4 min readPatnaJun 29, 2026 07:05 AM IST While former Union Minister and Janata Dal (United) MP RCP Singh’s meeting with party chief Nitish Kumar on Saturday sparked a buzz about a possible reconciliation and return to the party fold after four years, most top party leaders are firmly opposed to the idea. These leaders…
2 min readNew DelhiJun 29, 2026 04:20 AM IST First published on: Jun 29, 2026 at 04:20 AM IST MoS Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, who is also the UP BJP chief, on Sunday paid a visit to the family of socialist ideologue late Ram Manohar Lohia in Lucknow as part of party’s ongoing drive to meet…
3 min readNew DelhiJun 28, 2026 10:09 AM IST Three sisters and their brother were allegedly running a racket to illegally sell psychotropic tablets and intoxicating injections — such Avil that is used to treat allergy, and Naloxone, known for being a strong painkiller – in different parts of North West Delhi. In a series…
3 min readSuratJun 28, 2026 05:46 AM IST NEARLY A month after over 100 families of Nasirnagar in Ved Darwaja area of Surat were rendered homeless after a controversial demolition on “private land” they had allegedly encroached for nearly four decades, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Saturday shifted around 150 persons to a community…
3 min readJun 26, 2026 06:20 AM IST First published on: Jun 26, 2026 at 06:20 AM IST On June 22, NSA Ajit Doval met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS NSA meeting in New Delhi. The divergences in worldviews were hard to miss. Delhi spoke of “stable, predictable…
As I watched Uzbekistan competing against Portugal at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, my memory drifted back to those chilly days in Tashkent. It was 2008. I was working with the Indian U-16 team as one of the coaches. We had qualified for the AFC U-16 Championship after beating Saudi Arabia and drawing against Iraq…
3 min readNew Delhi, NoidaJun 25, 2026 02:47 AM IST After a fire at a three-storey building housing a coaching centre in Aliganj in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow killed 15 people on Monday, Delhi has ordered a citywide inspection, while coaching institutes in Gautam Buddha Nagar and Ghaziabad faced actions — with some sealed, some inspected…
4 min readPuneJun 25, 2026 12:04 AM IST A few days after 25-year-old Ketan Agarwal’s death at Lohagad Fort on June 18, which was initially believed to be an accident, police arrested two accused, Siya Goyal, Ketan’s fiancée, and her alleged boyfriend Chetan Chaudhary, in connection with what investigators now believe was a planned murder….
Every time you book a ride, your driver asks you for an “OTP”. Increasingly, that OTP is no longer a one-time password. A quiet substitution has spread through India’s ride-hailing apps. Rapido and Namma Yatri took the OTP, the four-digit number a passenger reads to their driver, and turned it into a standing PIN: One…
3 min readNew DelhiJun 24, 2026 06:26 AM IST The Delhi government on Tuesday approved rehabilitation benefits for all eligible residents of settlements established till January 1, 2025 — a move expected to cover nearly 20 lakh people and facilitate permanent housing for about 4-5 lakh families living in JJ clusters across the Capital. “…Unprecedented…
