A highway crash in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly on Sunday evening led to the dramatic rescue of a kidnapped Gurugram man and two children, while killing three of the alleged abductors and leaving another critically injured, police said. The victims had been abducted from Gurugram and were being transported through Bareilly when the SUV they were...

NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Tuesday said that Exit Polls for the assembly elections of five states can neither be held nor disseminated from 7 am on April 9 till 6:30 pm on April 29 .The poll body said that conducting or broadcasting exit polls in the period is violative of section 126A of the...

Despite rapid expansion, there is reportedly no centralised assessment of the adequacy of charging infrastructure relative to the number of registered EVs. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J. Karnataka has emerged as the second-largest hub for Electric Vehicle public charging stations in India, with 2,039 operational units installed by oil marketing companies. This puts Karnataka...

2 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Apr 7, 2026 01:30 PM IST Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will visit Washington DC from April 8 to 10, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced Tuesday. The visit comes at a time when the United States and Israel are in a war with Iran, and US President Donald Trump has...

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) keeps facing flak regularly as reports of substandard or adulterated food keep surfacing. The country’s nodal authority on food safety, however, is in the eye of an entirely different storm this time. A bid to gag activists with a criminal case for questioning the recruitment of...

NEW DELHI: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is set to visit Washington DC from April 8 to 10, in a trip that is expected to review the full spectrum of ties between India and the United States, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said.In a statement, the ministry of external affairs said the visit will provide...

Sabarimala review: A strict definition of ‘denomination’, ‘essential religious practices’ will compress plural and diverse Hinduism, Centre tells SC The Union government has told the Supreme Court that a straitjacket definition of what constitutes a ‘religious denomination’ or which religious practices are ‘essential’ would “compress” the inherently plural nature of Hinduism expressed through diverse sects,...

3 min readNew DelhiApr 7, 2026 09:24 AM IST Sarabjit Singh, who triggered a security scare at the Delhi Assembly after crashing through the VIP gate of the complex, appeared to have tried to meet Speaker Vijender Gupta in his office on Monday afternoon. He remained on the Assembly premises for around six minutes, but...

A heartbreaking picture has emerged from Pandori Mohalla near Sultanpur Lodhi police station in Punjab’s Kapurthala district, where an elderly mother claimed she has lost four of her five sons to drug addiction, while her last surviving son is now bedridden with a severe liver infection allegedly caused by substance abuse. The woman, made an...

Virat Kohli hail Dhurandhar 2 (Agency Image) A day after Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2026, star batter Virat Kohli switched gears off the field and shared his glowing review of the blockbuster film Dhurandhar 2. Taking to social media, Kohli heaped praise on director Aditya Dhar and lead actor Ranveer...