New Delhi,  In an effort to enhance transparency and avoid discrepancies, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will set up an automatic system check to stop billing from the meter readers tablet if consumption variance is more than 50 per cent higher or lower in comparison to the previous bill.

"The Delhi Jal

New Delhi, Three cattle were charred to death in a fire at a farmer's house in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar district early on Friday.

The farmer is safe, however, he lost three cattle to the fire in the incident in Muthiyana village, a police official said, adding that of the three dead cattle, t

Nellore, A 14-year-old girl was killed while five others were feared washed away after an autorickshaw fell into a stream in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district.

The incident occurred on Thursday night near Sangam when the three-wheeler fell into Beeraperu stream after it was hit by a truck coming from the

New Delhi,  Fifty years on, crossing the mighty Padma river in a small rowboat with a nor'wester brewing still gives Manash Ghosh nightmares.

Then a "cub reporter" with The Statesman, Ghosh was embedded with the Indian Army during the 1971 operations that led to the creation of Bangladesh,

Mysuru,   Karnataka police have arrested a man for repeatedly breaking and vandalising idols of Hindu Gods in Saligrama village near K.R. Nagar in this district of Karnataka, police said on Friday.

The accused has told police that he was breaking idols as he thought people were being deceived as the

Patna, The Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) in Bihar is likely to merge with the Congress in next few weeks, its top official has said.

Party chief Rajesh Ranjan, alias Pappu Yadav, has convened a meeting on December 16 and 17 to deliberate on all the aspects before the merger, the official said on Thursday.

New Delhi, The BJP youth wing on Friday will organise a programme at 500 'Shaheed Samaraks' (martyrs memorials) across the country to pay tribute to Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 other armed forces personnel, who lost their lives in a military chopper crash.

CDS Rawat, his wif

New Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Home paid tributes to Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and his wife, who lost their lives along with 11 others in the military chopper crash in Tamil Nadu.

Around 10 a.m., the mortal remains of Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat arrived at his official resid

Srinagar, Cold wave intensified in Kashmir and Ladakh on Friday with the Drass town literally freezing at minus 16.9 degrees Celsius.

An official of the Meteorological Department (MeT) said the minimum temperature remained below the freezing point in Kashmir and union territory of Ladakh.

The D

Chennai,  The Tamil BJP has urged the state Election Commissioner to conduct Urban local body elections in a single phase.

In a letter to the commissioner, state president of BJP's advocate wing R.C. Paul Kanagaraj, on Thursday said that conducting the polls in a single phase would lead to less influ