New York City to host first iftar in 2 years today
On Tuesday, New York City's Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, the New York City Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the Mayor's Community Affairs Unit (CAU), the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC), and The Center for Faith and...
Maha police books BJP workers for cash-for-votes
The police have registered a non-cognisable offence against some BJP workers for alleged distribution of cash in Kolhapur, where voting for the bypoll to Kolhapur North assembly seat is underway on Tuesday, an official said. However, local BJP functionary Sunil...
Ropeway mishap: 10 more rescued, 5 still trapped
Ten of the 15 tourists who remained trapped mid-air in cable cars connecting the Trikut Hills in Jharkhand's Deoghar district for about 40 hours were rescued by Indian Air Force choppers that resumed rescue operations early on Tuesday morning,...
Gujarat detects its first case of Omicron’s sub-variant XE
Gujarat reported its first case of XE, a sub-variant of Omicron, after a man from Mumbai tested positive for COVID-19 during his visit to Vadodara, an official said on Saturday. ...
Actor Will Smith banned from Oscars for 10 yrs
Days after Will Smith's slapping incident at Oscars 2022, the board of governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, on Friday, voted to ban the The Pursuit of Happiness star from all the Academy events for for...
Indian student shot dead in Canada
Jaishankar expresses condolences External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed grief at the killing of a 21-year old Indian student in Toronto who succumbed to his injuries after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. The Toronto police service said that on the evening of...
Lashkar commander killed in Anantnag encounter
A Lashkar-e-Tayiba local commander has been killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district early on Saturday morning, said the police. "LeT commander Nisar Dar has been killed in Sirhama area of Anantnag district...
Striking MSRTC employees protest outside Sharad Pawar’s house
Chaos prevailed outside Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar's residence here on Friday afternoon as over a hundred striking workers of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) staged angry protests, accusing the veteran leader of not doing anything to...
ED calls Anil Deshmukh “mastermind” in money laundering conspiracy
Nagpur: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday informed the Bombay High Court that former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh is the “mastermind and brain” behind the money laundering conspiracy and that he had misused his official position to amass wealth.,The...
Imran Khan to address Pakistan today
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday announced that he would address the nation on Friday evening after his government suffered a setback following the Supreme Court's decision. The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday restored the National Assembly...
Cabinet, Economic Affairs Committee to meet today
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) and Union Cabinet meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday. The meeting is likely to be held at 6:30 pm today. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lauded the "rich level of...
2 terrorists killed in encounter in J-K’s Tral
Two terrorists of proscribed terror outfits Ansar Ghazwatul Hind and Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Tral area of Pulwama district on Wednesday, police said. The two terrorists have been identified as Safat Muzaffar...
Lankan Prez revokes state of emergency
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa late Tuesday night revoked the state of emergency he had declared on April 1 with immediate effect. In a gazette notification no 2274/10 issued late Tuesday night, the president said he has withdrawn the...
Caught On CCTV: Builder Shot Dead Outside Home In Maharashtra
Mumbai/ Nanded : A builder was shot dead right outside his home by two motorbike-borne men in Maharashtra's Nanded city on Tuesday, the police said. The chilling murder was caught on CCTV. In the video, the builder Sanjay Biyani is seen...
Harsh Kumar Jain to take charge as Indian envoy to Ukraine
Diplomat Harsh Kumar Jain is set to take charge as India's new envoy to Ukraine, the Indian embassy in Ukraine said on Tuesday. The embassy tweeted a photo of Charge D' Affaires Ambarish Vemuri welcoming Jain "who arrived in Warsaw...
Sharad Pawar hosts dinner for Maharashtra MLAs in Delhi
Mumbai: At a time when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is at loggerheads with the Maha Vikas Aghadi Alliance (MVA) government in Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar hosted a dinner for parliamentarians and legislators that was attended by...
ED action an attack on Marathi manoos: Raut
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday termed Enforcement Directorate action to attach his property an attack on middle class Marathi manoos and asserted he will not be cowed by such moves and resist any act to pressurise him. Talking...
Maha HM warns netas making communal remarks
"Nobody should give statements that will cause communal disharmony," Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil said on Tuesday and added the police are keeping a close tab on the situation. Walse Patil commented in response to questions about MNS...
Raj Thackeray communal, Muslim leader of MNS quits
Charging Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with attaining a communal approach rather than a developmental one, one of its Muslim leader from Pune on Tuesday resigned from the party citing that the political stand of the party's chief Raj Thackeray has changed. Majid...
Lok Sabha to discuss Ukraine crisis today
Lok Sabha will discuss the issue of the Ukraine crisis on Tuesday under Rule 193. Earlier in the Business Advisory Committee of the Lok Sabha, Speaker Om Birla had agreed to allow a discussion for a short term on the same...
India’s daily Covid-19 cases drop below 1,000-mark after 715 days
Nagpur/New Delhi: With 913 new Covid-19 infections being reported in the last 24 hours, India's total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,30,27,784, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday, April 4. India's daily Covid-19 cases dropped below...
