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Mumbai, April 9 Actor and owner of the cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan, on Sunday, hailed cricketer Rinku Singh for his stupendous 5 successive sixes in the final over of KKR's thrilling IPL 2023 match against GT at Narendra Modi St...

New Delhi, April 9 Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan carried out a comprehensive review of overall security situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China in the Sikkim sector amid the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh. Gen Chauhan...

Jaipur, April 9 Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Sunday alleged that the Ashok Gehlot-led government failed to investigate cases of alleged corruption during the BJP rule in Rajasthan and announced a day-long fast to press for action, in a sign of escalati...

Indore, April 9 Madhya Pradesh's popular 'Noor Jahan' mango, which weighs around 3.5 kg, is losing its lustre, as only eight fruit-bearing trees are left in Alirajpur district, an official said on Sunday. There are only eight 'Noor Jahan&#...

Chandigarh, April 9 Artificial Intelligence has created quite a stir of late as people have been doing variety of experiments using its tools. Like ChatGPT became an instant cult with people seeking answers and advices on diverse issues, AI is being haile...

Chandigarh, April 8 The Punjab Government has decided to change the government offices timings from May 2. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday announced that all government offices will function from 7.30 am to 2 pm. The new timings will be in...

Balrampur (UP), April 8 Six members of a family were killed when the car in which they were travelling collided with an unidentified vehicle here early Saturday, police said. The incident took place near Vishambharpur village under Sriduttganj police stat...

New Delhi, April 8 C R Kesavan, great-grandson of noted freedom fighter and India's last governor general C Rajagopalachari, joined the BJP on Saturday as the party aims to boost its presence in southern India. Kesavan, who was in the Congress earlier...

Haveri, April 8 A 17-year-old teenager has been taken into custody on the charges of stabbing her fiance in neck on the pretext of making reels in Karnataka's Haveri district, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred near Om Public School on the...

Hyderabad, April 8 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS Government to not allow any obstruction in development being planned for the people of the state, as he expressed 'pain' a...

New Delhi, April 8 The CBI has filed a chargesheet against former MD and CEO of ICICI Bank Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and Videocon Group founder Venugopal Dhoot in a Rs 3,250 crore loan fraud case, officials said on Saturday. The agency ha...

New Delhi/Ahmedabad, April 8 The Enforcement Directorate has arrested suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani in a money laundering case linked to an under probe Indian Premier League (IPL) 'betting racket', officials said Saturday. Jaisinghani and his ...

Mumbai, April 8 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said he is not completely opposed to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the charges against the Adani group, but a Supreme Court committee will be more usefu...

Chandigarh, April 7 Sidhu Moosewala 's latest song 'Mera Na' has been released on his official YouTube handle on Friday. The song has created quite a stir as it has surpassed 3.9 million views within 3 hours of its release. Moosewala's fan...

Vijay Mohan Chandigarh, April 7 The Himalayas received deficient snow during the winters but the water level in reservoirs at major dams in the region, which are crucial for irrigation and power generation, remains above normal at the onset of summer. The...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, April 7 Former Congress stalwart and ex-Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday joined the BJP, slamming his parent party for being "clueless and assigning tailors' jobs to barbers." Reddy...

Chandigarh, April 7 Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who walked out of a jail recently, called on party president Mallikarjun Kharge and party General Secretary In-Charge of Communications Jairam Ramesh in New Delhi on Friday. Earlier, Sidhu met party ...

New Delhi, April 7 India has logged 6,050 fresh coronavirus cases, the highest in 203 days, while the active cases have increased to 28,303, according to Union health ministry data updated on Friday. On September 16 last year, 6,298 cases were recorded. T...

IANS Johannesburg, April 7 A 47-year-old Indian-origin in South Africa has been charged with perjury for faking her own kidnapping and demanding 2 million rand ransom from her husband. Firoza Bee Bee Joseph from Phoenix, north of Durban, was tracked down ...

New Delhi, April 7 Jailed AAP leader Manish Sisodia has written a letter addressing the people of the country, alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not understand the importance of education. In the letter which was posted on Twitter by Chief M...

IANS New York, April 7 An Indian national has been sentenced to 33 months in prison, and ordered to pay $2.4 million in restitution for his role in an international conspiracy that preyed on elderly victims in the US. Ashish Bajaj, 29, pleaded guilty in A...

ANI Kolkata (West Bengal), April 7 Bollywood and cricket make the perfect match. The IPL 2023 match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday saw superstar Shah Rukh Khan casting a spell over ...

Jaipur, April 7 Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has hit back at Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for targeting Rahul Gandhi, saying no one had thought that they would use such low-level language against...

Washington, April 7 Joe Biden's Administration has defended its decision to pull American troops out of Afghanistan and blamed former US President Donald Trump for creating conditions that "severely constrained" his successor and led to the ch...

ANI Ottawa, April 6 A Hindu temple has been vandalised with anti-India graffiti in Windsor in Canada's Ontario, Windsor police said in a statement. The Windsor Police Service has started an investigation into the vandalism as a "hate-motivated inc...

New Delhi, April 5 Lok Sabha's Budget session ended as scheduled on Thursday after Speaker Om Birla announced that the House had been adjourned sine die (for indefinite period). As soon as the House met for the day, opposition members came to the well...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, April 6 The audience at the launch of veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad's autobiography on Wednesday were treated to slices of Jammu and Kashmir history, with former Union Minister Karan Singh revealing how he put his foot down when the...

New York, April 6 Donald Trump did not have his mug shot taken when he was arrested and arraigned at a Manhattan court, but his re-election campaign is using his indictment to raise funds by marketing T-shirts with a specially-created "Not Guilty"...

Sandeep Dikshit New Delhi, April 6 The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday announced an unchanged repo rate (basic interest rate) on the expectations of lower inflation in the coming months due to past six successive rate hikes since May 2022. The RBI expec...

IANS Lucknow, April 6 A woman clinical psychologist was duped of Rs 30,000 by an unidentified miscreant who posed as an Army officer. The woman, a resident of Lucknow's Laxmanpuri Colony, got a call from a man who introduced himself as an Army officer...

Madurai, April 6 YouTuber Manish Kashyap, arrested for spreading fake videos on Bihar migrant workers being attacked in Tamil Nadu, has been booked under the National Security Act (NSA) on Thursday, police said. Madurai Crime Branch police registered a ca...

New Delhi, April 6 India has logged 5,335 fresh coronavirus cases, the highest in 195 days, while the active cases have increased to 25,587, according to Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. On September 23 last year, 5,383 cases were recorded ...

New Delhi, April 6 The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of jailed former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a money-laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The high court, while dismissing the Aam Aadmi Party (A...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 6 The office of AICC general secretary KC Venugopal has filed a complaint with Kerala Police chief Anil Kant alleging illegal cloning of his mobile number by hackers and making fraudulent calls for ulterior motives. In a tweet po...

United Nations, April 6 In a significant victory, India was overwhelmingly elected to the UN Statistical Commission, returning to the world organisation's highest statistical body after a gap of two decades in a "competitive"; election. In the ...

Pune, April 6 A 30-year-old man allegedly strangled to death his sister-in-law and her two minor children and later set the bodies on fire in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Thursday. The incident took place in Kondhwa area on Wednesday evenin...

Seoul, April 6 North Korea on Thursday threatened unspecified "offensive action" over the expansion of US military exercises with rival South Korea as President Joe Biden's special representative for North Korea flew to Seoul for talks with al...

New Delhi, April 4 Nearly 14 lakh applications have been received for the Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET-UG) this year, registering a 41 per cent increase from the debut edition last year, UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said on Tuesday...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, April 4 Veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has said factors that led to the Congress' revival in the 1980s and 1990s do not exist today, for the Congress has lost the firepower, and sense of sacrifice and dedication needed for ele...

Digha (WB)/New Delhi, April 4 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the BJP of organising violence during Ram Navami processions and asserted that she would not let any rioter go scot-free, even as the Union Ministry of Home Affair...

Mumbai, April 4 Speaker of Israel's Knesset (parliament) Amir Ohana on Tuesday said the perpetrators, who sent terrorists for the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai should be brought to justice long wait We have yet to conclude this (26/11) terror event because ...

New York/Washington, April 4 Former US President Donald Trump was on Tuesday arrested as he arrived to surrender at the Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment on history-making criminal charges related to paying hush money to a porn star before the ...

New Delhi, April 4 Rejecting attempts by China to rename places in Arunachal Pradesh, India today said the state was its integral and inalienable part and assigning "invented" names would not alter this reality. Editorial: China at it again Respon...

New Delhi, April 4 The World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have announced slightly slower growth rates for the Indian economy during the current fiscal due to a slowdown in consumption and difficult conditions abroad. The World Bank's lat...

Sanjeev Singh Bariana Chandigarh, April 4 Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday said "stern action" would be initiated against those named in reports pertaining to drug trade in Punjab. Three drug-related reports have been handed over to the CM ...

New Delhi, April 4 Seven tourists were killed, at least 12 injured and several were reported missing after an avalanche on the Gangtok-Nathu La road this morning. A second avalanche at the same spot in the evening stalled rescue efforts. Toll may rise as ...

Pratibha Chauhan Shimla, April 4 Aimed at removing gender disparity, the passing of the Himachal Pradesh Ceiling on Land Holdings (Amendment) Bill, 2023, by the Assembly will pave the way for the eldest adult daughter in a family to retain land as a "...

New Delhi, April 4 The Tamil Nadu drug regulator on Tuesday said there was no contamination in the samples of Global Pharma manufactured eye drops that the US FDA had red-flagged earlier citing blindness in some cases. The state drug controller office sai...

Sandeep Dikshit New Delhi, April 4 India today said it had "intertwined and indivisible nature of security concerns" with Bhutan and both sides remain in close touch in issues related to shared interests, including security ones. Funds for rail li...

Sumedha Sharma Gurugram, April 4 Located in the heart of the city, Gurgaon village has hit the headlines overnight. Karan Kataria (22), son of a farmer who is no more and student of the London School of Economics (LSE), has called out the prestigious inst...