National

Bangkok: Valentine’s Day is celebrated all over the world on February 14 to mark love and romance. For people of Chonburi province in Thailand, it has an added dimension as a mass wedding ceremony is conducted on this day. It was no…

New Delhi: India currently has 1% of the total volume of vehicles around the world, but accounts for as much as 11 per cent of global road accidents, according to the World Bank. There are 4.5 lakh road crashes in the country per year, in…

Aligarh: A 50-year-old farmer committed suicide here after being handed a highly-inflated power bill. According to family members of the victim, officials turned up at Ramji Lal’s house at Sunaira village in Atrauli tehsil and handed over…

New Delhi: Vehicle owners in India were on Sunday advised to adopt FASTag by February 15 midnight, or else be prepared to pay twice the applicable rate at toll plazas. The deadline for implementation of the e-payment facility of toll fee…

There was an unexpected Valentine’s Day gift for the farmers protesting against the agriculture laws. It came from a group of global Indian organizations, which launched a rose campaign on social media to express their support for farmers…

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Chennai to inaugurate several projects on Sunday, tweeted an aerial picture of the MA Chidambaram Stadium where the second India vs England Test is being played. Modi on Sunday…

Forty brave soldiers died at Pulwama on this day in 2019 after a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the security convoy carrying them. Bollywood did its bit in paying tributes to the soldiers on social media. Akshay…

A recent study by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Kochi has found that the elderly have reacted with fewer symptoms after taking the vaccine against COVID-19 as compared to people in the 20-40 age group. The study also found that women…

New Delhi: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday claimed he and his family, including his father and MP Farooq Abdullah, have been put under house arrest by authorities. The Srinagar Police, however, claimed that the…

Bengaluru: The Delhi Police Cyber Cell arrested a 21-year-old climate activist from Bengaluru for questioning in the Greta Thunberg 'toolkit' case. The student-cum-activist, identified as Disha Ravi, was picked up from her house in…