Category: Top Stories

New Delhi: Desperate times call for desperate measures. Full service Air India is planning to make meals optional on its domestic and short international (under two hour) flights. Once this “unbundling” rolls out in the next month or two, passengers opting out of meals could have upwards of Rs 250 shaved off their ticket price. […]

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will set up a carcass incineration plant at Palasuni to dispose of the carcasses of small animals, including those of street dogs. On an average, the BMC deals with at least 10 stray animal carcasses in a day, which it currently buries.Debi Prasad Kund, in charge of the BMC’s animal […]

New Delhi: With no sight of the Strait of Hormuz (SoH) opening for commercial traffic in near future, shipping ministry has shared a list of around 40 India-bound “priority vessels” with the external affairs ministry, suggesting the option of evacuating them through territorial waters of Oman. Oman’s territorial waters is on the south of SoH […]

Panaji: Goa University (GU) is introducing nine integrated master’s programmes from the academic year 2026-27, which students who have completed Class XII can pursue. The duration of each course will five years.Students who have completed Class XII in the science stream can join the programmes for integrated masters in earth sciences with a minor in […]

NEW DELHI: West Bengal on Wednesday recorded a very high voter turnout of over 91% along with reports of sporadic violence during the second phase of the assembly elections.According to the Election Commission, the state registered a record 92.47% overall turnout across the two phases, the highest since Independence. The voter turnout in phase II […]

Rory McIlroy left surprised as Donald Trump interrupts speech at White House dinner with King Charles (Image via Getty) Donald Trump suddenly paused his speech at a grand White House dinner and turned everyone’s attention to Rory McIlroy. The moment came during a State Dinner held for King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Rory McIlroy, […]

Cole Allen seen armed with knife and gun (Image/X@annaschecter) The man accused of trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and attempt to kill US President Donald Trump had taken a photograph of himself minutes before the attack, showing him armed with an ammunition bag, a shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife, […]

NEW DELHI: Exit poll projections for Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) have thrown up one of the most intriguing questions of the 2026 Tamil Nadu elections: is Vijay on the cusp of a breakthrough like Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi, or will he resemble Prashant Kishor’s Bihar experiment that ended in ‘arsh se farsh par’.The answer, at […]

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah At Site BENGALURU: At least seven people, including three children, have been killed after a compound wall collapsed near the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday.Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah visited the site after the collapse. “Seven deaths have been confirmed by the CMO following the tragic wall collapse near […]

NEW DELHI: With not a very large gap between Left-led LDF and the Congress-led UDF, the exit polls have predicted a neck and neck contest between both the rival factions. According to the poll of polls, UDF is expected to cross the majority mark with 72 seats in the 140 Kerala assembly. However, the LDF […]