US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday presented the prestigious Award for Corporate Excellence to Pepsico India for its efforts to save more than 17 billions of litres of water through community water programs and positively impacting thousands of community members. Established in 1999, t

The Delhi government on Friday announced the closure of all schools till November 5 as air quality deteriorated breaching ‘severe plus ’ level and pollution control body declared a public health emergency in Delhi-NCR, which remained shrouded in a thick, toxic layer of smoke and haze. “Due to stu

New Delhi: Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, in reply to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s attack for presiding over the "worst phase" of the Indian banking sector, said that two-thirds of his tenure as the head of the central bank was under the BJP government. In an interview to CNBC, Raja

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out raids at multiple locations in Coimbatore in a crackdown on an Islamic State module in Tamil Nadu. An official familiar with the raids said they have found certain new clues in the ISIS Coimbatore case which are being verified. New agency

A 28-year-old Dalit woman working with South Central Railway, has alleged that her husband, Kokkani Venkata Maheswara Reddy, who is currently under probation as an IPS officer, is forcing to seek a divorce from her to marry another woman from his caste hoping for a huge sum as dowry. The woman, B

New Delhi: With just a few days remaining in the retirement of Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, there are many important judgements to be delivered including political sensitive cases like Ayodhya land dispute and Rafale cases. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, set to retire on November 17, will d

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde is all set to be the 47th Chief Justice of India after President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday signed a warrant appointing the 63-year-old senior-most Supreme Court judge to the post. Bobde is scheduled to take charge of the top court on November 18, a day after the present

At an interaction with members of the European Parliament on a visit to India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called urgent action against all those who support terrorism or use terror as a state policy. “There should be zero tolerance for terrorism,” the prime minister told the visiting gro

Aligarh: Police in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh have arrested a girl after she allegedly threw acid on youth who refused to marry her. The incident took place on Thursday in Jeevangarh area of the district. The accused and the victim were reportedly in a relationship and the boy apparently r

Chennai: More than 40 hours after Sujith Wilson, a two-year-old boy, fell down an abandoned borewell in Tamil Nadu's Trichy district, rescue teams, including those from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), have been unable to reach him. Sujith had initially been trapped at a depth of around

New Delhi: The disabled and people over 80 years of age can now cast their vote through postal ballot, the government said on Saturday, in a move that will help increase voter turnout. At present, voting through postal ballot is available to armed forces and those assigned poll duties. On the

The Supreme Court on Friday sought response of the Centre on a PIL seeking entry of Muslim women in all mosques in the country. A Bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S.A. Bobde and S.A. Nazeer issued notice to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice and Minority Affairs on the

The BJP’s parliamentary board has authorised party president Amit Shah to speak to Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on the shape of the coalition government in Maharashtra after Thursday’s results. The choice of negotiator from the BJP was conveyed by senior Shiv Sena leaders to the BJP, who sai

For an economy that has been starved of good news for a while, the improvement in India’s ranking and score in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing business indicator should bring some cheer. India placed 63rd out of 190 countries — an improvement of 14 places from its 77th position last year. The country

already been on for two months. The Supreme Court on Thursday demanded a “clear-cut picture” from authorities on how long they planned to continue with restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir. “You have to give us a clear-cut picture of how long you are going to continue with these restrictions.

A local court on Tuesday ordered Jammu superintendent of police (SSP) Tejinder Singh to register an FIR against six members of the special investigation team (SIT) of the state crime branch that probed the 2018 rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Rasana area of Kathua district for a

Lucknow: Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari was stabbed 15 times and shot once in his head, according to the postmortem report. Two deep cut marks were found on his neck and the stabbing was centred between jaws and chest. The wounds were inflicted within 10 centimetres of one another, the r

New Delhi: A 45-year-old taxi driver was arrested for allegedly duping a US national of USD1,294 (more than ₹90,000), police said on Monday. George Vanmeter, who reached the IGI airport on October 18, was allegedly convinced by the driver-- Ram Preet, a resident of Geeta Colony, and his accomplic