The Election Commission of India on Tuesday announced that the Assembly elections in Maharashtra will take place in a single phase on November 20, while Jharkhand will conduct its polls in two phases on November 13 and November 20. The counting of votes for both states is scheduled for November 23. Chie...
An Air India flight en route from Delhi to Chicago was diverted to Iqaluit Airport in Canada following a bomb threat, marking the fifth such incident in two days besides an airport threat. The aircraft, operating as flight AI127, faced a security threat online and was redirected as a precautionary measu...
Today, employee well-being is at the forefront of workplace policies, and organisations are trying to take different steps to ensure this need is fulfilled. Among all the other efforts and trends emerging for employee well-being, a new trend is gaining traction: “unhappy leave.” This concept...
The bypolls on 48 assembly constituencies and two parliamentary constituencies will be held in two phases along with the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. The EC said that the voting for the first phase of bypolls on 47 assembly constituenci...
Mumbai Police has yet not succeded in securing Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s custody, who is lodged in the Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The gangster has been involved in the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddiqui, who was shot dead outside his son’s office in Mumbai on Dussehra. Bishnoi...
India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 8th edition of the International Telecommunication Union’s World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (ITU-WTSA) on Tuesday at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. This is the first time India and the Asia-Pacific region are hos...
मुख्यमंत्री श्री पुष्कर सिंह धामी ने दिग्गज उद्योगपति और टाटा ट्रस्ट के चेयरमैन रहे स्व. श्री रतन टाटा के निधन पर टाटा ट्रस्ट के नए चेयरमैन श्री नोएल टाटा को पत्र लिखकर अपनी संवेदनाएं व्यक्त की हैं। मुख्यमंत्री ने अपने पत्र में लिखा है कि श्रद्धेय रतन नवल टाटा जी के निधन पर अपनी गहरी ...
Schools and colleges in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, and Kanchipuram districts of Tamil Nadu have been ordered to stay closed today amid a heavy rainfall alert. Chennai and its suburbs, including those falling under nearby Tiruvallur district, have been experiencing intermittent rains since Monday...
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Monday said he hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would take the Leader of Opposition of both the Houses and other political parties into confidence over the “extremely sensitive and critical issue” of India-Canada relations. In a post on X,...
Bahraich Violence: Tensions flared in Bahraich’s Maharajganj area as scores of people, some armed with sticks, joined the funeral procession of 22-year-old Ram Gopal Mishra on Monday. Mishra, who was killed during communal violence that broke out near Rehua Mansoor village in Mahsi tehsil on Sunda...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, designed to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Monday at 12:06 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, according to a live stream on NASA’s website. The mission aims to study the ice-covered moon, considered one of t...
The Ministry of External Affairs on Monday announced the expelling of six Canadian diplomats including Acting High Commissioner Stewart Ross Wheeler amid an escalating row over the investigation into the murder of pro-Khalistan Sikh radical Hardeep Singh Nijjar. In a statement, the government said it h...
Veteran Marathi actor Atul Parchure passed away on Monday after a long battle with cancer. He was 57. Although he had reportedly overcome the illness last year and resumed shooting, his untimely death has left the Marathi film industry in mourning. Atul Parchure’s family has not yet made an official sta...
The oath-taking ceremony for the new government in Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled for 11:30 am on 16th October, following the withdrawal of President’s rule. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha extended an invitation to National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah to form and lea...
Opposition MPs on Monday staged a boycott of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, accusing the committee of straying from its principles. The boycott was sparked by a presentation given by Anwar Manippadi, former Chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Commiss...
Section 163 of BNSS, which has replaced Section 144 of CrPC, was imposed on Monday in the Shyampur area of Howrah, West Bengal after unrest broke out during Durga Puja celebrations, leading to arson, vandalism, and subsequent violence the previous day. The clashes reportedly began over an issue centred...
Congress Haryana in-charge Deepak Babaria offered to resign a day after Congress lost the assembly elections in the state, taking responsibility for the party’s dismal performance in recently-held assembly polls. The announcement comes after the party held several meetings to discuss the party...
The Mumbai-Howrah Mail received a threat message to blow up the train around 4:00 AM on Monday. “You people will cry tears of blood this morning,” the threat message read, warning of a bomb blast before the train reached Nashik in Maharashtra. Three airlines, including a New York-bound fligh...
Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, took a hard swing at Elon Musk, calling him “the world’s richest fascist” and a “South African jumping bean” in a scathing post on her Substack blog. She claims that Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X (formerly Twitter), has effectively...
India succumbed to a defeat to Australia in the group-stage fixture of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024. The result has put India on the verge of elimination. It could be Team India’s earliest exit from the tournament in eight years, having last been knocked out of a Women’s T20 Worl...
New Delhi: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar Sunday said Islamabad has not received any request from India to hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting that is scheduled to be held...
भारत-कजाकिस्तान संयुक्त सैन्य अभ्यास काज़िंद – 2024 का 8वां संस्करण आज सूर्या विदेश प्रशिक्षण नोड, औली, उत्तराखंड में संपन्न हुआ। यह अभ्यास 30 सितंबर से 13 अक्टूबर 2024 तक आयोजित किया गया था। संयुक्त अभ्यास के समापन समारोह में कजाकिस्तान सेना के के उप प्रमुख कर्नल डी खमितोव, कजाकिस्तान सेना के दक्...
Gujarat News: In a significant joint operation conducted by the Delhi and Gujarat Police, authorities recovered at least 518 kilograms of cocaine, valued at approximately Rs 5,000 crore, from Ankleshwar, Gujarat, on Sunday. Officials reported that this seizure is linked to a previous recovery of 700 kil...
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Sunday announced that the President’s rule was withdrawn in Jammu and Kashmir, officially paving the way for the government formation in the Union Territory. “In exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (34 of...
While science and nations have increasingly focussed on ways to improve health and promote longevity, a country in Southeast Asia has seen a drastic jump in life expectancy. A child born in Singapore in 1960 was only likely to live up to the age of 65 years, but a child born today in the island ...
Pakistan Squad For 2nd, 3rd Test Vs England: Pakistan Cricket Board have made a bold statement with their latest move, as they have announced a completely fresh squad for 2nd and 3rd Test against England. The squad sees the likes of Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Naseem Shah, Sarfaraz Ahmed, and Shaheen Shah...
Tension erupted in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district following an idol immersion during Durga Puja. The incident unfolded on Sunday after one community blocked the way of people going to immerse the Durga idol in Lakhna village in the Sadar block of the district, which led to a huge uproar. There was s...
It seems like a number of consumers who bought any device from the latest offering from Apple, iPhone 16 series, are now returning it. Users are expressing on social media platforms and YouTube about how Apple released almost nothing new in the iPhone 16 series and how they want their old trade-ins back...
Actor Salman Khan visited the residence of deceased NCP leader Baba Siddique in Mumbai on Sunday, hours after the Lawrence Bishnoi gang claimed responsibility for Siddique’s murder. Baba Siddique, aged 66, was a prominent figure in political and Bollywood circles, known for hosting grand Iftar par...
Sri Lanka vs West Indies 1st T20I Live Streaming: Sri Lanka are hosting West Indies for a three-match T20I series. While the Men from the Island Nation are enjoying a good run and will be coming on the back of a Test series win over New Zealand, West Indies have been in pretty good T20 ...
NCP leader and three-time MLA Baba Siddique was shot dead despite having the Y category security cover amid Dussehra celebrations in Mumbai on Saturday night. Three shooters, with links with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, fired at him when he stepped out of his son’s office to return home. Let’s...
At 1.30 pm on May 18, 2023, Anuj Singh, a student of Shiv Nadar University in Noida, called his classmate and ex-girlfriend Sneha Chaurasia outside the dining hall on the campus. Minutes after they shared a hug, two gunshots rang out, and Sneha collapsed in a pool of blood. The 21-year-old BA Sociology...
A 60-year-old man playing the role of demon king Ravana’s brother Kumbhakarna during a Ramlila event in south Delhi’s Chirag Dilli area died after complaining of chest pain. Vikram Taneja, a resident of Paschim Vihar, was taken to Akash Hospital, from where he was referred to PSRI Hospital....
Member of Parliament Pappu Yadav was injured during a Dussehra event organised in Bihar’s Purnia on Saturday. The Lok Sabha Member was lighting fire to a 55-foot-tall Ravana effigy at the mela ground when sparks from a rocket hurt his eyes. He soon left the spot along with his security team. After...
रक्षा मंत्री श्री राजनाथ सिंह ने शनिवार को सीमा सड़क संगठन द्वारा निर्मित 75 प्रमुख बुनियादी ढांचा परियोजनाओं का लोकार्पण कर राष्ट्र को समर्पित किया। इसमें 09 परियोजनाएं उत्तराखंड की शामिल हैं। कार्यक्रम में मुख्यमंत्री श्री पुष्कर सिंह धामी वर्चुअल रूप से उपस्थित थे। उत्तराखंड में जिन 09 परियोजना...
An Israeli escalation against Lebanese militants Hezbollah in the southern Lebanon could soon spiral out of control, a spokesman for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon said on Saturday. UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti told news agency AFP that it may “very soon” turn into a regional conflict with...
The BJP on Saturday responded sharply to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s remark calling it a “party of terrorists”. It has accused the Congress of supporting terrorism while now making baseless allegations against the BJP. BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi criticised Congress...
Maharashtra News: Nationalist Congress Party’s senior leader Baba Siddique was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Saturday. He was rushed to Lilavati Hospital but succumbed to his injuries. Two people related to the firing have been taken into custody, Mumbai Police informed, as per news agen...
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President and former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said that it was time that the Kashmiri Pandits, who were forced to flee their homes after the 1990s exodus, return to their homes as there was peace in the Valley. He expressed hope that they would return...
The Chief Advisor to the interim government of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, on Saturday visited the centuries-old Dhakeshwari temple in Dhaka to exchange greetings with the Hindu community on the auspicious occasion of Durga Puja. His visit came amid reports of attacks on another prominent Durga Puja cel...
Dussehra 2024: President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attended a Dussehra programme at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi. The event was organised by Shri Dharmik Leela Committee. Both PM Modi and President Murmu performed ‘Ravan Dahan’ during the programme. Meanwhile, Le...
Alia Bhatt’s recently released film ‘Jigra’ and Divya Khossla Kumar’s film ‘Savi’ were in talks because of their similar storyline. While ‘Savi’ was released in May this year, Jigra was released on Friday with a mixed review. Divya Khossla Kumar has stirred the controversy further by sharing a photo of...
Tehran has reportedly warned its oil-rich Arab states and other US allies in the Middle East of retaliation if their territories or airspace are used to aid Israel in any potential attacks on Iran. The threat was conveyed through secret diplomatic channels to countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Uni...
A train accident occurred on the night of October 11 after Bagmati Express (Train No. 12578), running from Mysuru to Darbhanga, derailed after colliding with a stationary goods train at Kavaraipettai railway station in Tiruvallur district, near Chennai. The impact of the collision caused 12 coaches of t...
Boeing announced on the weekend that it plans to reduce its global workforce following the strike by its workers in Seattle, which has been going on for a month now. The plane manufacturer informed that it is cutting about 10 per cent of its worldwide workforce, which comes to roughly 17,000 jobs. The l...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he hopes that the war with Russia will end “no later than next year”. The Ukrainian President’s remark came during his visit to Berlin to ask for sustained military support. Zelenskyy has been seeking support on a two-day whirlwind tour...
Rishabh Pant recently made a successful return to Test match cricket in the two-match Test series against Bangladesh at home. The left-handed batter suffered a near-fatal car crash in December 2022. His epic return to international cricket, which has already seen him won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cu...
New Delhi: Vasan Bala’s latest film starring Alia Bhatt and Vedang Raina, ‘Jigra’ opened today to mixed reviews from reviewers and the public alike. Even though Alia’s performance, story, and direction were praised, some viewers are still not satisfied. Moreover, shows have been...
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Maharashtra government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, questioning its recent decisions to increase the honorarium and salaries of madrassa teachers. Raut dubbed these moves as “vote jihad” and alleged that t...
The Israel Defence Forces on Friday stated that two UN peacekeepers sustained injuries after its troops opened fired at an “immediate threat,” located approximately 50 meters near the UNIFIL post in southern Lebanon. This is the second such incident in the region, where UN mission peacekeepe...
