MADURAI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who arrived in Madurai on Saturday night, will be taking part in the BJP's state core committee meeting during the day on Sunday, and address party functionaries at Velammal Global Hospital Ground in the evening. BJP sources said Shah will be visiting the Meenakshi Amman Temple on Sunday morning, where he is expected to spend around 30 minutes. He will then hold a meeting with the state's core committee, which includes union minister for state L Murugan, ...Read More
After attending the Palkhi Yatra and offering prayers at the Sant Muktai temple, Shinde and his entourage returned to Jalgaon airport at 9:15 pm Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde's journey from Jalgaon to Mumbai was reportedly delayed by close to an hour on Friday after the pilot of his private aircraft declined to take-off, citing the end of his duty shift. His scheduled arrival to Jalgaon was also delayed by over two-and-a-half hours due to technical reasons, according to a rep...Read More
Guwahati: The Meghalaya police search team on Wednesday recovered a raincoat during their ongoing search operation. Police are searching for tourist Sonam Raghuvanshi (from Indore) in the Mawkma area near Sohrarim. Raja Raghuvanshi, a resident of Indore decomposed body was found in a deep gorge near Weisawdong Falls in Meghalaya's Sohra (Cherrapunjee). Police have confirmed that he was murdered using a dao (machete). The discovery follows the couple's mysterious disappearance on May 23 while v...Read More
TGANB director Sandeep Shandilya said the cash, collected over just two days, was recovered during a raid conducted after a month-long surveillance operation in coordination with the Goa police. "Had we delayed the raid by an hour, the entire amount would have been transferred. It was neatly stashed inside the washing machine, ready for dispatch," ToI quoted Shandilya as saying. According to the report, the raid was carried out at an apartment in Highland Park and at Sangeetha Mobile Shop in M...Read More
Bihar is now among the Indian States leading in the enrolment of cardholders under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), with 3.94 crore Ayushman cards created till date, according to data released by the State government. It has also helped beneficiaries save over ₹1,000 crore in out-of-pocket medical expenses within a single year. Bihar is the third most populous State in the country, with about 80% rural population, and a literacy rate of less than 70%. It faces...Read More
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the Secretary of the Cultural Affairs Ministry, Government of Maharashtra, to decide, preferably within the day, a representation seeking permission to hold Bakri Eid namaaz at Mumbai's historic August Kranti Maidan. A vacation bench of Justices Neela Gokhale and Manjusha Deshpande was hearing a petition filed by Umer Abdul Jabbar Gopalani, who challenged the Gamdevi police's refusal to grant permission for mass prayers at the ground, citing pote...Read More
Bengaluru, June 7 (UNI) Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) President Raghuram Bhat on Saturday assured full cooperation with the ongoing inquiry into the RCB stampede tragedy, declaring that the KSCA "will never shy away" from investigation and is committed to transparency before the state government and Karnataka High Court. Addressing reporters after an emergency Managing Committee meeting convened earlier in the day by KSCA, Bhat said, "We have already told the government and the Hon...Read More
BENGALURU: Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar should take moral responsibility for the stampede at M Chinnaswamy Stadium that claimed 11 lives and resign. He also condemned the state government's suspension of senior police officers over the incident, terming the move "unnecessary". Kumaraswamy told reporters on Saturday that the officers were made scapegoats for the mistakes of the government. "Can the officers work effectively? The gove...Read More
The Madras High Court, Madurai Bench recently restrained the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) from collecting toll fees on the Madurai-Tuticorin NH-38 until the highway is properly relaid or maintained in accordance with statutory standards. A division bench comprising Justice SM Subramaniam and Dr Justice AD Maria Clete passed the order on a petition filed by V Balakrishnan, who alleged mismanagement of funds earmarked for roadside plantation and highlighted the deplorable condition...Read More
Mangaluru: In olden days students used to malinger from attending to a compelling academic obligation like citing a headache, fever or even sillier reasons, but things have been upscaled in the modern times. If the student is not prepared for a seminar or an exam, just call the college stating that there is a bomb in the college. This same analogy has been enacted by a post graduate student of a medical college in real life. Dr. Chalasani Monika Chowdhury is that student who planted a hoax bomb...Read More
Thane: The highly decomposed bodies of three men from Mumbai were found Thursday evening in a car that had veered off the Mumbai-Nashik highway, near Kasara, and landed into a drain, some 40 feet below at a turn sloping down. The three friends were on their way to the Trimbakeshwar temple near Nashik.The crash site between Kasara and Unbarmali showed telltale signs, the police said. Barks of trees lining the stretch showed signs of having borne the impact of the collision impact. Besides, the ma...Read More
New Delhi: In a joint operation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) have eliminated As'ad Abu Sharaiya, a senior leader of the Mujahideen terrorist organization in Gaza, and another terrorist, Mahmoud Muhammad Hamid Kuhail. According to the IDF, Abu Sharaiya was directly involved in the October 7, 2023, massacre, infiltrating Kibbutz Nir Oz, and was responsible for the abduction and murder of several Israeli citizens, including Shiri, Ariel, Kfir Bibas, and Nat...Read More
Manipur: Tensions rose in Imphal city on Saturday night after unconfirmed reports of the arrest of five Arambai Tenggol volunteers, a Meitei group. Tensions erupted in Imphal East and Imphal West districts of Manipur on Saturday night following rumours about the arrest of five volunteers from Arambai Tenggol, a Meitei group, including one of its commanders. Unconfirmed reports suggested that the arrests were carried out around 2.30 pm by a team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Ho...Read More
Sunday, 8 June 2025 () India reported four new Covid-19 fatalities, including a pregnant woman, raising the year's death toll to 59 with 5,755 active cases. In response to rising cases and deaths, the central government is conducting mock drills to assess Covid preparedness. States are ensuring the availability of essential resources, while surveillance units monitor influenza-like illnesses and severe acute respiratory illnesses....Read More
JAMMU, June 7: Vehicle retail sales in Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a significant drop in May 2025, mainly due to ongoing geopolitical tensions in sensitive border areas. As per data shared by the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA), most vehicle categories showed a decline. The data claimed the sales of commercial vehicles were hit the hardest, falling by 30.09% to 711 units, down from 1,017 units in May 2024. "Construction equipment (CE) sales dropped by 48.33%, while passen...Read More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday outlined five urgent global priorities for building disaster-resilient infrastructure, calling for a collective push to safeguard vulnerable regions, especially coastal and island nations, from the intensifying impacts of climate change.Speaking at the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, 2025 - held for the first time in Europe - Modi said the world must "build infrastructure that stands firm against time and tide". H...Read More
Hyderabad: What was meant to be a weekend getaway among colleagues turned into a devastating tragedy when two young employees of a major corporate company lost their lives in a car crash at Edulabad, near here, in the early hours of Sunday. The group had just wrapped up a party at a farmhouse and was heading out in search of food when the accident occurred. Preliminary investigation suggests drunk and negligent driving as the cause, casting a pall of grief over what began as a night of celebrati...Read More
Pune: Hospitals in Pune have started reporting an increase in dengue cases among children following recent heavy rainfall and intermittent showers. Conditions are now ripe for mosquito breeding, experts said, as they warned citizens to ensure there's no waterlogging or stagnant pools near homes and offices. "Dengue is typically seen first in children as they often play outside," said Dr Sagar Lad, a senior neonatologist and pediatric intensivist at Jehangir Hospital and Sahyadri Hospital, Shastr...Read More
Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) President Raghu Ram Bhat and a few other office bearers moved the Karnataka High Court on Friday seeking to quash the FIR filed against them in the Chinnaswamy stadium stampede case. Police on Thursday registered an FIR against RCB, event management firm DNA entertainment private limited, and Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA). Karnataka Chief Minister Siddarmaiah too on Thursday had instructed the state DGP and IGP to immediately arrest the r...Read More
Traffic on the Noida Expressway's Pari Chowk to Delhi carriageway is diverted from Friday night to Monday morning for urgent underground water pipeline repairs. This closure impacts commuters from Greater Noida and Noida, redirecting them through DSC Road, Botanical Garden, Kalindi Kunj, and Sarita Vihar. The repairs are crucial to prevent further damage to the expressway and water supply disruptions.Traffic on one carriageway of Noida Expressway has been diverted over the weekend for undergroun...Read More
Jammu, June 4 (UNI) A Special Police Officer (SPO) was among two persons arrested with narcotics in Udhampur and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesperson said on Wednesday. The police said a team during patrolling duty near Phangyal area of Udhampur town intercepted a suspicious person, who on seeing the police team tried to escape but was apprehended. On frisking, the accused identified as Vishal Singh, who is posted as the SPO at DPL Udhampur, 5.64 grams of heroin was rec...Read More
Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi marked a significant step in regional development with the inauguration of a 100-seat medical college and a 650-bed hospital in Phulbani, Kandhamal. The long-awaited healthcare institution is set to serve the local population and neighboring districts, offering quality medical services closer to home. During his visit, the Chief Minister also unveiled and laid the foundations for ten major projects worth approximately Rs 750 crore. These initiatives span...Read More
Security forces killed top Maoist leader Gautam alias Sudhakar in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district. Gautam carried a reward of Rs 40 lakh. He was a Central Committee Member. He was responsible for violence and radicalizing youth. This is a major blow to Maoist leadership in Dandakaranya region. Security forces recovered an AK-47 and explosives.After CPI (Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao's (70) killing, another top Maoist and senior Central Committee Member (CCM), Gautam alias Sudhakar...Read More
New Delhi: The underground tunnel between Maa Anandmayee Marg and Tughlaqabad railway colony station has been completed on the Tughlaqabad-Aerocity corridor of phase IV, also known as Golden Line. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through on Saturday morning at Tughlaqabad railway colony station after boring a 0.79km-long tunnel. This tunnel breakthrough was achieved using a mammoth 96-metre-long TBM. Two parallel circular tunnels for up and down movement are being constructed on this stretch....Read More
New Delhi: Nearly 270 million people moved out of extreme poverty in India between 2022- 23 and 2011-12, when their number shrank to 5.3% of the population from 27.1%, according to latest data released by the World Bank. India's achievement comes even as the multilateral lender raised the global threshold to measure extreme poverty to $3 per person per day from $2.15 and incorporated the 2021 purchasing power parity (PPP) for the calculation. "While the change (in threshold) led to a global in...Read More
Bengaluru: Days after the horrific stampede outside the city's M Chinnaswamy Stadium, in which 11 people were killed and 75 injured, the secretary and treasurer of Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) stepped down, taking moral responsibility for the disaster.Secretary A Shankar and treasurer AE Jairam tendered their resignations late Friday to association president Raghuram Bhat. On Saturday, Shankar and Jairam issued a joint press statement confirming their decision."Due to the unforesee...Read More
UDHAMPUR, June 7: Two notorious drug peddlers were arrested with heroin by Police in Rehambal area of Udhampur, here today. While performing routine vehicle checking duty at Phalata Naka point, a Police team from Police Station Rehambal, led by SHO Sohan Singh, apprehended two persons who were trying to hide from the police team thus arousing suspicion. Upon conducting a thorough frisking of both the persons, police team recovered 5.1 grams of heroin like contraband substance from their posses...Read More
Nashik: Deputy CM Eknath Shinde's Jalgaon-Mumbai chartered flight was grounded on Friday evening after the pilot's flying-hour restrictions kicked in, but officials said special permission was secured for him to operate the flight after a kidney transplant patient sought help to reach a Mumbai hospital before midnight, reports Abhilash Botekar.Though she made it, the transplant was postponed because of organ unavailability, following which she returned by road with her husband.Shinde, attending ...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Revenue minister Suresh Pujari on Saturday said Odisha would not be allowed to follow the lawless path in sand operations like it is in Bihar and West Bengal, while responding to the recent assault of an additional tehsildar in Kaptipada block, Mayurbhanj district, by the sand mafia. He promised stringent action against the sand mafia regardless of their connections, while speaking to mediapersons here on Saturday."The Kaptipada incident represents a serious escalation in conflict b...Read More
India is cautious in ratifying the High Seas Treaty for marine biodiversity protection, amidst France's push for early implementation. With only 32 of 100+ signed countries having ratified it, the treaty requires parliamentary approval in India to align with existing laws, delaying its enforcement. India exhibits hesitation in ratifying the High Seas Treaty, a global pact aimed at the sustainable management of marine biodiversity, despite France's push for swift action before the upcoming UN Oc...Read More