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An Air India Express flight from Ranchi to Bengaluru was delayed by five hours at Birsa Munda Airport here on Sunday as the airline had to arrange oxygen cylinders from Delhi, an airport official said. The official said Air India Express flight number 1239 had arrived here from Bengaluru. During the flight, a passenger had […]
A helicopter with four persons on board made an emergency landing near a lake after bad weather affected visibility in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district on Sunday, officials said. Nobody was injured in the incident near the Mohgaon-Nilaj Road in Mohadi tehsil, they said. “A chopper belonging to a private company was on its way from Nagpur […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has often spoken about swimming as part of his fitness routine. But Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju believes the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha may need some training before taking the plunge into Arunachal Pradesh’s gushing rivers. “Mein yahan ka khiladi hun (I am the player here),” Rijiju […]
The CBI has registered a case against a former official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and several aviation-related companies for alleged abuse of official position, extending undue favours to select flying training organisations and suspicious aircraft transactions, officials said. No immediate response was available from the former DGCA official or the companies […]
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday took a sharp dig at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis by suggesting that he display photographs of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convener Abhijit Dipke in his office to credit him for making him aware of the issues faced by Gen Z. Speaking to reporters, Raut slammed the […]
One Indian national was killed and nine others were injured after a vehicle veered off the road in Oman, police said. The incident occurred on Saturday on Sultan Said bin Teymur Street after the vehicle veered off the road. The police Air Wing carried out an operation to transport two of the injured from Al […]
Security forces have arrested a militant belonging to a proscribed outfit from Manipur’s Thoubal district for his alleged involvement in an ambush on an Assam Rifles convoy in 2021, police said on Sunday. The 28-year-old accused is a self-styled ‘captain’ in the Peoples’ Liberation Army, they said. He was arrested on Saturday from Lilong Ushoipokpi […]
Three FIRs have been lodged against 28 named and more than 900 unnamed people in connection with clashes that broke out between police and protesting job aspirants in Jharkhand’s Giridih and Hazaribag, officials said on Sunday. The development comes a day after three FIRs were registered at Ranchi’s Kotwali police station against 14 named and […]
The Rajasthan government has announced that construction of a new building for a government primary school in Jaipur, which was at the centre of a recent confrontation between Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) members and villagers, will begin from September 1. The government said Rs 18 lakh has been sanctioned for the new building of Government […]
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asserted that India is capable of becoming a global shipbuilding hub, as he virtually laid the foundation stone for five expansion projects of the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, and Yantra India Ltd, from Kolkata. Singh was accompanied by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari during the foundation-laying ceremony […]
Sikh leaders and families affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on Saturday staged a protest outside Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s residence in the national capital, demanding an apology from the Congress over remarks by some of its leaders describing former party leader Sajjan Kumar as a “hero” and “role model”. Led by Delhi Sikh […]
Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Harish Rawat on Saturday dismissed reports that he had announced his retirement from politics, using humour to question the origin of the claim and asserting that he remained actively engaged in working for the Congress and Uttarakhand. Rawat said the claim that he had announced his retirement […]
The Congress on Saturday raised concerns over a Supreme Court judgment revisiting the nearly five-decade-old legal test for determining what constitutes an “industry”. The party warned that a narrower interpretation could leave more workers outside the protection of labour laws at a time when the Centre’s Industrial Relations Code, 2020, had already “weakened” the safeguards […]
India must continue doing business with China while strengthening its own industrial and manufacturing capabilities, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday, stressing the need to deal with Beijing “confidently”. “We have to do business with the entire world. That includes China too. But it is important we deal with them confidently,” Jaishankar said […]
The Edmonton police arrested a 27-year-old man after he allegedly stabbed two men, including a priest, with a screwdriver at the Nanaksar Gurdwara early Friday morning. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned the incident, calling the attack “appalling”. He expressed his thoughts for the injured and the wider community shaken by the incident. “No one […]
A Panama-flagged cargo ship carrying 24 crew members sank in the Bay of Bengal off Odisha on Saturday. While two sailors were found alive on a life raft on Saturday night, a massive search operation is on to locate the 22 other sailors at sea. The Panama-flagged vessel, MV Ocean Winner, lost communication with the […]
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused the BJP-led Centre of deliberately obstructing investment efforts by Opposition-ruled states after Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy was denied political clearance for a proposed visit to the US. Kharge alleged that the Centre was “selectively” granting permissions and wanted foreign investments to be routed through it rather […]
The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct re-examination of 49 candidates who could not take up the All-India AYUSH Post Graduate Entrance Test (AIAPGET) at Shri Satya Sai PG College Centre, Jaipur, due to power failure on September 1. Besides, the NTA has also issued a show-cause notice to Eduquity Career Technologies for lapses in […]
The ruling BJP on Saturday firmed up its political and electoral strategy, placing a national-level push for Gen Z outreach and Vande Mataram at the centre. The first meeting of the newly appointed national office-bearers of the party finalised a plan for active youth engagement, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent nudge to […]
India has moved to deepen its energy footprint in the Indian Ocean region with a five-year agreement to supply Mauritius’ entire import requirement of petrol, high-speed diesel and aviation turbine fuel, positioning New Delhi as the island nation’s anchor fuel supplier.The agreement was signed during Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri’s official visit […]
In a major overhaul of its organisational structure, the DMK on Saturday introduced age and tenure limits for party functionaries and increased the number of organisational districts from 77 to 110. The move follows the party’s defeat in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections held in April, and is aimed at strengthening its organisational machinery and […]
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the legality of Bar Council of India (BCI) chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra’s prolonged tenure and seeking his removal from the post. Mishra was first elected as BCI Chairman to 2012. Although Mishra briefly demitted office in 2014, he returned as chairman in November that year […]
Several job aspirants were detained on Saturday after a scuffle with police during a march to Lok Bhavan in Patna to press for a transparent recruitment process, officials said. A large number of job aspirants participated in the march, which was stopped near R-Golumber, where barricades were put up, they said. A scuffle broke out […]
The Tamil Nadu Government has issued work orders for nearly 1.28 lakh gold rings, costing approximately Rs 220 crore, to two jewellery retail chains under Maternal Uncle Gold Ring Scheme for newborns, a poll promise made by TVK, an official said on Saturday. Over one lakh gold rings are required to implement the scheme for […]
At least five people were killed and several others were injured, including one critically, when a bus ploughed into a crowd attending a cultural programme in Bihar’s West Champaran district, police said on Saturday. The incident took place around 10.45 pm on Friday along the Lauriya Marg in Parau Tola under the jurisdiction of Lauriya […]
Within a fortnight of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann calling for closer cooperation between the state government and the Indian Army on border security and anti-drone measures, a joint meeting of top officers from the Army, Border Security Force (BSF) and the Punjab Police was held at Headquarters Western Command, Chandimandir, to work out modalities […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief spokesperson and MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Saturday condemned Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda’s alleged remarks describing former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar as a “role model” and demanded that the Congress high command clarify the party’s position on the statement. Addressing a press conference, Dhaliwal said the wounds of the […]
One newborn died and two others suffered burn injuries after a warmer machine allegedly caught fire in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a district hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara in the wee hours of Saturday, officials said. The injured babies were referred to Jabalpur for further treatment. The incident occurred around 2 am […]
The BJP-led Maharashtra government on Saturday turned over a new leaf by deciding to let retired police dogs stay with the forces after their retirement. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis took the call amid growing demands to change the practice of giving away retired and trained canines for adoption after they retire. Under present rules, […]
Karnataka IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar has reportedly gone “missing” and is unreachable by his family and others, official sources said on Saturday. Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge confirmed the development on Saturday, saying the government had received information about the matter but that no formal complaint had been lodged by his family or anyone […]
For a long time even after Independence, Vande Mataram was not accepted from the core of the heart by some people, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday.Addressing a gathering of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) at Siliguri, Shah recalled that despite the strategic significance of Siliguri Corridor (also known as the Chicken’s Neck), former […]
Two foreign-flagged commercial vessels carrying 22 Indian seafarers have been hijacked by armed pirates in separate incidents off Somalia and Yemen this week. Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday asserted that all Indian nationals were safe. The incidents have renewed concerns over a resurgence of Somali piracy in the western Indian Ocean and […]
In a rare retraction on Friday, the President House withdrew a statement issued earlier in the day linking the cancellation of a customary Saturday event at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with preparations for Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s proposed India visit. Rahman’s visit has not yet been confirmed, with Bangladesh insisting on former Prime Minister Sheikh […]
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has defended its system for challenging answer key, saying the system was designed to be fair to every student, not just the one who challenges.The statement came after concerns were raised over the fee charged to candidates for raising objections against provisional answer keys. The NTA asserted that the fee […]
After over seven hours of high drama outside the Parliament Street police station, with Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi refusing to leave until an FIR was registered over pellet gun injuries suffered by a 19-year-old student, Sahil Lochab, the Delhi Police finally registered a case on Friday evening. The FIR was registered under Section […]
Punjab has witnessed an explosive rise in traffic challans, with their number surging from just 53,973 in 2021 to 20.47 lakh in 2025, a nearly 38-fold increase in four years, before more than doubling again to 41.38 lakh in barely seven months of 2026. But behind this enforcement boom lies a striking paradox: While challans […]
A proposed meeting with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was among the factors that led the Centre to deny political clearance to Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s proposed visit to the US, top diplomatic sources told The Tribune on Friday. The MEA, however, did not officially spell out the reasons for withholding clearance, […]
Hundreds of people gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Friday to stage a protest over caste-based reservation and demand changes in the reservation system. The police later dispersed the protesters after the permitted time for the demonstration ended.The protest was called by ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’, an Instagram page campaigning against the Scheduled Castes and […]
For the first time in its more than a century-old history, the Punjab and Haryana High Court now has 19 women judges on its Bench following the swearing-in of nine additional judges, including three women — Monica Chhibber Sharma, Puja Chopra and Divya Sharma. The other judges are Haryana Advocate-General Pravindra Singh Chauhan, Harmeet Singh […]
The mother of a child being financially independent is not, by itself, a reason to reduce the father’s obligation towards maintenance of their children, the Supreme Court ruled. A Bench led by Justice Vikram Nath on Thursday set aside the Allahabad High Court’s order that had reduced the amount of interim maintenance to be paid […]
In an unfortunate turn of events, three members of a family died in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Friday afternoon after a domestic dispute over a mobile phone ended in a sequence of fatal falls from a hilltop, police said. The tragedy unfolded in the Tisgaon area under the jurisdiction of Waluj MIDC in the afternoon, […]
The Supreme Court on Friday closed the proceedings on a batch of petitions relating to the controversial 2023 film, “The Kerala Story”, while leaving open the question of law relating to challenges to certification of films by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Chief Justice of India Surya Kant-led bench on Friday disposed of […]
As part of its post-Operation Sindoor transformation, the Indian Army on Friday announced the raising of a dedicated battalion for drone operations along the western front with Pakistan. The newly raised unit will operate under the command of the Army’s 11 Corps, headquartered in Jalandhar, Punjab. The Army has named these dedicated drone-operating units ‘Baaz […]
In a rare retraction on Friday, the President House withdrew a press statement that had linked the cancellation of a customary Saturday event at Rashtrapati Bhavan to the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. Rahman’s visit is yet to be confirmed, with Bangladesh insisting on former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s extradition before the visit […]
A little girl from Arunachal Pradesh is winning hearts online for making a cute, but deep appeal to everyone. The girl, wearing a purple T-shirt and speaking innocently, starts by saying that a man asked her if she was a Chinese, to which she replied she was an Indian. In her baby talk, she explains, […]
A newlywed doctor in Keralam paused her wedding celebrations to provide first aid to two catering workers who had fallen ill at the ceremony, with a video of the incident going viral on social media. Dr Shirin Subair, a native of Panoor in Kannur, was getting married to Dr Rijaz when two women from the […]
A 105-year old murder convict will now be able to live as a free man after the Supreme Court on Friday closed the case against him and waived the remaining period of his life sentence, taking into account his age. Born in 1920 in West Bengal’s Malda district, Rasik Chandra Mondal was convicted in 1994 […]
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday sat on a dharna outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) at Parliament Street Police Station after accompanying a student allegedly injured by pellets during the July 20 student protest, with the Congress accusing the Delhi Police of refusing to register […]
The Supreme Court on Friday modified its May 2025 verdict by reducing to one year the earlier mandatory requirement of three-year legal practice for law graduates for taking entry level judicial service examinations. However, the selected candidates will have to undergo training at the judicial academy and a further one year clerkship, a bench of […]
Violence broke out in Rampura Kanwarpura village in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district on Friday when volunteers of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) were stopped from entering a government school for an inspection, with both sides giving sharply different accounts of what followed. The CJP volunteers had arrived in the Bagru area to inspect the school’s infrastructure […]
