In a fillip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to make India a global semiconductor manufacturing hub, Tata Electronics on Saturday held the ground-breaking ceremony of its chip assembly and testing unit at Jagiroad in Morigaon district, Assam.
The district administration has demolished the bakery of Samajwadi Party leader Moin Khan, accused in the gang-rape case of a 12-year-old girl in Ayodhya.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that India has emerged as a food surplus country with a robust agriculture sector and was ready to share its experience to help solve the global problem of hunger and malnutrition amid the challenge posed by climate change.
Uttarakhand Police Headquarters in Dehradun reported on Saturday that heavy rainfall on Wednesday night in Kedarnath has caused significant damage to several routes.
As rescue operations entered the fifth day on Saturday, the toll in Kerala’s worst natural calamity touched 344 with 206 people still missing after the massive landslides and floods at Wayanad.
The Union government empowered more than 10,000 technology startups through various schemes in the last five years, said Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.
As more than 4.85 lakh pilgrims already performed the annual Amarnath Yatra during the last 35 days, a small batch of 991 Yatris left for the Valley on Saturday, officials said.
Infiltration from Bangladesh into Tripura remained unabated with seven more Bangladesh nationals arrested in the state on Friday for their illegal entry into India, an official said on Friday.
Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Tripura Assembly and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury on Friday said that "due to criminalisation of politics, ethnic violence to numerous crimes have been taking place during the last 6 years' rule of BJP-led government in the state".
The Member of Parliament for East Tripura Parliamentary constituency Kriti Debi Debbarman demanded the Centre for establishment of AIMS-like Medical College & Hospital in Tripura Tribal Areas and Autonomous District Council (TTAADC).
In a significant operation, Tripura Police on Wednesday have recovered a substantial quantity of dried cannabis worth Rs 14 lakh following a tip-off from Ambassa in Dhalai District.
The Tripura High Court has directed the Tripura Judicial Academy to organize a refresher program on investigation and trial under the NDPS Act, 1985.
In the past 24 hours, 15 Bangladeshi nationals, including seven transgender individuals, were detained in two separate locations in Tripura. Tripura shares an 856 km international border with Bangladesh.
The Assam Rifles has reported a significant haul of contraband substances, including cannabis and heroin, valued at approximately Rs 52.88 crores. This substantial seizure occurred across the states of Tripura, Assam, and Manipur during the fiscal year 2023-24.
A warning has been issued for thunderstorms with lightning likely to occur at isolated places across all districts of Tripura. Heavy rainfall is expected at isolated places in Khowai, Dhalai, Sepahijala, and West Districts, while heavy to very heavy rainfall is anticipated at isolated places in South and Gomati Districts.
Students of NIT College at Jirania in Agartala came out in large number on Thursday in the college campus to show protest against the death of a student, caused allegedly due to the medical negligence by the doctors of the NIT Hospital.
Despite strict vigilance by the Border Security Force (BSF), infiltration from trouble-torn Bangladesh continues unabated as eight more Bangladeshi nationals, including two women and two Indian touts were arrested by security personnel here on Thursday, an official said.
In view of ongoing unrest in Bangladesh, the Border Security Force (BSF) has stepped up its vigil along the border and maintained close coordination with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at various levels, officials said on Thursday.
Students of NIT College at Jirania in Agartala came out in large number on Thursday in the college campus to show protest against the death of a student, caused allegedly due to the medical negligence by the doctors of the NIT Hospital.
Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi arrived in Wayanad’s Chooramala, one of the worst hit regions by the catastrophic landslides, on Thursday.
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based transactions surged once again in the month of July, reaching Rs 20.64 lakh crore against Rs 20.07 lakh crore in the previous month – a massive 35 per cent surge (year-on-year), the data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) showed on Thursday.
The Centre has released Rs 1.64 lakh crore to all states and Union Territories (UTs) till now under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U) for constructing houses for the poor in urban areas, the Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Tokhan Sahu said on Thursday in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
Both leaders held bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Modi who also hosted a luncheon in the honour of the visiting high-level delegation from Hanoi, which included several ministers, deputy ministers and business leaders.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar, who approached the apex court seeking bail in AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal's assault case.
India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) has raised India's GDP growth forecast for 2024-25 to 7.5 per cent from 7.1 per cent projected earlier as it expects the Union Budget to give a further fillip to the economy.
