The cinema hall was evacuated New Delhi: A fire broke out at a cinema hall in Select City Mall in Delhi on Wednesday during the screening of a movie, an official said. Panic gripped cinemagoers as a corner of the movie screen of PVR Cinemas at the mall caught fire during the 4:15 pm screening … Read more
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has said Telugu will be made mandatory for all schools, including those affiliated with the centre-administered CBSE, as part of a push to ensure students learn their mother tongue or, in case of students from outside the state, the regional language. The state also said the syllabus for Class IX and … Read more
New Delhi: Pointing to a string of wrong decisions and omissions, a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) tabled in the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday states that the scrapped liquor policy which was implemented in November 2021 and scrapped in September the next year caused a loss of Rs 2,002.68 crore to the … Read more
The bench said consumers had multiple options for availing of Internet services. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking regulation of Internet prices in the country. A bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar dismissed the plea filed by one Rajat, saying consumers had … Read more
New Delhi: The Railways conducted a trial for crowd control measures on Saturday at New Delhi Railway Station by restricting movements of unreserved passengers to a single platform and scheduling all Maha Kumbh special trains from there as and when demand arose. According to the Railway Ministry, the whole exercise was carried out on the … Read more
New Delhi: “Go watch the match,” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor told reporters on Sunday, as he shrugged off questions on a possible rift between him and the party over his recent praise of the Left government in Kerala and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s to the United States. “It’s an important match today,” the MP from … Read more
Donald Trump has spent only a month in his second term as the US President. However, he has disrupted the international order, weakened the Western alliance and created a sense of insecurity and uncertainty among its members, shocking even some of his supporters. There has been a paradigm shift in US foreign policy under Trump. … Read more
Amid the buzz of a rift between him and the Congress over his recent praise of certain policies of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led CPI(M) government in Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has put up a cryptic post on X, stating, that being wise is sometimes a mistake. Sharing a quote from English poet Thomas Gray’s poem … Read more
Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: People from all communities have started surrendering looted and illegally held weapons in Manipur, days after Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla requested them to do so within seven days. Anyone with illegal and looted weapons who miss the deadline will face strict action. Some members of the Kuki-Zo tribes deposited firearms to the Assam … Read more
Guwahati: The decades-old Assam Assembly tradition of a two-hour break to facilitate Muslim legislators to offer ‘namaz’ on Fridays was discontinued for the first time during the ongoing budget session. The decision to do away with the break was taken in the last session of the House in August, but implemented from this sitting. Expressing … Read more
Wanaparthy: Around 2,500 chickens died in a span of three days following an outbreak of a “mysterious disease” in the poultry farms of Konnur, Madanapuram mandal of the Wanaparthy district, said an official on Friday. District Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Officer of Wanaparthy, K Venkateshwar, confirmed the outbreak and said that the cause of the … Read more
A “political Covid” has infected the Indian polity and society, weakening the democracy, suggested Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday while reacting to US President Donald Trump’s criticism about $21 million in United States government funding for India – via global aid agency USAID in 2012 – for ‘voter turnout’, calling it a “kickback scheme”. … Read more