Buzz about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet expansion grew stronger with reports of probable ministers heading to Delhi. Jyotiraditya Scindia is flying to Delhi from Indore and Janata Dal leader CP Singh has also reached Delhi, according to sources.This morning, PM Modi's meeting with top ministers and BJP chief | Read more|
Hong Kong police on Tuesday said they arrested nine people on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activity, after uncovering an attempt to make explosives and plant bombs across the city. | Read more|
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh took a chopper to Delhi this morning to meet Congress chief Sonia Gandhi amid infighting within the party's state unit, ahead of the state elections due next year. | Read more|
Russia has not had any contact from the United States over a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses and led to suspicions of Russian gang involvement, the Interfax news agency cited the Kremlin as saying on Monday. | Read more|
Pakistan's anti-corruption watchdog has established an anti-money laundering and terror financing cell to check financial crimes and illegal transfer of resources as the country struggled to exit from the FATF's grey list. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Pakistan on the grey list in June 2018 | Read more|
Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old priest-activist arrested under an anti-terror law in the Elgar Parishad case last year, died today in the middle of his fight for bail on health grounds. The Jesuit priest had been on a ventilator since yesterday when his health took a sharp turn for the worse.Stan Swamy was being treated at | Read more|
The Monsoon Session of the Maharashtra assembly started with chaos today as the house suspended 12 MLAs of the BJP for a year for abusing and manhandling the Speaker-in-chair. Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis, who was allegedly present during the ruckus which took place in a cabin, insisted that these are "fa | Read more|
Over a period of weeks, the coronavirus death rate plunged and the country considerably eased public health restrictions. President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan deal late last month to spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding the country’s worn infrastructure — the most significant aisle-crossing legisl | Read more|
A frail-looking RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Monday addressed his first political meeting in a long time and castigated the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and Nitish Kumar administration in Bihar for their “many failures” and predicted that a bright future awaits his own party under his son Tejashwi Yadav. | Read more|
Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee on Monday joined the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata. After joining the TMC, Mukherjee said she had full faith in the leadership qualities of Mamata Banerjee. “The way Mamata Banerjee halted the recent communal wave by BJP, I believe that in the future, with t | Read more|
The IT Rules 2021 are the “law of the land” and Twitter is “mandatorily” required to comply with them, the Centre told the Delhi High Court on Monday. The central government also told the court that Twitter has failed to fully comply with the rules, which results in the micro-blogging site losing the immunity g | Read more|
Some 500 Coop supermarket stores in Sweden have been forced to close due to an ongoing "colossal" cyber-attack affecting organisations around the world. | Read more|
The BJP clinched a massive victory in local body elections in Uttar Pradesh, in a big setback for Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party. The BJP took 67 seats in the zila panchayat chairperson election where 75 seats were at stake. Mr Yadav's party won only five seats. The Rashtriya Lok Dal, Jansatta Dal and an independent | Read more|
An Israeli merchant ship has reportedly been hit by an “unknown weapon,” causing the vessel to catch fire in the northern Indian Ocean. The incident comes amid rising tensions between Jerusalem and Tehran. | Read more|
Online retailers including representatives from Amazon and Tata met government officials to raise concerns about tough new rules for e-commerce announced last month that were seen as a major blow for their business models, sources told NDTV on Saturday. | Read more|
India reported 43,071 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, slightly lower than Saturday, and added 955 deaths. The country crossed a grim milestone of 4 lakh Covid deaths on Friday - the third after US and Brazil. | Read more|
Five workers were injured in a fire following an explosion at the plant of a chemical company in Maharashtra's Palghar district, officials said on Sunday. | Read more|
As per news report of NDTV, a woman in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr on Saturday filed a First Information Report (FIR) against a man for allegedly raping her and converting her to another religion on the pretext of marriage. | Read more|
A military plane carrying at least 85 people crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, the armed forces chief said. | Read more|
The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuing to evolve and mutate, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Saturday. Countries with low vaccine coverage are once again seeing hospi | Read more|
A day after Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat resigned less than four months after taking over, the Congress Saturday held a press conference to dwell on the political instability in the state and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of displaying hunger for power. Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said | Read more|
Rekindling the debate on the roles within the proposed integrated theatre commands, General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff, Friday described the Air Force as a “support arm” but IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria disagreed, saying “airpower has a huge role”. | Read more|
When Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019, Ladakh was seen welcoming the reorganisation. Its MP, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal of the BJP, declared in the Lok Sabha that “the PM… has understood the feelings of the people and has given the region respect. He has given an address on | Read more|
Thousands of Ethiopian prisoners of war were paraded through the regional capital of Tigray on Friday as jubilant crowds lined the streets to jeer the captives and cheer the Tigrayan forces who only days earlier had routed one of Africa’s most powerful armies. Many of the soldiers bowed their heads and cast their eye | Read more|
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh has been issued fresh summons by Enforcement Directorate (ED) for appearance on July 5 in a money laundering case investigation being conducted against him and others, officials said on Saturday. They said this is the third notice issued to the NCP leader for deposing befo | Read more|
The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal Government to provide security to Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari that was withdrawn by the state. While hearing Mr Adhikari's security case, the High Court observed that Mr Adhikari, a Z-category protectee by the Ministry of H | Read more|
President Joe Biden on Friday cheered the "historic" US rebound from the Covid-19 crisis as the economy gained 850,000 new jobs in June, cementing the evidence of a broad recovery. | Read more|
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat has been in Delhi for the past three days over worries that he may lose his four-month-old job because of the uncertainty over an election that he needs to win and a rift in the state BJP unit. | Read more|
The Supreme Court has dismissed a PIL (public interest litigation) seeking to remove Union Minister VK Singh over alleged anti-Army statements he had made on February 7; the statements were made with reference to the border stand-off with China along the LAC. | Read more|
The Border Security Force opened fire at a suspected Pakistani surveillance drone early on Friday after they spotted it near the international border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Jabowal village in Arnia sector. | Read more|
The central government has sent six high-level multi-disciplinary public health teams to six states reporting a high number of COVID-19 cases. The teams will assist these six states - Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur - in COVID-19 control and containment measures, the Health Ministr | Read more|
Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, said this week that he was considering a move to compel workers at VA hospitals to get vaccinated, fearing that centers with low vaccination rates were risking the health of veterans seeking care. The military is also struggling to fully vaccinate more troops across a | Read more|
After nearly 20 years, the US military left Bagram Airfield, the epicentre of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, two US officials said Friday. The airfield was handed over to the Afghan National Security and Defense Force in its entirety, they s | Read more|
An Army jawan was killed in an encounter with terrorists in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation at Hanjin village in Rajpora area of the district, following information about presence of terrorists there, a police official said. | Read more|
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned its citizens from traveling to several countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. This comes after the UAE last month extended the travel ban on passengers from 14 countries until July 21 in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Read more|