Farmers blocked roads at many places across the state on Monday as part of their Punjab bandh call, hamstringing the commuter traffic. A call for a shutdown was given last week by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha over the Centre not accepting the demands of protesting farmers. …...Read More

A 17-year-old boy has been detained in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut for allegedly hammering his close friend to death. The teen has confessed and told police that his friend, Abhinav, had stolen some pictures and videos of his girlfriend from his phone and was blackmailing her. Abhinav and the accused were …...Read More

The work to remove 377 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has got underway ahead of its planned disposal near Indore. The development comes weeks after the Madhya Pradesh High Court chided the authorities for not taking action despite repeated directions to clear …...Read More

Adani Enterprises is set to exit a joint venture with Adani Wilmar and for that, it has signed an agreement with Wilmar International. Adani Enterprises on Monday informed stock exchanges that it will sell 13 per cent of Adani Wilmar to achieve minimum public shareholding requirements and Wilmar International has …...Read More

The Jharkhand government on Sunday said 11 of the 47 workers stranded in Cameroon in central Africa were brought to the state and efforts were underway for the safe return of the remaining labourers. The development comes after the state government filed FIRs against a Mumbai-based firm and some middlemen …...Read More

Kaamya Karthikeyan, a Class 12 student at Navy Children School in Mumbai, has made history by becoming the youngest female in the world to scale seven highest peaks across seven continents. The 17-year-old adventurer has conquered Africa (Mt Kilimanjaro), Europe (Mt Elbrus), Australia (Mt Kosciuszko), South America (Mt Aconcagua), North …...Read More

A man, his daughter and his niece were burnt to death after a high-tension electric cable fell on them in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur. The shocking incident, which took place yesterday in the Sonbarsa market area of Gorakhpur, was caught on CCTV which showed the man and the two girls on …...Read More

Senior IPS officer Vitul Kumar will take charge as Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) after incumbent Anish Dayal Singh retires on Tuesday. Vitul Kumar, a 1993 batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is currently serving as Special Director General of the CRPF. The competent …...Read More

A lack of safety measures during construction on the National Highway-8 in Gurugram has sparked a debate on the internet with users claiming it was a "perfect recipe for disaster". In an undated video that has now gone viral on social media platforms, two men can be seen performing welding-related …...Read More

A good year in the movies can mean multiple things. Studios sufficiently bankrolling films, independent projects finding their way to the mainstream, underdogs triumphing over tentpole projects, new faces coming up and old faces rediscovering their voice. In that sense, 2024 fulfilled most of these possibilities. Filmmaker Sriram Raghavan, known …...Read More