- 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…
- India
Guj govt, DGP get legal notices over cops publicly flogging Muslims
Ahmedabad: A voluntary organisation in Gujarat has sent legal notices to the state Chief Secretary and Director General of Police after some police personnel publicly flogged a few members of a minority…
- India
Gujarat public flogging: TMC files complaint with NHRC
New Delhi: The All India Trinamool Congress(TMC) has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) in connection with the public flogging of Muslim men by Gujarat Police personnel, party spokesperson…
- Bangalore
National Herald case: ED questions Karnataka Cong president Shivakumar in Delhi
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday questioned Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar in the National Herald money laundering case, officials said. Shivakumar, 60, told reporters here before stepping into the agency…
- World
UK Opposition Labour Leader Keir Starmer vows to combat ‘Hinduphobia’
London: In its first direct reference to the term “Hinduphobia”, the UK’s Opposition Labour Party committed itself to fight against hate crimes of all kinds following communal clashes in Leicester and Birmingham…
- India
Rupee falls 16 paise to all-time low of 82.33 against US dollar in early trade
Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 16 paise to an all-time low of 82.33 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday as a firm American currency and risk-averse sentiment among investors weighed on…
- Photos
Wreath laying ceremony at National war Memorial
New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan with Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral…
- NRIs Corner
Indian-origin university student killed in US, roommate arrested
Washington: A 20-year-old Indian-origin student has been killed in his dormitory in the US state of Indiana and his Korean roommate was taken into custody, according to media reports. Varun Manish Chheda…
