India

Bengaluru: Surge, which is Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s rapid scale-up programme, on Monday launched its seventh cohort, featuring 37 founders across 15 early-stage startups. One-third of the startups include at least one female founder and several startups have second and third time founders. Surge startups have collectively raised over $1.7 billion in follow-on funding to […]

New York: Billed as the world’s biggest Indian event outside the nation, the annual India Day Parade was held in New York City celebrating India’s 75th anniversary of Independence. Allu arjun 💓🇮🇳🙏#AlluArjun𓃵 #NewYork @imsarathchandra pic.twitter.com/rLhTvLoUOw — Allu Nithish AADhf 💥🔥 (@Nithishreddy_AA) August 22, 2022 Telugu megastar Allu Arjun was the grand marshal at the parade […]

Jammu: An intruding terrorist nabbed on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district was sent as ‘Fidayeen’ (suicide bomber) by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Army soldiers noticed suspicious movement in the Sehar Makri area of Nowshera sector Sunday evening. “After being challenged, the terrorist started running back towards the Pakistani side of the […]

New Delhi: The Government of India won’t levy any charges on UPI (Unified Payments Interface) services. After reports circulated online that there may be the possibility of UPI transactions carrying a service charge, the finance ministry on Sunday denied the news. In a tweet, the finance ministry said that UPI would remain free. “UPI is […]

Hyderabad: Pet parents go the extra mile to keep their pets healthy. In this direction, many are now opting to buy insurance cover for their pets. The cover starts around Rs 300 per year for a small pet for a single type of cover such as terminal diseases. Players like Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, The […]

New Delhi: As the Congress prepares to elect its new chief, many names are under consideration after Rahul Gandhi refused to give a second thought to his decision of holding no post in the party, sources have said. The names doing the rounds are loyalists from the party, which include Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday wished Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a “speedy recovery from COVID-19.” This comes as amid a sharp spike in COVID cases in Japan. The country’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida tested positive Sunday for the novel coronavirus. In a tweet, PM Modi wrote, “Wishing my friend Prime Minister […]

New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the government of imposing high taxes on common people and reducing tax to its “friends”. Taking to Twitter, he also shows a graph alleging that the government is earning more revenue from taxes on common people and less from corporates due to lower tax. “Raise […]

Sao Paulo: While attending an Indian community event in Sao Paulo in Brazil, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that China has disregarded the border pacts and the Galwan Valley standoff has been casting a shadow as ties between the two nations continue to go through a very difficult phase. Jaishankar met the Indian community […]

Noida: Soon after the arrest of a woman who was captured on video abusing a security guard in a housing society in Noida on Sunday, the residents of the premises are planning to evict her from the society due to her misbehaviour. The woman was identified as Bhavya Rai who was caught on video misbehaving […]

Mumbai: After Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan’s recent online food delivery firm Zomato’s advertisement sparked a religious controversy, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has accused the actor and the food delivery app for “misleading and cheating the people” through the advertisement. CAIT has also written to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to […]

Patna: At a time when a large section of people in this country are struggling to achieve financial empowerment, there are two types of ideologies running parallel in the country. One is to provide help to people who are financially deprived and the other is terming it “Muft Ki Revari” freebies. Both the ideologies are […]

Guwahati: Mobile internet services across 25 districts of Assam have been suspended for four hours on Sunday in order to prevent possible malpractices during written examination for Grade-IV posts of various state government departments. Besides, prohibitory orders under Section 144 have also been promulgated in the districts where the examinations are being conducted, a top […]

Srinagar: Former chief minister and president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti was placed under house arrest on Sunday in her official residence in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city. Suhail Bukhari, spokesman of the PDP told IANS that she was scheduled to go to Chotigam village of Shopian district on Sunday where terrorists killed […]

New Delhi: From a “nuclear explosion” in the country to North Korea sending troops to Ayodhya, the 102 YouTube channels banned by the government were known to routinely spread disinformation about India to its lakhs of subscribers, and were “monetising fake news”, officials have said. The government started the crackdown against such YouTube channels for […]

New Delhi: India on Sunday recorded 11,539 fresh coronavirus infections that pushed its tally to 4,43,39,429, while the number of active cases came down to 99,879, according to Union health ministry data. The toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 5,27,332 with 34 fatalities, including nine deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am […]

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh): In a shocking case, a BJP leader was caught by his wife when he was in his car with a female friend. The BJP leader, Mohit Sonkar, a secretary in the Bundelkhand region, was thrashed by his wife, mother-in-law, and other in-laws with slippers in the middle of the road. Along with […]

New Delhi: The death toll due to rain-triggered landslides and other weather-related incidents rose to 22 in Himachal Pradesh as SDRF and local administrations found one more body at a landslide site. As per the latest disaster management authority data, six people are still missing. As heavy rainfalls continue to hit parts of Himachal Pradesh, […]

New Delhi: In a latest development in connection with the liqour scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against 14 accused including Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. This has been done to stop them flying abroad. During the searches, CBI could not find two accused. The CBI […]

Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh): An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard in a paddy field close to Majhgain range forests of Dudhwa buffer zone. The incident took place late on Saturday evening. The deceased has been identified as Ragini, a resident of Murgaha village under the Nighasan Kotwali area. Deputy director, Dudhwa […]

Mumbai: Mumbai Police Crime Branch detained a person from the Virar area late Saturday night in connection with a “26/11-like” terrorist attack threat message that was received by Mumbai traffic police. Mumbai Police is investigating a WhatsApp message warning of a “26/11-like” terror attack in the city received on the WhatsApp number of the Mumbai […]

Reasi (J & K): The movement of pilgrims to Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Katra town in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir will resume on Sunday morning after a temporary suspension due to inclement weather conditions on Saturday. The yatra was suspended since Saturday evening. “Following inclement weather conditions, Yatra has been suspended […]

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a supplementary charge-sheet against nine accused, including a woman and an Afghan national, before a special NIA court in Ahmedabad in a case pertaining to a criminal conspiracy hatched in Dubai for smuggling and distribution of 500 kg heroin from Pakistan to Gujarat by sea […]

Bengaluru: The Bengaluru police has once again denied permission to stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui’s show ‘Dongri to nowhere’ here, which was scheduled to take place on Saturday. The event was cancelled as the organisers had not taken permission to organise it in the city, police said. A fringe outfit Jai Shri Ram Sena had lodged […]