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The Lok Manya Tilak Express which derailed this morning

8 coaches of Lokmanya Tilak Express derail near Cuttack

Around 25 passengers were injured and five of them suffered severe injuries in the accident

16 Jan 2020 10:56 AM IST

Jammu & Kashmir Lt Gov. Girish Chandra Murmu bats for India in Kashmir. (PTI Photo)

Ministersâ€™ Mission Kashmir: 51 visits to Jammu and only 8 to...

Ministers-' visits to J&K start Jan. 18. Purpose: Things are positive if not special

15 Jan 2020 9:07 PM IST

SC grants four weeks parole to 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict

Sajjan Kumar, the other convict in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, is at present undergoing life imprisonment in Tihar...

15 Jan 2020 4:44 PM IST

Mayawati accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre of not taking others into confidence before bringing in the CAB. (Photo: File)

-'Withdraw CAA, bring new law after consensus-': BSP Chief Mayawati

She called the BSP a disciplined party which holds peaceful protests only after taking permission from the authorities.

15 Jan 2020 3:41 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Police Chief OP Singh (Photo | File)

AMU wants UP police to register FIR against themselves

Vice-chancellor says police were given permission only to clear the main road, not enter hostels

15 Jan 2020 2:57 PM IST

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during the Raisina Dialogue 2020 in New Delhi on Wednesday (Photo | PTI)

Jaishankar: India is a -'decider, not an abstainer-'

Foreign minister says India used to talk more, do less on terrorism. Now that-'s changing

15 Jan 2020 2:27 PM IST

Nirbhayas mother Asha Devi requested President Ram Nath Kovind to summarily reject the mercy petition of death row convict in the Nirbhaya case, Mukesh Singh. (Photo: ANI)

Nirbhaya hangings will not happen on Jan 22: Delhi govt to HC

However, Delhi govt and Centre said that petition against death warrant is -'premature-'.

15 Jan 2020 2:00 PM IST

The court also directed WhatsApp and Google to preserve and provide the information sought by police in accordance with the law on a plea seeking to preserve and retrieve all relevant materials and evidence available related to the violence in the campus on January 5. (Photo: Screengrab | Twitter)

-'Not me-': JNU violence suspect approaches NCW, says name maligned

NCW has written to media houses as well as the Delhi Police to look into the matter.

15 Jan 2020 1:29 PM IST

The Valleys Kashmiris have been the most dominant section of the population and after Independence have controlled the states politics and administration. (Photo: File)

Broadband services, 2G internet partially restored in J&K; social...

In order to facilitate tourism, the broadband internet services would be provided to hotels and tour and travel...

15 Jan 2020 11:10 AM IST

The crux of the research was to use effective therapies only for the cancer tissues, and they must be non toxic to the healthy cells. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Researchers develop new way to destroy cancer cells

The combination therapy combines therapeutic procedure for treatment of cancer cells in addition to the therapy of...

15 Jan 2020 5:14 AM IST

The progress and challenges in malaria elimination are periodically reviewed by member countries. (Photo: Representational/Pixels)

Genetic tweak of parasite can help control malaria

Studies of the genes of plasmodium parasites which cause malaria found that plasmodium grows in the oxygen carrying red...

15 Jan 2020 5:13 AM IST

BJP MLA Raja Singh under house arrest

Singh posted a video through his official Twitter handle mentioning that he was stopped from leaving his house and was...

15 Jan 2020 5:13 AM IST