Chandigarh: The Punjab Police on Wednesday said they have foiled a major terror plot orchestrated by Pakistan-based terrorist Harwinder Rinda and recovered a cache of arms from a forest area in Gurdaspur. Preliminary investigation has found that the consignment was pushed into India by Pakistani agencies and Rinda as part of a premeditated plan to carry out attacks at multiple locations in Punjab aiming to disrupt public peace, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said. Acting swiftly ...Read More
Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has handed over assets worth ₹3.82 crore to the Karnataka State Waqf Board following the conclusion of a money laundering investigation related to the misappropriation of fixed deposit funds. According to an official press release, the case began after Karnataka police registered an FIR against two officials of Vijaya Bank and Syed Siraj Ahmed, a First Division Assistant with the Waqf Board. The Waqf Board had issued two cheques worth Rs 4,00,45,465 t...Read More
New Delhi: In the final leg of his space sojourn, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla turned into a farmer, taking photos of 'moong' and 'methi' seeds sprouting in petri dishes and inserting them into a storage freezer on the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a study on how microgravity influences germination and early plant development. Shukla and his fellow Axiom-4 astronauts have spent 12 days on the orbital lab and they are expected to return to Earth any day after July 10, depend...Read More
New Delhi: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has shown that two can play that game when it comes to name mangling. In a subtle geopolitical mic drop, Khandu said during an interview with PTI Videos that his state does not share a border with China. If that sounds factually ignorant, think again. In fact, the 1,200 km international border in Arunachal Pradesh is with Tibet, not with China, he pointed out to the interviewer. Touche! His statement comes amidst sensitivities surrounding ...Read More
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the bail petitions of activists Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and other accused in the controversy behind the Delhi riots in February 2020. A bench headed by Justice Naveen Chawla reserved the verdict after hearing the arguments on bail pleas of both sides. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing Delhi Police, said that if the accused do anything against the country, then the best place for them is jail. Mehta said the riots ...Read More
New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas on Wednesday wrote to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, urging immediate intervention to save Nimisha Priya, an Indian national facing execution by Yemeni authorities on July 16. As per the sources, "Ms. Nimisha Priya was convicted for the crime of murder in Yemen in June 2018 and the local court handed out death sentence to her. We have been closely following the matter since then. We have been in regular touch wit...Read More
Ludhiana: Punjab government's new law against sacrilege proposes a minimum jail term of 10 years and the bill will be tabled in the special session of the Assembly on July 10-11. Assembly Speaker Kultar Sandhwan said sacrilege of any religion is unacceptable. "Guru Granth Sahib is of great dignity for us and a strict anti-sacrilege law should be introduced," he said. However, this is not the first anti-sacrilege bill that is being introduced in Punjab. A bill against sacrilege was first introd...Read More
Hyderabad: With the series levelled at 1-1, India and England are set to play in the third Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar trophy. The fixture will start at 3:30 PM IST, while the toss will take place at 3 PM. While Shubman Gill will lead the Indian team, Ben Stokes will captain the English outfit. The Indian team is expected to undergo two changes in their playing XI at the iconic venue of Lord's. Ace pacer to be included in the Playing XI India's pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is likely to be...Read More
Hyderabad: Although the Indian duo of Rishabh Yadav and Jyothi Surekha were participating in the compound mixed team event at the Archery World Cup, Madrid, they made it special with their brilliant performance. The duo set a world record with a score of 1431 points, including 70 Xs in the event and shattered the earlier record held by Denmark's Tanja Gellenthien and Mathias Fullerton, who had scored a tally of 1429 points at the Kraków-Malopolska European Games in 2023. World record by Indian ...Read More
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has initiated a suo motu case in connection with the issue of investigation agencies summoning lawyers, who offer opinions or represent parties in cases, and examine if they can be put on notice. The matter would be heard by a bench led by Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and comprising justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria. The bench would take up the matter on July 14, when the court reopens after the summer break. The matter is titled as summoning advocates w...Read More
New Delhi: President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper imports starting August 1. Speaking during a cabinet meeting, he said the decision is part of a wider push to bring key manufacturing back to the US. He also hinted at major action on pharmaceuticals, saying companies would get around a year to shift production to American soil before facing steep tariffs, potentially as high as 200 per cent. In addition, Trump announced that a 10...Read More
Patna: In a major policy shift ahead of the upcoming Bihar elections, the state government has implemented a domicile-based reservation system in government jobs, with the 35 per cent quota for women. This means only women who are native to Bihar or those who hold valid domicile certificates will be eligible to claim this quota. Women from other states, who were eligible earlier for the reservation, will now be placed under the general category and will not be given the same reservation. The d...Read More
Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has taken another step towards the launch of the Gaganyaan human spaceflight as the space agency validates the performance of the propulsion system for the mission. It successfully conducted two hot tests of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at its Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri on July 3. In a statement issued on Wednesday, ISRO said that the short-duration tests, lasting 30 seconds and 100 seconds respectively, w...Read More
Patna: An IndiGo flight en route to New Delhi suffered a bird hit and had to return to the Patna airport on Wednesday morning due to vibrations in one of its engines, officials said. The Patna - Delhi flight 6E 5009 took off from the airport at 8:28 am with 175 passengers on board. It suffered a bird hit soon after and contacted the ATC (air traffic controller) about the incident to seek permission to return. It landed back at 9:03 am, around 35 minutes after its departure. "The incident occur...Read More
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed higher education institutions to monitor any informal WhatsApp groups created to harass juniors, saying it will be treated as ragging and attract strict action under anti-ragging rules, according to officials. The UGC receives dozens of complaints every year from freshers alleging harassment by seniors. "In several cases, seniors form informal WhatsApp groups, contact juniors and subject them to mental harassment. This too amounts t...Read More
New Delhi/Bengaluru: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested three persons, including a prison psychiatrist and a city Armed Reserve policeman, following extensive searches in two districts of Karnataka in the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group's prison radicalisation case of 2023, NIA said. Searches were conducted at five locations in Bengaluru and Kolar districts of the state, leading to the arrest of Dr. Nagaraj, a psychiatrist, Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara of Ben...Read More
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken custody of alleged economic offender Monika Kapoor in the USA, officials said on Wednesday. Kapoor, a fugitive for 26 years, is set to be brought to India on Wednesday night by a team of CBI officials. The central agency has taken Kapoor's custody in the USA and boarded an American Airlines flight to India, which is likely to land on Wednesday night, they said. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York had clea...Read More
New Delhi: India has tested an extended-range anti-submarine rocket system that is expected to significantly enhance the Indian Navy's firepower. The user trials of Extended Range Anti-Submarine Rocket (ERASR) have been successfully carried out from warship INS Kavaratti from June 23 to July 7, officials said. The Indian Navy is expected to induct the ERASR System soon. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation, the Indian Navy and the indust...Read More
New Delhi: The possible convergence of interest between China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh may result in serious implications for India's stability and security dynamics, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday. Talking specifically about Beijing-Islamabad collusivity, Gen Chauhan said Pakistan has acquired almost 70 to 80 per cent of its weapons and equipment from China in the last five years. He said Chinese military firms have commercial liabilities in Pakistan. In an address a...Read More
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday tabled a bill in the state assembly that proposes to amend the law concerning slum redevelopment, allowing the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to recover pending transit rent dues from builders or developers. The bill seeks to amend the Maharashtra Slum Area (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971. It also seeks to treat unpaid rent to slum dwellers as arrears of land revenue, thereby empowering the SRA to initiate recovery proceedi...Read More
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday told a Delhi court that the Gandhi family's claim of having no control over Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the publisher of National Herald, is false. During the hearing at the Rouse Avenue Court, the agency accused senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi of fraudulently acquiring property worth Rs 2000 crore belonging to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the original publisher of the Nati...Read More
Ranchi: Ahead of Bihar Assembly polls, the controversy over use of a morphed image of Rahul Gandhi inside a sanitary pad in Bihar has triggered widespread protests, now spreading to Jharkhand. On Tuesday, the Jharkhand Pradesh Youth Congress Legal Cell lodged a complaint at Ranchi's Cyber Police Station demanding action against "those outraging modesty of women and attempting to incite hostility towards Rahul Gandhi". Youth Congress member Shilpi Kumari stated in the complaint that All India Ma...Read More
Hyderabad: The upcoming sequel to the 2019 action film War has officially wrapped production. Titled War 2, the film stars Hrithik Roshan reprising his role as RAW agent Major Kabir Dhaliwal, alongside Telugu superstar Jr NTR, who makes his debut in the YRF Spy Universe. Directed by Ayan Mukerji and also starring Kiara Advani, the high-octane thriller is set to hit theatres on August 14, 2025. Hrithik Roshan took to Instagram to mark the emotional moment as filming concluded. Reflecting on the ...Read More
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said it has not made any fresh requests to block access to certain X accounts in the country and that it had proactively got blockage of a prominent international wire agency lifted. The statement came as the Elon Musk-owned platform asserted that the government of India, on July 3, sought the blocking of over 2,300 X handles in India. The list, it claimed, included the handle Reuters in India. "The Government has not issued any fresh blocking order on 3rd J...Read More
Thane: Hundreds of people joined a morcha organised by the MNS and some social groups on Tuesday to defend the Marathi 'asmita' (pride) in Mira Bhayandar area of Thane district amid rising political heat following the attack on a shopkeeper for not speaking Marathi. Leaders and workers of Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) also joined the protest amid high drama on the streets and detention of several activists by police. Shiv Sena minister Pratap Sarnaik who visited the protest site in the afternoon...Read More
New Delhi: Any non-compliance with food safety protocols will be viewed with utmost seriousness, potentially leading to severe action, said Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) CEO G Kamalavardhana Rao to the representatives of leading e-commerce platforms in a meeting here on Tuesday. The focus of the meeting was to strengthen food safety and hygiene practices throughout the entire e-commerce food supply chain. During the deliberations, he issued several crucial directives to t...Read More
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday asserted that pure electoral rolls are inevitable for strengthening democracy. Notably, the Mahaghatbandhan-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress alliance have called for a Bihar bandh against the SIR on Wednesday. "Pure electoral rolls are inevitable for strengthening democracy," the CEC said. On June 24, the Election Commission of India (ECI) issued instruction...Read More
Mumbai: It is because of Dr BR Ambedkar's Constitution that people of all sections of the society get equal rights and justice, said Chief Justice of India Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai after being felicitated by the Maharashtra legislature on Tuesday. "Babasaheb Ambedkar, spoke about supremacy of the Constitution and believed that judiciary should be free of interference from the executive. Our judiciary, legislature and executive has to work as watchdog and custodian of citizens' rights," Gavai sa...Read More
Jammu: Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Jammu and Kashmir, Mehraj Malik, has stirred a fresh controversy by questioning the qualification of Education Minister, Sakina Itoo over the new school timings in the Union Territory after summer vacation. Schools in Kashmir Division and Winter Zone Jammu reopened on Tuesday after a 15-day summer break following announcement by Education Minister Itoo the preceding day. The announcement put an end to speculations over extension in the vacation amid sweltering su...Read More
Gandhinagar: Gujarat has become the first state in India to formally align with the Cruise Bharat Mission - envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an ambitious bid to develop a globally competitive cruise tourism ecosystem. Under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, the Gujarat Maritime Board organized a stakeholder consultation workshop on May 6 to chart out a Cruise Shipping Policy tailored to Gujarat's unique strengths and aspirations. The objective was to leverage Gujar...Read More