CBI arrested RG Kar hospital’s ex-principal Sandip Ghosh along with his security guard and two others - a hospital vendor and a medicine store owner - after interrogating him through the day on corruption charges levelled against him by a former...
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24th Mar 2026 | Updated at 06:30am 24th 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,...
The Election Commission rescheduled the polling date in Haryana to Oct 5 to secure the voting rights of the state’s sizable Bishnoi community, and accordingly revised the counting date for both Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir to Oct 8.
Five Sikh high priests pronounced SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal guilty of religious misconduct, or “tankhaiya”, in a verdict that requires him to appear before the Akal Takht and seek forgiveness for unspecified “mistakes” when his party was...
Five Bangladeshis and two Rohingyas, who entered Tripura without valid documents, were arrested from two separate areas in the northeastern state, police said
Suspected tribal militants opened fire from hilltops on two villages in restive Manipur’s Imphal West district, killing a 31-year-old mother and an unidentified person in an attack that led the N Biren Singh govt to term it “an act of creating...
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the cancellation of the two-hour namaz break on Fridays in the Assam Legislative Assembly, citing it as a step towards enhancing productivity and shedding colonial-era practices. The decision,...
At least 35 people were killed in various rain-related incidents in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana amid heavy rainfall and flooding. Over 47,000 people were shifted to relief camps in both states.
The Enforcement Directorate said it has imposed a penalty of £90.8 mn on DMK’s Lok Sabha MP Jagathrakshakanin a case of FEMA violations, and his properties worth over £8.9 mn, which were seized earlier, has been confiscated.
Four decades after three men were killed by a mob in Pul Bangash area of old Delhi during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a Delhi court ordered the framing of charges against former union minister and Congress member Jagdish Tytler in the case. “Sufficient...
