Officials said all 15 students were travelling in the Universal High School van At least five students were rushed to hospital, one of them in critical condition, after a roadside tree crashed onto a school van carrying 15 students in Mumbai’s Chembur on Tuesday afternoon amid heavy rain,The incident took place near Heritage Pride and…
File photo: Rajnath Singh and KC Venugopal NEW DELHI: The row over Rajnath Singh‘s ‘no casualties’ statement on Operation Sindoor intensified on Tuesday, with Congress MP KC Venugopal writing to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking privilege proceedings against the defence minister for “misleading” Parliament by saying that no Indian soldier died in the line…
India has crossed a major demographic milestone: for the first time in modern history its fertility rate has slipped below the replacement level.The latest SRS report from India’s Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner shows the average Indian woman is now expected to have 1.9 children — under the 2.1 threshold that keeps…
Ro Khanna accused Trump of abandoning America’s traditional global leadership and pursuing a foreign policy driven by coercion rather than values NEW DELHI: The US-India relationship is at its lowest point in three decades because of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna said on Monday, accusing the US President of eroding trust…
NEW DELHI: The government has proposed a national framework to standardise the sharing of electricity sector data, paving the way for easier access to information on power generation, transmission, distribution, demand and renewable energy, while putting in place safeguards for consumer privacy and critical infrastructure.The draft National Electricity Data Sharing Framework seeks to create a…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday took a sharp jibe at the Congress over the alleged Ram Temple donation embezzlement row, saying that “those who used to shoot bullets at Ram bhakts are talking about devotion towards Lord Ram.“Addressing a public gathering in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur, Adityanath accused the Congress of…
The gifts, presented to Seychelles’ top leadership and their spouses, complemented a visit widely seen as significant for India’s engagement in the Indian Ocean Region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi used traditional Indian handicrafts and textiles as instruments of cultural diplomacy during his visit to Seychelles, presenting a carefully curated collection of gifts that reflected not…
SIR begins in 4 states, 1 UT NEW DELHI: The Election Commission‘s voter verification drive under the special intensive revision (SIR) began on Tuesday across Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Meghalaya and Jharkhand, with booth level officers (BLOs) starting house-to-house visits to verify electoral rolls.As part of the month-long exercise, BLOs will visit every household between June…
UBT MLC Sachin Ahir joins Shinde Shiv Sena NEW DELHI: Uddhav Thackeray‘s Shiv Sena (UBT) suffered another setback as MLC Sachin Ahir joined the Eknath Shinde-led faction on Tuesday.He filed nomination for Maharashtra council deputy chairperson post as Mahayuti candidate.The latest rebellion in Shiv Sena (UBT) involves 6 of the party’s nine Lok Sabha MPs…
Pushkar Singh Dhami set to become first BJP CM to complete five consecutive years in Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will create history on July 4, becoming the first BJP Chief Minister in the state to complete a continuous five-year tenure in office.Before him, veteran Congress leader the late Narayan Dutt Tiwari was…
