Damage to crops during the summer due to rough weather is not a new phenomenon but the recent spells of high-intensity thunderstorms have wreaked havoc for the mango growers of Uttar Pradesh, who claimed that around 50 per cent of the fruit two to two-and-a-half million tonnes which was in the ripening stage, has been spoilt.

Thus, not

The police has registered offences against three persons, including the security guard of a housing society, for allegedly abducting and raping a 15-year-old girl, an official said today. According to the complaint, the victim went out of her house at Khambalpada in Dombivili area here on the night of May 15 to get medicine as she was suffering

Amid loud cheers from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), B.S. Yeddyurappa was sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka, over six years after his exit from the party on grounds of alleged ill-treatment by the BJP High Command.

WATCH | BS Yeddyurappa takes oath as K

 Mumbai Indians stays in the hunt with a nail-biting win.  Heartbreak for Rahul as his 94 off 60 balls isn’t enough to take Kings XI Punjab home; brilliant Bumrah does the trick for the home team
with this win mumbai keep their play-off hopes alive. Due to his misery spell Bumrah awarded the Player of the match.. 

Nearly 1.70 lakh people have so far registered for the pilgrimage to cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, set to begin for 60-day long period from Jammu on June 28. Over 1.69 lakh pilgrims have been registered at various counters across the country and the registration is going on in full swing, officials associated with regi

The civil aviation ministry is in final stages of formulating the drone policy and it is expected to be released shortly, Union Minister Jayant Sinha said on Wednesday.
The ministry came out with draft rules for unmanned aircraft systems last year, seeking comments from the public.

The Minister of State for Civil aviation said t

A die-hard soccer fan, actor Arjun Kapoor got a chance to hang out with football legend Cristiano Ronaldo on Monday in Madrid, Spain. Arjun has been roped in by the Spanish football league, La Liga, for a special promotional tie-up. During the dream-come-true meeting, Arjun reportedly wished Ronaldo all the best for the upcoming Champions League

President Vladimir Putin drew condemnation from the US, Europe and Ukraine on Tuesday after he opened a new bridge linking mainland Russia and Moscow-annexed Crimea by driving a truck across it to the peninsula.

Putin dressed in jeans and a casual jacket was shown by Russian state television behind the wheel of a construction truck to

In a horrific tragedy, a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi on Tuesday, claiming 18 lives and injuring 11 others. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath constituted a high-level investigation team to study the mishap. Albeit a probe is on to ascertain what led to the disaster, Uttar Pradesh Congress

Counting of votes in Karnataka began at 8 am on Tuesday, and initial results showed a close fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress, with the HD Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) leading in 30 seats, as per trends at 9:20 am. Sources told Times Now that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati reportedly had