India

Mumbai: A special POCSO court in Mumbai on Wednesday convicted a Catholic priest and sentenced him to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old boy in 2015. The teenaged boy was sodomized by Father Johnson Lawrence in a church. The parents of the victim registered a complaint and the priest was arrested in December 2015 and […]

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday announced the state government will provide a subsidy of Rs 25 per litre to the poor ration-card holding families in the state for petrol used in two-wheelers, saying that the poor and middle classes have been hit hard by the rising prices of petroleum products. The subsidy […]

Mumbai: Mumbai on Wednesday reported 2,510 COVID-19 cases, the highest daily addition since May 8, and one death, taking its tally to 7,75,808 and toll to 16,375, a civic official said. The spike in the country’s financial capital has got pronounced since December 20, when just 283 cases were reported. Tuesday had witnessed 1,377 cases […]

Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brainchild initiative of demonetisation has become a “failure” as evident in seizure of a huge pile of cash from a businessman’s residence in Uttar Pradesh. “You should ask the Prime Minister as to how so much of cash was found despite the demonetisation […]

New Delhi: Smartphones have evolved substantially in the last decade to meet the changing demands and expectations of the consumers. With the current momentum, foldable smartphones are set to witness a massive 638 per cent jump in sales in India in 2021, and are expected to touch a record 3 lakh units sales in 2022. […]

Lucknow: What is in a name, asked Shakespeare. But it is a lot if one belongs to a place that has changed its name. Well-known poet Akbar Allahabadi has been mentioned as ‘Akbar Prayagraji after the name of Allahabad was changed to Prayagraj by the Yogi Adityanath government, three years ago. The name of the […]

New Delhi: This is a breaking news story! Our CBSE sources have been tipped that CBSE is planning to upload the Term 2 Sample Papers in January 2022 with a big twist. Director of Academics, Dr Joseph Emmanuel has instructed the CBSE committee to focus on two types of paper pattern due to Omicron related […]

Puducherry: A person in a village in Puducherry’s Vilianur climbed a tree to avoid being administered Covid-19 vaccine. The man, who spotted the health authorities coming towards his house, ran away and later climbed the tree to prevent him from being vaccinated. The incident happened on Tuesday. Puducherry health authorities said that the middle-aged man, […]

New Delhi: While the phrase “now more than ever” was the one mostly searched and used in 2020, it was the turn of “new normal” amid the Covid-19 pandemic that was used the most in 2021, according to Google. Google’s ‘Ngrams’ tool (launched in 2009 by part of the Google Books team) has revealed how […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday claimed that after Muslims, Christians were the new target of the Hindutva brigade, citing the government’s refusal to renew the FCRA registration for the Missionaries of Charity. Chidambaram, who is senior election observer of the Congress for Goa, also claimed that the mainstream media had banished […]

New Delhi: Financial intelligence teams probing the recovery of around Rs 200 crore during raids in Kanpur-Kannuj have now found that perfume and compound businessman Piyush Jain has links across 50 countries. The teams have also taken around 100 samples of compounds which will be sent to the lab for tests. “Around 100 samples of […]

Bengaluru: Karnataka has become the first state in the country to adopt cashless payment solutions to facilitate education scholarship fee payment for eligible students. e-RUPI allows cashless payment solutions through a digital QR or SMS string which can be easily redeemed at the identified institute. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), State Bank of India […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of 23 projects worth over Rs 17,500 crore in Haldwani, Uttarakhand on Thursday. Among the 23 projects, 17 projects worth over Rs 14,100 crore cover a wide array of sectors/areas across the state including irrigation, road, housing, health infrastructure, industry, sanitation, drinking […]

Portblair: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted Southeast of Portblair in the early hours of Wednesday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed. According to NCS, the tremors of the earthquake had a depth of 100 kilometres and occurred at around 5.31 am. “Earthquake of Magnitude: 4.3, occurred on 29-12-2021, 05:31:05 […]

Goa: Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo’s statue has been installed in Panaji, Goa to inspire the youth and take football to next level in the state and country. The statue weighs around 410 kgs and the aim of installing it is to motivate the younger generation towards sports and following their dreams. “This is for […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday slammed the Modi government over its refusal to renew the FCRA registration of the Missionaries of Charity, accusing it of targeting Christians to advance its majoritarian agenda. “Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity are the latest victims of Modi Government’s vicious, vengeful and hate driven agenda against minorities,” Randeep […]

Mumbai: A witness in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, whose statement had been recorded by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, claimed in a court on Tuesday that the ATS had threatened him to take the names of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and four other RSS leaders. Notably, former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, currently […]

Sukma: Sahdev Dirdo, a 10-year-old boy who shot to fame after a video of him singing ‘Bachpan ka Pyaar’ song went viral on the Internet, was on Tuesday injured when the motorcycle on which he was riding pillion skidded on the road in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, police said. The accident took place at around 6:30 […]

Visakhapatnam: East Coast Railway will introduce festival special trains to clear passenger rush during Sankranti. Accordingly, train no. 08579 Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad weekly special train will leave Visakhapatnam on Wednesdays at 7 pm from January 5 to February 23 to reach Secunderabad on the next day at 7 am. In the return direction, train no. 08580 Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam […]

New Delhi: The Central government has formed a seven-member committee to suggest withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Power Act, 1958 (AFSPA) from Nagaland and asked to submit its report within three months. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Northeast India Division, in an office order on December 26, stated that “In order to review […]

New Delhi: In a massive security upgrade of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a highly sophisticated car Mercedes-Maybach S650 Guard has been included in his cavalcade that can survive bullets and explosive blast, the sources in the security set up said. PM Modi was first spotted with the new car at Hyderabad House in Delhi while welcoming […]

New Delhi: To ensure swift movement of troops at borders with China and Pakistan, Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed 24 bridges and three roads, including at the height of over 19,000 feet in Ladakh, in four states and two union territories. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh virtually inaugurated these 24 bridges and three roads from […]

New Delhi:  Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday held a meeting with a delegation of protesting resident doctors and urged them to call off their strike over delay in NEET PG counselling in the larger interest of the public. Following the detailed meeting with the delegation of the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA), […]

New Delhi: People aged 60 years and above with co-morbidity will not be required to produce or submit any certificate from doctor at the time of administration of precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine, the Centre told states and union territories on Tuesday. Such persons are expected to obtain the advice of their doctor before deciding to […]