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SC favours screening of programmes on OTT platforms

Objections were also raised about some scenes in Tandav as they allegedly were hurting religious sentiments and deriding...

5 March 2021 7:14 AM IST

Its good-bye for Mumbai's iconic Karachi Bakery

The bakery was in the eye of a nationalistic storm after MNS protested against its name, claiming that it has a...

5 March 2021 4:20 AM IST

General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), stated that the country was facing a complex and challenging security environment, which dictates enhancement of military capabilities and requires addressing voids in war-fighting abilities. By arrangement

Armed forces must transform to stay relevant: General Rawat

The webinar's inaugural day had two major sessions on 'organisational imperatives' and 'structural imperatives'

5 March 2021 2:02 AM IST

Taj Mahal to reopen even as virus rages in India. (AFP Photo)

Taj Mahal vacated after hoax bomb call

The hoax call has been traced to Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, another officer said

4 March 2021 12:56 PM IST

While the government is yet to ascertain the cause of the blaze, local people said that forest fire is an annual phenomenon in Similipal but the intensity is high this year. (Twitter/@nv_odisha)

Odisha claims no loss of life in Similipal forest fire, issues SOP to...

As many as 1,000 people including forest officials, locals and volunteers are engaged in disconnecting the fire line

4 March 2021 10:59 AM IST

A woman walks past a mural depicting people travelling on a overcrowded public transport to raise awareness about maintaining social distancing and the use of masks, in Mumbai on March 2, 2021. (AFP)

Mumbai's 12 police zones to fine 1,000 maskless people per day

50 per cent of the fine collected from mask rule violators will be used for police welfare activities and the remaining...

3 March 2021 11:54 AM IST

AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses during farmers rally, in Meerut. (PTI)

Delhi municipal bypolls: AAP wins one ward, leading in 3

More than 50 per cent votes were cast in the bypolls for the five municipal wards held on February 28

3 March 2021 10:54 AM IST

There were only three bidders this year -- Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio -- against seven bidders during the last spectrum auction in 2016. (PTI file photo)

Spectrum auction fetches Rs.77,814 cr, Reliance Jio emerges biggest...

855.60 MHz of airwaves were bought for Rs 77,814.80 crores in two days of auction after six rounds of bidding

3 March 2021 8:23 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (PTI file photo)

10,011 YSR health clinics to come up in Andhra Pradesh: CM

Officials informed Jagan that the tender process for construction of new medical colleges will be completed by May 15

3 March 2021 6:58 AM IST

Voters in any MLC election have to exercise preferential votes, marking their preference of candidates unlike in other elections and for this reason, EVMs cannot be used in any MLC election. (Representational image : PTI file)

Telangana MLC polls: Election Commission plans to deploy jumbo ballot...

A record 93 candidates are in the fray for the Hyderabad-Ranga Reddy-Mahbubnagar graduates constituency election against...

3 March 2021 2:12 AM IST

Jacob had got transit anticipatory bail from Bombay High Court on February 17 for three weeks, so that the accused could approach the court concerned in Delhi, where the case is lodged. (PTI file photo)

Toolkit case: Court grants one week to Delhi Police to file reply to...

The court also directed the Delhi Police to hand over a copy of its reply to Jacob's bail plea to her counsel

2 March 2021 1:02 PM IST

Dasgupta was arrested on December 24 last year and is in jail since then. (PTI)

TRP scam: HC grants bail to former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta

Dasgupta approached the HC in January this year after a sessions court rejected his bail plea

2 March 2021 12:28 PM IST