Jaipur, Sep 9 — Voting for the first phase of Rajasthan’s Urban Local Body elections began at 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday and will continue until 6:00 p.m., with stringent security arrangements in place across polling centres.The first phase covers 162 Urban Local Bodies across 39 districts, including…
Surat, Sep 9 — A major fire broke out at the Shyam Sangini Textile Market in the Saroli area of Surat early Wednesday, prompting the deployment of around 20-22 fire brigade vehicles as firefighters battled intense flames and dense smoke spreading across the upper floors of the market, officials…
New Delhi, Sep 9 — English and Commerce re-examination for the UGC NET June 2026 will be conducted on Wednesday in different examination centres across the country. The English paper will be held in the first shift from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, while the Commerce paper will be conducted in the second…
New Delhi, Sep 9 — Mahesh, the son of the landlord arrested in connection with the building collapse in South Delhi's Satya Niketan, will be produced before the Patiala House Court on Wednesday, following the conclusion of his police custody. The court had remanded him to two days of police…
Hyderabad, Sep 9 — Telangana Legislative Council on Tuesday suspended BRS MLCs Tata Madhusudhan alias Madhu and N. Naveen Kumar Reddy for making derogatory and abusive remarks against Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar. A motion was passed in the Council on Tuesday evening, suspending the…
New Delhi, Sep 9 — In keeping with the observance of Rashtriya Poshan Maah (National Nutrition Month) every September, mobilising communities and reinforcing key nutrition, health and caregiving behaviours among pregnant women, lactating mothers, children, adolescents, and their families, the ninth…
Mumbai, Sep 9 — In a major push to make Maharashtra’s public healthcare system more robust, accessible, high-quality, and technology-driven, the State Cabinet on Tuesday approved the ambitious state-level public health reform initiative titled PRAGATI (Primary Healthcare Reimagined with Advanced…
Gandhinagar, Sep 9 — Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar will undertake his first visit to Gujarat as the head of the Election Commission of India on September 10 and 11, with interactions with Booth Level Officers (BLOs), Electoral Literacy Club (ELC) members and citizens planned…
New Delhi, Sep 8 — The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Delhi, on Monday issued a detailed press note clarifying the process of inclusion, deletion and modification of names in the electoral rolls, following allegations raised by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) regarding the name of Rajya…
Kolkata, Sep 8 — A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday cautioned that the interim stay on the demolition of the party office of Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, at Amtala in South 24 Parganas district of…
New Delhi, Sep 8 — The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) JNU unit on Monday staged a protest on the campus and burnt effigies of the university’s Internal Committee (IC) and a professor accused of sexual harassment, alleging that the case was being delayed due to political influence.…
Chandigarh, Sep 8 — Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday called for registration of an abetment of suicide case against Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema and all others named by suicide victim Gulzar Singh in his dying declaration. The SAD President visited…
Vadodara, Sep 8 — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public reception in Vadodara, describing the gathering as evidence of the “profound trust and commitment” between the Prime Minister and the people. In a post on social media platform X, Shah…
Srinagar, Sep 8 — The Lt Governor of Ladakh, Vinai Kumar Saxena, has been given additional charge of Jammu and Kashmir during the absence of the incumbent Lt Governor Manoj Sinha. Ladakh Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena was on Tuesday given additional charge of Jammu and Kashmir during the…
New Delhi, Sep 8 — Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for incessantly targeting him since he quit the party soon after its leaders questioned his status as a voter registered in the state of Punjab in a press conference held on Tuesday. “I…
Vidisha, Sep 8 — A new cancer day-care facility was inaugurated at the government medical college in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha on Tuesday, marking the first phase of a larger plan to provide advanced cancer treatment closer to patients in the state's smaller cities and surrounding districts. Union…
New Delhi, Sep 8 — Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday spoke to the brother of C Vikram Singh, a guitarist from Manipur who was brutally beaten to death outside his home in Delhi on Monday, and conveyed his deepest condolences to the bereaved family. According to information shared…
New Delhi, Sep 8 — In the backdrop of the Satya Niketan PG building collapse, the Delhi government, led by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, is considering a proposal under which registration and licensing could be made mandatory for all such facilities used by students, an official source said on…
Noida/New Delhi, Sep 8 — Former Delhi Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta, 74, died by suicide at his home in Noida. Police recovered a note in which he mentioned health and mental issues as the reason for taking the extreme step. His body was discovered on September 6, and the last rites were performed…
New Delhi, Sep 8 — The Ministry of Cooperation announced on Tuesday that it has restored the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS)-Sahara refund portal to expedite the claims of genuine depositors of Sahara through a secure, transparent and online mechanism. “Till date, a total amount…
New Delhi/Imphal, Sep 8 — Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Tuesday requested his Delhi counterpart Rekha Gupta to expedite a high-level probe into the murder of a musician from the state in the national capital and ensure stringent prosecution of the accused. The Manipur Chief…