Category: India

Delhi’s cleanest municipal ward will get Rs 1 crore every month under a new year-long competition announced by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday. But there is a catch. A complaint about garbage in a ward could put it out of the race. The Chief Minister said wards will be judged using reports from an...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday said the state government would soon cancel the JSSC-CGL examination amid an ongoing protest by job aspirants over alleged irregularities in recruitment exams. Soren said all exams conducted by TSR Data Processing Pvt Ltd since will be cancelled and added that the government will constitute exam reforms committee,...

Senior officials from BRICS member countries on Monday held discussions on key environmental priorities, climate change and sustainable development at a meeting in Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. The Senior Officers’ Meeting of the BRICS Environment Working Group and the Contact Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development was held under India’s BRICS Chairship 2026. The...

The ruling BJP is all set to revamp its organisation, with national president Nitin Nabin said to have finalised his new team. The organisational overhaul could be announced as early as Monday or during this week. The focus, sources say, will be on inducting next-generation leaders with a significant representation to youth and women. This...

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and former vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday inaugurated 25 Atal canteens across the capital on the eighth death anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The new outlets, launched via remote control, include canteens outside hospitals such as AIIMS and LNJP, and in slum clusters in Janakpuri, Vikaspuri and other...

Around 5,000 people have been displaced by a powerful earthquake in Indonesia that has caused at least53 fatalities. Rescuers continue to search for survivors of the shallow magnitude 7.7 quake, which struck the island of Flores shortly before 05:00 local time on Saturday (22:00 GMT on Friday). Preliminary reports indicate more than 900 homes and...

A group of 51 farmers led by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal was stopped by the Haryana Police at the Khanauri-Data Singhwala border in Jind on Sunday (August 16, 2026) while marching on foot towards Delhi as part of a 13-day ‘Kisan Bachao Padyatra’ (save farmers walk). Several farmer leaders were also...

The agitation by job aspirants over alleged irregularities in Jharkhand’s recruitment examinations entered its 19th day on Wednesday, with protesters vowing to intensify their stir until their demands are met. The students, protesting under the banner of the JPSC-JSSC Reforms Manch, have refused to call off their agitation despite assurances from the Hemant Soren government...

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Speaker of the Delhi Legislative Assembly Vijender Gupta, along with MLAs, participated in a Tiranga Yatra at the Delhi Legislative Assembly premises. The yatra commenced from the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and culminated at the statue of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, symbolising the nation’s unity, democratic values and commitment to...