India

Image Source : PTI (FILE) BJP national president JP Nadda. Manmohan Singh memorial row: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda today (December 28) said the Centre has decided to allocate space for the memorial of Manmohan Singh and informed his family about it, as he accused the Congress party of indulging in cheap politics […]

Image Source : ANI Anbumani Ramadoss and S. Ramadoss A dramatic confrontation unfolded on Saturday during a special general council meeting of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) in Vizhupuram, Tamil Nadu, when party founder Dr. S. Ramadoss and his son, Anbumani Ramadoss, publicly clashed over a key party decision. The disagreement centred around the appointment […]

Image Source : X Yogi Adityanath invites Amit Shah to Mahakumbh 2025 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday visited Delhi to invite Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president JP Nadda and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to Mahakumbh 2025. He extended the invitation letter to the dignitaries and along with it […]

NEW DELHI: Considering speed and lane violations are the major causes of crashes, the road transport ministry has now made it mandatory for road owning agencies to paint the speed limits with vehicle logos on the pavement every 10 km to guide and alert the drivers on expressways and National Highways.The ministry this week notified […]

Stranded passengers (Image credit: X @amitrathod8991) NEW DELHI: An IndiGo aircraft bound for Istanbul from Mumbai, which was scheduled for departure on Saturday morning, was grounded due to technical difficulties, stranding several passengers.Flight 6E17, initially set to take off at 6:55 am, was cancelled after passengers were reportedly left waiting without updates for approximately 10 […]

NEW DELHI: The Bihar government on Saturday transferred 62 IPS officers in a major reshuffle, including three ADGs. The home department’s notification said that Patna SSP Rajiv Mishra, recently promoted to DIG rank, will assume the role of DIG in the Anti-Terrorist Squad.Avakash Kumar, previously serving as Superintendent of Police in the CID, will succeed […]

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was cremated with full state honours, in the presence of top dignitaries from India and abroad, on Saturday. Singh’s funeral pyre was lit by his eldest daughter Upinder Singh at Nigambodh Ghat in the national capital amid the chanting of religious hymns. Before the mortal remains of Singh were consigned […]

Sports broadcaster, Greg Gumbel, widely renowned for calling some of the biggest college and basketball games on popular US media networks, died on Friday (Dec 27) at his Florida residence, aged 78. Mr Gumbel’s death was confirmed by his family in a social media post released by CBS Sports, where he had worked since 1989. […]

UK-based Vodafone Group has cleared dues of around Rs 11,650 crore or about 109 million pound that it raised against shares of Vodafone Idea, according to a regulatory filing. Vodafone Group had pledged almost the entire stake in VIL to raise the debt. The pledge was created in favour of HSBC Corporate Trustee Company (UK) […]

With her appointment to Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, 27-year-old KN Renuka Pujar has likely become the first transgender person to be appointed as a guest lecturer at a university in Karnataka. Renuka Pujar, who completed her post-graduation in Kannada at the University, joined its Kannada department at the Nandihalli campus (PG centre) earlier this month […]

A girl’s grandfather, father and uncle have been arrested here for allegedly raping the minor over a period of several months, leading to her pregnancy, police said on Saturday. Additional Superintendent of Police Alok Misha said the girl, accompanied by a woman relative, had approached the local Bidhuna police station with the complaint on Friday […]

The Madras High Court on Saturday directed constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged sexual assault of a woman student in the Anna University campus here recently. All three members of the SIT will be women IPS officers. The court also directed the state government to pay the victim a compensation […]