Pay Rs 77,000 crore dues without any delay, government tells telecom companies
NEW DELHI: The telecom department on Wednesday sent recovery notices of Rs 76,746 crore to Vodafone Idea, Airtel and Tata…
Madhya Pradesh government staves off crisis as 6 MLAs return to Congress
BHOPAL: The Kamal Nath government has weathered its biggest challenge in 14 months in power. It staved off what CM…
China’s created aura of military might without combat: Army chief
NEW DELHI: Indian armed forces are recalibrating their plans and capabilities for “dynamic responses” along the borders with China and…
Jet ex-promoter Naresh Goyal detained by ED, booked for laundering
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate detained Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal after long hours of questioning at its Ballard Estate office…
SC quashes RBI order, paves way for cryptocurrency trade
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed RBI’s 2018 circular preventing banking and financial institutions from providing services to…
Delhi HC’s adjournment of hate speech case unjustified: SC
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi high court to fast-track hearing on PILs seeking registration of…
COVID-19 | Expedite hospitalisation claims, says IRDAI
All claims ought to be vetted by review committee The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) wants insurers…
Rights or wrong?: On U.N. rights body move against CAA
U.N. body’s CAA move may be unwarranted, but govt. must abide by its equal protection duty The application on behalf…
Advantage Bibi: On Israel’s 3rd election in 12 months
Another term for Netanyahu bodes ill for West Asia and Palestinians No bloc managed to win a clear majority in…
COVID-19 | Italy closes schools as death toll hits 107
Italy on Wednesday closed all schools and universities until March 15 as the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the…
COVID-19 scare grips Telangana
The coronavirus scare gripped Telangana on March 4 as the attention of the entire State was on the COVID-19 status…
COVID-19 cases increase to 29 in India
Fifteen Italian tourists, including the wife of an infected Italian, and eight Indians have tested positive for coronavirus on March…
COVID-19 | Ram Nath Kovind, Narendra Modi to avoid Holi gatherings
President Ram Nath Kovind with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. File photo Amit Shah’s rally…
Joe Biden wins 9 States in Super Tuesday race; Bloomberg drops out
Super Tuesday, when fourteen American States voted in the Democratic primaries, was a watershed moment in former Vice-President Joseph R.…
COVID-19 | India yet to share genome sequence data
China isolated the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from a patient and shared the first whole genome sequence data of the virus…
Supreme Court asks High Court to list Delhi riots cases on March 6
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was “unjustified” on the part of the Delhi High Court to delay hearing…
Biden surges past Sanders on Super Tuesday as subcontinent polarisation touches their campaign
This combination of pictures created on March 4, 2020 shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden(L) and...Read MoreWASHINGTON: It will be…
Bloomberg drops out of US presidential race, endorses Joe Biden
LOS ANGELES: Billionaire Mike Bloomberg ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday and endorsed former Vice-President Joe…
Third person tests positive for new coronavirus in New York
New York's Yeshiva University said on Wednesday one of their students had tested positive for COVID-19, marking the third case…
Delhi violence: SC asks HC to hear plea on March 6, says long adjournment ‘not justified’
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court asked the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to hear on March 6 a plea seeking…
CAC to potential national selectors: What will be your call on Dhoni’s future?
CHRISTCHURCH: The Madan Lal-led Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) had two common questions for the potential national selectors: "how will you…
Hate and violence enemies of development, will not benefit ‘Bharat Mata’: Rahul Gandhi
NEW DELHI: Leading a delegation of party leaders to the riot-hit northeast Delhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said…
Ban on social networks removed in J-K, Mobile web speed still restricted to 2G, order reliable till Mar 17
In this Jan. 30, 2020, photo, Kashmiri journalists browse the internet on their mobile phones inside the media center set…
Delhi govt moves court seeking fresh date for execution of 4 Nirbhaya case convicts
Delhi gang rape convicts Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta (face covered), Vinay and Mukesh Singh (R) being taken to the High…
Govt authorizes changes to Companies Act
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. File | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal This is the second time the law is being…
6 members of Delhi patient’s family test positive for coronavirus
A medical worker helps a suspected coronavirus patient, both wearing protective suits, shift to an isolation ward of Safdarjung hospital…
Two samples from Hyderabad sent out to NIV Pune for further tests to confirm COVID-19
Police outside the isolated block of Gandhi Hospital where a COVID19 patient has been quarantined. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal…
Kuldeep Singh Sengar held guilty of culpable murder for death of Unnao rape victim’s dad
File photo of Unnao rape case convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt Special Court says the expelled…
Modi not to take part in Holi milan
With India reporting new cases of COVID-19 this week, the Union government and States have geared up to tackle the…
NRIs can acquire up to 100% equity in Air India: Prakash Javadekar
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday permitted NRIs (non-resident Indians) to own up to 100 per cent stake in disinvestment-bound…
US launches airstrike against Taliban to defend Afghan forces
Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal (AFP file photo)KABUL: The US launched…
Political ‘turmoil’ in Madhya Pradesh: How the numbers stack up
NEW DELHI: The Kaman Nath government in Madhya Pradesh was seen scrambling to secure its MLAs after eight members of…
28 confirmed coronavirus cases in India so far: Union health minister
NEW DELHI: There have been 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus in India, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan announced in a…
Joe Biden claims 9 Super Tuesday success, including Texas
WASHINGTON: A resurgent Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential bid that was…
Complete Lokpal bench to hear plaint against sitting or ex-PM
NEW DELHI: A full bench of Lokpal shall consider initiation of a corruption complaint against the Prime Minister or an…
8 Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs held in hotel, declares party
two Ministers of the Kamal Nath government — Jitu Patwari and Jaivardhan Singh — are reported to have taken at…
No call from celebration leaders, states BJP worker whose factory was destroyed in riots
“Modi ji ka naara Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas tha, Sabka Vinash nahin... Badbolepan se halaat bigadte hain, yeh…
Hyderabad COVID-19 client questioned on contacts
Make hay: The price of face masks has doubled in the light of COVID-19 outbreak in Hyderabad on Tuesday. 45…
A.P. House resolution to seek 2010 format of NPR, states Jagan Mohan Reddy
Muslim leaders felicitating Chief Minister Y. S Jagan Mohan Reddy at his camp office at Tadepalli near Vijayawada on Tuesday.…
Jharkhand govt. announces farm loan waiver, unemployment dole
CM Hemant Soren and Finance Minister R. Oraon before the budget presentation in Ranchi on Tuesday. Free power and free…
Tahir Hussain: A Delhi councillor on police radar
On February 24, the name of a little-known AAP leader in Delhi started making headlines, first as a victim of…
Defence Ministry withdraws special needs pension order
The directive comes after a circular against tax exemption on disability pension for veterans The Ministry of Defence on Tuesday…
8. Does Apple owe you Rs 1,831 too?
8. Does Apple owe you Rs 1,831 too?Class apart: More than two years after its admitted to deliberately slowing down…
Indian cricket struck by slowdown? IPL lowers playoff cash prize by half
MUMBAI: Economic slowdown seems to have hit the mighty Indian cricket board (BCCI) too. Never the kind to penny-pinch, especially…
Coronavirus scare: 5 Delhi-NCR schools shut as precaution
A tourist wearing a protective facemask amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak walks in a market a...Read MoreNEW DELHI:…
Coronavirus outbreak live updates: 5 Delhi-NCR schools shut as precaution
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 04, 2020, 10:20:16 ISTThe global death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic…
36 of Hyderabad techie’s contacts show symptoms of coronavirus
A security man stands in front of an isolation ward where people who returned from China are under observation...Read MoreHYDERABAD/…
Congress in firefighting mission as 8 MP alliance MLAs land in Manesar hotel
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh politics went into turmoil on Tuesday with post-midnight reports of eight Congress-alliance MLAs being cooped up in…
Wife of Major eliminated in Jammu and Kashmir operation after Pulwama to join Army
Nitika Kaul, widow of late Major Vibhuti Dhoundiyal, has got a letter from OTA, Chennai. She currently works w...Read MoreDEHRADUN:…
Girl and father held for aiding Pulwama bomber
NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Days after the NIA arrested an overground Jaish worker who drove the Pulwama suicide bomber to the…