New Delhi, Feb 24 : The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that petitioners, who sought an extra chance to appear for the UPSC exam after exhausting their last attempt in October last year, made "a lame excuse" under the guise of Covid-19 to participate in the Civil Service Examinati...

Hyderabad, Feb 24 : Telangana police on Wednesday arrested a driver and emergency medical technician of a 108 ambulance for theft of 2.300 kg gold ornaments from a car which met with accident killing two of the occupants. Police in Peddapalli district cracked the case of missing gold with...

Two ambulance drivers have been arrested for stealing 2.3 kg of gold ornaments from the body of a road accident victim, police said on Wednesday...

New Delhi, Feb 24 : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday expressed shock at the alleged murder of an undertrial inside Tihar jail. The father of the victim Dilsher Azad moved the court seeking Rs five crore as compensation for the custodial death. "It is shocking," Justice Prathiba M. Sin...

New Delhi, Feb 24 : India is now one of the world's top markets for solar energy, a new report by the International Solar Alliance (ISA) said on Wednesday. The report, 'Ease of Doing Solar 2020', identified countries that were high solar energy performers in 2020. The rep...

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Hyderabad, Feb 24 : In a shocking incident, an eight-year-old boy was kidnapped and murdered by unidentified people in Telangana's Mahabubnagar district, police said. The body of Santosh, who went missing three days ago, was found in a well near Janampet on Wednesday. The boy went missing...

Delhi on Wednesday recorded February's warmest day in the last 15 years, with the maximum temperature settling at 32.5 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD)....

Chikkaballapur, Feb 24 : A day after an 'accidental explosion' in a quarry killed six persons in Karnataka's Chikkaballapur, police arrested five persons including three partners of the mining firm, and suspended two police officers on Wednesday. According to the police, the arres...

Ahead of the assembly polls in Assam, state Governor Jagdish Mukhi on Wednesday declared the entire state as a 'disturbed area' under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) for another six months beginning February 27. "As per powers conferred under Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special...

Hyderabad: Telangana Congress chief N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said on Wednesday that the Congress campaign for the MLC elections for the two graduate constituencies was receiving tremendous response. Addressing two different election meetings, the Nalgonda MP Uttam Kumar Reddy said that Congress candid...

Abuja, Feb 24 : Nigerian troops killed several Boko Haram militants while taking back a "lost town" in the country's northeast region, an army spokesman said. Mohammed Yerima, the army spokesman, told Xinhua that the town of Marte and its surrounding areas in the northern s...

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Lusaka, Feb 24 : The decision by the Zambian government to introduce a cybersecurity bill has received mixed reactions from the cross section of the society. Recently, the Cabinet approved the introduction and publication of a bill to introduce the law on cybersecurity and cybercrimes. Chief g...

Hyderabad: The upcoming Legislative Council elections for the two graduate constituencies will be an acid-test for ministers and TRS MLAs engaged as election in-charges in their respective districts. The party leadership has made it clear that ministers who fail to ensure victory for party candida...

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Wednesday issued an order restraining third parties, including the general public, from accessing the road laid recently by the GHMC in the land of the University of Hyderabad. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy...

The farmers' agitation against the agricultural reform laws seems to have given a chance to the Opposition --Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Congress -- to revive their political fortunes in the 'Jatland' of western Uttar Pradesh. To woo the influential Jat community, leaders of both RLD and Congress ha...

The Congress of Wednesday came out in defence of party leader Rahul Gandhi who is under attack from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over a remark that he made at a public gathering in poll-bound Kerala on Tuesday. Addressing a public gathering in Thiruvananthapuram, Rahul Gandhi had said, "For...

Days after Dr Reddy's Laboratories applied for emergency use authorisation (EUA) of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, an expert panel of the Central Drug Authority on Wednesday asked the firm to submit more immunogenicity and safety data. As part of the review process, the Hyderabad-headquartered...

Chilean Navy Ship Janequeo, built in India has sailed into Valparaiso Harbour in Chile on Tuesday, informed Indian Embassy in Chile. Chilean Navy Ship Janequeo, built in India has sailed into Valparaiso Harbour in Chile on Tuesday, informed Indian Embassy in Chile. Taking to Twitter, India in Ch...

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said he is still in contact with former charge Erling Braut Haaland and has not ruled out a future move for the Borussia Dortmund star....

Good news for all Tiger Woods fans a the Golf legend is currently 'awake, responsive and recovering' after surviving a serious car accident in the Los Angeles suburbs on Tuesday morning, confirms Indian-American doctor Anish Mahajan, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and interim CEO at Harbor-UCLA Med...

Shahjahanpur/Lucknow, Feb 25: A college student who was found lying without clothes and severely burnt along a national highway in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district has claimed she was set on fire after a failed attempt to gang-rape her, police said on Wednesday. According to Superintende...

New Delhi: The renaming of the refurbished Sardar Patel cricket stadium in Ahmedabad after Prime Minister Narendra Modi triggered a political slugfest on Wednesday, with the opposition Congress saying it was an insult to India's first home minister and the ruling BJP flagging the naming of numerou...

Image Source : PTI (File photo) Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 66th Convocation Ceremony of IIT Kharagpur through video conferencing, in New Delhi. Puducherry Education Department has declared a holiday in all private and government schools in view of traffic diversions made for PM Nare...

Image Source : AP A health worker prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in New Delhi. Delhi on Wednesday recorded 200 fresh coronavirus cases including two fatalities, taking the death toll to 10,905, even as the positivity rate rose to 0.36 per cent, authorities said. With this, ...

PTI, Wanted diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who remains behind bars in a London prison as he contests his extradition to India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated USD 2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, will find out the UK court's ruling in the nearly two-year-long l...

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's Kolkata rally - to kickstart the campaign for Bengal elections due in April-May - has been cancelled after the police refused permission, party leader Zameerul Hasan was quoted by news agency PTI on Wednesday night...

Russia on Wednesday sentenced a female member of the Jehovah's Witnesses faith to two years in prison, a first in the country's crackdown on the US-based religious movement....

Google has released dark mode for the android based mobile app on Tuesday (February 23). Google has been internally testing this feature since September 2020. The global technology giant rolled out this feature and a statement that said "These days, we are all experiencing a bit of screen fat...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (February 24, 2021) chaired the 36th PRAGATI meeting and reviewed 8 projects worth Rs 44,545 crore. "In the meeting, ten agenda items were taken up for review including eight projects, grievance relating to one scheme and one programme. Amon...

Former Indian cricketer Ashok Dinda on Wednesday joined Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in Kolkata....

Guwahati: The existing 'disturbed area' status of Assam was extended for another six months from February 27 under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), ahead of the Assembly elections in the state due in April-May. "As per powers conferred under section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special ...

Bipin Singh stamped his authority on Mumbai City FC 's Indian Super League (ISL) 2020-21 match against Odisha FC at the GMC Stadium in Bambolim on Wednesday with a hat-trick. Bipin scored once in the first half and twice in the second to register his first ISL hat-trick and the first of the ongoin...

Amid the growing controversy over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the Cabinet Committee on CPEC has directed the concerned ministries to immediately get vacated 116 acres of prime Gwadar land, which was under the possession of law enforcement agencies. Amid the growing controversy o...

New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The next phase of COVID-19 vaccination in India, which is set to begin on March 1, will be driven by Co-WIN 2.0 which the government is likely to launch in the next few days, News18 quoted sources as saying. Everyone above 60 years of age and those over 45 years with c...

Roshan Thyagarajan, Any and all complaints England have regarding the first-day pitch for the third Test against India at the Narendra Modi stadium can be rubbished without consideration. Perhaps, if stretched, there was some texture to their grievance after the turner at the MA Chidambaram stadium...

Facebook Inc on Wednesday pledged to invest at least $1 billion in the news industry over the next three years, days after a high-profile stand-off with the Australian government over paying news outlets for content....

A three-member delegation from Ukraine led by Health Minister Dr. Maksym Stepanov held discussions with Bharat Biotech officials on Wednesday to secure supplies of Covid-19 vaccines. The delegation visited the vaccine maker's Bio-Safety Level 3 manufacturing facility in Hyderabad and also discus...

Congress has always respected people's representatives, irrespective of where they hail from, senior party leader Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday amid the BJP accusing the Congress of creating a 'north-south' divide in the country. Sibal's remarks come just hours after BJP leader Prakash Javadekar ca...

India ended the opening day of the third Test against England firmly on top despite losing Virat Kohli in the final over, closing on 99-3 having bowled out their opponents for 112. Day 1 Highlights | Scorecard | News The day-night contest at the newly named Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad wa...

In a strongly worded statement, the Himachal Pradesh High Court recently ruled that women are not 'cattle' and they can exercise their own discretion while choosing life partners. The court made the observation while hearing a petition filed by one Sanjeev Kumar, who alleged that his in-laws had ab...

Roshan Thyagarajan, Axar Patel attributed his pace-bowling upbringing to an evolved version of the slider in the wake of his six-wicket haul against England on the opening day of the third Test at the Narendra Modi stadium in Motera on Wednesday. Axar returned figures of 6 for 38 in bowling Englan...

Five people have been arrested in connection with the blast at a quarry in Chikkaballapura in which six people were killed, officials said....

Amid a spike in coronavirus infections in Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana, the West Bengal government on Wednesday made it mandatory for passengers travelling in flights from these states to produce negative COVID-19 reports....

Kolkata: Taking preventive measure against the rising cases of coronavirus, the West Bengal government on Wednesday made it mandatory for air passengers to produce negative RT-PCR report on arrival from four states such as Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana. According to a notification iss...

Delhi recorded 200 fresh COVID-19 cases and two new fatalities on Wednesday, even as the positivity rate rose to 0.36 per cent, authorities said....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday reviewed projects worth Rs 44,545 crore in 12 states as he chaired the 36th ''Pragati'' meeting....