CHANDIGARH,  THE Punjab Governor’s Office has sought details of the legislative business to be taken up in the Assembly session on September 27, drawing a sharp reaction from Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann who said &#..

   AHMEDABAD, PRIME Minister Narendra Modi alleged that “urban Naxals and anti-development elements” having political backing had stalled the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada river for many years by running a c..

   Delhi Bureau and agenciesNEW DELHI, UNION Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday underlined the need for de-politicising the discussions on health policy and infrastructure and adopting a more holistic approach across the whole..

   ERNAKULAM, RAJASTHAN Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said that Rahul Gandhi has refused to contest the party President’s election and wants a non Gandhi to be the party President. Gehlot said, “I will be filing nom..

   BENGALURU, THE inquiry of two suspected IS terrorists in Karnataka has revealed that they wanted to help establish a caliphate in India with Sharia law in place of the existing Central Government, said Karnataka Police on Friday.A p..

    INDIA should take in its stride the fact that France and the United States (of America) hailed Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi’s frank talk with Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin. At the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organi..

    CHATRA, THE CRPF jawan, who was injured in a gunfight between security forces and Maoists in Jharkhand’s Chatra district on September 18, has succumbed to bullet injuries, an officer said on Thursday. The injured personn..

    NEW DELHI, TAKING forward his outreach to the Muslim community, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday visited a mosque and a madarasa here and held discussions with the chief of the All India Imam Organisation who termed him ..

    NEW DELHI/ CHANDIGARH/ HYDERABAD, THE Congress’ state units in Punjab and Telangana on Wednesday passed a resolution backing Rahul Gandhi for the post of the party president.Around a dozen Pradesh Congress Committees hav..

    AHMEDABAD, A SPECIAL investigation team (SIT) on Wednesday submitted a chargesheet against activist Teesta Setalvad, retired Director General of Police R B Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a case of alleged fab..

   NEW DELHI,  POPULAR comedian Raju Srivastava, known for his earthy humour and inimitable delivery style, a household name in his delightful ‘Gajodhar Bhaiyya’ persona, breathed his last on Wednesday, September 21, a..

    NEW YORK, PRIME Minister Narendra Modi was hailed at the United Nations General Assembly for his message to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war, by the US and France at the UNGA meeting in New York.Modi, who ..

    THOUGH some may take former Punjab Chief Minister and senior Sikh leader Captain Amarinder Singh’s joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and merging his Punjab Lok Congress with the party as only a formality, the political..

    SHIVAMOGGA, TWO persons have been arrested from here on terror charges, with police claiming they wanted to advance the activities of the banned Islamic State (IS). While police sources initially said all three wanted in conne..

    NEW DELHI, GUJARATI coming-of-age drama “Chhello Show” is India’s official entry for the 95th Academy Awards, the Film Federation of India (FFI) announced on Tuesday.Titled “Last Film Show” in Eng..

    Staff ReporterJABALPUR,The theft of large quantity of tungsten used in 125-mm anti-aircraft ammunition at Ordnance Factory Khamaria (OFK) has put a question mark on the security arrangements at the sensitive defence establishment. ..

    WASHINGTON, NASA’s InSight lander has detected impact sounds from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. It marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars.A new..

    THE return of the Cheetah to Indian forests is one of the most welcome developments to the country’s ecology and environment -- thanks to the successful planning and effort of the authorities, masterminded by none other than ..

    NEW DELHI,THE Government has initiated the process of privatising 2 subsidiaries — AIASL and AIESL — of erstwhile national carrier Air India, an official said.“The Department of Investment and Public Asset Managem..

    NEW DELHI,  FORMER Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh joined the BJP here on Monday in the presence of senior party leaders Narinder Singh Tomar and Kiren Rijiju, and merged his Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) with the BJP.H..

    DESPITE the heavy bearing of inevitability attached to the exit of Roger Federer from professional tennis, a tinge of dejection and a dollop of anxiety have kept pricking tennis fans. There is a palpable despondency in the Swiss Ma..

    SRINAGAR, CLERICS arrested under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) kept instigating the youth despite several warnings, Kashmir Additional Director General of Police Vijay Kumar said on Sunday.“We had ample evidence ..

    SRINAGAR, JAMMU and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday inaugurated a multipurpose cinema hall each in the twin south Kashmir districts of Pulwama and Shopian, almost three decades after theatre owners downed the..

   PANAJI, EIGHT MLAs who recently switched over from the Congress to the ruling BJP in Goa will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Monday, a senior party leader said on Sunday.Six of them will leave for Delhi by flight on S..

    NEW DELHI, FOUR men were arrested for allegedly obstructing an Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) team, which raided AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s residence, from discharging its duties, police said on Sunday. Shakeel Ahmad (45),..

    LONDON, PRESIDENT of India Draupadi Murmu will be among 500 foreign dignitaries who will attend the State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II - who ruled for a record 70 years - on Monday.Britain’s broadcaster ‘BBC’..

TWO groups clashed inside a gurdwara in Punjab’s Faridkot district over the control of the committee that manages the shrine affairs. Police have registered a case and arrested three people. Two people sustained minor injuries in the incident. Taking notice of the incident, the Akal Takht Jathedar has directed the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to inquire into the matter. A video of the incident also surfaced on social media...

‘JUNGLE raj’ prevails under the TMC rule in West Bengal, a BJP delegation member said on Saturday after visiting BJP workers injured during its recent march to state secretariat Nabanna. The five-member BJP team, comprising Rajya Sabha MP Brij Lal and former Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, met the injured party workers in a state-run hospital where they are undergoing treatment. “We are shocked after getting the first-hand information about the brutal police torture on our peaceful protesters ..

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on Saturday, with politicians and dignitaries extending their best wishes to him. Modi’s birthday is often marked with development initiatives while the BJP launches ‘seva’ (service) activities. It was no different this year as he will speak at four programmes linked to diverse fields, including the release of cheetahs brought from Namibia at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Wishing him, President Draupadi Murmu said the work for nation-building under ..

THE historical intercontinental translocation of African spotted cat was successfully done in India on Saturday. Eight cheetahs have been released into Kuno National Park of Madhya Pradesh by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These cheetahs travelled empty stomach for 11 hours to get translocated from Namibia to India. India and Namibia had signed an MoU for this cheetah project on July 20 this year. There were 25 senior officials travelled along with the cheetahs. Tourists will be allowed to watch the ..

   NEW DELHI, AT LEAST 12 candidates have scored 100 percentile normalised score in all five subjects in CUET-UG while 104 got the perfect score in four subjects, according to National Testing Agency (NTA) officials. The results for th..

   By Rajeev S SharmaNEW DELHI, INFORMING that the Patanjali group is preparing to get listed five companies by floating four IPOs in the next five years, Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev has expressed confidence the Patanjali Group would reach ..

    By Ankita GargBHOPAL, Customised aeroplane with special livery took off from Namibia on Friday afternoon to bring five male and three female cheetahs to India.These eight cheetahs will be travelling for 11 hours to reach India..

   SAMARKAND, PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called on the SCO to develop reliable and resilient supply chains to offset the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis and said better connectivity and gr..

   NEW DELHI, UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh Governments to resolve their boundary dispute at the earliest in order to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a peaceful ..

    NEW DELHI, LAW Minister Kiren Rijiju has written to the Chief Justices of the High Courts to accelerate the process of setting up fast-track courts and fast-track special courts in their respective States to hear cases of hein..

   CHANDIGARH, THE Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday suspended the jail term of Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi, who was convicted by a Patiala court in a 2003 human trafficking case. The single bench of Justice G S Gill suspen..

   NEW DELHI, CHIEF Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit on Thursday said media reports claiming that a Supreme Court bench has criticised the new system of listing of cases are “not correct” and all judges of the apex court a..

    By Ankita GargBHOPAL, Beautifully designed planes have been sent to Namibia to fly eight African cheetahs to be introduced at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, on Thursday. The eight cheetahs being translocated from A..

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Uzbekistan this week and discuss issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific region and bilateral cooperation within the UN and G20, Kremlin has announced. Putin and Modi will attend the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on September 15-16...

AS MANY as 141 passengers were evacuated from an Air India Express plane at Muscat airport on Wednesday following a smoke warning, according to an airline source. The incident happened while the Kochi-bound Boeing 737-800 aircraft was taxiing and after the warning, the passengers were evacuated as a precautionary measure, the source said. There were 141 passengers and six crew members onboard the aircraft that was operating flight IX 442, the source said. Aviation regulator DGCA will probe the incident, ..

EIGHT people, including a woman staying in a hotel, were killed in a midnight fire that originated from an electric bike showroom located below, in Secunderabad area here. Seven others were injured and they were rushed to various hospitals, police said on Monday night. Most of the victims were asphyxiated. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Telangana Minister K T Rama Rao condoled the loss of lives and announced ex-gratia on behalf of the Centre and the State Government, respectively. The fire and smoke ..

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments on petitions challenging the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, enacted in 2019 to provide a 10 per cent quota to economically weaker sections (EWS) in Government jobs and admissions. Legal scholar G Mohan Gopal, representing some petitioners, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice U U Lalit and comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi, and J B Pardiwala, that the 103rd Amendment is a fraud on ..

SENIOR advocate Mukul Rohatgi is set to become the Attorney General for India again. He is scheduled to begin his second stint as the top law officer of country from October 1. The term of incumbent Attorney General K K Venugopal is ending on September 30, and he has refused to continue beyond his term, citing his advanced age...

THE CBI on Tuesday conducted searches at 36 locations in connection with alleged irregularities in Jammu and Kashmir sub-inspector posts’ recruitment test in which some aspirants had allegedly coughed up Rs 20-30 lakh for accessing the question paper before the examination, officials said. The searches were spread across Jammu, Srinagar, Karnal, Mahendergarh, Rewari, Gandhidham, Delhi, Ghaziabad and Bengaluru, they said. During the operations, searches took place at the premises of former chairman ..

FINANCE Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said many countries have evinced interest for bilateral trade in the rupee after the RBI announced a mechanism recently. Speaking at Mindmine Summit 2022, she said this along with other steps taken by the Government is towards full capital account convertibility. “It isn’t the rouble-rupee which was in the old format. Now this (bilateral rupee trade) formulation, which I am glad the RBI has come up at a time which was so critical,” she said when asked ..

   MUMBAI, WORKERS of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s camp clashed with each other here in the early hours of Sunday, officials said. After complaints from the two groups, Mumbai ..

   NEW DELHI, EVEN as several Opposition leaders are under the scanner of central probe agencies, NCP president Sharad Pawar on Sunday said his party will never surrender before the “rulers in Delhi” and urged non-BJP parti..

   THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,  CONGRESS’ ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ commenced its 19-day long Kerala leg on Sunday morning from Parassala area of the southernmost district of the State. The three-hour long first phase of the y..

   NEW DELHI, AS INDIA observed one-day state mourning as a mark of respect to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on September 8, the national flags at all Government buildings including Red Fort and Rashtrapati Bhawan..