Punjab has recorded the voter turnout of 62.8 per cent for the 13 Lok Sabha seats that went to the polls on Saturday. In 2014, the voting percentage was 70.63 per cent, and in 2019, it was 65.94 per cent. Extreme heat conditions seemed to have...
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31st May 2026 | Updated at 06:38am 31st May 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 Supreme Court barred YSR Congress Party MLA Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy, who allegedly smashed an EVM at a polling station, from entering the vote counting station of the Macherla assembly constituency on June 4
Bengaluru received 111 mm rainfall on June 2, breaking the 133-year record for the highest ever rainfall in a single day in June, Met department officials said
A Bengaluru court handed over custody of rape accused MP Prajwal Revanna to a Karnataka Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) until June 6.
After concluding his three-day meditation at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, PM Narendra Modi paid floral tribute to Tiruvalluvar statue in Kanniyakumari on Saturday. Clad in saffron, Modi had started his meditation on Thursday evening.
Twenty two people, including six children and eight women, died and 57 others were injured after a bus carrying pilgrims to Shiv Khori cave shrine in Reasi district of J&K plummeted into a deep gorge in Jammu last week.
Ravaging floods in Assam and Manipur continued to claim lives as authorities reported eight more flood-related deaths last week, raising the overall fatality count to 53. The floods induced by severe cyclone Remal also inundated vast swathes...
India's death toll of suspected heatstroke deaths touched 219 with Odisha reporting six fresh casualties and Rajasthan two even as the southwest monsoon advanced to some more parts of south India.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal headed back to a cell in the Tihar Jail last week as his interim relief period of 21 days was over. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo was sent to judicial custody till June 5. Kejriwal was granted interim...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has moved approximately 100 tonnes of gold from the United Kingdom to its vaults in India, reports said. This is the first time since 1991 that India has undertaken such a large-scale transfer of gold reserves.
