. NEW DELHI: The humble jhalmuri is having its moment under the sun and piquing people’s interest like never before after PM Modi had a taste of it. The moment is breaking the Internet, with views crossing 100 million on Instagram within 24 hours. Similarly, it has clocked 90 million views on Facebook. Modi visited…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress on Monday raised fresh objections against alleged mass enrolment of new voters in Bengal, forcing an already exasperated Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant to sarcastically observe that he would have to create a dedicated special bench to deal with the volume of pleas relating to SIR and elections.TMC…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Monday expressed surprise that despite public warnings in the wake of cases of ‘digital arrest’, many educated people continue to be trapped by scamsters and robbed of their life savings.When attorney general R Venkataramani informed the Supreme Court bench of CJI Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi…
NEW DELHI: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has secured a record conviction of 73 drug offenders with the harshest possible punishments in the first quarter of 2026, garnering appreciation by Union home minister Amit Shah. The success is underpinned by a steady rise in the agency’s conviction rate, which has climbed from 60.5 per cent in…
JAMMU: At least 21 passengers died and 51 were injured Monday after their bus skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Jammu’s Udhampur district.Preliminary probe pointed to mechanical failure, driver error, road condition or a combination of the factors as possible causes for the 10am crash in the hilly Khagote area marked…
PAHALGAM: Routine care at a quiet medical outpost evaporated with a single phone call on April 22 last year. By dusk, the floor was slick with blood. Staff had processed 26 bodies and 17 wounded survivors. The one-storey facility was the thin line between life and death following the terrorist attack in Baisaran valley near…
NEW DELHI: Nepal’s Balendra Shah-led new govt’s stricter enforcement of customs duty of up to 80% on goods worth over Nepali Rs 100 (Rs 63) bought from Indian markets has cut Nepali footfall in border bazaars from Dharchula to Darjeeling, squeezed Indian traders and made routine purchases costlier for families across Nepal’s border districts. It…
Guwahati logs highest April rainfall in 75 years; 1 dead, schools closed NEW DELHI: At least one person died and normal life was disrupted in Guwahati on Monday after torrential overnight rains triggered widespread flooding, leaving roads submerged, homes inundated and traffic paralysed across the Assam capital.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported that Guwahati received…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that her flight was held for half-an-hour because of the “non-cooperation from central agencies” which hampered her travel plans during the poll season. Adding that the CMs should get “some priority”, she alleged that the BJP leaders get to leave.“Today I was held up in the…
NEW DELHI: With a fresh round of trade negotiations between India and the US beginning in Washington, the Coalition for a GM-Free India — a network of farmers and civil society organisations — on Monday wrote to the central govt, urging it not to allow imports of genetically modified (GM) cotton seed oil, animal feed…