Jaipur: Eleven people, including seven children, were killed and 14 others injured early Wednesday when a pickup truck rammed into a parked container on the Manoharpur-Dausa highway in Dausa district. The victims included seven children aged between one and nine years. The other four victims were women. The victims, residents of Asroli village in Uttar Pradesh's Etah and Firozabad town, were returning home after a pilgrimage to the Khatushyam and Salasar temples in Sikar district.The crash occur...Read More
Mumbai: Nawab Malik has been entrusted to lead the NCP's election management committee for the upcoming elections to the BMC. BJP Expressed Concerns Over Malik The BJP had some serious reservations about Malik, who was quite aggressive as the spokesman of the unified NCP. Facing allegations for purchasing properties related to a close associate of Dawood Ebrahim, he was probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Political Comeback Through Family Success Though his association with the Ajit ...Read More
Mumbai Pigeon Feeding Row: Marathi Ekikaran Samiti Members Protesting At Dadar Kabutar Khana Detained By Police | File Image The members Marathi Ekikaran Samiti who gathered at Dadar kabutar khana demanding enforcement of the ban of pigeon feeding, were detained by the police as soon as they started the demonstrations on late Wednesday morning. Around 15 to 20 members were detained and taken to Dadar police station and were released by afternoon. Contrasting Police Action This assertive polic...Read More
New Delhi: Air and water security are the priorities this Independence Day. The security forces are focused on drone surveillance and aerial monitoring. Over 11,000 personnel, including army, police and paramilitary, have been deployed at Red Fort, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor against terrorism. Surveillance at water treatment plants has been enhanced after intelligence inputs suggested that there could be attempts to tamper wit...Read More
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested IAS officer Anil Pawar, former civic commissioner of Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC), along with his junior, deputy director of town planning Y S Reddy, and two others, including a former BVA corporator, in a money laundering case linked to the illegal construction of 41 buildings and defrauding flat buyers. The ED will produce the arrested individuals before the court on Thursday. According to the ED, Pawar engaged in extensiv...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): Congress leader Pawan Khera on Wednesday alleged that BJP leader Anurag Thakur quick access to voter data of two parliamentary constituencies indicated an understanding between the ruling party and the Election Commission (EC). Khera highlighted the disparity in the time taken to obtain similar data, saying it took the Congress four to six months to collect information for one Assembly constituency, while the BJP had secured data for two parliamentary seats a...Read More
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 14 (ANI): A 24-hour discussion on the Vision Document 2047 is underway in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, with senior ministers outlining plans for economic growth, social justice, environmental protection, and infrastructure development. The historic marathon debate began on Wednesday, with the state government reaffirming its goal of making Uttar Pradesh the most developed state in the country by 2047, targeting zero poverty, world-class infrast...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): Indian Olympic Association (IOA) vice-president Gagan Narang on Wednesday hailed the National Sports Governance Bill 2025, calling it a landmark decision that had been pending for years. The Rajya Sabha passed the National Sports Governance Bill and the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025, on Tuesday, a day after the Lok Sabha cleared it. Speaking to ANI, Gagan Narang said, It has been a landmark decision. I think this has been long pending. A lot of...Read More
Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath govt tabled the Sri Banke Bihari Temple Nyas Bill in the UP assembly on Wednesday, the third day of the monsoon session.The state govt had earlier promulgated an ordinance, Sri Banke Bihari Nyas Adhyadesh. The bill tabled on Wednesday stipulates that the trust will have a right over offerings, donations, and all movable and immovable properties of the temple. This includes idols installed in the temple, offerings/gifts made to deities within the temple premises and p...Read More
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel looking into the levy of user fees or toll charges on National Highways (NHs) has raised concerns over the current practice of "perpetual tolling" even after project costs are recovered and a 3% annual escalation, irrespective of the highway quality, traffic volume, or user affordability.While recommending rationalisation and substantial reduction in toll charges on such stretches, its report has also mooted a "tariff authority" for toll fixation. The Public Acco...Read More
Hyderabad: Irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday instructed all engineers, officers and employees of the irrigation department to stay put at their respective stations and maintain round-the-clock vigil at dams, reservoirs, canals and tanks. He also told them to act immediately to prevent breaches as Telangana prepares for several more days of heavy to very heavy rain.The emergency directives were issued during a high-level video conference with engineers-in-chief, chief engineers...Read More
NEW DELHI, Aug 13: The BJP on Wednesday claimed irregularities in voter registration in Rae Bareli, Wayanad, Diamond Harbour and Kannauj parliamentary seats and asked Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Abhishek Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav to resign as Lok Sabha MPs, alleging they secured victory with "vote chori". It accused the Congress and other opposition parties of running a campaign against the Election Commission to steal the mandate of "honest and genuine Indian citizens" while comprom...Read More
NEW DELHI, Aug 13: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit India on Monday to hold talks with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval under the mechanism of Special Representatives on the border issue, authoritative sources said. Wang is travelling to India days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's planned trip to the Chinese city of Tianjin to attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.The Chinese foreign minister is visiting India primarily to hold the next rou...Read More
LUCKNOW: UP vaccinated against rabies and sterilised 2.8 lakh stray dogs under its animal birth control (ABC) programme in 2023-24 and 2024-25. It also established 17 permanent ABC centres, with two additional ones approved for Lucknow and Ghaziabad on a comprehensive budget of Rs 34 crore.Taking note of SC's latest directive on managing dog bite cases, urban development dept is taking proactive steps to enhance urban safety and animal welfare through its ABC and anti-rabies vaccination programm...Read More
Guwahati: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested one of the Directors of a chit fund firm, Kolkata, West Bengal, against whom a Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW) was issued last month by the Special Judge (CBI) in the Tripura chit fund case. The CBI on Monday arrested Partha Samaddar, one of the Directors of the accused chit fund firm M/s Himangini Infracon India Ltd, Kolkata, West Bengal, against whom an NBW was issued by Special Judge (CBI), West Tripura, Agartala on July 22 (2025) i...Read More
The Delhi High Court has once again pulled up the Delhi government and the Centre over the delay in any decision on regularisation of Sainik Farms in South Delhi. During a hearing on Wednesday, a bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed the authorities were not taking any final decision on the issue and just "passing the buck", which ultimately "stops at the court". "The basic question remains as to what the central government in consultation with the state g...Read More
Thiruvananthapuram: Education minister V Sivankutty demanded that the Election Commission conduct a repoll in Thrissur. There were widespread complaints before and after the election that fake votes were added in the Thrissur constituency, he said."What happened in Thrissur is a democratic massacre. The news emerging regarding the Thrissur parliamentary elections is shocking. These events highlight how lightly the BJP regards democracy. It is a serious offence that votes were registered at addre...Read More
Kolkata: The tussle between the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the West Bengal government escalated on Monday with the state government withdrawing an AERO and a data entry operator from election duty on Monday. The ECI had directed chief secretary Manoj Pant to suspend four officials and the data entry operator, lodge FIRs against them and start departmental proceedings. Neither were the FIRs lodged nor were they suspended from duty. This is line with what chief minister Mamata Banerjee...Read More
The Yogi Adityanath government Wednesday introduced the Uttar Pradesh Shri Banke Bihariji Temple Trust Bill, 2025, for the running of the famous temple in Vrindavan, Mathura, in the Assembly. It replaces a May 26 ordinance, which has been challenged in the Supreme Court for allegedly encroaching on temple funds. Incidentally, the BJP has traditionally opposed "interference" of the government in the running of temples. Advertisement * What reasons has the Adityanath government cited for the Bi...Read More
Independence Day 2025: Commuters are advised to plan their journeys, especially during peak hours. New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) has intensified security checks ahead of the 79th Independence Day celebrations in the national capital. It has advised commuters to plan their journeys accordingly, especially during peak hours, as they may witness longer queues during the screening process. The security checks, led by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), will be ti...Read More
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will stage a special flypast over the Red Fort this Independence Day, with three helicopters flying in formation carrying the National Flag and the Operation Sindoor flag. As in previous years, the aircraft will also shower petals over the public. Around 15 Defence personnel who took part in Operation Sindoor will be seated on the Red Fort rampart, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver his address to the nation. A senior official noted that the IAF has...Read More
A bench of justice Neena Bansal Krishna reserved the verdict in former municipal councillor Tahir Hussain's petition seeking bail The murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma during the northeast Delhi riots was intended as a chilling act of defiance against the security forces, the Delhi Police told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday. Even as a bench of justice Neena Bansal Krishna reserved the verdict in former municipal councillor Tahir Hussain's petition seeking bail in Sharm...Read More
The Uttar Pradesh government will set up three high-level committees to address land allotment issues faced by Invest UP. These panels will work to ensure the availability of land for industrial units, rationalise land rates, and simplify building bylaws to attract more investment, a senior government official said on Wednesday. All three committees are expected to submit their recommendations within a fortnight. The state has notified about 4 lakh hectares of land across various industrial dev...Read More
Patna, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting over flood in ten districts of the state and directed officials concerned to remain alert and make all arrangements for affected people. Around 25 lakh people have been affected by the deluge in Bihar, where several rivers are in spate due to torrential rainfall in the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. According to a statement issued by the Chief Minister's Office after the meeting, "The CM directed th...Read More
NEW DELHI: BJP on Wednesday sought to turn the tables on Congress over the latter's campaign against alleged "vote theft" by making the serious charge that Sonia Gandhi got herself enrolled twice as a voter without renouncing her Italian citizenship."Sonia Gandhi's name entered the electoral rolls twice without meeting the basic citizenship requirement - first as an Italian citizen in 1980, and then again in 1983, months before she legally became a citizen of India. We are not even asking why it...Read More
NEW DELHI: Sharpening his criticism of the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday remarked that he had had the unique experience of having tea with some "dead" voters from Bihar. Rahul and other INDIA bloc netas are all set to embark on a 'Vote Adhikar Yatra' starting Aug 17, to make the "battle against vote chori a mass movement". Congress said, "Seven voters in Bihar, all very much alive, shared tea with Rahul Gandhi today - even as the Election Commission's SIR...Read More
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted Rajya Sabha MP and former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal, along with Bhupender Singh, the then public relations officer of DCW, in a case alleging disclosure of the identity of a 14-year-old sexual assault survivor in 2014, who later died in 2016 due to injuries.Additional chief judicial magistrate Neha Mittal observed that courts have consistently "anonymised" trials involving children to protect their identities. The m...Read More
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], August 14 (ANI): A perjury application has been filed against Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of misleading the court in a defamation case linked to his remarks on freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Veer Savarkar. Advocate Sangram Kolhatkar, representing Satyaki Savarkar -- the grandnephew of Veer Savarkar -- filed the application against the Congress leader on Wednesday, alleging that he misled the court by repeatedly ...Read More
Patna: CM Nitish Kumar chaired a high-level meeting on Wednesday to review relief and rescue operations in 10 flood-affected districts. He directed officials concerned to remain fully alert and make all necessary arrangements for the affected people.At the review, conducted via videoconferencing at the Sankalp hall in CM residence, an official informed the CM that around 25 lakh people had been affected by the flood in 54 blocks of the 10 districts, as several rivers were in spate due to torrent...Read More
NEW DELHI: The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) has suggested prioritising women in allocation of deceased donor organs.In a letter to the states/UTs, the apex authority for regulating organ donations and transplants in the country, has said a provision should be made to mark additional points for women recipients of donor organs, to address gender disparity. Studies have shown that while women make up a large percentage of donors, they receive fewer organs than men. "Wo...Read More