New Delhi/Porbandar,  The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday commissioned a squadron of the indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III at its Air Enclave in Porbandar to increase surveillance across the Gujarat coastline, an official statement said.

The commissioning of this squadron will increase self

New Delhi,  Dismissing reports of resistance from the industry to migrate to a single use plastic (SUP) ban scenario from July 1, the Centre on Tuesday said that it has constantly been in touch with e-commerce companies, FMCG sector and other industry houses on the issue and that all of them are cooperating and majorit

Mumbai, In a major political development late on Tuesday, a delegation of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called on Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari with a plea to ascertain the majority of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi government.

The BJP's move came after a group of 39 Shiv Sena MLA

New Delhi,  India's apex drugs regulator, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), on Tuesday approved Pune-based Serum Institute's Covid vaccine Covovax for children aged 7 to 11 years, as per a source.

The source said that SII's Covovax vaccine has been approved for restricted emergenc

Aizawl,  The Assam Rifles have, in two separate operations in Mizoram, seized foreign cigarettes and drugs (methamphetamine tablets), valued at around Rs 4 crore, after these were smuggled in from neighbouring Myanmar, officials said on Tuesday.

Two women were arrested in connection with the seizure of t

Patna,  Prohibition is force in Bihar for over 6 years now but trade, transportation, and consumption of liquor is still taking place in several districts of the state, as per the latest data.

As per the data, Bihar Police has recovered over 13.87 lakh litres of illicit alcohol from different districts f

New Delhi,  A Delhi vendor was arrested for murdering his wife and then seeking to mislead the police by filing a report that she was missing, a Delhi Police official said on Tuesday.

The crime was committed by two people -- the deceased woman's husband Sunil Kumar, 32, and his brother Chhotu, 27. Bo

New Delhi,  In a latest development in the gruesome broad daylight beheading of a tailor in Udaipur on Tuesday, a team of the elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) is all set to visit the crime spot in the Lake City.

A source said that there are possibilities that the case might be handed over to the

Srinagar,  The Jammu and Kashmir's Special Investigation Agency (SIA) on Tuesday busted a SIM card misuse fraud and booked a vendor in Kupwara district, an official statement said.

Concerned about the misuse of SIM cards by militants and their overground workers (OGWs), the SIA busted a fraudulent SI

New Delhi,  In interim relief to slum dwellers in the national capital's Nizamuddin area, the Delhi High Court has ordered the authorities to halt a demolition process.

While giving the interim relief till July 11, in a recent order, a vacation bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna observed that the