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Chandigarh: Deepak Tinu, an accused in the killing of famed Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala and a close aide of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, escaped from the custody of the Crime Investigations Agency (CIA) of Punjab Police in a dramatic way. It is learnt that Tinu, who was charge sheeted in the Moosewala murder case, was […]

Hyderabad: In a development that exposes large scale corruption in state owned entities under the Indian Railways, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed that that Oracle Corporation paid a bribe of more than US$400,000 to officials from a company owned by the Indian Ministry of Railways in 2019. The revelation came […]

Chikkaballapur(Karnataka): A 14-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly tied to a pole and badly beaten in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka on Thursday, the police said on Saturday. The police said that the accused thrashed the victim after suspecting him of having committed theft. According to the police, the boy was allegedly assaulted by a group […]

On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, on Sunday raised the issue of assassination of the father of the nation, and said the battle of ideologies continues and exhorted people to join him in this.

New Delhi: India and Taiwan are threatened by “authoritarianism” and it is high time for both sides to engage in “strategic collaboration”, Taipei’s de-facto Ambassador Baushuan Ger said on Sunday while referring to China’s aggressive behaviour in the region. In an interview to PTI, Ger said Taiwan and India need to join hands to “fend […]

India has reported 3,375 fresh Covid-19 cases and 18 deaths in the last 24 hrs, Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.

PM Modi on this occasion also shared glimpses of Shastri's gallery in the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya in Delhi and urged the people to visit the museum.

The first skin bank in Uttar Pradesh will soon come up at the King George's Medical University and will aid in the speedy recovery of burns' patients.

After suffering poll defeats in successive elections, the Congress today has been reduced to having its own government in only two states -- Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

For the last two years the people of Kolkata were unable to enjoy the states biggest festival of Durga Puja to the fullest due to the pandemic and the host of restrictions on pandal hopping imposed by the Calcutta High Court.

At least 26 people were killed while several injured after a tractor-trolley carrying devotees overturned and fell into a pond near a village in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district on Saturday evening.

As per the latest guidelines of the UGC, a student can pursue two full time academic programmes in the physical mode or one in physical mode and another in Open and Distance Learning/Online mode or up to two online programmes simultaneously.

Hyderabad: Protests against the Centre’s move to privatise power supply systems are getting louder, with the latest being reported from Puducherry, where the Electricity Department employees and engineers have been on strike. Irate employees, who have been on strike for four days now, raised slogans against the Centre and threatened to intensify their stir if […]

New Delhi: Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat and Navi Mumbai followed it on the next two spots in the Central government’s annual cleanliness survey, the results of which were announced Saturday. In the category of best performing states in ‘Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022’, Madhya Pradesh […]

New Delhi: A Delhi Court hearing the Northeast Delhi riots case has recently discharged five accused for the offence of setting shops on fire during the riots in February 2020 in the Karawal Nagar area. The court while discharging the accused persons, noted non-disclosure of offence in the statement and photographs of shops. However, the […]

New Delhi: Google received 37,282 complaints from Indian users in the month of August in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The tech giant also removed a total of 551,659 pieces of bad content, as a result of user complaints in the country. The complaints Google received in India consisted of various categories including […]

New Delhi: Refuelling at petrol pumps in the national capital will not be possible without Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate from October 25, the AAP government said on Saturday. “In a bid to curb vehicular pollution, the government in Delhi has decided that petrol and diesel will not be provided without PUC certificate at petrol […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said it banned over 23 lakh accounts in India in the month of August in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users (according to third-party data) in the country, received 598 complaint reports in the month of August in India, […]

New Delhi: Former Jharkhand minister KN Tripathi’s nomination for the Congress presidential poll was rejected on Saturday, setting up a contest between party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. The three had filed nominations on Friday, the last day of the process. Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters here, AICC Central Election Authority […]

According to police, the incident took place in the limits of Chintamani Rural Police Station.

Airtel will roll out 5G services in several cities across the country by March 2023 and across India by March 2024.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched 5G services in the country, saying it was a "historic day for 21st century India" and added that the technology will revolutionise the country's telecom sector.

The boy who had been admitted to the LNJP hospital was lying in an unconscious condition for several days and passed away this morning.

Amid drizzles, thousands of Congress workers led by their leader Rahul Gandhi, resumed the Bharat Jodo yatra which entered day two in the state on Saturday.