
Shiv Sena (UBT) President and ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray launched a scathing attack on CM Eknath Shinde over the Badlapur horror, accusing him of ‘crooked mentality and insensitivity’ to peoples’ emotions, here on Thursday. ...

Amid reports in Bangladesh dailies that current flood situation in the neighbouring country has been caused by opening of the Dumbur dam upstream of the Gumti River in Tripura, India on Thursday pointed out that the flood is not because of release of water from Tripura dam. ...

The tension that surfaced in the airport here on Thursday morning ended after a thorough search on the Mumbai-Thiruvananthapuram Air India flight found nothing dangerous, except a note written on a tissue paper in a toilet of the plane, which said 'bomb'. ...

As the first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill got underway on Thursday, the Chairperson of the panel Jagdambika Pal sought to allay apprehensions of the minority community and said that the ‘reform’ was aimed at improving and ‘bringing more value’ to the lives of Muslims. ...

In a tragic incident a three-year-old girl died on Thursday after falling from the third floor of an apartment building in the Sagarpur area of West Delhi. ...

Voicing concern over recurring industrial accidents, Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on Thursday announced that an action plan for industrial safety in the state would be prepared in the next three months....

As part of incarcerated Lok Sabha member Engineer Rashid’s plan for his party's participation in the Assembly elections, his younger brother, Sheikh Khursheed Ahmad, on Thursday, resigned from his government service to contest the polls. ...

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday stated that the actions of the BJP in the state had compelled Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot to switch to a bulletproof car. ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is likely to reshuffle his cabinet on Thursday evening ahead of his trip to the US on August 27. ...

Wealth management firm, Nuvama, on Thursday, said India has emerged as the sixth-largest manufacturing economy globally while the stage is set for a new era of growth fuelled by recent reforms and strategic initiatives such as the Make in India. ...