The Haryana Vidhan Sabha Secretariat has taken serious note of the use of Speaker Harvindra Kalyan’s photograph in commercial advertisements, published without his consent. “The Secretariat has written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Karnal district to ensure immediate inquiry and necessary action in this regard. In the letter, the Deputy Commissioner has been...

On this Special Report, India Today’s Gujarat Bureau Chief Brijesh Doshi reports on the commencement of the ‘Somnath Swabhiman Parv’ in Gujarat. The four-day festival, running from January 8 to 11, commemorates 1,000 years since the Somnath Temple’s resilience against the invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1026 AD. Brijesh Doshi highlights that the event...

Minneapolis shooting (AP photo) An ICE officer in its major immigration crackdown fatally shot a woman driving an SUV through her car window in South Minneapolis on Wednesday. US President Donald Trump called the incident “horrible thing to watch” and said that the woman was “a professional agitator.”The deadly confrontation escalated the intensity of situation...

Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI A local YouTuber has been arrested while a police sub-inspector is on the run in connection with the alleged abduction and gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in the Sachendi area in Kanpur, police said on Wednesday (January 7, 2026). The case has triggered high-level...

Although Kannada cinema has witnessed the rise of several stars over the decades, Yash undoubtedly stands apart, having played a key role in taking the industry to unimaginable heights and placing it at the centre of Indian cinema for all to see. While his KGF: Chapter 1 (2018), helmed by Prashanth Neel, was the first...

Delhi Air Pollution Live Updates: Delhi weather is set to swing between extremes on January 8, with severe cold gripping the north while heavy moisture builds along the southern coast. The northern plains remain locked in an intense cold spell, even as southern regions brace for widespread rainfall. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that...

SANTINIKETAN: The age gap between Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his late mother, Amita Sen, is around 19-and-a-half years. But on Wednesday, an SIR hearing notice reached his Santiniketan house, Pratichi, because the EC found that the age difference was below 15 years.As per the 2025 SIR draft roll, the age of Amartya Sen is...

Planning and Development Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav. Credit: Facebook/Government of Bihar In the last five years, legislators of the 17th Bihar Assembly and members of the State Legislative Council have spent a total of ₹3,633.25 crore on various development schemes under the Mukhya Mantri Kshetra Vikas Yojana (MMKVY), Planning and Development Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav...

Harmanpreet Kaur winning the Women’s ODI World Cup and couple of WPL trophies till date makes her captaincy record “untouchable” and the 36-year-old still has another four-five years to offer to Indian cricket, reckons her longtime India teammate Jhulan Goswami. Harmanpreet ended India’s long wait for an ICC title in women’s cricket with the ODI...

The first phase of Census 2027– houselisting operations– will take place between April 1 and September 30 this year in all states and Union territories over a 30-day period specified by each state and UT, a government notification said on Wednesday. There will also be an option for self-enumeration to be conducted in 15 days’...