A top ISRO scientist on Tuesday claimed he was poisoned more than three years ago. Tapan Misra alleged he was poisoned with deadly arsenic trioxide on May 23, 2017, during a promotion interview at ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru. | Read more|
The opposition Congress in Uttarakhand has demanded that the state Bharatiya Janata Party chief Bansidhar Bhagat apologise for his derogatory and sexist comment on Leader of the Opposition Indira Hridayesh. | Read more|
Across India, lakhs of birds have been found dead in the last 10 days. At least four states - Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Rajasthan- have confirmed bird flu, sounding an alert as the authorities step up efforts to contain the spread. Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are also vigilant after 12,000 ducks died in | Read more|
Reliance Industries approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court today pleading that the government safeguard its assets and services in the two states against "miscreants" who had damaged several of its telecom towers some days ago. The installations were vandalised allegedly by farmers angry over the company's percei | Read more|
Income Tax officials investigating alleged tax evasion by businessman Robert Vadra -- the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi -- are recording his statement today. The case is linked to the properties he allegedly purchased in the United Kingdom through arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari. | Read more|
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut's wife, Varsha Raut, today appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in Mumbai for questioning in a money laundering case. She had been summoned at least three times earlier in connection with the loan scam at Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank. Ms Raut had, however, skipped ap | Read more|
Twenty staff members at Chennai's star hotel, the Leela Palace, have tested positive for COVID-19, health authorities said on Monday. This is Chennai's second luxury hotel to have emerged as a COVID-19 cluster after the ITC Grand Chola. | Read more|
A Chinese firm has won a contract for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Rapid Rail Transit System Corridor -- a first in the months since the stand-off between the two nations in Ladakh. Government sources said the project is funded by the Asian Development Bank, whose guidelines clearly mention that vendors from all member c | Read more|
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly has been hospitalised in Kolkata after suddenly falling ill. The former India captain felt uneasy when he was at the gym, complaining of pain on his left arm, and was taken to Woodlands hospital in Kolkata. | Read more|
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing charges, an official said. Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan. | Read more|
Actor Kangana Ranaut violated the sanctioned plan while merging her three flats, a civil court has remarked while rejecting her plea seeking to restrain the Mumbai civic body from demolishing the unauthorized construction. | Read more|
A day after allowing limited resumption of air traffic from the United Kingdom, where a more virulent coronavirus strain has led to record rise in daily numbers, the Health Ministry issued guidelines for stricter surveillance and testing of passengers from the country. | Read more|
A 75-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh was found dead today at a farmers' protest site on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border. While the police probing the case, those at the site say a note written by the dead man, Kashmir Singh Ladi, has been found in which he has expressed his frustration over the stalemate in talks with the g | Read more|
A 60-year-old person has been arrested in Delhi for allegedly heading a racket that had swindled at least Rs2.5 crore from some 45 people under the garb of being a cryptocurrency promoter. He was held by the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi police on arrival from Dubai where he had fled to in 2018, setting up a new busi | Read more|
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday extended a pair of immigration bans that block many "green card" applicants and temporary foreign workers from entering the country, measures he says are needed to protect U.S. workers amid the pandemic-battered economy. | Read more|