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Watch: Woman injured in firing at Delhi Court; rushed to hospital
New Delhi: A woman, who was shot at in Delhi’s Saket court complex on Friday, is said to be critical and sources in the police said that the attacker has been identified.…
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Rahul, Mamata, Kejriwal among politicians who lost Twitter blue tick
New Delhi: Micro-blogging site Twitter on Tursday removed the verified blue tick from many high-profile individuals’ account in India including West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, and Delhi…
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Eid-ul-Fitr in India: Hyderabad’s moon sighting committee to meet today
Hyderabad: Eid-ul-Fitr is a significant festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide, including India. This auspicious festival is celebrated on the sighting of the crescent moon, which marks the beginning of the month of…
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Engineering consultant selected for Hyderabad Airport Metro
Hyderabad: An engineering consultancy consortium consisting of Systra, RITES, and DB Engineering has been selected as the General Consultants (GC) for the Hyderabad Airport Metro Rail project. Systra is a major engineering…
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Video: UP BJP MLA boasts of Atiq killing as achievement
Saharanpur: Saharanpur BJP MLA Rajiv Gumber has termed the killing of gangster Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf as a “big achievement of the Yogi Adityanath government”. In a purported video that…
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El Nino may spur deadly heat waves in India
New Delhi: Climate models have predicted that El Nino is on the horizon, which can lead to severe heat waves and droughts, in many countries, including India. El Nino is associated with…
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Eid-ul-Fitr 2023: List of countries celebrating festival on Friday
Eid-ul-Fitr is an important festival celebrated by Muslims all over the world including India. The date of the festival is determined by the sighting of the crescent moon, which marks the beginning…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning BuzzFeed News to be shut down
New Delhi: In shocking news to the global media industry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning news arm of BuzzFeed.com is being shut down, CEO Jonah Peretti announced on Thursday. The media outlet said that…
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Moon sighted in Saudi Arabia; Eid Al-Fitr on Friday
Riyadh: The Shawwal crescent moon has been sighted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Thursday, April 20. This means Eid Al-Fitr will be on Friday, April 21. Qatar, UAE, Bahrain…
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29 firms file bids for Vizag Steel Plant, Telangana stays away
Visakhapatnam: As many as 29 companies, including seven international players, have submitted bids for supply of raw materials and providing working capital to Visakhapatnam Steel Plant The deadline for filing of Expression…
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5 Army soldiers killed in terrorist attack in Poonch
Jammu: Five Army personnel were killed and another was seriously injured on Thursday after their vehicle caught fire following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, officials said. The deceased Army…
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Adani tried to get to me through his ‘wheeler dealers’: Mahua Moitra
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has alleged that industrialist Gautam Adani tried to “get to me” and some other people through his “wheeler dealers” and criticised NCP leader Sharad Pawar…
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Ram Navami violence: Fact-finding team blames Bihar govt’s ‘failure’
A fact-finding team from the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) visited Bihar following large-scale communal violence that took place during and around the Ram Navami rally last month. Based on…
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Video of dancer in mosque raises Uyghur anxieties about China’s attacks on religion
New Delhi: A Chinese tourism advertisement portraying a medieval Buddhist fantasy, shot in the prayer hall of Xinjiang’s second-largest mosque, has alarmed the Uyghur diaspora, which is calling it a desecration, a…
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BJP slams Cong for appointing ‘anti-national’ Imran Pratapgarhi as star campaigner
Bengaluru: Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje on Thursday took strong exception to the inclusion of Rajya Sabha member Imran Pratapgarhi in the list of 40 star campaigners of the Congress for the upcoming…
