Air quality in the national capital dipped Saturday morning with PM 10 level at 267 and PM 2.5 level at 226, both in ‘Poor’ category on Air Quality Index (AQI), at Lodhi Road. A senior official of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) said air quality may worsen over the next couple of days

AMRITSAR: Amritsar police on Saturday said that though they had given a "no objection" certificate for the Dussehra celebration near Joda Phatak, the organisers did not take permission from the municipal corporation and the pollution department. According to the permission document, the organiser

Mobile service customers who want to get their Aadhaar details removed from the records of telecom operators would need to provide alternative verification documents, industry body COAI said on Thursday. The Cellular Operators Association of India, as also directed by the Department of Telecom, s

Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s demand for an ordinance to enable the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya invited reactions from many political parties across the country. Firebrand Hindu leader Pravin Togadia took a swipe at RSS and questioned why such a law was not enac

LUCKNOW: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has stated that the number of Hindu candidates inviting him to campaign for them has reduced. Azad pointed at the fact, that since his days as a youth leader he has been campaigning across the country for a number of party candidates belonging to t

The National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) “examination” of interfaith marriages in Kerala has not unearthed any evidence of coercion that can result in prosecution in these cases, officials familiar with the matter said. One of them added that while there may have been efforts to facilitate the conv

At least one security personnel and three militants were killed Wednesday after an encounter broke out in Fateh Kadal area of Srinagar. Four other security personnel were injured in the encounter. Search operations are underway. The site of the encounter is close to where two National Conference wor

PUNE: In a shocking incident, four Army personnel have been booked for allegedly molesting and raping a hearing and speech-impaired woman at a hospital in Pune. The woman was allegedly molested and raped by the four accused at Pune's Khadki Military hospital over a period of four years. The vi

At least five people were killed and 22 others injured after a bus fell into a canal at Haripal in Hooghly district of West Bengal. The incident took place on Tuesday around 7.30 am. The injured have been rushed to a local hospital and the police are in the process of identifying the victims. Whi

Self-styled godman Rampal and 14 others were sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday, in connection with the murder of four women and a child in 2014. A local court in Chandigarh had convicted them under Sections 302 (murder), 343 (wrongful confinement) and 120 B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal C

Claiming that the name change would affect the history in which Allahabad has played a significant role since the days of Independence, Congress spokesperson Onkar Singh said that the region where Kumbh takes place is already called Prayagraj and if the government is so eager, they can make it a sep

Lucknow: Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, who reached Lucknow on Sunday evening, was shown black flags by the Congress members to protest the attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants in Gujarat. Accompanied by a 14-member delegation, Rupani is in Lucknow to attend a programme with UP chief minister

Thiruvananthapuram: Thousands of Lord Ayyappa devotees. including women, on Saturday took to the streets in Kochi against the implementation of the Supreme Court verdict allowing women of all age groups into Sabarimala temple. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF)

The wife of Gurugram’s Additional District and Sessions Judge, who along with her teenage son was shot at by their Personal Security Officer (PSO), succumbed to her injuries late on Saturday night. The mother-son duo had gone for shopping on October 13 afternoon when the PSO shot at them from point-

A police officer died in a shootout with gangsters in Bihar's Khagaria district on Friday. Ashish Kumar, the Station House Officer of Pasraha died on the spot, while another policeman was injured. Ashish Kumar, 32, was leading his team late last night during an encounter with the dreaded Dinesh M

In a shocking case of robbery, a cashier of Corporation Bank was shot dead in New Delhi’s Dwarka today. The incident took place at a branch of Corporation Bank in Chhawla area in southwest Delhi. Three persons were injured after four unidentified assailants opened fire at them and looted the cash

Hurtling down the Trichy airport runway at 250 kilometres per hour, an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 struck poles at the end of the runway, rammed into the perimeter wall but still managed to fly. Miraculously, none of the 136 passengers and crew onboard IX 611, an Air India flight bound for D

CHENNAI: Shankar Devarajan, Founder of the Shankar IAS Academy, which has produced hundreds of civil servants during the last 15 years, committed suicide on Friday. Police sources said Shankar was found hanging from the ceiling of the fan at his Mylapore residence. He was rushed to Government