NEW DELHI: SC Friday granted pre-arrest bail to DMK’s V Senthil Balaji in a corruption case related to Tasmac saying the state no longer suffers “from his so-called malefic influence”.…
NEW DELHI: Petrol would have cost around Rs 125 a litre in the national capital when global crude prices touched $135 a barrel had oil companies not blended ethanol into…
NEW DELHI: Learning from the recent CJP-led protests govt has set up a team of officials from multiple ministries to counter online “misinformation” on E20 fuel through coordinated efforts by…
Union Cabinet approved Samudra Manthan Friday, a Rs 84,084-crore national offshore exploration programme to step up oil and gas exploration in India’s offshore basins to reduce dependence on imports, reports…
Govt Friday approved continuation of the farmers’ income support scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) Yojana, from 2026-27 to 2030-31 with a total financial outlay of Rs 3.1 lakh…
Seeking to increase the Floating Solar Photovoltaic (FSPV) capacity to 5,000 mw from 700 mw, the Centre Friday cleared a Rs 5,070 crore scheme to push development of floating solar…
NEW DELHI: India urged the international community to scrutinise Pakistan’s actions in POJK and hold it accountable for its atrocities, saying the so-called elections stand as a rejection of Pakistan’s…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, without a debate and Rajya Sabha couldn’t transact any business Friday, amid sloganeering by opposition members…
NEW DELHI: Bringing the six-year-long trial in the murder of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma to a close, a Delhi court on Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi said on Friday he will forgive young protesters accused of abusing him and his late mother, saying they are misguided children and it is “our…
Nearly 16.4% of the electorate in Haryana and 10.8% in Andhra Pradesh were excluded in draft voter rolls published for the two states Friday as part of phase 3 of…
NEW DELHI: Average rainfall in India during the second half of monsoon season (Aug-Sept) is most likely to be ‘below normal’, IMD said Friday, flagging the continuing risk of El…
NEW DELHI: A 52-year-old BSF constable who recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of an Indian UN peacekeeping contingent has been admitted to the isolation ward…
NEW DELHI: India has screened 10,974 international travellers arriving from Ebola-affected countries since May 23 after the World Health Organization declared the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of…
Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha condemned the latest attac. NEW DELHI: The death toll in Friday night’s terror attack on migrant labourers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam rose to two on…
NEW DELHI: Amid the deepening Middle East crisis, PM Narendra Modi Thursday chaired what was the fourth special meeting of the cabinet committee on security (CCS) and directed establishment of…
Meta (representative image) NEW DELHI: After the temporary removal of PM Narendra Modi’s Facebook video a few days ago, Meta has introduced new protocols for handling the accounts of prominent…
NEW DELHI: Four hundred and fourteen Indians were deported from the US till the end of March 2026, EAM S Jaishankar informed Parliament on Thursday. Government data also showed deportations…
File photo: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi NEW DELHI: Over 200 academicians have written an open letter objecting to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s ‘gaumutra’ expert jibe at IIT Madras director V Kamakoti…
File photo: External affairs minister S Jaishankar with Ukraine foreign minister Andrii Sybiha NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar discussed attacks on commercial shipping and Indian seafarers in the…
File photo: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Accusing leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi of demeaning the Parliament’s dignity and making offensive…
Cauvery Water Management Authority upholds Karnataka water release directive to Tamil Nadu NEW DELHI: Upholding the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee’s order, Cauvery Water Management Authority on Thursday directed Karnataka to…
Vande Mataram Bill passed from Parliament Parliament on Thursday passed the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, extending legal protection to national song Vande Mataram against insult and…
File photo: Tanker attacked during ongoing Middle East crisis NEW DELHI: Since the outbreak of the Middle East conflict earlier this year, sixteen Indian nationals, including 10 seafarers, have lost…
Amid opposition’s walkout, Rajya Sabha clears it by voice vote NEW DELHI: Parliament on Thursday approved a bill to amend the anti-paper leak law, prescribing stricter punishment, with Prime Minister…