Mumbai: Narrow access to the landslide site in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area, where boulders crashed onto several huts early on Wednesday, posed a major challenge to the rescue efforts, a civic official said. Six persons were killed and several others were feared trapped after the landslide occurred at Gaushiya Chawl (row tenement) in the Ashok Nagar…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday directed that those involved in food adulteration be booked under the stringent anti-organised crime law MCOCA, saying such unscrupulous elements are putting the health of citizens, particularly youngsters, at grave risk. The direction came amidst the ongoing state-wide crackdown by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Ranchi: Students protesting the alleged irregularities in the recruitment examinations under the banner of JPSC-JSSC Reforms Manch on Tuesday announced that they would continue the agitation till all demands are met. The Manch members who took part in a ‘silent procession’ here in the evening said they have decided to intensify the agitation, and details…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday gave assent to a Bill making the intentional disruption or prevention of the singing of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ a criminal offence, granting it the same legal protection as the national anthem, a government statement said. With the president’s assent, The Prevention of Insults to National Honour…
New Delhi: The government is considering sending ‘The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026’ to a joint committee of both houses of Parliament, even as the Congress and some opposition parties have demanded that it be withdrawn, sources said on Tuesday. The Congress and TMC were among the parties that raised the issue during the…
New Delhi: India on Tuesday said the state of its border with China will reflect on the state of the “larger bilateral ties” and that maintenance of peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is of “utmost importance”. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also rejected China’s criticism of New Delhi identifying…
New Delhi: Opposition INDIA bloc parties staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday in the post-lunch sitting after Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge was not allowed to speak by the Chair, as the Upper House debated The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026. The Upper House, which has been witnessing repeated adjournments as Opposition…
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed two more Bills, including one about renaming Kerala as Keralam, without debate as members raised slogans and carried placards to the Well demanding the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the House. The House reassembled at 2 pm amid uproar, with Opposition members also raising…
Leh/Jammu: The Gunners’ Ladakh Odyssey — organised by the Army’s artillery regiment to commemorate the 27th anniversary of Operation Vijay — has entered its ninth day, with the 20-member motorcycle expedition traversing remote and strategically-significant terrain along the Sino-Indian border of eastern Ladakh, as a homage to soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in service…
New Delhi: Ruling NDA and Opposition INDIA bloc MPs came face-to-face at Parliament’s main gate on Tuesday — with security personnel forming a cordon between them — as they staged protests and raised counter-slogans over “brutal” police action on job aspirants in Jharkhand and issues surrounding the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple…
