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Delhi Election 2025 highlights: With voting for the Delhi assembly elections to commence tomorrow, February 5, the mandatory silence period has begun after campaigning for all parties ended yesterday. Delhi is set to witness a triangular competition between the Aam Admi Party, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct (MCC)…

Indian Air Force’s (IAF’s) Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will script history as the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). Grp Capt Shukla is selected as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). It is a private astronaut mission and will be launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The Ax-4 crew includes members…

Many people are feared dead and dozens have been injured in a stampede at a Hindu festival in northern India. Images from the scene in the city of Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh state, show bodies being stretchered away and rescuers helping those who were hurt. Millions of people were attempting to take a holy bath in the…

The world’s largest religious gathering Maha Kumbh Mela was captured in stunning images from the International Space Station (ISS), officials said on Monday. Shared by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on X, the images captured on Sunday showcase the illuminated banks of the Ganga, reflecting the vibrant energy of the event. The images capture the radiant lights and…

Maharashtra on Sunday reported the first suspected death due to Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) in the state after a patient died at a private hospital in Solapur. Meanwhile, GBS cases in Pune have now spiked to 101, raising concerns among health authorities. The victim (40) was suffering from diarrhoea and also had symptoms of cough and cold, according…

Colourful tableaux, fighter jet formations and motorbike stunts by army daredevils marked India’s Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi on Sunday, commemorating the day the nation’s secular constitution came into effect in 1950. Thousands gathered in the capital to watch the parade from seats around the Kartavya Path – or path of duty – and cheered the…

Republic Day 2025: India celebrates Republic Day every year on January 26, honouring the ratification of the Indian Constitution. The day is important to millions of Indians. This year, the country is celebrating its 76th Republic Day today on Sunday, January 26. The primary attraction of Republic Day is the parade, which takes place on Kartavya Path…

The US Supreme Court has cleared Mumbai-attack convict Tahawwur Rana’s extradition to India as it dismissed a review petition against his conviction in the case. The US Supreme Court has cleared Mumbai attack convict Tahawwur Rana’s extradition to India, dismissing his review petition against the move. India is seeking the extradition of Rana, a Canadian national of…

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto arrived in the national capital on Friday night, on his first state visit to India. He was received by the Minister of State for External Affairs, Pabitra Margherita at the airport in New Delhi. President Prabowo, who is in India from January 23-26, will also be the Chief Guest for India’s 76th Republic…

12 passengers died and 15 others were injured after a false fire alarm caused panic onboard the Mumbai-bound Pushpak Express on the evening of January 22. Passengers, fearing for their lives, jumped off the stationary train only to be struck by another train, the Karnataka Express, on the adjacent tracks. The incident occurred between Maheji and Pardhade stations near Pachora…

External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday attended the maiden Quad ministerial of the new Donald Trump administration. Soon after the meeting, he met the newly appointed US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, for their first bilateral meeting, lasting for more than an hour. S Jaishankar became the first foreign minister to hold a bilateral meeting with…

The Adani Group Chairman, Gautam Adani, on Monday met the Israeli Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, and his wife Rachel Azar along with other officials, and discussed India-Israel collaboration. In a post on X social media platform, Gautam Adani said the company remains committed to continuing to invest and expand its partnership with Israel. “Honoured to meet…

Several tenders managed to bring the fire under control at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. The police cited 2-3 cylinder blasts for the blaze while no casualties have been reported. A massive fire broke out at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Sunday, as millions of devotees were gathered at the grand religious gathering. Fire…

A woman tourist from Maharashtra was killed in paragliding accident along with her instructor in North Goa on Saturday, the police said. The incident reportedly took place after one of the cables snapped mid-flight, due to which they lost balance and collided with some rocks and crashed from a height. The unfortunate incident took place while they…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, during a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, said that most incumbent governments, including India, lost elections following the Covid-19 pandemic India’s Parliamentary Committee is set to summon officials from the social media platform ‘Meta’, days after CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that most incumbent governments, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National…

Violence levels in Jammu and Kashmir were orchestrated by Pakistan, the “epicentre,” but with the Bangladesh army, there was “no animosity” but a realisation of both sides that there was a need to “work together,” the army chief, General Upendra Dwivedi, said today. Speaking to reporters today, he said that the people of J&K were shunning violence…

The world’s largest religious gathering kicks off in India on Monday amid health and environmental concerns. Over the next 45 days, an estimated 400 million Hindu pilgrims will converge on the city of Prayagraj, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The Maha Kumbh mela is one of the most sacred pilgrimages for Hindus and is celebrated…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that people misunderstand the meaning of, “minimum government, maximum governance”. He said that the efforts must be to increase the speed of work done by government departments and thus, he had made different ministries for skill, cooperatives, and fisheries. Speaking in a podcast with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, which was released on…

The boy had sent bomb threat emails at least six times, each time marking different schools excluding his own. Weeks after a string of bomb hoaxes triggered panic at dozens of schools in Delhi, the city police have uncovered a meticulous plan by a minor to skip exams at his school. They have taken into custody the…

Overcrowding at the Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple on Tirumala Hills caused the stampede in Tirupati, which killed six people on Wednesday. According to officials, nearly 5,000 people came in together as the gates for tickets for Vaikunta Dwara Darshanam opened. Dozens of others were injured in the incident. Commenting on how the stampede occurred, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams…

In a grim development, Army divers from the 21 Para Special Forces recovered one body from the flooded coal mine in Umrangso of Dima Hasao district, after nearly 48 hours of relentless rescue efforts. The tragedy unfolded on January 6, when nine miners became trapped in the illegal mine due to sudden flooding. According to reports, the…

Prime minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects, worth over ₹12,000 crore, in Delhi on Sunday, including a section of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat corridor, giving the national capital its first connectivity of the rapid transit system. According to a release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), PM Modi will…