- India
Amit Shah, Adhir Ranjan in 8-member Kovind panel on simultaneous polls
New Delhi: The government on Saturday notified an eight-member high-level committee to examine and make recommendations at the earliest on the issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies,…
- Sports
Asia Cup: India all out for 266 against Pakistan
Pallekele (Sri Lanka), Sept 2 (PTI) The wonderful rescue act of Hardik Pandya and Ishan Kishan helped India overcome a fiery opening spell from Shaheen Shah Afridi to post a healthy 266 against…
- India
INDIA bloc makes more appointments in newly-formed panels
New Delhi: Opposition bloc INDIA on Saturday made some additional appointments in some of the committees set up at its Mumbai meeting to get battle-ready for the Lok Sabha polls. The bloc…
- India
Balasore train accident: CBI files charge sheet against 3 rail officials
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday filed a charge sheet against three arrested Railways officials in the June 2 Balasore train accident case for alleged culpable homicide not amounting to murder and…
- India
UP: Hindutva activists booked for burning effigy of SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya
Muzaffarnagar: More than 30 activists of a Hindutva outfit have been booked for allegedly burning an effigy of Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Swami Prasad Maurya and violation of prohibitory orders, police…
- India
Desecration of religious books: UP BJP MLA seeks to enact specific law
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh has written to the Union and the state governments seeking enactment of specific legislation to deal with the cases of desecration of religious texts as…
- World
Billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed buried with son Dodi after London funeral
London: Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed who died earlier this week aged 94 has been buried after a funeral at a London mosque alongside his son Dodi Al Fayed, the boyfriend of…
- Bangalore
Karnataka govt to decide on announcing drought-hit taluks on Sep 4: CM
Bagalkote: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the state government will decide on declaring taluks beset by deficit rainfall as drought-affected areas on September 4. He said 113 taluks have already…
- World
Pakistan’s biz community on strike over inflated power bills
Islamabad: Pakistan’s business community on Saturday observed a shutter-down strike across the country to protest against the inflated electricity bills and rising inflation. Rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and traders’ groups gave the call…
- Telangana
Telangana: KCR hails Aditya-L1 launch, says ISRO achieved another big milestone
Hyderabad: Expressing delight over the successful launch of Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday said ISRO achieved another big milestone in the field of space…
- India
Conversion: SC grants interim protection Broadwell Christian Hospital Society’s chairman
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has granted interim protection from arrest to the chairman of Broadwell Christian Hospital Society in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district in a case of alleged forceful religious conversion.…
- India
By 2080, India could lose groundwater by 3 times the current rate: Study
New Delhi: The rate of groundwater depletion could triple by 2080, if Indian farmers continued to draw groundwater at the current rate, which could threaten the country’s food and water security, according…
- India
Aditya L-1 launch: How Europe is assisting ISRO’s solar mission
New Delhi: With the highly-anticipated Aditya-L1 solar mission taking flight on Saturday, the European Space Agency (ESA) is lending a crucial hand in two significant ways: by offering deep space communication services…
- World
Tharman Shanmugaratnam joins growing list of Indian-origin leaders dominating world politics
Singapore: With Tharman Shanmugaratnam winning Singapore’s presidential election, he joins a long list of Indian-origin leaders who are dominating politics at important world capitals. Shanmugaratnam, 66, received 70.4 per cent of the…
- India
‘Nations build capacity of science in decades..’: Cong on ISRO’s trajectory
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday hailed the launch of Aditya-L1 as a “stupendous achievement” for India, as it shared a timeline of the mission from its conceptualisation and asserted that nations…
