Stuck in Rajasthan borewell for 10 days, three-year-old girl dies hours after rescue
Jan 02, 2025, at 03:03 am
New Delhi/IBNS: A three-year-old child who fell into a borewell in Rajasthan's Kotputli 10 days ago, died shortly after she was rescued, media reports said.
SRK, Akshay Kumar praise PM Modi's global initiative to take Indian cinema to a greater scale
Jan 02, 2025, at 12:11 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest initiative, under 'Create in India', to take Indian cinema to a greater scale globally has earned heaps of praises from superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar.
China's proposed dam on Brahmaputra should be cause for concern in downstream India and Bangladesh
Jan 01, 2025, at 08:10 pm
Beijing/New Delhi: The Chinese government, under Xi Jinping, has greenlit the construction of the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra in Tibet, just 22 km from India's Arunachal Pradesh, raising concerns in riparian states India and Bangladesh.
Indian Navy set to commission three frontline fleet assets on January 15
Jan 01, 2025, at 04:01 pm
The Indian Navy is set to commission three frontline combatants - Nilgiri, the lead ship of the Project 17A stealth frigate class; Surat, the fourth and final ship of the Project 15B stealth destroyer class; and Vaghsheer, the sixth and final submarine of the Scorpene-class project - together at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai.
Jan 01, 2025, at 03:01 pm
Imphal/IBNS: Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh has counter-attacked senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh who questioned why prime minister Narendra Modi couldn't visit the violence-hit northeastern state.
Jan 01, 2025, at 02:57 pm
Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay on Tuesday remembered the role played by former Indian PM Manmohan Singh in launching the 11th Five Year Plan of the Himalayan Nation.
President Droupadi Murmu, PM Modi greet nation on New Year 2025
Jan 01, 2025, at 01:24 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: President Droupadi Murmu and prime minister Narendra Modi wished the country on the occasion of New Year 2025 on Wednesday.
Indian-origin doctor among 2 killed in UAE light aircraft crash
Jan 01, 2025, at 12:12 am
An Indian-origin doctor was among two killed in a light aircraft crash that occurred off the coast of UAE's Ras Al Khaimah on Sunday, media reports said.
Dec 31, 2024, at 11:44 pm
Sandeshkhali/IBNS: A day after Mamata Banerjee visited Sandeshkhali, West Bengal's Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was in the obscure riverine island on Tuesday, where he warned the Chief Minister of imprisonment over false cases if the Bharatiya Janata Party forms government in the state..
NPPA faces scrutiny over 50% drug price hikes
Dec 31, 2024, at 10:55 pm
New Delhi: India’s drug pricing regulator, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), has come under scrutiny from the parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and fertilisers for permitting a 50 percent price increase on 11 drug formulations in October.
Uttar Pradesh's first digital highway: Barabanki-Bahraich route to transform travel
Dec 31, 2024, at 09:52 pm
Lucknow: The 101 km, four-lane highway connecting Barabanki to Bahraich is set to transform travel in Uttar Pradesh, becoming the state's first digital highway, according to recent reports.
'Forgive and forget mistake': Manipur CM N Biren Singh apologises for ethnic clashes
Dec 31, 2024, at 09:41 pm
Imphal/IBNS: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh Tuesday apologised for the disturbances in the northeastern state due to the ethnic clashes that started last year and hoped that normalcy will return in 2025.
Farewell 2024: That Was the Year That Was
Dec 31, 2024, at 06:42 pm
Indian PM Narendra Modi returned to power for the record-equalling third term as Prime Minister while several incumbent leaders had to quit their nations amid rising protests against their regimes, marking 2024 as a year which will go down as one of the most eventful 12 months in history.IBNS correspondent Supriyo Hazra revisits some of the major events of 2024. Excerpts.
Assam: STF arrest key member of banned Bangladesh-based terror outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team
Dec 31, 2024, at 04:51 pm
The Assam Police Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a key member of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from the state's Kokrajhar region, media reports said.
MK Stalin inaugurates 77-metre-long India's first glass bridge
Dec 31, 2024, at 04:26 pm
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday inaugurated the glass bridge which will connect the Vivekananda Memorial and Thiruvalluvar statue in Kanyakumari.
Dec 31, 2024, at 03:14 pm
Thiruvananthapuram/IBNS: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has called Maharashtra minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitesh Rane's remark labelling Kerala as "mini Pakistan" "deeply malicious" and "utterly condemnable".
Pune pub sends condoms and ORS to New Year invitees, Congress files complaint
Dec 31, 2024, at 01:11 pm
Pune/IBNS: A Pune pub has drawn backlash and a police complaint by the Congress for sending 'goody-bags' with condoms and packets of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) to select invitees for the New Year's celebration, media reports said.
Yemen approves Indian nurse's death sentence for murder, MEA responds
Dec 31, 2024, at 12:20 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has responded after Yemen president Rashad al-Alimi approved the death sentence for Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who is imprisoned for killing a Yemeni national, media reports said.
Dec 31, 2024, at 11:38 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted a lot of money was in the play to level the allegations of gangrape in Sandeshkhali, where massive protests broke out against erstwhile Trinamool Congress local strongman Sheikh Shahjahan months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Dec 31, 2024, at 01:35 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The New Year greeting by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena to Atishi, embedded with criticism for her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal, was met with a sharp response from the Chief Minister.
'Law is equal for all': Pawan Kayan on Allu Arjun's arrest in theatre stampede case
Dec 30, 2024, at 11:54 pm
Hyderabad/IBNS: Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan refused to blame Telangana Police for taking action against actor Allu Arjun in the Sandhya theatre stampede case and said the law is equal for all and police must act with public safety in mind.
Highly objectionable and I was hurt that Arvind Kejriwal called Atishi temporary: Lt Governor
Dec 30, 2024, at 09:23 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has expressed concern over Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal calling Atishi a "temporary chief minister" and said he was "hurt" by the same.
'Where were you?': Heated exchange between Prashant Kishor and lathicharged BPSC aspirants
Dec 30, 2024, at 06:28 pm
Patna/IBNS: A confrontation unfolded on Sunday night in Patna between political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor and student protesters, who accused him of being absent during police action against Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) aspirants.
Odisha tigress Zeenat sedated and captured in West Bengal after 21 days of chase
Dec 30, 2024, at 03:11 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Tigress Zeenat, who had escaped Odisha Tiger Reserve, was sedated and captured in West Bengal's Bankura district on Sunday following a chase for 21 days, media reports said.
Case filed against Prashant Kishor over massive students' protests in Bihar
Dec 30, 2024, at 01:15 pm
Patna/IBNS: A case has been filed against Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor, some of his party leaders, a number of coaching centre owners and 700 unknown protesters over a massive students' protest in Bihar on Sunday, media reports said.
AAP accuses BJP of 'Operation Lotus' to erase its voters from rolls
Dec 30, 2024, at 12:34 am
Delhi: The political slugfest season is at its peak as Delhi prepares to vote for the assembly elections. Out on bail in Delhi liquor policy case, Aam Admi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has made a series of attacks on the BJP and the Congress, accusing them of working together to defeat his party in the upcoming polls.
Patna: Police lathi-charge Bihar civil service aspirants who are protesting to seek re-examination
Dec 30, 2024, at 12:23 am
Police resorted to lathi-charge and used water cannons to disperse thousands of Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) aspirants who were protesting at Gandhi Maidan in Patna city to demand a re-examination of the 70th BPSC preliminary exams amid allegations of question paper leak.
Dec 29, 2024, at 08:01 pm
Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Foreign Minister of Mauritius, Dhananjay Ramful, recently paid floral tributes to late Indian PM Manmohan Singh at Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi.
Jammu and Kashmir: Indian Railways conducts successful load test of Chenab Bridge
Dec 29, 2024, at 07:33 pm
The Indian Railways conducted a successful load test of the world’s highest railway bridge over the River Chenab in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
South Korea: Indian envoy mourns loss of lives in Muan airport plane crash
Dec 29, 2024, at 04:27 pm
India on Sunday mourned the loss of lives in the South Korean plane crash that left over 120 people dead.