Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India’s highest sporting award will be renamed after hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand, a change which effectively...
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5th Apr 2026 | Updated at 11:10pm 5th 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,...
The Lok Sabha last week cleared the Bill to drop the controversial clause allowing retrospective levy of capital gains tax on transactions involving underlying...
In a significant recommendation, a parliamentary panel urged the Indian government to renegotiate the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan, noting that...
A plea by businessman Raj Kundra seeking his immediate release from judicial custody in a porn film case was refused by the Bombay High Court. Arrested...
The Congress dared Twitter India to lock its accounts, a day after the social media company locked party leader Rahul Gandhi's handle over a post of his...
Assam and Mizoram inked an agreement last week to keep their police and forest guards away from the troubled inter-state border as the first tangible step...
Once again, the Olympics have come and gone. The hopes and prayers of millions of people in India and many Indians abroad were yet again placed in the hands of our sportspersons. Despite its best performance, with 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze,...
West Bengal extends Covid-19 restrictions in state till August 15, while night curfew hours to remain in place between 9 pm to 5 am except for emergency and essential services.
Kolkata: Former Union minister and BJP MP Babul Supriyo, who has recently been dropped from the Union cabinet after his defeat in the West Bengal Assembly...
Conservationists have voiced concerns over losing the historical character around the Golden Temple by replacing old structures with new ones.
