MUMBAI: After the transfer of Mahadevi, an elephant belonging to a Jain shrine in Kolhapur, to Vantara, an animal rescue and rehabilitation initiative by the Reliance Foundation in Jamnagar, those who were unwilling to let go staged a march on Sunday. Thousands of locals and leaders from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Kolhapur marched for 45 km from the shrine to the collector's office, demanding that Mahadevi be brought back, following which CM Devendra Fadnavis said he would hold a meeting on...Read More
Ahmedabad: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday announced that India's first bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad will begin operations very soon, reducing travel time between the two cities to just 2 hours and 7 minutes. He was speaking to reporters at the Bhavnagar terminus in Gujarat after virtually flagging off three trains, namely the Ayodhya Express, Rewa Pune Express, and Jabalpur Raipur Express. He further stated that the bullet train project is progressing rapidly. The 508...Read More
Hyderabad: The state cabinet, which will meet here on Monday, will deliberate on the Justice PC Ghose Commission's report on alleged corruption and irregularities in the construction of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation (KLIS) project. This was confirmed by Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday. He clarified that a final decision will be taken after the issue is discussed threadbare by the cabinet. The report focuses on cost escalation and alleged mismanagement during the BRS government's...Read More
Addanki: Six migrant workers died and more than eight were injured when a massive granite slab fell on them in a quarry run by Sathya Sai Krishna Granites at Konidena village in Ballikurava mandal of Bapatla district on Sunday. According to fellow workers and the Bapatla district police, heavy rain on Saturday night destabilised the heavy granite block which fell on a group of workers on duty at around 11:00 AM on Sunday. The boulder killed four workers on the spot and injured several people. T...Read More
NEW DELHI: Volvo, the Swedish luxury carmaker on Friday said it plans to bring the new Volvo EX30 SUV, the entry level luxury electric car, during the forthcoming festive season, to boost electric penetration in the world's third largest car market. "In the last six months the electric car market in India has grown about 4.5 per cent in the mass car market while the luxury car market rose to 9 per cent. We want to accelerate this growth by bringing our new Volvo EX30 electric car during the fes...Read More
Bengaluru: Buoyed by the overwhelming response to the inaugural Quantum India Bengaluru Summit 2025, Karnataka is now planning to make it an annual event, State Minister for Minor Irrigation and Science & Technology N.S. Boseraju announced on Thursday. Speaking at the summit's valedictory session, Mr. Boseraju said, "This first edition has marked a milestone on the global quantum map. Given its scale and impact, the state government is considering hosting it annually." The summit drew 1,951 de...Read More
New Delhi: Children exposed early to extreme heat may lose up to 1.5 years of schooling with climate change having a direct impact on education and threatening to undo educational gains of recent decades, according to a new global report. Climate-related stressors such as heat, wildfires, storms, floods, droughts, diseases and rising sea levels, affect education outcomes. Most low and middle-income countries are experiencing climate-related school closures every year, increasing chances of lear...Read More
Kerala Lottery Result SAMRUDHI SM 12 Results Live: The first winner of today's lottery game- SAMRUDHI SM 12 lottery- takes home Rs 1 crore as a cash prize. The Kerala lottery is one of the most trusted games in the country. Kerala Lottery Result Sunday 20-07-2025: The Kerala lottery is back with another fun game- that may lead you to win Rs 1 crore! The results for today's Kerala lottery games- SAMRUDHI SM 12 Sunday- are announced. The Kerala lottery results are announced here, so people with t...Read More
Vijayawada: YSRCP leader and Rajampeta MP P Mithun Reddy was on Saturday arrested and questioned by Special Investigation Team (SIT) officials for his alleged involvement in the liquor scam. The accused number four was grilled for more than seven hours at the Vijayawada Police Commissionerate. Accompanied by his legal counsel, Reddy appeared before the SIT, whose officials reportedly questioned him about the liquor policies during the YSRCP rule and his alleged role in formulation of rules, tra...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Saturday said the State government is considering airlifting the 15-year-old girl -- under treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar with 70 per cent burns -- to AIIMS Delhi for advanced medical care. While stating that the government will ensure the strongest possible punishment for the culprits involved in attack, the Chief Minister said he is constantly monitoring the health condition of the girl. "Since the victim has sense and she is talking, ...Read More
Bhubaneswar: A 15-year-old girl was set on fire by unidentified persons in Puri district on Saturday. The girl is undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar and she is in a critical condition, having suffered 70 per cent burn injuries, but she is able to speak. Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida, who is in charge of the Women and Child Development department, said the government will bear the expenses of the girl's treatment and that the police have been asked to arrest the culprits as soon as...Read More
Bhubaneswar: The Opposition Congress in Odisha has decided to open a dedicated women's cell and launch a mobile application to help women and girls in distress. The party took the decision at its Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting held on Friday. It was resolved in the PAC meeting that the life of the 20-year-old student of Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College in Balasore could have been saved had any of the persons she had alerted through social media messages reacted. The deceased woman, o...Read More
Bhubaneswar: The BJD supremo, Naveen Patnaik, on Saturday expressed deep anguish over the incident of setting a 15-year-old girl on fire by miscreants in Puri district and said such cases point to a systemic failure of governance. In a post on X, Patnaik, the Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, said, "Such unthinkable incidents against women are now being reported almost daily across #Odisha. These are not stray cases of violence. These incidents occurring with shocking regularity po...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Threedays after the death of a 20-year-old woman college student, a fact-finding team of UGC on Friday reached Balasore to probe into the circumstances that forced the student to set herself on fire over alleged inaction on her sexual harassment complaint against a teacher. The four-member UGC fact-finding team, under the chairmanship of Professor Raj Kumar Mittal, reached here to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident and conduct a probe into the harassment of the ...Read More
Bhubaneswar: TheOdisha Police Crime Branch team, which has started its probe into the death of a woman student of Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College, Balasore, visited the deceased student's native village in Bhogarai area in Balasore district. The CB IG, S Shyni, and DSP Iman Kalyan Nayak, went to the house of the student and met her parents and brother. "The CB has taken up the case for investigation. We will handle the case with utmost fairness and professionalism. At this stage, we prefer not...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Railwayprojects worth over Rs 80,000 crore are being executed in Odisha, Union Minister of State for Railways V Somanna said on Saturday. He said Rs 10,599 crore was allocated to the State in the 2025-26 budget, a 12.5-fold increase from the Rs 838 crore allocated during the 2009-14 period. Fifty-nine stations are undergoing redevelopment at a cost of Rs 2,379 crore in the State, he said, adding that more than Rs 25,000 crore have been sanctioned in the last one year for eight new ...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Ina major breakthrough for anti-Maoist operations in Odisha, security forces uncovered a substantial cache of explosives and tactical equipment during a combing operation in Kandhamal district. Acting on specific intelligence inputs, a team from the District Voluntary Force (DVF) discovered the Maoist dump deep within Guma reserved forest near Sinahibali village, under the jurisdiction of Belgarh police station, police said. The recovered materials include 564 electrical detonators...Read More
Bengaluru: Taking a jibe at the decision of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to sanction Rs 50 crore each for local area development to all MLAs, especially those from the ruling party, following their one-on-one meeting with Congress National General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, the state BJP has dubbed the Karnataka Incharge as the 'Super CM' of the state. Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Legislative Assembly, R. Ashoka stated on Saturday, "For the past 26 months, Congress MLAs were una...Read More
Mangaluru: MangaloreRefinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), the ONGC-owned refining major, posted a consolidated net loss of ₹272 crore in the first quarter of FY26, as softening refining margins and lower revenue from operations weighed on its performance. The company's topline fell sharply to ₹20,988 crore, down nearly 23% from ₹27,289 crore in Q1 FY25. Its Gross Refining Margin (GRM) slipped to US$ 3.88 per barrel, compared to US$ 4.70 per barrel a year ago, amid weaker product cracks and pl...Read More
Mysuru: KarnatakaChief Minister Siddaramaiah launched a scathing attack on the BJP and JD(S) during the 'Sadhana Samavesha' in Mysuru, accusing their MPs of lacking the courage to even stand before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and raise their voice against the injustice meted out to Karnataka. Addressing a packed gathering, Siddaramaiah threw an open challenge to BJP and JD(S) leaders to come onto the same stage and debate development. "Had they been here today, people would have seen who has t...Read More
Hyderabad: With heavy rains lashing in parts of the city, normal life was thrown out of gear even on Saturday, the commuters returning to their destination during the evening hours had a tough time owing to waterlogging, casting traffic snarls in most locations, including IT corridor. Following nala-retaining wall collapses in Padmarao Nagar and Nallakunta, the authorities remained on high alert and shifted locals to safe locations. Many localities, including Kapra, Malkajgiri and Uppal, witnes...Read More
New Delhi: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has issued a legal notice to The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, accusing both the global media outlets of publishing misleading and speculative reports about the Air India Flight 171 crash, which claimed over 250 lives in Ahmedabad last month. FIP president Captain CS Randhawa said the reports were not based on facts mentioned in the official preliminary report released by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). "They are not the...Read More
Indore: As Indore retained its top spot as the cleanest city in the country for the eight time in a row, senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh said that 'sanitation workers', who are the real heroes, are forced to survive on minimum monthly wages. He added that sanitation workers who made Indore as the cleanest city for eight times, "neither they get respect nor job security", and are forced to survive with minimum monthly wages, which is not enough to ...Read More
New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Maharashtra Police to register an FIR against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) founder Raj Thackeray over his speeches promoting language conflict. As per the petition, Raj Thackeray, in "desperation to occupy some seats in the forthcoming election of Mumbai Municipal Corporation, has been making fiery speeches from time to time against Hindi speaking people and thereby he has been p...Read More
Chennai: After facing widespread criticism over the mandatory CIBIL verification for crop loans, the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Department has introduced another controversial requirement for farmers seeking credit through Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS). According to a recent directive, farmers must now obtain a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from a nationalised bank to be eligible for loans under the cooperative system. The new instruction, issued through a departmental circula...Read More
New Delhi: In a major push towards environmental sustainability, the Delhi government has launched Van Mahotsav 2025, a large-scale tree plantation initiative that aims to make the capital greener and more pollution-free. The campaign, inspired by the emotional theme 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam', encourages citizens to plant trees in honor of their mothers. The launch event was held at 11 Willingdon Crescent, Rashtrapati Bhavan, where government officials, judicial leaders, and environmental experts ca...Read More
Chandigarh: Over 22,000 narcotic smugglers have been arrested so far under a state-level campaign against drugs, officials said on Friday. Under the 'Yudh Nashian Virudh' (war against drugs) campaign, Punjab Police on Thursday arrested 113 drug smugglers and recovered 1.5 kg heroin, 5 kg opium, and 31,237 intoxicant pills from their possession. With this, the number of total drug smugglers arrested in 138 days of the campaign has reached 22,377. Special DGP (Law and Order) Arpit Shukla stated ...Read More
Gangtok, Jul 19 (PTI) Vehicular movement on a stretch of National Highway-10 connecting Sevoke in West Bengal and Sikkim's Rangpo has been temporarily halted due to landslides and rockfall, officials said on Saturday. Clearance activities are underway on the stretch following landslides at Birik Dara in Kalimpong district of West Bengal, they said. The road is closed for all vehicular movement along the stretch since 11 am on Friday, the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corpora...Read More
Kurnool: AICC member and Kurnool District Congress in-charge J Lakshmi Narasimha Yadav has strongly criticised Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for allegedly making false claims about the completion of the Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi (HNSS) project. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Yadav accused the Chief Minister of taking undue credit for a project that was significantly developed during the previous Congress regimes. Yadav stated that it was late Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, former ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 19 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta celebrated her 51st birthday in her ancestral village, Nandgarh, in neighbouring Haryana on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top Union ministers and BJP leaders greeted Gupta, born on July 19, 1974, on her first birthday after becoming the chief minister in February. "Best wishes to Delhi Chief Minister, Smt. Rekha Gupta ji, on her birthday. Rising through the ranks, she has always remained active in serving Delhi. As Chi...Read More