Gorakhpur: A day after suspected cow smugglers killed a 19-year-old medical aspirant, Deepak Gupta, in Gorakhpur, UP Police Wednesday arrested one of the accused following an encounter while he was attempting to flee towards Nepal. The accused, Rahim, sustained bullet injuries in both legs. Police seized his bike and a country-made pistol used in the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Jharkhand govt is in gross contempt of court by not notifying Saranda forest as a sanctuary and summoned its chief secretary to face contempt proceedings on Oct 8 with a warning that if the notification is not issued by then, the top bureaucrat would go to…
NEW DELHI: Terming it a “publicity interest litigation”, Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking directions to reconstruct and reinstall a seven-foot idol of Lord Vishnu at the Javari Temple, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Khajuraho temple complex in Madhya Pradesh.A bench headed by Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran…
NEW DELHI: In what could be a positive outcome of India’s growing renewable energy footprint, a new analysis based on official monthly data has shown the country’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in first half of 2025 and by 0.2% over past 12 months – this is only…
NEW DELHI: After US President Donald Trump, his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin too called PM Modi to wish him on his birthday. Several other world leaders, including Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, greeted Modi on his birthday.In their phone conversation, Modi and Putin took stock of various issues on the bilateral…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to examine whether a constitutional court can award a sentence of specific number of years to a convict in a heinous crime in substitution of life sentence imposed by a trial court, and said it was prima facie of the view that fixed term sentences could be handed…
DHAR: A “tearful” Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) commander’s rant in public about the price his outfit had to pay for being Islamabad’s proxy against India is further proof of “Indian soldiers bringing Pakistan to its knees in the blink of an eye” during Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, alluding to an undated viral…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail granted to gangster Chhota Rajan by Bombay high court in the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001.Rajan was sentenced to life in the Shetty murder case in May 2024. The apex court, led by Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, allowed the CBI’s appeal…
NEW DELHI: Electors will now be able to view the choice of candidates more clearly while voting in a Lok Sabha or assembly poll, with Election Commission on Wednesday allowing colour photos of candidates on the EVM ballot paper, alongside their names printed in uniform font type and a conspicuous font size.The changes – which…
NEW DELHI: ED Tuesday arrested former Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) commissioner GT Dinesh Kumar in a money laundering case related to illegal allotment of plots. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and his wife are among others facing investigation in the case. He was produced before the special court on Wednesday and remanded in ED custody for…
