A major blast at a firecracker factory in Batala town of Punjab killed over 23 people and injured more than a dozen others, some of them seriously
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2nd Apr 2026 | Updated at 11:52am 2nd 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,...
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh rejected the SGPC charges against his government over the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev, saying a group of ministers had already been constituted to coordinate with the religious...
V K Tahilramani, the Chief Justice of Madras High Court, has resigned from the post following her transfer to the Meghalaya high court
Perhaps for the first time in the world, a 74-year-old woman from a village in East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh became a mother and gave birth...
Everything is not lost on India's Chandrayaan- 2 mission. Maybe the soft-landing on the Moon has gone off-script, but the ambitious Chandrayaan 2 mission...
The Lord Mayor of the City of London Peter Estlin will travel to Nepal and India between 14 to the 20 September. In Nepal he will spend two days in Kathmandu for humanitarian causes, while in India he will travel to Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
The Supreme Court sought the response of the Centre and the Jammu & Kashmir government to a bunch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity...
Assam’s NRC upgradation process ended with the rejection of the citizenship claims of a little over 19,00,000 people out of the total 40,00,000 who had...
The Chandrayaan- 2 spacecraft underwent a small, fifth and final orbit manoeuvre to refine its circular path around the moon
West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh was attacked by a group of people while he was out for a morning walk
