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April 4, 2025 9:16 AM

Heavy rainfall in southern states, thunderstorms in east, heatwave in Rajasthan & Gujarat: IMD

The India Meteorological Department has forecasted heavy rainfall at isolated places over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala, Mahe, and Coastal and South Interior Karnataka today. Parts of Jharkhand, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and the...

April 4, 2025 9:12 AM

Telangana: SC halts all activities on controversial 400-acre Kancha Gachibowli land

In Hyderabad, all activities were stopped at the controversial 400-acre land at Kancha Gachibowli following the directions from the Supreme Court yesterday. The Supreme Court directed that no activity of any sort, except for the protection of trees, should be undertaken by the state government in th...

April 4, 2025 9:08 AM

MP: 8 died due to poisonous gas suffocation in well during Gangaur immersion

In Madhya Pradesh, 8 persons died due to suffocation from poisonous gas in a well at Kondavat village in Khandwa district. Three persons went to clean the well for Gangaur immersion got stuck in the swamp. Later, five other persons who went down to rescue them also got stuck. Dist...

April 4, 2025 9:00 AM

Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2025: Ministers call it ‘historic,’ opposition terms it ‘anti-constitutional’

Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Bhagirath Chaudhary has termed the Waqf Amendment Bill historic, saying that Muslims will hugely benefit from the bill. Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, BL Verma, remarked that the bill was much needed in order to prot...

April 4, 2025 8:53 AM

Karnataka CM requests Maharashtra to release water for drinking needs

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has requested his Maharashtra counterpart Devendra Fadnavis to release water from Warna and Koyna reservoirs to Krishna River and from Ujjani reservoir to Bhima River to meet drinking water needs in North Karnataka regions. In a letter to Mr Fadnavis on...

April 4, 2025 8:43 AM

Pakistani Hindu woman gives birth at Attari check post, names daughter ‘Bharti’

A Paskistani Hindu woman gave birth to a girl child soon after reaching the Integrated Check Post in India after crossing over from the Attari-Wagah Joint Checkpost last evening. Born to Maya, the little girl has been named Bharti as a symbolic gesture derived from Bharat, identifying the country of...

April 4, 2025 8:38 AM

Poonam Gupta appointed as RBI Deputy Governor

Dr. Poonam Gupta has been appointed as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. She was serving as Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. She assumed her charge as Deputy Governor of RBI on 1st of this month for three years. The post was v...

April 4, 2025 8:32 AM

Chaiti Chhath Puja concludes with Pratahkalin Arghya to rising sun

In Bihar, the four-day Chaiti Chhath Puja celebrations concluded this morning with Pratahkalin Arghya or morning oblations to the rising Sun. Devotees across the state offered prayers to the Sun God and Chhati Maiya at different Chhath ghats on the banks of rivers in the deep waist water. Lakhs of d...

April 4, 2025 8:28 AM

UN Chief Guterres calls for international help for Myanmar, ending brutal civil conflict

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for transforming the tragic moment into an opportunity to end the brutal civil conflict in Myanmar. While appealing for international help to the quake-ravaged country, he asked the international community to immediately step up vitally needed funding...

April 4, 2025 8:25 AM

Men’s Sr Hockey Nationals to be played in division-based format

The 15th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship is set to kick off today at the Major Dhyan Chand Hockey Stadium in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. The tournament, which is scheduled to run until the 15th of this month, will follow a new division-based format, similar to the Senior Women’s Champio...