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

A Manipur journalist, who was granted bail last month after being arrested on charges of sedition for an allegedly offensive Facebook post on Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh, has been detained for 12 months under the National Security Act (NSA). Kishorechand Wangkhem, 39, who was working a

As Jammu and Kashmir completed six months under Governor’s rule, President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday imposed President’s rule in the state. Kovind signed the proclamation for imposition of Central rule in the state, which plunged into a political crisis in June after the Mehbooba Mufti-led coa

The Kerala High Court, today, rejected Dileep's plea for CBI probe in the Malayalam actress' assault case. As reported by ANI, the court observed that the police investigation was going in the right direction and Dileep's plea had no significance. However, Dileep argued that the police investigation

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch on Wednesday GSAT-7A, a geostationary communication satellite, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. The 26-hour countdown for its launch began yesterday as the Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle GSLV-F11 is scheduled

A major fire broke out on Monday at a Mumbai hospital killing at least eight people, disaster management officials said. Over 140 people have been rescued so far. Six were killed on Monday, and two died this morning, taking the number of dead to eight, news agency ANI reported. One of the victims

A day after being convicted in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, former MP Sajjan Kumar Tuesday wrote to Congress president Rahul Gandhi resigning from the primary membership of the party. “I tender my resignation with immediate effect from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress in the

The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Central government to notify the statutory rules related to online sale of drugs and medicines by January 31, 2019 and banned online sales till then. Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana held that the pharmacies in the country would be entitled to sell medici

The Delhi High Court on Monday awarded life imprisonment to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, overturning the Delhi trial court’s verdict of acquitting him. Kumar has been convicted for criminal conspiracy, promoting enmity and acts against communal harmony. He has be