Trump administration has announced new rules for the H-1B visa program: The plan, to be implemented after a 60-day comment period, would also seek to require firms to make "real" offers to US residents before seeking to bring in foreigners and add new compliance mechanisms. | Read more|
Protesters cannot occupy public places indefinitely, the Supreme Court said this morning in a hugely influential verdict on a batch of petitions against the anti-citizenship law protests at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that cleared the parliament last year. "Dissent and demo | Read more|
The daily spike in coronavirus infections dropped below 65,000 on Tuesday and the total recoveries surpassed 56 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 84.70 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. However, the COVID-19 caseload rose to 66,85,082 with 61,267 new infections, the data updated at 8 am showed. | Read more|
US President Donald Trump has returned to the White House after being discharged from a military hospital where he was under treatment for the deadly coronavirus since Friday, telling his followers that he would be back on the campaign trail soon, and not to be "afraid" of the disease and not let it "dominate" their li | Read more|
A journalist, who is a contributor for a popular Kerala-based website, and three other men were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Monday over alleged links to the Popular Front of India or PFI, an outfit the Yogi Adityanath government wants banned. | Read more|
Former Union minister Dilip Ray was today convicted by a special court in Delhi in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999. | Read more|
Fifty per cent occupancy, staggered show timings, social distancing, thermal screening, adequate protection gear for the staff, and compulsorily providing phone numbers for "contact tracing" are among the guidelines issued for operation of cinema halls, theatres and multiplexes from October 15. They were recently allow | Read more|
India's COVID-19 caseload went past 66 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 55,86,703, pushing the recovery rate to 84.34 per cent, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. | Read more|
Maharashtra BJP vice president Chitra Wagh on Sunday demanded that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath take "strict action" against a policeman who held Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by her clothes at the Delhi-UP border on her way to Hathras. | Read more|
President Donald Trump unexpectedly left the hospital where he's being treated for Covid-19 to greet supporters on Sunday, waving to them from his motorcade in a bid to demonstrate strength while yearning to return to the campaign trail. | Read more|
The CBI began raids this morning in an alleged corruption case against Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar in Karnataka, Mumbai and Delhi. Today's raids - being carried out at 14 locations - have been called by the Congress as an "attempt to derail our preparation for bypolls" in Karnataka. | Read more|
At 7:04 a.m. on an autumn Thursday in Tokyo, the stewards of the world's third-largest equity market realized they had a problem. A data device critical to the Tokyo Stock Exchange's trading system had malfunctioned, and the automatic backup had failed to kick in. It was less than an hour before the system, called Arro | Read more|
All schools in Delhi will remain shut till October 31 because of the coronavirus pandemic, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said Sunday afternoon. The Delhi government had earlier ordered schools in the national capital to close till October 5, but allowed online classes - which have become the norm in recent weeks | Read more|
Justice should be given to the men accused of gang raping the 20-year-old woman from Hathras, a meet of the so-called upper caste men in Hathras has demanded. The demand came days after the postmortem report from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory said the woman, who belongs to the Scheduled Castes, was not raped. The al | Read more|
The Congress will not let the Narendra Modi government destroy farmers, Rahul Gandhi said in Punjab's Moga today as he kick-started a three-day tractor rally to protest against the controversial farm bills. Rahul Gandhi, who has been severely critical of the set three laws, declared that the centre's only aim was to de | Read more|
Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party patron Ram Vilas Paswan has undergone a heart surgery, his son Chirag Paswan said on Sunday. Ram Vilas Paswan (74), who has been in active politics for more than five decades and is one of the country's most noted Dalit leaders, has been hospitalised for the last few weeks. | Read more|
The Central Crime Branch police raided five pubs in the city as part of its crackdown against the drug menace. The searches were carried out on Saturday night, they said. "In the drugs case investigation, we found that generally drugs are taken in some pubs. So, search warrants were taken and five pubs searched yesterd | Read more|
India's COVID-19 caseload went past 65 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 55 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The recovery rate stands at 84.13 per cent. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 65,49,373 with 75,829 people testing positive f | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the strategically important all-weather Atal Tunnel, which reduces the distance between Manali and Leh by 46 km and the travel time by four to five hours, at Rohtang in Himachal Pradesh. Atal Tunnel, built by the Border Roads Organisation, is the longest highway tunn | Read more|
US President Donald Trump, who was shifted to a military hospital after being tested positive for COVID-19, is undergoing Remdesivir therapy and is "doing well", the White House physician has said. The Trump administration had issued an emergency use authorisation for Remdesivir earlier this year after the drug showed | Read more|
Days after the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang raped and assaulted in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, a senior state police official appeared to imply the woman was not raped because semen was not found. Additional Director General Prashant Kumar told reporters on Thursday that the foren | Read more|
The Director-General of Uttar Pradesh Police, HC Awasthy, will visit Hathras today amid controversy over the local administration's handling of the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, by four men from the so-called upper caste, last month. HC Awasthy, the UP DGP, will be accompanied by Additional | Read more|
Amid nationwide outage against the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, a Dalit teenage girl in poll-bound Bihar's Gaya district died by suicide on Friday after allegedly being gang raped by four men, the police said. | Read more|
In a huge reprieve for borrowers, the government has told the Supreme Court that it is ready to waive interest on the repayment of loans of up to ₹ 2 crore, frozen by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a six-month moratorium granted because of the coronavirus pandemic. | Read more|
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted on Friday, a development that is likely to bring to standstill his hectic election campaign. "Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediatel | Read more|
India's COVID-19 caseload inched closer to 64 lakh-mark with 81,484 infections reported in a day, while the number of people who recuperated from the disease crossed 53 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 83.70 per cent, the Union health ministry said on Friday. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country mounte | Read more|
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra kept up her attack on the Uttar Pradesh government over the Hathras gang rape and the late night cremation of a Dalit woman as she welcomed the Allahabad High Court's summoning of top officials of Uttar Pradesh government and the state police. | Read more|
The Pentagon has approved India's request to buy USD 90 million worth of equipment, spare parts and logistical support for its fleet of C-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft. In its notification to the Congress, the Defence Security Cooperation Agency said the proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national s | Read more|
A day after he was questioned by the Mumbai police in a rape case filed by an actor last week, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap today issued a statement denying any truth in the allegations levelled against him. The Producer-Director has documentary proof to establish that the complaint against him was an "outright lie", the s | Read more|
India's COVID-19 caseload crossed the 63-lakh mark with 86,821 infections being reported in a day, while 52,73,201 people have recuperated so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The recovery rate stands at 83.53 per cent. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 63,12,584, while the deat | Read more|
A state-level wrestler was shot dead and his friend seriously injured in Luhari village here, police said on Thursday. Akash (19) and Bharat (21) were shot at by four people on Wednesday night, Superintendent of Police Abhishek Singh said. | Read more|
Amid outrage in the country over the gang rape and death of a young woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, another similar case has been reported from the state. A little more than 500 km from Hathras, a 22-year-old Dalit woman died after being allegedly raped and assaulted on Tuesday evening, when the attention of the coun | Read more|
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra plan to visit Hathras in Uttar Pradesh today to meet the family of the 20-year-old woman who died after being gang-raped and tortured and whose dead-of-night cremation by the UP police has provoked nationwide outrage. However, the visit may soon escalate into a face-off; the Congr | Read more|
Amid spiraling outrage over the death of a woman gang-raped and tortured in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras and her 2.30 am cremation by policemen against her family's wishes, a BJP leader's comment on action against the accused raised eyebrows. | Read more|
A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to murdering nine people after contacting them on Twitter, in a high-profile case that has shocked the country. Dubbed the "Twitter killer", Takahiro Shiraishi was arrested in 2017 after body parts were found in his flat. He told a court in Tokyo on Wednesday that the allegations again | Read more|