AT LEAST 50 people died and 350 people were injured as a three-sway accident involving Bengaluru-Howrah superfast express, the Coromandel Express and goods train on three separate tracks occurred at Bahanagar in Odisha’s Balasore district. A railway official said that several coaches of 12864 Bengaluru-Howrah superfast express travelling to Howrah, derailed at Bahanagabazar and fell on the up line. “These derailed coaches collided with 12841 ShalimarChennai Coromandel Express and its coaches capsized ..

PUNE/LATUR : ■ 151 students score perfect 100 pc   THE Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Friday declared the Class 10, or SSC, results that saw a pass percentage of 93.83, a drop of nea..

    MUMBAI, THE iconic Deccan Queen, the first deluxe train of the Indian Railways, completed 93 glorious years of operations between Pune and Mumbai on Thursday, according to the Central Railway. Rail enthusiasts and authorities ..

   By Lalit K JhaSTANFORD,  CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi has said that he did not imagine his disqualification from Lok Sabha was possible when he joined politics but asserted that it has given him a “huge opportunity”..

   CHAMARAJANAGAR (Karnataka), A KIRAN trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in an open field at a village in the district on Thursday but the two pilots, including a woman, made it out safely after ejecting from the p..

INDIA does not want fenced habitats for cheetahs like the ones in South Africa and Namibia as it is against the basic tenets of wildlife conservation, the head of the Centre’s high-level committee set up to monitor the cheetah reintroduction project said on Thursday. Experts from South Africa and Namibia, who are helping reintroduce cheetahs in India, have recommended fencing their habitats to prevent poaching, habitat fragmentation and minimise human-animal conflict. However, experts in India say ..

THE affiliation of Haryana colleges to Panjab University here is possible, Punjab Governor and Chandigarh UT A d ministr ator Banwarilal Purohit said on Thursday and asked both the Chief Ministers to resolve the issue related to the varsity with mutual consent. Purohit chaireda meeting with Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar andhis Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann here, in a cordial atmosphere,regarding various issues related to the Panjab University (PU), according to a Haryana Government ..

    THE last nine years have been a very important period for contemporary India during the two tenures of Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. With barely one year left for the next general elections in the summer of 2024, it is only nat..

    NEW DELHI, THE Civil Aviation Ministry has come out with a draft bill for putting in place a simplified approach for regulations pertaining to the aviation sector. The Draft Aircraft Bill, 2023, has been prepared after reviewi..

   JAIPUR,  NINE years of BJP Government were dedicated to the service of people, good governance, and welfare of poor, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a rally in Ajmer on Wednesday. The rally was organised to m..

   NEW DELHI, INDIA, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has transformed, gaining a position in the world order and becoming a key driver for Asia and global growth, said Morgan Stanley. In a report, Morgan Stanley said, significant sc..

ON THE third day of his ongoing visit to violence-hit Manipur, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday the Government is committed to restoring peace in Manipur as early as possible and ensuring the return of all displaced people to their homes. Shah also reviewed the security situation during the day with top officials in Imphal and the border town Moreh and directed them to take stern and prompt actions against armed miscreants to prevent violence and recover looted weapons to bring back ..

MARMY onWednesday foiled an infiltration attempt with the arrest of three terrorists along with a huge consignment of arms and narcotics along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. A defence spokesman said that the terrorists, who were also in possession of a 10 kg powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED), were arrested after an exchange of fire near the border fence when they were attempting to sneak into this side. An Army personnel and oneof the terrorists were injuredin ..

   PUNE,  CHIEF of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said challenges in Manipur have not disappeared, but expressed hope that things will settle down in some time while noting the situation in the North-Eastern State n..

    THERE is no word other than ‘barbarism’ to describe the act of murder first by stabbing and then by bludgeoning of a 16-year-old girl in New Delhi by a young man who was described as her boyfriend. That he stabbed her ..

    JAMMU, TEN Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrims, most of them from Bihar, were killed and 66 others injured on Tuesday as their bus skidded off the road and rammed into the railing of a bridge before falling off it, officials said. The ..

UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday visited Churachandpur, the scene of some of the worst rioting in the recent ethnic conflict which broke out in Manipur earlier this month, to hold talks with Kuki civil society leaders. Among others, Shah who flew down in a helicopter accompanied by the IB chief and Home Secretary, is meeting church leaders as well as intellectuals from the Kuki community to understand their grievances and find ways to bring peace to the north-eastern State which has witnessed ..

THE Maharashtra Government on Tuesday rolled out a new financial scheme under which more than one crore farmers in the State will be paid Rs 6,000 annually. The scheme, Namo Shetkari MahasanmanYojana, was approved at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde here...

   MUMBAI, UNION Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a glowing report card of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 9-years in office, terming them as full of progress and development, here on Monday. Addressing the media as p..

   GUWAHATI, PRIME Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off North East’s first Vande Bharat Express from Guwahati to New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal on Monday. The Prime Minister symbolically waved a green flag on screen, to la..

    NEW DELHI, THE CBI has filed a corruption case against British aerospace and defence company Rolls Royce PLC, top executives of its Indian unit and arms dealers for alleged “kickbacks” in the procurement of Hawk 11..

   THERE is no doubt that some Opposition parties are going berserk in their thought, action an d expression -- in the process bringing shame to India’s democracy. There also is no doubt that such political parties have no ideology or..

SRIHARIKOTA, (AP) : THE Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched and put into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit the first of a series of its second generation navigation satellites using a GSLV rocket. Subsequ..

MADHYA Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday invoked Mughal-era poet Mirza Ghalib to ridicule the Congress after the latter claimed that it would win 150 seats in the year-end Assembly polls in the Central State. The CM said that the ruling BJP would bag more than 200 seats in MP’s 230-member House. The BJP also coined the slogan “Abki Baar, 200 Paar” (will cross 200-mark this time). “Mann behlane ko Ghalib ye khayal achha hai, khayali pulao pakate rahiye (the thought of diverting the mind, Ghalib, ..

   NEW DELHI,  LOK Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday said that the new Parliament building is a reflection of India’s rich history and cultural heritage which will give impetus to new ideas. He said that the country’s t..