Amid tight security, a portion of the 185-year-old Noori Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district was demolished by local authorities on Tuesday claiming it was illegal and obstructing the widening…
Opposition parties on Tuesday submitted a notice to move a motion for removing Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, sources said. The notice was submitted to Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody, they…
The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday announced its second list of 20 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, fielding senior party leader Manish Sisodia from the Jangpura seat. Educator Avadh Ojha,…
After a brief respite of three days, Delhi’s air quality dropped again to the ‘poor’ category on Saturday. The 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) of the city was recorded at 233 at 4 pm on…
“Eight people died and about a dozen passengers were injured when their bus collided with a water tanker irrigating plants on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Friday,” police said. “The accident…
Delhi Police has tightened security at borders ahead of the Punjab farmers’ Friday march to the national capital. “Delhi Police is on alert and security has been tightened at the border points of the…
Terrorists hurled two grenades at an Army post in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir early Wednesday, officials said. Only one of the grenades exploded. There were no casualties in the attack….
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been allocated seat number one in the Lok Sabha chamber, while the seat opposite to him on the other side of the semicircular front row has been earmarked for Leader…
An Indian tourist Sayan Ghosh returned home from Bangladesh, visibly injured and traumatised after his trip to the neighbouring country turned into his worst nightmare.
The 21-year-old Ghosh recounted…
Similarly, the average maximum temperature stood at 29.5 degrees Celsius, 1.1 notch above the LPA, marking this as the warmest November since 2019. The sharp decline in minimum temperature began on…
The Congress on Friday slammed the government over an International Labour Organisation report pointing to wage inequality in India, claiming this is a direct consequence of Prime Minister Narendra…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to undertake a three-day visit to Odisha from November 29 to attend an all-India conference of Director Generals of Police and Inspector Generals of Police in…
The Delhi High Court has reserved its order on an anticipatory bail plea of sacked IAS probationer Puja Khedkar. She is accused of cheating and wrongly availing of OBC and disability quota benefits in…
The national capital has reported an “isolated” case of Japanese Encephalitis, official sources said on Thursday. All public health measures have been instituted as per the National Centre for Vector…
An IIT Delhi student died and three others were injured after soil collapsed on them when they entered a pit near the archaeological site of Lothal in Gujarat for research on Wednesday morning, police…
Bhavish Aggarwal-led Ola Electric Mobility is set to conduct layoffs, eliminating 500 positions across various departments and levels.
The downsizing commenced in the September quarter, with the…
The father of a friend of the teenage driver involved in the Porsche car accident in Pune that claimed two lives in May this year surrendered before a court here on Wednesday. The Supreme Court had on…
French Ambassador to India Thierry Mathou was robbed off his mobile phone when he had gone to visit Delhi’s famous Chandni Chowk market with his wife on October 20.
A report by PTI quoted a senior…
With an air quality index (AQI) of 207, Delhi’s air remained in ‘poor’ quality on Thursday.
Emissions from transportation account for approximately 19.2 per cent of Delhi’s air pollution, according to…
Amid deadlock in talks with junior doctors protesting over the Kolkata rape and murder case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has offered to resign.
The junior doctors are agitating over the…
After the success story of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a new venture — the Unified Lending Interface (ULI), which aims to provide “frictionless…
The death toll in the reactor explosion at a pharmaceutical company in Andhra Pradesh’s Atchutapuram on Wednesday rose to 13 and the number of injured also went up to over 40, according to…
After mpox reached Pakistan and Europe from Africa, India has sounded an alert and set up nodal centres.
The Union Ministry of Health has asked all airports and border crossings with Pakistan and…
India took its first steps as an independent nation on August 15, 1947.
The first Independence Day was made even more special with a sterling performance by Ustad Bismillah Khan from the ramparts of…
“No safety, no duty” chants resonate loud and clearly at Indian hospitals as resident doctors refuse to work, protesting against the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old colleague in Kolkata.
The…
In a remarkable stride towards innovation, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore has designed state-of-the-art shoes specifically tailored for the armed forces.
However, these are not…
In a remarkable stride towards innovation, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore has designed state-of-the-art shoes specifically tailored for the armed forces.
However, these are not…
It’s been over 24 hours since three landslides struck the hilly areas near Meppadi in Kerala’s Wayanad district, killing 158 people with many more still missing. Rescue operations have entered Day 2…
As many as six people were injured as 10 coaches of the Mumbai-Howrah Mail derailed in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharsawan district early on Tuesday, officials said. The accident occurred at 3.45 am near…
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk announced on Sunday that he will launch a 28-day fast on Independence Day if the government does not invite Ladakh authorities for talks on demands for statehood and…
The Reserve Bank of India data showed on Friday that foreign exchange reserves rose for a third straight week, hitting a lifetime high of $670.86 billion as of July 19. The reserves climbed by $4…
Anti-terror operation underway in J-K’s Kupwara Srinagar, Jul 23 (PTI) Security forces launched an anti-terrorism operation on Tuesday in the Lolab area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police…
A year after attacks marred the religious procession and led to communal violence, the Haryana government has ordered the suspension of internet and bulk SMS in Nuh in the wake of Monday’s ‘Braj…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre has an aim for achieving ‘Insurance for All by 2047’. Keeping this in its priority list, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to…
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Monday submitted its scientific survey report of the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula mosque complex to the Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court. ASI’s…
Three unidentified terrorists were killed on Sunday as army foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
The army said the anti-infiltration…
A fresh encounter broke out between terrorists and security forces in remote forest area in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to reports, 2-3 terrorists are trapped. The gunfight started…
The Union Home Ministry has initiated disciplinary action against Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and a DCP for allegedly maligning the office of the West Bengal Governor by promoting and…
An outbreak of African swine fever has been reported from a farm in a village in Kerala’s Thrissur district, officials said on Friday.
Due to the outbreak, the district collector has ordered the…
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will visit Hathras on Friday following the stampede in which 121 people were killed, party officials said on Thursday. Uttar Pradesh Congress…
Social media platform Koo, which had pitched itself as a rival and viable alternative to Twitter (now X), is shutting down. Co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka on Wednesday penned a…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced a judicial probe into the Hathras stampede in which 121 people were killed. He said that among those killed, six were from other states: four…
India’s first solar mission Aditya-L1 spacecraft completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point on Tuesday, ISRO said.
The space agency said its station-keeping manoeuvre on Tuesday…
A Delhi court has sentenced activist Medha Patkar to five months of imprisonment in a defamation case filed by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena.
Saxena had filed the case in 2000 over a press…
At least 13 people were killed and two more critically injured after their mini-bus crashed into a stationary truck in Byadagi Taluk of Karnataka’s Haveri district early on Friday.
According to a PTI…
Veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani, who was admitted to the AIIMS here last night, was discharged on Thursday, a hospital official said. The 96-year-old former deputy prime minister was evaluated…
Amid ongoing sultry weather conditions, Delhi is likely to experience light rains on Wednesday with the minimum temperature settling at 31.6 degrees Celsius, 3.7 notches above the season’s normal,…
The CBI has filed an FIR in connection with alleged irregularities in the conduct of the medical entrance exam NEET-UG held on May 5, officials said on Sunday.
This comes a day after the Centre…
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has broken silence on ‘aide linked to NEET paper leak’ charge by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha. Yadav said that BJP wants to divert the issue from the…
Delhi Water Minister Atishi commenced an indefinite hunger strike in Bhogal at noon, aiming to secure 100 million gallons of water daily from Haryana.
According to her post on X, despite relentless…
The BJP will stage protests across Karnataka against the hike in petrol and diesel prices on June 17, the party’s state unit president B Y Vijayendra said on Sunday.
The Karnataka government on…
Rejecting accusations of saffronisation of school curriculum, NCERT’s director has said that references to Gujarat riots and Babri masjid demolition were modified in school textbooks because teaching…
A major fire broke out at an abandoned building near the Manipur secretariat complex close to Chief Minister N Biren Singh’s official bungalow here on Saturday evening, police said. Three fire tenders…
A massive fire broke out on the third floor of a shopping mall in the southern part of Kolkata on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate the building, an official said.
Ten fire tenders were…
The Lok Sabha will elect its new Speaker on June 26 for which notices for motions supporting candidates can be submitted by members by 12 noon a day prior, the Lok Sabha secretariat said on Thursday….
A senior official said that an encounter occurred on Tuesday night in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir between security forces and terrorists. This is the third such event in three days in…
Narela was the hottest at 46.6 degrees Celsius followed by Najafgarh at 46.3 degrees Celsius, Aya Nagar at 44.7 degrees Celsius, Lodhi Road at 43.8 degrees Celsius and Palam at 44.1 degrees, according…
A Mumbai-bound Vistara flight with 306 persons onboard from Paris got a bomb threat after which a full emergency was announced at the Mumbai airport before it reached there.
The flight landed at 10:19…
The Congress has decided not to participate in any Lok Sabha exit poll debates on the television channels and said it does not want to indulge in speculation and slugfest for TRP. Congress spoksperson…
Delhi recorded 52.3 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, the highest-ever maximum temperature for the national capital recorded in Mungeshpur. Meanwhile, Delhi’s power demand has risen to an all-time high of…