AYODHYA — Saints in Ayodhya have reacted strongly amidst reports that Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are planning to visit the holy city to offer prayers at the Ram temple. Mahant Raju Das of Hanuman Garhi temple said that Rahul ...
26 Apr 2024SRINAGAR — Two terrorists were killed while a civilian and two soldiers were injured in the ongoing gunfight between the security forces and holed-up militants in Sopore town of J&K’s Baramulla district on Friday. Security forces, including t...
26 Apr 2024LUCKNOW — Polling for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections began on Friday in Uttar Pradesh’s eight parliamentary constituencies. The seats where polling is underway include Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr,...
26 Apr 2024JAMMU — Voting started in the Jammu-Reasi Lok Sabha constituency on Friday with enthusiastic voters reaching the booths in their traditional Dogra dresses to exercise the franchise. Voters in the cities and urban areas came out in twos and fours wh...
26 Apr 2024JAIPUR — Voting was underway for 13 seats in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan on Friday. Voting was being held in Jodhpur, Barmer, Pali, Jalore, Rajsamand, Ajmer, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Banswara, Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, Ko...
26 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — On Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has told the Supreme Court that treating a politician differently from an ordinary criminal in a matter of arrest would violat...
25 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Taking cognisance for the first time of a model code violation allegation against a prime minister, the Election Commission on Thursday asked the BJP to respond to complaints filed by opposition parties wherein they have accused Prime M...
25 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud on Thursday announced the integration of WhatsApp messaging services with the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) services of the Supreme Court. Now, litigants, parties in-person ...
25 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court has ordered authorities to immediately clean the river bed of the Yamuna in Agra. A bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing the application moved by an NGO seeking directions for the restoration of ...
24 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a probe by the Special Investigative Team (SIT) under the supervision of a retired judge of the apex into the “electoral bond scam”. The plea filed t...
24 Apr 2024NEW DELHI —The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday apprised the Supreme Court that all three units (i.e. ballot unit, control unit and VVPAT) of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have their own microcontroller. “These microcontrol...
24 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify if the microcontroller is installed in the controlling unit or in the VVPAT (Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail). A bench presided over by Justice Sa...
24 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday emphasised the need to invest in resilient infrastructure as part of the strategy to minimise the damage from natural disasters that are on the rise across the world. Addressing the sixth intern...
24 Apr 2024UNITED NATIONS — As the Global South grapples with the ossified structure of the main multilateral development banks (MDBs), India has taken a leading role in calling for the reform of the institutions created after World War 2 reflecting the power...
24 Apr 2024AGRA — Nearly 40 school children were injured in a bee attack in the Bah region of Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district on Tuesday, officials said. The attack resulted in six children being hospitalised. According to sources, the sudden collapse of ...
24 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — A unit of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully developed the lightest bulletproof jacket for security forces in the country designed to withstand the highest threat level, known as Level 6, officials sai...
24 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court is slated to pass certain directions on Wednesday on a batch of petitions seeking mandatory cross-verification of the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slip...
24 Apr 2024NAGPUR — Maharashtra’s Chief Electoral Officer has initiated action against the management of a school for allegedly allowing the use of its students in the poll campaign of BJP’s Nagpur Lok Sabha candidate, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari...
23 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Asserting that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or the ASEAN, is at the heart of India’s ‘Act East’ policy, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Tuesday that the time has come for the Global South...
23 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — India on Tuesday carried out a successful launch of the new variant of a medium-range ballistic missile. The Ministry of Defence in a statement said that the successful launch of the new variant of a medium-range ballistic missile was c...
23 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Advancing Indo-French cooperation on culture and global commons, a senior official from the Emmanuel Macron government visited Delhi on Monday to co-chair the Joint Working Group on Museology that is leading the project to create a new ...
23 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The aviation watchdog DGCA on Tuesday issued a circular asking all airlines to ensure children up to the age of 12 years are seated with their parents. The DGCA has revised the Air Transport Circular (ATC)-01 of 2024, titled ‘Unbundle...
23 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Significant progress has been made in the construction of various stations for India’s first bullet train and we are geared up to run the first train in one section in 2026, Union Railways and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tues...
23 Apr 2024NEW YORK — Ravi Prakash Singh, the Mexico-based scientist who received the Padma Shri award, has been hailed for his achievement in making wheat strains resistant to rust diseases, protecting the supply of the foodgrain that is an essential element...
23 Apr 2024BHOPAL — As many as four luminaries from Madhya Pradesh — Omprakash Sharma, Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit, Kaluram Bamaniya, and Satendra Singh Lohiya — were bestowed the prestigious Padma Shri Award on Monday. Sharma was bestowed with the pre...
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