A special court hearing the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case last week sentenced 38 convicts to death and 11 to life imprisonment. While delivering the capital punishment, which will be subject to confirmation of the Gujarat High Court, the...
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8th Apr 2026 | Updated at 05:11am 8th Apr 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,...
Punjab recorded a dip in voter turnout from 76.8% in 2017 to 72% for the single phase state assembly polls on Sunday, while the third round of UP elections saw 63% polling as opposed to 62% five years ago. Held under the shadow of Covid restrictions...
Music director Bappi Lahiri, who popularised “disco sound passed away in a Mumbai hospital last week. He was 69. The composer-singer had been under treatment...
With the Ukraine situation still uncertain, the government asked the family members of all Indian diplomats in the country to return to India. The government had so far maintained that there was no reason to panic and that the Indian mission...
A team of doctors in Ahmedabad gave a new lease of life to a 56-year-old woman by surgically removing a 47 kg tumour, which she had been carrying for the...
Two soldiers and a militant were killed in a gunfight that broke out in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. According to a defence ministry spokesperson the gunfight that broke out in Chermarg village of Zainapora area of Shopian. He identified...
New Delhi: Love knows no boundaries. When work brought Rhiannon Harries to India four years ago, she hoped for many enriching experiences. Little did she...
Trinamool Congress (TMC) scrapped all party posts except that of chairperson and, instead, set up a 20-member national working committee with Mamata Banerjee as its head in the wake of a raging debate on the one-person-one-post issue.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi claimed that his chopper was not allowed to fly to Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar because that areas were declared as no-fly zones amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state. Channi was to attend...
Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday made a clean sweep in all four municipal corporations - Bidhannagar, Siliguri, Asansol and Chandannagar...
