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The Kerala State Human Rights Commission has also ordered an investigation into the incident. (Representational image: PTI)

Kerala NEET exam: Case against friskers who forced girls to remove...

Friskers who were allegedly involved in the act would be arrested soon, police said

19 July 2022 10:58 AM IST

Individual investors can invest as little as 10,000 rupees in government bonds directly through accounts with the central bank. (Representational image)

Rupee falls to all-time low of 80.05 against US dollar

The rupee opened on a weaker note on Tuesday morning weighed down by outflows and high oil prices

19 July 2022 10:27 AM IST

PM Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, Congress MPs Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, Union MoS Anupriya Patel, AAP MP Sanjay Singh, BJP MP Jayant Sinha, Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Nitin Gadkari, cast their votes for the election of the President, at Parliament House in New Delhi (PTI)

99% MPs, MLAs vote in Presidential election: Murmu tipped to win

NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu, who is pitted against the united Opposition candidate, Yashwant Sinha, is the clear...

19 July 2022 6:59 AM IST

Following the November 8-9 demonetisation, the government over the weekend asked public sector insurers to provide discounts of up to 10 per cent on the premium amount for general insurance policies and 8 per cent in new life policies of Life Insurance Corporation sold online.

Return to normal for life insurers in Q1

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance announced its earnings and reported a net profit of Rs 156 crore in April-June quarter...

19 July 2022 4:36 AM IST

GST has helped interstate movement of goods. Representational Image. (DC File Image)

Wholesale food grain trade exempted from GST levy

The government has clarified that the new GST is applicable only on pre-packed and pre-labelled products weighing up to...

19 July 2022 4:33 AM IST

Tax authorities raids Chinese entities for money laundering. (PTI Photo)

Over 1.12 lakh shell firms struck off since 2019

In 2019, the government informed that the CBI had registered 30 cases against 104 shell companies in the four years

19 July 2022 4:31 AM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

SC directs UP police not to take action against Zubair

Six FIRs have been registered against Zubair in Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad and two in Hathras

19 July 2022 3:48 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with USA President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, at G-7 Summit, in Germany. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | A benign mask for whole world; fangs bared to citizens...

India's government does not want to be recognised abroad for what it is a majoritarian, authoritarian State

19 July 2022 12:07 AM IST

The grandiose Hambantota port project in Sri Lanka, which once had the same bunch of Indian strategic thinkers in a tizzy, hosts no ships and doesnt earn much. China is now pressuring Sri Lankans to service its debt and is seeking to extract some more in lieu of that. (Wikimedia)

Mohan Guruswamy | China's Belt and Road drive was just another...

China is now pressuring Sri Lankans to service its debt and is seeking to extract some more in lieu of that

18 July 2022 11:53 PM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

SC asks states to pay comapensation to families of COVID victims...

It also directed the grievance redressal committee to decide the application of the claimant within four weeks

18 July 2022 2:13 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi with NDAs vice-presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP National President J.P. Nadda during the filing of nomination papers of Dhankar for vice-presidential elections, at Parliament House, in New Delhi (Sansad TV/PTI Photo)

Vice President poll: NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar files nomination

Before filing his nomination, Dhankhar attended a meeting of MPs from different parties supporting his candidature

18 July 2022 1:40 PM IST

A man wears a headband with a slogan against interim Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe as he waves the Sri Lankan national flag near the Presidential secretariat in Colombo (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)

State of emergency declared in Sri Lanka ahead of July 20 presidential...

The government gazette dated July 17 imposing a state of emergency in the troubled nation was issued on Monday morning

18 July 2022 1:28 PM IST