Several mining workers are reportedly trapped while some are feared dead following a landslide at the Dadam mining zone in Tosham block of Haryana’s Bhiwani district. While the district administration has initiated a rescue operation, the exact number of fatalities is yet to be ascertained. | Read more|
The number of cases of fast-spreading Omicron variant has risen to 1,431 in India, with Maharashtra reporting the most number of infections. The country also witnessed a 35 per cent jump in new Covid cases as it reported 22,775 infections today. | Read more|
The question of who frightens whom into soiling their pants - police or criminals - is now the subject of a surreal back-and-forth between Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi and state Congress chief Navjot Sidhu, whose spat rumbles on even with an Assembly election due in two months. | Read more|
FCRA licences - required to be able to receive funding from abroad - of over 6,000 NGOs and other organisations expired overnight, the Home Ministry said Saturday morning, days after it refused to renew such a licence for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. | Read more|
Taiwan's president on Saturday urged China to curb its "military adventurism", with tensions between the two sides at their highest level in years. Beijing has ramped up military and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan since Tsai Ing-wen came to power in 2016, as she rejects the stance that the island is Chinese territory. | Read more|
China is mining Western social media to equip its military and police with information on foreign targets, according to a new report by The Washington Post. This revelation was made following the review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts, and company filings. | Read more|
Food aggregators like Swiggy and Zomato will have to collect and deposit tax at 5 per cent rate starting today, a move which will widen the tax base as food vendors who are currently outside the GST threshold will become liable to GST when provided through these online platforms. | Read more|
Days after a tax raid on an Uttar Pradesh businessman uncovered eye-popping piles of cash but raised questions whether it had found its intended target, opposition Samajwadi Party's Pushpraj 'Pampi' Jain found himself searched by authorities this morning. | Read more|
The 15-day long strike across the country by resident doctors demanding the NEET-PG counselling to be expedited was called off on Friday morning. The doctors will resume all work by noon today (Friday). This comes after a meeting wit | Read more|
Afghanistan’s former president said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing the accounts of former Afghan and US officials. | Read more|
India on Thursday strongly rejected China renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state has "always been" and will "always be" an integral part of India and that assigning "invented" names does not alter this fact. | Read more|
The fast-spreading Omicron variant has spread to 23 states in India and now 1,270 people have been infected with the new COVID-19 strain. The new variant has been labeled as "highly transmissible" by experts. Maharashtra - which has reported the most number of coronavirus cases - has 450 cases of the new variant. 125 p | Read more|
Three terrorists, including a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist involved in an attack on a police bus earlier this month, were gunned down by security forces during an overnight encounter on the outskirts of Srinagar, the police said. Three policemen and a CRPF jawan were injured in the shootout in Panthachowk, they sai | Read more|
Hospitalizations for Covid-19 jumped 60% from a week ago in New Jersey, the most densely populated US state. The 3,604 patients numbered just 122 short of those a year ago, before vaccinations were widely available. The state reported 38 Covid-related deaths in hospitals over 24 hours. | Read more|
''Bullets were coming from all directions, not only from the jawans who were fleeing.'' Chongmei Konyak had seen it all before - his training as an Indian Army jawan instinctively kicked in. Caught in the middle of the cross-fire, Mr Konyak hit the deck, crawling to safety. "I rolled down to a nallah to save myself.'' | Read more|