Six Char Dham pilgrims and a pilot were among seven people killed when a helicopter crashed minutes after it took off from Kedarnath shrine for Guptkashi. Out of the six killed three are from Gujarat. The accident occurred at Dev Darshini, between...
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1st Jun 2026 | Updated at 02:38am 1st Jun 2026
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
Chandigarh: The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short by a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann informed the House that since governor Banwarilal Purohit had not given assent to the three money Bills, his government would resume the...
Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
Hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) scientists successfully conducted the Gaganyaan failure test, the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command recovered the Crew Module (CM) from the Bay of Bengal. Isro chief S Somanath said the crew...
KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) unveiled its own set of promises ahead of the November 30 assembly polls to counter Congress’s “six guarantees”, setting the stage for a competitive electoral race as the party led by CM K Chandrasekhar...
TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
West Midlands delegation visits Ahmedabad to boost ties
A 37-member West Midlands delegation, led by Mayor Richard Parker and officials including Manoj Ladwa and Neil Rami, visited Ahmedabad to strengthen economic, cultural, and educational ties, coinciding with the inaugural Commonwealth Connect...
Somnath Swabhiman Parv honours India’s spiritual resilience
The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, held at the first Jyotirlinga in Gujarat, marks one thousand years since the first attack on the Somnath Temple in 1026. This national event, instead of focusing on destruction, celebrates India’s resilience, faith,...
India's foreign minister S Jaishankar referred to terrorism as one of the greatest risks to humanity and stated that over the past 20 years, the United Nations Security Council had developed a significant architecture, centred on the counter-terrorism...
Keeping with his tradition of spending Diwali with armed forces, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent this year’s Diwali with armed forces in Kargil. Addressing...
The West Bengal Panchayat elections are likely to be held in March 2023, sources said, adding that the State Election Commission (SEC) and Panchayat Department are preparing for it.
Kolkata: The future of democracy in India is in danger because power is concentrated in the hands of a few and this could lead to a “presidential form” of government, undermining the nation’s federal structure, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said...
Liberalised visa policy, upkeep of the Sikh shrines and resumption of train service between India and Pakistan were the main issues raised during the centenary of Shaheedi Saka (martyrdom massacre) Panja Sahib at Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib in...
Chandigarh: Father of late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala Balkaur Singh said that his son was murdered in broad daylight, but justice has not been served yet. He stated that he has become tired of the delayed justice. If no action was taken...
Jalandhar: With bitterness brewing in parts of Punjab over the grant of parole to rape and murder convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the head of Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda, political parties and their leaders are maintaining a stoic silence...
Forty-eight hours after Diwali cash gift from Karnataka CM’s office (CMO) to journalists made waves, CM Basavaraj Bommai said he is ready to face a Lokayukta probe into the controversy, which is “part of a Congress toolkit designed to spread...
Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao accused the BJP of ‘trying to buy’ 20 to 30 MLAs of the ruling TRS and topple his government and claimed that ‘brokers’ from Delhi were offering £10 million to each legislator.
