India will send a three-member team into space for up to a week when it launches its first manned mission expected in 2022, the government announced Friday. Indian ministers approved a budget of $1.4 billion (roughly Rs. 9,700 crores) to provide technology and infrastructure for the programme, ac

A taxi driver was on Thursday arrested for allegedly killing a police inspector while he was trying to disperse a mob protesting against alleged cow slaughter in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district on December 3. The mob had attacked the police and set their vehicles and a post afire in a three-hou

The Goods and Services Tax department Thursday said it has attached the bank accounts of Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu to recover service tax dues from him. According to a press release issued by the Hyderabad GST Commissionarate, Mahesh Babu has not paid the Service Tax during 2007-08 for the tax

Two Navy sailors were killed on Thursday after one of the hangar doors of the Indian Naval Air Squadron 322 collapsed at INS Garuda in Kochi. A Board of Inquiry has been ordered into the cause of the accident. Naveen, EAA3 and Ajeet Singh, EAAR3 — both from the Aviation electrical branch — were p

The services of three employees of the government hospital in Sivakasi have been terminated for the transfusion of HIV-infected blood to a pregnant woman in Sattur town government hospital. Criminal charges will be pressed against them for negligence of duty. After meeting the 23-year-old woman,

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday arrested 10 people after they conducted searches at 17 locations across Meerut, Lucknow, Hapur, Amroha and Seelampur in connection with its probe into a new Islamic State-inspired module, ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’. The group was under NIA surveillance

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday said the country needs a law to control the growing population, which is impeding progress and harmony in society, PTI reported. “For development and social harmony in the country, controlling the population is important,” he said. The minister of state for

New Delhi: The three popular islands of Andaman and Nicobar — Ross Island, Neil Island and Havelock Island — are likely to get new names before the New Year. PM Modi is expected to announce the decision on the 75th anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's visit to Port Blair, where the latter ho

New Delhi: Delhi pollution levels have hit their worst this year in the past two days—earning a “severe” to “emergency” rating for the city’s air quality and indicating conditions that can spark a public health crisis. Christmas Day in the Indian capital is also forecast to be bleak. Senior gover

The Supreme Court Registrar on Monday denied early hearing in the PIL against the government notification allowing 10 agencies to conduct surveillance, saying “there is no urgency in the case”, ANI reported. The PIL was filed in the apex court challenging the government’s notification authorising 10

Eight people were killed after their car collided with a truck on the Rohtak-Rewari highway in Haryana’s Jhajjar district, leading to a massive pileup involving 50 vehicles on Monday. Confirming the deaths, Jhajjar SP Pankaj Nain told The Indian Express that eight others were also injured in the inc

ODISHA: India on Sunday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable long-range ballistic missile Agni-IV, with a strike range of 4,000 km, as part of a user trial by the Army. The strategic surface-to-surface Agni-IV missile was flight tested from launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR)

The first passenger train passing through the Bogibeel bridge will be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, marking the opening of the country’s longest rail-cum-road bridge. The Tinsukia-Naharlagun Intercity Express will run five days a week. The 4.9-km bridge will cut down the

NEW DELHI: Sushil Sharma, who spent over two decades in jail after being convicted of killing his wife Naina Sahni in 1995 and burning her body in a tandoor or oven, must be released immediately, the Delhi High Court said today. The court had earlier this week questioned whether a person who had

UDAIPUR: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited chairman R Madhavan Friday said the HAL was capable of producing the Rafale aircraft but suggested that the question of transfer of technology does not arise in the current order of just 36 aircraft. The Congress has alleged that Narendra Modi government is

A BJP MLA Thursday criticised former bureaucrats who have sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s resignation over the Bulandshahr mob violence, saying they were concerned only with the death there of two men and not of “21 cows”. MLA Sanjay Sharma, who represents Anupshahr assembly

Kolkata: In a setback to the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday ruled in favour of the state government, which had challenged the order of a single bench allowing the saffron party to hold its 'Rath Yatra' programme. The division bench compri

A Special CBI court Friday acquitted all 22 accused arrested in the alleged fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati along with the alleged murder of Shaikh’s wife, Kauser Bi. Special judge S J Sharma said the prosecution had not been able to satisfactorily prove that