- World
Indigenously-built Indian naval ship to visit Sri Lanka
Colombo: Indian naval ship ‘Khanjar’, an indigenously-built Missile Corvette of the Khukri class, will make a three-day visit to Sri Lanka’s eastern harbour of Trincomalee from Saturday to further people-to-people connect and…
- India
Newly elected TMC panchayat member shot dead in Bengal
Canning: A newly elected TMC panchayat member was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on Saturday. Another person accompanying him was critically injured after…
- India
8,330 Indians in foreign jails, highest in UAE, Saudi Arabia
New Delhi: As many as 8,330 Indian nationals are lodged in jails in foreign countries with 1,611 imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates alone, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.…
- India
World looking at India as nursery of new possibilities: PM Modi
New Delhi: The world is looking at India as a nursery of new possibilities and several countries are approaching the government for setting up IIT campuses there, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on…
- Middle East
88.8 lakh NRIs live in Gulf countries: RTI reply
Nagpur: Of the estimated 1.34 crore Non-Resident Indians, more than 66 per cent are in the Gulf countries of UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, the External Affairs Ministry has…
- India
Six killed, more than 20 injured as two buses collide in Maha’s Buldhana district
Mumbai: Six persons, including three women, were killed and more than 20 injured after two private buses collided in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. All the…
- India
Chennai publisher held for alleged comments on judiciary over Manipur violence
Chennai: Chennai-based publisher and blogger Badri Seshadri was arrested on Saturday for his alleged comments on judiciary while discussing Manipur violence in an interview to a Youtube channel. The arrest was made…
- India
Indian-origin Singaporean jailed for 3 weeks, fined in drunk-driving case
Singapore: A 45-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean was jailed for three weeks and fined SGD 6,800 for drunk driving and abandoning his car on the road, trying to avoid a police roadblock in 2019.…
- India
Minor girl reaches Jaipur airport to go to Pakistan, handed over to police
Jaipur: A minor girl who wanted to go to Pakistan to meet her Instagram friend was handed over to police by Jaipur airport authorities on Friday, officials said. Airport Station Officer Digpal…
- Delhi
Delhi: Girl gets killed with iron rod for refusing marriage proposal
Delhi: A 23-year-old woman was allegedly killed with an iron rod by a man in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area on Friday for turning down his marriage proposal, police said. A college-going…
- India
Need to change colonial narratives: RSS GS Dattatreya Hosabale
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Friday stressed the need for changing the colonial narratives, which he said have been carried forward even after independence. Speaking at the…
- India
NMC asks health institutions to constitute sexual harassment probe committees
New Delhi: The National Medical Commission has directed all health institutions to constitute sexual harassment probe committees in compliance with the provisions of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act. In a letter…
- India
19,873 conjunctivitis cases in Chhattisgarh; infected children told to skip school
Raipur: Following a surge in conjunctivitis cases in Chhattisgarh, the state government on Friday issued instructions to education department officials to ensure children infected with the “eye flu” are not sent to…
- Kashmir
Pak made all attempts to disrupt peace, but its conspiracies defeated: J-K police chief
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh said Friday Pakistan made all attempts including propagating a “venomous narrative” to disrupt peace in Jammu and Kashmir but all its conspiracies were defeated…
- India
Amit Shah slams oppn alliance INDIA, says nothing will happen by change in name
Rameswaram: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday slammed the Congress and its allies, including the DMK, saying nothing would happen by changing the name of their alliance to INDIA. Shah was…
