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G Kishan Reddy holds meeting with tourism secretaries (ANI)

G Kishan Reddy holds meeting with tourism secretaries of Punjab,...

The ministry has set new targets for the tourism departments and has suggested ways to improve footfall at ASI monuments

14 Dec 2021 1:20 PM IST

Trying to allay the concerns of landslides in Himalayan regions due to the construction of the wider Chardham highway project, the government had said all necessary steps have been taken to mitigate the disaster. (PTI file photo)

SC allows double lane for Chardham highway, cites security challenges

The strategic 900-km Chardham project worth Rs 12,000 crore aims to provide all-weather connectivity to four holy towns

14 Dec 2021 1:10 PM IST

As per the lecturers involved in the excavation, Rouf Hamzah and Manzoor Javaid, the discovery of the fossil site in Aharbal in August this year led to the spate of the discoveries of fossils in the south of Kashmir. (ANI Photo)

J-K: Seven new fossil sites discovered in South Kashmir

Experts believe that the site, rich in fossil biodiversity, has fossil samples that could be as old as 488 to 354...

14 Dec 2021 12:57 PM IST

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati. (PTI Photo)

Inaugurating incomplete projects won't help BJP expand voter base:...

PM Modi had inaugurated the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor project in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi on Monday

14 Dec 2021 12:55 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (ANI)

PM Modi chairs meeting with CMs of BJP-ruled states in Varanasi

The Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers will visit Kashi Vishwanath Temple on Tuesday

14 Dec 2021 11:49 AM IST

Encounter in J-Ks Baramulla after three security personnel killed in attack. (File Photo- PTI)

Terrorist killed in encounter with security forces in J&K's Poonch

Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the Surankote area after inputs were received about the...

14 Dec 2021 10:54 AM IST

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy (Photo: PTI)

Neither PM nor finance minister know economics: Subramanian Swamy

The BJP MP also held the Union finance minister responsible for the price rise in the country, saying she does not...

14 Dec 2021 10:39 AM IST

A health worker discards a needle after administering a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a beneficiary at a government hospital amid fear of spread of Omicron variant in Bengaluru. (Photo: PTI)

India records 5,784 fresh cases, recovery rate highest since March...

The death toll due to the viral disease has shot up to 4,75,888 with 252 more fatalities

14 Dec 2021 10:24 AM IST

Medical workers checks medicine and other essential items inside a Covid-19 coronavirus ward of a Civil hospital in Ahmedabad. (SAM PANTHAKY / AFP)

Gujarat acknowledges more COVID-19 deaths than official tally

Gujarat told the Supreme Court it had received 22,557 applications as of Thursday from families of the dead seeking...

14 Dec 2021 10:22 AM IST

In the explanation of vote, Indias ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, T.S. Tirumurti, said that India is second to none when it comes to climate action and climate justice but the UNSC is not the place to discuss either issue. (Twitter)

India votes against UN bid to 'securitise' climate action

According to reports, the draft resolution was also vetoed by Russia

14 Dec 2021 6:53 AM IST

The Parliament has been witnessing protests since November 30, the second day of the Winter Session. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Opposition disrupts Rajya Sabha Zero Hour again

Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House till 12 noon and said both sides should resolve the matter

14 Dec 2021 2:30 AM IST

The police sources said that the bus carrying the personnel of the IRPs 19th Battalion came under attack at Aripora along the Pantha ChowkKhanmoh link road near Zewan, about 14-km southeast of the city centre. (Representational Image/ AFP)

J&K: Terrorist attack on reserve police bus kills two, injures 12

The condition of a few injured policemen is stated to be critical, the police and hospital sources said

14 Dec 2021 2:15 AM IST