- Mumbai
Oppn bloc INDIA’s Mumbai meeting may be deferred to September
New Delhi: The opposition alliance INDIA is likely to defer its third meeting in Mumbai to the first week of September after some leaders conveyed they may be unavailable on August 25-26…
- India
Former Bengal CM Buddadeb Bhattacharya hospitalised with breathing problems
Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was on Saturday afternoon admitted to a city-based hospital after he complained of breathing complications, officials said. Bhattacharya (79) was immediately put on mechanical…
- News
Gujarat: 2 die of electrocution during Muharram procession in Rajkot
Rajkot: Two persons died due to electrocution and 22 were injured during a Muharram procession in Gujarat’s Rajkot district on Saturday afternoon, police said. The incident took place in the Rasul Para…
- India
BJP rejig: Former AMU V-C Tariq Mansoor appointed party’s vice prez
New Delhi: BJP president JP Nadda rejigged the list of the party’s central office-bearers on Saturday, bringing in a ‘Pasmanda’ Muslim from Uttar Pradesh as one of its vice presidents and former…
- India
TN: 8 people dead in firecracker unit blast, CM announces relief
Krishnagiri: Eight people, including three women were killed in an explosion at a firecracker unit in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district on Saturday, said police. Condoling the tragic incident, Chief Minister M K…
- India
Cop beaten to death in Bihar while on a vacation
Muzaffarpur: A Bihar police personnel was allegedly beaten to death on Saturday, while he was at his village in Muzaffarpur district on a vacation, following a dispute over a small piece of…
- India
All have to try for peaceful solution to Manipur conflict: Adhir Chowdhury
Imphal: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said here on Saturday that the ethnic conflict in Manipur was sullying India’s image and all parties must try and find a peaceful solution to end…
- India
Uttarakhand: Tigress found dead in Dhela range of Corbett Reserve
Ramnagar: A tigress was found dead on Saturday in the Sawaldeh forest area of the Dhela range under the Corbett Tiger Reserve, an official said. Giving the information, Deputy Director of the…
- World
Canadian police say body found in river linked to Indian and Romanian migrants’ death
Toronto: Canadian authorities have found the body of a man connected to an investigation into the drowning of eight migrants, including members of an Indian family, in March when they were attempting…
- India
MP: Administration razes houses of two men accused of rape
Satna: The local administration on Saturday demolished the houses of two men accused of raping and brutalising a 12-year-old girl in the temple town of Maihar in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district, an…
- India
Case registered against Sambhaji Bhide for remarks on Mahatma Gandhi
Amravati: The police in Maharashtra’s Amravati district on Saturday registered a case against right-wing activist Sambhaji Bhide for his alleged derogatory remarks on Mahatma Gandhi, a day after the Congress raised the…
- 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…
