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,

Indore: A massive fire broke out at a transformer in the main powerhouse of Indore's electricity department on Thursday night. The blaze later spread out to the entire power plant. Firefighting operations are currently underway. The electricity supply in the entire city has been affected in the c

Police in Assam detained a Kargil war veteran and serving police officer on Wednesday after a court declared him a foreigner, in one of the most controversial outcomes of India’s effort to clamp down on illegal immigration from neighbouring Bangladesh. Millions of people in Assam are scrambling t

Ahead of the swearing-in ceremony as Prime Minister of India for a second consecutive term, Narendra Modi paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat and Sadaiv Atal Samadhi, the memorial of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Prime Minister later visited the National War Museum adjoining th

On May 22, hours before Dr Payal Tadvi committed suicide by hanging in her hostel room, she was scolded in the operation theatre in front of other staff and patients, and was seen crying as she left. In the nine days leading to that morning, after her husband complained to the gynaecology unit he

Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting to not be part of the new government for now. Jaitley has been ill for the past few months and in February this year, he returned from the US where he had gone for medical treatment. During this period, he ha

The Kerala government will impose an additional cess of 1% on goods and services with GST slab above 5% from June 1. This additional cess is meant to raise funds to rebuild the state, which was struck by devastating floods in August 2018. The flood cess will be imposed for two years starting from Ju