Breaking News, January 3 | HIGHLIGHTS

YSR Telangana party president YS Sharmila, in response to a media query on whether she will join the Congress amid reports of YSRTP joining hands with Congress in Andhra Pradesh, says, "Yes, looks like it."

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) team leaves Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's media advisor Abhishek Prasad's residence in Ranchi.

Actor Aamir Khan attends daughter Ira Khan & Nupur Shikhare wedding reception at Taj Lands End, Bandra in Mumbai. The couple solemnized their relationship via a registered marriage.

Indian Women's Hockey team arrives in Ranchi for the FIH ( International Hockey Federation) Hockey Olympic Qualifiers 2024 | Take a look.

Ahead of the consecration ceremony of Ram Temple, BJP MLA Ram Kadam urges Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde for a one-day ban on alcohol and meat.

He says, "...22nd January is as sacred as the festival of Diwali. I urge the CM of Maharashtra on behalf of all devotees of Lord Ram, that on the pious day of 22 January, alcohol and meat be banned in the entire state. I request the Maharashtra government to, in turn, request the central government that meat and alcohol be banned in the entire country on that day."

Congress leader and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah's son, Yathindra says, "...If the country leaves secularism and goes after religion, it will not develop. Today there is a threat to the secular philosophy... We should be wary of parties that politicise religion..."

A nagar kirtan was taken out by Sikh community in Jammu to mark Guru Gobind Singh's birth anniversary. Take a look at the visuals.

Venezuela has agreed to supply oil to ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in lieu of pending dividend. A senior official from Venezuela is yet to give lifting dates to OVL. They have agreed to give us some oil in lieu of its pending OVL dues. We are waiting for lifting dates, Petroleum Secretary Pankaj Jain has informed.

An alleged criminal was detained under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district today. Ashraf Ali alias 'Shifu', a resident of Ramnagar, has become a threat to public peace and tranquillity, forcing the district magistrate to issue orders for his detention under the PSA, a police spokesperson said.

Security forces on Wednesday launched a search operation in the forest areas of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said.  The joint operation by the Army and police is underway in Kachblari in Mehdhar and Ardhie in Mandi areas following information about some suspicious movement, they said.

India registered about 12 lakh new cancer cases and 9.3 lakh deaths in 2019, becoming the second highest contributor to the disease burden in Asia for that year, according to a new study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal.

The Madhya Pradesh government has removed Kishor Kanyal from the post of Shajapur district collector after he questioned "aukat" (status) of a driver amid a protest by truckers. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, while sharing the decision of removing Kanyal from the collector's post, said such type of language will not be tolerated under his government.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday lashed out at the BJP over its protest against the arrest of a Hindu activist in Hubballi in connection with a 31-year-old case related to Ram temple agitation, saying leaders of the opposition party need to understand that assigning caste and religious labels to criminals is extremely dangerous.

Two persons, including a schoolboy, were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents in Odisha’s Bhadrak district, police said. A speeding car from Puri heading towards Kolkata hit a motorcycle on a stretch of National Highway-16, causing the two-wheeler to fall from a bridge on Tuesday evening, they said.

A section of students and teachers at Jadavpur University (JU) have threatened to launch a stir if the imbroglio over the appointment of a regular vice-chancellor did not end soon. Confusion has prevailed after Professor Buddhadeb Sau was removed from the post of officiating VC by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on December 23, a day before the annual convocation of the varsity.

There was no relief from the intense dry and cold wave conditions in Kashmir on Wednesday as the minimum temperatures stayed several degrees below the freezing point, officials said. Anantnag town was the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday night as the mercury plunged more than seven degrees below the freezing point, they said.

On his second day of South visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a road show in Lakshadweep. He is scheduled to inaugurate and lay the foundation of several development projects in Kavaratti today. 

The deaths of a wealthy Indian-origin couple and their daughter in the US state of Massachusetts last week have been ruled a murder-suicide by medical authorities after autopsy. Rakesh Kamal, 57, his wife Teena Kamal, 54 and their college-going daughter Arianna Kamal, 18 were found dead in their USD 5 million mansion in Dover, Massachusetts on December 28, 2023.

Police have arrested three men for allegedly attacking four persons with iron rods and sticks following a dispute with one of them in Navi Mumbai township, an official said today. The incident took place in Rabale industrial area on Monday night.

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has instructed the Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited officials to quickly get the traffic studies and detailed project reports done for the revised Airport Metro alignment via the Old City and from LB Nagar. 

Days after the successful launch of India's maiden X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) to study black holes and neutron stars, Karan Jani, a professor of Astrophysics at a US-based university, said that the country taking the lead in several frontiers of space science is 'very inspiring.' The Professor of Astrophysics at Vanderbilt University, US, said that it is the most exciting time to study black holes, and India is one of the key players studying this.

A man was found dead inside an airplane engine at Salt Lake City International Airport after police say he breached an emergency exit door, walked onto the tarmac and climbed inside the jet's engine. Officers found 30-year-old Kyler Efinger, of Park City, unconscious inside an engine mounted to the wing of a commercial aircraft loaded with passengers, the Salt Lake City Police Department announced on Tuesday. The plane had been sitting on a de-icing pad, and its engines were rotating.

A dense fog has gripped the national capital as temperature dips further. The morning visuals showing fog from the Indira Gandhi International Airport.