Varanasi: Noted author, poet and professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at BHU, Dr Rajeev Kumar Dubey, was conferred the prestigious Bharat Vibhushan Samman during a ceremony held in Chandigarh on Tuesday.The award was given by Punjab Legislative Assembly speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan. The programme was organised by the Institute of Social Reforms and…
Ahmedabad: The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) on Tuesday registered a case in connection with an alleged counterfeit bidi and cigarette racket, while the Special Operations Group (SOG) launched a probe after seizing suspected fake tobacco products worth Rs 3.57 lakh from Juhapura area of the city.According to the complainant, a long-time representative of a…
Kangra: A complete ban on paragliding and other aerial activities has been imposed in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district ahead of visits by the President of India and leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi.The move comes amid heightened vigilance over airspace security, also in view of upcoming Indian Premier League matches in Dharamshala.Deputy commissioner Hemraj Bairwa has…
Dhubri: People of Parbatjhara sub-division of Kokrajhar district held a protest on Wednesday at Khoraghat against the prolonged delay in construction of a 4.84km road from NH-17 to Shree Shree Maa Mahamaya Snan ghat temple for over three years.Protesters alleged that the work was allotted to M/S Kusember Construction of Guwahati in 2023 with sanctioning…
Padma Bhushan Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt performs in an event Lucknow: Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt delivered a soulful performance on the opening day of the two-day Awadh Region conference organised by the Prabha Khaitan Foundation at a city hotel on Wednesday.A Hindustani classical instrumentalist, Bhatt is known for inventing and playing the modified Mohan Veena…
The scooter that met with an accident in Pugal, Bikaner, on April 22, exposing the international drug racket NJaipur: Bikaner police arrested two men from Jaipur Wednesday in connection with a reported Rs 70-crore international heroin racket that surfaced after a road accident in Bikaner on April 22.Police said accused Rahul Rawat and Prashant Kayal…
Voters queue up as they wait to cast their votes during the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026, on Wednesday. (@ECISVEEP X/ANI Photo) Kolkata: Voter turnout in 142 constituencies that went to polls in the second phase of the assembly election on Wednesday was 92.6% till 11pm, taking the overall turnout across…
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he meets with Artemis II astronauts (Image/AP) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday meet Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts at the White House, hosting the crew shortly after their historic 10-day mission around the Moon.The crew included astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen,…
Driven by higher consumption of petroleum products, India’s crude imports in the 2025-26 fiscal increased by nearly 1% but witnessed a 17% fall in purchases in the month of March due to disruption of trade routes amid the West Asia crisis.According to provisional oil and gas data released by the government, India purchased 245.3 million…
After the Bombay High Court dismissed her plea seeking recognition of her relationship “in the nature of marriage” with Rajesh Khanna, Anita Advani has now spoken out, making it clear that she is not ready to back down.On April 1, 2026, the Bombay High Court dismissed Anita Advani’s appeal seeking to recognise her live-in relationship…
