PM Modi had recently asked for his security convoy to be trimmed and suggested ministers reduce their fleet of vehicles NEW DELHI: “Shouldn’t we opt for car pooling when we are starting from the same place and heading to a common destination?” — PM Narendra Modi is learnt to have posed the question to his…
Indian national living illegally in US held by federal authorities for ‘assaulting man with baseball bat’ An Indian national, who entered the US illegally, has been arrested by authorities for allegedly assaulting another person with a baseball bat.Dhaval Amratbhai Patel was initially arrested by the Worcester Police Department in Massachusetts on May 16 and charged…
NEW DELHI: With a large part of India battling heatwave conditions, PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged people to take adequate precautions and help others, and, later at a Cabinet meeting, called for a whole-of-nation approach in dealing with the scorching summer with various departments asked to take measures to bring relief to citizens.Modi told…
India’s sex ratio at birth (SRB) has improved from its recent low, but not by much. The latest SRS 2024 data put it at 918 girls per 1,000 boys for 2022-24, up from the low of 896 in 2015-17, still far below the biologically expected level. WHO data reports sex ratio at birth as male…
NEW DELHI: Ten days after President promulgated an ordinance to increase the Supreme Court judge strength to 38, the SC collegium led by CJI Surya Kant on Wednesday recommended the Union govt to appoint four HC chief justices – Sheel Nagu, Shree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Arun Palli – and senior advocate V Mohana as judges…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission shall, as directed by the Supreme Court, forward the list of electors deleted as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) across 13 states – primarily those classified as ‘others’, separate from the absent, shifted, dead, duplicate (ASDD) electors and, thus, of ‘suspect’ citizenship as well as the ones excluded…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday validated Election Commission‘s decision to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar electoral rolls, rejected opposition’s stand that it was an arbitrary and exclusionary exercise and said SIR was carried out as per EC’s constitutional mandate of ensuring free and fair elections, which are founded on the integrity, accuracy…
NEW DELHI: Indian Navy has foiled a suspected piracy attack on a merchant vessel in the western Indian Ocean.“Responding swiftly to inputs of pirate activity near merchant vessel M V Mashallah 1, stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Kolkata undertook a prompt action to investigate and deter the threat,” Navy said in a statement.Officials said the warship…
NEW DELHI: Ten Indian sailors, detained in Iran in July 2025 on board an oil tanker, have been released after “sustained diplomatic engagement”, Directorate General of Shipping said in a statement on Tuesday.Sailors on MV Harbour Phoenix were “detained, arrested and imprisoned in Iran following the vessel’s interception near Jask Port in July 2025”, it…
NEW DELHI: With the power tussle between Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar showing no signs of easing, Congress leaders are holding back-to-back meetings to find a way out of the crisis.Amid mounting speculation, fuelled by media reports and party sources, that Siddaramaiah could step down from the top post, Congress…
