Savji Dholakia, the Surat-based diamond merchant, has done it again! Dholakia has once again decided to gift all his employees around 600 cars as 'Diwali gifts' in a special event called 'Skill India Incentive Ceremony' on Thursday. The employees of Hare Krishna Exporters will be presented with a

Kolkata: A 100-year-old woman was brutally raped allegedly by a 20-year-old youth in the middle of the night in West Bengal's Nadia district, the police said on Wednesday. "The incident took place on Monday night. Argha Biswas alias Abhijit was caught by the family members of the old woman. A com

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that from April 1, 2020, only Euro VI fuel compliant vehicles will be permitted to be sold and registered across the country. The order was passed by a bench of Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice S Abdul Nazir and Justice Deepak Gupta, which said, ''N

NOIDA: Three Paytm employees were arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to extort Rs. 20 crore from the e-wallet giant's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma after threatening to leak stolen personal data and confidential information, Noida Police said. The arrested woman, who allegedly masterminded th

The Supreme Court ruled out imposing a complete ban on the sale of firecrackers during Diwali but put certain conditions in place for the sale and use of firecrackers. In its order, a bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and AK Sikri said that it is permitting the sale and manufacture of ‘green’

Lucknow, Oct 22: Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council chairman Ramesh Yadav’s wife Meera Yadav was on Monday arrested for killing her 23-year-old son Abhijit Yadav, police said. She was detained late on Sunday for interrogation, during which she broke down and accepted strangulating her own son.

Chennai: The Congress will not project party president Rahul Gandhi or any other leader as the prime ministerial face ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, former finance minister P Chidambaram has told News18 Tamil in an exclusive interview. The Congress has been trying to stitch together a grand a

Petrol and diesel prices were cut for the fourth straight day Sunday on softening international oil prices, providing some relief to consumers battered by two months of relentless rate hikes. Petrol price was cut by 25 paise a litre and diesel by 17 paise, according to the price notification of stat

In an unprecedented move, the country’s premier investigation agency, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has named its Special Director Rakesh Asthana in a new FIR involving a bribery scam. Mr. Asthana, a 1984 batch IPS Officer of Gujarat cadre, is accused of accepting a bribe of ₹ 2 crore in

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