Showing posts from August, 2023

Odisha plans house arrest, GPS tracking of undertrials

Odisha is on track to become the first state to employ GPS-enabled tracking devices for undertrial prisoners facing non-heinous charges — a move that aims to alleviate prison congestion by …

Worrying rainwater volume dip in 101 sub-basins: IMD

A recent India Meteorological Department evaluation shows a significant decrease in rainwater volume compared with the long-term average in various sub-basins across the country following …

G20: Putin unable to come, Modi thanks him for support

PM Narendra Modi thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia’s “consistent support” in G20 as Putin conveyed his inability to attend the summit next month in a phone call and said R…

2 Kota students end life, toll 22 this year

Two NEET students ended their lives within hours of each other in coaching crucible Kota on Sunday, one flinging himself to the death from the sixth floor of his institute and the other all…

Chandrayaan-3 rover surmounts first lunar obstacle

Chandrayaan-3 rover Pragyan has negotiated its first surface obstacle — a 100mm lunar crater — to the relief of the Isro control room back home that will have to continue guiding and monito…

Emergency medical department not mandatory, as per NMC

The National Medical Commission has dropped the requirement for medical colleges to have an emergency medicine department. This was done despite a country-wide study showing that a dedicate…

Ahead of polls, Shivraj inducts 3 new ministers

Three new ministers — Gauri Shankar Bisen, Rajendra Shukla, and Rahul Singh Lodhi — were inducted into the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government on Saturday, barely three months ahead of electio…

Kids opt for rowing rafts, fight snakes to reach school

School children need to take flimsy rafts and fight off water snakes to make it to school every day across the reservoir of one of Maharashtra’s largest dams, making their parents wonder in…

INDIA's Mumbai meet comes amid Pawar stand uncertainty

An 11-member coordination committee will be finalised at the meeting of the opposition INDIA alliance on September 1. The panel, comprising members of the principal parties, is expected to …

Mumbai boy is world’s youngest ‘junior diver’

It’s a birthday gift that Dwit Nandu will cherish for a lifetime. A day after he turned 10 on Thursday, he dived 40 feet off the Puducherry coast, going on to bag the title of “Youngest Jun…

India, Greece elevate ties to a strategic partnership

PM Modi's visit to Greece, the first by an Indian PM in 40 years, saw the two nations upgrading their relationship to a strategic partnership with focus on expanding political, defence …

IIT-Bombay gets Rs 160 crore from anonymous donor

The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay has received its first ever anonymous donation of Rs 160 crore. The cheque has come from an alumnus who wishes to maintain complete privacy about h…

PM Modi bats for expansion of Brics club, by consensus

Addressing the open Brics plenary session, Modi made five suggestions to further intensify intra-Brics cooperation including the creation of a Brics space exploration consortium. He was spe…

Time ripe for paternity leave legislation, says HC

The Madras High Court has called for the implementation of mandatory paternity leave for biological and adoptive fathers in all states and the private sector. The court made this statement …

Bengal municipal & teacher job scams linked, says SC

The Supreme Court has endorsed a Calcutta High Court order allowing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate a recruitment scam in West Bengal municipalities. The court also…

US official Lee Satterfield to visit India today

United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Lee Satterfield will visit India from August 22-27 to lead the US delegation to the G20 Culture Ministe…

LAC talks continue ahead of possible Modi-Xi meetings

The talks to strengthen confidence-building measures are being held at Daulat Beg Oldie and Chushul, headed by Major Generals P K Mishra (3 Infantry Division commander) and Hariharan (Unifo…

Cams to capture Pragyan's slide down to lunar surface

"Once Sun sets, there will be no power for the lander and rover to function, and all the equipment will stop working. However, our tests show that there are possibilities of the batter…

Titan buys 27% Caratlane stock for Rs 4.6k crore

CaratLane recorded a turnover of Rs 2,177 crore for FY 2022-23, and the current transaction thus values the company at almost eight times its FY23 revenue. The deal is expected to be conclu…

From Rs 260 peak, tomato now down to under Rs 100/kg

The data of prices compiled by the consumer affairs ministry shows that tomatoes were selling at more than Rs 200 a kg across 31 centres on August 4 and the maximum price was Rs 257. But a …

This August may be among the driest-ever in India

"August 2023 could potentially experience around 40% rainfall deficit - higher than the 25% deficit recorded in 2005 (the driest August in history since 1913)," M Rajeevan, vetera…

NCAER finds fake beneficiaries in minority institutions

Lack of protests from “beneficiaries” after the Centre’s decision to discontinue scholarship for minorities for Classes 1-8 last year citing the Right to Education Act, prompted the ministr…

Bihar journalist gunned down at his doorstep

Vimal Kumar (35), a journalist with a prominent Hindi daily, was shot dead by four unidentified persons at the doorstep of his home in Bihar's Araria district early on Friday, weeks bef…

Create top posts for hills: Manipur Kuki MLAs to PM

Ten Kuki-Zomi MLAs in Manipur, seven of them from BJP, have sent a memo to PM Modi seeking the creation of posts equivalent to that of chief secretary and DGP, among others, for the five hi…

Man sent back from Pakistan is an ISI agent: Cops

Days after a family of three - the father, 70, mother, 65, and son, 35 - were "sent back" from a jail in Pakistan after spending a year there, UP police made a startling claim on …

India, China likely to hold Major General-level talks

India and China are set to conduct Major General-level talks to strengthen confidence-building measures and reduce friction and trust deficit between the two countries' armies till the …

Praggu first Indian after Vishy Anand to enter WC semis

R Praggnanandhaa defeated his friend Erigaisi Arjun in the quarterfinals of the World Cup chess tournament in Baku. However, Arjun managed to secure a spot in the Candidates Tournament in 2…

JEE aspirant hangs self in Kota, 20th suicide this year

An 18-year-old Bihar student was found dead in his Kota PG hostel room, the latest suicide and fourth since the last fortnight. Identified as Valmiki Prasad, the engineering entrant had bee…

Monsoon slips into 'below normal' zone

In just 15 days, the southwest monsoon has gone from "above normal", at 5% higher than the long period average (LPA) at the end of July, to "below normal". The season…

PoK man's 'last' wish: To see kin settled in Doon

Mudassar Iftikhar Awan, a 70-year-old man from PoK, has expressed his "last wish" to see his mother, who was seven-months pregnant when she was forced out of Pakistan after Partit…

Restore our patrol rights: India to China

During the 19th round of military talks, India asked China to withdraw forward deployed troops and restore Indian soldiers' patrolling rights in Depsang Plains and Demchok in eastern La…

50 killed as cloudbursts and landslides batter Himachal

Intense rains and cloudbursts hit Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand for the second time since July, resulting in over 50 deaths and many missing. Landslides and flash floods have caused wide…

Man strangles wife in SUV as their two children watch

A 37-year-old businessman from Lucknow allegedly strangled his wife of 15 years to death in front of their two children inside his SUV on Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur on Sunday morni…

Govt eyes special plan for high-end electric vehicles

With an eye on attracting global auto giants such as Tesla in the high-end electric vehicles space, the government may put in place a phased manufacturing plan (PMP) type of scheme, which w…

Now, RPF to test mental fitness of its personnel

In the wake of the incident where an on-duty Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable gunned down four people on a train, the force will be carrying out psychiatric screenings of its person…

Bailey bridge near LAC collapses after heavy rain

A bailey bridge located over Chorgad river at Nelong valley region of Gangotri national park (GNP) in Uttarkashi district has collapsed after its embankment got washed away due to the recen…

At Palwal, renewed call for boycott of minorities

A lawyer who had been booked for hate speech at a panchayat in Gurgaon’s Tigra village on August 6 was one of the organisers of another such meet in Palwal on Sunday. Kulbhushan Bhardwaj, …

5th T20I: How India lost the series decider against WI

The Indian team, led by Hardik Pandya, made a valiant comeback in the third and fourth T20Is but were outclassed by the West Indies in the fifth match, losing the series 2-3. No team has ma…

Foxconn to pump in fresh Rs 3,300cr into Telangana unit

Less than three months after it broke ground for its accessories manufacturing facility in Telangana, Taiwanese electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn Group has announced the infusion of…

Data law kicks in, minister says fears 'unfounded'

Indians finally have a data law to guard their online information, and the government has now instructed all the data intermediaries – be it the Big Tech, banks, insurance companies, e-comm…

PM Modi seeks G20 support to seize offenders’ assets

PM Modi on Saturday told a gathering of G20 ministerial group on anticorruption that his government is “aggressively pursuing” economic offenders and wanted the world’s largest economies to…

Govt brings bills to replace IPC, CrPC

India's criminal justice system is set for a complete overhaul. The government on Friday moved three bills in the Lok Sabha to replace colonial-era codes, with the objective of speedin…

'Adhere to international law, rules-based order': India

Amid fresh tensions between China and the Philippines in South China Sea, India reiterated its call for adherence to international law and rules-based order in the region, while also unders…

Give status of probe into 183 encounters: SC to UP

Suspecting a systemic flaw in the killings of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother while in police custody, the Supreme Court Friday sought probe status in 183 encounter ki…

INDIA focuses on war plan ahead of Mumbai meet

The opposition INDIA alliance has instructed its spokespersons to refer to the coalition as "INDIA Alliance" or "Team INDIA" in all their references and not use "do…

India to press for pullback at military talks next week

India will once again press for troop disengagement at the strategically located Depsang Plains as well as Demchok in eastern Ladakh during the next round of top-level military talks early …

New law makes govt equally liable for any data breach

Large tech giants will be nudged to fall in line with India's new data law by the end of one year, minister of state for IT & electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday, adding…

Gehlot power sop puts Rs 2,500cr burden on Rajasthan

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot announced Thursday the abolition of fuel surcharge for all domestic and agricultural electricity consumers, irrespective of the units consumed. "This will put…

Withdraw Assam Rifles, 40 Manipur MLAs write to PM

The tug of war over Assam Rifles' deployment in Manipur has led MLAs and ministers on either side of the divide to send memoranda to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with one group asking …

Give borrowers option to prepay, switch rates: RBI

RBI is worried about the long extension of home loan tenures. Deputy governor M Rajeshwar Rao on Thursday said that the regulator is not considering defining an "unreasonable elongatio…

J&K ceded sovereignty fully upon accession: SC

Negating arguments asserting the autonomy and unresolved status of Jammu and Kashmir, the SC on Thursday said no vestige of sovereignty rested with J&K and its integration with India is…

Another Manipur woman reports gang rape on May 3

A 37-year-old mother holding her two minor sons and fleeing a mob that had burned down their house in Manipur on May 3 was waylaid by a group of men, pinned down and allegedly gang-raped, s…

‘Ragging’ claims life in Jadavpur University

A first-year student of Jadavpur University (JU) died early Thursday from injuries suffered after a fall from the second-floor balcony of the varsity's boys' hostel the previous ni…

Load More
That is All