NEW DELHI: Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Arpora, Goa, are being transported to Goa by the state police on Wednesday following their arrest at Delhi’s IGI Airport immigration. The brothers were deported to India from Thailand, ending a 10-day international search after the deadly fire at their...

Had it stood, it would have completed 125 years in November this year. Moore Market, however, still remains, 40 years after a disastrous fire engulfed it, as an evergreen memory. It is just that I find with some digging, that there were clearly two views about it: the roseate nostalgic one, and the other, more...

The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Sabko Bima Sabko Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, that seeks to reform India’s insurance framework through changes in the Insurance Act, 1938, the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956, and the IRDAI Act, 1999. The amendment will increase the FDI limit in Indian insurance companies from 74%...

Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi’s bid to reopen his extradition appeal in the UK High Court has been deferred until March 2026 after Indian officials submitted fresh assurances on his detention conditions. The matter came up on Tuesday before Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay at the Royal Courts of Justice in London,...

NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday protested both inside and outside Parliament against the “anti-people” G RAM G bill, with its MP Shashi Tharoor – who the party has accused of being soft on BJP – taking a dig at the governmentt in Lok Sabha by recalling an old Bollywood number – “dekho o deewano (tum)...

Apart from allocation to meet fertilizer subsidy, the Supplementary Demands for Grants also has allocation of ₹9,500 crore to the Petroleum Ministry to compensate oil marketing companies for under-recoveries and ₹1,304 crore for additional expenditure by the Department of Higher Education. | Photo Credit: Sansad TV The Rajya Sabha, on Tuesday (December 16, 2025), cleared...

Nick Reiner arrives at the premiere of “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) Nick Reiner, the son of Hollywood actor-director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who was arrested on charges of the killing of his parents, was...

As the Centre prepares for a major overhaul of the country’s largest rural employment programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), questions are being raised over whether a change in name and structure will guarantee employment for rural families. MGNREGA is set to be renamed the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday conferred with Ethiopia’s highest civilian honour, The Great Honour Nishan of Ethiopia, during his first bilateral visit to the country.Speaking after receiving the award, PM Modi said it was a matter of pride to be honoured by “a very ancient and prosperous civilisation”. He said he accepted the...

The Union government’s decision to take away funding powers from the regulatory authority and create separate regulatory, accreditation, and standards councils for higher education institutions under the proposed Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025, was a ‘conscious‘ move in keeping with the National Education Policy 2020 suggestion to minimise conflicts of interest, senior government officials said on Tuesday (December 16, 2025)....