National

Srinagar: The movement of Amarnath pilgrims towards the cave shrine was temporarily halted Saturday from both north and south Kashmir base camps due to heavy rain in the area. Officials said that the movement of Yatris from north Kashmir's Baltal base camp and from south...

Noida: Devprakash Madhukar, the main accused in the July 2 Hathras stampede which claimed 121 lives, has been taken into custody by Uttar Pradesh Police after he surrendered in Delhi, his lawyer claimed Friday night. Madhukar, the 'mukhya sevadar' of the 'satsang' where the stampede...

New Delhi: Heavy rain disrupted daily life in vast swathes of north India including Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on Friday while the flood situation in Assam remained grim with major rivers flowing above the danger mark and nearly 22 lakh people affected. Assam Chief Minister...

Kolkata: West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee administered the oath to two newly elected TMC MLAs Friday, defying the Governor's directive to appoint Deputy Speaker Asish Banerjee for the task, sparking accusations of constitutional impropriety from Raj Bhavan. The incident led Governor CV Ananda Bose...

New Delhi: The National Testing Agency told the Supreme Court Friday that cancellation of the controversy-ridden NEET-UG 2024 examination would be hugely counterproductive and significantly harmful to the larger public interest, especially to the career prospects of those who cleared it. In its affidavit filed...

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The BJP Friday appointed Vijaypal Singh Tomar as the state in-charge of Odisha. The saffron party today appointed its in-charges and co-incharges for states, retaining the incumbent office-bearers in most places. Its national general secretaries Vinod Tawde, Tarun Chugh and Radha Mohan...

Patna: The Bihar government Friday suspended 14 engineers in connection with a series of recent incidents of bridge collapse in the state, a senior official said. The decision was taken after a probe panel submitted its report to the Water Resources Department (WRD). “It was...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has been appointed as the chairperson of the AAP Parliamentary Party. He has also been chosen as the leader of the party in Rajya Sabha. "Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has always given me the...

New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo moto cognizance of the derogatory remark made by TMC MP Mahua Moitra against its chairperson Rekha Sharma and sought an FIR against her. This came a day after the TMC, commenting on a video...

Hathras (UP): The Uttar Pradesh government's SIT probing the Hathras stampede has recorded 90 statements so far, the panel's chief Anupam Kulshrestha said Friday. Kulshrestha, also the Additional Director General of Police (Agra Zone), is leading the three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) preparing a detailed...