23:47
Delhi will alter school timings, suspend non-essential water use, provide uninterrupted power supply to health facilities and survey vulnerable locations daily to mitigate the impact of extreme heat on susceptible populations in peak summers, according to the city's first heat action...
23:31
The father of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput Thursday approached the Delhi high court against an order refusing to restrain the continued online streaming of a film based on his son's life. A bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Dharmesh Sharma issued notice on Krishna Kishore Singh's...
23:22
Union minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that there are security concerns involved in the decision to restrict import of laptops. The minister said that there will be no disruption in the availability or the price and the government will be ready to engage...
22:50
RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary
Sacked Railway Protection Force constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, who is accused of shooting dead his colleague and three passengers on board a train last month, does not remember anything about the incident, his arrest or custody, his lawyer said on Thursday. Lawyer Amit Mishra, who...
22:25
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asserted that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is flexible and is not imposed on states by the Centre.States can adopt the policy according to their requirements, she said at the launch event for 'Desia' and 'Kuwi' (tribal languages)...
22:15
Edtech firm Unacademy has sacked a teacher, identified as Karan Sangwan, who appealed students to vote for educated candidates. Sangwan has started his own YouTube channel and announced that he will post details around the controversy on August 19. From the past few days a video...
21:52
In a bid to check digital frauds, the government has made verification of dealers selling SIM cards mandatory and discontinued the provision of issuing bulk connections, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. Earlier, while announcing the new measures, the minister had said that...
21:48
INS Vindhyagiri
The seventh and last of the stealth frigates being built by MDL under Project 17 Alpha will be launched on September 1, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar said in Kolkata on Thursday. The Navy had placed orders for seven stealth frigates, four of which went to Mazagon...
21:29
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested businessman Sujit Patkar, a close friend of Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut, in a case related to Lifeline Hospital Management Services, an official said. Patkar, earlier arrested by the Enforcement Directorate...
21:22
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An average user spends less than Rs 100 on online gaming and Rs 200-400 on over-the-top (OTT) platforms, according to a report by technology and policy think tank Esya Centre. Published in a working paper of IIM Ahmedabad, the survey outlines that users spend the maximum time about...
21:15
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is in power in Gujarat for over 25 years, had spent over Rs 209 crore in the 2022 state assembly polls, according to details submitted by the party to the Election Commission. The expenditure report was put in public domain by the poll panel on...
20:39
The death toll in rain-battered Himachal Pradesh rose to 74 as another body was pulled out of the rubble of a Shiva temple here and two more people killed in Chamba district, officials said on Thursday. Twenty-one of these deaths were in the three major landslides in Shimla alone --at the...
20:26
Democratic Progressive Azad Party chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad said a majority of Indian Muslims have converted from Hinduism, adding that an example of this can be found in the Kashmir Valley where a majority of Kashmiri Pandits converted to Islam. Asserting that religion should not...
20:18
United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted that he is the right person for the UK's top job, especially at a time of rapid technological change and tough economic challenges, as he gets back into the full swing of work after a rare family holiday in California.In an interview with...
20:10
At least 11 girls studying in a higher secondary school at Bicholim in North Goa were hospitalised on Thursday after some fellow students used pepper spray on them as part of mischief, a senior police official said. The incident occurred when the girl students were inside the...
19:58
Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday expressed confidence that Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar will one day support Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his vision to make India strong and self-reliant. The BJP leader was speaking to...
19:25
A bank account analysis of arrested Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji and his wife shows they received huge cash deposits, the Enforcement Directorate said Thursday, days after filing a chargesheet against the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader in a money laundering investigation liked to 'cash...
18:58
A 43-year-old man was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Cachar district BJP office in Assam, police said on Thursday.The deceased, identified as Sudhangshu Das, was found dead inside the VIP room of the office located in Itkhola area of Silchar town on Thursday morning.Nantu Roy, a...
18:40
A day after differences surfaced between INDIA block allies Aam Aadmi Party and Congress over contesting the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, the city's ruling party on Thursday said the Congress has now clarified its stand and the matter is over. The row had erupted on Wednesday following the...
18:27
Randeep Surjewala
Effecting an organisational shake-up, the Congress on Thursday appointed Randeep Surjewala as general secretary in-charge of poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and former MLA Ajai Rai as the chief of the party's Uttar Pradesh unit. Also, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge appointed Mukul Wasnik as...
18:09
A four-member delegation of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, led by party general secretary Sitaram Yechury, will visit the ethnic strife-torn Manipur for two days from Friday. Besides Yechury, the delegation will also have the party's Central Committee members Jitendra Chaudhury,...
17:45
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi remained silent on the ethnic violence in Manipur, and asserted the least he could have done is issue an appeal for peace. Speaking in the Delhi Assembly, Kejriwal said the prime minister remains silent...
17:42
Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas is no longer associated with Sona, her Indian cuisine restaurant which was opened in 2021 in New York City. A spokesperson for the Citadel star confirmed the news to People magazine. Priyanka has stepped away from her partnership at Sona. Bringing...
17:06
An IndiGo pilot died after collapsing near a boarding gate at the Nagpur airport on Thursday, officials said. The 40-year-old pilot who was going to operate the airline's Nagpur-Pune flight collapsed around 1noon while sitting in the security hold area, they said. Prima facie, he died...
17:00
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday accused the BJP of breaking duly elected governments in various states, even as the ruling party spoke of providing a stable government. You talk of providing a stable government but break duly elected governments in states, Pawar...
16:35
Cow vigilante Bittu Bajrangi, arrested in connection with communal clashes in Nuh earlier in the month, was sent to a 14-day judicial custody on Thursday, police said.Bajrangi was produced in a Nuh court on Thursday from where he was sent to judicial custody in Neemka jail of Faridabad district,...
16:24
Four BJP MLAs were marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly during its proceedings on Thursday for protesting against a discussion over the Manipur issue. AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak began a short duration discussion over the violence in the northeastern state following which BJP MLAs got up in protest,...
16:20
Submerged homes in Rupnagar
Army and NDRF teams on Thursday rescued nearly 300 people from marooned villages in Punjab's Kapurthala district. Kapurthala Deputy Commissioner Karnail Singh said six teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Army pressed six boats to rescue the people caught in the floods and...
15:24
Women belonging to the 'Meira Paibis' hold a torch protest
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday lashed out at the BJP, alleging the party is busy campaigning in other states while Manipur is burning. Addressing Mahila Congress members and workers at the Talkatora Stadium here, Kharge said the women leaders of the party will work...
14:37
Padma Shri and former ISRO scientist Mylswamy Annadurai on Chandrayaan-3: Now the important thing is softly and securely landing on the moon and for that, the lander has to separate from the propulsion module... Now 'Vikram' has to take its own course of action and for that, it has to separate....
14:35
A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a 12-year-old girl for rejecting his proposal for a romantic relationship and tried to take his life by drinking disinfectant in Maharashtra's Thane district, the police said on Thursday.Accused Aditya Kamble repeatedly stabbed the minor in the presence of her...
14:08
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has clarified on Bihari architects remarks and said people from Bihar are just like our brothers' and damage to buildings in the state in the wake of heavy rains was fault of our structural engineering'. Talking to ANI, the Chief...
13:47
India logged 33 fresh coronavirus infections in a day while the active cases were recorded at 1,436, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll has increased to 5,31,924 with two deaths, one each reported from Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, the data updated at 8 am...
13:38
Chandrayaan-3 mission: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that the lander module (LM) is successfully separated from the propulsion module (PM). The lander module is set to descend to a slightly lower orbit upon a de-boosting planned for tomorrow around 4 pm, the ISRO said.
13:04
India's Thar Desert, known for its arid expanse, could undergo a transformative shift due to the effects of climate change, a study suggests. While many deserts across the globe are predicted to expand with rising temperatures, the Thar Desert might defy this trend and actually turn green...
12:28
A 35-year-old rape convict who was released after getting relief in a jail term, raped another minor girl in Satna district in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday evening, a police official said on Thursday. The accused has been identified as Rakesh Verma (35), a resident of Krishna Nagar...
12:20
Amid the raging controversy around the renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) in the national capital to Prime Ministers' Memorial Museum and Library (PMML), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said his great grandfather was known more for the work he did in his time and...
11:46
Chetansinh Chaudhary
RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, who shot dead his senior and three passengers on board a moving train last month, has been dismissed from service and he was involved in at least three discipline-related incidents, including the harassment of a Muslim man in 2017, an official said on...
11:20
Arrested in September 2019 by the Delhi police for making 'provocative statements' when Donald J Trump was on his visit to India, Dr Umar Khalid has now spent three years in jail without being convicted of an offence, points out Aakar Patel. Read the column here.
11:07
Search and rescue ops at the site is on for the 4th day
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Thursday said a total of 13 bodies, among 21 people who went missing after a massive landslide struck the Summer Hill area of Shimla earlier this week, have been recovered.Speaking to ANI, NDRF Inspector Naseef Khan said, The rescue and search...
10:44
Women belonging to the 'Meira Paibis' demonstrate in Manipur
Eight firearms and 112 rounds of ammunition were recovered from different districts of violence-hit Manipur during search operations by security forces, police said. Besides, the forces also seized six explosives, they said. The recoveries were made on Wednesday from Bishnupur,...
10:37
A house collapse at Jakhan village
As many as 15 houses collapsed and seven cowsheds were completely destroyed in subsidence and landslides at Jakhan village, part of Madrasu gram panchayat on Langha Road, 50 km from Dehradun on Wednesday, an official statement said. After receiving word of these incidents, senior...
10:19
Before a Niti Aayog task force on farmers' income, the conglomerate advocated to remove restrictions on corporates hoarding agricultural commodities. Read the report here.
10:01
Anil Sharma's Gadar 2: The Katha Continues has broken several box office records on the day of its release. The first-day collections are on a par with the opening collections of Gadar in 2001, if not better.We expected it to open very big. But...
09:57
Manipur women protest against Assam Rifles
Heavy rains triggered massive landslides in Manipur's Noney district, blocking the Imphal-Silchar highway due to which at least 500 goods vehicles are stranded, officials said on Thursday. The landslides happened on the National Highway 37 between Irang and Awangkhul part 2, Khongsang...
09:29
Congress leader Sachin Pilot
Not known to share the best of equations with his former deputy, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday came out in support of Sachin Pilot amid allegations by the BJP that his father, former Union minister Rajesh Pilot, was involved in the bombings over Mizoram in 1966.During his...
09:23
Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, who shot dead his senior and three passengers on board a moving train last month, has been dismissed from service, an official said on Thursday.The order to sack Chaudhary was issued on Monday by RPF senior divisional security...
08:50
Deepak Babaria
Deepak Babaria, Congress in-charge for Delhi, on Wednesday, distanced the party from its leader Alka Lamba's statement, saying that there was no discussion held on elections or alliance in today's meeting.Babaria even termed her statement 'immature'.Speaking to ANI, Babaria said, I am finding...
01:58
The National Commission for Women on Wednesday hit out at the Delhi Commission for Women over the alleged death of a mentally and physically challenged rape victim. The NCW alleged the victim was relocated by the Delhi Commission for Women to a shelter home falsely registered in Delhi but...
01:35
An earthquake of magnitude 1.5 occurred in Uttar Pradesh's Noida, adjoining Delhi, on Wednesday night, according to the National Centre for Seismology. The earthquake occurred at 8.57 pm at a depth of six kilometre with the epicenter in the Sector-128 area of Noida, the NCS website...
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VS Arunachalam (left)
VS Arunachalam, a former DRDO director general, died in the US on Wednesday, his family said in a statement. He was 87. With great sadness and a sense of immense loss, we would like to convey the demise of Dr V S Arunachalam. He passed away peacefully in his sleep surrounded by close...
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A Dalit sarpanch has alleged that he was not invited to hoist the Tricolour in their village school on Independence Day and accused the principal of making casteist remarks against him in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district, an official said. The official said a probe has been ordered to look...
01:03
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Wednesday said the party's top brass will discuss with Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar his controversial meeting with politically estranged nephew and state deputy CM Ajit Pawar when the Opposition alliance against BJP -- INDIA --...
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