- India
SC directs states to pay compensation to Covid-19 victims’ families
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed state governments and Union Territories to ensure family members of Covid-19 victims receive compensation without any delay, and the grievance redressal committee to decide…
- India
Dera Sacha Sauda chief claims his blood group changed
Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is undergoing a 20-year sentence for raping two of his two disciples, told his followers that his blood group changed from O…
- India
146 Odisha MLAs cast vote in 16th Presidential Poll
Bhubaneswar: As many as 146 members of the 147-seat Odisha Assembly have cast their vote in the 16th Presidential election held on Monday. While 145 MLAs including Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Congress…
- India
Educational institutions should treat every child as their own: Stalin
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday said that educational institutions should treat every child as their own as they impart education to them, and those institutions that act otherwise…
- Health
Zika virus may have already become endemic in India: Experts
New Delhi: Even as a recent study led by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) showed the silent spread of Zika in many states, health experts on Monday said that the…
- India
Prez Poll: Ailing ex-PM Manmohan Singh came on a wheelchair to cast vote
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday arrived on a wheelchair to cast his vote in the election of the country’s 15th President. The visuals of the 89-year-old senior Congress…
- Technology
US govt ‘tracking’ millions of people with cell phone location data
Washington: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used huge volumes of people’s cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps to track their movements on a scale not previously known, the…
- Politics
Sanjay Raut junks claims of Sena MPs joining Shinde camp
New Delhi: The Shiv Sena on Monday refuted reports claiming that around a dozen party MPs were planning to join the group led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and dismissed it as…
- India
Santhali Trinamool MLA questions Draupadi Murmu’s tribal status
Kolkata: When the BJP announced Draupadi Murmu’s candidature as the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) presidential candidate, people said that fielding a woman candidate and that too with a tribal background was a…
- World
Trump aide Bannon goes on trial on Monday
Washington: The trial begins on Monday of Steve Bannon, an adviser to former US President Donald Trump, for refusing to testify before a congressional select committee investigating the January 6 riots. The…
- India
Presidential Poll: Over 99% polling recorded across the country
New Delhi: A total of 11 states and one union territory including Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Puducherry, Sikkim, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu recorded 100 percent voting…
- India
NEET exam racket busted, 8 held: CBI
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said it busted an interstate NEET racket and arrested eight members of a gang who were appearing in the exam as proxy…
- Technology
CARS24 sees high-profile exits as global CTO, business head move on
New Delhi: Pre-owned e-commerce platform CARS24 on Monday saw some high-profile exits, including its global CTO Jitendra Agrawal and business head Kingshuk Sanyal who have left the company to pursue other things.…
- World
Ukraine war: Zelenskyy suspends security chief, top prosecutor
Kiev: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suspended the head of Ukraine’s spy agency (SBU) and the prosecutor general in the wake of treason cases in the two organisations. President Zelenskyy on Sunday…
- India
Minor raped, blackmailed in Gujarat; three booked
Palanpur: The Gujarat police have registered a case against three youths over allegations that they blackmailed and threatened to release the nude video clip of a minor girl who was raped by one…
