Veteran Chennai jeweller Vummidi Ethiraj, who helped craft the Sengol presented to Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947, died on October 21, 2026, aged 99. The sceptre, associated with the transfer of power to ...

Visual snow syndrome causes persistent, TV-static-like dots across vision, sometimes with light sensitivity, poor night vision or afterimages. It differs from floaters and migraine aura and can occur ...

SIR draft electoral rolls: The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which began in June last year, has led to over 13 crore names being deleted from the draft ...

Social backwardness can’t be “carried forward”, the Supreme Court said Thursday, ruling that a person who converts from the Hindu social order can’t claim affirmative action based on pre-conversion ...

YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, who was detained from Gurugram ahead of the the Cockroach Janata Party protest, was released on Saturday night, an official said on Sunday. “He can be detained again, or further ...

PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi on Friday said India has political stability and continuity in its policies, and the world sees it as a “bright spot of growth and hope”. Speaking at the Economic Times ...

One worker was killed and another injured after the dome of a 200-year-old Kali temple allegedly collapsed on them during a demolition drive for a road-widening project in Mughalsarai town of Uttar ...

A man was mauled to death by a tiger after entering its enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England, prompting a police investigation. A video purportedly showing the man inside the enclosure ...

A Kerala consumer forum has held that a coaching institute cannot retain the entire fee paid by a student who leaves a course midway, terming the ‘no-refund’ clause an unfair trade practice. Hearing ...

In the second mishap within a week at an infrastructure project site of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), two workers lost their lives after falling from an industrial gantry crane at a ...

On October 11, an alleged confrontation at the Uttar Pradesh Congress headquarters in Lucknow brought Mahila Congress leader Mamta Choudhary and former state party chief Ajay Rai into a face-off, with ...