Srinagar/UNI: Amid tight security, the first batch of Amarnath pilgrims were flagged off Saturday morning to the Holy Cave simultaneously from both routes — the Pahalgam track in the Anantnag district and Baltal in the Ganderbal district, officials said.
Munger/UNI: A funeral processionist was killed and fourteen were injured, six of them seriously, when the tractor carrying them collided with a sand-laden truck near Singhia Chowk on Munger-Lakhisarai main road in Munger district in the wee hours on Saturday.
Srinagar/UNI: Amid tight security, the first batch of Amarnath pilgrims were flagged off Saturday morning to the Holy Cave simultaneously from both routes — the Pahalgam track in the Anantnag district and Baltal in the Ganderbal district, officials said.
Mumbai/UNI: Leader of opposition in Maharashtra legislative assembly Ajit Pawar on Saturday expressed shock at the bus accident at Buldhana-Sindkhed Raja on the Samruddhi highway in which 25 bus passengers were killed.
Kolkata/IBNS: After being quizzed for 11 hours by the Enforcement Directorate, Trinamool Congress youth president Saayoni Ghosh on Friday said she was ready for even a 12-hour questioning for the sake of a probe into the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam.
Buldhana: As many as twenty-five bus passengers were charred to death after the vehicle caught fire on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district on Saturday, a senior police official told UNI.
Gwalior/IBNS: The Gwalior Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has requested the Centre to reduce the age of consensual physical relations between a man and a woman from 18 years to 16 years.
New Delhi: In a scathing reply to Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi's letter on Minister V Senthil Balaji's dismissal, Chief Minister MK Stalin Friday said that the communique requires "outright disregard" and shows that the governor acted in haste with "scant regard to the Constitution".
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: The Enforcement Directorate's grilling of actress-turned-Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) state president Saayoni Ghosh at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake, in relation to the alleged teachers' recruitment scam in the West Bengal Government- aided schools and purchase of a flat still continued for nine hours on Friday.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Friday slammed the Centre over stopping Rahul Gandhi's convoy by police in Manipur, calling the act "wrong" and an indication of "total failure" of law and order in the northeastern state.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the two leaders discussed the "recent developments in Russia" in the wake of a failed armed mutiny by the Wagner group, as well as the situation in Ukraine.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier today chaired the meeting of the 42nd edition of PRAGATI, the ICT-based multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation, involving Centre and State governments.
Kakinada: The body of a youth was found on the railway track near Chitrada village, 15 kms from here on Friday.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and visiting Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo co-chaired the 5th India-Philippines Joint Commission on Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) where the two leaders discussed issues related to broad cooperation.
Nashik: Three persons of a family, including a 18-month-old baby, were killed and 7 others injured when a cruise car they were travelling in rammed into a stationary Eicher vehicle on the Samruddhi Express Highway at Kokamthan Shiwar in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra past midnight last night.
New Delhi: INS Sunayna, based at Southern Naval Command Kochi, entered Port Beira, Mozambique on June 28.
New Delhi: The second edition of Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) meeting between India and Tanzania was held in Arusha on June 28 & 29, 2023.
Bhubaneswar: An absconding drug peddler was arrested by the STF of Odisha police on Friday.
New Delhi/UNI: The Congress on Friday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the current situation in Manipur by accusing him of not being sensitive over the matter.
Bhubaneswar/UNI: Three people were killed and one woman was admitted to a hospital with critical injuries after the vehicle in which they were travelling dashed against a tree near Basini square on Umerkote-Jharigaon road in Nabarangpur district on Thursday midnight.
Imphal/UNI: A person succumbed to bullet wounds and many persons including women were injured in firing on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday after a large mob attacked the office of BJP in Manipur's Imphal.
Bengaluru/UNI: The Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed the petition filed by Twitter challenging ten blocking orders issued by the central government between February 2021 and 2022 directing the social media giant to take down 39 URLs.
Imphal/UNI: A person succumbed to bullet wounds and many persons including women were injured in firing on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday after a large mob attacked the office of BJP in Manipur's Imphal.
Imphal/UNI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited Moirang in Bishnupur district and interacted with displaced people on Friday.
Kolkata/IBNS: "I intend to cooperate to the best of my abilities," said Trinamool Congress youth state president and Bengali actress Saayoni Ghosh arriving at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office for questioning in connection with the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam on Friday.
Kolkata/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate will quiz Trinamool Congress (TMC) youth state president and Bengali actress Saayoni Ghosh in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam on Friday.
In what can only be described as good news for paddy growers, the prevailing weather conditions are proving to be highly beneficial this year.
In a significant case of human smuggling, a 49-year-old man of Indian origin has been sentenced to over three years in prison for his involvement in smuggling more than 800 Indian citizens into the United States using the popular ride-hailing app Uber.
The Sikh community has faced discrimination in various parts of the world, including in the United States and Canada. A recent report titled “Go Home, Terrorist!” reveals the bullying and harassment of Sikh American school children in the U.S.
