Category: India

Civil defence drills or mock drills are being conducted on Saturday, May 31, across Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chandigarh, and Jammu and Kashmir under ‘Operation Shield’. Launched on the home ministry’s directive, the initiative is designed to enhance emergency preparedness amid ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan. The mock drill will involve various actions related to […]

Guwahati, At least three persons have been killed in a landslide in Assam’s Guwahati as heavy rain lashed western and southern parts of the state, officials said on Saturday. Three killed in landslide in Guwahati as rain lashes parts of Assam Floods have been reported from many parts of the state, including Lakhimpur. The three persons […]

Bhubaneswar: Three days after suspected Maoists looted around 1.5 tonnes of gelatin sticks from a truck near the Odisha-Jharkhand border, security forces have recovered a portion of the stolen explosives during a joint combing operation in the dense Saranda forests, police officers said on Friday. Nine teams of the special operations group of the Odisha police, […]

The offices of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar are yet to receive the report on Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma forwarded by the then Chief Justice of India to the President and the Prime Minister, suggesting that there’s been no movement on a possible impeachment motion against him […]

Delhi Police have arrested five men for their alleged involvement in a shooting incident in Swaroop Nagar that resulted in the death of a 55-year-old man and left his wife critically injured. The intended target of the attack, their son, was reportedly not at home at the time of the incident. Prime accused Dinesh had been […]

New Delhi: Valmik Thapar, veteran tiger conservationist and author, passed away in Delhi on Saturday morning. He had been at the forefront of tiger conservation in India since the mid-1970s and had served on over 150 committees of both central and state governments. Thapar authored 32 books, including four on Africa. ‘Living With Tigers’, ‘The Secret […]

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered YouTube to remove a video posted on a channel containing “scandalous allegations” against a senior judge and initiated criminal contempt proceedings against the channel’s editor Ajay Shukla, saying that freedom of speech cannot be used to damage the judiciary’s reputation. SC orders take down of YouTube clip for remarks against […]

May 31, 2025 07:25 AM IST Kannur, in Kerala, received heavy rainfall on Friday which led to rising water level of Kakkad river, leading to waterlogged areas in parts of the coastal city. The India Meteorological Department has predicted a widespread light or moderate rainfall likely to continue over northeast India during the next seven days. […]

Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SCP) MP Supriya Sule, who is leading the all-party Indian delegation visiting Ethiopia, met with former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Saturday and discussed bilateral cooperation, regional development, and the global fight against terrorism. The all-party delegation led by Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) MP Supriya Sule, arrived at Bole International […]

Salman Khurshid of the Congress on Friday said it was not India but Pakistan that initiated contact during Operation Sindoor to “stop”, and that the call for cessation of hostilities came from Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), to which India responded accordingly. Former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia, firmly rejected […]