Yet again, an Indian-American wins Spelling Bee
Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old Indian-American seventh-grade student from Florida, has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after he spelt 29 words correctly in the tiebreaker, maintaining the dominance of the children from the small ethnic community in the prestigious competition....
Why a only-women posse of cops arrested Prajwal
As soon as the suspended JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna landed at the Bengaluru airport in the wee hours of Friday, there was a posse of women policemen led by women IPS officers waiting to execute the arrest warrant against him...
NY promises mega security for Indo-Pak clash
New York's Nassau County will have unprecedented security arrangements in place for the T20 World Cup clash between India and Pakistan on June 9 due to the threat of a terror attack in New York even though state Governor Kathy...
Will take 10 days to reach Maha after monsoon hits Kerala: IMD
Director of India Meteorological Department, Mumbai, Sunil Kamble said the monsoon will take eight to ten days to cover Maharashtra after arriving in Kerala. Sunil Kamble said that the monsoon is expected to reach Kerala in the next 24 hours....
Maha polls: NCP, Fadnavis differ over seat-sharing
Maharashtra minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal on Monday demanded that his party be given 80-90 seats to contest in the assembly elections due this year. Bharatiya Janata Party is the largest party and will contest in more...
By-election for one Rajya Sabha seat in Maharashtra on June 25
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Monday announced that the election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala and by-election on one seat in Maharashtra would be held on June 25. According to a communiqué issued by the poll panel, the...
Porsche teen’s blood samples thrown & replaced
Pune car crash: Juvenile's blood sample was thrown into dustbin, another person's sample replaced with it, say police. Blood samples of juvenile were replaced on instructions of Dr Taware and Dr Halnor of Sassoon Hospital, claim police. As juvenile's blood...
INDIA bloc doing ‘mujra’ for its vote bank: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday vowed to thwart alleged attempts to rob Dalits and backward classes of reservations by the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) which he accused of 'enslavement' and performing 'mujra' for Muslim vote bank. The PM...
SC declines interim relief on plea seeking uploading of booth-wise voter turnout data on EC website
he Supreme Court on Friday refused an NGO’s plea to issue the Election Commission directions to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website during the Lok Sabha polls, saying it would be difficult for the poll panel to...
4 killed in blast at chemical factory in Dombivli near Mumbai
Several people are feared trapped after a fire broke out at a factory in Thane's Dombiwali near Mumbai following a massive blast on Thursday. The fire occurred after a boiler inside the chemical factory located in MIDC Phase 2 exploded,...
Shah Rukh Khan suffers heat stroke, in hospital
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad on Wednesday after suffering from a heat stroke, the police said. He was admitted to multi-speciality KD Hospital, they said. Khan was in Ahmedabad on Tuesday to attend...
1 dead after London-Singapore flight hits turbulence
One person has been killed and several others injured on a Singapore Airlines flight from London that was hit by severe turbulence, reports the BBC. The Singapore-bound Boeing 777-300ER was diverted to Bangkok and landed at 15:45 local (08:45 GMT).Flight SQ...
Hero-worship is road to dictatorship: Cong on Patra
The controversial remarks made by BJP leader Sambit Patra that "Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi" has triggered a political row, with the Congress accusing the ruling party of "not even sparing our Gods" and...
Pune Porsche Accident: Father Of 17-Year-Old, Who Ran Over Two While Driving Drunk In Pune, Arrested
Pune: The father of the 17-year-old boy involved in a fatal car accident that killed two people has been arrested by Pune Police from Maharashtra's Aurangabad. The accident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning in Pune's Kalyani...
Phase 5: Mumbai voter turnout below 50% at 5 pm
The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections for 49 parliamentary constituencies saw a cumulative voter turnout of 56.68 per cent till 5 pm, as per the data shared by the Election Commission. According to the poll body, West Bengal recorded...
Patna school set afire after boy found dead in tank
An angry crowd set a school on fire on Friday morning after the body of a student was found inside a tank inside the school premises in Bihar's capital city Patna, police said. According to the sources, the incident took place...
What happened to me was very bad: Swati Maliwal
AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal speaks up for the first times after alleged assault on her by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar. Speaking on X, Maliwal said, "What happened to me was very bad. I have given my...
Jawan posted at Sachin Tendulkar’s house dies by suicide
A State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) jawan posted at Sachin Tendulkar's house allegedly died by shooting himself with a service revolver at his home in Jamner on Wednesday early morning. Jamner police said, "An SRPF jawan living in Jamner in Jalgaon,...
Govt warning on ‘digital arrest’, ‘blackmailing’ by cyber criminals posing as cops
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday has issued an alert against incidents of ‘blackmail’ and ‘digital arrest’ by cyber criminals impersonating state/UT Police, NCB, CBI, RBI and other law enforcement agencies. Anti-cyber fraud agency Indian Cyber Coordination...
VNIT Nagpur associates with the MMGEIS Program to Empower Students in Geospatial Innovation
oplus_1048578 New Delhi, India- 15th May 2024, The Master Mentors Geo-enabling Indian Scholars (MMGEIS) program, which is the brainchild of Esri India, and the Centre for Knowledge Sovereignty (CKS) was launched in December 2023. On 9th May, Visvesvaraya National Institute...
“I never said Hindu or Muslim, I talked about very poor family,” clarifies PM Modi
Varanasi: Clarifying his "infiltrators" and "those with more children" remarks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that he did not only talk about Muslims but spoke about every poor family, adding that the day he starts doing Hindu-Muslim, he...
