Justice […]

New Delhi: Delhi Police has busted an inter-state gang that used to cheat unemployed youth by offering them fake ‘Work from Home’ job profiles, an official said on Tuesday. The police also arrested two persons in this connection following an inter-state operation in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi. DCP Sagar Singh Kalsi said a complaint […]

Chennai: BJP SC/ST morcha south district president in Chennai, Balachandran, was hacked to death on Tuesday night after a three-member gang attacked him while he was having tea at a wayside tea stall here. The incident occurred at Chindarapet in Chennai. Balachandran was facing life threats and was provided a personal security officer (PSO) by […]

Patna (Bihar): Criticizing the dowry system, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said that there is nothing worse than demanding dowry for marrying a girl else what will happen to childbirth if a “man marries to another man”. Kumar’s remarks came during the inauguration of a newly constructed girls’ hostel in Patna on Tuesday. […]

New Delhi: The Centre has placed a cap on the export of sugar under the “restricted” category which will be effective from June 1. The latest move comes days after banning the export of wheat in order to control rising inflation and to ensure availability in the domestic market. India’s retail inflation has been above […]

Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices bounced back on Wednesday after declining for two days, with the Sensex climbing 327 points in early trade, helped by buying in index major Reliance Industries and positive trends in the Asian markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 326.98 points to 54,379.59 points in early deals. The broader NSE Nifty gained […]

New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 2,124 new coronavirus infections, taking the infection tally to 4,31,42,192, while the active cases rose to 14,971, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The COVID-19 death toll has climbed to 5,24,507 with 17 more fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. […]

Mumbai: Enforcement Directorate in its chargesheet said that both the sons and wife of Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik were summoned for interrogation, but none of them appeared in connection with Malik’s money laundering case. “Nawab Malik’s wife Mehjabin was summoned twice whereas his son Faraj Malik was summoned 5 times in connection […]

Mumbai: Canadian pop star Justin Bieber will make a pit stop in India as part of his ongoing ‘Justice World Tour’. He will perform at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on October 18, 2022. This will be his second concert in India after his performance in Mumbai back in 2017. The 2017 performance was […]

Hyderabad: Hundreds of hatchlings of the critically endangered red-crowned roofed turtle and three-striped roofed turtle were released in the lower Chambal river area to commemorate World Turtle Day, celebrated each year on May 23. The international conservation organisation Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) and leading menswear brand Turtle Limited, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday reserved the appeal against the dismissal of a suit seeking restoration of the Hindu and Jain temples and the deities at the Qutub Minar complex. Additional District Judge Nikhil Chopra of the Saket Court was hearing the appeal challenging the rejection of a suit alleging that the Quwwat-Ul-Islam […]

Chandigarh: Punjab Health Minister Vijay Singla was sacked from the state Cabinet Tuesday over graft charges, and was arrested shortly afterwards, with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asserting his government has zero-tolerance to corruption. The chief minister himself announced Singla’s removal from the Cabinet which was sworn-in just two months ago after the Aam Aadmi Party […]

Jeddah: A group of stranded and distressed Indians, who have been waiting for more than a year, to return home, finally burst into tears of joy and relief as they boarded bus for the airport on Monday evening, when they moved to airport in a specially arranged bus by Indian consulate in Jeddah. Like other […]

New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested two persons for killing a Haryana singer, who went missing on May 11, an official said on Tuesday. The mutilated body of the singer, identified as Sangeeta alias Divya, was found buried near a roadside in Meham, Haryana. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Shankar Choudhary said the accused duo […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 1,675 to reach 4,31,40,068, while the number of active infections increased marginally to 14,841, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll has climbed to 5,24,490 with 31 fatalities reported from Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. Active cases, which […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the free and inclusive Indo-Pacific region is a shared goal of Quad and in a short span, it has created an important place in the world forum. In an opening remark at the Quad summit in Tokyo, the Prime Minister said that Quad’s efforts are […]

Hubballi: At least eight people were killed and 25 others injured in a collision involving a lorry and private bus in Karnataka’s Hubballi-Dharwad district in the early hours of Tuesday. The mishap occurred at 12.45 a.m. on the outskirts of Hubballi near Tarihal on the Pune-Bengaluru National Highway. According to police, the tragedy occurred on […]

Bengaluru: Several organisations, including political parties, writers, women’s and NGOs have decided to stage a state-level protest against the ‘saffronisation’ of school and college syllabus by the ruling BJP government in Karnataka on May 31. The protest would be staged at the Freedom Park of Bengaluru. There has been stiff opposition for alleged dropping lessons […]

New Delhi: Vinai Kumar Saxena was appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi on Monday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement. Saxena will succeed Anil Baijal who resigned from the post last week citing “personal reasons”. “The President of India has been pleased to appoint Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena to be the Lt. Governor of National […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee, on Monday, demanded total autonomy for all the central probe agencies to free them from political influences. “The manner in which the central probe agencies are utilised by the Union government and the ruling party against opposition leaders for political vendetta is against the […]

Hyderabad: Telangana’s demand for caste-based census has just got strengthened with Bihar joining the chorus. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday initiated efforts to hold an all-party meeting on caste-based census, which has become a highly emotive issue in the State. Telangana was probably the first State to have the Assembly pass a resolution […]

Bengaluru: A youth, who tried to indulge in adventure by trying to climb a dam face in Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur, fell after ascending just 30 feet, as per a video going viral on social media on Monday, and was seriously injured. The incident had taken place at the Srinivasa Sagar dam located near Chikkaballapur city recently. […]

New Delhi: Congress on Monday appointed Sarat Pattanayak as its new Odisha unit President, replacing Niranjan Pattnaik who resigned from the post after the party’s poll debacle. In the state, the Congress has been decimated since the Biju Janata Dal came to power and has been ruling the state for more thsn two decades, while […]