India Archive

Bhubaneswar, Jan 13: Indian men's hockey defender Nilam Sanjeep Xess is all set to make his debut in the upcoming FIH World Cup 2023, while the country celebrates the rising star, his family lives in a kutcha house with stories of poverty to tell.

While observing that all issues must not come to it directly, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear the PIL filed on the recent land sinking incidents in Joshimath on January 16.

The Ganga Vilas luxury cruise boat reached Ramnagar Port in Varanasi on Tuesday after having left Kolkata on December 22.

LUCKNOW: A group of men, including a hotel staff, its owner and manager, set afire the car of a serving army major for opposing the high decibel music tracks which the accused were playing at the roof of the hotel on Sunday night in Gomtinagar.

In a country where people are arrested for social media posts, it is astonishing that Amritpal Singh should publicly extol the idea of Khalistan, celebrate violence, disparage communities, and lavish praise on Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the militant leader who, along with the Indian state, scarred Punjab in the 1980s. Amritpal’s audacity suggests he enjoys impunity, courtesy the backing of powerful patrons operating incognito.

India’s Auroville was envisioned as an international community free of government, money, religion, and strife. It hasn’t exactly worked out quite as planned.

New Delhi: A rare Himalayan Griffon Vulture was rescued by locals from the Eidgah cemetery of Kanpur's Colonelganj and later handed over to the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department, as reported by the news agency ANI. The incident has created a lot of buzz on the Internet. People in the Kanpur village were not able to hold back their excitement after the incident that happened over the weekend.

DEHRADUN: In 2022, close to five crore tourists, 3.8 crore Kanwar yatris and 45 lakh Char Dham pilgrims, visited Uttarakhand. While 2022 emerged as the most successful year for tourism in the context of footfall, it has simultaneously raised several questions about the infrastructure availability, carrying capacity of hill towns, scientific study, assessment and several other key factors related to the well-being of the mountains and residents.

Squadron Leader Avani Chaturvedi, one of the first three women fighter pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF), will script history once again next week as the inaugural joint Air Exercise between India and Japan kicks off at the Hyakuri Air Base on January 12.  

For those unversed with his exploits, it needs to be reiterated that despite his popularity across board, this spymaster has delivered pretty little on the ground.