India

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has transferred the probe in the murder of Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to explore if there is any terror angle. “The MHA has directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the investigation of the brutal murder of Shri Kanhaiya […]

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday announced the Vice Presidential election to be held on August 6 (Saturday). The date on which counting, if required, shall be taken on the same day, said the EC in an official statement. The term of the office of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu is ending on August […]

Udaipur: Kanhaiya Lal, whose brutal murder triggered communal tension here, was cremated in the presence of a large number of people even as curfew remained clamped in parts of the city. A large number of police personnel were deployed during the funeral procession to maintain law and order, officials said. The funeral procession was taken […]

Hyderabad: Andrew Formica, the chief executive officer of Jupiter Fund Management Plc, took everyone by surprise after he announced he was leaving the £55.3 billion ($67.9 billion) asset management company. The 51-year-old had joined Jupiter in 2019. According to a report on ‘Bloomberg’, he will leave his post on October 1 and will step down […]

Guwahati: Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said they are ready for the floor test. He said this after visiting the famous Kamakhya Temple here, along with other four MLAs. The temple management committee welcomed Shinde and other MLAs in the temple. Shinde and other rebel Shiv Sen MLAs have been camping in […]

Idukki: A 434 metre long letter weighing 5 kilograms was how a Kerala woman placated her younger brother for forgetting to wish him on International Brothers Day this year after he stopped taking her calls and even blocked her on Whatsapp. Realising how hurt her younger sibling, a fourth year engineering student, must have been […]

Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has asked the Uddhav Thackeray government in the state to prove his majority on the floor of the House on June 30. The Governor has written to the state Assembly secretary to convene a special session of the State Assembly tomorrow with the only agenda of a trust vote […]

New Delhi: India reported 14,506 new Covid-19 cases in a span of 24 hours, which is a substantial increase over the previous day’s count of 11,793, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs on Wednesday. In the same period, the country has reported 30 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide toll to 5,25,077. […]

Bengaluru: The Karnataka BJP has started an online campaign titled “terrorist Congress” in the backdrop of the beheading of a Hindu man in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. The BJP in its online posts stated that “genocide of Hindus is taking place in the Congress-ruled state of India. The incident of Rajasthan is a testament to the fact […]

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government will be launching a special drive to provide insurance coverage to farmers against potential crop damage. The drive, slated to begin from the first week of July by the agriculture department, will be flagged off by Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi. It will cover those development blocks which have lower […]

New Delhi: Muslim organisations have condemned the horrific beheading of a man in Udaipur and have said that the murder can never be justified. Mushawarat President Navaid Hamid said, “The gruesome beheading in Udaipur is anti-Islamic and an open case of hate crime. Prophet Muhammad had never harmed any body in his entire life. Those […]

Ahmedabad: Commuting will be easier in Gujarat as works of 34 national highways at a cost of Rs 3,760.64 crore has been approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said the state Roads and Housing Minister Purnesh Modi. Out of Rs 3,760.64 crore, Rs 2,511.10 crore will be spent on the construction of roads while Rs […]

Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav, RJD vice president Shivanand Tiwari and other leaders from Bihar condemned the barbaric broad daylight murder of a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur and demanded stringent punishment for the culprits. Jitan Ram Manjhi, the former CM of Bihar said in a tweet: “The […]

Muzaffarnagar: An aspiring athlete ended his life here by suicide after he was accused of rape. In his suicide note, the athlete Rahul wrote that he had been falsely accused of rape and spent almost 19 months jail sentence which led to depression. He said that the alleged victim was his friend but her parents […]

Jeddah: Indian Haj pilgrims are facing difficulty in preparing food in their accommodation for the last two days in the holy city Makkah. Saudi authorities started removing cooking gas cylinders from pilgrim’s accommodation in Aziziah area of holy city as a preventive measure. It is noteworthy to mention that most of fire mishaps originating in […]

Udaipur: In a gruesome incident, a tailor was hacked to death in broad daylight inside his shop on a crowded street in Udaipur for supporting now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on social media over her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammed. The attackers entered his shop and stabbed him multiple times with daggers and also slit […]

Hyderabad: Noted Malayalam novelist C Radhakrishnan has been selected for the prestigious Akshara Mudra award by All India Malayalee Association (AIMA), the largest association of Keralites living outside their home state in India. The award consists of a citation and a cash reward of Rs 50,000. Radhakrishnan, who was born in Ponnani in Kerala in […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana government has unveiled the world’s largest innovation campus T-Hub with a total built-up area of 5,82,689 sq ft, the second largest being Station F which is based in France. The T-Hub’s Innovation Campus will empower the startup ecosystem and support entrepreneurs by providing them with access to 6Ms – Mentors, Market, Motivation, […]

New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani has resigned from the board of his group’s telecom arm, Reliance Jio and handed over the reins of the company to elder son Akash, a step seen as succession planning by the 65-year old billionaire. In a stock exchange filing, Reliance Jio Infocomm said the company’s board at a meeting on […]

New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday termed as “extremely disturbing” the arrest of AltNews co-founder Muhammad Zubair on charges of hurting religious sentiments, and demanded his immediate release. “It is apparent that AltNews’ alert vigilance was resented by those who use disinformation as a tool to polarise society and rake nationalist sentiments,” […]

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will hold a cabinet meeting at 5 pm today, informed Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on Tuesday. As per the sources, Maharashtra CM and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar will not be physically present in the Cabinet meeting today. “CM will chair the meeting virtually and Deputy CM is likely to […]

London: A British court on Tuesday opened the continuation appeal hearing in the extradition case of Nirav Modi, who is wanted in India on the charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to an estimated USD 2 billion in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan scam case. The 51-year-old diamond merchant had lodged an appeal […]

Guwahati: Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said he will soon return to Mumbai, and rubbished Shiv Sena’s claim that as many as 20 MLAs of his group are in touch with the Uddhav Thackeray-led party. Talking to reporters outside the luxury hotel where he and his group of MLAs are lodged since […]

New Delhi: More than one in two (58 per cent) consumers complain that their negative product ratings and reviews are not being published by e-commerce platforms, a new report showed on Tuesday. Only 23 per cent consumers said that their negative reviews or ratings on e-commerce sites were published as it is. Nearly 65 per […]