- India
Mumbai: Alert from US agency saves man searching for ‘suicide’ online
Mumbai: Mumbai Police have traced a 25-year-old man and saved him from ending his life, following an alert received from a US law enforcement agency that a person was searching on Google…
- India
Income Tax ‘survey’ operations at BBC offices continues for third day
New Delhi: The Income Tax department’s ‘survey’ at the BBC office here continued for the third straight day on Thursday as officials gathered financial data from select staffers and made copies of…
- World
Nikki Haley has all credentials to be next US President: eminent Indian Americans
Charleston: Several eminent Indian-Americans believe that Republican leader Nikki Haley, who launched her White House bid, has great credentials and leadership skills to be the next president of the US. Haley, 51, formally…
- India
CPI(ML) Liberation decries IT raids on BBC premises
Patna: Liberation secretary general Dipankar Bhattacharya alleged that the Narendra Modi government’s “fear of truth” of the 2002 Gujarat riots was behind the ban on the BBC’s documentary and the surveys at…
- India
IIT B student death: Family says he faced caste discrimination; suspects ‘murder’
Ahmedabad/Mumbai: The family of an IIT-Bombay student who allegedly committed suicide has claimed he faced discrimination at the premier institute for belonging to a Scheduled Caste community and suspected foul play in…
- India
Application process for 2nd edition of JEE-Main to conclude on March 12
New Delhi: The application process for second edition of engineering entrance exam JEE-Main began on Wednesday and will conclude on March 12, National Testing Agency (NTA) officials said. The second session of…
- India
Air quality worsening in India’s cleanest city Indore, say experts
Indore: Indore may have earned the prestigious tag of being the cleanest city India, but its air quality is worsening due to rapid development in the transport, construction and industrial sectors, said…
- India
Uttarakhand Cabinet approves compensation, rehabilitation policy for people in Joshimath
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval to a policy for compensation and permanent rehabilitation of the affected families and people in land subsidence-hit Joshimath. It approved a one-time financial…
- India
Saffron-clad people should stop criticising Hindutva leaders: Joona Akhada Mahamandaleshwar
Khatima: Joona Akhada Mahamandaleshwar Awasheshanand ji Maharaj has advised “saffron-clad people” against criticising Hindutva leaders for “narrow political gains”, saying they were only “harming Hindus” by doing so. The Mahamandaleshwar, who was…
- India
Five awarded capital punishment for killing family suspecting them of practising black magic
Chaibasa: A local court on Wednesday awarded capital punishment to five persons in a case of triple murder that took place over a year ago due to suspicions that they were involved…
- India
ED gets 5-day custody of Sivasankar; Cong, BJP slam Kerala govt seeking CM’s reply
Kochi: A special court here on Wednesday sent M Sivasankar, former Principal Secretary to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, to five-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody in connection with alleged violation of the…
- India
Army Jawan beaten to death in TN, 6 including DMK functionary held
Krishnagiri: An Indian Army soldier, who was severely thrashed by a DMK functionary and his accomplices, succumbed and six people have been arrested in connection with the crime, said police on Wednesday.…
- India
MP: BJP man injured while trying to catch ball hit by Scindia at newly-built stadium
Rewa: A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary suffered injuries to the head on Wednesday while trying to catch a ball hit by Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia during a casual…
- India
BJP leaders praise BBC when it suits them: Owaisi on IT raids
Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday attacked the central government over the I-T department’s survey operation at BBC offices, saying when it suited the BJP during the Emergency period (1975-77) their…