NEW DELHI: The monsoon on Sunday covered Delhi two days after the normal date of June 27 and advanced over the remaining parts of the country nine days before the usual date of July 8, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. According to IMD data, this is the earliest the monsoon has covered the entire country since 2020 when it did so by June 26. The rain-bearing system usually makes its onset over Kerala by June 1 and covers the entire country by July 8. It starts retreating from north

NEW DELHI: Agniveers participating in any international event or receiving gallantry medals, including the Sena Medal and above, will be inducted permanently into the services. Overall, four sets of evaluations, based on set parameters, are being conducted. The third round of assessment is currently underway. Sources said that gallantry medals and awards will also play a role in their career progression. Those Agniveers who receive the Sena Medal or higher awards such as the Ashok Chakra, Kirti

BHUBANESWAR: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said he was deeply pained by the stampede near a temple in Odisha's Puri , and asserted that the egligence and mismanagement which led to the tragedy are inexcusable. At least three persons, including two women, were killed and around 50 others injured in the stampede near Shree Gundicha Temple on Sunday morning, officials said. I am deeply pained by the stampede during the Mahaprabhu Jagannath Rath Yatra, which claimed three lives an

KOLKATA: National Commission for Women (NCW) member Archana Majumdar on Sunday visited the SouthKolkata Law College, where a student was allegedly gang-raped by three persons, including an alumnus. She claimed that the police could not provide her with the details of the whereabouts of the survivor. The commission stands beside her, she said, maintaining that the NCW's mandate is to assist a survivor as long as she wants. Majumdar said that it is necessary to speak to her parents as well. It's a

JAMSHEDPUR: At least 162 students trapped in an inundated residential school in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district after heavy rain were rescued by the police on Sunday, a senior officer said. The students were trapped in the school since Saturday night after the premises got flooded due to heavy rain. We received information that 162 students of Lav Kush Residential School were trapped as the school premises were inundated due to heavy rain. As the school building was submerged, the teachers s

JAIPUR: Four workers died while five others are feared trapped after soil caved in during pipeline excavation work in Rajasthan's Bharatpur on Sunday morning, police said. According to officials, some labourers were filling a 10-foot-deep trench dug to lay a pipeline near Jangi ka Nagla village when the soil caved in. Twelve workers got trapped under the soil. Upon hearing the cries, other labourers and project staff started rescue attempts, but the depth and heaviness of the soil made immediate

MUMBAI: Congress MP Varsha Gaikwad on Sunday accused the BJP-led Maharashtra government of launching a false propaganda campaign to undermine public resistance against its alleged anti-Marathi agenda and push for the imposition of Hindi. The former state school education minister also refuted claims that the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, in which Congress was an ally, had accepted the three-language formula under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. We ar

India has strongly rejected Pakistan's attempt to link it to a deadly suicide bombing in the Waziristan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, calling the accusations baseless and unfounded. The attack, which took place on June 28, claimed the lives of at least 13 security personnel and left 24 others injured. In the aftermath, the Pakistan Army released a statement suggesting Indian involvement in the incident. In a sharp response issued late Saturday, Indias Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) condemned

On setting a record of being the first Indian to enter the International Space Station (ISS) on June 26, 2025, 39-year-old Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, addressed the nation for the first time from space, exclaiming What a ride! . In his message intended for 1.4 crore Indians, he said: This journey of mine is not a beginning to the International Space Station, but to Indias Human Space Programme. I want all of you to be part of this journey. Your chest should swell with pride Together, lets i

NEW DELHI: Indias urban housing market is sitting atop a swelling pile of unsold stock5.59 lakh units across the top seven metros, as per Anarocks Q1 2025 report. Though the total is 4% lower year-on-year, the numbers mask a deeper structural problemhomes are being built, but not for those who actually need them. Mumbai tops the chart with 1.8 lakh unsold units and an overhang of 16 months. A major contributor: a 36% jump in luxury housing stock, driven by misplaced optimism about post-Covid dem

NEW DELHI: Commander Ronie Chowpoo from Arunachal Pradeshs Namsai district has become the first officer from the state to command a frontline Indian naval warship in the Eastern Fleet, an official statement said on Saturday. His appointment marks an important milestone and serves as an inspiration to the youth of Arunachal Pradesh, the Navys statement said. Commander Chowpoo, a first-generation Naval officer, was commissioned into the executive branch of the Navy in 2008. A specialist in communi

PATNA: The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday said all activities related to special intensive revision (SIR) of the voters list were progressing as per schedule. The ECs contention came a day after RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav asked whether it was possible to develop the voters list for 8 crore people within 25 days. An EC statement said SIR has already started successfully in Bihar for verifying the eligibility of each elector with full participation of all political parties. Out of the existin

Tonsuring case a boost for Yadavs PDA plank Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has strongly condemned the alleged tonsuring of two religious preachers, including one from the Yadav caste, by upper caste men in Etawahs Dandarpur. He has painted the attack on two katha vachaks (narrators of holy texts) as an assault on the PDA, an abbreviation often used by Yadav that stands for pichda (backwards), Dalit (scheduled castes) and alpsankhyak (minorities). Yadav has used the episode to hamm

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Saturday slammed controversial comments made by party leaders Kalyan Banerjee and Madan Mitra on the recent Kolkata gangrape case. In a statement on social media platform X, Moitra stressed that misogyny in India cuts across party lines, and added that the difference lies in TMCs firm stance against such remarks, regardless of who makes them. Her remarks came shortly after the TMC officially distanced itself from the statements made by Banerjee and Mit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday engaged in an informal conversation with Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who is currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as the Group Captain of Axiom Space's Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission. 'This mission is a step towards the success of Indias upcoming space endeavoursGaganyaan, the establishment of the Bharatiya Antariksh Space Station, and the manned lunar mission,' the PM said. I am absorbing all the knowledge gained during training and in s

KOLKATA: West Bengal BJP general secretary and MLA Agnimitra Paul on Saturday demanded a police investigation into the Kasba rape case, stating that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was not successful in probing the RG Kar case. Paul made the remarks during a press conference at the state BJP headquarters, where she said, We dont want the CBI, we want the police to conduct the investigation. Mamata Banerjees police, whose salaries are paid by your and my tax money, will investigate. Let

NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday described the inclusion of the words socialist and secular into the Constitutions Preamble during the Emergency as a nasoor (a festering wound) and a sacrilege to the spirit of Sanatana. His remarks followed a similar call by RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Thursday, who demanded the removal of the two terms, claiming they were forcibly inserted during the Emergency and were not part of the Constitution originally drafted by Dr.

PATNA: In a political setback for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumars Janata Dal (United), senior party leader Dharmendra Chauhan has resigned from its primary membership and joined the Jan Suraaj Party, founded by poll-strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor. Chauhan, who served as the General Secretary of JD(U)s Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) cell, tendered his resignation to the partys state president, Umesh Kushwaha. A long-time associate of Nitish Kumar, Chauhan had been affiliated with

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday stirred another debate, opining that the RSS, which had once demeaned the Constitution, lamenting the absence of inputs from Manusmriti in it, has now moved on from such a position. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution, Mr Golwalkar, amongst others, said that one of the great flaws of the Constitution is that there is nothing of the Manusmriti in it. But I think the RSS itself has moved on from those days. So, as a historical statement, it's accu

DEHRADUN: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expelled its former MLA from Uttarakhand, Suresh Rathore, for a period of six years. The stern action follows Rathores public confession of marrying a second woman while his first wife is still alive. In a bold move, he held a joint press conference with his new spouse, Urmila Sanawar, where the couple openly announced their union. The incident, which unfolded in recent days, featured Rathore formerly the legislator for the Jwalapur Assembly constit

NEW DELHI: India has imposed immediate restrictions on the import of jute and allied fibre products from Bangladesh, in a move reflecting growing tensions in bilateral trade relations. The new measures apply to all land and seaports across the country, with the sole exception of the Nhava Sheva seaport in Maharashtra, according to a notification from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT). The restrictions, however, will not apply to goods exported by Bangladesh to Nepal and Bhutan. At

There's a wry joke in Mizoram about the rest of India: Everyone there is in such a terrible hurry, but somehow always manage to arrive late . When I heard it for the first time, I was on the edge of a mountainto my right was one of Aizawl's busiest roads with bumper-to-bumper traffic, yet it was quiet enough to hear the flapping of a bird diving into the valley on my right, buildings dotting the slopes on the other side of the mountain. During my week in Aizawl, I never heard an unnecessary honk

RAIPUR: Self-styled yoga guru who returned from Goa a few months ago to establish a sprawling Ashram in Chhattisgarhs Dongargarh in Rajnandgaon district was arrested and remanded to judicial custody for allegedly engaging in a network of drugs and immoral activity in the garb of his spiritual retreat centre. Born and brought up in Dongargarh, about 120 km west of Raipur, Kanti Agarwal alias Yogi Baba has promoted himself as a spiritual guru in Goa and abroad. He left his hometown Dongargarh some

NEW DELHI: Over the past 18 months, security forces have achieved significant success in anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh, neutralising 435 Maoists, including a record 48 women operatives, officials said on Saturday. According to official data accessed by TNIE, women now account for approximately 10% of the total Maoists killed between 2024 and June 20 2025, the highest number of female Naxal casualties recorded in any such period since 2001. The sharp increase in neutralisation of Maoist o

BHOPAL: A nearly eight-kilometre-long traffic jam, which lasted up to 32 hours due to ongoing six-lane bridge construction, unfinished service roads, and the absence of a proper traffic diversion plan, has reportedly led to the deaths of three individuals on the outskirts of Indore, Madhya Pradeshs most developed city, on Thursday and Friday. The victims included 65-year-old farmer Kamal Panchal, 55-year-old cancer patient Balram Patel, and 32-year-old security guard Sandeep Patel, all of whom s

DEHRADUN: Heavy rainfall late Friday night triggered a significant landslide near Poligad on the Yamunotri National Highway, bringing traffic to a complete standstill. Hundreds of pilgrims embarking on the sacred Yamunotri Yatra have been left stranded on both sides of the highway since Saturday morning, facing considerable inconvenience. Heavy machinery from the National Highway Department has been deployed to the site, and clearance operations are currently underway to restore connectivity. Ad

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday challenged Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to prove that Saraya Industries Limited, in which his brother-in-law and senior party leader Bikram Singh Majithia had an inherited share of eleven percent, had received even one rupee in foreign funding from 2007 to the present time. Badal was denying allegations made in the Disproportionate Assets (DA) case registered against Majithia by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau . B

NEW DELHI: The government on Saturday issued an order appointing 1989-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Punjab Cadre Parag Jain as the next Secretary of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) for a tenure of two years. Jain will replace Ravi Sinha, a 1988-batch IPS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, as he will complete his tenure as the chief of the R&AW on June 30 and Jain will take over from him on July 1. In an order the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT said, The Appointments Commit

NEW DELHI: Mizorams capital, Aizawl, is set to receive its first-ever rail connectivity with the completion of the 51.38 km Bairabi-Sairang broad gauge rail line. This long-awaited development, demanded by the people of Aizawl and surrounding areas, is expected to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the coming days. Once the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) grants approval for operations, a request will be submitted to the Prime Ministers Office for the inauguration. A senior o

PATNA: In a resemblance to the Meghalaya honeymoon murder case , a woman from Bihars Aurangabad district has been arrested for allegedly plotting and executing the murder of her husband with the help of her lover. According to police, the woman, identified as Puja, conspired with her lover, Kamlesh Yadav, to kill her husband, Bikku, under the pretence of seeking medical treatment in Gayaji. On their return journey, the duo allegedly ran him over with an SUV on a deserted stretch of road, leading

MUMBAI:Mumbai Police Commissioner Deven Bharti on Saturday asserted that the city is now entirely free of directional loudspeakers after its personnel successfully completed a comprehensive crackdown on public address systems at all religious structures. All loudspeakers from religious structures have been removed. Mumbai is now loudspeaker-free from all religious structures, Bharti told PTI. The police commissioner, refuting claims of selective targeting, made it clear that religious structures

GUWAHATI: Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, raising concerns over alleged favouritism and irregularities in the implementation of a government-backed dairy scheme. In his letter, Gogoi stated that the scheme provides a subsidy of up to Rs 50 lakh for each beneficiary. The objective is to promote genuine entrepreneurship in the dairy sector and strengthen milk production. However, multiple reports and official documentation point to irregularities

NEW DELHI: The Indian and French Armies carried out joint military exercises in France in a realistic condition encompassing a wide spectrum of mission-specific drills tailored to sub-conventional and modern warfare. The Indian Army says the Indo-French Joint Military Exercise, christened Shakti-VIII, will strengthen operational interoperability and mutual cooperation between the two militaries. The exercise included combat shooting in semi-developed terrain, obstacle crossings, urban combat dri

BHOPAL: A 21-year-old Abhishek Koshthi has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of an 18-year-old girl in full public glare inside the Narsinghpur District Hospital premises in Madhya Pradesh on Friday. During interrogation by the police, Abhishek revealed that he knew the teenage girl for the last two years. Lately, he suspected that she was getting close to another youth, owing to which he chose to murder her, police sources told TNIE on Saturday. The victim was pursuing nursin

KOLKATA: The police on Saturday stopped a BJP rally led by its West Bengal unit chief Sukanta Majumdar and detained him along with several other party leaders when they tried to take out the protest march to a law college in the city, where a student was allegedly gang raped . The rally was not allowed to proceed towards the South Calcutta Law College where the 24-year-old student was allegedly gang raped by her two seniors and an alumnus of the institution on June 25. The rally was stopped at G

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has interacted with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is aboard the International Space Station, according to the PMO. Shukla created history on Wednesday by embarking on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a commercial mission operated by Axiom Space, along with three other astronauts. This marks the first space journey by an Indian astronaut in 41 years since Rakesh Sharma flew aboard a Russian spacecraft. On his 14-day Ax-4 mission, Sh

JAIPUR: A passenger aboard Air India Express flight IX-195, travelling from Dubai to Jaipur late Friday night, allegedly misbehaved with a female crew member shortly after take-off. The accused passenger reportedly made inappropriate comments, behaved indecently, and even attempted to touch the crew member inappropriately. According to airline sources, the female crew member immediately reported the incident to other flight staff. When the crew intervened, the accused began arguing with them as

NEW DELHI: As many as 162 patients, who had approached the National Medical Commission (NMC) ethics board against the decision of the State Medical Councils (SMC) regarding complaints of medical negligence and misconduct against doctors, have been rejected in the past four-and-a-half years, an RTI has revealed. This is despite NMC's landmark decision earlier this year, when it overturned its earlier verdict of rejecting patients' and their relatives' appeals to approach its Ethics and Medical Re

AHMEDABAD: In a rousing call to action, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday urged the youth to commit themselves to making India a global leader by 2047, marking 100 years of independence. Linking the nations future to its proud past, he paid tribute to tribal icon Govind Guru, crediting him with igniting public consciousness against British rule. Speaking via video link during a development programme in Gujarats Panchmahal district, Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is carrying

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh's 'Operation Conviction' has transformed the state's reputation from that of a lawless land to a model of strong governance with over 97,000 convictions in just one year. The implementation of three new criminal laws and fast-tracking of 457 key cases further bolstered the drive. Highly-placed sources claimed that the Uttar Pradesh government was given a special mention by Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the recent Central Zonal Council meeting in Varanasi for Operation C

AHMEDABAD: Sixteen days after the devastating Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025 , authorities have completed the painstaking process of DNA identification. The final unidentified victim, a 32-year-old passenger from Gujarats Bhuj, was matched late night . With this, all 260 victims, 241 passengers and crew, and 19 non-passengers have now been accounted for. The medical authorities had earlier pegged the fatality count at 270. The final DNA identification was of Anil Lalji Khima

AHMEDABAD: More than two weeks after the Ahmedabad plane crash, the DNA test has ascertained the identity of the last victim, and the death toll in the tragedy now stands at 260, officials said on Saturday. The mortal remains of the last victim were handed over to the family, they said. The medical authorities had earlier pegged the fatality count at 270. A London-bound Air India flight crashed into a hostel complex in the Meghaninagar area of Ahmedabad moments after taking off from the Sardar V

LUCKNOW: The political corridors of Uttar Pradesh are abuzz with speculation about the future course of action of Tej Pratap Yadav, the estranged son of former RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, following a brief video call between him and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. While Tej Pratap shared the conversation with the SP chief on social media, calling Akhilesh close to my heart, the SP leader responded with sarcasm, saying he only called back thinking it was an emergency. Notably, Tej Pra

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Saturday said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should apologise and offer to resign over the gang-rape of a girl student of a law college in Kolkata, alleging all the accused are linked to the ruling Trinamool Congress. It is in a way state-sponsored brutality and a heinous crime motivated by politics, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said while reading out parts of the victim's statement narrating the details of the crime and threats to her and her family m

NEW DELHI: Senior IPS officer Parag Jain, widely known for his expertise in intelligence gathering and affairs related to India's neighbourhood, has been appointed as the new head of the country's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), officials said on Saturday. Jain is currently the second senior-most officer in the RAW, after outgoing chief Ravi Sinha. He will serve a two-year tenure after taking over from Sinha, who retires on June 30, the officials said. Jain cu

CHANDIGARH: With 19 months left till the 2027 assembly elections, the Punjab Congress leadership is apprehensive that the current AAP-led Punjab government might target party leaders who are facing vigilance inquiries. Such concerns have been raised following the arrest of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia in a drugs and disproportionate assets case, while former Health Minister and AAP MLA Vijay Singla and his OSD Pradeep Kumar were given a clean chit in a corruption case registered ag

CHANDIGARH: In a major move against corruption and drug rackets operating within prisons across the state, the Punjab Government has suspended 25 officials, including three Deputy Superintendents and two Assistant Superintendents of the Jails Department. Following reports of irregularities and drug-related activities within jails, the government said the action was to end corruption and drug networks. The big action was taken as per information received about corruption and drug networks in jail

KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress leader was arrested in connection to a post-poll incident at Kaliganj in Nadia district in West Bengal where a Class IV student Tamanna Khatun was killed in a bomb explosion allegedly hurled by Trinamool Congress-backed miscreants on June 23. The incident did happen just before Trinamool Congress candidate Alifa Ahmed secured her victory in the Kaliganj Assembly bypoll. The main accused, Gawal Sheikh, and his son Bimal Sheikh were arrested by police from Katwa in Ea

NEW DELHI: Eighteen Bangladeshi nationals staying illegally in Delhi have been apprehended. Five of those detained had been living in the national capital disguised as transgenders, police said on Saturday. The police found a banned messaging app installed in seven mobile phones of the accused, using which they communicated with their families in Bangladesh, they said. During the first operation, police cordoned off nearly 100 jhuggis and 150 lanes in the locality and conducted verification driv

IMPHAL: Former Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Saturday said efforts are underway for setting up of a popular government in the state which is now under President's rule. Speaking at the sidelines of a programme at BJP state headquarters, Singh expressed hope that a new government will be formed in Manipur soon. We are working to form a government at the earliest. We are a national party. After looking into the ground situation, I have faith that a government will be formed soon. BJP and