News from India

Dubai: Repatriation of the bodies of the Indian victims in Thursday’s horrific bus accident in Dubai was finally completed on Sunday. The repatriation of 11 Indians was complete with the last three bodies flown to Mumbai on an Air India flight that left from Dubai at 3.39 a.m. on Sunday, an official told Gulf News. […]

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred and reshuffled 17 administrative officials across the state. According to the list issued by the administration on Saturday, Kanak Tripathi has been appointed as the new Boarding Officer of Azamgarh. Special Secretary Women Welfare C. Indumati has been made the District Magistrate (DM) of Sultanpur. Sultanpur’s DM Divya […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the brutal murder of a youth stunned Bhubaneswar, Commissionerate Police today arrested the prime accused Shrastha Routray alias Mamun. Routray was arrested for allegedly hacking his younger brother Pritam Routray to death near Atalagarh under Balianta police limits on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on June 7. The cops arrested Shrastha from […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: The controversy surrounding newly elected Patnagarh MLA, Saroj Meher’s alleged “dabanggiri” with a PWD junior engineer seems to be snowballing. With video clips of Meher, a first time lawmaker of Biju Janata Dal (BJD), forcing the JE to do sit-ups in public for having carried out poor quality of road work […]

London: India skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bat against Australia in a group stage game of the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 at the Kennington Oval, here on Sunday. Both the teams remain unchanged since their previous respective matches. PLaying XI: India: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (Captain), Lokesh […]

Nuapada: Komana Police in Nuapada district on Sunday arrested a man on the charges of beheading his nephew. As per reports, one Chintamani Majhi of Jadamunda village under Komna police limits had called his two nephews–Dhansing Majhi and Debarchana Majhi to his agricultural field to cut a mahua tree at around 11 AM on Saturday. […]

Colombo: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday agreed that terrorism was a joint threat that needed collective and focussed action. Modi tweeted this after holding bilateral talks with Sirisena, shortly after arriving here from the Maldives. Modi said this was his second meeting with Sirisena in 10 days. […]

New Delhi: Over a dozen leading private surgeons, including top urologists of Delhi are under the scanner of Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with a sensational international kidney transplant racket, spread across Turkey and the Middle East countries. So far, 13 people, including CEO of Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute(PSRI) Dr. Deepak Shukla have been arrested. […]

New Delhi: After de-criminalising homosexuality in India, people feel it is time for gay marriage to be made legal in India, a study has pointed out. According to data gathered from users of dating app OkCupid, 55 per cent of men and 82 per cent of women on the OkCupid community believe it is time […]

Patna: The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday decided not be a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance outside the Bihar. At its national executive meeting held at the official residence of JD-U chief Nitish Kumar here, the party also decided to go it alone in the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, […]

Mumbai: Actress Deepika Padukone picked white and neon green casual wear for her airport look, and netizens couldn’t stop wondering if her husband and actor Ranveer Singh, known for his unconventional fashion sense, was the inspiration. According to a source, Deepika was flying to London for shooting of filmmaker Kabir Khan’s film “83”, which also […]

New Delhi: The National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG), India’s leading civil services training institution, has entered into an agreement with the Maldives Civil Services Commission for capacity building of 1,000 civil servants from the Maldives over the next five years, an official statement issued on Sunday said. The agreement was signed during Prime Minister […]

Kendrapara: A man surrendered before Patkura Police in Kendrapara district after killing his wife on Sunday. The accused has been identified as Chandan Jena of Arakhakuda village. According to the police, Chandan confessed to have hacked his wife Babita Jena to death with a sharp weapon in a fit of rage following a family dispute. […]

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit this week at Bishkek where he would also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the first meeting between the two leaders after the BJP’s massive victory in the general elections. Xi will pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan from June 12 to […]

Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday left Sri Lanka after a packed day’s visit to the island nation. Modi “emplanes from Sri Lanka”, the Indian government tweeted. Before leaving the island nation, Modi and Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena held talks. Modi was on a two-day official visit to the Maldives and Sri Lanka […]