2 min readMumbaiJun 19, 2026 12:20 AM IST In a setback to the opposition in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the civic body on Thursday disqualified Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator Deepak Sawant after the state government’s caste scrutiny committee invalidated the caste certificate he had submitted while filing his nomination for the civic elections, citing…
1 min readLucknowJun 18, 2026 05:24 AM IST The CBI on Wednesday conducted searches across 14 locations in Uttar Pradesh after registering a case of alleged embezzlement of Rs 4 crore by officials of the Basic Education Department, in Amethi’s Gauriganj, the agency said. The search operation was spread across 14 locations in Lucknow, Ayodhya,…
3 min readNew DelhiJun 18, 2026 04:00 AM IST European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that the EU will sign the Free Trade Agreement with India by the end of the year. She made this comment after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 Summit. In…
2 min readPuneJun 18, 2026 12:01 AM IST Also by Piyush Padwale The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 17 has suspended the licence of the central Refectory Mess at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) following an inspection that found multiple food safety and hygiene violations, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official said….
THE NARCOTICS Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday launched Voluntary Code of Conduct on the prevention of diversion of precursor chemicals in Gujarat and appealed to industry to inform authorities of any suspicious transactions of controlled substances so that the trafficking of such chemicals could be prevented. The VCC is a “guidance framework developed to encourage…
4 min readNew DelhiJun 17, 2026 02:26 AM IST A year after they began the reset of ties at the G7 Summit in Canada, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Evian, France, on Tuesday. They agreed to strengthen cooperation in defence, information security…
2 min readGuwahatiJun 17, 2026 12:04 AM IST A resident of a border village in Assam’s Cachar district was handed over by Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday night after he had allegedly been abducted along the international border by a group of Bangladeshi nationals earlier in the day. The man, who has been identified as Ranjit…
4 min readJun 16, 2026 05:36 PM IST First published on: Jun 16, 2026 at 05:36 PM IST By Nandini Tank Perhaps the most revealing aspect of contemporary food politics is not what people eat, but who is eating it. In 2025, viewers across the world watched a contestant on MasterChef Australia prepare a coriander…
1 min readNew DelhiJun 16, 2026 09:34 AM IST Share markets continued its rally on Tuesday riding on the initial peace deal bewteen the US and Iran that led to a drop in global crude oil prices. As of 9:24 aam, the BSE Sensex rose 0.35% to 76,529.74, while Nifty 50 soared 0.28% to 23,922.15….
Emphasis on the inclusion of Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (SHEVs) and boost in the charging infrastructure are among the highlights of the feedback shared by experts from IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur, among others, on the Delhi government’s Draft Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy 2.0, The Indian Express has learnt. Reduction in vehicular emissions, improvement of…
