Modi to inaugurate Kashi Vishwanath Dham today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will embark on a two-visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and will inaugurate phase 1 of the newly-constructed Kashi Vishwanath Dham constructed at a cost of around Rs 339 crores. Taking to...
India’s Harnaaz Sandhu crowned Miss Universe
Actor-model Harnaaz Sandhu made history on Monday as she was crowned Miss Universe 2021 -- beating contestants from 80 countries -- 21 years after India last brought home the title. Only two Indians before Sandhu have won the title of Miss...
PM Modi’s Twitter account briefly hacked, restored
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter handle was briefly hacked on Sunday, and a tweet claiming that India has 'officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender' was put out from it. The hackers posted one tweet and a scam link from the...
Devotee donates ornaments worth Rs 3 cr to Tirumala temple
An unidentified devotee donated a pair of varada-kati hastas, made of gold and studded with diamonds and rubies, to Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh on Friday. The ornaments weighed around 5.3 kg and worth about Rs 3...
CDS Rawat, wife laid to rest in same pyre
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, who died in a chopper crash in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, was cremated with full military honours at the Brar Square crematorium in Delhi Cantonment on Friday. His wife Madhulika Rawat, who too...
Avoid speculation: IAF asks for dignity of dead
The IAF issues a statement asking for dignity for the deceased. "The IAF has constituted a tri-service Court of Inquiry to investigate the cause of the tragic helicopter accident on 8 December. The inquiry would be completed expeditiously and facts...
Contact of Omicron-infected person in Raj tests +ve for Covid in Delhi
A woman contact of an Omicron case in Rajasthan has been found COVID-19 positive in Delhi and is being shifted to the Lok Nayak Hospital, officials said on Friday. The woman tested Covid positive on Thursday. She did not...
3 UK returnees test Covid positive in Goa
Three international travellers who arrived in Goa from the United Kingdom on Friday have tested positive for COVID-19, informed state health minister Vishwajit Rane. The flight was carrying a total of 237 passengers, all of whom were tested for...
Mortal remains of only 3 of 13 killed in copter crash identified
Out of the 13 people killed in the IAF helicopter crash near Coonoor on Wednesday, the mortal remains of only Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and Brig LS Lidder could be identified, officials said...
Modi, Rajnath, tri-service chiefs pay last respects to copter crash victims
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the country's top military brass on Thursday paid homage to India's first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika, Brig LS Lidder and 10 more defence personnel at the Palam air base...
Search to begin for next CDS, Gen Naravane frontrunner
The government is set to begin the process soon to appoint the next Chief of Defence Staff with Army Chief Gen MM Naravane emerging as the front-runner for the top post that fell vacant following the demise of Gen Bipin...
Tejashwi Yadav weds long-time girlfriend
Bihar opposition leader Tejaswi Yadav, heir apparent to RJD chief Lalu Yadav, married his long time girlfriend Rachel today. Tejaswi's sister Rohini Acharya congratulated her brother and his wife Rachel and tweeted their picture. Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Singh Yadav...
Sudha Bharadwaj walks out of jail after 3 years
Lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, one of the 16 people arrested in the Elgar Parishad case, was released this morning after spending over three years in jail. The Supreme Court had two days ago rejected the National Investigation Agency's plea to stay...
Gen Rawat, wife, 11 others killed in copter crash
The Indian Air Force has announced Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat was killed in the helicopter crash in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday afternoon. 'With deep regret, it has now been ascertained that Gen Bipin Rawat, Mrs Madhulika...
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat’s Chopper Crashes, 14 On Board
An army chopper carrying Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and 13 others crashed today in Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force said. Five bodies have been found from the crash site and two have been taken to hospital with severe...
Army copter with Bipin Rawat onboard crashes in TN
An Army helicopter carrying about 3-4 senior officials including 'top' officers crashed near Coonoor in the nearby hilly Nilgiris district on Wednesday, police sources said. CDS Bipin Rawat, his staff and some family members were in the Mi-series chopper that...
India’s vaccine makers prepare to take on Omicron
As the Omicron variant of Sars-CoV-2 takes centrestage, vaccine makers in India are of the view that scaling up the existing vaccines to make them more effective is possible. Ahmedabad-based Zydus Cadila is making a DNA vaccine using the Omicron sequence,...
Civilian killings: Naga tribal body imposes bandh
Konyak Union (KU), the apex tribal body in Nagaland's Mon, imposed a day-long bandh in the district on Tuesday to protest the killing of 14 civilians by security forces, and announced seven-day mourning from the next day. The KU...
RS adjourned till 2 pm after din over 12 MPs
Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm today amid demands by the Opposition MPs for the revocation of the suspension of the 12 MPs. Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi says the MPs have to apologise. "We explained why they...
Omicron scare: Over 100 foreign returnees untraceable in Maha
Amid the Omicron scare, Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation chief Vijay Suryavanshi on Monday said 109 out of 295 recent foreign returnees to the township in Thane district were untraceable currently. He...
Despite Omicron, India’s Covid cases just 6,822
India recorded 6,822 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Tuesday. This is the lowest number of fresh cases of infection reported by the country in the last 558 days. Out of the...
