KURUKSHETRA, PRESIDENT Draupadi Murmu on Tuesday stressed imbibing the teachings of ‘Bhagavad Gita’, saying it is a book whose messages spread hope in despair and also give solutions to all doubts of practical life..

    AHMEDABAD, CAMPAIGNING for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections to be held on December 1 ended at 5 pm on Tuesday. As many as 788 candidates are in the fray for 89 seats across 19 districts of south Gujarat and Ku..

   ALIGARH, AN RTI activist was beaten to death allegedly by eight men, including the village head and his son, in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district for questioning the quality of public projects underway in the area.The victim..

   AULI,  INDIAN Army troops are using trained kites to prey on enemy drones in a first-of-its-kind usage of these birds.Indian Army is using trained kites along with dogs for military operations, Army officials said. Such a capab..

   HONG KONG, WITH police out in force, there was no word of additional protests against strict Government anti-pandemic measures on Tuesday in Beijing, as temperatures fell well below freezing. Shanghai, Nanjing and other cities where..

    THE nationwide protests in China against COVID restrictions in the past few days have assumed an anti-Xi-Jinping hue. Protesters have now begun asking President Mr. Xi Jinping to step down since he has not been able to handle the C..

   DHAKA, GLOBALLY one in eight or over one billion people today are migrants with 281 million international migrants and many million individuals who are stateless, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).Climate change, rising i..

   NEW DELHI, THE Government has allowed the Enforcement Directorate to share information about economic offenders with 15 more agencies, including SFIO, CCI and NIA, a move that will expedite nailing of law-breakers.The Finance Minist..

   NEW DELHI, THE Delhi Police has recovered the weapon allegedly used by Aftab Amin Poonawala to cut the body of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, sources said on Monday. Police have also recovered a ring that belonged to 27-year-o..

   NEW DELHI,  IN A chilling recall of the Shraddha Walkar murder case, a woman and her son allegedly killed her husband, chopped his body into 10 pieces, and kept them in a fridge before dumping them across east Delhi, police sai..

    NEW DELHI, THE Centre told the Supreme Court that the right to freedom of religion does not include a fundamental right to convert people to a particular religion. The Centre’s response came on a plea by advocate Ashwini..

   KHEDA,  REMEMBERING the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Gujarat and the country need to be “alert” about Congress and like-minded parties which keep mum on “big terroris..

    NEW DELHI, VIDEOS and information about jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain are being leaked by people of the party who are close to its national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the BJP alleged on Sunday. No ..

   SRINAGAR,  THE fruits of business investments and industries brought into Jammu and Kashmir after 2019 will be visible by the next year, even as the administration is working to achieve a target of securing investments worth Rs..

    GAYA (Bihar), A UNIQUE, and rather unconventional bank -- “Children Bank of Nawadih” -- wholly managed by students, functions at a school in Gaya district of Bihar with an aim of inculcating the habit of saving amo..

    NEW DELHI, ELON Musk on Sunday revealed his Twitter 2.0 -- The Everything App, saying that the new user signups are at an all-time high and the company is now actively recruiting.Musk, who sacked more than half of Twitter̵..

    NEW DELHI, THE Indian Council of Medical Research has issued guidelines warning against the use of antibiotics for conditions such as low-grade fever and viral bronchitis while advising doctors to follow a timeline while presc..

MAHARASHTRA Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and several other ministers and MLAs along with their families on Saturday visited Guwahati to pay obeisance to Goddess Kamakhya. Their short trip to the North-Eastern State comes five months after Shinde along with a group of Shiv Sena MLAs and Independent legislators stayed at a hotel in Guwahati for a week from June 22-29 before toppling the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) Government in the western State. Shinde arrived with an entourage of over 170 people, including ..

THE BJP on Saturday claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was suffering from “political cataract” and giving himself a certificate of honesty despite the alleged excise and classroom construction scams in his Government. The entire country now knows that Kejriwal is a “kattar beiman” (hardcore dishonest), BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia told a press conference here. With his deputy Manish Sisodia’s name not finding a mention in the CBI chargesheet in the excise policy case, Kejriwal ..

VETERAN film, television and stage actor Vikram Gokhale died on Saturday due to multi-organ failure at a city-based hospital where he was undergoing treatment. Gokhale, 77, was admitted to the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital here two weeks ago. “We are saddened to announce that noted actor Vikram Gokhale passed away today at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital due to multi-organ failure,” the hospital said in a statement. “He was admitted to the hospital 15 days ago following health complications and was ..

FOUR Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Pomra forest patches under Mirtur police station limits on Saturday morning. However, the deceased Naxals are yet to be identified. Based on inputs about the presence of Divisional Commanders (DVCM) Mohan Kadti and Sumitra, Matwada LOS Commander Ramesh and 30 to 40 Naxals in Pomra forests, a joint team of District Reserve Guard, Special Task Force and Central Reserve Police Force had left for search operation. During searching, security ..

    THE message from Northern Army officer Lt. General Upendra Dwivedi is clear that the Indian Army is ready to take back Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) if the Government ordered to do so. This is not the first time that such a messa..

   NEW DELHI, THE Government has convened an all-party meeting on December 6 to discuss the legislative business and important issues likely to be taken up during the winter session of Parliament. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad..

    MUMBAI, WIPRO Founder Chairman Azim Premji has been chosen for the prestigious Yashwantrao Chavan National Award for his contribution to business as well as his philanthropic activities.His name was announced on Friday by note..

    NEW DELHI, REGULAR colouring of grey hair, and no black or religious thread on wrist or ankle are parts of Air India’s new grooming guidelines for its cabin crew. The new guidelines said that male crew with a deep recedi..

    Delhi Bureau & AgenciesNEW DELHI,DEFENCE Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said, India doesn’t believe in a world order where a few are considered superior to others and asserted the country’s actions are guided by t..

    By Kartik Lokhande NAGPUR, AS THE dastardly Pakistan-backed terrorist attack of 26/11 on Mumbai completes 14 years, the Indian establishment’s response to the challenge to national security posed by terrorists operating ..

   NEW DELHI,  ASRAJASTHAN Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot stepped up his attackonhisbetenoire Sachin Pilot,theCongressonThursday saidtheirdifferenceswouldbe resolved in a manner that strengthens the party and asserted that the focus ..

   NEW DELHI,   THEJamaMasjidadministration’sdecision restricting entry of “girls” into the famed mosque led to an outrage on Thursdayandtheorderwasfinallywithdrawn following Delhi LG VKSaxena’s request to ..

   ISLAMABAD,  PAKISTAN’S former spy master and senior-most Lt General Asim Munir was on Thursday appointed as the new Army chief by President Arif Alvi, ending intense speculation over the most powerful position in the coup..

   NEW DELHI,  THE second ship of Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyers ( Y 12705 (Mormugao) being built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), was delivered to the Indian Navy on Thursday, defence officials said. The shi..

    PRAYAGRAJ (UP),  THE Allahabad High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on the Gyanvapi masjid management’s revision petition challenging a Varanasi court order on the maintainability of a plea seeking permissi..

    SHILLONG,  A DELEGATION of Meghalaya ministers led by CM Conrad K Sangma will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah on November 24 to demand a CBI or NIA probe into the violence that left six people dead on the State’s..

    NEW DELHI,  PANCAKE sea urchins, eels with no eyes, and bat-like fish are among some “stunning” creatures found living in the depths of the Indian Ocean, scientists say.The expedition led by a team at Museums ..

    NEW DELHI, THE Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the inclusion of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) in the consultative process for the appointment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) would ensure independence of the poll p..

    NEW DELHI, ASSERTING that world is seeing increasing strife amplified by disruptive politics, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said that a peaceful Indo-Pacific, with ASEAN at its centre, is vital more than ever for..

   THOUGH the fact that the Congress party is planning to seek a review of the premature release of the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case is genuinely intriguing, it nonetheless matches the persona of the party that has lost it..

   PATHANAMTHITTA (Ker), WITH an increase in footfall at the famed Lord Ayyappa shrine in Sabarimala here during this year’s Mandalam Makaravilakku pilgrimage, in the absence of the COVID-19 restrictions, the temple authorities d..

    CIANJUR (Indonesia), THE death toll from the earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Java leapt to 268 on Tuesday as more bodies were found beneath collapsed buildings, and 151 people are still missing, the National Dis..

    NEW DELHI, THE Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has established three new forward bases in the remote Naxal violence affected areas of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand as part of its strategy to strike deep into the Maoist strong..

    Delhi Bureau and AgenciesNEW DELHI, PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday handed out job appointment letters to more than 71,000 youngsters, saying similar campaigns have been held in NDA-ruled States and Union Territories i..

    RESEARCHERS at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, have reiterated the climate threats looming over India in their latest study which confirms gradual rise in extreme weather events including floods and heatwaves due t..

  MAHUVA,CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that he felt the pain of farmers, youth and tribals after meeting them during his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ as he hit the campaign trail in Gujarat 10 days ahead of the first phase of As..

   DOHA,  VICE-PRESIDENT Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday interacted with the Indian community members here in Doha and lauded their role in deepening the links between India and Qatar. Dhankhar, who is in Doha for a two-day visit at th..

    NEW DELHI, THE Budget should focus on measures to accelerate job creation and broaden the tax base by rationalising GST and personal income tax slabs to boost consumption, industry bodies said in their pre-Budget meeting with ..

    MANGALURU (KTK), POLICE found materials that go into making bomb from the rented house in Mysuru of Mangaluru autorickshaw blast accused Mohammed Shariq, who was “influenced and inspired” by a global terrorist orga..

    CIANJUR (Indonesia), A STRONG, shallow earthquake toppled buildings and walls on Indonesia’s densely populated main island on Monday, killing at least 162 people and injuring hundreds of others as residents fled into the..

    PANAJI, UNION Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Sunday said the Government aims to establish the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) as the one-stop destination for content creation, filmmaking..

    MUMBAI, BUSINESSMAN Raj Kundra - husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty - and others have been charged with making pornographic content in a couple of deluxe hotels which was distributed by OTT platforms for monetary gains..

    BENGALURU, THE explosion in a moving autorickshaw in Mangaluru was an ‘act of terror,’ Karnataka Director General of Police, Praveen Sood said on Sunday.In a tweet, the DGP said, “It’s confirmed now. Th..