News from India

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Tuesday that it has spotted the wreckage of the AN-32 aircraft which went missing in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3 with 13 people onboard. “The wreckage of the missing An-32 transporter aircraft has been spotted at Lipo, northeast of Tato, at an approximate elevation of 12,000 […]

Lahore: Pakistan has approved “in principle” India’s request to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit this week, according to a senior Pakistani official, who hoped that New Delhi would respond to Islamabad’s offer for peace dialogue. India requested Pakistan to let […]

Ballia (UP): Three people were killed after being hit by a train in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district on Tuesday, police said. The incident occurred at 5.45 am in the Chhapra-Ballia-Varanasi section in Yadavnagar Chaand Diar village under the Bairia police station limits, they said. Vikki Bind, Pappu Bind and Awadhesh Bind, all of them relatives […]

New Delhi: With 550 crore transactions in the financial year 2018-19 and a gross transaction value (GTV) of over $50 billion (around Rs 34,706 crore), homegrown digital payments company Paytm continues to dominate its global counterparts — Google Pay, Whatsapp Pay and Walmart-Phonepe. The company attributes its growth to increased trust and adoption of the […]

Bhubaneswar: With under nutrition enormity staring at the State’s face, in a belated attempt, the Odisha Government has for the first time decided to supply millets (Ragi) via its PDS at a cheaper rate of just Re 1. Sample how grave is the enormity of child under nutrition in Odisha. As per the data exclusively […]

Indian team’s World Cup campaign received a major jolt on Tuesday as opener Shikhar Dhawan was ruled out of the remaining part of the series due to a fractured thumb. Despite a poor start in the tournament, Dhawan had roared into form against Australia by hitting a brilliant ton at The Oval on Sunday. He […]

Bhubaneswar: Special plans have been made to ensure socio-economic-educational empowerment of minorities especially girls, informed Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday. While chairing 112th Governing Body & 65th General Body meetings of Maulana Azad Education Foundation at New Delhi, Naqvi said that, “To ensure socio-economic-educational empowerment of Minorities especially girls […]

Varanasi: The Manduadih railway station in Uttar Pradesh looks less like a railway station and more like an airport terminal. The newly-revamped railway station is of world-class level – it can easily be mistaken for a swank corporate office. Not only does the station building make the Manduadih railway station class apart, but also all […]

Kolkata: Two persons were killed and three injured after bombs were allegedly hurled in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, police said on Tuesday. The incident was reported from Baruipara in Kankinara area on Monday night. Claiming that the victims were their supporters, the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress district President and Minister Jyotipriya Mallick alleged […]

Bollywood actress Kiara Advani has finally opened up on the kissing scenes with her co-actor Shahid Kapoor in the upcoming flick “Kabir Singh”. The actress, in an interview to Deccan Chronicle said, “Kabir Singh is an innocent raw love story, so you are seeing two people who are as real as it gets. As far […]

Mumbai: The Indian rupee Tuesday recuperated by 21 paise to 69.44 to the US dollar in line with strong Asian currencies and rally in domestic equities. The Indian unit opened strong at 69.49 and rose to the day’s high of 69.34 at the interbank forex market. During the day, the local unit touched an intra-day […]

Dehradun: The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) and the Uttarakhand government are launching separate missions to retrieve the bodies of a group of foreign mountaineers who perished in an avalanche near Nanda Devi last month. Two separate missions are being launched – one from Bageshwar district and other from Pithoragarh district – to bring back the […]

Ahmedabad: Centred nearly 600 km south of the Saurashtra coast in Gujarat, Cyclone Vayu is likely to make a landfall in the state on Thursday, even as teams of state and National Disaster Relief Force have been drafted in all the coastal districts, officials said on Tuesday. Gujarat Chief Secretary J.N. Singh told reporters in […]

San Francisco: Radicalisation in the digital era is not new, but now one of Twitter’s key executives has said that there’s “no doubt” that social media content, in some cases, contributes to radicalisation. Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Public Policy & Trust and Safety Lead at Twitter, said the organisation has policies in place to combat such […]

New Delhi: Ever since the Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan was hacked by a Turkish hacker, hilarious memes seem to have flooded the internet. The hackers of senior Bachchan’s Twitter account on Monday and replaced his profile picture with that of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan. They further modified the superstar’s bio with “Actor, well […]