GUWAHATI: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge kept suspense over party candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli while defending Rahul Gandhi’s decision to contest Lok Sabha polls from Wayanad in Kerala.
SYDNEY: Two people were killed after an aircraft crashed in Mount Beauty in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday, police said.
KYIV: At least four thermal power plants were damaged as Russia again targeted Ukraine with a round of massive airstrikes overnight, the operator said on Saturday.
MAHARASHTRA: Jumping to fish in troubled waters, the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Saturday called upon state Congress Working President M. Arif Naseem Khan to dump his party and throw his lot with the Hyderabad-based outfit, here.
MUMBAI: Actress Ayushi Khurana, who essays the role of Pallavi Sharma in the television show 'Aangan Aapno Kaa', has revealed that dancing brings her immense joy.
MUMBAI: Actress Aditi Rao Hydari found herself stuck in a flight early in the morning in Mumbai when there was "no ladder nor an airbridge," describing it as "new lows every day."
NEW DELHI: Elon Musk on Saturday threatened that advertisement revenue sharing will be paused for some creators “pending investigation into use of bots to spam likes, replies and direct messages (DMs)."
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has reiterated his request that the US government stop issuing the report evaluating the human rights situation in several countries, considering it a violation of sovereignty.
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that he renewed calls for China to exert its influence to press North Korea to cease its "dangerous" activities and return to dialogue during his talks with top Chinese officials in Beijing.
NAGALAND: An indefinite shutdown of trades, shops, and business establishments, called by the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), began in Nagaland's commercial capital Dimapur on Friday to protest against "unabated extortion" by underground outfits.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stepped up his offensive on the Congress and said that his plainspeak on the party’s double standards has ruffled many feathers in the INDIA bloc, so much so, that they have launched a tirade at him for speaking the truth.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Union Ministry of Defence to decide within eight weeks on including women in the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force through the Combined Defence Services (CDS) exams.
LUCKNOW: Lashing out at the Congress on Friday, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the Congress manifesto is harmful to India, the world's largest democracy.
NEW DELHI: Highlighting the effective role of recent collaborations with multiple enforcement agencies in tackling illicit trade, Anil Shukla, Director General of Police, Mizoram said that there remains ample room for enhancing capacities.
MUMBAI: Nine-time Grammy-nominated sitarist, producer, and film composer Anoushka Shankar will receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford and described it as a "pinch-me moment" in her career.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court recently ruled that falsely accusing a spouse of having an extramarital affair and denying parentage of children amounts to severe mental cruelty.
MUMBAI: Kajol shared a hilarious glimpse of her workout from her pilates classes and asked everyone whether the picture was taken before or after her exercise.
KYIV: Ukraine's highest anti-corruption court has ordered the pre-trial detention of Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi on suspicion of misappropriation of state land worth millions.
BEIJING: On the last day of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China, Beijing has warned of a deterioration in relations between the two powers.
NEW DELHI: A local court on Friday extended the judicial custody of former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia till May 8 in connection with a money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) related to the alleged excise policy scam.
LUCKNOW: Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has asked municipal commissioners of major cities in the state to deal with the problem of beggary.
Play DMF founder Anshul Garg collaborated with singing legend Shreya Ghoshal for the global chartbusters Guli Mata and Yimmy Yimmy, and now there's exciting news for their fans as they are returning for their third song to complete the hat-trick of success.
LOS ANGELES: Actress Zendaya and Tom Holland have reportedly been discussing marriage, according to a source.
MUMBAI: Action films which have their heart in the right place are rare. Often in Hindi films, action pieces are designed to thrill and seem to play no role in propelling the story ahead.
MUMBAI: A galaxy of stars, including names such as Rajkummar Rao, Tiger Shroff, Nayanthara, Navya Naveli Nanda, and Khushi Kapoor, among many others, illuminated the red carpet of the GQ Most Influential Young Indians event.
MUMBAI: Actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu has opened up about how success has been her focus since childhood, as she did not experience a luxurious upbringing.
WASHINGTON: The US government has announced a plan to award Micron Technology up to $6.14 billion in grants and $7.5 billion in loans to support the US chipmaker's plan to build new factories, as it strives to bolster domestic semiconductor production.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has "categorically" rejected a report by the US State Department over the human rights violations in the country last year, saying that only a "politically motivated report can ignore the alarming situation in Gaza".
KOLKATA: An 18-year-old BJP activist was found dead in mysterious circumstances in Moyna in West Bengal's East Midnapore district.
KARNATAKA: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah visited the residence of slain MCA student Neha Hiremath, who was brutally stabbed to death, on Thursday to console her family members here.
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said on Thursday that people are ready to give a befitting reply to the Congress on issues like "corruption, paper leaks and its policy of appeasement".
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Esplanade Court on Thursday extended the police custody of the accused duo in the Salman Khan house firing case by four days till April 29.
CHANDIGARH: Desh Bhagat University (DBU) is thrilled to announce the successful return of President Dr. Sandeep Singh from his fruitful visit to America, where he facilitated significant collaborations and achievements. The campus was abuzz with excitement as a vibrant celebration took place to mark this milestone, coinciding with the launch of two groundbreaking ventures in collaboration with esteemed American institutions.
MUMBAI: Singer-composer Shaurya Mehta’s soul-stirring music video of 'Dil Ye Dilbarro' is receiving immense appreciation from listeners.
KYIV: The Ukrainian government has suspended issuing and renewing passports for overseas military-aged men, Ukrayinska Pravda, a Ukrainian online newspaper, reported.
MOSCOW: A fire has broken out at an oil production facility in Russia's central Siberian oblast of Omsk, regional Governor Vitaliy Khotsenko said on Thursday.
BIDAR: Reacting to the charges levelled by the BJP that the Congress is taking away the reservation of SCs-STs and giving it to the Muslims in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah claimed on Thursday that the 4 per cent quota which existed earlier for the Muslims has been continued in the southern state.
MUMBAI: Actress Jacqueliene Fernandez, an avid animal lover, has stepped forward in support of them, urging everyone to adopt instead of shop.
ROTTERDAM: India's Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal highlighted the steps that the Narendra Modi government was taking to promote solar power in the country to help convergence towards the COP28 renewable energy and energy efficiency commitments at the ongoing 26th edition of World Energy Congress.
SEOUL: The overall direction of South Korea's alliance with the US will not change no matter who wins the White House in November, as the breadth and depth of the alliance has never been greater, its top envoy to Washington said Thursday.
MUMBAI: San Francisco-based investment fund Rise Capital on Monday announced it is launching its India operations and will invest in early-stage startups through its global fund III.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb has claimed that Imran Khan took a BMW X5 on his way out as the country's premier, which was basically a car from the Prime Minister Offices pool for foreign delegations.
CANBERRA: Australia's opposition Labor Party remains in a leading position in the federal election to be held this month at the campaign's halfway point, new opinion polls revealed on Monday.
SRINAGAR: An improvised explosive device (IED) was detected and defused by the security forces on Monday in Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.
NEW DELHI: As Tesla CEO and soon-to-be Twitter boss Elon Musk aims to crack down on spam bots, nearly half of his own followers on the micro-blogging platform are fake.
VILNIUS: Lithuania has ended the Covid-related "extreme situation", changing the pandemic's management strategy, according to the Ministry of Health.
BENGALURU: The Karnataka Police have formed seven teams to nab the man who threw acid on a woman for refusing his marriage proposal, said officials on Monday.
NEW DELHI: Light rain with gusty winds are likely in parts of Delhi-NCR on Sunday, a much needed respite from the blistering heat, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
CHANDIGARH: Former Chief Minister and Punjab Lok Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh today condemned the murderous attack on party spokesman, Sandeep Gorsi. Gorsi was attacked by over a dozen people while he along with his wife was sitting in his office on busy Lawrence Road, Amritsar.
CANBERRA: Health authorities of Australia's Victoria state confirmed that the Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12.1 has been traced in wastewater in Melbourne.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discussed Islamabad's commitment to polio eradication and the Covid-19 situation in the country in a telephone call, the military's media affairs wing said.
MUMBAI: In a development that could be a game changer for the game of cricket in the United States, a world class cricket stadium is to be built in the city of Los Angeles.
THIRUVANANTHAPUR: Malayalam movies had been in the limelight through the works of acclaimed moviemakers such as Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who was one of the most known faces of the Malayalam film industry to a global audience. He is a respected figure in the international film festival circuits, winning acclaim as a filmmaker as well as being on a jury in major film festivals.
WASHINGTON: Roughly 300 structures have been destroyed in the US state of New Mexico as massive wildfires are feared to be strengthened by high winds, dry air and warmer temperature in the coming days, authorities said.
WASHINGTON: Due to a megadrought gripping the western US, the water levels at Lake Mead, the country's largest reservoir serving 40 million Americans, have dropped to a historic low.
NEW DELHI: At least six people were severely injured after a DTC bus rammed into shops in the national capital's Jangpura area on Saturday, police said.
NEW DELHI: The OnePlus Nord series that crossed 4.4 million cumulative unit sales in 2021 will be available across price points in India this year, delivering the core Nord experience to its growing community, the company's top India executive said here on Saturday.
NEW DELHI: The equity market is likely to kick off next week on a sombre note after a sharp fall in the US market overnight and the focus will shift to the outcome of the US' Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, said financial advisory firm Swastika Investmart.
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana on Saturday said the Constitution provides for separation of powers between the three organs and added that while discharging duties, one should be mindful of the 'Lakshman Rekha'.
SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk has reportedly lined up a new CEO to take over from Indian-origin Parag Agrawal, as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorseys name was making the rounds who quit in November last year to focus on his financial payments company Block.
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged his US counterpart, Joe Biden, to organise the upcoming Summit of the Americas without exclusions.
MOSCOW: The Central Bank of Russia announced that it has reduced its key interest rate by 300 basis points to 14 per cent.
MUMBAI: Royal Challengers Bangalore pace bowler Harshal Patel has revealed that Zaheer Khan's knuckle balls and the potent slower ones he bowled during the 2011 World Cup were what inspired him to take up pace bowing in his formative years.
BENGALURU: Karnataka Congress MLA and former Minister B.Z. Zameer Ahmad Khan on Saturday clarified that there are no plans to distribute food kits and cash aid for families of the accused persons involved in Hubballi violence.
NEW DELHI: A novel way to smuggle in heroin - through cloth threads - has been detected with the DRI and ATS Gujrat, in a joint operation, seizing a container at Gujarat's Pipavav port with 9,760 kgs of such thread.
GURDASPUR: District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee Gurdaspur (District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee) under the chairmanship of Mr. Som Prakash, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Government of India-cum-Chairman, District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee.
MUMBAI: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) pace bowler Harshal Patel has revealed the struggles he and his family had to go through when they decided to move to the United States just after the global financial crisis, saying that he even had "work at this Pakistani guy's perfume shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey" to earn a livelihood.
MUMBAI: Actress Chhavi Mittal, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer after undergoing six hours of surgery, was finally cancer free.
NEW DELHI: The much-awaited 47th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting, with its focus on GST rate restructuring and extension of GST compensation cess, will now possibly be held in the first week of May, once the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman returns from her 10-day visit to the US after attending the World Bank-IMF meeting earlier this month.
NEW DELHI: The US Fed has fallen significantly behind the curve and that substantial monetary restraint is now needed, said Deutsche Bank in a report.
NEW DELHI: M3Ms Pankaj Bansal says, "no doubt, real-estate developers with sufficient land-parcels and holistic business-model will carry an edge for buyers. Uniquely, M3M India has a bank of over 2,200 acres of land-parcels that has given the company a well-defined advantage and will always remain".
LONDON: Head coach Ralf Rangnick admits that it is important to find out Cristiano Ronaldo's future as he expects Manchester United to be in the market for a "couple of new strikers".
SYDNEY: Health authorities in Australia's New South Wales (NSW) confirmed on Friday that the Omicron sub-lineage BA.4 was detected in the state.
KIEV: Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said his country is willing to seize Russian assets to finance Kiev's post-war recovery.
KOLKATA: A PIL was filed in the Calcutta High Court on Friday challenging the use of red beacon light on a vehicle belonging to Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mandal.
SAN FRANCISCO: Tech giant Amazon uses voice data from its Echo devices to serve targeted ads on its own platforms and the web, says a new report.
SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold around 4.4 million shares of the company worth around $4 billion, as he prepares to take over Twitter for nearly $44 billion.
NEW DELHI: A local court on Friday granted Delhi police two-day remand of Farid, alias Netu, who was arrested in connection with the April 16 Jahangirpuri violence case.
MELBOURNE: Despite rumours and calls for his selection for Test-match cricket, Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell will remain an exclusively white-ball player, as Cricket Australia (CA) announced its sides for the multi-format, five-week tour of Sri Lanka.
CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab leader and MLA from Amritsar east Jeevan Jyot Kaur blamed the previous Congress and Akali governments for current power crisis in Punjab. She said that their lack of vision and self-serving decisions are costing the people of Punjab. But, Aam Aadmi Party government, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, is working tirelessly to improve this situation and as a result Ropar thermal plant’s unit, which was shut earlier, is now functioning and Talwandi thermal plant’s effected unit will be working from tomorrow morning.
BENGALURU: The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) would resume inter-state bus service to Kerala from July 12 after suspending it for over 2 months due to Covid-induced lockdown, an official said on Thursday.
BENGALURU: Karnataka would construct 9 lakh houses across the state over the next 2 years for Scheduled Caste beneficiaries, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa announced on Thursday.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Medical Education and Research Minister Mr. Om Prakash Soni today directed to set up a Jan Aushadhi Centre at Government Medical College, Amritsar.
CHANDIGARH: The Subordinate Services Selection Board, Punjab today issued an Advertisement to fill 866 vacancies of Veterinary Inspectors under direct recruitment quota.
SHIMLA: The Meeting of State Cabinet held here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur reviewed the Covid-19 situation in the State.
WASHINGTON:The highly transmissible Delta strain has overtaken the Alpha variant to become the dominant variant in the US, according to new estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
NEW DELHI: Piyush Goyal, who has been among the few ministers in Narendra Modi government holding charge of more than two ministries, has again been reloaded with an additional responsibility in Wednesday's Cabinet reshuffle.
NEW DELHI:The Narendra Modi cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday did not see any Muslim being inducted, despite a few aspirants in the fray, and Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi remains the community's lone representative in the Union Cabinet.
NEW DELHI: Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has been given charge of two ministries of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways, and Ayush after being inducted in the Narendra Modi government in Wednesday's reshuffle.
AMRITSAR:Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee President (SGPC) Bibi Jagir Kaur has targeted the Government of India for not reopening the corridor of Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan
NEW DELHI:As the government plans to go full throttle on disinvesting several public sector assets and enterprises in non-core sectors along with strengthening PSUs in the strategic sectors, it has decided to bring the Department of Public Enterprises under the Finance Ministry.
PATNA: A woman was raped in front of her husband in Bihar's Saran district, an official said. The incident came to light when a video of the incident went viral on social media. Saran SP Santosh Kumar, has ordered an inquiry.
CHANDIGARH:It may sound unbelievable but a cero survey conducted by the PGI has revealed ashow those wallowing in poverty and ignorance have beaten their blessed brethren in urban sectorsto better anti-bodies against COVID-19 honours.
NEW DELHI: Kitty Kumaramangalam, 68, wife of former Union minister P.R. Kumaramangalam, was found murdered inside her house in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar on Tuesday night, Delhi Police said on Wednesday.
PATIALA: Following the directions of the District and Sessions Judge, Rajinder Aggarwal, the Panel Advocates attached with various Courts,in wake of the upcoming National Lok Adalat on July 10 have started to identify the cases in which compromise can be effected.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police on Tuesday has busted another targetted killing module backed by Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) handlers based abroad with the arrest of its 4 operatives, including a former Indian Army Sepoy, who had managed to escape from Patiala Jail in April 2021.
KAPURTHALA: The continuous close vigil in vehicle theft prone areas by Kapurthala police led to busting of a gang involved in stealing the bikes and recovered 14 stolen bikes hidden in the forest area of Jhall lai wala in Sultanpur lodhi besides arrest of two accused.
NEW DELHI: India's gross GST revenue collection fell below the psychological mark of Rs 1 lakh crore for the first time this year, clocking Rs 92,849 crore in June 2021, as collections fell due to disruptions caused by the fresh wave of Covid-19.
LAHORE: Former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria has termed Sri Lankan great Arjuna Ranatunga's statement that India had insulted the island nation by sending its 'second-string' team for a white-ball series, as a gimmick to hog the "limelight".
SYDNEY: Australia's state of Victoria on Tuesday announced the cancellation of the 2021 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix and Australian MotoGP citing low rates of vaccination that has made it impossible to stage the events.
KAPURTHALA: In a major crackdown against the illegal counterfeit currency trade going on in the city, the district police arrested six persons in the operation and seized Rs 1,47,000 fake notes of Rs 2000 and Rs 500, Rs 7500 in cash along with 30 packets of chemically treated paper used as raw material for making counterfeit currency, bottles filled with chemical and dyes and packets of chemical powder as well as three vehicles used to transport counterfeit currency.
CANBERRA:A local Australian news channel presented the weather forecast using traditional names for cities marking the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) week.
MUMBAI:The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has adjourned its hearing on the matter of PNB Housing's proposed preferential issue worth Rs 4,000 crore to entities led by The Carlyle Group Inc for July 12, Monday.
MUMBAI: The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party boycotted the proceedings of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and conducted a 'parallel session' outside Vidhan Bhavan here on Tuesday to protest against the suspension of 12 of its MLAs by the Speaker.
CHANDIGARH: As soon as dawn arrives in Chandigarhs Panjab University sports ground, chances are you may come across young men and women wrestling each other with a rugby ball. It can be quite a sight considering that the game has never enjoyed a popular appeal in the country. But for those playing here, not only is it a serious activity, it is hardly ejust a game. A closer look, and you will notice that the participants are not just those from the middle and upper-class.
MANGALURU:The local police have issued a notice to the suspect to appear for the investigations into the shooting of a 'community dog'.The shocking incident, which made national news, had taken place on July 1 near Shivbagh New Road in Kadri.
NEW DELHI: With 34,703 fresh Covid cases, India on Tuesday recorded lowest spike since March 17, said the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, as only 553 deaths were reported in the biggest relief since April 6.
MUMBAI: Actress Gauahar Khan took to Instagram on Monday evening and shared her honeymoon pictures in an Instagram reel.Gauahar Khan and her husband Zaid Darbar are currently honeymooning in Russia after seven months of being married.
NEW DELHI: Oil marketing companies kept the retail price of petrol and diesel unchanged on Tuesday to analyse the global oil price movement before making further revisions.
NEW DELHI:A series of photographs on the Indus river in the Ladakh region, taken by artist-photographer Isaac Tsetan Gergan, follow the length and breadth of Ladakh, from Nubra to Zanskar and Leh to Kargil telling the story of the river and of the state. On view till July 11 online, the exhibition titled 'Two Banks of a River -- The Indus in Ladakh' brings to light the traditional practices followed by the locals and how the region's waterways are imperiled by pollution and commercialisation.
INDIANAPOLIS: The newly constructed Paramveers Sports Complex in Cartersville, Georgia, was inaugurated with the blessing of Bhagwan Swaminarayan and puja was performed by Pujya Yoginayandas Swami and Pujya Yagnanand Swami from BAPS Temple, Atlanta. The complex, owned by NRIs Jayesh Patel and Seema Desai Patel, have five cricket fields.
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police on Sunday busted another major drug supply chain with the arrest of four Afghan nationals and heroin seizure of 17 kgs, worth Rs 90 crore in the international market, from a unit in South Delhi.
CHANDIGARH: All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) in a letter to the Prime Ministerhas stressed that the proposed electricity amendment bill 2021 shouldnot be rushed to the Parliament during the pandemic period andbefore detailed discussion with power sector engineers and employees.
CHANDIGARH:Continuing its all-out efforts to enhance quality power supply hours to farmers, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on Sunday supplied on average 10.3 hours of electricity across the state for paddy operations.
GROS ISLET(St Lucia):Australian pace bowler Mitchell Starc says that the newcomers in the squad have the opportunity to impress the selectors in the five-match T20I series against the West Indies.
SYDNEY:The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) on Monday declared the list of 472 athletes who will represent the country in the Tokyo Olympics starting July 23.The list features the Hockeyroos and Kookaburras, world No. 1 tennis player Ashleigh Barty, young freestyle swimmer Arianne Titmus, javelin thrower Kesley Lee-Barber and footballer Sam Kerr captaining the Matildas.
NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw has said that Rahul Dravid's coaching experience is "just amazing" and that his knowledge of the playing conditions is "out of this world".
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was taken aback on Monday after learning that people are still being booked and tried under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, even six years after the top court struck down the provision as "unconstitutional and a violation of free speech".
LONDON: Britain has reported another 24,248 coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,903,434, according to official figures released on Sunday.
MOSCOW:Russia logged 25,142 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 5,610,941, the official monitoring and response centre said on Sunday.