Digital checks prevent Rs 427 cr mass wedding scam

A fake bride, a married groom posing as eligible and a wedding party that vanished the moment questions were asked -- the scene in Kannauj could easily have become another case of welfare fraud slipping through the cracks.Instead, it became an evidence of how technology is seeking to reshape the...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has defended senior RSS functionary Dattatreya Hosabale's remarks advocating for a dialogue window with Pakistan, saying he was talking about the people of the neighbouring country.Responding to a question about the RSS' view on remarks made by Hosabale in an interview to...

Three days after a power outage disrupted Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's press conference at the BJP office in Jaipur, the Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd on Saturday suspended an assistant engineer and an electrician for alleged negligence, and issued a charge-sheet to another...

Against the backdrop of speculation about a possible merger between the Opposition Congress and NCP-SP, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has said the Sharad Pawar-led party should rather join the BJP-led NDA.Athawale, who heads the Republican Party of India-Athawale faction, on Saturday said he...

India remained the world's second-largest buyer of Russian fossil fuels in May, importing an estimated 5.8 billion euros (USD 6.7 billion) worth of Russian hydrocarbons as refiners stepped up crude purchases from Moscow, European think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said...