23:53
Representational image
A man was injured after he was attacked by a group of people armed with sharp-edged weapons for allegedly expressing support for former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma in Madhya Pradesh's Agar Malwa district on Wednesday, officials said. Following a complaint, the police filed a case against...
23:33
An incident of fire was reported on Wednesday onboard Indian Navy's aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya when it was on a sortie off Karwar in Karnataka, officials said. They said no casualties were reported in the incident. The naval headquarters ordered a board of inquiry to investigate...
23:17
Representational image
The Telangana government has submitted a report to the Centre with a preliminary estimation of Rs 1,400 crore damage due to recent heavy rains and flood in the state. It sought immediate financial assistance of Rs 1,000 crore from the Central government, an official release said on Wednesday...
22:53
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party called off its public meeting in Howrah's Uluberia, scheduled to be held on Thursday, citing its inability to hold a successful rally in view of the Calcutta high court's conditions. The saffron party has decided to hold the event at a later date, which is...
22:46
Representational image
A 'highly radicalised' individual involved in propagating jihad against India was arrested from Bihar by the National Investigation Agency, an official said on Wednesday. Ali Asgar alias Abdullah Bihari, a resident of Siswaniya village, was the seventh accused arrested in connection with a...
22:10
The killer truck
The Nuh police on Wednesday arrested the truck driver who had mowed down a Haryana DSP probing illegal mining. Sabbir, alias Mittar, the key accused in the case, was arrested from Rajasthan's Bharatpur district. He was arrested following the questioning of Ikkar, another accused in the...
21:55
Representational image
Anticipated protests over the questioning of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi by the ED and an increase in the number of kanwariyas passing through Delhi are likely to affect traffic movement in parts of the city on Thursday, police said. The Enforcement Directorate has asked Gandhi to depose...
21:37
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
The police in Jaipur arrested three people, who had made the video of a hate speech which Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat had shared on his Twitter handle. According to police, the video was more than a year old, in which some men are seen calling for the beheading of a Hindu leader...
21:26
Representational image
The Kerala high court on Wednesday ordered the release of a Russian ship detained at the Cochin port in Kochi two days ago, after it was told that the dispute between the parties have been settled. The ship was ordered to be detained by the high court on July 18 after an admiralty suit was...
21:07
Rishi Sunak on Wednesday clinched his place for the final leg of the race to succeed Boris Johnson and will go head-to-head with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as one of two finalists to take charge as Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister. Sunak won the fifth and final voting...
20:37
Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was released from Tihar jail on Wednesday night, hours after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged in Uttar Pradesh against him for alleged hate speech, prison officials said on Wednesday. Zubair was arrested by the Delhi...
20:18
Algospeak -- that's Congress leader and wordsmith Shashi Tharoor's latest addition to Twitter lexicon. The leader, known for throwing in rarely used English words into his posts, on Wednesday shared the meaning of his word of the day. Algospeak (noun): word used on social media posts to...
20:06
Bhushan Gagrani, an IAS officer who was part of the Chief Minister's Office during the BJP government in Maharashtra headed by Devendra Fadnavis, was on Wednesday appointed as the additional chief secretary to the new CM Eknath Shinde. The Indian Administrative Service officer from the...
19:50
A Delhi court on Wednesday issued release warrants in seven cases filed against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in UP and Delhi, his lawyer said. Duty magistrate Amardeep Kaur issued the order after the counsel for the accused filed bail bond in all six cases lodged in UP and one in...
19:31
Representational image
At least seven flights were diverted and 40 services were delayed at Delhi airport due to heavy rains that lashed the city Wednesday afternoon, sources said. At least 25 flight departures and 15 flight arrivals were delayed due to bad weather on Wednesday, they said. Vistara said on...
19:01
Representational image
A seer set himself afire amid a protest over illegal stone mining in Bharatpur's Deeg on Wednesday, a day after another seer climbed atop a mobile tower demanding a ban on it. The seer was referred to Jaipur from Bharatpur in critical condition, officials said. The seer who had climbed...
18:53
Representational image
A senior TV journalist has approached the Delhi police saying he received threat calls and demanded security, officials said on Wednesday. According to the police, they received a complaint from a leading daily news channel, following which the special cell unit has initiated a threat...
18:37
Benchmark BSE Sensex rallied over 1 per cent while Nifty closed above the 16,500 mark on Wednesday after sharp gains in IT, oil & gas and metal shares amid positive global market trends. Among the Sensex constituents, Tech Mahindra rose the most by 3.84 per cent. HCL Tech rose by 3.08...
18:19
Protesters set afire school buses after student's death
The chief of apex child rights body NCPCR, Priyank Kanoongo, will visit Tamil Nadu next week to inquire into the case of suspicious death of a teenager in a residential school there. The 17-year-old girl, studying in Class 12 in the private residential school in Chinnasalem, was found dead...
18:05
A Delhi court on Wednesday sent former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey to nine days' custodial interrogation by Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case related to alleged illegal phone tapping and snooping of stock exchange employees. Special Judge Sunena Sharma allowed...
17:34
Representational image
The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana has approved the proposal for the elevation of 21 judicial officers as judges in the different high courts. The collegium, which also comprises justices UU Lalit and AM Khanwilkar, on Wednesday, approved the proposal for the...
17:03
Representational image
A police constable on vehicle-checking duty died after being run over by a truck in Gujarat's Anand district early on Wednesday morning, an official said. A container truck mowed down constable Karansinh Raj (40) around 1 am on a highway near Borsad town, he said. The constable was...
16:05
The windshield of a Go-Air flight between Delhi-Guwahati cracks mid-air. Due to bad weather, the aircraft did not return to Delhi and diverted safely to Jaipur: DGCA Officials
16:02
Rapper Sidhu Moosewala
A gangster and a suspect in murder of singer Sidhu Moosewala has been killed in an ongoing encounter with the police near Amritsar today.Three policemen and a journalist have been injured, while another suspect, continues to be engaged in firing. The encounter at Bhakna village, 20 km...
15:53
A journalist was injured in the encounter going on between police and gangsters at Cheecha Bhakna village of Amritsar district. A gangster has been killed in the encounter.
15:48
At least three flights were diverted and 40 services were delayed at Delhi airport due to heavy rains that lashed the city Wednesday afternoon, sources said. At least 25 flight departures and 15 flight arrivals were delayed due to bad weather on Wednesday, they said. Vistara said...
15:44
India on Wednesday underlined that it does not interfere in the internal affairs and democratic processes of another country, while terming as 'baseless' and 'purely speculative' the media reports on influencing Sri Lankan leaders at political level in the presidential election in the island...
15:17
If you're heading to London's Heathrow airport, here's a warning from actor Hugh Grant. Grant tweets, Dear Visitors to the UK, I apologise for the way you are treated on arrival. Terminal 3 Heathrow just now was a disgrace and inhumane. I’m afraid we have the worst Home Secretary in...
15:05
Fact-checker Mohammed Zubair gets bail in all cases filed against him. The Supreme Court today granted interim bail to fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Zubair in all the six FIRs registered against him in Uttar Pradesh. The court clubs all the FIRs registered against the Alt News...
14:31
The incidents of Naxal violence reduced by 77 per cent from all-time high of 2,258 in 2009 to 509 in 2021, Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.While giving a written reply to the query of Congress MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Rai said, The steadfast...
14:14
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is increasing household expenditure while shying away from a discussion on it in Parliament, and asked whether it is unparliamentary to discuss inflation. The Congress said it is cruel on the...
14:00
Shiv Sena MLA and former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray will visit Thane, Nashik and Aurangabad districts over next three days and address rallies at some places, a party leader said on Wednesday. After a split in the Shiv Sena legislature party last month, the Udhav...
13:40
Parliament session is underway. I have sought exemption (from ED) from appearance. I will be in Delhi, says Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut. Raut was summoned to appear before ED at 11am today, in a money laundering case.ED has granted us time till 7th August as we sought the same. Sanjay...
13:32
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday constituted a three-member fact-finding committee to probe the alleged incident in Kollam where a student was asked to remove her innerwear before appearing for the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) in Kerala.The Committee will submit its...
13:26
Protesters gather outside the Presidential Secretariat after Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as Sri Lanka President.
13:18
Sri Lanka's newly appointed President Ranil Wickremesinghe addresses the Sri Lankan Parliament in Colombo. He says the country is in a very difficult situation, we have big challenges ahead. Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had offered his resignation after fleeing the country to...
13:09
Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday elected as Sri Lanka's new President by Parliament, following a high-voltage political drama which saw his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fleeing the country and resigning after a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the...
13:06
The government on Wednesday scrapped a three-week-old tax on the export of petrol and cut windfall taxes on overseas shipment of diesel and ATF as well as the one imposed on domestically produced crude oil after global oil prices fell. While the Rs 6 a litre export duty on petrol was...
12:31
Seven people have died, six people under medical treatment in a hospital in Howrah, West Bengal for consuming hooch.
11:58
Agnipath protests last month
The Delhi High Court Wednesday said it will hear on August 25 a batch of petitions challenging the Centre's Agnipath Scheme as it is yet to receive the files of pleas transferred here by the Supreme Court. The high court was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta the apex court on...
11:53
The Supreme Court on Wednesday commenced hearing on the plea of Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena challenging disqualification proceedings initiated against them under the constitutional scheme. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Uddhav faction, told a bench headed...
11:47
Tour operators are expecting a never before boom of tourist arrivals in West Bengal this Durga Puja season if there is no Covid-19 surge, with bookings and inquiries pouring in from various countries as well as other states within India. Travel Agents Federation of India's eastern...
11:21
Indian stock indices extended their gains from the previous session and traded sharply higher in early trade on Wednesday. This is the fourth consecutive session of gains in the domestic indices. The latest decline in crude oil prices coupled with signs of domestic inflation plateauing...
11:05
With opposition's protests on price rise disrupting Parliament proceedings, the BJP on Wednesday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress leader may have been unproductive politically but he should not try to curb the legislature's productivity. Parliament's monsoon session...
10:46
A woman gets vaccinated against Covid-19 in Guwahati
India added 20,557 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 4,38,03,619, while the active cases increased to 1,45,654, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,25,825 with 40 new fatalities, the data...
10:33
A female sub-inspector named Sandhya Topno was mowed down to death allegedly during a vehicle check, last night following which the police arrested one accused person in the matter.She was posted as in-charge of Tupudana Police station.Speaking to ANI today morning, Ranchi Senior Superintendent...
09:47
The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut to appear before it for questioning on Wednesday in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the re-development of a Mumbai 'chawl' and related transactions involving his wife and 'associates',...
09:07
Rishi Sunak. Photograph: Reuters
Tory MPs will vote for the last time on Wednesday to decide which two candidates should go through to the run-off vote among party members after Rishi Sunak topped the latest round to edge closer to the final spot in the race to pick the next British prime minister.Sunak, the British-Indian...
08:28
Sri Lanka is set to elect a new President on Wednesday following the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who flew to Singapore via the Maldives, amid an unprecedented economic crisis that has led to a shortage of fuel of and other essentials in the country.Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe is...
01:21
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested Pankaj Mishra, a close aide of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, in an illegal mining case, official sources said. Mishra was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The move comes days after the agency seized...
00:47
Representational image
The Army has been making 'earnest' efforts by expanding its horizon for recruiting female candidates in its various arms/services and is examining further increase in number of women officers based on functional capacities without compromise on operational efficiency, the Centre has told the...
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances
