Modi, Shehbaz meeting may take place in Uzbekistan at SCO summit

Islamabad (IANS) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Secretary General Zhang Ming is visiting Pakistan on Friday for three days and will invite Pak Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to participate in the SCO annual summit to be held in Samarkand,…

Rajasthan BJP breaches Gehlot's fort as 2 cross-vote for Murmu

Jaipur (IANS) In the presidential election, the BJP has managed to breach the fort of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot as two Congress MLAs cross-voted for NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu.

The names of the MLAs have not been disclosed yet, but doubts…

Neeraj Chopra qualifies for World Championships final with first-attempt throw of 88.39m

New Delhi (IANS) Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, India's biggest medal prospect at the World Athletics Championships 2022 in Oregon, took just 10 seconds to qualify for the men's javelin final with a massive throw of 88.39m on Friday.

Passengers deboarded after bomb scare on Patna-Delhi IndiGo flight

Patna (IANS) Panic gripped passengers of a Delhi-bound Indigo flight on Thursday night after one of the passengers claimed that there is a bomb in the plane at Patna airport.

Sources have said that the passenger made the claim while others…

Fire on-board INS Vikramaditya, no casualties

Mumbai (IANS) A fire broke out on-board the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya while it was sailing off Karwar in Karnataka, officials said here on Wednesday.

The incident occurred during a planned sortie for conducting sea trials of the aircraft…

PM Modi not scheduled to address UNGA this year; Jaishankar is listed

United Nations (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not scheduled to be at the high-level United Nations General Assembly session in September when presidents and prime ministers throng here, according to the roster of speakers which instead lists…

Sonia ED appearance: Heavy police deployment outside Cong, ED office

New Delhi (IANS) There was a heavy deployment of police personnel around the Congress headquarters and the Enforcement Directorate office here ahead of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi's questioning in the National Herald case.

As…

Politics intensifies on self-immolation of sadhu in Rajasthan

Jaipur (IANS) Politics has intensified in Rajasthan after the self-immolation bid by a saint in Bharatpur district.

The sadhu set himself on fire on Wednesday to protest against illegal mining in the Pasopa village of Rajasthan's Bharatpur…

7 electric bikes gutted in fire at Pune showroom, overcharging suspected

Pune/New Delhi (IANS) In yet another fire incident involving electric vehicles (EVs) in the country, at least seven electric bikes caught fire at a showroom here reportedly due to overcharging.

The fire brigade had to be brought in to douse…

Delhi HC to hear all pleas on Agnipath scheme on August 25

New Delhi (IANS) The Delhi High Court will hear on August 25 all the pleas challenging the Centre's newly-launched Agnipath recruitment scheme.

A division bench presided over by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium…