- India
Pawar pitches for West Bengal-like anti-rape bill in Maharashtra
Kolhapur: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday made a pitch for replicating in Maharashtra the bill passed by West Bengal assembly that seeks capital punishment for rape convicts. Pawar also took…
- World
PM Modi to arrive in Singapore on Wednesday for fifth official visit
Singapore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to arrive here on Wednesday for his fifth official visit to the Southeast Asian country at the invitation of his Singaporean counterpart Lawrence Wong after…
- News
Halt export of arms, military equipments to Israel: PIL in SC
New Delhi: A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to cancel licences and not to grant new ones to Indian firms exporting arms and…
- India
Akhilesh Yadav slams Adityanath for ‘DNA’ jibe
Lucknow: Hitting back at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his ‘DNA’ jibe at the Samajwadi Party, party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said he should first understand the meaning of the abbreviation…
- World
Pakistan drop to 8th in Test rankings following loss to Bangladesh
Dubai: Pakistan’s first-ever series loss to Bangladesh has resulted in Shan Masood’s team slipping down to the eighth position in the ICC Test rankings besides hitting a historic low of lowest rating…
- News
Paralympics: India achieves best ever medal haul, beats Tokyo record
Paris: India achieved its best ever medal haul in the Paralympics as it went past last edition’s number of podium finishes on the back of a superlative performance by the country’s track…
- India
Air India’s Delhi-Vizag flight receives hoax bomb threat
Visakhapatnam: An Air India flight going from New Delhi to Visakhapatnam received a bomb threat Tuesday late night, but it was found to be a hoax after a thorough scrutiny on landing…
- India
Over 300 fall ill in Noida housing society, water contamination suspected
Noida: More than 300 residents, mostly children and women, of a Noida Extension group housing society fell ill with an infection caused by suspected water contamination, officials said on Tuesday. Alarmed by…
- India
UP man appeals to Prez, PM to save daughter facing death sentence in UAE
Banda: Shahzadi, a resident of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh, may be hanged in the UAE any time after September 20. The 29-year-old woman has been in Abu Dhabi jail for a…
- India
No malpractices in Ladki Bahin scheme will be tolerated, warns CM Shinde
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday warned that the government will not tolerate any malpractices in the implementation of the ambitious ‘Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana’, under which a monthly…
- India
Our job to fight BJP-RSS’ divisive politics: Kharge, Rahul at key Congress meeting
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi held a meeting with AICC secretaries and joint secretaries here on Tuesday and asserted that the party leaders have to…
- India
BJP leader Ghatge joins Sharad Pawar’s party ahead of polls
Pune: Raje Samarjeet Ghatge, a BJP leader from Kolhapur district, on Tuesday joined the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (SP). He joined the party in Pawar’s presence at a public meeting in…
- News
Will provide funds after Central teams visit rain-hit Telangana: Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad: Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday indicated that the floods in Telangana cannot be declared as “national calamity” as sought by the state government even as he said the…
- Telangana
Flood waters start receding in AP, Telangana; states step up relief measures
Hyderabad: Flood waters in several parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh started receding as the states have not witnessed any intense rain spells on Tuesday even as the respective state governments stepped…
- India
MP: Five booked for raping woman and forcing her to dance
Indore: An FIR has been registered against five men for allegedly raping a 34-year-old woman and forcing her to dance in the buff in Indore, police said on Tuesday. Nobody has been…
