India

New Delhi: Amid a big push for the Aatmanirbhar Bharat scheme by the PM Narendra Modi-led government, the Indian Air Force is planning to acquire 114 fighter jets of which 96 would be built in India, and rest 18 would be imported from the foreign vendor chosen for the project. The Indian Air Force has […]

Ahmedabad: Even as the Aam Aadmi Party sees itself the main contender to the ruling BJP in Gujarat, where the Assembly polls are due later this year, some political experts and the Congress feel the AAP will split the opposition votes, benefitting the BJP. The Congress also claimed that the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP was the […]

Mangaluru: A 42-year-old man has scripted history by starting a donkey farm at a village in Dakshina Kannada district. The farm, which opened on June 8, is the first of its kind in Karnataka and the second in country after one in Ernakulam district of Kerala. Srinivas Gowda, the owner of the farm, says he […]

New Delhi: As the battered edtech platforms enter the physical tuition centre space, knives are out and the traditional coaching institutes have threatened their teachers on leaving the institutes. As schools and colleges reopen, leading edtech platforms like Unacademy, BYJU’s, Vedantu and the rest are facing the heat. While BYJU’s has already opened offline tuition […]

Bhopal: A woman was attacked on her face with blade by few men for resisting attempts of eve teasing which led to 118 stitches on her face in Bhopal. The incident took place in the TT Nagar area of Bhopal. Some youths attacked the woman in broad daylight in Bhopal. The woman’s one eye is […]

Ujjain: Accepting Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s fund for weight loss challenge, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Ujjain Anil Firojiya claimed to have reduced 15 kg weight in less than four months and is entitled to get Rs 15,000 crore fund for development in his constituency as promised by Gadkari. Firojiya, a first-time MP said […]

New Delhi: The 23-year-old woman who has accused Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Mahesh Joshi’s son of rape, suffered an ink attack in the national capital, an official said on Sunday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast District) Esha Pandey said a PCR call was received on Saturday night that some miscreants had thrown something on the woman and […]

New Delhi: “The situation is not in our favour these days… For some time you carry out your work from inside the central jail, do not worry about anything,” Nana Patekar told Ajay Devgan in the 2005 Bollywood flick ‘Apaharan’. Patekar and Devgan both played gangsters in the film and in the aforementioned scene, the former […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi on Monday and Sonia Gandhi on June 23. The Congress has decided to take on the ED politically as well as legally. On Sunday the party will hold a press conference and the party’s senior leaders will accompany Rahul Gandhi to the ED office. This […]

New Delhi: India logged 8,582 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,32,22,017, while the active cases increased to 44,513, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,761 with four fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprises 0.10 […]

Kanpur: In a bizarre incident, a groom in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district ran away from the marriage venue as he did not get the required dowry, police said. The incident took place at a mass marriage event in Sharifapur village of the district in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Minister Dharam Pal Singh. The groom […]

Palakkad: Gold smuggling case prime accused Swapna Suresh made an emotional appeal before the media here on Saturday in the wake of her lawyer R Krishnaraj’s potential arrest saying ‘don’t hurt people who are around me’. According to her, it’s a deliberate attempt to isolate her. “Why are they attacking me like this. I stick […]

Mumbai: Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nupur Sharma has been summoned by Mumbai police to appear at Mumbai’s Pydhonie police station on June 25, informed the officials on Saturday. Mumbai police’s summon was regarding the enquiry and recording of Sharma’s statement. Police earlier filed a case against her on a complaint filed by Raza […]

Varanasi: The Kashi Dharam Parishad and seers related to it have demanded “a complete lockdown of the mosques from where stones are being pelted and imposition of NSA on the jihadis who threatened Nupur Sharma”. The seers have condemned the violence that broke out after the Friday prayers across the country. Mahant Balak Das of Patalpuri […]

Lucknow: In a shocking revelation, it has been found that minors have been at the forefront of the recent violence in Uttar Pradesh against the controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad. According to a senior police official , majority of the protesters in Kanpur, Prayagraj, Saharanpur and Moradabad are minors. ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar admitted […]

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated development works of more than Rs 80 crore and the Khukri museum at Diu in Gujarat. He added that “Achhe din abhi aur bhi achhe hone wale hain”. He addressed a public meeting in presence of State Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi, Union Territory (Daman and Diu) administrator Praful Patel […]

Srinagar: Three terrorists have been killed in an encounter between terrorists and security forces at Drabgam area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said on Sunday. “Two more terrorists killed (Total 3). Identification and affiliation being ascertained. Incriminating materials, including arms and ammunition recovered. Search going on,” police added. There have been a series of anti-terror […]

New Delhi: Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and DoNER G Kishan Reddy will be in Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday to review the preparations for the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju. The National Implementation Committee (NIC) under the leadership of Union Home Minister Amit Shah has approved the commemoration […]

New Delhi: The Mumbai Police has sent a notice to former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma in connection with her alleged remarks on Prophet Muhammad. Sharma will have to appear before the Mumbai Police to record the statement on June 25. “The notice has been issued by Mumbai Police. She has been asked […]

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday arrested Kashmir-based Youtuber Faisal Wani, who had digitally enacted the act of beheading former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. “We have registered an FIR against the Youtuber under sections 505 and 506 IPC at Safa Kadal Police Station in the Srinagar, after his gory video went viral,” police said. […]

Mumbai: The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government got a rude jolt as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday secured the win of its additional candidate in the Rajya Sabha polls from Maharashtra. Elections were held for six vacancies, with seven candidates were in fray, including three from BJP, two from Shiv Sena, and […]

Kolkata: With an eye on the forthcoming Presidential polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has convened a meeting of the leaders of all opposition parties and chief ministers of the opposition ruled states, in New Delhi on June 15. The meeting will be held at the Constitutional Club. She has forwarded a letter to […]

Ranchi: Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi has been blanketed by heavy police cover as two persons succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained during Friday’s protest against controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad by suspended BJP spokespersons as Hindutva outfits called for a bandh on Saturday against the violence. Around 2,500 police personnel, including one IG rank and DIG rank […]

Bengaluru: When the hijab crisis is settling down in Karnataka, it is now the skull cap versus saffron shawls in the state. A section of Hindu employees of the state-owned Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) objecting to the Muslim drivers, conductors and others wearing skull caps, are now attending duty donning saffron shawls. Following the […]