A group of devotees were celebrating the festival with crackers. (Representational) Fifteen people received burn injuries after a heap of firecrackers exploded during Lord Jagannath's Chandan Jatra festival in Odisha's Puri on Wednesday night, police said. Hundreds of people had gathered on the banks of Narendra Pushkarinee, a waterbody, to …...Read More

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was today acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the murder case of a former Dera official. Ranjit Singh, former manager of the Dera, was murdered in 2002. A CBI court convicted Ram Rahim and four others in 2021 and sentenced …...Read More

The primary reason for the explosion was the illegal refilling of the gas (Representational) A massive explosion took place in a gas tanker in Chakan area of Pimpri Chinchwad of Pune district at around 5 am. The intensity of the explosion was so high that it damaged nearby hotels, houses …...Read More

At least four hospitals in Delhi received bomb threat calls this morning, weeks after several schools in the national capital as well as major Indian cities reported bomb hoax emails. GTB Hospital, Dada Dev Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital, and Deep Chandra Bandhu Hospital have received bomb threat calls, the Delhi Fire …...Read More

Scrap dealers in the area often pick up waste materials from a fire range, say cops. (Representational) Eight people were injured, two of them severely, in an explosion on Thursday at a scrap dealer's shop in the Raipur area of the city, police said. The blast occurred when a partially …...Read More

Union minister Smriti Irani, who unseated Congress's Rahul Gandhi from his family bastion Amethi, is trailing in the constituency. The Congress candidate, Gandhi family loyalist KL Sharma, is leading by over 28,000 votes. The Congress is still smarting from the BJP victory of 2019, when MP Rahul Gandhi lost to …...Read More

The FMCG major said it will be challenging the order before the appellate tribunal. (Representational) Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd has received a tax demand notice of Rs 248.74 crore from the Income Tax Authority in a transfer pricing-related issue. The FMCG major said it will be challenging the order before the …...Read More

The housing projects were launched between 2010 and 2012. (Representational) Considering the plight of the hassled homebuyers, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) to submit a proposal for grievance redressal and imposed Rs 5 lakh cost on it for failing to file a …...Read More

Centre gets notice on plea challenging guidelines debarring blood donation by transgenders, gay men. The Supreme Court today sought a response from the government on a plea challenging the guidelines that exclude transgenders, gay and sex workers from donating blood. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud issued notices …...Read More

This is the first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal this pre-monsoon season. (Representational) A low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm 'Remal' and is expected to make landfall between West Bengal's Sagar Island and Bangladesh's Khepupara at midnight on Sunday, the IMD said. This …...Read More