New Delhi: It’s been 15 years since the devastating terrorist attacks that shook India’s financial capital, Mumbai, on November 26, 2008. Commonly referred to as 26/11, these coordinated assaults by a group of 10 terrorists did mayhem on the streets of Mumbai and sent shockwaves through the nation and the world. Terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India sees itself as a “vishwamitr”, and that the world calls the country a friend. Addressing an event at Kanha Shanti Vanam, located about 50 km from here, the prime minister also said the country faced immense loss when those who enslaved it in the past attacked…
Kochi: Four students were killed, and over 60 were injured in a stampede during Cochin University annual festival here on Saturday night, police said. Officials said that the stampede occurred before well-known singer Nikita Gandhi was to perform for a musical festival in the open-air auditorium of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) here….
Jaipur: More than 68 per cent of the electorate in Rajasthan voted by 5 pm on Saturday in a bipolar contest involving the Congress and the BJP to elect the new state government, with polling passing off peacefully barring a few stray incidents of violence. Polling at more than 51,000 polling booths in 199 assembly constituencies…
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday accused the BJP-led Centre of misusing investigating agencies during elections and cited the example of Telangana where he said at least four candidates of his party were summoned or their premises searched in the midst of the poll campaign. Chidambaram said no candidate of the BJP…
New Delhi: The BJP Saturday accused Rahul Gandhi of violating poll guidelines with his post on X on the day of the Rajasthan assembly polls and urged the Election Commission to seek suspension of the Congress leader’s social media account and initiate other actions against him. In his post, Gandhi urged people to elect the…
Mumbai: Minister of External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday batted for shaping international relations with Indian characteristics, stressing the need for devoting more time to look at India’s reservoir of culture and knowledge. He was speaking in Pune during the ‘International Relations Conference on India’s Strategic Culture: Addressing Global and Regional Challenges’, organised by an…
Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday undertook a sortie on the Tejas aircraft, and said the experience has bolstered his confidence in the country’s indigenous capabilities. Taking to social media platform X, the PM said, “Successfully completed a sortie on the Tejas.” “The experience was incredibly enriching, significantly bolstering my confidence in our country’s indigenous…
Jodhpur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said there is no anti-incumbency against the Congress and the party will form the government in the state again. “There seems to be an undercurrent. Looks like the (Congress) government will be repeated,” he said. Gehlot told PTI in Jodhpur that the Congress focused its campaign on…
New Delhi: The government will assist people in filing FIRs against social media platforms in case they are aggrieved by objectionable content like deepfakes that are in violation of IT rules. Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) will develop a platform on which people can notify…
