BluSmart halts services amid Gensol crisis
Electric ride-hailing firm BluSmart on Wednesday halted cab bookings in certain parts of Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, and Mumbai, the three cities where it operates. Even as the BluSmart app is available to download on the Google Play Store, users are unable to...
4 km security wall to be erected around Ram Temple
A security wall spanning approximately four kilometres is being erected around the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and is anticipated to be finalised in 18 months, Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple Building Construction Committee chairperson Nripendra Misra on Monday said. Updates regarding the...
Salman gets threats again, car bomb, house attack
Bollywood actor Salman Khan has received another death threat on Monday, this time through a WhatsApp message sent to Mumbai's Transport Department in Worli, reports ANI. The threatening message warns of killing Khan by entering his house at Galaxy Apartments...
By End of 2026, Farmers to Receive 12 Hours of Free Electricity – Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
Wardha: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today announced that by December 2026, 80% of the state’s farmers will receive 12 hours of free electricity throughout the year. He also stated that electricity bills for citizens across the state will reduce...
Phule’s release delayed due to Brahmin’s protest: Dir
Phule, based on the lives of social reformers Jyotirao Govindrao Phule and Savitribai Phule, has been delayed due to objections raised by the Brahmin community and not because of the censor board-suggested amendments, film's director Ananth Mahadevan said on Friday. The...
Trump effect: RBI reduces repo rate to 6%
I RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra says, "The MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) voted unanimously to reduce the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 % per cent with immediate...
RBI lowers FY26 inflation projection to 4 pc
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday lowered the inflation projection for the current fiscal to 4 per cent from 4.2 per cent earlier, taking into account good agricultural output and falling crude prices. Consumer Price Index (CPI) based headline retail inflation...
Maharashtra polls were won by fraud: Kharge
Alleging that the BJP won the Maharashtra assembly polls through a fraud like never before, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday made a strong pitch for having elections on ballot paper. Addressing the AICC session in Ahmedabad, Kharge also accused...
Nagpur Schools Put 580 Fake Teachers, Staffers on Government Portal to Draw Salaries
Mumbai: The education department has launched criminal proceedings against five school education officers from Nagpur for their alleged involvement in a major salary scam. The officers are accused of forging documents and authorizing the inclusion of fake teaching and non-teaching...
Excise duty on petrol, diesel hiked
The government on Monday hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre each but there will be no change in retail prices as the increase will be adjusted against the price cut that was warranted because...
LPG cylinders to get costlier from tomorrow by…
LPG cylinders, both Ujjwala and non-Ujjwala, will be Rs 50 dearer starting Tuesday, Minister Hardeep Puri announced on Monday at a press conference. "The price per cylinder of LPG will increase by Rs 50. From Rs 500, it will go up...
IMD issues yellow alert for Delhi, red alert for Gujarat as heat intensifies
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a yellow alert for the National capital on Monday, predicting a rise in temperatures and heatwave conditions for the next two days. A red alert has been issued for Gujarat today, while an orange alert...
250 pax on London-Mumbai flight stranded In Turkey
More than 250 passengers on a London-Mumbai Virgin Atlantic flight, many of them Indians, are stuck in Turkey's Diyarbakir airport for over 40 hours now. An airline spokesperson has said the VS358 flight from London to Mumbai on 2nd April...
Veteran actor-director and Padma Shri recipient Manoj Kumar passes away at 87
Actor-filmmaker Manoj Kumar, who came be known as 'Bharat Kumar' for his series of popular patriotic films such as Shaheed, Upkar and Purab Aur Paschim, died in a Mumbai hospital in the early hours of Friday. He was 87. ...
LS passes Waqf bill by 288-232 votes
The Lok Sabha early on Thursday passed the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, after over a 12-hour debate, which saw the ruling National Democratic Alliance strongly defending the legislation as beneficial for minorities, while the opposition describing it as "anti-Muslim". The...
Trump slaps 26% reciprocal tariffs on India, 34% on China
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed 26% reciprocal tariffs on India, and unveiled a slew of tariffs on other nations including China, South Korea, EU and Taiwan. Declaring that "our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered" by foreign nations,...
Bombay HC imposes Rs 25,000 cost on Anil Ambani
The Bombay high court has imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on industrialist Anil Ambani for seeking an urgent hearing of his petition challenging a notice issued to him by the income tax department in April 2022, noting it as...
Waqf (Amendment) Bill taken up in Lok Sabha
Waqf (Amendment) Bill taken up for consideration and passing in Lok Sabha. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju who moved the Bill stated outside Parliament that some religious leaders were misleading innocent Muslims and that the same people who were misleading the...
NHAI hikes toll charges by 4-5% across country
Commuters on national highways and expressways will need to pay more for their road journeys, as the National Highways Authority of India has increased toll charges by an average of 4 to 5 percent on highway sections across the country....
Why the fuss? Aurangzeb tomb row unwarranted: RSS leader Bhaiyyaji Joshi
Nagpur: Amid the demand from some right-wing outfits for the removal of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb, senior RSS leader Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi on Monday said the topic has been raised unnecessarily. Whoever has faith will visit the structure, located in Maharashtra’s...
7.7 strong quake rocks Bangkok, epicentre in Myanmar
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, on Friday, making buildings tremble, media reports said. According to initial reports from the US Geological Survey and Germany's GFZ geosciences center, the quake occurred at midday, with a shallow...
