After 20 agonising hours of being trapped under the debris following the Bhiwandi building crash, labourer Sunil Pisal (32) was safely rescued on Sunday, which was also his birthday. When NDRF and Thane Disaster Relief Force personnel extracted Pisal from the rubble around 8am, he was conscious and thanked them with folded hands for giving him a second life. His relatives and friends cheered on as he was taken to hospital.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/6YBQTxW
via ATC
In a tragic incident, 11 people were killed and four injured as they inhaled a toxic gas in Ludhiana’s Giaspura neighbourhood on Sunday morning. Ten of those killed belong to three families from Bihar, who had been living in Punjab for over two-three decades, and one person is yet to be identified.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/oREUhpc
via ATC
Addressing the 100th edition of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday, an emotional PM Modi said the radio broadcast had allowed him to worship the positives in people he had met with or spoken to. He also said it filled the “emptiness” that he felt when he first moved to the capital from Gujarat in 2014. He described ‘Mann Ki Baat' as a great medium to learn from the qualities of others, adding that it allowed him to connect with the people of India like he used to when he was Gujarat CM.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/S9sOn8f
via ATC
The defamation case against Rahul Gandhi is not serious enough to warrant his disqualification from contesting elections for eight years, his counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Saturday in the Gujarat high court that is hearing a plea to stay a lower court’s conviction of the former Congress MP.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/b9lwvuY
via ATC
The qualifying percentile in JEE (Main) to be eligible for JEE (Advanced), the gateway to 23 Indian Institutes of technology (IITs), registered a five-year high for the reserved category and a four-year-high for the general category candidates this year. The minimum cutoff for the general category this year is 90.7 percentile, up from 88.4 in 2022. The cutoff for the OBC category rose to 73.6 percentile this year from 67 in 2022 and 68 in 2021.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/QEXx1J8
via ATC
Ghazipur court on Saturday sentenced jailed ganglord Mukhtar Ansari to 10 years’ imprisonment and his BSP MP brother, Afzal Ansari, to four years following their conviction in separate cases registered under the UP Gangsters Act in 2007. Additional sessions judge-I (MP-MLA court) Durgesh also fined Mukhtar Rs 5 lakh and Afzal Rs 1 lakh. The sentencing of Afzal paves the way for his automatic disqualification from the Lok Sabha. He represents Ghazipur in Parliament.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/KAi40WD
via ATC
An area that has gained notoriety as ‘new Jamtara’ for being one of the epicentres of cyber fraud in the country got its first major shakedown this week with Haryana Police detaining 125 suspects over Thursday and Friday. The raids at 300 locations in 14 villages of Nuh were its largest field operation against cybercrime, carried out by 102 police teams involving more than 5,000 cops.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/cdgzn5x
via ATC
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to “look into” the sensational murder of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed while in custody and also the encounter killing of Atiq’s son just two days before it even as it asked the UP government to file a status report.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/QNPOGYR
via ATC
Delhi Police on Friday registered two separate FIRs against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on complaints of sexual harassment levelled by some female wrestlers. The first FIR pertains to allegations levelled by a minor victim which is registered under the Pocso Act. The second FIR was registered to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the allegations by the adult complainants.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/rYgXWUK
via ATC
Terming hate speech as a “serious offence” which could affect the secular fabric of the country, the Supreme Court on Friday directed police in all states and UTs to take suo motu action and register cases against those making such speeches irrespective of their religion without waiting for a formal complaint.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/TrW9V5i
via ATC
India on Thursday made it clear to China that there will be no improvement in the overall bilateral relationship till its troops disengage and de-escalate tensions in the standoff in eastern Ladakh, while summarily rejecting a new Chinese plan for resumption of military-to-military engagements in a sharp message to its neighbour. Defence minister Rajnath Singh told his China's General Li Shangfu that China’s “violation of existing agreements has eroded the entire basis of bilateral relations”.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/dgWZPEU
via ATC
With the Union government driving home the judicial impossibility of disentangling the Special Marriage Act from the web of personal laws for legalising same-sex marriages, the Supreme Court asked the Centre what administrative measures could be taken to improve the day-to-day lives of same-sex couples. “Short of marriage rights... what can the government do for long cohabiting couples? They need some recognition for creating conditions for their social security and welfare," the SC said.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/aNjFLlY
via ATC
Maoists on Wednesday blew up a vehicle carrying 10 personnel of the District Reserve Guard in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, which is not quite their ‘core’ area and has seen few attacks since the ambush of 2010 that killed 75 CRPF jawans. They avoided strongholds like Sukma or Bijapur, where CRPF has been making deep inroads and setting up forward operating bases (FOBs).
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/7xh1JEp
via ATC
A criminal defamation complaint was filed against Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav in a court here on Wednesday over his alleged remark suggesting "only Gujaratis can be thugs in the current situation". The complaint was filed against the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader by social worker and businessman Haresh Mehta.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/NrA9Ox5
via ATC
On the first day of ‘Operation Kaveri’, India evacuated 278 citizens from Port Sudan by INS Sumedha and brought them to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.The government said it had deployed another naval ship, INS Teg, to bring more Indians who have arrived at the port from different parts of Sudan to Jeddah, from where they will be flown back to India in military aircraft.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/L9Vop2K
via ATC
In a gay relationship since 2012, Vaibhav and Parag got married in Texas in 2017 and with a recently-adopted four month old baby in hand, they through senior advocate Geeta Luthra on Tuesday pleaded with the Supreme Court to make Foreign Marriage Act gender neutral.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/F9r1Vzk
via ATC
The banned People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), an offshoot of Pakistan-backed terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, claimed to have released Tuesday a series of captioned photos on social media that the group said is from the Poonch ambush that left five soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles dead last Thursday.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/dEf6QvF
via ATC
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and deputy Tejashwi Yadav Monday took their renewed mission for a united anti-BJP opposition to Kolkata and Lucknow, first meeting Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to push for a conclave of non-NDA parties in Bihar and then SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to clarify that what mattered was the cause and not the mantle of leadership.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/urYc0Jp
via ATC
Racing against time to approve National Highway (NH) projects, the road transport and highways ministry appraised projects for approval with a total capital cost of Rs 85,033 crore only in March, the last month of the financial year. This was nearly 74% more than the cost of the projects appraised for approval during March 2022.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/qA12oI8
via ATC
The Bar Council of India and state bar councils on Sunday opposed any decision by the Supreme Court on the right to marriage of same-sex couples and said given the country’s social, cultural and religious diversity, the issue must be left to Parliament.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/KGYQ6w5
via ATC
In a significant move that is expected to give an impetus to BJP’s outreach to the Christian community in Kerala ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold discussions with various church leaders in Kochi on Monday, when he starts his two-day visit of the state.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/bPDvuc8
via ATC
The hunt for fugitive Khalistan sympathiser and Waris Punjab De head Amritpal Singh ended Sunday morning with Punjab police arresting the 30-year-old preacher outside a gurdwara in slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s native village of Rode in Punjab’s Moga district.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/d06v8EJ
via ATC
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Northern Command, Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday said that necessary action is underway against the terrorists responsible for April 20 attack on an Army truck in J&K’s Poonch district that left five soldiers dead.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/RnHsNV6
via ATC
India and China on Sunday held another round of top-level military talks in a bid to defuse the three-year-long troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh, ahead of Chinese defence minister general Li Shangfu’s visit to Delhi for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting this week.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/lEw1UFN
via ATC
PM Narendra Modi, on the occasion of Earth Day on Saturday, said India is committed to furthering sustainable development in line with the country’s “culture of living in harmony with nature”. “On Earth Day, I laud all those working to make our planet better. India is committed to furthering sustainable development in line with our culture of living in harmony with nature,” he tweeted.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Div1OzK
via ATC
While the origin and authenticity of the letter in Malayalam reported by state BJP chief K Surendran’s office was couched in mystery until evening, police admitted that details of deployment for the PM’s scheduled visit to Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram did get out somehow.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/C3Yftez
via ATC
US President Joe Biden is looking forward to travelling to India in September, his administration’s point person for South and Central Asia has said, observing that 2024 is going to be a “big year” for the India-US relationship. India’s leadership in the G20 further broadens its capacity to stand as a force for good in the world, the official said.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/mO6YDPp
via ATC
The test of the `endo-atmospheric interceptor missile’ from a warship was conducted by the DRDO and Navy off the Odisha coast in the Bay of Bengal on Friday. “The trial’s purpose was to engage and neutralize a hostile ballistic missile threat, thereby elevating India into the elite club of nations having naval BMD capability,” the defence ministry said on Saturday.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/VdExG2t
via ATC
Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu will also attend the SCO defence ministers’ meet on April 27-28, at a time when there are growing concerns in India over the tightening Moscow-Beijing strategic embrace and the fallout of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif will, however, participate virtually in the meet.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/BnS80su
via ATC
A major operation with special forces, regular troops, helicopters and drones is under way by the Army to hunt down the 5-7 terrorists who attacked an Army truck in a well-planned ambush in Poonch district of J&K on Thursday afternoon, killing five Rashtriya Rifles soldiers and grievously injuring a sixth.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/VXrBeER
via ATC
The Supreme Court told the Tamil Nadu government not to move YouTuber Manish Kashyap from Madurai jail till further orders as multiple FIRs have been filed against him and asked the state government to justify invocation of the National Security Act (NSA) against Kashyap who was arrested for allegedly circulating fake videos of migrant labourers being attacked in TN.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BcPa4g
via ATC
Isro’s PSLV-C55 mission, which will be launched from the first launchpad of Sriharikota at 2.19 pm on Saturday, is not only important for foreign customers but is also significant for desi space startups as the NSIL’s dedicated commercial rocket will carry two Singapore satellites as main payloads and seven non-separating payloads belonging to Isro.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/frC0L1V
via ATC
Jaishankar is headed on a nine-day trip to Guyana, Panama, Colombia and the Dominican Republic beginning on Friday, his first visit as the external affairs minister to these Latin American countries and the Caribbean.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/toBGchZ
via ATC
The United Nations Population Fund’s ‘State of the World Population Report 2023’ pegs India’s mid-year population at 142.86 crore and China’s at 142.57 crore. Given that India has in recent years been adding about 1.6-to-1.7 crore annually to its population, and with 10 weeks to go for June-end, it could mean that the country has either already crept ahead or would do so anytime now.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/VtHsgFh
via ATC
In its application, the Centre informed a bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices SK Kaul, SR Bhat, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha that on Tuesday, it had sought views of all states and pleaded that it would be desirable to await the outcome of such a consultation process.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/gQSGKtY
via ATC
“The state cannot discriminate against a person for his/her sexual orientation which is innate to him/her and over which he/she has no control,” the five-judge bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud said as it continued hearing on the demand for legalising same-sex marriage and putting it on the same legal footing as heterosexual unions.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/bsHPjOE
via ATC
In January 2022, as many as 5,459 Indians were caught entering the US illegally. Of these, 708 were caught along the US-Canada border. The numbers rose 35.9% to 7,421 in January 2023, including 2,478 detentions made on the US-Canada border.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/38YPpCf
via ATC
The country had reported 9,111 fresh Covid-19 cases on Monday, slightly lower than Sunday's 10,093, mainly due to lower testing.Monday's Covid toll was 24, while three deaths were reconciled by states - Gujarat recorded the maximum six deaths, followed by Uttar Pradesh with four.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ycpaPmr
via ATC
His apparent change of heart came with the strict condition that retrospective ex gratia would be paid only if families of the deceased produced verifiable evidence that the deaths were caused by consumption of hooch. The claimants are also required to reveal in writing the source of liquor.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/7mhCSQf
via ATC
Justice Sabina was shifted to the Rajasthan high court in 2016 in what was then termed a “routine administrative reshuffle” and from there to the Himachal high court earlier this year.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Jv8n1XR
via ATC
An officer told TOI that UAPA Section 16 (Punishment for terrorist act) was invoked against Saifi. SIT invoked UAPA after questioning Saifi for nine days and collecting elaborate information on his background, social media activity and links at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi. SIT will produce him before Kozhikode JFCM court on Tuesday.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/edtIcCk
via ATC
As speculation raged about conspiracy theories, sources said Luvlesh Tiwari (22) of Banda, Arun Kumar Maurya (18) of Kasganj and Mohit Singh (23), alias Shani, of Hamirpur had each served time for various crimes and the possibility of the trio being hired for a hit job couldn’t be ruled out. Luvlesh and Mohit apparently met in 2021 when they were together in Chitrakoot jail.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/IE39TCZ
via ATC
The Centre has revoked the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card given to Kannadiga-American actor and social activist Chetan Kumar on the grounds that his "activities are inimical to the interest of general public". Chetan was arrested three weeks ago for his tweet against Hindutva.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/XmVQlEP
via ATC
Jailed gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by two assailants posing as TV reporters while they were being escorted to a hospital in Prayagraj for a mandatory medical examination under heavy security cover on Saturday night.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/xPXdjqp
via ATC
In a shocking turn of events, mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj on Saturday.Moments ahead of their killing, both criminals, who were accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, were speaking to the media while being taken for a medical and their murder was captured on camera.
from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/GW4xrme
via ATC