The ‘Charaideo Maidam’, a 700-year-old mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in eastern Assam, has been included in the Unesco World Heritage site list under the ‘cultural property’ category. The burial mounds made pyramid-like structures...
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24th Nov 2024 | Updated at 11:37pm 24th Nov 2024
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
Chandigarh: The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short by a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann informed the House that since governor Banwarilal Purohit had not given assent to the three money Bills, his government would resume the...
Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
Hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) scientists successfully conducted the Gaganyaan failure test, the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command recovered the Crew Module (CM) from the Bay of Bengal. Isro chief S Somanath said the crew...
KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) unveiled its own set of promises ahead of the November 30 assembly polls to counter Congress’s “six guarantees”, setting the stage for a competitive electoral race as the party led by CM K Chandrasekhar...
TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
Vibrant Gujarat roadshow held in Mumbai
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a roadshow in Mumbai on November 26, for the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam govt introduced a Bill in the assembly on first day of autumn session, seeking to replace a state ordinance that had nullified the 89-year-old Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act of 1935.
Karnataka cabinet, led by CM Siddaramaiah, urged governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot to act swiftly on the pending prosecution against Union minister for heavy industry and steel HD Kumaraswamy. It also sought governor's approval for prosecution of...
At least 17 workers were killed and 50 others injured, several of them seriously, in a chemical reactor blast at Escientia Advanced Sciences at Atchutapuram SEZ in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district, last week.
The ruling NDA reached majority mark in the Rajya Sabha as nine BJP members and two from allies were elected unopposed in the by-polls for the upper house. With the nine, BJP's strength has reached 96, taking NDA to 112 in the upper house. Among...
A small tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Army inadvertently strayed across the LoC into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. An officer said the drone was on a training mission when its control was lost due to a technical snag and...
India overtook China as the world’s biggest importer of Russian oil in July as Chinese refiners bought less because of lower profit margins from producing fuels, a comparison of import data showed.
A military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) brought to Maharashtra’s Jalgaon the bodies of 25 Indian pilgrims who died in a tragic bus accident in Nepal. The accident occurred on Friday in Nepal’s Tanahun district, around 115...
The ‘Great Game’ between India and China for strategic influence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) continues, while their troops remain locked in a military confrontation along the land borders.
In an unusual incident, 13 out of the 21 coaches of the Kisan Express were left behind as the train split into two in Bijnor district last week. The Dhanbad-bound train was transporting approximately 1,600 passengers, including 150 Uttar Pradesh...
