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Time to earn from power, not getting it for free: Modi

Ahmedabad: Time has now come for people to generate income from electricity instead of getting it for free, PM Narendra Modi said on Thursday in an apparent dig at AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal’s poll promise of providing power without charge. Modi also accused Congress of criticising him relentlessly rather than working for Gujarat’s progress.

Data Protection Board's architecture to give it RBI-like autonomy: Vaishnaw

Minister Defends Data Bill, Says It Takes Care Of Terror Cyber Threats

Nobody cuts a woman into pieces in heat of moment: Irani

New Delhi: At a time when the country is reeling in shock over the brutal murder of Shraddha Walker by her livein partner, women and child development minister Smriti Irani on Thursday said there is an urgent need to speak about intimate partner violence.

India's moment on world stage has truly arrived: Times MD

New Delhi:“Today, we are at the dawn of a new era. From ‘under-developed’ to ‘developing’ to ‘emerging’ — India has had many tags attached to it through the decades.

It's responsibility of rich nations to pay for climate damage: Yadav

New Delhi: Environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Thursday said it’s the responsibility of rich nations to compensate developing countries as the current impact of climate change is the result of the developed nations’ historical cumulative emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG).

Global petroleum rates, not polls, dictate pricing: Puri

New Delhi: India is feeling no “pressure” from the impending price cap on seaborne Russian crude proposed by the G-7 countries from December 5 and possible disruption in shipping and insurance, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said at the Times Now Summit 2022 on Thursday.

'Must consider how one reads history & presents it in films'

New Delhi: Films are certified by the Central Board of Film Certification and filmmakers approach courts when there is a controversy, Union information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur said at the Times Now Summit 2022 on Thursday, while reacting to a question over why the government does not step in to protect filmmakers when they run foul of ‘fringe elements.’

Time to expand India's cultural influence, usher in Maha Akhand Bharat, says Times VC & MD

New Delhi: When a troubled world is increasingly receptive to the wisdom that comes from India’s extraordinary heritage, India must step up and spread its civilisational influence.

India will make enemies pay heavy price: Shah

New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that the Narendra Modi government had sent a strong message to the world that no one could meddle with India’s borders and defence forces, asserting that those who dared to do this would be made to pay a heavy price.

Islamic outfit owns up Mangaluru auto blast, says temple was target

Karnataka home minister Araga Jnanendra at the blast spot in Mangaluru on Wednesday

After stir, collegium stalls.transfer of Guj HC judge

Sources said the proposal relating to Justice Kariel’s transfer was not put in the agenda of Thursday’s collegium meeting

Gehlot brands Pilot 'gaddar', says he'll never get CM post

No Need To Be So Insecure, Says CM’s Rival

Guj nominees with criminal records on the rise, AAP fields max at 36%

Ahmedabad: One in every five candidates in the fray in the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections faces criminal charges, according to an analysis of 788 candidates for 89 seats carried out by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Rocket scientist, 59, clears NEET, to take exam again

Autodidact Wants Better Score To Study In Govt College

Violence, arson as border clash plays out in Meghalaya capital

Rush At Petrol Pumps As Assam Union Cuts Fuel Supply To State

Lineage at play? Six of 27 apex court justices had fathers as SC or HC judges

NO REGIONAL BALANCE?

Banner put up at K'taka temple bars non-Hindu traders during festival

Ahead of the Champa Shashti festival, the Hindu Jagaran Vedike(HJV) in Karnataka has erected a banner barring non-Hindu traders from conducting business in the premises of Kukke Sri Subrahmanya Temple in Dakshina Kannada district, reports Vinobha KT.

'Rarest of rare': Death sentence for rapist dad

A fast-track special court in Haryana’s Sirsa Thursday handed down the death sentence to a 55-year-old man for raping his 12-year-old daughter, terming the crime “rarest of rare” and stressing that any “lesser sentence would do grave injustice to the victim and her mother”, reports Kumar Mukesh.

Voter registration to be must for Maha college admission

Voter registration may soon be mandatory for students seeking degree college admissions in the state.

Haryana's ₹36L bond policy for MBBS driving meritorious students away from govt colleges

Even PGIMS, Rohtak, among the most reputed colleges in North India, had just one candidate among the top 2000 ranks in 2022 opting for it in round one of counselling for the all-India quota, compared to 27 in 2020. In effect, these colleges are turning into preserves of the rich rather than the best.

Urban unemployment rate dips to 7.2% in Q2 from 7.6% in Ql: NSO survey

At 6-Quarter Low After Lifting Of Covid Curbs

Need to rewrite history to free it from distortions, says Shah

Hails Iconic Ahom General Lachit Barphukan On His 400th Birth Anniv

Accused can't be freed of rape charge for no mention at FIR stage, says HC

A rape accused can’t be discharged of the offence merely because the survivor had not levelled the allegation at the FIR stage.

'Mosques for prayers, not socialising'

The notice that was earlier put up at the mosque’s entry gates said, “Jama Masjid mein ladki ya ladkiyon ka akele daakhla mana hai (The entry of a girl, or girls, on their own is not permitted in Jama Masjid).

'Fewer students got minority scholarships from Delhi than Centre'

The Delhi government provided scholarships to fewer minority students in 2020-21 compared with the central government, shows data. While 1,182 students were part of Delhi government’s three scholarship schemes — most of them being from the Sikh community — a total of 12,222 students received scholarships funded by the Centre.

Man who killed 4 from his family inflicted 20 stab wounds on father

Police have found that the man who allegedly killed four people in his family in southwest Delhi’s Palam inflicted the maximum number of wounds on his father.

Clear Tughlaqabad Fort of squatters in six weeks, says HC

Large-scale encroachments around the historical Tughlaqabad Fort continue despite a committee set up in 2017 to ensure their removal, Delhi High Court noted on Thursday.

Decomposed torso found in suitcase in Faridabad

A decomposed torso was found in a suitcase dumped in bushes off the Pali road in Surajkund area on Thursday afternoon.

Bishnoi in NIA custody over 'terror acts'

Bishnoi is also considered to be the mastermind behind the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala.

Producer of 'Shatranj Ke Khiladi' no more

Suresh Jindal, who produced iconic films such as Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Katha and Rajnigandha, passed away at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 80. “He had been ailing for some time,” his nephew Rishi Jindal told TOI over phone.