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Forensic experts collect samples from the house of Sona Sheikh where seven people were burnt to death keeping captive in their room, allegedly for avenging the killing of TMC leader Bhadu Sheikh, at Rampurhat in Birbhum district. (PTI)

Birbhum victims badly beaten up before being burnt alive: Autopsy...

At least 20 people have been arrested in connection with the incident, suspected to have been triggered by the killing...

24 March 2022 12:51 PM IST

A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Kharkiv outskirts, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

NATO: 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops dead in Ukraine

President Volodymr Zelenskyy said nearly two weeks ago that about 1,300 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed

24 March 2022 11:28 AM IST

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky calls for worldwide protests against Russia's war

More than ten million Ukrainians have already fled homes and cities under sustained Russian bombardment from land, sea...

24 March 2022 10:44 AM IST

A health worker prepares to inoculate a child with a dose of the Covid-19 coronavirus Corbevax vaccine during a vaccination drive for the 12-14 age group at a school in Hyderabad. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

India logs 1,938 fresh COVID-19 cases, 67 deaths

A reduction of 660 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours

24 March 2022 10:34 AM IST

DC Edit | India's stance over Putin's war gets harder to sustain

As a member of the US-led Quad alliance, India remains the only nation not to condemn the abomination of the Russian war...

24 March 2022 2:38 AM IST

The Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for little less than an hour as opposition parties led by the Congress created a ruckus. (SANSAD TV/PTI)

Opposition protest over fuel price hike hits Parliament proceedings

In Lok Sabha, members from the Congress, DMK, TMC and other parties were in the Well of House raising slogans such as...

23 March 2022 12:31 PM IST

The nuns defied a request to move to a safer place and chose to stay on in a war-torn Ukraine risking their lives to continue serving refugees and injured people (Representational image: AFP file)

Indian nuns working in Kyiv running short on food, but remain...

Sisters Rosela and Frida along with 3 other Sisters were caring for 37 homeless Ukrainians inside the packed storehouse

23 March 2022 12:12 PM IST

A health worker inoculates a child with a dose of the Covid-19 coronavirus Corbevax vaccine during a vaccination drive for the 12-14 age group at a school in Hyderabad on March 22, 2022. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

India reports 1,778 new COVID cases, 62 fatalities

Active cases now constitute 0.05 per cent of the total infections, while the country's COVID recovery rate was recorded...

23 March 2022 11:13 AM IST

An elderly woman walks pass concrete blocks topped with sandbags at a street in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.(AP/Petros Giannakouris)

Russian strikes turning Mariupol into 'ashes' as West plans more...

Russian forces and Russian-backed separatist units had taken about half of the port city, normally home to around...

23 March 2022 10:51 AM IST

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar during the state Budget session, in Chandigarh. (PTI Photo)

Haryana passes anti-conversion Bill

Similar Bills in the recent past have been passed in the BJP-ruled state, including Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh

23 March 2022 12:51 AM IST

A man walks along the Rajpath street near India Gate amid smoggy conditions a day after Diwali in New Delhi on November 15, 2020. (Photo: AFP/File)

Delhi most polluted capital in the world in 2021: Report

In 2021, none of the cities in India met the prescribed World Health Organization air quality standards, report shows

22 March 2022 3:23 PM IST