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Rs 4 lakh crore likely for rail, highways next fiscal

The highways and railway sectors are likely to get a combined budgetary allocation of over Rs 4 lakh crore, the highest ever. Both the ministries may see 20-30% increase in their allocation…

Need to reform UNSC to reflect new realities: PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi on Monday reiterated the importance of reforming the UN multilateral system, including the Security Council, so as to truly reflect contemporary geopolitical realities in a…

Adani Group loses 29% market value in 3 days

The massive sell-off in Adani Group stocks continued for the third consecutive session on Monday, wiping out nearly Rs 1.4 lakh crore worth of investors’ wealth. In all, about 29% of the gr…

Sunak fires party chairman Zahawi over tax affairs

British PM Rishi Sunak fired the Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi from government on Sunday after an investigation found he'd been insufficiently open about a tax probe which he s…

Adani bets on big funds for Rs 20,000 cr FPO

Institutional investors are fully backing the Rs 20,000-crore follow-on public offer (FPO) for Adani Enterprises (AEL) even though the stock is below the offer price. However the company is…

Centre's tax kitty set to surpass Budget estimate

The Centre is expected to close the year with higher than budgeted tax collections during 2022-23, marking the second straight fiscal year of the actual collections being more than the Budg…

50,000 years on, 'green comet' comes visiting again

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), popularly known as the "green comet", which last visited Earth's neighbourhood 50,000 years ago when the Neanderthals were still roaming its surface, c…

165 sentenced to death in 2022, highest in 2 decades

Trial courts in the country sentenced 165 people to death in 2022, the highest in a year in the last two decades. This is up from 146 prisoners who were sent to death row in 2021. In almost…

Court sets aside order on summons to Shetty sisters

Observing that the order against them was not proper or legal, in a relief to actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra and her sister Shamita Shetty, a Mumbai court recently quashed and set aside a 2022 …

HC: Merely naming caste not an offence under SC/ST Act

Merely taking the name of the caste of the victim would not make it an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, unless it is with an…

No change in FPO price, schedule: Adani Group

Amid speculation that Adani Enterprises may be forced to amend its Rs 20,000-crore follow-on public offer after a plunge in its stock price, the company clarified that its FPO remains on sc…

7 dead in shooting outside east Jerusalem synagogue

A gunman killed seven people at an east Jerusalem synagogue on Friday, Israeli police said, in a dramatic escalation of violence that followed a deadly raid in the West Bank a day earlier. …

Telangana CM KCR, governor hold separate R-Day events

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao followed the high court's orders and ensured that the official Republic Day parade took place at Raj Bhavan on Thursday. But he did not tur…

Why are mentally-ill in hospitals post-recovery: NHRC

NHRC has asked chief secretaries of states and Union territories to submit an action-taken report within six weeks on why patients cured of mental illness were being kept illegally in hospi…

Adani Group slams report that sent stocks crashing

The Adani Group on Wednesday slammed as "baseless" and "malicious" a damning report by a five-year-old US research firm that sent the stock price of group firms crashing…

Can't skip R-Day event, hold parade: HC to Telangana

Celebrating Republic Day in a befitting manner is the bounden duty of all constitutional authorities and it cannot be skipped by the state government, the Telangana high court said on Wedne…

Prices of wheat, atta touch 10-year high, govt steps in

The government on Wednesday approved the sale of 30 lakh tonnes of wheat from its buffer stock in the open market to cool down prices of wheat and atta, which have touched their highest in …

ORS pioneer among 26 unsung heroes on Padma awards list

SP ex-chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, iconic architect Balkrishna Doshi and pioneer of ORS Dilip Mahalanabis have been posthumously awarded Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest civilian award…

Google changes India app store policy after CCI order

Google has started to make changes to its policy dealing with apps and digital ecosystem, after it failed to get any immediate relief from the courts against the CCI order, which found it a…

Naatu Naatu among 3 Oscar nominations for India

India clinched three nominations for the upcoming 95th edition of the Academy Awards, including for ‘Naatu Naatu’ from SS Rajamouli’s blockbuster ‘RRR’ for best original song. Posted from: …

Cracks appear on key Badrinath highway

Scientists involved in studying Joshimath’s land subsidence told TOI on Tuesday that snow and rain – which began on January 20 – had caused “significant” cracks on the strategically key Na…

Action against AI crew unusually harsh: Association

The All India Cabin Crew Association (AICCA) on Monday demanded that Air India roll back derostering of the crew that operated the New York-Delhi flight where a male passenger allegedly uri…

Use emerging technologies, PM Modi advises DGPs, IGPs

Addressing the 57th All-India conference of DGP and IGPs of police, which concluded here on Sunday, Modi suggested making the police forces more sensitive, while also training them in effec…

In a first, women account for 30% of JEE candidates

Male aspirants continue to dominate, accounting for over 6 lakh, or nearly 70%, of the registered candidates. However, for the first time, women account for over 30% of the candidates, alth…

Centre sacks WFI assistant secretary for backing chief

A day after brokering a peace deal and asking Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to ‘step aside’ pending inquiry into the allegations of sexual harassment a…

Woman officer to lead Navy team on Republic Day

As a young NCC cadet in 2008, Disha Amrith harboured a dream to take part in the annual Republic Day Parade on the majestic Rajpath. Next week, on January 26, she will finally accomplish it…

SIMI cadre active via jihadi fronts, Supreme Court told

The Centre on Wednesday justified continuance of the two decade-old ban on Students Islamic Movement in India (SIMI) and informed the Supreme Court that despite the ban, the core intention…

Harsh riders amount to denying bail, says SC

Observing that harsh and excessive conditions for bail amount to denying bail, the Supreme Court disapproved of the practice of imposing such conditions resulting in the accused languishing…

Centre vs Delhi: SG makes late plea for larger SC bench

On the final and fifth day of arguments, prior to the SC reserving its verdict on the dispute between the Centre and Delhi government over control on ‘services’, solicitor general Tushar Me…

First since March, 2020: Under 100 Covid cases in a day

No Covid death was reported in India for 4 days at a stretch, again a first since 2020. India reported 83 fresh cases on Monday, down from 114 on the previous day. India had first reported …

Retd Major held for running over girl feeding dogs

A retired Major was Monday arrested in Mohali for a hit-and-run two days ago in which his allegedly speeding SUV left a 25-year-old woman feeding stray dogs by the roadside grievously wound…

Letter to CJI a follow-up of MoP: Rijiju to Kejriwal

Inclusion of a member of the government in collegiums for appointment of judges in SC and HCs flows from the new MoP as suggested by the constitution bench after it struck down the NJAC, la…

Blasts accused set to join Maharashtra Bar Council

In custody for over a decade in the 2011 Mumbai triple blast case, accused Nadeem Akhtar has been granted permission by the special trial court to apply for membership of the Bar Council of…

Cold wave likely to return for three days from tomorrow

Several places in Delhi-NCR are likely to reel under a cold wave from Monday to Wednesday. The India Meteorological Department has predicted that the minimum temperature may touch 3°C at Ay…

JD(U)-RJD rift widens over Ramcharitmanas

JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar and his supporters read out a few couplets from Tulsidas's epic outside a Hanuman temple to protest against state education minister Chandra Shekhar'…

CBI books ex-finance secy Mayaram for ‘corruption’

The CBI has filed an FIR against former Union finance secretary Arvind Mayaram and conducted searches at his residence for allegedly providing undue favours to De La Rue International, a UK…

Drug panel favours nod for Covovax as Covid booster

An expert panel of the central drug regulatory authority has recommended market authorisation for Serum Institute of India’s Covid vaccine, Covovax, as a heterologous booster dose for adult…

After security threats, Nupur gets gun licence

Former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma has been granted a weapon licence for self-defence, sources have said. She has been facing extreme threats from Islamic radicals for her remarks against…

PM: Global South must create new world order

PM Narendra Modi on Thursday exhorted developing countries to work towards redesigning global political and financial governance to remove inequalities, enlarge opportunities, support growt…

Road accidents linked to fog claimed 13k lives in 2021

Road accidents caused due to foggy and misty weather conditions claimed 13,372 lives in 2021 and another 25,360 were left injured — more than half were grievously injured. Among states and …

Urination case: Court dismisses Mishra’s bail plea

Terming the alleged act of Shankar Mishra urinating on an elderly woman on board an Air India flight last November under the influence of alcohol “utterly disgusting and repulsive”, and “su…

Indian submarine sent for major refit stuck in Russia

India is facing “some problems” in transporting back one of its diesel-electric submarines after a protracted major refit in Russia, which has been slapped with major sanctions and embargo…

CBI books Amrapali MD, 6 others on murder charge

The CBI has filed an FIR against Anil Sharma, the managing director of the Amrapali Group, and six others on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy in connection with the killing of a fo…

SC to govt: Pay gas leak victims from your pocket

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Centre is not prevented from increasing the amount of compensation to the victims of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy and it can pay the amount from its poc…

Bengaluru metro structure falls; techie, kid killed

A 28-year-old woman and her two-and-a-half-year-old son were killed, while her husband and daughter sustained injuries, when an under-construction Metro pillar in Bengaluru came crashing do…

‘Multiple mistakes’: DGCA issues Go First show-cause

Aviation regulator DGCA on Tuesday slapped a show-cause on domestic carrier Go First, citing “multiple mistakes” that led to a Delhi-bound flight taking off from Bengaluru the previous morn…

2 flyers who drank before take-off in Delhi held

Two flyers who had had a few pegs prior to take-off from Delhi were arrested in an inebriated condition at Patna airport Sunday night.Fellow passengers of Vaishali residents Nitish Kumar an…

3 weeks of China scare, no Covid rise in India

Nearly three weeks after Indian health authorities stepped up vigil in the wake of a major Covid-19 surge in China, there’s no sign of an uptick in infections in the country. The week endin…

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