Singarayakonda student tragedy, highlighting the need for a fair investigation, school management's right to due process, and justice based on evidence rather than allegations.
1/5As of Sunday, over 48 lakh residents in flood-ravaged Bihar are still facing significant challenges. Fortunately, waters in most rivers are beginning to recede. In response, authorities are operating 1,251 community kitchens and 13 relief camps, ensuring food and shelter for 12,260 individuals. Around ten NDRF and 27 SDRF teams are on the ground, working tirelessly to aid in rescue operations.
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The New Delhi Declaration showcased India
Foreign journalists covering the BRICS Summit in Delhi welcomed the New Delhi Declaration. Some called the consensus document a breakthrough while others described it as a good move. The declaration addressed global governance and promoting peace through dialogue and diplomacy. It also highlighted practical cooperation and the role of the New Development Bank. BRICS leaders also condemned terrorism and backed India
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal declared himself a
After nearly a decade of delays, NSE is finally set to enter the public markets with its IPO. The issue will be entirely an offer for sale, allowing existing shareholders to sell their stakes without raising fresh capital for the exchange. From the co-location controversy to the Supreme Court settlement, several regulatory and legal hurdles had delayed NSEs market debut.
A Kerala consumer commission ordered Bank of India to pay compensation. The bank delayed releasing a deceased woman
A coordinated effort by City Police led to the rescue of 529 child labourers in a far-reaching operation. The initiative involved surprise inspections at over 6,000 locations, culminating in 105 cases filed against employers for illegal child labour. This collaborative effort with labour inspectors drives home the importance of safeguarding children
Kerala Chief Minister V D Satheesan said the government has allocated ₹551.5 crore to the PWD for preparations for the upcoming Sabarimala pilgrimage season, up from ₹377.8 crore in 2025-26 and ₹326.97 crore in 2024-25.
Three Pune police personnel suspended for attending accused’s son’s birthday party
Aam Aadmi Party set to ally with Goa Forward Party in Assembly polls, Congress kept out
‘Highly influential’ Parth Pawar not named in Mundhwa land deal case, notes Bombay HC, seeks answers
Vijay Mallya to join Cockroach Janta Party? Fugitive businessman says 'maybe a better life on the cockroach side'
Explain why Parth Pawar not named in Mundhwa land deal case: HC to state police
Indu Mitha’s love story carried Bharatanatyam across Partition, kept it alive in Pakistan
LUCKNOW Gearing up for the 2027 UP assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced its new working committees across all six organisational regions in the state. The finalised lists, released by the respective regional presidents, were a
MUMBAI: The first batch of 10,000 apartments under the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DPR) will be ready by early 2029, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Thursday. Fadnavis said that when he was invited to perform the ground-breaking ceremon
The Madras High Court has set aside an order mandating a blanket statewide ban on temples acquiring or keeping elephants and observed that the conservation direction aimed at stopping any fresh depletion of the wild elephant population, whereas an elephant gen
The Cockroach Janta Party s (CJP) political ambitions are limited to changing the way politics is being run in the country , spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka told the Indian Express s Srirupa Goswami. The CJP, Ranka said, has definitely shifted the political discou
A Sikh policeman of Canada s Vancouver Police Department, Sukhwinder Singh Sunger, also known as Suki, has become an internet sensation after participating in the Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2026 festival in Scotland in late August as a drum major. He tells The
Buying a trolley bag today is not just about design or colour. As travel becomes more frequent and varied, consumers want the right balance of durability, weight, functionality and value
One of Tamil Nadu s most beloved comedians, Soori eventually managed to transition to a leading man. However, his journey to success was anything but smooth
New York, India's 7.8 per cent GDP growth in the first quarter of 2026-27 fiscal year continues the country's trajectory as the fastest-growing large economy in the world, Indian Ambassador to the US, Vinay Kwatra, said as he rang the opening bell here at Nasd
India's 7.8 percent GDP growth solidifies its status as the world's fastest-growing large economy. Ambassador Vinay Kwatra highlighted this economic and technological transformation at Nasdaq
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged urban bodies to address water challenges from population growth. He advocated for increased adoption of water-saving technologies and global best practices
MINNEAPOLIS - Two people were killed and the suspect is dead after a shooting in a downtown Minneapolis apartment building Wednesday afternoon, according to police.Three Minneapolis police officers were also injured, including two of them from gunshot wounds
Amazon India is hiring up to 160,000 temporary workers to meet an expected spurt in consumer demand this festive season, 10,000 more than last year.Most of the new hires will be deployed for picking, packing, shipping, and delivering customer orders, supportin
A 42-year-old labourer identified as Sugna Devi was killed by a tiger at Jaipur s Nahargarh Biological Park on Wednesday morning. Devi and other women labourers had entered an enclosure at the park to cut grass when tiger Shivaji s cage inside the enclosure op
New Delhi: India and Canada held their annual Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) at Hyderabad House on Wednesday, reaffirming their commitment to concluding a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by the end of the year.According to the Ministry
The Supreme Court quashed several first information reports against protesters. It invoked constitutional powers to ensure complete justice for young participants
Since the Jantar Mantar protests in July that forced the first resignation of a Union Minister under public pressure in 12 years, the BJP has appeared the most tentative it has ever looked, with the decisiveness that it once projected as a hallmark of its gove
Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal on Wednesday launched a diplomatic push to seek climate-related compensation from major global greenhouse emitters specifically India, China, and the United States for the devastation caused by the August 26 flash floods. T
Most plastic bottles are used briefly before becoming waste. But in Hawaii, the equivalent of nearly 195,000 plastic bottles was given a very different destination beneath the tyres of thousands of vehicles
A 40-year-old Bengaluru woman was booked on murder charges on Tuesday after she allegedly drowned her three-month-old twin daughters before attempting to die by suicide at their residence, the police said. The incident came to light on Tuesday afternoon when R
The statement does not say that all 612 officials have been convicted in corruption cases. The cases listed are at different stages even as some officials have been convicted and dismissed, others have been acquitted, and several cases are still under trial
Bengaluru-based spacetech startup Astrobase is in talks to raise $40-50 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at around $250-300 million, people aware of the matter told ET.The spacetech startup is developing two-stage reusabl
The Patna High Court has directed state authorities in Bihar to reconsider a widow s claim for family pension after finding that officials had overlooked a crucial application made by her late husband seeking permission for his second marriage to her, holding
The Karnataka Police suspended three officers on Monday after their conference call purportedly discussing bribes paid for sub-inspector postings and other transfer-related dealings surfaced on social media. M N Deepan, Superintendent of Police, Uttara Kannada
The Supreme Court declined interim orders on petitions seeking to defer a proposed march. The court noted law and order issues and administrative policy regarding protest permissions
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Delhi s electoral rolls has reduced the gender gap among voters even as nearly 4.76 million names were excluded from the draft rolls, with men accounting for 57.2% of the deletions and women 42.8%, according to data rele
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), retained the president s post in the Panjab University Campus Students Council (PUCSC) on Monday, with its candidate Ankit Bidhan defeating Aadil Brar of the
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin that efforts must be made to move away from endless war towards an end to the war while noting that Indians are eagerly awaiting the Russian leader's visit for the BRICS s
WestBridge Capital has sold PhysicsWallah shares worth Rs 120-130 crore since the six-month lock-in for pre-IPO investors expired in May, while continuing to hold about Rs 2,200-2,300 crore worth of disclosed stock, taking the value of its realised proceeds an
The Karnataka Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested a key suspect at the New Delhi airport amid an investigation into the alleged Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) fraud. The suspect, said to be a key middleman was allegedly on his way to
GEN Z in India does not want to be cockroaches; they want to be lions, the RSS s student body s national secretary Shravan B Raj said on Friday, in an apparent indirect reference to the Jantar Mantar protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). Raj was spe
The trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three young children in January 2023, is approaching its close, with the defence resting its arguments on Friday (August 21). Over the past month, her defence has claimed that Clancy, 36
The Maharashtra forest officials captured a man-eater leopard at Inamgaon in Pune district early on Saturday, exactly a month after the animal killed a woman at Pimpalsuti village in Shirur. Range forest officer Nilkanth Gavhane said, The leopard was spotted a
Shantanu Mukherji, popularly known as Bollywood singer Shaan, and his wife, Radhika Mukherji, have purchased three flats in Bandra West, Mumbai, from developer NVK Realty LLP for a total consideration of 47.64 crore, according to property registration document
New Delhi, For Delhiites, the health cost of breathing polluted air may go beyond coughing, breathlessness and heart problems, with a Delhi University review suggesting that prolonged exposure to fine particulate matter could also affect the brain. Studies rev
