- India
Only 10% students at JNU are ‘troublemakers’: JNU VC on campus politics, violence
New Delhi: Ninety per cent of students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) are apolitical and only 10 per cent are “troublemakers” who think they can build their political careers at the…
- India
Mewat man offers Rs 2 cr for slitting Nupur’s tongue, police launch probe
Gurugram: Police in Mewat are looking into a video clip in which a man declares a “reward” of Rs 2 crore for slitting the tongue of now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for…
- India
SC to hear plea of TV anchor against FIRs for doctored Rahul Gandhi video
New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Thursday the plea of a TV news anchor, facing several FIRs in some states for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul…
- India
MP: Tribal woman thrashed, paraded with husband on shoulders in Khargone
Khargone: A 45-year-old woman was allegedly thrashed and forced to walk carrying her husband on her shoulders at a village in Madhya Pradesh‘s Khargone district, and seven persons were arrested in connection…
- India
I-T raids at manufacturers of Dolo-650, pill that got popular during Covid
Bengaluru: The Income Tax department Wednesday conducted searches at the premises of Bengaluru-based pharmaceutical company Micro Labs Ltd, the manufacturers of the Dolo-650 tablet that was widely used by COVID-19 patients during…
- Telangana
‘Green goal’: Telangana gears up to plant 19.54 crore saplings this year
Hyderabad: Telangana government aims to plant 19.54 crore saplings this year, under the eighth edition of its ‘Haritha Haram,’ a large-scale tree-planting drive, in the State. A Santhi Kumari, Special Chief Secretary…
- India
Uddhav-led Sena changes chief whip in LS amid fears of losing MPs to rebels
Mumbai: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Wednesday nominated Rajan Vichare as the party’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha, replacing MP Bhavana Gawali, party leader Sanjay Raut said. “It is to…
- India
Gap between 2nd, precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine reduced to 6 months
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has reduced the gap between the second and precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all beneficiaries from nine to six months following a recommendation by NTAGI.…
- India
Kali row: Taken aback by attack on Mahua Moitra, ‘lighten up’, says Tharoor
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said he is “taken aback by the attack” on Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra for her comments on Goddess Kali, and urged people to…
- India
Amid VP buzz, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigns; no Muslim in Cabinet
New Delhi: Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and R C P Singh submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a day before the completion of their Rajya Sabha term,…
- India
Kali row: Mahua Moitra booked for hurting religious sentiments
Police in Madhya Pradesh register FIR against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra for allegedly hurting religious sentiments over her remark about Goddess Kali. Moitra had on Tuesday kicked up controversy at a…
- Middle East
Explosion at arms depot kills 6 people: Yemen officials
Sanaa: An explosion at an arms depot in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan on Tuesday killed six people and wounded 32, medical officials said. The cause of the early morning blast that…
- Politics
In over 110 years, Congress goes without representation in UP Legislative Council
Lucknow: For the first time in more than 110 years of Uttar Pradesh’s Legislative Council, the country’s oldest party Congress will have no representative as its only member in the state’s Upper…
- India
SpiceJet freighter returns to Kolkata after weather radar glitch
New Delhi: SpiceJet said its freighter aircraft, which was heading to Chongqing in China, returned to Kolkata on Tuesday as the pilots realised after take off that its weather radar was not…
- Telangana
Telangana records rise in COVID-19 cases with 552 fresh infections
Hyderabad: Telangana on Tuesday saw a substantial rise in new COVID-19 cases with 552 fresh infections being reported, pushing the statewide tally to 8,03,374. Hyderabad district registered the highest number of cases…
