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Afghanistan: Earthquake of 4.3 magnitude jolts Kabul
Kabul: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 struck 85 kilometres East of Kabul in Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to National Center (NCS) for Seismology. Taking to its official Twitter handle, the NCS stated…
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CJI intervenes to end month-long protest of MP lawyers against HC order
Bhopal: The continuous abstention of advocates from all three benches of the Madhya Pradesh High Court to oppose its order for disposing 25 pending cases in three months has hit legal proceedings…
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CBI files fresh chargesheet against Mehul Choksi
New Delhi: Months after Interpol removed a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, the CBI has filed a fresh chargesheet against him for allegedly pledging lab-grown diamonds valued at…
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Licences of 18 pharma firms cancelled for manufacturing spurious drugs
New Delhi: In a major crackdown against the manufacture of substandard drugs, central and state regulators conducted joint inspections at 76 pharma companies and cancelled the licences of 18 of them for…
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Apologise or face Rs 100 cr defamation case, KTR warns Congress, BJP leaders
Hyderabad: Telangana’s Minister for Industries and Information Technology, K.T. Rama Rao, on Tuesday served legal notice to state Congress chief Revanth Reddy and BJP president Bandi Sanjay over their allegations against him…
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DU women college’s students claim men scaled walls, harassed them
New Delhi: Students at Delhi University’s Indraprastha College for Women alleged that some men scaled the institute’s boundary walls during a fest on Tuesday and “harassed several students”. There was no response…
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Two stabbed to death at Ismaili Muslim centre in Lisbon
Lisbon: Two people were stabbed to death at a Muslim centre in the Portuguese capital on Tuesday, media reports said. The attack took place at the Ismaili Centre and the suspected assailant,…
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Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification India’s internal matter: Anurag Thakur
New Delhi: Union minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday brushed aside the remarks made by a US official that Washington is watching the court case of Rahul Gandhi and said the Congress leader’s…
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Hyderabad Metro phase-II: KTR calls centre’s decision ‘discriminatory’
Hyderabad: Taking a strong objection to the BJP-led central government’s decision to reject the proposal of Hyderabad Metro phase-II, Telangana minister KT Rama Rao wrote a letter to the Union minister for…
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Karnataka: Rollback of Muslim quota likely to turn into crisis
Bengaluru: Withdrawal of 4 per cent reservation for Muslim community by the ruling BJP government is likely to snowball into a crisis-situation in the poll-bound Karnataka. As the major political parties engage…
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Controversy in Noida society over Namaz, police deployed
Noida: Police were deployed at a group housing society near Noida on Tuesday after a controversy erupted between Hindus and Muslims over “some outsiders” reciting Namaz there, officials said. The row erupted…
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Uttar Pradesh forest officials soften stand on Arif-sarus issue
Lucknow: After serving a legal notice to Mohd Arif for ‘violating the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 (amended)’ by keeping a sarus with him for a year, senior forest officials in Uttar…
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2019 Jamia violence: HC frames charges on Sharjeel Imam, 8 others
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday framed charges against nine of the 11 accused, including Sharjeel Imam, Asif Iqbal Tanha and Safoora Zargar under various offences on the revision plea…
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Amritpal Singh case: BBC Punjabi Twitter account withheld
New Delhi: Amid ongoing police crackdown against pro-Khalistani elements in Punjab, the official Twitter account of the BBC Punjabi was blocked by the authorities. The message of Twitter profile of BBC News…
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After unseasonal rains, Hyderabad gears up for summer heat as mercury set to rise
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is gearing up for the summer heat after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Hyderabad issued a yellow alert as the maximum temperature in the city is likely to rise up…
