A commuter is now allowed to carry a maximum of two sealed liquor bottles on all lines of the Delhi Metro. This was hitherto permitted only on the Airport Express Line. However, drinking liquor on the trains and Metro premises remains prohibited.
Shiv Sena Friday reiterated its support for the UCC and demanded the state government table a resolution in favour of it in the monsoon session of the state assembly.
This is the latest in a series of relocations for senior officials of the zone in which a triple train accident on June 2 killed more than 290 people. Earlier, the Railway Board had transferred five senior zone officials, including the assistant general manager and the divisional railway manager.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the council of ministers on July 3 amid heightening speculation about a ministerial shake-up that might overlap with changes in the BJP organisation.
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval received a briefing from his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev about the aborted coup by the Wagner Group, a mercenary army that went on a rampage last week against Moscow under its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former ally of President Vladimir Putin.
In the limelight recently for being subjected to cruelty by owners, mules have outperformed helicopters in terms of generating revenue during the ongoing Kedarnath yatra, doing a business of Rs 82.4 crore, around 46% more than the revenue netted by choppers, which have earned Rs 56.4 crore.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong pitch for a uniform civil code, Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday broke from the opposition ranks to extend "in principle" support to the proposal, citing Article 44 of the Constitution, even as Congress called it a tactic by an "agenda-driven majoritarian government" to divert attention from its failures.
A man has been held for allegedly spitting, urinating and defecating on an AI flight between Mumbai and Delhi recently. Accused Ram Singh works as a cook in an African country.
The BJP-led government in Manipur invoked the "no-work-no-pay" whip on Monday against nearly one lakh employees across the hierarchy who have been away from their offices without authorised leave since violence erupted on May 3, especially those from the hill districts posted in the valley and vice-versa.
Hundreds of tourists and locals were left stranded in cars and buses in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh the past 24 hours as the Chandigarh-Manali highway remained closed till Monday evening as heavy rain battered the hill state, which has recorded at least nine deaths in flash floods and landslides in the past three days.
For the first time in 62 years, the monsoon arrived in Delhi and Mumbai on the same day — 14 days late in India’s financial capital and two days ahead of the normal date in the national capital — as the rain-bearing system galloped across most of central and northwest India in a span of just four days after remaining standstill for nearly two weeks.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi signed a landmark strategic partnership agreement following their decision earlier this year to elevate ties, and after a bilateral meeting that saw discussions on G20 cooperation, food and energy security, climate change and the need for concerted efforts by the Global South to deal with such issues.
A mob burned down a warehouse and a farmhouse of Manipur cabinet minister L Susindro at Kangla Sangomsang in Imphal East district Friday night, two weeks after he hung a drop box outside his home for people to anonymously drop weapons looted from police in the ethnic violence that began on May 3 and left more than 100 people dead. Another arson attack was reported from Ishirou near the Sajiwa jail in the district where a mob torched a BJP office.
The Centre has cleared the decks for a strategic tunnel under the Brahmaputra to transport soldiers to the LAC with China and bring about rapid development of the area with minimal disturbance to the environment. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said technical bids for preparation of the detailed project report for the proposed 35kmlong corridor between Gohpur and Numaligarh will be opened on July 4.
PM Narendra Modi landed in Cairo Saturday for the first bilateral visit to Egypt by any Indian PM since 1997, looking to bolster the strategic partnership the 2 countries announced during President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s visit to India in January this year with focus on enhancing defence ties, counterterrorism cooperation and efforts to deal with radicalisation and extremism.
Leaders of at least 15 opposition parties at the Centre will kickstart the effort to give concrete shape to the ambition of engaging the BJP in direct fights with “secular” candidates in more than 400 Lok Sabha constituencies with a discussion on a potential common minimum programme (CMP) and aroadmap for the formation of abroad-based front.
Environment is an article of faith for India and we do not believe in the exploitation of nature, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference with President Joe Biden on Thursday.
Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to promote millets, First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, has included millet-based dishes in the State Dinner to be held in his honour. First Lady Jill Biden worked with guest Chef Nina Curtis, White House Executive Chef Cris Comerford, and White House Executive Pastry Chef Susie Morrison to develop the menu for the State Dinner.
An eight-year-old boy and two teenagers were gravely wounded in an IED explosion near a culvert in Manipur's Bishnupur district on Wednesday evening, while miscreants fired indiscriminately in at least two villages in Kangpokpi district around the same time as violence returned to the embattled state after a lull of four days.
The already expansive defence relationship between India and the US is set to register a quantum leap during the Modi-Biden summit with the twin pacts on the joint manufacture of GE-F414 fighter jet engines and the sale of armed MQ-9B Predator drones, both a first for a non-military ally of the US.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday received a grand welcome as landed in New York on the first leg of his historic state visit to the United States. "Landed in New York City. Looking forward to the programmes here including interaction with thought leaders and the Yoga Day programme tomorrow, 21st June," PM Modi said on Twitter.
Overriding repeated pleas by India to rise above political differences and address the issue of terrorism, China Tuesday formally blocked a proposal at the UNSC for designating LeT commander and 26/11 accused Sajid Mir as global terrorist. The move seemed timed deliberately with Modi’s first state visit to the US and came hours before he landed in New York to lead the International Day of Yoga celebrations at the UN.
Designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a known anti-India face who was head of pro-Khalistan outfits Khalistan Tiger Force and the Canadian arm of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), was shot dead by unknown assailants at a parking lot of a gurdwara in Surrey, Canada, on Monday.
The Delhi Police special cell has arrested four suspects in an operation conducted with the FBI that has blown the lid off an international syndicate extorting money from US citizens. Two more members of the syndicate were caught in the US and Canada, taking the number of arrests to six.
Calling the Emergency a “crime” that endangered the country's freedom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said those who supported democracy at that time were tortured and it is only by evaluating this “dark period” in India’s history that the young generation can understand the meaning and significance of democracy.
At least 96 heat-related deaths were reported in east UP’s Ballia district and the neighbouring state of Bihar since June 15, with swathes of north and east India reeling from a sweltering heatwave. A UP health department team reached Ballia Sunday after the district hospital reported 54 fatalities, while deputy CM and health minister Brajesh Pathak said an alert has been sounded across the state on over heat-related cases.
Armed mobs vandalised a BJP mandal office late Friday in Imphal and burned down a house at another locality in the city Saturday morning, while Army and Rapid Action Force (RAF) foiled several attempts to set afire BJP offices and houses of the party’s Manipur chief and a state minister.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
