- Kashmir
ED raids going on at 9 places in Kashmir
Srinagar: Enforcement directorate (ED) officials on Thursday were conducting raids at nine places in Kashmir in connection with the MBBS seats allotment racket to locals in different colleges of Pakistan. Official sources…
- Middle East
Egypt’s Prez urges intensive efforts to calm Israeli-Palestinian tensions
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has called for exerting intensive international efforts to achieve calm in the Palestinian territories amid the rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Sisi made the remarks on Wednesday during his…
- World
Over 17mn people in California are under flood watches
San Francisco: More than 17.5 million people across central and Northern California, including the San Francisco Bay area and state capital Sacramento, were under flood watches ahead of a storm set to…
- India
Pulwama martyrs’ widows on hunger strike write to Raj Guv seeking euthanasia
Jaipur: The deadlock between the Rajasthan government and four widows of Pulwama martyrs turned murkier on Wednesday with one of them, Manju Jat, writing to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot alleging that the…
- Business
SBI raises Rs 3,717 crore via bond issuance
Delhi: The State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender, has raised Rs 3,717 crore through its third Basel III compliant Additional Tier 1 bond issuance in the current financial year…
- Bollywood
Actor Satish Kaushik, famed as ‘Calendar’ in ‘Mr. India’, passes away at 67
Mumbai: Veteran Bollywood actor-writer-director Satish Kaushik – remembered as ‘Calendar’ in the film “Mr. India” – passed away at 67 late on Wednesday. His friend and another legendary actor Anupam Kher shared…
- India
Woman passenger caught smoking on Kolkata-Bengaluru flight, arrested
Bengaluru: A 24-year-old woman passenger has been arrested after she was found smoking in a lavatory of a Kolkata-Bengaluru flight, officials said. The incident took place on an Indigo flight on March…
- Hyderabad
KCR convenes key BRS meet on Friday
Hyderabad: A key meeting of Telangana’s ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) will be held on Friday. A joint meeting of the BRS Parliamentary Party, Legislature Party and the State Executive will be…
- India
TN Governor sends back bill to ban online gambling to govt
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi on Wednesday returned the Bill to ban online gambling, including on online rummy games. The Bill against online gambling was unanimously passed by the Tamil Nadu…
- India
Police bust fake call centre near Kolkata, seize Rs 4 cr cash
Kolkata: Following a surprise raid by the officers of the Bidhannagar Police Commiserate on Wednesday evening, unaccounted cash worth around Rs 4 crore was seized from a fake call centre in the…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: BJP sees red over viral video of Congressman showering money on dancing girl
Bengaluru: A viral video of a Congressman showering a dancing woman with currency notes at a wedding function has put the party on the backfoot ahead of the Assembly polls in Karnataka.…
- India
TN tussle: BJP’s top leadership to reach out to AIADMK
Chennai: With BJP’s Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai slamming the AIADMK for inducting former leaders of his party and the AIADMK leadership hitting back, the relationship between the two alliance partners is…
- Technology
AI may help find life on Mars, icy worlds
New York: Artificial intelligence (AI) may help scientists find the exact place to look for while finding life on Mars and other icy worlds, a new study has suggested. A team of…
- Delhi
DU starts appointment process for principals in over 20 colleges
New Delhi: Delhi University has started the screening process for appointing principals in over 20 colleges, which do not have regular principals, an official said. Most of these colleges are funded by…
- India
Give Maha two more airports, Aditya Thackeray urges Scindia
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT)’s ex-Minister Aditya Thackeray on Wednesday urged Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia to sanction two new airports in Palghar and Fardapur (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), and sought clarity on…
