Political cartoonist P Mahamud has won the first edition of an award set up in the memory of journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was assassinated in Bengaluru a year ago. The announcement was made on Wednesday by two India centres of writers’ organisation PEN.
India probably overestimated manufacturing output while calculating economic growth that topped 8 per cent in the June quarter, according to a member of the central bank’s rate-setting panel.
PM unveils connectivity projects worth Rs 18,680 crore in West Bengal
Case registered after class 1 student made to stand in sun for 2 hrs as punishment in Bengaluru
BJP responsible for Sabarimala women entry verdict, LDF's stand same as 2007 affidavit: Min Vasavan
Akasa Air hikes fares, adds Rs 199- Rs 1,300 surcharge as West Asia war pushes up oil prices
Karnataka govt warns of action against LPG hoarding, blackmarketing amid supply concerns
North Korea fires about 10 missiles toward sea in show of force, Seoul says
Bengaluru man arrested for allegedly strangling girlfriend with wire over marriage dispute
23-year-old man shot dead in Jharkhand's Chatra
Some hotels switch to alternative methods to cook; panic buying of fuel subsides
1,483 locations in Lucknow raided to check black marketing of LPG cylinders, 6 arrested
India repatriates non-essential crew members of Iranian ship in Kochi
Assam: Four dead in bus accident, 10 injured
The CBI on Thursday said it has arrested four persons including the promoters and directors of Jayem Industries and officers of the Food Safety and Drug Administration and Excise Department in connection with the multi-crore gutkha scam in Tamil Nadu.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday recommended dissolving the state assembly, nine months before its term ends, to enable holding of early polls in the state.
Barely a week before the state's biggest public festival Ganeshotsav, petrol-diesel prices in Maharashtra's Parbhani shot up to Rs 88.77, perhaps the highest in the country, an official said.
The Indian rupee breached the 72 per US dollar mark for the first time on Thursday. Around 1 p.m., the rupee traded around 72.05 per dollar, against Wednesday's closing of 71.76 per greenback.
Normal life was partially affected in several parts of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday as several organisations staged protests as part of a countrywide agitation against the SC/ST Amendment Act.
The Supreme Court on Thursday in a landmark decision decriminalised homosexuality by declaring Section 377, the penal provision which criminalised gay sex, as "manifestly arbitrary".
As 4G penetration increases in India, Kolkata has emerged as the top city with a 4G availability score of an impressive over 90 per cent, London-based wireless coverage mapping company OpenSignal said on Thursday.
At least nine people were killed and 300 injured after a powerful earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale rocked Japan's Hokkaido prefecture on Thursday.
