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A 36-year-old Dalit teacher from Jammu’s Samba district was shot dead outside her government school at Gopalpora in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday morning, triggering widespread condemnation and outrage. This was the second fatal terrorist attack on a woman and a Hindu government employee in the Valley this May. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/FqQhUs5

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Indian Revenue Service officer Sameer Wankhede, who headed the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai when the NCB arrested several persons, including superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan in the controversial drugs-on-cruise case last year, was on Monday transferred to the DG Taxpayer Service Directorate in Chennai, an official said. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/frNZ2dC

Watering down or withdrawal of police protection to 400-plus at-risk individuals in Punjab was hotly debated following the murder of popular rapper and Congress politician Sidhu Moose Wala, with the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking Monday to know from the AAP government in the state why names of those who had lost their security details were leaked. The HC asked the government to reply by June 2. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/n53zE1C

The fallout of singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder continued to reverberate across Punjab on Monday as his anguished parents and fans refused to allow the Punjab police to conduct an autopsy. The singer was shot dead on Sunday evening in a Mansa village in an ambush. The family finally consented to the post-mortem by late afternoon and is yet to take a call on the funeral of the singer. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/a7YeNhl

While the heavy rain, accompanied by gusty winds and thunderstorms on Monday evening brought the mercury down in Delhi, it also affected the power supply in several areas due to damage to electrical infrastructure. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/vuWaeLD

Over 100 trees were uprooted, and several hoardings also collapsed at different places due to rain in Noida and Greater Noida on Monday evening. Waterlogging also led to traffic jams in the two cities. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/WgvoLPN

Bihar CM and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar has denied Union steel minister RCP Singh another term in the Rajya Sabha, while the fate of minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abaas Naqvi also looked uncertain after he failed to make it to the first list of BJP candidates from UP and Jharkhand. If the RS memberships of the two are not renewed, they will have to resign as ministers, setting the stage for a minor reshuffle of the Modi ministry. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Pwt03NB

A study by Christian Medical College, Vellore, on the effectiveness of mixed booster doses has yielded positive results and is currently being evaluated by central agencies, officials from the institute have said. “We presented the results to the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) and our interim analysis to the Drugs Controller General of India. NTAGI listened to our findings, but is yet to take a decision,” said principal investigator of the study Dr Winsley Rose. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/d1i2xw6

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Singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu aka Sidhu Moose Wala, who had contested the Punjab assembly elections earlier this year as a Congress candidate, was shot dead near Jawaharke village in Punjab’s Mansa district on Sunday evening. The 28-year-old was shot at point blank range and was declared brought dead on arrival at the Mansa civil hospital. “Three people were brought to the hospital, out of which Sidhu Moose Wala was dead. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/pHat1Qb

Delhi on Sunday logged 357 fresh Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.83 per cent, while no new death was reported due to the viral disease, according to data shared by the city health department. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/bgXTmy4

Amidst rising Covid-19 cases in the state, health officials on Saturday said seven patients were found infected with newer Omicron sublineages of BA.4 (four patients) and BA.5 (three patients). These cases were found in Pune. Maharashtra is the third state to report these newer sublineages, which are responsible for the fifth wave in South Africa. A few days back, Insacog scientists announced that two cases of BA.4 were detected in Tamil Nadu and one BA.5 in Telangana. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/hyIuDc5

The academic disruptions due to the Covid-19 situation, with nearly a quarter of school children not having access to any digital devices, led to further deepening of the learning crisis in the country. When compared to the previous survey conducted in 2017, the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 of over 34 lakh students from classes III, V, VIII and X indicated that the worst hit are those studying in state-government run schools. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/A5BMUxl

India can overcome geography and rewrite history "if only we get the policies and the economics right", foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday while highlighting how land connectivity through Myanmar and sea connectivity through Bangladesh on a commercial scale could open up "a world all the way to Vietnam and Philippines, from Haiphong to Hazira, and Manila to Mundra". from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/MJRPotX

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Delhi on Saturday logged 442 fresh Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.02%, while no new death was reported due the viral disease, according to data shared by the city health department. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/sNG7Egm

China, Russia, Iran and 4 central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan - joined India in strongly condemning terrorism in a joint statement after the 4th NSA-level regional security dialogue in Dushanbe while also calling for dismantling of terror camps in Afghanistan and the region. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/dlmIjAs

A major fire broke out in a laboratory located at the Ambika Nagar area of Wagle Estate of Thane on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1polzYa

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A 21-year-old woman was allegedly molested by a group of men at her house in Bilaspur area here. They also recorded her video while she was bathing, police said on Friday. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/AJQDFpl

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A 24-year-old auto-rickshaw driver was stabbed to death in south Delhi's Sangam Vihar area on Friday, police said.​​​ Information about the incident that took place on street number 15 in Sangam Vihar was received about 6.35pm, a senior police officer said. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/TJVmvyc

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Over three-quarters of registered deaths in India remain without causes being medically certified and in a state like Bihar, that proportion is a scarcely believable 96.6%. While nationally there has been a marginal improvement in certification of deaths with the proportion rising from 20.7% in 2019 to 22.5% in 2020, several states have seen a worsening. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/np8UFjL

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Nine people were killed in a tragic road accident near Chini Nallah Zojila Pass on Srinagar-Leh highway on Wednesday night. Officials sources on Thursday said a Tavera car bearing registration number JK12-7466, which was heading for Srinagar from Kargil, fell down 800ft into a gorge after the driver allegedly lost control over the vehicle. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/1N9dnhZ

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Congress dissident and high profile lawyer Kapil Sibal on Wednesday snapped his ties with the party and crossed over to the Samajwadi Party camp, adding to the mounting list of crossovers in recent weeks and amplifying the perception of negativity about the grand old party. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/acyqxpd

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A special NIA court in Delhi on Wednesday handed concurrent life terms to Kashmiri separatist and JKLF chief Yasin Malik for funding terror in J&K and waging war against the state, rejecting his contention that he had adhered to the Gandhian principle of non-violence and spearheaded "a peaceful struggle" since giving up armed militancy in 1994. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/wkLu9EX

The 67-year-old veteran politician is currently a Samajwadi Party MLA from the Jaswantnagar assembly segment in the Etawah district. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/D6EsPKH

Candidature Of Dimple Yadav, Jayant is also being discussed. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/0Vz9PQL

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A 48-year-old Punjab man has been arrested allegedly for "raping" a woman he met through a matrimonial website, police here said on Tuesday. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/yurIX6w

The National Monuments authority was set up as per the provisions of the AMASR (Amendment Validation) Act 2010. It entrusted the authority with the responsibility to consider granting permissions to applicants for conservation related activity in the centrally-prohibited and regulated areas. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/sEFxwG9

The Supreme Court has ruled all courts must consider pre- and post-crime conduct of a convict to ascertain mitigating grounds to avoid imposition of the capital punishm, in what marks another milestone on the meandering judicial journey since the 1980s towards virtual abolition of death penalty. Through this ruling, the court commuted the death sentences of three youth convicted for sensational and grotesque murders of three defenceless women in Indore in 2011 to 25 years in jail. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/LNeocqA

India was among a dozen "initial partners" that signed up in Tokyo Monday for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), a fresh economic arrangement proposed by US President Joe Biden to counter China's growing influence in the region through integrated, resilient and clean economies. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/IJo7G5Z

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After petrol and diesel, it is the common tomato that has broken the 100-rupee barrier. The retail price of a staple unit of 1 kg crossed a century in Pali Market Bandra, Matunga, Mulund and Byculla as well as in online stores. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/5hcDnMx

CBI took custody of four alleged conspirators of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts from the Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS) and produced them before a special court in the city on Monday. The court remanded the four to seven days’ CBI custody. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/yEun0TO

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Five Hindu women plaintiffs have told the Supreme Court that the entire Gyanvapi mosque land belonged to Kashi Vishwanath temple and cited the British government’s trial court statement repudiating a Muslim person’s 1936 suit for a declaration that the mosque land was a wakf property. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ZfawKIR

The Quad summit in Japan on Tuesday will provide an opportunity to leaders to review progress of their common initiatives and exchange views on the developments in Indo-Pacific region, PM Narendra Modi said in a statement. PM Modi’s most significant engagement on Monday will be his participation in the launch of US President Joe Biden’s ambitious Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) initiative that seeks the integration of Indo-Pacific economies and secure and resilient supply chains. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ysWhY4n