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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 […]

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 […]