6+ hour, 32+ min ago   (367+ words) DEHRADUN: Helicopter shuttle services to Kedarnath received an overwhelming response ahead of the second phase of the Char Dham Yatra, with 8,896 pilgrims booking seats within an hour of reservations opening for September 15-30. The bookings covered 2,926 tickets for the 16-day period…...

4+ hour, 45+ min ago   (202+ words) NEW DELHI: An international passenger was caught trying to smuggle nearly 1.6 kg of gold worth about Rs 2.4 crore by concealing it in his undergarment at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, officials said. The passenger was travelling from Jeddah to Dhaka…...

16+ hour, 21+ min ago   (427+ words) PATNA: A ruling party minister and an MLA had to face the wrath of flood victims in Bihar’s Katihar district during their visit to flood-affected areas, officials said on Sunday. Pramod Kumar Chandrawanshi, state mines and geology department minister, along…...

10+ hour, 14+ min ago   (632+ words) PATNA: Bihar's Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday accused the Centre of adopting a "stepmotherly" attitude towards the state in providing flood relief as he slammed Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary and Union ministers for "failing" to secure aid for…...

7+ hour, 43+ min ago   (255+ words) NEW DELHI: Scores of people blocked a road in outer-north Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area on Sunday with the body of an e-rickshaw driver, who was allegedly stabbed to death by assailants, police said. According to police, unidentified bike-borne men attacked…...

8+ hour, 15+ min ago   (318+ words) GUWAHATI: Nine people died after allegedly consuming spurious liquor in Nagaland’s Tuensang district between September 10 and 11, prompting police to issue a statewide advisory in the state, where alcohol is prohibited. He said the deaths were caused by suspected spurious liquor....

12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (260+ words) BENGALURU: Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday accused the BJP of attempting to provoke communal sentiments in the name of Ganeshotsava and create unrest in society, even as he assured that the government would not impose unnecessary restrictions on…...

8+ hour, 54+ min ago   (405+ words) CHANDIGARH: Two shooters allegedly working for United Kingdom-based gangster Doni Bal were shot dead in an encounter with the Punjab Police and the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) in Ludhiana on Sunday. The two men were allegedly on their way to…...

9+ hour, 7+ min ago   (322+ words) DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Mahendra Bhatt on Sunday accused the Congress of “double standards” over its objections to the use of the expression “Rahul Miya”, claiming that the opposition party had long pursued minority appeasement politics....

17+ hour, 40+ min ago   (261+ words) ROURKELA: After 14 months, Alliance Air is likely to restore operation of its ATR-72 aircraft on the Rourkela-Bhubaneswar and Rourkela-Kolkata routes from October, with negotiations underway between the Odisha government and the airline over the Viability Gap Funding (VGF). The AA,…...