Five members of a family including a 55-year-old woman, her daughter-in-law, two grandsons, and one minor relative drowned in a water-filled quarry at Sandap village near Dombivli.
Chief Justice NV Ramana on Saturday expressed deep concern over rising incidents of violence and lodging of false cases against doctors across India and said they need a secure environment to discharge their selfless service to the society. "Several false cases are being lodged against upright and hardworking doctors. They ...
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday predicted a fresh spell of heatwave conditions over parts of northwest and central India for three days, beginning Sunday. Maximum temperature in many parts of the region is expected to be over 42-44 degree celsius. On Saturday, the highest maximum temperature of 45 ...
With China systematically building roads, bridges and military positions along the entire 3,488-km Line of Actual Control during the continuing troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asked the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to further enhance its capability with latest technology for faster development of infrastructure ...
Nearly a month after Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel invited the Maoists to peace talks, the insurgents have said they are willing to sit across a table but have set stiff riders — revoke the ban on CPI (Maoists) and its frontal organisations, release all jailed leaders and withdraw all security ...
Amarnath yatra, which was suspended for the past two years due to Covid, appears to have generated much enthusiasm among pilgrims with over 1.5 lakh registrations made for the annual pilgrimage in the first 26 days of opening of bookings. This marks a 249% jump over the total 43,038 bookings ...
Ever wondered why measuring happiness is a fairly complicated business. Not for the Nordic countries that top the world data and attract attention for high levels of happiness. They have ranked among the very top performers on renowned well being indices such as the United Nations’ World Happiness Report (WHR), ...
Afghanistan and the shambolic US withdrawal from that war-ravaged country dominated the global news cycle and collective consciousness in August 2021, even as yet another beleaguered superpower wearily acknowledged that the rugged Afghan nation was indeed a ‘graveyard of empire’. However, Afghanistan has receded from public memory and the focus now ...
The total fertility rate, defined as the average number of children who would be born to a woman in her lifetime, has declined for all communities between the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in 2015-16 and the fifth one in 2019-21, official data released earlier this week reveals.