The BJP has picked a relatively unknown face - four-time MLA and the party's tribal face Mohan Charan Manjhi - as the new chief minister of Odisha after senior state leaders Dharmendra Pradhan and Jual Oram joined the Modi government. The party...
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28th Mar 2026 | Updated at 01:34pm 28th 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,...
V K Pandian, who quit the IAS last November to join BJD and quickly graduated from ex-CM Naveen Patnaik's trusted bureaucratic aide to rumoured political heir, ended his innings in politics with a statement saying he was "sorry if the campaign...
A three-member special investigation team has been formed in connection with the incident in which BJP MP-elect Kangana Ranaut was allegedly slapped by a CISF woman constable at Chandigarh airport, a senior police officer said.Meanwhile, several...
In a close call at Mumbai airport, an IndiGo aircraft descended on the runway, touching down even as an Air India flight was taking off, breaching the safety margin. The AI plane lifted off a split second before IndiGo touched down about 2,100...
A monk earlier staying at the Wadi Swaminarayan Temple in Vadodara has been accused of rape by a woman who claimed that the incident took place in 2016 when she was 14 years old. The woman claimed in an offence registered at the Wadi police...
A major fire destroyed 109-year-old Shiva temple tied to Kashmir's erstwhile royal family in the tourist town of Gulmarg, 55km from Srinagar. Built in 1915 by Mohini Bai Sisodia, queen of Kashmir's last king Maharaja Hari Singh, the temple -...
Extensive efforts to track down terrorists involved in the attack on pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district continued, with 11 teams of security personnel working on the ground and a multi-directional cordon laid around the Poni-Treyath...
Post-poll violence-related tension was prevailing in the Hariharpara area in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Monday following the killing of a local Trinamool Congress leader in a shootout
Why the Trinamul Congress has not yet managed to make inroads in the urban belts despite the party gaining a significant number of seats in the Lok Sabha election is a point of concern for the party and the leadership. The issue was discussed...
With assembly elections just four months away, and the Lok Sabha results reducing BJP’s seat tally by 50% in the state, Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini launched ‘Happy Card’, which offers 1,000 km of free rides a year on state buses to all members...
