The Jnanabharati police booked a 20-year-old student recently after a video of him wearing a t-shirt bearing the ‘Azad Kashmir’ symbol went viral on social media, with viewers demanding legal action. The second-year private college student was riding pillion on a two-wheeler on September 23, when one of the passers-by recorded the video and put...

From painting dividers to fixing potholes, Mumbai has been spruced up amid UK PM Keir Starmer and PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the city as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation sprung to action with a beautification and cleanliness drive, this week. According to senior BMC officials, the beautification works as well as round-the-clock cleanliness drives have...

The Uttarakhand government has launched a sweeping crackdown across the state to curb the sale of allegedly unsafe and substandard cough syrups, sending 170 samples for laboratory testing. The large-scale action, officials said, comes amid growing concern over children’s safety and medicine quality. According to officials, the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) teams have...

A group of US lawmakers, including Indian-American members, wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to “restore” ties with India, claiming that tariffs had pushed the nation closer to China and Russia.A group of 19 Congress members led by Congresswoman Deborah Ross and Congressman Ro Khanna said in a statement on Wednesday: “Recent actions by...

Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Teachers’ Federation (APTF) have urged the government to conduct counselling for teachers recruited through DSC-2025 in offline mode. In a statement on Wednesday, APTF State president G. Hridaya Raju and general secretary S. Chiranjeevi said the newly selected teachers were concerned about the government’s plan to conduct web-based counselling for...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after he inaugurated the Navi Mumbai International Airport and other connectivity projects on Wednesday, launched a sharpened attack on the Congress, asking it as to why the UPA government led by it in 2008 went soft on Pakistan after the 26/11 attack bled India’s financial capital. The Prime Minister made a...

NEW DELHI: As Bihar gears up for another high-stakes assembly election, the political landscape is once again abuzz – not with Nitish Kumar‘s next move – but with poetry, posturing, and power plays. From poetic pleas for justice to sharp rebukes over “dignity” in seat offers, alliance partners across the spectrum are flexing muscles and...