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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked why can’t the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have an electronic surveillance mechanism to immediately track stationary or parked vehicles on highways. The observation came from a bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Augustine George Masih and Sandeep...

New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday lashed out at the Modi government after police allegedly "dragged away" Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi from a sit-in protest against "vote chori" at the Akashvani Bhawan, saying this is the sign of a regime that...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was detained along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Tuesday night after their over eight-hour sit-in inside Akashvani Bhawan premises for not being allowed to march towards the Election Commission's office. Police forcibly removed Rahul Gandhi, as well as...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to submit a report on sand mining from riverbeds, saying it has a "disastrous effect" on the river ecosystem and has to be stopped. The CEC, a statutory body since 2023, was originally...

New Delhi: The Central government Tuesday cleared the appointment of Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit as the next Chief of the Air Staff. Ashutosh Dixit will take charge as the nation’s 29th Indian Air Force Chief October 31, with his tenure lasting until December 31, 2028....

Bhavnagar: Seven people travelling to work at the Alang shipbreaking yard were killed after their SUV crashed into a stationary trailer on a service road along the Bhavnagar-Somnath national highway in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district Tuesday. The accident took place around 10 a.m. near Trapaj village...

New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Tuesday announced that it has successfully conducted the flight trial of its indigenously developed High-Altitude Platform System (HAPS), achieving an altitude of 21 km and demonstrating long-endurance stratospheric flight capabilities. The milestone is expected to strengthen...

New Delhi: India Tuesday condemned the attack on a Panama-flagged commercial vessel MT On Peace off the coast of Oman, which was struck by a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz and reiterated its call for an immediate cessation of such incidents in the...

New Delhi: The government Tuesday committed Rs 10,000 crore to establish an SME Growth Fund for direct equity investments in Small and Medium Enterprises to create future champions. The decision was taken at the Union Cabinet meeting headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The SME...

Lucknow: All eight Rajya Sabha candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Uttar Pradesh filed their nominations Tuesday. The BJP announced the names of eight candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections Monday. These include Dharampal Singh, Radhakant Ojha, Prakash Pal, Vidyasagar Sonkar, Gopikrishna Pandey,...