India

Kolar: A 32-year-old man allegedly smothered his 12-year-old son and dumped the body in a water tank here, police said on Thursday. The boy had revealed about his father’s IPL betting addiction to his mother. The accused has been identified as Manikanta, a barber. According to police, Nikhil Kumar had told about his father’s addiction of […]

Thiruvananthapuram: Following the detection of anthrax in wild pigs, which were found dead in Athirapally in Kerala’s Trissur district, the authorities have decided to ensure that all proper protocols are observed in the area. It was the local legislator Sanish Kumar Joseph who brought this to the notice of the higher authorities and thereafter it has […]

Mumbai: Recovering from its record low, the rupee appreciated 13 paise to 78.90 against the US dollar on Thursday. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 78.92 against the American dollar. In initial trade, the local currency witnessed a high of 78.90 and a low of 78.94 against the US dollar. In the […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the ‘Udyami Bharat’ programme at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi today. During the event, Prime Minister will launch the ‘Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance’ (RAMP) scheme, ‘Capacity Building of First-Time MSME Exporters’ (CBFTE) scheme and new features of the ‘Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme’ (PMEGP). PM […]

New Delhi: India reported 18,819 new Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, which is a considerable rise from the previous day’s count of 14,506, taking the caseload to over one lakh-mark after a gap of four months, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs. In the same period, the country reported […]

Jaipur: Rajasthan Police on Wednesday said that the main accused involved in the killing of the tailor in Udaipur were in touch with Pakistan-based organisation Dawat-e-Islami and one of them also went to Karachi in Pakistan in 2014 to meet the organisation. Rajasthan Director General of Police (DGP) ML Lather said that besides the main […]

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has upheld the order imposing compulsory retirement imposed on a civil judge, who was caught red-handed while signing order sheets of the previous day during a surprise visit of the Principal District Judge. The bench headed by Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar observed that maintaining a high degree of probity and […]

New Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi Police on Thursday flew Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to Bengaluru to recover his laptop which he used for uploading various contents on social media sites. According to police, he has allegedly formatted his electronic devices and is refusing to hand them over to police despite being repeatedly asked. […]

Varanasi: Varanasi will receive 13 new projects worth Rs 1,200 crore when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits his parliamentary constituency in July. Modi will also inaugurate around 33 ready projects worth Rs 600 crore during his visit. Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal and district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that the final date for the Prime […]

Udaipur: The two men, who beheaded a tailor on camera in Rajasthan’s Udaipur and which rocked the nation, had tried to flee the city on a motorcycle. Two men entered Kanhaiya Lal’s shop at a crowded market in Udaipur this afternoon, stabbed him multiple times and slit his throat with a cleaver. Video shows cops […]

Lakhimpur Kheri: In a shocking revelation, it has been found that a 19-year-old sister was responsible for the gang rape and murder of her 12-year-old sibling in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district. The elder sister was in a relationship with a youth and the victim came to know about the affair. The elder sister asked […]

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said he is quitting the post. “I am also quitting as member of Legislative Council,” Thackeray said in a webcast. His announcement came minutes after the Supreme Court refused to stay Maharashtra Governor’s direction to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government to take a floor test […]

Mumbai: As the fate of the Maharashtra government hangs in balance, the state cabinet on Wednesday approved the renaming of Aurangabad city as Sambhajinagar, and that of Osmanabad city as Dharashiv. The decision on the emotive issue of renaming of the historical central Maharashtra city of Aurangabad came even as the Shiv Sena, which heads […]

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 […]