23:29
Veteran Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav passed away on Thursday, informed his daughter Subhashini Sharad Yadav through a social media post. Yadav who had launched his own party Loktantrik Janata Dal, merged with Lalu Yadav's outfit RJD in March 2020 which he said...
22:46
A court in Pune in Maharashtra on Thursday sentenced nine members of an outfit called the 'Hindu Rashtra Sena' to life imprisonment for the murder of one Prakash Gondhle over previous enmity. Gondhle was attacked with sharp weapons and killed in Hadapsar while he was on his way home late...
21:59
A SpiceJet flight's departure from Delhi airport was delayed after a call regarding the presence of a bomb inside the aircraft was received on Thursday evening, sending security agencies and airport authorities in the national capital into a tizzy. The flight was bound to...
21:39
The high court of Karnataka on Thursday stayed the creation of two new categories of reservation by the state government for the Vokkaliga and Lingayat communities and ordered status quo on the matter. A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice PB Varale stayed the new categories and ordered...
21:10
A person was arrested in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir for pasting posters threatening outsiders, the police said on Thursday. On December 22 last year, Police Post Palhallan learnt through reliable source that threat has been issued to outsiders and condemning government's...
20:37
The promoter of a Mumbai-based real estate company has been arrested under the anti-money laundering law in a case related to alleged fraud of more than Rs 500 crore, the Enforcement Directorate said on Thursday....
20:02
Three more Central Reserve Police Force commandos were injured in an IED blast triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Thursday, a senior police officer said. The incident happened in the afternoon in Tumbahaka forest in the Tonto police station area when an...
19:46
Two MLAs of the Trinamool Congress in Meghalaya joined the ruling NPP on Thursday, in a blow to the opposition party ahead of the assembly elections. Marthon Sangma, the MLA of Mendipathar in the...
19:25
The Union health ministry has extended the MBBS internship cut-off date to June 30 and an official announcement in this regard is expected soon, official sources said on Thursday. Presently, the cut-off date for aspirants to complete their mandatory one-year internship is March 31,...
19:12
A Delhi sessions court has issued a notice to Shankar Mishra, the man accused of urinating on an elderly woman co-passenger on an Air India flight, on an application filed by the Delhi police seeking his fresh custodial interrogation. The matter will likely be heard on...
18:44
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday took stock of the situation in Joshimath where cracks have been witnessed in buildings and other structures, officials said. Four other Union ministers -- Nitin Gadkari (road transport), RK Singh (power), Bhupendra Yadav (environmental and forest)...
18:33
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday raided the premises of former Union finance secretary Arvind Mayaram in Delhi and Jaipur in connection with alleged corruption cases. CBI has received complaints against former finance secretary Arvind Mayaram in connection...
17:53
Retail inflation declined to a one-year low of 5.72 per cent in December 2022, mainly due to softening prices of food items, according to official data released on Thursday. The Consumer Price Index based retail inflation was at 5.88 per cent in November 2022 and 5.66 per cent in December...
17:44
Emergency departments of private and government hospitals in Delhi witnessed more patients with heart attacks, brain strokes and high BP during early mornings this winter, as Delhi recorded its third worst cold wave in 23 years. According to Dr Suresh Kumar, Medical Director, Lok Nayak Jai...
17:23
A video grab of the boy (in orange) trying to garland the PM
A young man breaches security cover of PM Modi to give him a garland during his roadshow in Hubballi, Karnataka. All the people in the enclosure from where that boy came were properly frisked by SPG, and the whole area was properly sanitised by security agencies. It is not a serious lapse,...
16:55
The Delhi High Court Thursday declined a plea by Sushil Ansal, convicted in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire case, to stay the release of web series 'Trial by Fire' said to be based on the incident and scheduled for release on Netflix on January 13. Justice Yashwant Varma denied the interim...
16:34
Covovax is made by SII
An expert panel of the central drug regulatory authority has recommended market authorisation for Serum Institute of India's Covid vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin, official sources said on...
16:00
The government on Thursday said 18,600 toys have been seized in the last one month from major retail stores, including those of Hamleys and Archies, at airports and malls across India for lack of BIS quality mark and use of fake licences. Meanwhile, consumer protection regulator CCPA...
15:51
Here's a look at the winners of the prestigious hockey world cup since 1971.
15:49
Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose comments over Prophet Mohammad led to a controversy, and triggered violent protests has now been granted an arms license, a Delhi Police official said on Thursday. Sharma claimed that she had been receiving a lot...
15:22
The Uttarakhand state government has announced a relief package of Rs 45 crore to families in Joshimath, where large cracks appeared in homes and on roads. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the relief package has been released for nearly 3,000 families affected by gradual...
15:04
Amul's topical ad on the song 'Naatu Naatu' from the wildly popular Telugu film RRR, making history at the 80th Golden Globes by becoming the first Indian song to win the Best Original Song award. Composed by M M Keeravani, and sung by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, it is an...
14:55
A team of experts from the National Forensic Science University (NFSU) in Gujarat's Gandhinagar on Thursday visited the national capital's Sultanpuri as part of the ongoing investigation into the Kanjhawala hit-and-drag case, the Delhi Police said, adding that a 'dummies' were being used to...
14:11
Army Chief General Manoj Pande on Thursday said there has been a 'slight increase' in the number of Chinese troops at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). There is a slight increase in the number of troops [by China] opposite our Eastern command. We are keeping a close watch on the movements,...
13:36
Already in the grip of a severe cold spell, there's more bad news in the offing for North India as vast swathes of the region are likely to experience a drop in temperatures to a minimum of -4 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius in the plains, according to a weather...
13:17
While on Pakistan: Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is on the verge of food riots as large parts of the region, including Bagh and Muzaffarabad, are facing an unprecedented flour shortage with people holding Islamabad and the PoK government squarely responsible for the acute food...
13:00
Heathrow airport
Pakistan on Thursday rejected the reports in British media that a uranium-tainted cargo package that landed at London's Heathrow Airport last month originated from Karachi, saying the news is not factual. The BBC reported on Wednesday that British counterterrorism police were...
12:38
The situation along the frontier with China is stable but unpredictable and Indian troops are adequately deployed to deal with any contingency, Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande said on Thursday. At a press conference ahead of the Army Day, Gen Pande also said that the troops deployed along...
12:28
Hiring in the e-commerce sector will witness a sharp uptick in Q4FY23 (January-March quarter) not just for blue- and white-collar workers, but for apprentices as well, according to employment portal TeamLease Services.As many as 98 per cent of employers are keen to hire in Q4, compared with 92...
12:10
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has allowed asset management companies (AMCs) that have actively-managed equity linked savings schemes (ELSS) to launch a passive ELSS. But the AMCs can do so only after they close the existing active scheme.This comes at the beginning of the most...
12:08
The car in which the accused were travelling
Forensic experts from Gujarat will be visiting Sultanpuri to collect evidence and samples in the car accident which took place in outer Delhi's Kanjhawala on December 31, police said on Thursday. A team of five forensic experts from the National Forensic Science University is visiting...
11:43
The production licence of Noida-based pharmaceutical firm Marion Biotech, allegedly linked with the deaths of children in Uzbekistan, has been suspended while the results of its controversial cough syrup are awaited, an Uttar Pradesh drug official said Thursday. A team of central...
11:37
The world is in a state of crisis and it is difficult to predict how long this state of instability will last, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday referring to various global challenges arising out of conflict, war and terrorism among others. In his opening remarks at the...
11:15
Aviation watchdog DGCA will seek a report from SpiceJet on an incident at Delhi airport this week where passengers of a Bengaluru-bound flight had to wait for a long time at the aerobridge. A passenger had shared on social media a video and his experience about co-passengers having had to...
10:44
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday, while acknowledging that the Congress-led freedom movement had a big contribution to India's freedom, said that it is, however, not right to propagate the narrative that there was no role of others in the country's freedom struggle.Shah's remarks...
10:30
Amid reports of rising cases of brain stroke and brain haemorrhage in the ongoing bitter cold in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur, a senior neurologist at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital said high blood pressure is common during winters and can, at times, lead to a brain stroke. Speaking to ANI, Dr CS...
10:13
Sergei Surovikin on Wednesday was removed from his role as head of Russia's war in Ukraine only three months into the job, reported CNN. He has been replaced by chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov, who is head of the Russian military.The right-hand man of Russian President Vladimir...
10:06
A bird flu outbreak has been reported in a state-run poultry farm in Kozhikode district of Kerala as around 1,800 chickens have died of the infection, official sources said.The presence of H5N1 variant, which has an additional proliferative capacity, was confirmed among the poultry in the local...
09:35
UPDATE: The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked former chairman and managing director of Amrapali Group Anil Sharma in connection with the eight-year-old murder case of Sharad Chand, a former secretary of Bihar-based educational institution Balika Vidyapeeth, officials said.Sharma was...
09:02
Already in the grip of a severe cold spell, there's more bad news in the offing for North India as vast swathes of the region are likely to experience a drop in temperatures to a minimum of -4 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius in the plains, according to a weather...
08:39
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended that two cough syrups made by Noida-based company Marion Biotech should not be used for children in Uzbekistan.In a medical product alert on Wednesday, the WHO said the 'substandard medical products', manufactured by Marion Biotech, 'are...
01:26
The CBI booked former chairman and managing director of Amrapali Group Anil Sharma on Wednesday in connection with the eight-year-old murder case of Sharad Chand, a former secretary of Bihar-based educational institution Balika Vidyapeeth, officials said. The CBI action came on the Patna...
01:08
Some posters targeting the Congress over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were found pasted on the walls of the Congress Bhavan in Ludhiana on Wednesday, a day before the Bharat Jodo Yatra is scheduled to pass through Ludhiana. Some people, who noticed the posters, informed the police which later...
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