- India
EC asks Thackeray to respond to Shinde faction’s claim on Shiv Sena poll symbol
New Delhi: The Election Commission has asked the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena to respond by Saturday on rival Eknath Shinde group’s claim on the party’s ‘bow and arrow’ election…
- India
UP: Yogi directs officials to speed up relief work in rain-battered districts
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed district magistrates of the regions affected by heavy rains to carry out relief work on priority. In waterlogged areas, Adityanath instructed them to…
- India
Haryana: Locals unaware of factory produced syrup which led to child deaths
Sonipat: Kunti (49) cradles her three-year granddaughter in the courtyard of humble accommodation unaware of the tragic development concerning the factory located just opposite her house here. “Humko toh nahi pata aisa…
- World
Fears of watered-down India-UK free trade pact amid visa row
London: There are growing fears here that the proposed India-UK free trade agreement (FTA), currently in its final stages of negotiation towards a Diwali deadline, is likely to be watered down amid…
- India
Kharge rubbishes talk of him being ‘Sonia Gandhi’s remote control’
Ahmedabad: Senior Congress leader and candidate for the party’s presidential polls Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said there is no such thing as “remote control” in his party unlike the Bharatiya Janata Party,…
- India
Oppn slams govt for abstaining on China’s Muslim Uyghur treatment
New Delhi: Opposition leaders on Friday criticised the government for abstaining from voting on a draft resolution in the UN Human Rights Council on holding a debate on the human rights situation…
- India
Mulayam Singh still in ICU, condition critical, says Gurugram hospital
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav continues to be in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Medanta hospital in Gurugram and his condition remains critical, the hospital said on Friday. He…
- India
Panel to examine giving SC status to religious converts who were ‘historically’ SCs
New Delhi: The Centre has appointed a commission headed by former CJI K G Balakrishnan to examine the matter of giving Scheduled Caste status to new people who claim to historically have…
- Mumbai
NCB seizes mephedrone worth more than Rs 120 cr from Mumbai, Gujarat
Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has seized 60 kg mephedrone drug worth more than Rs 120 crore from Mumbai and Gujarat, and arrested six members of an inter-state drug cartel, including…
- Delhi
Delhi hospital performs 19th century procedure to save Iraqi national’s leg
New Delhi: Doctors at a city-based hospital here treated a 40-year-old Iraqi national using the cross-leg flap surgery, an over a century-old technique, in which they lifted tissue from one site and…
- Entertainment
Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan-I’ crosses Rs 300 crore mark worldwide
Mumbai: Director Mani Ratnam’s big screen spectacle film “Ponniyin Selvan-I” has raised over Rs 300 crore in its worldwide gross box office collection, the makers said Friday. Featuring a star-studded cast of Chiyaan…
- Education and Career
UPSC launches app for accessing exam, recruitment-related info
New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission has launched an android mobile application that will allow people to access examination and recruitment-related information, officials said on Friday. The mobile application is available…
- India
Action initiated on all cases: India counters UK Home Secretary’s claim on visa overstayers
London: India has countered UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s claim that the Migration and Mobility Partnership (MMP) had not “worked very well” to say that India had initiated action on all cases…
- World
California man charged with hate crimes after targeting saree-clad Hindu women
San Francisco: At least 14 Hindu women in the US state of California have been attacked by a man who also ripped their jewellery in a spate of hate crimes, authorities said. According…
- India
FIR filed against buffalo owners hit by Vande Bharat express
Mumbai/Ahmedabad: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) in Gujarat has registered a case against the owners of buffaloes that were hit by the Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat express, in which the front portion of the…
