₹ 1,500-For-Women Plan "Leaked": AIADMK Defends Promise Day After DMK's
Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021: AIADMK top leader and Chief Minister K Palaniswami also promised six cooking gas cylinders free of cost to families in a year. | Read more|
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7 Jailed For Harassing Lioness With Bait In Gujarat's Gir Forest In 2018
Eight people were arrested in May 2018 after a video clip surfaced on social media in which they were seen harassing a lioness by luring it with a chicken as bait. | Read more|
Lockdown In Maharashtra's Thane To Start Later This Week Amid Covid Surge
The order, issued by Thane Municipal Commissioner Vipin Sharma, said the decision was taken due to rise in COVID-19 cases in these areas in the past few days. | Read more|
Parliament's Budget Session Live Updates: Both Houses Adjourned Till 12 PM
The second part of the Budget session of Parliament commenced from Monday with all COVID-19 precautionary measures in place. | Read more|
Don't Let Anyone Stop You: Rahul Gandhi On International Women's Day
"Women are capable of creating history and future with formidable grace. Don't let anyone stop you. #InternationalWomensDay," Rahul Gandhi tweeted. | Read more|
Meghan Markle Says Kate Middleton Made Her Cry Before Her Wedding
In a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan called the claim -- pored over at length by the gossip press -- "a turning point" in her relations with the royal family. | Read more|
French Billionaire Olivier Dassault Killed In Helicopter Crash
French billionaire Olivier Dassault, a politician and scion of the Dassault aircraft-making family, was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to a captain of industry who "never stopped serving our country". | Read more|
Ikea's Plans For India May Face Stiff Competition From Mukesh Ambani
Furniture giant Ikea is accelerating its India expansion after a nationwide pandemic lockdown last year delayed the construction and opening of new stores in one of its fastest-growing markets. | Read more|
"Country Suffering": Opposition Protests Over Fuel Prices In Parliament
The second part of the Budget session of Parliament was off to a stormy start today - the Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 11 am minutes after opening - as Congress MPs raised slogans demanding a debate over the rise in fuel prices in the past many weeks. The two Houses met today amid a scorching Assembly polls campaign, | Read more|
On Camera, Union Minister Giriraj Singh Says, "Beat Up Officials If..."
Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday advised the people of his Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar to "beat up with bamboo sticks" those officials who appeared insensitive to their concerns. | Read more|
Karnataka Court Bars Media From Showing "Defamatory" Content On 6 Ministers
A city court on Saturday issued a temporary injunction against media organisations from telecasting or publishing of any "defamatory" and unverified news items against six Karnataka ministers. | Read more|
"Free At Last": Poet Varavara Rao, 81, Released After Last Month's Bail
Varavara Rao, the 81-year-old poet-activist who has been in jail for over two years in the Koregaon-Bhima case, walked out of the Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital late Saturday after being granted bail for six months by the Bombay High Court on medical grounds last month. | Read more|
China Exports Soar To Highest Level In Decades After COVID-19 Hit
China's export growth jumped to the highest in over two decades, official data showed Sunday, with imports also surging in a sharp bounceback from the coronavirus outbreak that had brought activity to a near halt. | Read more|
"Centre Ready To Amend Farm Laws But...": Agriculture Minister To Critics
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday yet again hit out at the critics of farm laws, especially the opposition leaders, as he suggested those opposing the new legislations seem to be missing the finer details. | Read more|
100 Days of BJP's Arrogance: Congress Slams Government Over Farmers' Protest
As the farmers' protest against the Centre's new farm laws completed 100 days, the Congress on Saturday said the period was a "black chapter" in India's democracy for the treatment meted out to the protesters and also marked 100 days of the ruling BJP's "arrogance". | Read more|
Days Before Death, Man Linked To SUV Near Ambani Home Wrote "Was Harassed"
Hiren Mansukh, a car parts dealer linked to an SUV filled with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's Mumbai home last week, had written letter days before his death, alleging that he was being harassed by police officials and journalists. In his letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the s | Read more|
"Not So Sasti Anymore": Actor Taapsee Pannu On 3 Days Of Tax Raids
Keys to an alleged Paris bungalow, a receipt for ₹ 5 crore, and "memory of 2013 raid" - these are what the income-tax (I-T) department primarily found during its raid on properties linked to Tapsee Pannu, the actor said today in three tweets. She ended the last one of those with a post script: "Not so sasti" anymore. | Read more|
Child Rights Body Takes Up 3-Year-Old's Painful Death Outside UP Hospital
A day after a three-year-old girl died outside a private Prayagraj Hospital, her surgical wounds allegedly left open and unattended because her family could not pay the bills, the national child rights body today stepped in to probe the matter. The Uttar Pradesh government, too, has ordered an inquiry in the incident, | Read more|
"Test, Track, Treat": Centre To 8 States, Union Territories On Covid Surge
The effective strategy of "test, track and treat" has yielded results at the height of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the centre said today in a reminder to the states that are witnessing a high active caseload. As per news report of NDTV, eight states and union territories - Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Goa, Hima | Read more|
OCI Need Permission For "Tabligh, Journalistic Activities": Home Ministry
OCI card holders will need special permission if they want to take up research, any missionary or Tabligh or journalistic activities, the Home Ministry has said in new rules. | Read more|
Serum's Adar Poonawalla Warns Of Delays As US Prioritizes Pfizer
The head of the world's biggest vaccine maker and the World Health Organization's chief scientist said manufacturers of coronavirus shots face a global shortage of the raw materials needed to churn out the inoculations. | Read more|
22-Year-Old Woman, 2 Children Found Hanging At Home In Delhi: Police
The bodies of a 22-year-old woman and her two children were found hanging at their house in Delhi, police said on Friday. The incident occurred on Thursday in northwest Delhi's Shakurpur area and the police were informed about it at around 10.40 pm. | Read more|
Indian-Americans Taking Over US: Joe Biden At NASA Meet
Indian-Americans are taking over the country, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday, referring to the high number of people from the community getting a place in his administration. | Read more|
Mumbai's Karachi Bakery Shuts Shop, Raj Thackeray Party Man Claims Credit
Mumbai's famous Karachi Bakery has shut shop months after it was attacked by Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) over its name. | Read more|
2 Cops Suspended For 'Inaction' In Rape Case On Yogi Adityanath's Turf
Two policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur town, the home turf of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, have been suspended and a case filed against them for their alleged inaction in a gangrape case related to a minor girl who was brought to their police post on Tuesday night after the incident. | Read more|
"Don't Agree With 'Love Jihad' Term": Ally As BJP In Haryana Plans Law
As the BJP-led government in Haryana prepares to table legislation to check "love jihad", key ally and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala is not entirely on board and he has made it clear. In an interview to NDTV, he says he does not agree with the term "love jihad", used by the rightwing to describe what they cal | Read more|
Buckingham Palace To Investigate If Meghan Markle Bullied Her Staff
In a sign of further tensions and tussles between Queen Elizabeth II and Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening announced that its human resources department would investigate accusations by former employees that Meghan bullied her staff. | Read more|
UP Man Cuts Off Daughter's Head, Walks With It In Village
Residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district were in for a shock on Wednesday afternoon when they spotted a man calmly walking down the road with the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter. | Read more|
India Downgraded To "Partly Free" In Report By US Think Tank
India was downgraded to "partly free" for the first time since 1997 in an annual ranking of democracies by the U.S.-government funded research group Freedom House, which cited worsening civil rights under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | Read more|
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, Actor Taapsee Pannu Face Income Tax Raids
Income Tax officials carried out searches today at properties linked to filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and actor Taapsee Pannu in Mumbai over alleged tax evasion, sources said. As per news report of NDTV, Searches took place at 30 locations in Mumbai and Pune, including premises linked to a talent agency as well as Phantom F | Read more|
Chinese Hackers Still Actively Targeting Indian Port, Claims US Firm
At least one connection opened by Chinese state-sponsored hackers into the network system of an Indian port is still active, even as authorities block attempts to penetrate the nation's electrical sector, according to the US firm that alerted officials. | Read more|
Girls Allegedly Stripped, Made To Dance By Cops; Maharashtra Orders Probe
The Maharashtra government has formed a four-member high-level committee to conduct a probe into an incident where girls were allegedly stripped and forced to dance by policemen at a hostel in Jalgaon, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Wednesday. | Read more|
Karnataka Minister Quits On "Moral Grounds" Amid Row Over Alleged Sex Tape
Karnataka Water Resources Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi has resigned on "moral grounds" after an alleged sex tape was aired by local news channels. | Read more|
Extreme Weather Puts Debt Worth $84 Billion At Risk at India's Top Banks
An increase in extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and cyclones risk souring debt worth more than 6.19 trillion rupees ($84 billion) at India's biggest financial institutions. | Read more|
Hotter Than Usual Summer Likely In Most Of India, Except South
Day temperatures are likely to be above normal in north, northeast, parts of east and west India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Monday in its summer forecast for March to May. | Read more|