President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour of India, on former PMs P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan, and two-time former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur, posthumously,...
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2nd Aug 2026 | Updated at 01:55am 2nd Aug 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,...
Supreme Court on Monday allowed ASI to carry on with a survey of Bhojshala temple-Kamal Maula mosque complex in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh but directed that no action would be taken on the basis of the survey report without its permission.
India's foreign minister S Jaishankar had a “comprehensive’’ discussion with his visiting Ukraine counterpart Dmytro Kuleba about efforts to achieve a peaceful resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, while also reiterating India’s commitment...
A woman took to X to slam Air India after the airline allegedly gave her mother's business class seat to another passenger on a flight from Delhi to Washington DC. The user, Vitasta, called the airline's behaviour "absolutely ridiculous" and...
India “strongly” objected to the remarks of the US State Department on the arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, saying that in diplomacy, states are expected to be respectful of the sovereignty and internal affairs of others.
A Delhi court on Monday remanded chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody till April 15 in connection with the now-scrapped 2021-22 excise policy, making him the fourth prominent lawmaker from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to be lodged...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is returning to West Bengal to campaign for the Lok Sabha polls next week
At least five people, including a woman, were killed and around 500 injured, while several houses were damaged by norwester at two places in north Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Sunday afternoon. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee cancelled her...
AAP’s lone Lok Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Rinku and Jalandhar West MLA Sheetal Angural joined BJP, dealing a blow to the governing party in Punjab that had named Rinku as its Jalandhar candidate for the June 1 parliamentary elections in the state.
The SGPC general house criticised the Centre and state government’s adamant attitude towards the cause of farmers and ‘Bandi Singhs’, besides their undue interference in Sikh religious affairs while passing several resolutions spelled out by...
