After serving as Governor of Mizoram and Goa, and with your tenure now over, do you plan to return to active or electoral politics soon? I have not retired from politics and remain very active. However, despite pressure from the party and others to contest from the Chengannur Assembly constituency, I chose not to enter...

3 min readNew DelhiMar 29, 2026 04:21 AM IST In a significant outreach, India has sent a shipment of fuel to Sri Lanka, days after the phone conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Fuel shortage and panic buying have led to queues in the island nation, which depends...

A mere suspicion of stealing a packet of toffees turned into a horrific tragedy in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr, where a 12-year-old girl was allegedly beaten to death by her father. The incident took place on Thursday in Ratanpur village of Narora. The victim, Pooja, had come under suspicion after a shopkeeper told her father, Pushpendra,...

IAF starts work on ‘Vayu Baan’ NEW DELHI: With drones taking centre stage in conflicts around the world, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has started work on the country’s first helicopter-dropped drone project, called ‘Vayu Baan’ (air arrow).Vayu Baan is an indigenous air-launched effects (ALE) programme designed to integrate unmanned aerial systems directly with manned...

Image used for representational purposes only. Photo: X/@byadavbjp via PTI Photo A Great Indian Bustard (GIB) chick was born in Gujarat’s Kutch after a decade through the the jumpstart approach, a novel conservation initiative, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced on Saturday (March 28, 2026). This is the first such inter-State initiative in the country....

4 min readUpdated: Mar 29, 2026 12:39 AM IST Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene believes there is only one way to break the team’s 13-year opening-day ‘hoodoo’ in the IPL: play a good game of cricket. Speaking on Saturday, Jayawardene insisted that despite failing to win a season opener since 2012, the team’s preparation...

Vijaypat Singhania, Padma Bhushan awardee and former chairman of the Raymond Group, passed away peacefully in Mumbai on Saturday evening at the age of 87. He was widely remembered as a visionary industrialist, philanthropist and inspiring personality whose influence extended across business, aviation and public life. His son, Gautam Singhania, Chairman and Managing Director of...

The last remaining cofounder of xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company, has left the company. Citing people familiar with his exit, a report by Business Insider, Ross Nordeen, one of the 11 people who helped Musk launch xAI in 2023, departed the company this week. His badge on X, which identified him as an...

The Congress on Saturday expelled a councillor of the Palakkad municipality from the party following a sexual assault complaint against him. Palakkad District Congress Committee (DCC) president A. Thankappan said that Prashob C. Valsan, a councillor from the 24th division, was removed from the party after reports of the incident surfaced. “We came to know...

3 min readMar 28, 2026 08:36 PM IST In an attempt to improve passenger amenities at train stations, a Digital Lounge was inaugurated at the Vadodara Railway station on Saturday, a first of its kind facility in Gujarat and second of the Indian Railways after the one launched at Mumbai Central in December last year....