23:22
A first information report was registered against nine persons, including a local man currently living in London, for allegedly luring tribals from a village in Gujarat's Bharuch district to convert them to Islam using funds collected abroad, police said on Monday.Over 100 tribals from 37...
23:03
A row erupted at a Rajasthan college after a student offered namaz on the campus last week and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists chanted the Hanuman Chalisa in 'protest' on Monday.On November 12, a teacher in the Rajasthan University-affiliated college in Jaipur took objection...
22:34
A court in Lakhimpur Kheri rejected the bail pleas of Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish and two others in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.Eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the violence on October 3 during a protest over Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad...
22:23
The Rajya Sabha Secretariat on Monday said the Vice President of India never attends ceremonies organised in the memory of political leaders in the Central Hall of Parliament as a matter of convention.The statement came a day after reports suggested that Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu skipped a...
21:40
India on Monday resumed quarantine-free entry for foreign travellers from 99 countries, which have agreed to a mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates with it, almost 20 months after restrictions were imposed due to COVID-19.Travellers from these 99 countries, including the United...
21:08
Pic courtesy: Rajkummar Rao on Instagram
Actors Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa on Monday tied the knot after dating for more than a decade, and said they were fortunate to be companions in this journey of life. The couple, who got engaged on Saturday, exchanged wedding vows in an intimate ceremony at The Oberoi Sukhvilas Spa Resort,...
20:34
Former Maharashtra agriculture minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Anil Bonde and 13 others were arrested on Monday in connection with the violence that erupted in Amravati city on November 13 wherein stones were hurled at shops during the bandh called by BJP, police said.Besides Bonde,...
20:02
An unidentified person allegedly attacked Tollywood actress Shalu Chourasiya and snatched her mobile phone here, police said on Monday. The incident happened on Sunday evening while the actress was on a walk at a park, the police said. She suffered minor injuries in the incident even as...
19:42
Cries of Jai Hind rend the air as a large number of people bid a final adieu to Colonel Viplav Tripathi, his wife and five-year-old son, who were killed in a militant attack in Manipur two days ago, in their hometown Raigarh in Chhattisgarh on Monday....
19:11
A special CBI court in Ahmedabad in Gujarat sentenced the then senior manager of Punjab National Bank and two others to five years in jail and imposed a cumulative fine of Rs 21.5 lakh on them for defrauding the lender of Rs 40 lakh. A CBI release issued on...
18:46
Former Union Minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid's house in Nainital was vandalised on Monday amid a controversy over his book on Ayodhya verdict.Some people vandalised the residence of former Union Minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid in Nainital today. Rakesh Kapil and 20...
18:02
Two female journalists, Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha, who were arrested on charges of publishing false news aimed at disrupting communal harmony, have been granted bail by a court in Gomati district in Tripura. The bail to the two female journalists has been granted on bail bond of Rs...
17:50
Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau has seized 1,127 kg consignment of drugs in Nanded district, said NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede on Monday.Mumbai NCB seized 1,127 kg consignment this morning in Nanded district. It was being brought from Andhra Pradesh to Maharashtra. Two people intercepted,...
17:09
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday called Punjab as the most indebted state in the country, stressing that taxes should not settle debt but should go back to the people in the shape of development. The Punjab Congress chief further said borrowing was not the way forward...
16:47
Top gainers today
Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty ended marginally higher on Monday as rise in WPI inflation capped early gains despite a positive trend in global markets. The 30-share index settled 32.02 points or 0.05 per cent higher at 60,718.71. Similarly, the Nifty rose 6.70 points or 0.04...
16:41
Young men scan their mobile phones seemingly oblivious to the beauty that surrounds them along the Srinagar's Dal Lake. Pic: Umar Ganie
16:39
A girl is camouflaged amid autumnal colours in the Mughal Gardens in Srinagar. Pic: Umar Ganie
16:35
Two women walk in the Mughal gardens in Srinagar as autumnal reds reign in the Valley. Autumn is known as 'Harud' in Kashmir, a season of harvesting. Pic: Umar Ganie
16:26
The TMC on Monday hinted that the winter session of Parliament is set to be a stormy one, as opposition parties would do all that it takes to stop India from turning into an elected autocracy. The Cabinet Committee on Parliament Affairs has recommended that the winter session be held...
16:04
Journalist Samriddhi Sakunia
Two women journalists, who had written about the recent communal incidents in Tripura and were . by Assam police today, were granted bail hours later. Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha, journalists with HW News Network, were named in an FIR at Fatikroy Police Station in Tripura on Sunday on a...
15:59
Pakistan's ongoing talks with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan offer a colossal opportunity to the Afghan Taliban regime in Kabul to prove its willingness and ability to deal with a multitude of foreign militants in Afghanistan. The world is sceptical about the Taliban's pledges....
15:50
A top Chinese official's application to join Interpol's governing body has raised alarm bells as experts, parliamentarians from around the world.World leaders and activists fear that Beijing could use the crime-fighting organisation to silence its critics abroad, including members of the Uyghur...
15:28
Babar Azam was named captain
No Indian cricketer figured in the ICC's T20 World Cup 'Team of the Tournament' which comprises players from six different countries, including Sri Lanka and South Africa, with Pakistan's Babar Azam being named 'captain' of the squad. India were ousted at the group league stage after...
15:19
A special PMLA court in Mumbai on Monday sent former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in 14-day judicial custody as the Enforcement Directorate did not seek his remand further in connection with a multi-crore money laundering case. Deshmukh was arrested by...
14:45
Dengue cases in Delhi this season have surged to over 5,270, making it the highest number of cases of the vector-borne disease recorded in the city in a year since 2015, according to a civic report released on Monday. Nearly 2,570 fresh cased have been logged in the last one week,...
14:21
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India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued an orange alert for rainfall in six districts of Kerala- Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargod for today.In the rest of the districts in the state, a yellow alert has been issued. According to the IMD, An orange...
14:10
Turkey has released updated quarantine rules for vaccinated travellers from India and Nepal, the Turkish Embassy in New Delhi said on Monday.According to a statement, passengers travelling to Turkey from India and Nepal and those who have been in these countries within the last 14 days will be...
13:54
Lakhimpur violence: The Uttar Pradesh government agrees to the Supreme Court's suggestion on monitoring of a state SIT probe on day-to-day basis by a former judge. The Yogi Adityanath government agrees to the appointment of a former High Court judge from outside the state to oversee the...
13:38
It seems the menace of enforced disappearances continues unabated in Pakistan as 37 new incidents of abduction have surfaced from across the country in the month of October.The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances, in its monthly report, said that the commission has received 37 new...
13:20
Inflation in food articles witnessed some uptick on a month-on-month basis at (-) 1.69 per cent in October, against (-) 4.69 per cent in September. Vegetable prices were lower at (-) 18.49 per cent, while in onions it was (-) 25.01 per cent.
13:10
The wholesale price-based inflation spiked to 12.54 per cent in October, mainly due to rise in prices of manufactured products and crude petroleum. WPI inflation has remained in double digit for the seventh consecutive month beginning April. Inflation in September this year was at 10.66 per...
12:51
Many political pundits believe that Rahul Gandhi is caught between the devil and the deep sea on the question of Hindutva. If he opposes it, then he is damned and if he does not, he is doomed.Now, in a bold move, he has made a scathing attack on Hindutva. While addressing a session of...
12:44
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held its Sixth Plenum from 8-11 November, and Chairman Xi Jinping used this choreographed political theater to further cement his status in the pantheon of Chinese communist leaders.There are no indications that he wishes to relinquish a single joule of power...
12:21
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vishwajit Krishnarao Rane from the Poriem constituency will join Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday in the presence of AAP's national convener Arvind Kejriwal, said sources.Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be on a two-day tour of Goa from Tuesday. He...
12:09
Central and state governments should consider work-from-home for their employees in and around Delhi and farmers should be persuaded to not burn farm waste to cut down pollution, the Supreme Court said, as it took up the capitals air quality crisis.Delhi's air pollution was a crisis situation,...
11:39
In a big step towards strengthening military ties with the US, the Indian Defence Ministry is going to take up the case for the acquisition of 30 Predator drones for the three defence forces at a high-level meeting scheduled to be held on Monday. A high-level meeting would be taking up the...
11:33
Nambi Narayanan
The Kerala High Court on Monday dismissed the plea of a former police officer, accused of falsely implicating Nambi Narayanan in a spying case in 1994, who had alleged that the ex-ISRO scientist influenced the CBI probe against him back then. Former Kerala Police officer S Vijayan had...
11:26
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Three people have died and almost 500 were injured following a scorpion swarm in Egypt's southern city of Aswan caused by thunderstorms since Friday, bringing many of them onto the streets and into peoples' homes. Many of the attacks occurred in the mountainous areas of the governorate.A...
11:07
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday said that more than 20.20 (20,20,48,426) crore balance and unutilized COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and union territories to be administered.The ministry further said that so far 1,24,90,65,030 vaccine doses have...
10:15
India's Covid tally rose to 3,44,47,536 with 10,229 more people testing positive for coronavirus, while the active cases have declined to 1,34,096, the lowest in 523 days, according to the Union health ministry's data updated on Monday. The death toll reached 4,63,655 after 125 new...
09:33
A visible improvement in Delhi's air quality was recorded on Sunday although it was in the 'very poor' category while the city's Environment Minister Gopal Rai said his government will submit a lockdown proposal to the Supreme Court on Monday to reduce pollution further.The national capital...
09:26
Police on Sunday arrested the admin of a Youtube channel for allegedly shooting a video inside 'Nidhivan Raj' in Vrindavan in Mathura during night a week ago, officials said. According to a popular belief, Nidhivan Raj is the holy place where Radha and Lord Krishna play 'raas lila'...
09:18
A medium-intensity quake of magnitude 4 hit Maharashtra's coastal Ratnagiri in the early hours of Monday, the National Centre for Seismology said. According to the NCS, the epicentre of the quake was in Ratnagiri district, some 350 km from Mumbai, and it occurred at a depth of 5 km.The...
08:46
The Uttar Pradesh government is all set to start an ambulance service for cows suffering from serious diseases, state Dairy Development, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary said in Mathura on Sunday. The minister said 515 ambulances are ready for the novel...
08:24
Noted historian and Padma Vibhushan awardee Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, popularly known as Babasaheb Purandare, died at a Pune hospital on Monday after a brief illness, a doctor said. Purandare (99), an authority on the Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was diagnosed...
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