Lok Sabha passes bill to confiscate assets of fugitive economic offenders
New Delhi (PTI): The Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill aimed at preventing culprits from evading the legal process and fleeing the country was on JUly...
Head of Udupi mutt dies. Hospital suspects he was poisoned
Udupi, Karnataka: Lakshmivara Tirtha, the high-profile and sometimes controversial pontiff of the Shiroor mutt in Karnataka’s Udupi, died in a hospital on Thursday morning...
Pesticide in Hyderabad kids’ food 40 times more than in US
Hyderabad: Believe it or not, children in Hyderabad are consuming 10 to 40 times more pesticides in their food than children in Europe, USA...
CBI charge-sheets Farooq Abdullah, 3 others in multi-crore JKCA scam
Srinagar: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday filed charge sheet before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar, against four accused, including former J&K chief...
67 injured after tent collapses at PM Modi’s rally in Bengal’s Midnapore
Midnapore: A makeshift tent collapsed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in West Bengal's Midnapore. The canopy collapsed while the Prime Minister was addressing...
Over 13,500 infant deaths in Maharashtra in 11 months: Health Minister Deepak Sawant
NAGPUR: More than 13,500 children died between April 2017 and February 2018 in Maharashtra due to a variety of health-related reasons, including poor weight,...
Assam gets a stringent law to fight witch-hunting
GUWAHATI: Activists in Assam, fighting for years to create awareness against witch-hunting, are ecstatic as President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to...
Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra commences in full splendor in Puri
By Sudarshan Maharana
PURI: Bada Danda (Grand Road) on July 14 was brimming with devotees as lakhs, swathed in religious fervor, descended in Puri to...
Odisha: Here, liquor and fish are offered as ‘prasad’
JAGATSINGHPUR: The temple of Goddess Uttershwari, located in a narrow bylane of Paikasahi village, appears like any other temple in the area. The ‘bhog’...
Thief in Kerala returns stolen gold jewelry with an apology letter
Ambalapuzha: A man who stole gold ornaments from a house here returned it two days later with an apology letter. The thief had gained...
