The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has issued a fresh advisory asking hotels and restaurants not to levy additional fees such as LPG charges, gas surcharge or similar levies on food bills. In an advisory issued on March 25, the consumer watchdog said such charges amount to an unfair trade practice under the Consumer Protection...

US President Donald Trump during the first cabinet meeting at the White House since the start of the conflict US President Donald Trump on Thursday said Iran was “begging” for a deal to end the war, while warning of more strikes if Tehran did not abandon its nuclear ambitions.Speaking during the first cabinet meeting at...

Modi govt asking people to not panic as if it’s citizens’ fault: Sagarika Ghose on LPG crisis Accusing the government of not acknowledging the “severe LPG shortage”, TMC Rajya Sabha deputy leader Sagarika Ghose said on Thursday (March 26, 2026) that the Centre was disconnected from reality and not making any attempts to calm the...

3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 26, 2026 07:37 PM IST A key question that first responders in road accident cases often face is this: Where exactly should they rush the victims to so that they can be provided with medical help in a time-bound manner? To resolve this dilemma, a Parliamentary Committee has recommended that...

In a gruesome broad daylight murder, a 28-year-old woman was killed by her husband, who slit her throat and then ran a car over her in the middle of a road in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district on Thursday, police said. The victim has been identified as Saanvi, a native of Maharashtra. According to police, the accused,...

NEW DELHI: India’s largest private fuel retailer Nayara Energy on Thursday raised its prices by Rs 5 per litre and diesel by Rs 3 a litre amid the ongoing Middle East crisis. Nayara Energy, which operates 6,967 of India’s 102,075 petrol pumps, has decided to pass on part of the increase in input costs to...

The Manamadurai Assembly constituency (SC) in Sivaganga district, which has been on news very often in the last few years not for its developments but for the caste-based conflicts and police-inflicted torture incidents, has seen no tangible developmental changes in the recent past.  The reserved constituency with 2,57,616 voters – 1,23,665 men, 1,31,0148 women and three others – had a DMK legislator A. Tamilarasi. The constituency which last brought a...

The probe against Ashokkumar Kharat, the self-styled godman from Nashik who has been accused in multiple cases of sexual exploitation, has further expanded, with investigators finding that he forced followers to sponsor overseas trips by claiming that performing “special pujas” abroad would bring financial gains and remove obstacles. The Nashik police arrested Kharat on March...

The Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab has rolled back its decision to charge Rs 80 for downloading FIR copies from the Saanjh portal, following the backlash from legal activists and opposition parties. A government notification issued on March 25 clarified that no fee will be charged for accessing any FIR online. It also stated that...

Imagine boarding a flight from a small city airport that barely existed a few years ago, that’s the kind of connectivity India is now aiming to expand. The Centre has given the green signal to UDAN 2.0, a revamped version of the Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik scheme, with an outlay of over Rs 28,000...