BENGALURU: A 23-year-old woman was killed on the spot after being hit by a speeding car at Yelahanka Saturday night. Ishani Sarkar from Odisha was standing by the roadside when the incident occurred.Preliminary investigations revealed that Ishani and her friend were returning to the city from Devanahalli via the Kempegowda International Airport expressway when their…
NEW DELHI: Industries, cooperatives and other entities, involved in tree plantation in degraded forest land or in other identified land parcels, will be able earn Green Credit only after completion of minimum five years of restoration activities and after achieving a minimum canopy density of 40% (overhead layer of tree crown covering 40% of the…
NEW DELHI: Punjab is battling one of the worst flood disasters in decades, with chief minister Bhagwant Mann urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release Rs 60,000 crore of the state’s funds which, he said, were “stuck” with the Centre.In a letter sent on Sunday, Mann said that about 1,000 villages and lakhs of people…
NEW DELHI: The Bihar Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Sunday dismissed media reports alleging large-scale duplication in the state’s draft electoral rolls (SIR 2025), calling the claims “speculative, premature, and contrary to law.”In a post on X, the CEO emphasised that the SIR is a statutory exercise conducted under the Representation of the People Act…
NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old sewadar was on Friday brutally beaten to death with sticks by a group of men inside the premises of southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji Temple following a dispute over the distribution of chunni prasad. Police have arrested five people so far, including the father of one of the men for harbouring him. Delhi…
Both Kusum Sinha, 63, and Priya Sehgal, 34, lived in Rohini NEW DELHI: A man killed his wife and mother-in-law with a pair of scissors in northwest Delhi’s KN Katju Marg area following a heated argument over a birthday gift for their son. The accused, Yogesh Sehgal, was later arrested in Rohini, where he was…
In Firozabad, a 53-year-old man was arrested for allegedly strangling a 10-year-old girl after his attempt to sexually assault her failed. The girl went missing while grazing goats, and her body was later found in a millet field with strangulation marks. AGRA: A 53-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly strangling a 10-year-old girl…
Sadhguru on Saturday completed the Kailash Yatra on his motorcycle and returned to a grand reception at the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, just 18 months after undergoing two emergency brain surgeries.He was welcomed at the Coimbatore Airport, with locals, villagers and volunteers lining the route to the ashram in a devotional procession. Why Is…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Tianjin, China. (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed that India and China are “development partners, not rivals”, and the differences should not turn into…
Congress MP Manish Tewari (ANI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari on Sunday said he has “no regrets” about being left out of the party’s list of speakers for the Operation Sindoor debate in Parliament, suggesting that the leadership may not have considered him the “ideal candidate” to represent its stance.“Congress has nearly 100 MPs,…
