Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala IT Secretary M Sivasankar was removed as Secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday, in the backdrop of the gold-smuggling controversy, where the role of a former woman employee of the IT department is being probed.
Forty-two police personnel who raided an illegal liquor unit on Saturday have been quarantined in Jharkhand’s Koderma district after an accused who was arrested tested positive for COVID-19, police officers said on Tuesday.
A group of burglars sporting personal protective equipment (PPE) gear have robbed a jewellery store in Maharashtra’s Satara district.
According to the police, the burglars had broken into the shop, two days ago, and walked away with 780 grams of gol...
Washington: The US on Monday (July 6) thanked India for hosting the Dalai Lama since 1959 as it commemorated the 85th birthday of the Tibetan spiritual leader. The Dalai Lama has been living in India ever since he fled Tibet in 1959 following a crackdown on an uprising by the local population.
Final year examinations for colleges and other educational institutes will be held by September-end, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has said in a fresh set of guidelines.
According to reports, the decision taken by the expert committee was...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (July 7) granted one more month to the Centre to implement its verdict directing that permanent commission be given to all serving short service commission (SSC) women officers in the Army.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Unitech Ltd promoter Sanjay Chandra, in jail for around three years for allegedly siphoning off home buyers' money, as his parents are hospitalised. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah granted interim bail to Chandra for one month.
Last month, West Bengal witnessed a very strange situation of a premier university having to end up with two pro-vice chancellors — one appointed by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and another by the state government. Burdwan University was spared a major showdown after Dhankar backed out. The ceasefire did not last long as Dhankar has made it almost a habit to cross swords with the state government. One loses count of the number of occasions he has engaged in tussle with Mamata Banerjee and her government since taking oath as governor on July 31 last year.
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala IT Secretary M Sivasankar was removed as Secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday, in the backdrop of the gold-smuggling controversy, where the role of a former woman employee of the IT department is being probed.
Bengaluru: The much-lauded 'Bangalore COVID-19 model' seems to have faltered with the state government relaxing lockdown restrictions to boost economic activities in the state that had come to a grinding halt for two months.
On July 3, the protests against moving the capital out of Amaravati marked completion of 200 days, and NRIs across the world joined to show their solidarity.
New Delhi: A finance ministry report on Monday (July 6) said that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) will contract 4.5 per cent as predicted by International Monetary Fund, in the current fiscal due to unprecedented supply-demand shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Delhi: The CBI has booked Venkata Krishna Reddy Gunupati, the chairman of the GVK Group of Companies and his son GV Sanjay Reddy, Managing Director of Mumbai International Airport Ltd among others for alleged irregularities to the tune of ₹705 crore in...
Indian Railways on Wednesday (July 1) formally started its plans to allow private entities to operate passenger trains on its network by inviting request for qualifications (RFQ) for participation on 109 pairs of routes through 151 modern trains...
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's (BSNL) tender for 4G upgrade has been cancelled after the Department of Telecom (DoT) asked the state-run firm not to use Chinese telecom gear, according to a source.
The Reserve Bank of India has announced the launch of Floating Rate Savings Bonds 2020 (Taxable) with an interest rate of 7.15 per cent, which will be available for subscriptions from July 1.
Mumbai: India's external debt stood at USD 558.5 billion in March, an increase of USD 15.4 billion compared to the year-ago period, according to RBI data.
The Insolvency and Companies Court in London has reportedly declared Pramod Mittal, brother of steel industrialist Lakshmi Mittal, bankrupt due to his debt of over £130 million, according to a report in The Times.
Naming BCCI president Sourav Ganguly as the favourite captain he had played under, former opener Wasim Jaffer said it was the former Indian skipper who had brought players like Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh to the ...
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry on Saturday removed the ₹2 lakh cap on the salary given to Indian coaches for training elite athletes in a bid to encourage them to produce better results.
Djokovic had tested positive 10 days ago after playing in an exhibition series in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic
After two tenures as the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Shashank Manohar on Wednesday (July 1) announced that he is stepping down from the position.
Washington: The US on Monday (July 6) thanked India for hosting the Dalai Lama since 1959 as it commemorated the 85th birthday of the Tibetan spiritual leader. The Dalai Lama has been living in India ever since he fled Tibet in 1959 following a crackdown on an uprising by the local population.
Washington: The United States on Monday (July 6) said that it wouldn’t allow international students to stay in the country if their schools switch to online classes this fall. Under the new gu...
Washington: The United States has to take a different path on China as the previous policy of helping them open up their economy with the belief that this would lead to more political freedom has not worked, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says,
The Kuwait government’s draft law to reduce the number of expat Indians to 15 per cent of the population may lead to the ousting of over 8 lakh Indians, reported Gulf News.
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Mumbai: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has told the Bombay High Court that a decision to declare sanitary napkins as an essential commodity can be taken only after following the due process.
New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) have started using computational methods to understand the factors and impediments in incorporating biofuels into the fuel sector in India, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions from the use of fossil fuels.
New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Friday postponed medical and engineering entrance exams NEET and JEE to September in view of the spike in COVID-19 cases.
