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Rajasthan: Hindu rally disturbs namaz time, stones pelted; 12 held
Communal tensions erupted after Hindus and Muslims clashed in Rajasthan’s Tala village of Jamwa Ramgarh district on March 26. Stones were pelted from both sides and communal and inciting slogans were raised…
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Do customers have to pay transaction fees for UPI payments?
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced that beginning April 1, an interchange charge of up to 1.1% would be levied on merchant UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions. According to…
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‘I have court papers’: Muslim man begs BMC official to stop demolition
A senior Muslim citizen in Mumbai’s Santa Cruz area was ill-treated by a BMC officer when the latter came to bulldoze the former’s property. In the video, the Muslim man, identified as…
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Hate speeches will go away once politicians stop using religion in politics: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took serious exception to hate speeches and said the moment politics and religions are separated and politicians stop using religion in politics, such speeches will…
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Bullet train ‘feasible’ but metro for Hyderabad isn’t: Owaisi slams centre
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday slammed the BJP-led centre for calling the proposed second phase of the Hyderabad metro rail ‘unfeasible’. The proposed second phase of metro…
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Savarkar row: ‘Everything fine’, says Sanjay Raut after meeting Sonia, Rahul
New Delhi: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday met former Congress presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and said “everything is fine”, signalling an end to the row over V…
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Watch: Stray dog attacks Hyderabad girl, leaves her injured
Hyderabad: In yet another incident of a stray dog attack in Hyderabad, a girl was left with bite injuries. The attack took place when the girl was standing on the roadside in…
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Hyderabad: Ahead of Rama Navami Shobha Yatra, mosque, dargah covered with cloth
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is all set for Sri Rama Navami Shobha Yatra which is scheduled to be taken out on March 30. Ahead of the procession, the Siddiamber Bazar mosque and a dargah…
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Humza Yousaf officially elected as Scotland’s new First Minister
Edinburg: Humza Yousaf has been officially elected as Scotland’s sixth First Ministe, with a majority of 71 out of 128 votes in Parliament. The 37-year-old is Scotland’s youngest-ever head of government, first…
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UP: ‘I’ll be killed in 2 weeks…’ says Atiq Ahmed’s brother
Bareilly: Uttar Pradesh’s mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s brother Ashraf Ahmed a convict in the Umesh Pal murder case on Tuesday claimed that an officer revealed that he will be killed in two weeks.…
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Afghanistan: Earthquake of 4.3 magnitude jolts Kabul
Kabul: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 struck 85 kilometres East of Kabul in Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to National Center (NCS) for Seismology. Taking to its official Twitter handle, the NCS stated…
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CJI intervenes to end month-long protest of MP lawyers against HC order
Bhopal: The continuous abstention of advocates from all three benches of the Madhya Pradesh High Court to oppose its order for disposing 25 pending cases in three months has hit legal proceedings…
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CBI files fresh chargesheet against Mehul Choksi
New Delhi: Months after Interpol removed a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, the CBI has filed a fresh chargesheet against him for allegedly pledging lab-grown diamonds valued at…
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Licences of 18 pharma firms cancelled for manufacturing spurious drugs
New Delhi: In a major crackdown against the manufacture of substandard drugs, central and state regulators conducted joint inspections at 76 pharma companies and cancelled the licences of 18 of them for…
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Apologise or face Rs 100 cr defamation case, KTR warns Congress, BJP leaders
Hyderabad: Telangana’s Minister for Industries and Information Technology, K.T. Rama Rao, on Tuesday served legal notice to state Congress chief Revanth Reddy and BJP president Bandi Sanjay over their allegations against him…