Hyderabad, Jul 14 (PTI) Five members of the outlawed CPI (Maoists) from Chhattisgarh surrendered before the police in Mulugu district of Telangana on Monday. The Maoists, who held various ranks, including that of an Area Committee Member (ACM) laid down arms before Mulugu District Superintendent of Police Shabarish P, an official release said. After learning about the development and welfare schemes for Tribal (Adivasi) people and welfare measures being taken up by the Telangana government for...Read More
Bengaluru, July 14 (PTI) Veteran South Indian Actor B Saroja Devi died here on Monday, film industry sources said. She was 87 years old. She died due to age-related ailments at her residence in Malleswaram, Bengaluru. According to sources, she was found unconscious at her residence and was rushed to a hospital nearby, where she was declared brought dead. The doe eyed beauty, who made her debut when she was 17-years-old in a Kannada film, 'Mahakavi Kalidasa' (1955), went on to become a legend...Read More
Bhubaneswar, Jul 14 (PTI) As a 20-year-old college student fights for her life in AIIMS Bhubaneswar following self-immolation bid over an alleged incident of 'sexual harassment', political tensions in Odisha have reached a boiling point, with opposition parties staging demonstrations and holding press conferences. Alleging that women are not safe in BJP-ruled Odisha, both the opposition BJD and Congress held multiple demonstrations in Bhubaneswar and Balasore. Odisha Mahila Congress president ...Read More
Bilaspur (HP), Jul 14 (PTI) Himachal Pradesh government has banned adventure activities in the state for two months, from July 15 to September 15, owing to the monsoon, officials said on Monday. Action will be taken by the Tourism Department in case of violation, a notification issued here said. Every year, adventure activities are closed for two months during the rainy season, and tourists have to wait for two months to participate in paragliding, river rafting, water sports and other activit...Read More
Lucknow, Jul 14 (PTI) A few women, who were converted to Islam by Chhangur Baba, on Monday claimed that they were getting threats after returning to Hinduism. "Abu Ansari introduced himself as Amit to me, and his family met me as a Hindu. I met Chhangur Baba for the first time in 2019. The atmosphere was very strange, and only women were there. They were brainwashed. Chhangur had carried out around 5,000 religious conversions," one of them told reporters. Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorism ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday said that her government is redeveloping seven incomplete ICU hospital projects, whose foundations were laid during the COVID-19 pandemic, into super speciality hospitals. Speaking at the inauguration of Yatharth Super Speciality Hospital in the Model Town area, she said that her government is redeveloping the seven incomplete hospital infrastructures as Super Specialty ICU centres, each focused on specific treatments, such as c...Read More
London/New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Monday held the ground-breaking ceremony at Port Talbot in the UK to kickstart the construction of a GBP 1.25 billion green steel project to cut down carbon emissions by 90 per cent at the site. The company is transitioning from the blast furnace route to the low-emission electric arc furnace process, which will utilise the locally available scrap. "Tata Steel UK today celebrates a historic milestone in its green transforma...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Domestic telecom gear maker Tejas Networks posted a consolidated loss of Rs 193.87 crore in the first quarter ended June 2025, mainly due to a decline in sales, the company filing said on Monday. The company, which supplied 4G gears to state-owned BSNL, had posted a profit of Rs 77.48 crore a year ago. The consolidated revenue of Tejas Networks plunged about 87 per cent to Rs 202 crore during the reported quarter from Rs 1,563 crore in the June 2024 quarter. "We won or...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 14 (PTI) Singaporean investment company Temasek's India portfolio has grown to USD 50 billion, and it is chasing opportunities of at least USD 4 billion more, a senior official said on Monday. "We invested USD 3 billion each over the last two years, and see a pipeline of at least USD 3-4 billion this year," its managing director Vishesh Shrivastav told PTI. He said three years ago, Temasek had given guidance of having an India pipeline of USD 9-10 billion, and the opportunities it ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Nagaland University has launched a postgraduate program in rural development and management aimed at building a cadre of professionals, officials said on Monday. The students will be equipped to address the pressing challenges and opportunities in rural areas, especially in Nagaland and the North Eastern Region. Graduates of this program will have strong career pathways in government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia, and entrepreneurship besides related s...Read More
Guwahati, Jul 14 (PTI) Over 40 bird species, including a critically endangered and two endangered ones, have been recorded in the first-ever grassland survey in Assam's Kaziranga National Park, a state minister said on Monday. "Thrilled to share that @kaziranga_'s first-ever grassland survey has recorded 43 grassland bird species - including 1 Critically Endangered, 2 Endangered, and 6 Vulnerable species, plus several regional endemics," Forest Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said in a post on ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the Axiom-4 mission pilot, has showcased a zero-gravity experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) involving water to illustrate how microgravity transforms everyday physics. The experiment, part of Axiom Space's outreach and scientific mission, highlighted the unique behaviour of water in space. After an 18-day stay at the ISS, Shukla and three others -- commander Peggy Whitson and mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewsk...Read More
New Delhi, July 14 (PTI) The Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Monday said a section of news reports and social media posts made a misleading claim that the Japanese Bullet train will not operate between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. "Some articles and social media posts claim that the Ministry of Railways has decided to not run the Japanese bullet train on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route," the PIB said on its X handle. "This claim is misleading. The Railway Ministry has made no such decision. Work on the ...Read More
Shimla, July 14 (PTI) Expressing concern over the ongoing felling and removing of alleged illegally grown apple trees from forest land across the state, the Himachal Seb Utpadak Sangh on Monday urged the state government to file a petition in the Himachal High Court to stop the ongoing drive. Addressing media on behalf of the Sangh here, former MLA and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Rakesh Singha said they have sought government's intervention and have also called for an urgent meeti...Read More
Guwahati, Jul 14 (PTI) Amidst protests by opposition parties over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, BJP's Assam unit on Monday extended full support to the exercise, stating that it is necessary to weed out illegal voters from the rolls. The state unit of the ruling party maintained that such an exercise was needed in the northeastern state to detect illegal voters included in electoral rolls allegedly by the Congress. "Assam BJP has extended its full su...Read More
Itanagar, Jul 14 (PTI) A construction labourer succumbed to bullet injuries at a state-run medical institute in Naharlagun near here on Monday, police said. The deceased, identified as Shankar Pegu, was a native of Borajuli village in Assam's Biswanath district. According to Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Chukhu Apa, Pegu was shot in Roing in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Dibang Valley district by a man identified as Tadar Bhai around 4pm on Sunday. The shooting reportedly followed a...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) It took eight years for Karun Nair to don India jersey again but 25 days into his second coming in Test cricket, the Karnataka batter could well have played his last international game after six consecutive failures in the ongoing away series against England. Coming back to the Indian team after scoring heavily in domestic cricket, Nair had started his UK sojourn on a bright note with a double hundred against England Lions in Canterbury, virtually breaking the selection ...Read More
Chennai, Jul 14 (PTI) The Ungaludan Stalin (Stalin with you) initiative, taking a range of government services to people's doorsteps, will be inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district on July 15. About 3,563 camps including 1,428 in urbans areas and 2,135 in rural areas, would be held in the first phase from July 15 to August 15, P Amudha, Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management, said on Monday. The camps would be held on four ...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 14 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Monday met a group of "eligible and untainted" school teachers, whose appointments were annulled by the Supreme Court, at the state secretariat and heard their demands, an official said. During the meeting, the teachers demanded that the state government publish a list of "tainted and untainted" candidates by Monday night, he said. "We cannot say that the meeting was fruitful. We have urged the chief secretary to come out with the...Read More
Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday asked airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing 787 and 737 planes, a move that comes days after the preliminary probe report into the Air India's Boeing 787 crash found that the switches were cut off before the accident last month. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), back in 2018, had flagged the potential disengagement of the fuel control switch locking feature on certain models of Boeing aircraft, including 787s and 73...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 14 (PTI) "Superman", filmmaker James Gunn's new iteration on the popular superhero, has emerged as one of the highest grossing DC films in India by earning Rs 32 crore over the weekend. Starring David Corenswet in the titular role of Clark Kent/ Superman, the film was released in theatres on July 11. "Superman" has earned Rs 32 crore gross at the box office in India so far and is being shown across 3037 screens. It is the biggest opening weekend for a DC film in India, according to...Read More
Mumbai/Chennai, Jul 14 (PTI) Stunt artists including veterans Sham Kaushal, Ram Shetty and Aejaz Gulab and others on Monday mourned the death of popular stuntman S M Raju during the shooting of an action scene for director Pa Ranjith's film "Vettuvam".0 The 52-year-old stuntman, whose real name was Mohan Raj, was driving an SUV in a high-octane stunt scene for the film in Nagapattinam on July 13 when he suddenly collapsed. His colleagues pulled him out of the vehicle and rushed him to a hospital...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on taking cognisance of the chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the National Herald case. Special judge Vishal Gogne said, "The submissions on the aspect of cognisance stand concluded on behalf of all parties. The matter shall be listed for orders on July 29." He directed the ED to "ensure the presence of the investigating officer (IO) for inspection of the case files, if required, between July 15 and 17." The or...Read More
Bilaspur, July 14 (PTI) The arrest of a female job aspirant and her sister, who coordinated from an autorickshaw, has busted a hi-tech fraud during the Chhattisgarh VYAPAM exam, leading to the recovery of a camera hidden in clothes, a microphone, and a walkie-talkie, police said on Monday. After the duo was arrested in Bilaspur district, the Congress alleged a big scam under the Chhattisgarh Vyavsayik Pariksha mandal (CG VYAPAM) examination and demanded a CBI inquiry. Police seized seven elect...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 14 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Monday wrote to Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu, questioning how "sensitive findings" on the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad were "leaked" to international media before an official disclosure in India. "Because one can't be a mute spectator to what is happening with regards to the narrative around the AI171 crash and its interim report. My letter to Aviation Ministry," Chaturvedi posted on X. She also posted a copy of th...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) The Congress on Monday slammed the BJP's "double engine" government in Odisha after a college student set herself on fire for allegedly being denied justice over "sexual harassment" by a teacher, and demanded a judicial probe into the incident as well as Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi's resignation. The opposition party also urged President Droupadi Murmu, who is on a two-day visit to Odisha, to meet the victim in the state and ensure justice. The 20-year-old second-...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 14 (PTI) State-owned IFCI on Monday sought the government's go-ahead for the consolidation of its various group entities, including the broking business. IFCI Limited (the consolidated entity) also proposed to remain as an NBFC (Non-Banking Financial Company). In a regulatory filing on Monday, the company informed that its board has recommended to the Government of India for approval of the Group Consolidation in two stages. Based on the in-principle approval received from the Gov...Read More
New Delhi: HCLTech on Monday reported a 9.7 per cent decline in consolidated net profit for the April-June quarter of this fiscal year at Rs 3,843 crore as the IT services firm and pegged the revenue growth guidance at 3-5 per cent for FY26. HCLTech had logged a net profit (attributable to owners of the company) of Rs 4,257 crore in the year-ago period, according to a regulatory filing. Revenue from operations for the quarter under review was 8.1 per cent higher at Rs 30,349 crore, as against ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) The entire nation eagerly awaits your return, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday as astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla embarked on the journey back to earth after an 18-day stay at the International Space Station (ISS). "Welcome back Shubhanshu! The entire nation eagerly awaits your arrival back home...as you begin your return journey, after successful undocking of #Axiom4," Singh said in a post on X. Shukla, who became the second Indian astronaut to...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Retail inflation declined to over six-year low of 2.1 per cent in June, nearing the RBI's comfort zone, on account of subdued prices of food items, including vegetables, driven by widespread monsoon. The Consumer Price Index-based inflation was 2.82 per cent in May and 5.08 per cent in June 2024. Inflation is on a decline since November 2024. Year-on-year inflation rate based on CPI for the month of June 2025 over June 2024 is 2.1 per cent, the National Statistics Offic...Read More