HMWSSB puts in place arrangements for emergency pumping of water

April 04, 2024 12:23 pm | Updated 01:25 pm IST - HYDERABAD The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has made emergency pumping arrangements to draw water from the dead storage levels of the Nagarjuna Sagar and Yellampally reservoirs, from April 15 and May 1 respectively. As on …...Read More

Jairam Ramesh says nation paid price for BJP’s compulsion to get donations at all costs

April 04, 2024 12:18 pm | Updated 01:16 pm IST - New Delhi The Congress on April 4 alleged that the BJP’s compulsion to get donations at all costs saw it go ahead with the electoral bonds scheme without heeding Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) astute advice, as it claimed …...Read More

Orca calf stranded in Canada lagoon to be airlifted and reunited with family

Plans are underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf from a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island. Canadian Fisheries Department and First Nations officials are coordinating the rescue effort. The rescue could happen within days or within the next two weeks, according to Paul Cottrell from the Fisheries …...Read More

Vodafone and Three merger in doubt amid price hike concerns

A planned merger between Vodafone and Three is in doubt after the competition watchdog said it would launch a major investigation into the deal. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the move was being taken after the firms failed to offer any measures to ease its concerns that mobile …...Read More

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan takes a dig at Congress over absence of their and IUML flags during Rahul Gandhi’s roadshow in Wayanad

April 04, 2024 12:04 pm | Updated 01:12 pm IST - KOCHI Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on April 4 (Thursday) asked whether the Congress “feared” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the flags of the party and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) were missing in the roadshow of …...Read More

Sonia Gandhi takes oath as Rajya Sabha member

April 04, 2024 12:00 pm | Updated 01:33 pm IST - New Delhi Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on April 4, 2024, took oath as Rajya Sabha member. This is her first stint in the upper house. She was elected from Rajasthan, on a seat that fell vacant after 91-year-old former …...Read More

Former Olympian Inga Thompson sounds off on women's group after controversial 'white supremacist' accusations

Three-time Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson is sounding off on the National Organization for Women (NOW) after the group slammed a recent lawsuit filed against the NCAA by more than a dozen college athletes as an example of "white supremacist patriarchy at work." Thompson, a decorated U.S. cyclist who competed at …...Read More

Dowry death case: Software engineer arrested

April 04, 2024 11:59 am | Updated 11:59 am IST - KARIMNAGAR A 28-year-old software engineer from Warangal district identified as Naresh was arrested by the Karimnagar rural police on Tuesday night for allegedly driving his wife Srija, 25, to end her life by demanding additional dowry. Srija, a native …...Read More

Senior U.S. treasury officials to urge India to maintain implementation of Russian oil price cap

April 04, 2024 11:50 am | Updated 12:55 pm IST - Washington Two senior U.S. treasury officials are in India to urge New Delhi to maintain the implementation of the oil price cap aimed at limiting profits to Russia, while also promoting stable global energy markets. Acting Assistant Secretary for …...Read More

Indian Navy hands over nine pirates to Mumbai Police

April 04, 2024 11:37 am | Updated 11:37 am IST - New Delhi The Indian Navy on April 4 said it has handed over to the Mumbai Police nine pirates who were apprehended in an operation in east of Somalia last week. Indian warships INS Trishul and INS Sumedha carried …...Read More