Cyclone 'Yaas', packing winds of up to 130-145 kmph, battered India's eastern coasts on Wednesday, dumping heavy rain, damaging houses and farmlands, and leaving at least four persons dead - three in Odisha and one in Bengal - officials said
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13th Jun 2026 | Updated at 11:50am 13th 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 has so far reported approximately cases of 8,848 mucormycosis or black fungus, one of the rapidly spreading infections observed in those recovering from Covid-19 while 219 patients have died of the disease. Taking note of the increasing...
More than 30,000 people have now succumbed to Covid-19 in India's official records. The death toll from the pandemic crossed 300,000, just 12 days after...
Over 11,00,000 people have been evacuated from vulnerable areas in Orissa and West Bengal as cyclonic storm Yaas approaches the coast and is expected to...
Police searched the Delhi office of the social media company Twitter after its moderators labelled a tweet by the spokesperson of the governing party as potentially misleading. Television images showed a team of anti-terrorism police carrying...
An NRI from Bhadran town of Anand district was killed by unidentified persons at his vape store in New York last week. The victim Kinshuk Patel, 33, was...
The Lancet medical journal’s article criticising India’s response to its national Covid-19 outbreak has faced sharp criticism from Indian frontline workers....
A midair wedding - with close to 130 wedding guests on board, most of whom were not following Covid protocol - has invited regulatory wrath. The SpiceJet...
The CBI went to the Supreme Court to challenge the Calcutta High Court order allowing the house arrest of four political leaders from Bengal - three from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool - in the Narada bribery case.
Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said she felt “insulted and humiliated” at the Covid meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi - with chief ministers and...
