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
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
By Akshya Rout Jajpur, Feb 27 : Veteran Ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas has passed away at 72 after a prolonged illness on February 26, as confirmed by his family. The singer’s family released a statement confirming the death of the ghazal maestro. The statement read: “With a very heavy heart, we are saddened to inform […]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
MUMBAI,FEB 25 : Yami Gautam and Priya Mani’s ‘Article 370’ has been doing fairly well at the box office. After registering an opening day number of Rs 5.90 crore, the film has now seen a slight growth on its first Saturday. ‘Article 370’ that features Yami Gautam and Priya Mani in the lead, released in […]Continue Reading
DEVBHUMI DWARKA, FEB 25 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated ‘Sudarshan Setu’, the country’s longest cable-stayed bridge of 2.32 km, on the Arabian sea connecting Beyt Dwarka island to mainland Okha in Gujarat’s Devbhumi Dwarka district. Modi began his day by offering prayers at Lord Sri Krishna temple at Beyt Dwarka. He later […]Continue Reading
NEW DEHI, FEB 25 : As the thousands of farmers participating in the ‘Dilli Chalo’ march continue to camp at the Punjab-Haryana border, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said that the agitation will go on until all their demands are met. He urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak on “whatever is happening with the […]Continue Reading
Hyderabad, Feb 24 : A businesswoman in Hyderabad was arrested for stalking and kidnapping a television anchor after an unknown person, impersonating him, allegedly duped her and disappeared with money, police said on Saturday. Bhogireddy Trisha, the Managing Director of five startup companies, kidnapped the television anchor Pranav Sistla after she was duped for Rs […]Continue Reading
