The Modi govt last week kicked off the exercise to implement its ‘One Nation One Election’ promise by 2029, accepting the recommendations of a high-level panel headed by former President Ramnath Kovind.
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22nd Mar 2026 | Updated at 03:11pm 22nd Mar 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,...
Adani Foundation has contributed £2.5 mn to Andhra Pradesh which is reeling from severe floods and devastation.
Air Marshal A P Singh will take over as the next IAF chief from Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari on Sept 30, at a time when the force desperately requires much faster induction of indigenous Tejas fighters as well as force-multipliers amid the...
Describing it as an infringement on the right to equality and freedom of speech, Bombay high court quashed the amended Information Technology rules enabling the Centre to set up its own fact check unit (FCU) and flag social media content about...
The uproar over the death of Anna Sebastian Perayil, an employee at consulting firm EY in Pune, allegedly on account of work stress, has pushed the Union labour ministry to initiate a probe into the circumstances surrounding the death.
Air India has issued a full refund to Anip Patel, CEO of CaPatel Investments, after he shared a video on social media detailing his disappointing first-class experience.
All 24 assembly constituencies and seven districts of J&K that went to polls last week - including Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam and Doda that have seen terror activities and gunfights in the recent months - recorded higher turnouts than in LS polls...
Family plays a central role in the lives of Indians, a fact that extends prominently into the business world.
India successfully test-fired the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VLSRSAM) for the second consecutive day from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur on the Odisha coast, defence sources said.
Incessant rain in Agra caused significant damage to the city’s historical monuments, including Taj Mahal. Archaeological Survey of India had put its staff on “surveillance” after water began to seep from the main dome of Taj, while its adjacent...
