Flats on land freed from Atiq Ahmad ready, UP CM hands over keys

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath handed over keys of 76 'affordable housing units' constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana ...

Pakistan, IMF reach $3 billion stand-by agreement

The deal, subject to approval by the IMF board, comes after an eight-month delay and offers some respite to Pakistan, which is bat...

Bank giant bigger than Morgan Stanley arises from HDFC Bank, HDFC Ltd merger

HDFC Bank Ltd and Housing Development Finance Corp have completed a merger, making HDFC Bank the first Indian company to rank amon...

K'taka HC imposes Rs 50 lakh fine on Twitter

Pak PM to participate in SCO virtual summit hosted by India in July

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif will participate in a virtual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit hosted by I...

GoFirst resumption: DGCA to conduct special audit of airline

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will conduct a special audit of GoFirst at Delhi and Mumbai Airports from July 4 ...

Delhi govt moves SC against Centre's ordinance over control of services

The Aam Aadmi Party AAP)-led Delhi government has approached the Supreme Court against Centre's ordinance over control of services...

DGCA issues advisory against unauthorised entry to cockpit; warns of strict action

Following two back to back cases of Air India pilots-in-command inviting friends over to the flight deck, Directorate General of C...

Govt hikes interest rates on select small saving schemes

Apple's market value breaches $3 trillion mark again

Apple Inc's market capitalisation on Friday breached the $3 trillion mark again, as investors bet on the iPhone maker's ability to...

PM Modi speaks to Putin, discusses Ukraine & armed mutiny

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a telephonic conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss the situati...

Tushar Mehta re-appointed as Solicitor General

The Centre on Friday extended the term of Tushar Mehta as Solicitor General for three more years. Besides Mehta, senior advocates ...

'You have no power to dismiss my minister': Stalin tells guv

Jaishankar blames China for downturn in bilateral ties

External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday said the present downturn in India-China relations was created by Beijing and not...

High-voltage drama in Imphal over Manipur CM's ‘resignation

875 arrested and 200 police officers hurt in France protests

Firms must follow law of the land: Centre hails Karnataka HC’s order on Twitter

With the Karnataka High Court dismissing Twitter’s plea that challenged the Centre’s orders to block certain ‘objectionable’ conte...

Cyber security watchdog issues guidelines for protection of govt data

With recurring incidents of cyber-attacks and ransomware on important installations and government offices, the IT Ministry on Fri...

F1 2023: Verstappen goes fastest in Austrian GP Qualifying

After comfortably securing a Pole position at the 2023 Austrian GP, the Dutch driver looks ready to set a new record at Red Bull's...

2nd Ashes Test: Australia extend lead to 221 before rain cuts short Day 3

Usman Khawaja hit a resilient unbeaten 58 as Australia tightened their grip in the second Ashes Test, stretching their lead to 221...

US top court blocks Biden's plan to wipe away $400 bn in student loan debt

In a double blow to US President Joe Biden from the US Supreme Court after it nixed race-conscious college admissions yesterday, t...

Punjab minister questions exclusion of Mohali as WC host venue

Punjab sports minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Friday has written to BCCI president Roger Binny and secretary Jay Shah, raisin...

Bolsonaro's political hopes die, barred from office till 2030

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's political career was in tatters on Friday as Brazil's federal electoral court (TSE) ba...

France braces for more violence after riots over police shooting

France said on Friday the coming hours would be decisive after three nights of riots since a police officer shot dead a teenager a...

French cops won right to shoot at drivers, but got 'no training'

In 2017, after a string of terrorist attacks, the government relented. Lawmakers passed a bill allowing officers to fire on motori...

Mob disrupts Pakistan gurdwara's 'kirtan'; suspects go scot-free

The episode of religious intolerance came three days after a Sikh youth was murdered in Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. I...

Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code draft seeks to raise age for women's marriage

With raging debate across the country over Uniform Civil Code following PM Modi's recent mention of the matter in MP, a draft of U...

Key aide Rahul Kanal ditches Aaditya Thackray for Shinde

Kanal has been the UBT Sena's face in Bandra and is known to have been close to Aaditya Thackeray since the formation of the Yuva ...

Delhi Metro allows two liquor bottles per commuter

A commuter is now allowed to carry a maximum of two sealed liquor bottles on all lines of the Delhi Metro. This was hitherto permi...

Biren Singh remains Manipur CM after 6-hr resignation drama

A six-hour resignation drama surrounding CM N Biren Singh Friday provided an interlude in Manipur's continuing saga of violence - ...

AAP govt moves Supreme Court to quash Delhi ordinance

Challenging the constitutional validity of the ordinance brought by the Centre to wrest control over transfers and postings of off...

Computer science at IIT-B first pick for 89 of top 100

The clamour for studying computer science at IIT-Bombay just went up a notch higher to touch perfect 10-all the top 10 all-India r...

Delhi: Coolest June in 15 yrs, 2nd cleanest 6 months since ’16

You did not need jackets or pullovers, but June was, as summer temperatures go, the coolest in 15 years. The mean maximum temperat...

July rain likely to be 'normal' except in northwest India

The prediction signals conducive conditions for farming in the 'monsoon core' zone where sowing is largely dependent on seasonal r...

DU@100: PM recalls his 'vidyarthi' days, friends

Mentioning Instagram reels, OTT series, momos of Satya Niketan, Hudson Lane and tea at Patel Chest Institute in North Campus, PM N...

Lansdowne to be renamed Jaswantgarh?

The Lansdowne Cantonment Board in Pauri Garhwal district has passed a proposal to change the name of the hill town - regarded as o...

Healthcare bill is over 10% of total spend for 90m Indians

Over 90 million Indians live in households where spending on healthcare accounts for more than 10% of their total expenditure. Of ...

How India became a model in tackling natural disasters

Success in limiting damage from extreme weather events with proactive steps and dedicated resources has seen the country take a le...

Interest rate hike for post-of f ice plans, 5-yr RDs

The government has left interest rates on most small savings schemes unchanged, barring five-year recurring deposits, which will f...

Raj rally: Amit Shah raps Gehlot over tailor beheading

Union home minister Amit Shah Friday told a packed Udaipur rally that the two cleaver-wielding men who had beheaded local tailor K...