Chennai, Feb 28 : T Suthendraraja, also known as Santhan, one of the seven convicts freed in the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, died at a Chennai hospital on Wednesday, a hospital official said. Santhan, a Sri Lankan national, had been admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital for treatment a […]Continue Reading
National News
NEW DELHI, FEB 27 : Voting for the biennial elections in 14 Rajya Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka is underway. Polling for the lone seat in Himachal Pradesh ended at noon. The voting process commenced at 9 am in the upper house, with vote counting scheduled to start at 5 pm. 41 leaders […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, FEB 27 : The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a contempt notice to Patanjali Ayurved and its MD Acharya Balakrishna for publishing misleading advertisements about their medicinal products despite giving an undertaking to follow the court’s orders. The Supreme Court had in an earlier order restrained the company from issuing advertisements for products […]Continue Reading
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB 27: Group Captains Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Prathap, Ajit Krishnan and Wing Commander Shubanshu Shukla have been selected as astronaut-designates for the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme, the country’s India’s first crewed mission to space. Their names were revealed during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Vikram Continue Reading
LUCKNOW,FEB 27: Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Kumar Pandey on Tuesday resigned from the post of party chief whip a day after he skipped a meeting called by party chief Akhilesh Yadav on the Rajya Sabha elections. Voting was underway in the elections for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday with eight […]Continue Reading
UTTAR PRADESH, FEB 26 : The Muslim side filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Gyanvapi verdict given by the Allahabad High Court. The High Court had, earlier in the day, dismissed the Gyanvapi mosque management committee’s twin appeals. The appeals were, in turn, directed against a Varanasi district court’s decision to permit […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, FEB 26: India now dreams big and works day and night to fulfil its dreams, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday as he launched more than 2,000 rail infrastructure projects worth about Rs 41,000 crore. The third term of his government will begin from June, but the scale and speech with which […]Continue Reading
KAUSHAMBI, FEB 25 : At least seven people were killed and half a dozen were injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district on Sunday, police said. The incident happened around 11.30 am under the Kokhraj police station limit. Several fire brigade teams and ambulances rushed to the spot soon […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, FEB 25 : Aamir Khan recently visited his ‘Dangal’ co-star Suhani Bhatnagar’s house in Faridabad. Suhani, who played the role of Junior Babita Phogat in Nitesh Tiwari’s ‘Dangal’, died on February 16 at the age of 19. A picture of Aamir Khan paying his tribute to the late actor has gone viral. Suhani […]Continue Reading
AGRA, FEB 25: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Agra on Sunday, days after the two parties reached a seat-sharing arrangement in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha polls. Party workers of the SP and the Congress raised slogans in their support as the two leaders, […]Continue Reading
