New Delhi: Twelve senior government officers, including a chief commissioner, principal commissioners and commissioner of the Income Tax Department, were directed by the Finance Ministry to retire under Rule 56 of the General Financial Rules (GFRs) on Monday. Sources said some of these officers w

The wife of journalist Prashant Kanojia, who was arrested on Saturday for sharing a post on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, moved the Supreme Court on Monday. The court agreed to hear the plea on Tuesday. Prashant Kanojia last week shared a video of a Kanpur-based woman making alleg

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of a cyclonic storm brewing along the country's southern coast. IMD has said that there is a formation of a low-pressure area over the south-east Arabian Sea and in the Lakshadweep. It further said that this, in all probabilities, develop into

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Friday met UPA Chairperson and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi to seek her party’s cooperation in the upcoming session of Parliament, which will commence from June 17. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, along with the Minister of State in his

In an unprecedented move in the history of Indian politics, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will be appointing five Deputy Chief Ministers for the state. Sources told TNM that Jagan on Friday during the Legislative Party meeting held in his party office in Tadepalli took the deci

New Delhi: Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut on Thursday said that the post of deputy speaker in Lok Sabha must be given to his party and that it was not a demand but our right. Speaking to the media, Raut said that Sena has 18 MPs and it is only natural that the post of deputy speaker should be given to h

NEW DELHI: IT major Wipro Ltd today announced that its founder Azim H Premji would retire as executive chairman and managing director (MD) of the company by the end of July. Azim Premji will retire as executive chairman upon the completion of his current term on July 30, 2019 after having led the

Renowned scientist and cyclone warning specialist Mrutyunjay Mohapatra was on Tuesday appointed as the chief of India Meteorological Department (IMD), according to a Personnel Ministry order. Mr. Mohapatra and his team at the Cyclone Warning Division of the IMD have earned praise for their accura

The Kerala government said on Wednesday that the condition of a college student who is being treated for the Nipah virus was stable, while five others who are suspected of having contracted the virus were improving, PTI reported. “The condition of the student is stable. It has not turned worse,”

It has been confirmed that a 23-year-old man who had been admitted to a private hospital in Ernakulam on May 30, has contracted the Nipah virus. The confirmation has come in from the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune. The Kerala government had sent the student’s samples to NIV in Alappuzh

Jammu and Kashmir could witness fresh delimitation of Assembly constituencies. In a bold move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and new Union Home Minister Amit Shah is considering fresh delimitation of constituencies in the state as there is a feeling in the Jammu region that it is being discriminated

After facing flak from leaders of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the inclusion of Hindi in the three-language New Education Policy (NEP) draft, the centre took a U-turn and tweaked the draft which had made learning Hindi as mandatory. "In keeping with the principle of flexibility, students who wis

An AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force with 13 people onboard has gone missing after taking off from Jorhat in Assam. The aircraft was headed to Mechuka Advance Landing Ground, the landing strip in the eastern Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh’s West Siang district. The landing strip is about 30-

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the status of “legal person or entity” to animals in Haryana, granting them the “corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person”. The verdict comes nearly a year after Uttarakhand High Court passed a similar order “to protect and promot

HYDERABAD:  Stories of online fraud have been the new norm for quite some time. In another incident of cyber fraud, an engineering student from Mansoorabad fell prey to the trap of dating websites offering escort services and lost Rs 14 lakh. Those who manage the website colle

New Delhi: Out of the 56 ministers in the newly-formed Cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 51 are crorepatis, with Harsimrat Kaur Badal -- Shiromani Akali Dal lawmaker from Bathinda in Punjab -- being the richest with assets over Rs 217 crore, according to National Election Watch (NEW) and Asso

The main accused in the killing of Surendra Singh, a close aide of Amethi MP Smriti Irani was arrested on May 31 following an encounter with police in Amethi, officials said. Waseem was held in Shalhapur area under the Jamo police station area on May 30 night, Amethi Assistant Superintendent of P

New Delhi: Amit Shah, Smriti Irani, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Prakash Javadekar, Babul Supriyo and several others took the oath of office after Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolio distribution and list of Ministers of State is yet to be announced. Modi,