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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Vikram Dev Dutt as the next director general in the Directorate of General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)

Ministry of Sports suspends Vinod Tomar, Assistant Secretary of the Wrestling Federation of India

By putting blame on PM Modi without verifying facts, BBC has wholly destroyed its credibility: Veena Sikri

By putting blame on PM Modi without verifying facts, BBC has wholly destroyed its credibility. I also suspect a strong domestic angle in the UK against PM Rishi Sunak. They're trying to whip up anti-Indian sentiments & destroy relations within India & b/w India & UK: Veena Sikri

BBC has a troubled record in dealing with India as it appears to have a colonial mindset with regard to India: Bhaswati Mukherjee, Ex Ambassador of India to the Netherlands

BBC has a troubled record in dealing with India as it appears to have a colonial mindset with regard to India. It does these programs which are highly discriminatory & funded by private partners, not the British govt: Bhaswati Mukherjee, Ex Ambassador of India to the Netherlands

The documentary was a planned agenda: Ex- DGMO Lt Gen AK Chaudhary

The documentary was a planned agenda. It clearly shows they don't like India. BBC not working in a neutral way. They're not being able to digest that India is growing rapidly & are trying to mislead people. Muslims in India are the safest: Ex- DGMO Lt Gen AK Chaudhary

Maharashtra: A person named Shailesh Thackeray betrayed cricketer Umesh Yadav after taking Rs 44 lakhs to buy a property in Yadav's name

Clash broke out between ISF (Indian Secular Front) activists and Kolkata police at the Esplanade area of Kolkata

Senior officials of the Army and Security Impact Analysis (SIA) teams reach Jammu's Narwal where two explosions occurred

Jammu twin blast: A total of 9 people were injured. All treated at Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu: Hospital Authorities

There is no scope for arbitrariness and mismanagement in WFI by any one individually including President: WFI to Sports Ministry

Protest has some personal as well as hidden agenda to dislodge current management of WFI: Federation

Protesters have acted more in personal interest or under undue pressure to malign and defame present sitting management of WFI: Federation

Retired judges, retired bureaucrats and retired armed forces veterans co-sign a statement rebutting the BBC documentary. ‘Delusions of British Imperial Resurrection?’

The allegations are baseless. There is nothing like that. It has been 3-4 days, and they still haven't produced any evidence. I have been associated with them for the past 12 years, and I haven't seen anything as such: WFI Asst Secy Vinod Tomar

Centre has decided to send a proposal to UNESCO nominating Charaideo Maidam of Ahom kingdom a World Heritage site: Sarma

Centre has decided to send a proposal to UNESCO nominating Charaideo Maidam of Ahom kingdom as a World Heritage site. Out of 52 tentative sites across the country, PM Modi has chosen Assam's Charaideo Maidam: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

Blasts in J&K: Lt Governor announces relief of Rs 50,000 to the injured

Delhi L-G Vinai Saxena says the city must be made plastic-free

EAM Dr S Jaishankar condoles death of Michael Moussa Adamo, Foreign Minister of Gabon

Bengaluru: Road caves in; affected portion barricaded

Twin blasts in J&K: Six injured

DGCA asks Scoot Airlines to submit a report over passengers being left behind

Goa-bound chartered flight from Russia diverted to Uzbekistan following bomb threat

Covid-19: India sees a dip in number of active cases

Guwahati City police seizes 101 kg of marijuana

Fire breaks out at a hotel in Delhi's Connaught Place. Six fire tenders rushed

Stones pelted at Vande Bharat Express

Kalvari-class indigenous submarine 'Vagir' to be commissioned on January 23

NIA files chargesheet against 20 PFI members

NIA filed charge-sheet against 20 PFI members, a banned outfit, in the murder of BJP's Yuva Morcha leader Praveen Nettaru on July 26, 2022 in Bellare village of Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada dist with the intention to strike terror in the society &create fear among the people: NIA.

Elon Musk begins testimony in trial focused on misleading tweet claiming he had funding to take Tesla private in 2018, reports AP.

7 booked for allegedly forcing a woman to consume powder made of human bones as part of a black magic ritual, in hopes of conceiving a child, in Pune.