Tamil Nadu’s picturesque seaside town of Mahabalipuram is all geared up to host the second informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping that begins on Friday. Xi lands here in the afternoon, and will proceed to Mahabalipuram, 50 km away, amid tight security. Security has been tightened at Mahabalipuram and […]
With its decision to boycott the Block Development Council (BDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress party has placed itself in an unenviable position of being on the right side of the separatists. For over 30 years since the ongoing separatists violence started in the state, the separatists have been asking people and the […]
Religion does not divide, Religion unites — this is what Akeel Pathan, a convict of Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior Central Jail believes, and therefore has decided to read the ‘Shrimad Bhagwad Gita’. Pathan has been convicted in a murder case. A Muslim man with an urge to know the Hindu scripture, his zeal may not go […]
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted two months more time to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe alleged bribery charges against agency’s former Special Director Rakesh Asthana and its officer Devendra Kumar. Justice Vibhu Bakhru while granting more time to the agency said: “It is clarified that no further time will be […]
Passengers onboard the Lucknow-Delhi Tejas Express, the country’s first private semi-high speed train, were being given biodegradable packaged drinking water bottles. Chief Regional Manager (CRM), IRCTC, Lucknow region, Ashwini Srivastava said: “At least 1,500 bottles are being served on Tejas Express every day in both up and down trips. The bottles would be in use […]
Wing Commander Abhinandan flew a MiG-21 at an air show held at the Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad during the Air Force Day celebrations on Tuesday. The air show was also marked by aerial displays of fighter aircraft by other Balakot heroes. While Abhinandan led a group of three MiG-21s flying in avenger formation, Balakot […]
From Gujarat’s Himmatnagar to Assam’s Jorhat, food delivery platform Swiggy has expanded its services to 500 cities in India, matching rival Zomato’s reach in the country. Unveiling its plan on Monday, Swiggy, which has added 60,000 new restaurants in the past six months, said it would expand to 600 cities by December 2019. “With presence […]
Lure of big money turned Aashiq Ahmed Nengroo, a truck driver from Pulwama, from a police informer to a terror kingpin. Once seen as a pro-Indian Kashmiri, Negroo, succumbed to the lust for money and finally became one of the largest ‘exporter’ of arms, narcotics and terrorists into the Indian territory. After the recent drone […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the pictures of the moon surface clicked by the Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) mounted on the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter. According to the ISRO, the pictures taken by the Orbiter from a height of 100 km from the moon surface are part of the Boguslawsky E Crater — […]
At least six rape cases are reported every day on an average in Delhi, which is also witnessing a substantial increase in killings, posing a concern for the Central government as it is directly responsible for law and order in the national capital. The number of total crimes in the national capital registered this year […]