Hundreds of people in Kerala have collected £3.54 mn through a crowd-funding campaign to secure the release of Kozhikode native Abdul Rahim, convicted in Saudi Arabia for causing the death of a 15- year-old disabled boy.
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29th Mar 2026 | Updated at 12:18am 29th 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 Supreme Court on Tuesday granted Patanjali Ayurved founders Baba Ramdev and managing director Acharya Balkrishna a week to tender a public apology in a case concerning misleading advertisements for health cures by the company. The top court...
Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian assured his counterpart S Jaishankar in their phone conversation that Indian officials will be allowed access to 17 Indian crew members who were detained after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized...
Amid the deteriorating security situation in West Asia, the govt “advised” Indian nationals not to travel till further notice to Iran and Israel - the two countries teetering on the brink of a major military escalation - putting on hold the...
Adani Green Energy Limited is building the world's largest renewable energy park in Khavda in Kutch district of Gujarat. This park is spread over 538 square km, about five times larger than the total size of the French capital Paris.
Canada has retrenched dozens of Indian staffers from its diplomatic missions in India apparently because of the reduction of Canadian staff available to “effectively manage and maintain in-country operations”. India had last year expelled 41...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said people would regret the abolition of the electoral bond scheme, and ruled out changes in the Constitution should his govt get another term. In an interview to news agency ANI, PM said while there was scope for...
Dr Rajesh Mehta, former Dean of Sola Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, along with his engineer son Purna Mehta, has developed a machine capable of determining whether a person suffers from night blindness at a nominal cost.
Formally framing its Lok Sabha election pitch as ‘welfarism vs polarisation’, Congress released its 2024 manifesto focused on ‘25 guarantees’ to demographics like women, youth, workers and backward classes, while announcing that in office, it...
After a gap of 33 years, three freed convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case - V Sriharan alias Murugan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar - landed in Colombo last week and later proceeded to their hometown Jaffna.
