Chandigarh, July 29 — Punjab Leader of the Opposition in Punjab, Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday expressed concern over the recurring controversies surrounding recruitment and competitive examinations in the state, saying the repeated irregularities have undermined the confidence of the youth in…
Patna, July 29 — A major road accident took place on Wednesday outside Patel Bhawan, the Police Headquarters in Patna, when a private car went out of control and crashed into a row of government vehicles belonging to senior police officers. The incident damaged multiple vehicles, injured the car…
Kolkata, July 29 — A district court in West Bengal's Hooghly on Wednesday sentenced seven convicted persons in connection with the murder of a local Trinamool Congress leader seven year ago at Bandel in the same district to life imprisonment. These seven individuals were convicted on Tuesday by…
Guwahati, July 29 — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the state has emerged as one of India’s leading examples in tiger conservation, crediting sustained anti-poaching operations, habitat protection, and the use of modern technology for the steady rise in the Royal Bengal…
Kolkata, July 29 — The hanging body of a professor was recovered from the IIT Kharagpur campus in West Midnapore district on Wednesday. According to the police, Deepak Reddy Pullaguram (36), an assistant professor in the electrical engineering department, hailed from Hyderabad. He stayed in the…
Gandhinagar, July 29 — For years, people in his village did not call him by the name his parents had given him. They called him "Jhandu" – a nickname born out of tragedy, poverty and ridicule. Today, that same name echoes across international arenas after 29-year-old para powerlifter Jhandu Kumar…
Bengaluru, July 29 — Karnataka Leader of the Opposition R. Ashoka on Wednesday alleged that despite paying Rs 300 crore in fees to lawyers, the state government failed to protect Karnataka’s interests in the Cauvery water-sharing dispute, leading to the directive to release 3,500 cusecs of water to…
Patna, July 29 — A cheating attempt using a concealed electronic device was uncovered during the Adhinayak Anudeshak (Commandant Instructor) recruitment examination conducted by the Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission in Motihari on Wednesday. A candidate was caught allegedly using an…
New Delhi, July 29 — The Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Parliament, on Wednesday passed the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026. The legislation makes the intentional insult of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ or deliberate obstruction of its rendition a punishable…
New Delhi, July 29 — The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday hit out at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of "speaking lies" in the Lower House, while asserting that the no firing took place during the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led march to Parliament on July…
New Delhi, July 29 — Maharashtra Minister for Fisheries and Ports, Nitesh Rane on Wednesday met Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi and urged the Central Government to accord priority approval to Maharashtra's proposals under the Sagarmala 2.0…
Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh), July 29 — The International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), New Delhi, in collaboration with the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), Sarnath, celebrated Aṣaḍha Purṇima as Dhammacakkappavattana Divas at Sarnath on Wednesday. The event, marking the day the…
Bengaluru, July 29 — Karnataka on Wednesday decided to file an appeal before the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) against the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee's (CWRC) directive to release water to Tamil Nadu, with Water Resources Minister Ramalinga Reddy asserting that the state was not…
New Delhi, July 29 — The government on Wednesday said that electronics production has increased from Rs 11.32 lakh crore in FY 2024-25 to Rs 13.11 lakh crore in FY 2025-26, clocking a year-on-year growth rate of 15.8 per cent in the last one year.Electronics exports increased 11-fold to over Rs 4…
Nagpur, July 29 — Reacting sharply to the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s recent criticisms, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis launched a scathing attack accusing him of pursuing a single-point agenda of creating chaos in the country.Addressing the media,…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 29 — The Crime Branch has registered a First Information Report (FIR) in the alleged irregularities surrounding a Public Service Commission (PSC) recruitment examination, marking a major escalation in the probe into one of the most sensitive controversies involving Kerala's…
New Delhi, July 29 — Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh on Wednesday took a jibe at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, saying that the July 21 Congress sit-in near the Prime Minister's residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, depicted "Gandhi's frustration since his desire to stay at…
Chennai, July 29 — The Madras High Court on Wednesday permitted the withdrawal of a writ petition that sought a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to investigate allegations that former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin had failed to disclose certain…
New Delhi, July 29 — The Supreme Court has granted bail to two alleged members of the Indian Mujahideen's Rajasthan module in a terror case investigated by the Delhi Police's Special Cell, holding that their continued incarceration of nearly 12 years, coupled with the extremely slow progress of the…
Patna, July 29 — In a major announcement for lakhs of teaching aspirants in Bihar, Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Wednesday confirmed the recruitment of 32,388 teachers under the fourth phase of the Teacher Recruitment Examination (TRE-4).The Chief Minister said the Education Department has…
New Delhi/Bengaluru, July 29 — Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Wednesday said the Karnataka government would appeal against the order directing the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, asserting that the state was facing an inadequate monsoon and that the "rain god Varuna has not shown mercy"…