Showing posts from July, 2023

July pulls monsoon from 10% deficit to 6% surplus

Exceeding expectations, the monsoon in the crucial month of July has been around 15% higher than normal, pulling countrywide rainfall in the season from a 10% deficit in June-end to 6% abov…

'Child Nirbhaya' in ICU; suspects' homes razed

A day after a 10-year-old girl was gang-raped and brutalised in Madhya Pradesh's Satna, the houses of the two accused were demolished on Saturday. Meanwhile, the child is in ICU after b…

Nadda rejigs team, ex-AMU VC appointed BJP nat'l VP

BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday reshuffled the team of national office-bearers, dropping two general secretaries and drafting in former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice chancellor Ta…

India, Japan to push for free & open Indo-Pacific

With an eye on growing Chinese assertiveness, foreign minister S Jaishankar and his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi in a meeting emphasised the crucial role of strong and enduring pa…

Study: Low dose aspirin may not cut stroke risk

Aspirin is an antiplatelet agent that has been used in low doses (75-100 mg/d) for the prevention of cardiovascular events. Its major adverse effect is an increased bleeding tendency. Accor…

Arson, gunbattles in Manipur town on Myanmar border

The India-Myanmar border town of Moreh virtually looked like a war zone as armed groups and security forces engaged in an intense gunfight after a mob burned down Wednesday morning about 30…

29 years after ‘gang rape by cops’, woman deposes

She was 30 years old when she was allegedly gang-raped by policemen from UP at Rampur Tiraha during the brutal crackdown on protesters demanding a separate state of Uttarakhand in 1994. Alm…

Govt in SC again to seek 2.5 months more for ED chief

Just days before the July 31 deadline set by the Supreme Court for Enforcement Directorate chief Sanjay Mishra to demit office, the Centre on Wednesday requested the court to allow him to c…

Brij Bhushan out of WFI poll fray but son-in-law in

Brij Bhushan’s grip over Indian wrestling may finally be history, if the final list of electoral college is anything to go by. TOI is in possession of the voters’ list prepared by the retur…

Manipur govt wants to send back 718 Myanmar refugees

The Manipur government asked Assam Rifles on Tuesday to repatriate 718 refugees from neighbouring Myanmar who are believed to have entered the state over the weekend and questioned lapses …

SC to hear pleas on extending RTI to political parties

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hold a detailed hearing on a bunch of petitions seeking to bring political parties under the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act but underlined ob…

Mob attacks Meghalaya CM’s meet with Garo outfit

A crowd of protesters threw stones in an unexpected attack on the Meghalaya mini-secretariat in Shillong around 6pm Monday when CM Conrad Sangma, along with his cabinet colleague Marcusie M…

Sacked minister, MLAs scuffle in Rajasthan assembly

Unruly scenes unfolded in the Rajasthan assembly on Monday as Congress legislator Rajendra Singh Gudha, who was recently dismissed as minister, demanded to speak about a mysterious “red dia…

What PM has to say? Asks son whose mom was burnt alive

An 80-year-old widow of a freedom fighter was burnt alive inside her home in Serou village of Kakching district on May 28 during the ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur. The couple’s son, Dr…

As threats rise, Meiteis exodus from Mizoram continues

Manipur natives continued to leave Mizoram in droves on Sunday after threats by an organisation of former insurgents asking them to depart “for their own safety” following last week’s surfa…

21 terrorists killed in J&K encounters in June-July

June and July were the deadliest for terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir, with 21 killed in encounters between June 1 and July 20. In the first five months of 2023, 14 terrorists were neutral…

2nd Test: West Indies grind out Day 3 in hope of draw

India bowlers toiled hard, managing four wickets as a defensive West Indies crawled their way to 229 for five on a rain-marred third day of the second Test in Port of Spain. With a couple o…

Old videos of women burning add to Manipur’s horror

A freedom’s fighter’s 80-year-old widow was burnt alive in her home in Manipur on May 28, while an old video of a burnt woman reported in TOI and other media outlets resurfaced on social m…

HC backs exemption from Asiad trials for Phogat, Punia

Courts can’t sit in appeal over decision taken by wrestling experts to give direct entry to top wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat for Asian Games, more so when there is a greater ri…

Women misusing Section 376 as weapon: U'khand HC

Quashing rape charges levelled against a man, Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma of the Uttarakhand high court said, “In today’s modern society, offence under IPC Section 376 (rape) is being misus…

Conduct survey of Gyanvapi complex: Local court to ASI

A local court directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Friday to conduct a scientific investigation of the Gyanvapi complex, adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, to determine w…

NIA busts Kerala-based IS module

The NIA has busted a Kerala-based Islamic State module that was allegedly planning terror attacks at different places of worship as well as on leaders of certain communities in the state. T…

2nd Test: Virat Kohli puts India ahead on Day 1

Playing his 500th international game, Virat Kohli inched closer to a memorable century as India finished the first day of the second Test at 288 for 4 against West Indies in Trinidad on Thu…

140 crore Indians shamed by heinous incident: PM Modi

Amid an uproar on the opening day of the monsoon session of Parliament, the PM said: “What has happened to the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven. The law with all its might will ta…

Nine pee on tribal in Andhra town, six held

Nine people, including three juveniles, assaulted and urinated into the mouth of a 26-year-old tribal youth in Ongole town. The accused were allegedly drunk, called the victim to an isolate…

Video of two Manipur women paraded naked goes viral

A May 4 video showing a large mob of men parading two naked women in Manipur's Kangpokpi district went viral on the social media on Wednesday. Posted from: this blog via Microsoft Power…

Delhi wades and watches as river level surges again

The Central Water Commission attributed the increase to local factors, such as rain in the plains, and said it had nothing to do with discharge of water from the Hathnikund barrage. It adde…

Aiming to boost US-India economic ties, says Yellen

Calling India an “indispensable partner”, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen said, “More broadly, I hope to use this trip to deepen what is already a significant relationship with respect o…

Now, India plans currency, UPI deal with Indonesia

After the United Arab Emirates, India is looking to seal a deal for bilateral trade in domestic currency, real-time card recognition and digital payments, a move that will promote the use o…

Congress says will oppose ordinance in Parliament

A day after marking its opposition to the Delhi ordinance, Congress on Sunday made it clear that the party would oppose it in Parliament, prompting AAP to welcome the announcement as “a pos…

Going beyond $: India, UAE sign -dirham trade pact

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Central Bank of UAE on Saturday decided to move further on strengthening the economic engagement between the two countries by agreeing to allow expor…

CUET scores soar, college admissions to get tougher

With more than 22,000 students scoring 100 percentile in the Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET-UG) 2023, the competition for undergraduate admissions in the 2023-24 academ…

Rahul Gandhi moves SC, seeks stay of defamation ruling

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, disqualified as MP from Wayanad, e-filed an appeal in the Supreme Court on Saturday challenging a Gujarat high court order refusing to stay a Surat trial court…

‘Brazen assault’: Congress opposes Delhi ordinance

Congress on Saturday said the Modi government’s “assault” on democratically elected state governments is a subject of national concern and slammed the Delhi ordinance as its manifestation —…

‘Undermining India’: BJP reacts to tweet

BJP on Saturday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of undermining India’s “strategic and geopolitical interests” by seeking foreign intervention in internal matters after he tweeted on Sa…

In 4 months, 8th cheetah found dead in Kuno

India’s ambitious initiative to reintroduce cheetahs into the wild faced yet another setback as cheetah Suraj was found dead in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park. The sub-adult male had i…

Govt gives nod to acquisition of 26 naval Rafale jets

The defence ministry on Thursday approved the acquisition of 26 Rafale-Marine fighter jets and three Scorpene diesel-electric submarines from France, paving the way for the formal announcem…

Ties rooted in trust, commitment: PM Modi

Ahead of his formal talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, PM Narendra Modi said he was looking forward to holding wide-ranging discussions on taking forward the “long-stan…

Yamuna rages, national capital Delhi drowns in misery

Continuous water discharge from the Hathnikund barrage in Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana on Thursday led to the worst flooding in the capital in 45 years. The water began flowing into som…

Sonia to attend oppn meet, AAP among 24 parties invited

Congress matriarch Sonia Gandhi will attend the meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru next week, imparting a higher profile to the party’s participation in the fledgling grouping which…

Chandrayaan-3: Isro pins hopes on lessons from failure

Isro, which is attempting to launch Chandrayaan-3 at 2.35pm Friday onboard LVM3, has spent nearly four years — after Chandrayaan-2’s failure to soft-land — anticipating failure scenarios an…

Chirag Paswan likely to get berth in PM Modi cabinet

BJP’s negotiations with Chirag Paswan for his return to the NDA have reached a crucial phase amid strong likelihood of Ram Vilas Paswan’s son being inducted in the Union council of ministe…

'India on cusp of becoming 4th nation on Moon'

After landing on Moon, the space minister said, the Chandrayaan-3 rover with six wheels will come out of the lander and is expected to work for 14 days on the lunar surface. "With the …

Manipur HC allows internet with safeguards

Internet services in Manipur have been suspended since May 3 when ethnic violence broke out in the state, which killed around 130 people the past two months and displaced thousands from the…

Why toppers make a beeline for comp science at IITB

Admission forms filled by those who qualified in the JEE (Advanced) 2022 showed 16,585 of the 43,000 who cracked one of the world's toughest exams had put down computer science at IITB …

US official to be in India to talk to civil society

In India, the Indian-American diplomat will also meet government officials to discuss the deepening US-India partnership, the state department said in a release on Friday. Under secretary f…

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