Perhaps for the first time in the history Punjab vidhan sabha, independent MLAs Balwinder Singh Bains and Simarjit Singh Bains, who last week launched...
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16th Mar 2026 | Updated at 04:23am 16th 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,...
Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh said his party would go it alone in the 2017 Assembly elections, a few months after saying that he was open to a grand alliance in the state.
Madras High Court rejected a new public interest litigation demanding that the ban on camel slaughter be lifted from Tamil Nadu
Students of the Calicut University's Centre for Physical Education boycotted classes to protest against its decision to allow a Muslim student to keep his beard.
The Modi government did not agree to give any special status to Andhra Pradesh as was demanded by the state, but agreed to provide monetary benefits to...
Kerala's first transgender models, Maya, 29, and Gowri, 30, have been roped in to model for handloom line Red Lotus.
A Kerala-based NGO will receive the prestigious UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy for its literacy-linked skill development activities at a ceremony...
India's high commissioner to UK, Navtej Sarna, is likely to take over from Arun Singh as India's ambassador to the US. Singh is scheduled to retire at the end of the month.
Cornelia Sorabji, the first female law student at Oxford in 1889 continues to provide a pioneering link between India and the University of Oxford. Cornelia Sorabji was not only Somerville College’s first Indian student, but was also the first...
The G20 meet held in China this week saw a lot of fireworks, and contributing to the news, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi minced no words as he called...
