Forty five Indians who were illegally made to join the Russian army and fight for them on the battle fronts against Ukraine have been rescued from the war zone and discharged from the Russian military, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
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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,...
India has said Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments on Indian Muslims are "unacceptable". Posting on X on the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed, the Iranian leader had clubbed Indian Muslims with those in Gaza, talking...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Abdullahs, Muftis and Gandhis, claiming they had ruined J&K and alleging the three political families had promoted terrorism in J&K for seven decades “only to keep their ships running.” But terrorism...
Sitaram Yechury (72), whose communist beliefs sat comfortably with affability and political practicality, breathed his last at AIIMS. The hospital said Yechury was admitted with pneumonia. His family donated his body to the hospital for research...
Centre said it has initiated the exercise to conduct the census and an announcement in this regard is expected soon while indicating it had an “open mind” on adding a caste column in the decennial enumeration, which has been delayed since the...
Not just India, the entire world knows that India is the best bet for the 21st century,” Modi said in his inaugural address at the 4th edition of the Global Renewable Energy Investors Meet and Expo (RE-Invest 2024) at Mahatma Mandir Exhibition...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down the West Bengal government’s request to stop live streaming of the court proceedings in the case of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August...
Five weeks of protests triggered by the Aug 9 rape-murder at Kolkata's RG Kar hospital culminated in Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee yielding to the protesting junior doctors' demand for the removal of four top officials - Kolkata Police commissioner...
All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) asked its general secretary Sankor Jyoti Baruah to go on leave after his former fiancee, an AASU member, lodged an FIR accusing him of sexual assault and intimidation
Two protesters were killed and 11 others were injured in police firing during a drive to evict alleged encroachers in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district of Assam, a top police officer said. Twenty-two police personnel and a government official were...
