Four siblings in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district were rescued from bonded labour with an NGO’s help. The four brothers were bought by a man who had used them to herd goats. The children were subjugated to bonded labour and had no contact with the outside world for two years. Sundarrajan and Papathi, who had…
The 25th Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Mazgaon, Mumbai, has issued a notice to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik in a defamation complaint filed by BJP leader Mohit Bharatiya. Malik has been summoned by the court on December 30. Metropolitan Magistrate PI Mokashi observed that Malik had made…
Officers from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have reached London just before the hearing in fugitive Nirav Modi’s case. The UK High Court is expected to hear fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi’s appeal today which he has filed on grounds of mental health and human…
Apolice bus in Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar came under a terrorist attack, and three police personnel lost their lives. The incident took place on the 20th anniversary of the Parliament Attack. As the nation grieves the sudden demise of the police personnel, India Today accessed exclusive images of the bus which…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency. This is his sixth visit to eastern Uttar Pradesh, more commonly referred to as Purvanchal, in eight weeks. This shows the Bharatiya Janata Party’s increased focus on eastern Uttar Pradesh, which is also the political home turf of Chief…
The Rajasthan government has announced a compensation of Rs 1 crore for the family of Squadron Leader Kuldeep Singh, who died in the helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on December 8. Squadron Leader Kuldeep Singh was killed along with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 11 others in the chopper…
As the country continues to see a rise in coronavirus cases amid the Omicron scare, thousands of devotees thronged Ranganathaswamy Temple in Trichy’s Srirangam on the occasion of Paramapadham Gate opening ceremony on Tuesday. Srirangam Ranganathaswamy temple is considered the most important of the 108 Divya Desams of…
Sivaganga MP Karti Chidambaram on Monday urged the Union education ministry to set up a mechanism to monitor the companies providing online courses. While speaking in the Lok Sabha, he claimed that these companies are auto-debiting amounts from aspiring candidates. He also questioned the quality of courses offered. The…
Four more people in Delhi have tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. This takes the total number of patients in Delhi to six. One of the six has now recovered and has been discharged from hospital. Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain said that all six patients tested positive at the Delhi…
With the AICC naming Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu as president of the state Election Committee, he essentially now holds the power of shortlisting candidates for the coming Assembly elections, notwithstanding the checks and balances in the form of screening committees as well as the central election…