India was the first country in the world to lower its flags on August 27, 1979, when the news came through from a small village in Ireland that Lord Mountbatten had been assassinated by the IRA (Irish...

Former finance minister Arun Jaitley was cremated with full state honours on Sunday in the presence of a large number of leaders cutting across political lines.The 66-year-old senior BJP leader had pa...

Nesar Ansari’s widow on Sunday met members of human rights outfit Lok Seva Samiti to seek justice for her husband, who was found hanging in a toilet at Ratu police station on the outskirts of the ca...

Arun Jaitley, who passed away in New Delhi on Saturday at the age of 66 after battling a long illness, was always seen as a kingmaker in the country’s cricket administration.He never became the pres...

At the outset, my deepest condolences and deep sorrow that Arun is no longer with us. It is very unfortunate he had to go so prematurely.Two years ago as I was retiring from the Rajya Sabha when peopl...

A doctor associated with the Pratiksha Hospital died of cardiac arrest and not for allegedly consuming hydroxychloroquine.Utpaljit Barman died on Sunday and soon after it was reported that he died bec...

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a double tragedy in one Indian family, with the death on Wednesday of Sudhir Sharma, a 61-year-old frontline immigration officer at Heathrow’s Terminal 3, and tha...

All the 15 people killed in Saturday’s pre-dawn wall collapse in Pune have been traced to Katihar district of Bihar, around 320km northeast of Patna.Bihar government officials have traced 12 of them...

Two children have died and at least 200 people fallen ill over the past two days in a Mathura village after drinking “yellow, smelly” tap water supplied from tanks managed by the nagar panchayat.T...

India’s count of coronavirus patients rose by 88 to reach 694 on Thursday with the source of infection unclear now in a few patients. But health officials asserted that such anecdotal reports do not...