- India
Congress Gujarat strategy: Not to target Modi
New Delhi: The Central Congress leadership has asked its Gujarat unit to refrain from making personal attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi but to raise people’s issues and target BJP policies in run-up…
- World
China denies ‘Moon takeover’ plans
Beijing: China has rejected claims by the US space chief that Beijing might be contemplating a “takeover” of the Moon as part of its military space program, and accused Washington of seeking…
- India
Rains in June leave reservoirs with less water than last 10 years’ average
New Delhi: With the month of June witnessing erratic rainfall resulting in many states receiving deficit rains from the southwest monsoon, over 30 large reservoirs across India have not just lesser water compared…
- Middle East
Palestine rejects results of US probe on Al Jazeera journo’s killing
Ramallah: Palestine has rejected the results of a ballistic probe by a US team into the bullet that killed veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May in the West Bank. On…
- India
Minor students hurl bombs at birthday party in Prayagraj
Prayagraj: In a shocking incident, two groups of minor students hurled bombs at each other at Sangam in Prayagraj where one group was celebrating a birthday. The incident took place around midnight on…
- India
NIA chief calls on Amit Shah
New Delhi: The Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA), Dinkar Gupta, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the latter’s residence on Monday. While the purpose of the meeting has not been…
- India
My viral photo with Kanhaiya Lal’s killer was morphed: Kataria
Jaipur: Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly, Gulabchand Kataria, on Monday wrote to Udaipur SP demanding a thorough probe into the matter of a photograph going viral…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra’s ruling party MLA enters drain in novel protest
Amaravati: In a novel protest, a legislator of ruling YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh entered into a sewage drain on Tuesday to protest over the delay by civic and railway authorities…
- India
IMD warns of very heavy rains over central India, west coast
New Delhi: Heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places is very likely over east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Konkan area of Maharashtra, Goa, coastal Karnataka, and Kerala, the India Meteorological Department…
- India
Unprecedented: Retired judges, bureaucrats on SC observations in Nupur Sharma case
New Delhi: A group consisting of 15 retired judges of various high courts, 77 retired bureaucrats and 25 retired armed forces officers have issued an open statement saying that ‘unfortunate and unprecedented…
- India
Society should be sensitive about people with different sexual orientation: Calcutta HC
Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court without making a direct reference has observed that the society at large should be sensitive about people with different sexual orientation. “Certain things…
- Technology
Google India adds 5 new languages to its training network for scribes
New Delhi: Tech giant Google on Tuesday expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages: Punjabi, Assamese, Gujarati, Odia and Malayalam. Google has also launched the Fact-Check Academy in…
- Technology
Massive personal data of 1 bn Chinese people up for sale on Dark Web
New Delhi/Beijing: In what could be the biggest-ever data breach, sensitive personal information about more than a billion people has been leaked from a government agency, possibly from China, and put up…
- India
UP: Akhilesh launches membership drive for Samajwdi party
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, on Tuesday, launched his party’s membership drive. Talking to reporters, the SP president said that the party workers would reach out to the rural interiors to enrol…
- Middle East
Yemen deploys forces in southern regions to confront terror groups
Sanaa: Yemen’s internationally-recognized government has authorised the deployment of troops to confront terror groups and secure state institutions in the country’s southern regions, a military official said. The official told Xinhua news…