New Delhi,  Despite the Delhi government imposing a blanket ban on the storage, sale, and use of all types of firecrackers, over 200 emergencies and fire related calls were received by the fire department on Diwali day.

Officials said that only nine calls were related to the fire, caused due to firecrack

Shivamogga, (Karnataka)  Tension prevailed in Karnataka's Shivamogga district on Tuesday after a group of miscreants threatened the family members of slain Bajrang Dal activist Harsha, who was hacked to death earlier this year.

The police have made tight security arrangements throughout the district

Badaun, A 66-year-old retired school teacher was shot dead by his son and daughter-in-law over a trivial domestic dispute in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district.

The police arrested the couple on Monday evening.

Senior Superintendent of Police O.P. Singh said Satpal, a resident of Amroli villag

Imphal,  The Congress on Monday filed a disqualification petition in Manipur Assembly Speaker's tribunal against five Janata Dal-United MLAs, who joined the ruling BJP last month.

Manipur state Congress Vice-President Hareshwar Goshwami, accompanied by lawyer Ningombam Bupenda Meitei, filed disqualif

Hyderabad,  Harassment by a loan app agents drove another man to suicide in Telangana on Monday.

Dasari Shekhar, 35, hanged himself at his residence in Kothakota town in Wanaparthy district. His wife complained to the police that he was upset after loan app agents threatened to post his nude photograph t

New Delhi,  Two firemen were injured while four people were rescued after a fire broke out at a factory in Delhi's Gandhi Nagar area on Diwali evening on Monday, official said.

A fire official said that a call about fire in a factory in gali number 12, Raghubar Pura-2 in Gandhi Nagar area was receive

Bengaluru,  The staff at the office of Bengaluru-based tech giant Infosys on Monday cheered the news of Indian-origin British Conservative politician Rishi Sunak making it to the post of UK Prime Minister, terming the development "double Diwali dhamaka".

There was a palpable enthusiasm among th

New Delhi,  Congress leader and former Union Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday used the victory of Rishi Sunak in the race to become the UK's next Prime Minister to take a swipe at the BJP, remarking that there is a lesson to be learned by the parties that practise majoritarianism.

"First Kamala

Hyderabad,  Telangana Governor Tamilisai Sounderarajan on Monday claimed she has extensive powers and approving the Bills passed by the State Legislature comes under her purview.

The remark came amid criticism of the Governor by the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) over the delay in approving the B

Mumbai,  In a Diwali gift of sorts, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde launched a mass housing scheme of 7,849 affordable flats for the economically weaker sections of society in the satellite city of Navi Mumbai, here on Monday.

It will be developed by City Industrial Development Corporation of Ma