Patna: A 15-year-old boy from Bihar's Bhagalpur has sought permission from President Ram Nath Kovind to end his life due to 'distress' owning to strained relations between his parents, reported a news agency. The Prime Minister's Office has reportedly intervened into the matter, directing the distri

New Delhi: A Vistara flight from Mumbai to Delhi with 153 passengers narrowly escaped an aerial mishap when it was diverted to Lucknow due to lack of visibility and almost ran out of fuel on Monday. The pilot, who now has been de-rostered as per the instructions of Directorate General of Civil Av

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari is slated to reply in Lok Sabha on the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2019, which proposes to levy heavy penalties for violation of traffic norms. The bill was tabled by Gadkari in the Lok Sabha on Monday. As per the norms of the bill, a fine of Rs 10,000 w

Guwahati: Eleven people have died in the second wave of floods and landslides in Assam that has affected nearly 26.5 lakh people across 28 districts. Nine deaths were reported in the last 24 hours from Dhemaji, Golaghat, Jorhat, Barpeta and Dhubri, while two persons died in landslides in Kamrup Metr

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has resigned from the Punjab Cabinet amid ongoing tussle with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. Mr. Sidhu on July 14 released a copy of his resignation on Twitter, which he said was submitted to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on June 10, 2019. In the

Two people died while 20 others were injured after a three-storey building caved in post heavy rains near Kumarhatti in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district on Sunday afternoon. More than 20 people are still trapped under the debris. There were about 30-35 Indian Army Jawans among the victims. Th

The craze for TikTok claimed yet another life as a youth drowned while shooting for the popular video sharing platform in a lake at the outskirts of Hyderabad. The incident occurred in Dulapally lake in Medchal district on Wednesday evening. The youth, identified as 24-year-old Narasimha, had got

Taking cognisance of incidents of mob lynching, including those by cow vigilantes, the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission has submitted a draft Bill recommending up to life imprisonment for the crime. Commission chairman Justice (retired) A.N. Mittal submitted a report on mob lynching, along with the d

New Delhi: A 21-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for creating a fake identity card of a Pay and Accounts Officer (PAO officer )of the central government to siphon off money from the bank accounts of various ministries through bogus bills, police said. Noor Mohammad, who belongs to Assam, was

New Delhi: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday that a major crackdown against spurious drinking water being sold on Indian trains was recently launched and that more than 800 people were arrested in connection with this. The crackdown took place in more than 300 places across the coun

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed by the state president of the Kerala unit of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha to allow Muslim women to enter mosques for offering prayers, PTI reported. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose refused to ent

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at 110 places across 19 states in its probe on cases of corruption and criminal misconduct/ “In a nationwide action, CBI is today conducting searches at around 110 places in 19 States/ Union Territories. CBI has registered around 30

Lucknow: At least 29 people died and several got injured when an Awadh Depot Janrath bus, carrying 44 passengers from Lucknow to Anand Vihar (Delhi), fell off the Yamuna Expressway in Agra on early Monday morning. Primary reports suggest that the bus fell from a height of 50 feet into a nullah du

New Delhi: With a host of incentives unveiled in the Union budget for electric vehicles, India has joined governments in China and Europe that have backed the development of the nascent EV industry by offering extensive fiscal incentives and a favourable regulatory environment. Pushing ahead with

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has again suggested an increase in the retirement age of high court judges from 62 to 65 years to deal with a heavy backlog of cases, but the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, in its second term, still harbours reservations about the proposal, a perso

Police in Assam’s Udalguri district have taken seven members of a family into custody for allegedly trying to sacrifice a three-year-old child on Saturday. The child has been rescued. According to reports, the family of Jadab Saharia, a science teacher at a government high school, was conducting

Moga : Two girls from Punjab's Moga city have written a letter with their blood to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his help in the cases they claim have been falsely filed against them. In the letter, the girls have claimed that they have been trapped in cheating cases and have been living in f

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. are among at least 100 Indian companies that may need to sell shares worth billions of dollars after the government proposed to raise the minimum public shareholding. Companies must increase shares held by the public to a minimum 35 per c