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3 held for duping diamond merchant of Rs.22.75 crore

MUMBAI, May 5 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police has arrested three individuals for allegedly defrauding a diamond manufacturer and exporter of Rs.22.75 crore under the pretext o... Read More


Panel reveals lapses behind wall collapse

Hyderabad, May 5 -- The three-member committee constituted by the Andhra Pradesh government to inquire into the causes of deaths of seven devotees in a wall collapse at the Sri Varaha Narasimha Swamy ... Read More


Amaravati's second life & future of urbanisation

India, May 5 -- Amaravati's second life formally began Friday with PM Narendra Modi launching projects worth Rs.58,000 crore. Though envisaged in 2014 as Andhra Pradesh's new capital after the bifurca... Read More


Towards fixing India's flailing justice system

India, May 5 -- Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. For India's justice system, does this mean it is designed for underperformance, inequity, and delay? Based exclusively on... Read More


Time for trust and unity, not hatred and division

India, May 5 -- It must have been 6 am last Tuesday morning, when a notification pinged on my mobile. Surprised and with some concern, I saw a message blinking from my friend's son. He was distraught ... Read More


Neville Tuli's back, and he wants to teach us about India's heritage

Mumbai, May 5 -- Back in 2006, at a modern and contemporary Indian art sale by Sotheby's auction house in London, a bidding war over a work by Francis Newton Souza drove up the Goan modernist's work t... Read More


Big blaze eruptsin five-storey bldg in Kanpur

Kanpur, May 5 -- A massive fire broke out in a five-storey residential-cum-commercial building in the Gandhi Nagar locality in Kanpur's densely populated Chamanganj on Sunday night, the police said. F... Read More


Data by presiding officers to be final in the event of conflict: ECI

New Delhi, May 5 -- : The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday said that in the event of any "conflict" in voter turnout data, the primary figures filled in statutory forms by booth-level pres... Read More


First batch of 178 Haj pilgrims from J&K leaves for Saudi Arabia

Srinagar, May 5 -- The first batch of 178 pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir left for Saudi Arabia on Sunday for the annual Haj pilgrimage, officials aware of the matter said. Lieutenant governor Manoj S... Read More


In a first, Indore man gets licence to carry sharp-edged weapon

Bhopal, May 5 -- In a first-of-its-kind move in the country, the Indore district administration in Madhya Pradesh has issued a licence for carrying a sharp-edged weapon to a technical education instru... Read More