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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala Sunday ordered a fresh Vigilance inquiry into allegations involving Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during his tenure as the state’s Public Works Department Secretary, following a petition submitted by Congress leader Malayinkeezhu Venugopal. The case relates to Malaysian civil...

Boston (United States): Debris from a medical plane with six people on board, which had lost contact while flying from Bermuda to Boston, has been found, the US Coast Guard confirmed. At around 2 am Saturday (local time), the Federal Aviation Administration had notified the...

New Delhi: The Congress Sunday alleged that the likes of former general secretary of the Ram Temple trust Champat Rai were being shielded in the Ram temple donation theft probe and hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his "silence" on the issue, saying...

Washington: US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and the Seattle chapter of the American Jewish Committee have hailed Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his role in preventing what they described as an attempted hijacking of a flydubai flight travelling from Dubai to Tel...

New Delhi: Apple has officially removed the offline messaging application, Bitchat, from its India App Store after a demand from the country's IT ministry, Jack Dorsey said in an X post Saturday. "Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store," the app's developer...

Nagoya: The star-studded cricket and hockey teams predictably defended their crowns, but it was 17-year-old archer Kumkum Mohod and golfer Pranavi Urs, who scripted unexpected history, adding to the late gold rush that powered India to a creditable fourth place in the Asian Games in...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress has lost the chairpersonship of two key Parliamentary panels as Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Saturday reconstituted various department-related Parliamentary standing committees. While BJP's Sudhanshu Trivedi has been appointed the new chairperson of the...

Dubai: Dubai Crown Prince Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Saturday praised Indian pilot Smit Machchhar for his "courage" in averting a possible tragedy after he was attacked by his co-pilot during a flight to Israel. Captain Machchhar was stabbed and seriously injured in...

Muscat/New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Saturday confirmed that five Indian nationals on board Kuwait-flagged tanker MT Kazimah III were successfully rescued after the vessel was struck by a projectile. “Rescue of five Indian nationals on board the Kuwait-flagged tanker MT Kazimah III....

New Delhi: Around 150 protesters, including AISA national president Neha Bora, activist Yogendra Yadav and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, were detained Saturday as they marched from Patel Chowk towards Jantar Mantar to protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and demand his resignation, an official...