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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 […]

New Delhi: The Chhattisgarh government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the bail granted to the state’s Additional Director General of Police Gurjinder Pal Singh in a case filed against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The plea, filed through advocate Sumeer Sodhi, said: “The petitioner state submits that the present case is not […]

Chennai: AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, O. Panneerselvam said that snatching away existing concessions is the hallmark of the new Dravidian model practiced by the DMK government. In a statement on Monday, he came out strongly against the DMK government’s decision in not sanctioning a hike in dearness allowance for pensioners […]

Bengaluru: The video of Karnataka Congress MLA B.Z. Zameer Ahmad Khan feeding a Dalit seer food and later eating the same after forcing him to remove from his mouth has gone viral in Karnataka. The Congress MLA claimed that he did this to show that there was no difference of caste and religion among the […]

Chennai: India’s central bank is mulling further rate hikes, said its Governor Shaktikanta Das. He also said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will not allow the rupee to depreciate and prevent volatility in the currency market. In an interview to the CNBC TV18 channel, Das also said the RBI will release the new forecast […]

New Delhi: Digilocker documents such as the PAN card, driving licence, vehicle registration certificate can now be easily accessed via MyGov Helpdesk on WhatsApp, MyGov announced on Monday. Citizens will now be able to create and authenticate their own Digilocker account on WhatsApp and download documents such as PAN card; driving licence; CBSE Class X […]

Thiruvananthapuram: A Kollam court on Monday found a youth guilty of abetting the suicide of his wife Vismaya, a final year Ayurveda medical student, last June. Kollam Additional Sessions Court Ajudge K.N.Sujith found Kiran Kumar, who is an Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspector, guilty of the various crimes put forward by the prosecution which included abetment […]

New Delhi: The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has invited applications for Research Associate posts and the yearly pay of the candidate will be 12 lakhs. Interested candidates can check the complete details of IBPS recruitment 2022 below. Post details: * Position: Research Associate * Place of posting: IBPS, Mumbai * Grade: E * […]

Tokyo: In his meeting with the CEO of Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo, Tadashi Yanai in Tokyo on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon him to join India’s journey to become a manufacturing hub for textiles, particularly scaling up the use of technologies. While Yanai appreciated the entrepreneurial zeal of Indians, PM […]

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has banned citizens from travelling to 16 countries, including India, over the Covid-19 situation in those nations, the media reported The General Directorate of Passports said that the list of countries comprised Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, […]

Patna: Eight labourers died and eight others were injured after a truck laden with pipes overturned in Bihar’s Purnea district on Monday morning. The accident occurred at the Kali temple under the Jalalgarh police station on the Siliguri-Delhi four lane National Highway 57 at 3.30 a.m. Surendra Kumar Saroj, SDPO of Purnea (Sadar) told IANS […]

Mumbai: Equity benchmarks started the trade on a firm note on Monday, with the Sensex jumping nearly 311 points in early deals, amid mixed trends from Asian markets. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex jumped 310.91 points to 54,637.30. The broader NSE Nifty gained 83.35 points to 16,349.50. From the Sensex firms, Maruti, M&M, Asian Paints, […]

New Delhi: India added 2,022 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,38,393, while the active cases dipped to 14,832, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,459 with 46 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]

Kanpur: Fake ornaments gifted to a bride in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur nearly broke up the marriage. The incident took place in Birhar village in Saadh police area of Ghatampur town. The bride saw the ornaments gifted to her by the groom’s family and sensed something was wrong. She spoke to one of her father’s friends, […]

Tokyo: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his two-day Japan visit on Monday, he underscored the importance of closer India-Japan cooperation and said this partnership is a key pillar of a stable and secure Indo-Pacific region. The Prime Minister arrived in Tokyo today at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. His visit includes […]

Hyderabad: Fake online loan app managements appear to be striving hard to regain lost customers and make new ones. According to the police, they are resorting to desperate measures including crediting loan amounts without requests or applications from customers. The Reserve Bank of India had recently blacklisted about 130 fake loan apps, most of which […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao who is currently on a nation-wide trip to meet several Opposition leaders in an attempt to set an alternative national agenda, held discussions with his Delhi counterpart and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal at the latter’s residence on Sunday. The meeting assumes significance in the wake of building […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, observing that the country’s farmers had the firepower to change governments, called upon the ryots to come together to launch a nation-wide movement to secure their Constitutional rights including guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their crops. “Farmers can change governments. It is not a difficult task for them,” […]

Srinagar: A youth from Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district became a millionaire overnight by winning Rs 2 crore in the online fantasy cricket platform Dream11. Belonging to Shalgam village in the Bijbehara area of Anantnag district, Waseem Raja said he can now treat his ailing mother. “I was fast asleep on Saturday late night, when […]

Bengaluru: India will have the notorious distinction of recording the highest number of cardiac deaths by 2030 in the world, with virtually every fourth death occurring due to the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), warned renowned Cardiologist Dr C N Manjunath. Addressing the ‘HAL Medicon 2022’, the National Conference for doctors of HAL on the theme ‘Ensuring […]

Pune: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and law on population control in the country. Addressing a rally in Pune, Thackeray said, “I request the Prime Minister to bring Uniform Civil Code at the earliest, also bring a law on population […]

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao here on Sunday. Sources close to ANI informed that issues related to national politics, federalism, states’ role in India’s growth, Union Government’s policies and other issues were discussed in the meeting. Telangana minister V Prashanth Reddy, MPs – […]

New Delhi: As investigations continued on Sunday into the triple suicide case in Delhi, more details have come to the fore. On Saturday, a 55-year-old woman and her two daughters aged 30 and 26 years were found dead at their House no.207, Vasant Apartment, Vasant Vihar. The deceased were identified as Manju Srivastva (mother) and […]