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2 killed in oxygen cylinder blast

Two people died after an oxygen cylinder being unloaded from a pickup van near a private hospital at Ravi Nagar in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar of UP's Chandauli district exploded o…

RT-PCR negative must for arrivals from 6 nations

From January 1 onwards, people flying into India from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand will need to submit a negative RT-PCR test report before departure. The t…

EC proposes remote voting for inter-state migrants

In a major step towards making elections more inclusive, the Election Commission on Thursday proposed introduction of ‘remote voting’ for domestic migrants, using a multi-constituency elect…

Raze ecosystem that abets J&K terror: Amit Shah

Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday, while appreciating the improvement in overall security situation in J&K, directed the Jammu & Kashmir police to identify the remaining terror “…

CUET-PG to be conducted from June 1-10 next year

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct CUET-PG from June 1 to 10 next year. The application process will start in mid-March. According to UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar, the secon…

4 LeT men killed in Jammu on way to Kashmir in truck

Four suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from Pakistan were killed in an hour-long shootout after security forces stopped a Kashmir-bound truck with a fake registration number in which th…

Govts start joint inspection of drug-making facilities

The Centre on Tuesday said it had prepared an action plan for nationwide inspection of manufacturing units which are identified to be at the risk of manufacturing Not of Standard Quality (…

EC starts Assam delimitation on 2001 Census basis

More than 21 months after the government, acknowledging a legal anomaly, took out four northeastern states from the purview of the Delimitation Commission it had set up in 2020 to carry out…

Kochhars seek remand-order nixing; no urgency: HC

Chanda Kochhar, former CEO and MD of ICICI Bank, and her husband Deepak Kochhar approached the Bombay high court vacation bench a day after a trial court extended their police custody follo…

Maha passes resolution to include 865 K'taka villages

Days after the Karnataka legislature cleared a resolution on the inter-state border dispute, both houses of Maharashtra legislature on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to legally pur…

Odisha orders probe into deaths of Putin critic, aide

The Odisha government ordered on Tuesday a crime branch investigation into the mysterious deaths of Russian businessman and lawmaker Pavel Antov (65) and his friend Vladimir Bydanov (61) wi…

India ready to bid for 2036 Olympics: Anurag Thakur

dia will bid for hosting the Olympic Games in 2036. A roadmap will be presented before the full members of the International Olympic Committee during the IOC session in Mumbai in September …

Words spoken in anger not abetment of suicide: MP HC

The Madhya Pradesh high court has said that words spoken in anger cannot be treated as abetment to suicide and struck down proceedings in a district court against three men accused of drivi…

No record of 1962, 1965, 1971 wars with National Archives

Surprising as it may sound, the National Archives of India — the central repository of the government’s “non-classified” historical records — does not have records of India’s three big wars…

Buying costliest player no guarantee of winning IPL

Every year, IPL franchises break the bank to bag the most sought-after players who they believe will make a difference to their fortunes. But teams who get the most expensive player of the …

Ashwin is Team India’s hero and saviour again

The Mirpur Test looked lost. On a tricky pitch, where the ball was often staying low and behaving mean, India had lost 7 wickets for 74. The big boys were back in the hut. The target, 145, …

As govt takes Covid guard, experts rule out BF.7 wave

The highly transmissible BF.7 Omicron variant of Covid-19 was highly unlikely to trigger another “wave” in the country, experts said, suggesting India should redefine a “surge or wave” to a…

Frigid monster storm across US claims at least 24 lives

Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze Sunday morning to ride out the frigid storm that has killed at least 24 people across the United States and is expected to claim more …

2022 saw record checks by DGCA on airlines, airports

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) says it has made the highest number of surveillance checks in a calendar year in 2022. Numbering at 4,378 checks in all, 3,013 were planned …

Waiver for PwDs at national institutes announced

In a step aimed at enhancing access to rehabilitation facilities for persons with disabilities (PwDs), the Central government has decided to waive off the fees for registration, diagnostics…

Mathura court orders survey of Shahi Idgah

The court of additional civil judge (senior division-III) Sonika Verma in Mathura has sought a "survey report" of the Shahi Idgah mosque complex by a revenue department official b…

CBI arrests ICICI Bank ex-chief Kochhar, husband

The CBI Friday arrested ICICI Bank's former CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband, Deepak Kochhar, in connection with its investigations into alleged corruption in a Rs 3,250-crore …

CAG: Poor state of tracks key cause of derailments

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found lack of maintenance of tracks, slow pace of track renewal and deviation of track parameters as the main reasons for majority of such trai…

Why some MNCs are pulling out of India

Holcim. Ford. Cairn. Daiichi Sankyo. And now Metro. These are some of the big names that have either moved out of India or have downsized their operations in the last decade. Heightened loc…

Many medicines set to be cheaper after 5th price cap

For the fifth consecutive time in the current year, some medicines are set to be cheaper after the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) on Tuesday capped prices of 127 drugs. A …

Kharge's 'dog' jibe triggers uproar in Parliament

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's dog jibe led to heated exchanges on Tuesday in both Houses with BJP seeking an apology from the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha and dubbi…

Decked in gold, Kedarnath gets 30 armed guards

First came the gold, then the guards. Six weeks after a TOI report said the Kedarnath shrine, freshly wreathed in over 40 kg of gold - in leaf and sheet - would be left unattended during th…

Modi's birthplace on Unesco tentative list

The Archaeological Survey of India said on Tuesday three new cultural sites in India, including the iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, the historic Vadnagar town in Gujarat - PM Modi's birth…

Puducherry tops social progress index

Puducherry has bagged the top slot with the highest score of 65.9 in the country on the 'social progress index' for its remarkable performance across the index's components like…

190 nations agree to save 30% of planet by 2030

In a historic UN biodiversity agreement, over 190 countries agreed in Montreal on Monday to protect 30% of the planet by 2030, while pledging to achieve 23 targets to reverse ecosystem degr…

In a 1st, Taj Mahal gets property, water tax notices

In a first, the Agra Municipal Corporation has sent notices to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) asking it to pay Rs 1.9 crore as water tax and Rs 1.5 lakh as property tax on the Taj …

'Trump should face insurrection, obstruction charges'

The US House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol on Monday asked federal prosecutors to charge Donald Trump with obstruction and insurre…

Eye on China, govt plans a 1,700-km 'frontier highway'

The government, in the next five years, will build a new highway in Arunachal Pradesh that will run close to the India-Tibet-China-Myanmar border. At some locations, the 'frontier highw…

BJP not a challenge in Chhattisgarh: Bhupesh Baghel

BJP isn't a challenge in Chhattisgarh and "harassment" by central agencies won't scare Congress, chief minister Bhupesh Baghel told TOI in an exclusive interview as he lea…

Amravati killing revenge for backing Nupur Sharma: NIA

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the case relating to the murder of veterinary chemist Umesh Prahladrao Kolhe in Amravati, Maharashtra, in June 2022,…

ICMR study: 1 in 9 in India at risk of developing cancer

​​​According to the study, which has been published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, one in every 67 men ia at risk of developing lung cancer and one in 29 women is at risk of dev…

Isro launched 177 foreign satellites for 19 countries

The Centre on Thursday said that Isro, through its commercial arms, has successfully launched 177 foreign satellites belonging to 19 countries in the last five years and forex generated fro…

Air drill & Agni-V test: India signals to China

In two-pronged strategic signalling to China on Thursday, India tested its most formidable nuclear-capable missile Agni-V, even as the Indian Air Force (IAF) kicked off an exercise with fro…

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