A preview of the soon-to-be-launched Train 18 and how it can change the experience of travelling by trains New Delhi: Indian Railways is set to launch Train 18, with the claim that it will be the fastest train in the country. It is touted as the new definition of comfort and speed for rail travel

People who do not feel safe but threatened in India should be bombed, according to BJP MLA Vikram Saini. In a 74-second video released by news agency ANI, the lawmaker from Muzaffarnagar is heard saying, “My personal view is that those who say they feel unsafe and threatened in India should be bombe

Bhubaneswar: Cyclone activities were witnessed in the South China Sea after which seven districts of Odisha are put on alert by the state government and the Revenue and Disaster management department on Thursday. The cyclone is named 'Pabuk' and was earlier centred around 1,500 km east-southeast

New Delhi: In a major setback to Nestle, the company admitted to the presence of lead in its popular FMCG product of popular noodles. The Supreme Court on Thursday was given this admittance by the lawyers of the company as the case was being heard. The court hearing was a clear indication that th

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed its dissatisfaction with the rescue efforts to trace the 15 Meghalaya miners who have been trapped for 22 days. “We pray to God that all are alive,” the top court said on a petition that wanted the government to be ordered to scale up the rescue efforts in a f

Fourteen people have been confirmed dead in a blast in a building in central Russia, AFP reported, quoting local officials as saying on Wednesday. The local governor’s office said that 14 bodies had been found and 27 people were reported missing after the explosion in Magnitogorsk, about 1,700 km ea

More than 395,000 babies were expected to have been born around the world on New Year's Day, with India estimated to have recorded the highest number of these births at almost 70,000, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. As the calendar flips to 2019, about 395,072 babies will be bor

Lucknow: To ensure the welfare of cows, the Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday gave a nod to the proposal to levy a 2% 'cow welfare cess'. The move is aimed to construct shelters for the cows in all districts, gram panchayats, municipalities, municipal corporations and other local bodies. A budget

Actor Prakash Raj will be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as an independent, the actor made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday night. However, he is yet to decide on a constituency from where he would fight. The actor signed off saying “Ab ki baar Janatha ki SARKAR in Parliament t

Ahmedabad: Students of Gujarat schools will answer roll calls with 'Jai Hind' or 'Jai Bharat' instead of the current 'yes sir' and 'present sir' from January 1 in order to foster patriotism, a notification issued on Monday stated. The notification, issued by the Directorate of Primary Education a

The government has appointed Sudhir Bhargava as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), along with four information commissioners, all of whom were bureaucrats, in the Central Information Commission. Mr. Bhargava was Information Commissioner in the CIC. The panel was functioning with three members

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday announced renaming of three islands of Andaman and Nicobar archipelago as a tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The Ross Island was renamed as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep, the Neil Island as Shaheed Dweep and the Havelock Island as Swaraj Dweep, Modi sa

Noida (UP): A man was arrested for allegedly impersonating an IAS officer to get work of his relatives and friends done, police said Saturday. Mani Tyagi, in his late 20s, had recently called up the Gautam Buddh Nagar (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal and said that he is an IAS offi

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a comprehensive pension management software SAMPANN to facilitate pensioners of the telecom department. SAMPANN, an acronym for System for Accounting and Management of Pension, will help in timely disbursement of pensions, he said at a p

New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Friday approved amendments to strengthen the Pocso Act and included the death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children, besides providing stringent punishments for other crimes against those below 18 years of age. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said ch

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