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This will be the first Mann ki Baat episode after Modi assumed office for the second time. (Photo: Twitter/ @narendramodi)

PM Narendra Modi to begin second innings of 'Mann ki baat' from June...

Confident of his return, Modi had said he will be back with the programme on the last Sunday of May.

29 Jun 2019 8:58 PM IST

It is significant that the 15-member rescue and relief team that retrieved the mortal remains of 13 air warriors on AN-32 crash on June 12 was struck for past 18 days at an altitude of approximately 12,000 feet. (Photo: File)

IAF AN-32 rescue team retrieved from Arunachal's mountain after 18...

Defence spokesperson Shillong Wing Commander Ratnakar Singh in statement said that all the members of the team are fit...

29 Jun 2019 8:31 PM IST

Senior Telangana Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao. (Photo: ANI)

Hanumantha Rao submits resignation as AICC Secretary

Rao claimed that advisors of Gandhi have misled him into believing that he was responsible for the poll drubbing.

29 Jun 2019 8:18 PM IST

It is important to understand how climate change and wildfires will affect tree regeneration because forests are important economically, ecologically and culturally. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

700 firefighters tackle wildfires as heatwave in Europe breaks records

More than 700 firefighters and 10 aircraft were mobilised to tackle the fires in the Gard.

29 Jun 2019 7:52 PM IST

The petitioners have blamed the deaths on carelessness of the doctors at the hospital and further contended that although encephalitis claims many young lives every year there were no effective measures to contain the outbreak of the vector-borne disease. (Photo: PTI)

Encephalitis toll rises to 134 in Muzaffarpur

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the children who...

29 Jun 2019 7:30 PM IST

There are pieces of evidence that Hindu Mahasabha at its Gandhinagar conference first gave the two-nation theory. Three years later, the Muslim League at its Lahore conference also advocated for the same. Veer Savarkar was the biggest advocate of the two-nation theory, Khera said. (Photo: ANI)

Will they teach us history? Congress spokesperson Khera retorts to...

The statement came after Amit Shah's remark that partition of the country on basis of religion was a mistake.

29 Jun 2019 7:14 PM IST

Chief Minister Gehlots tweet comes a day after it was reported that Pehlu Khan, who was lynched to death in 2017 allegedly by cow vigilantes, was charge-sheeted for smuggling cattle. (Photo: ANI)

Pehlu Khan's name not in chargesheet, tweets Rajasthan CM

Ashok Gehlot asserted that the Congress party stands against lynching committed anywhere in the country.

29 Jun 2019 6:51 PM IST

BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya was caught on camera thrashing a Municipal Corporation Officer who was in the area for an anti-encroachment drive. (Photo: ANI)

BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya, who thrashed official with bat, gets bail

The case was transferred to Bhopal's Special Court and he was sent to jail till July 7.

29 Jun 2019 6:36 PM IST

Tamil Nadus new Chief Secretary and Director General of Police were appointed on Saturday. (Photo: ANI)

K Shanmugam appointed as new Chief Secretary of TN, JK Tripathy as new...

The said officials have been replaced Dr Girija Vaidyanathan and TK Rajendran respectively.

29 Jun 2019 6:34 PM IST

On the way home we discussed the fact that there was a Parsi graveyard at all. Brits would not have looked kindly on Parsis setting up a Tower of Silence where vultures could eat the corpses of their dead.

Murdered Hindu man wrongly buried as Muslim, body exhumed

The man was killed on June 17 by his three friends who dumped his body in the Yamuna.

29 Jun 2019 6:17 PM IST

Police torture isnt the only cause of unlawful custodial death. NCRB statistics show 1,584 deaths in prison in 2015, pointing to a death every six hours. (Representational image)

Congress demands judicial probe into custodial death of Kerala man

The Opposition Leader alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is also the Home Minister, has got no control...

29 Jun 2019 6:04 PM IST

School children await buses alongside their parents after a heavy rainfall at Kings Circle, Matunga on Friday. (Photo: SHRIPAD NAIK)

Intensity of rainfall to wear off by Monday in Mumbai: IMD

Average rainfall in Mumbai for the month of June is 505 mm rainfall and so far the region has recorded 400 mm of rains.

29 Jun 2019 5:58 PM IST