Kyiv, 19/4: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, ordering his forces to end hostilities at 6 p.m. Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday until the end of Sunday. Putin said he assumed Ukraine would follow Russia’s example, but told the chief of Russia’s general staff, Valery Gerasimov, to ready Russian…
Mumbai, 19/4: In a significant political development in Maharashtra, the Thackeray cousins – Uddhav and Raj have dropped hints of sinking their differences and working for the larger interests of the state. While Uddhav (64), a former Maharashtra Chief Minister now heads the Shiv Sena (UBT) after the Shiv Sena was split following Eknath Shinde’s…
Kochi, 19/4: The police on Saturday arrested Malayalam film actor Shine Tom Chacko in connection with a drug case. His arrest was recorded after about a four-hour-long interrogation in connection with an incident in which he allegedly fled from a hotel in Kochi during a narcotics raid. Police said that he was booked under Sections…
New Delhi, 19/4: Senior MPs on Friday hit out at Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar for his attack on the Supreme Court, with Kapil Sibal saying that he has never seen any Chair making political statements of this nature. As Dhankhar questioned the judgement setting a timeline for the President to clear…
Bengaluru, 19/4: Infosys, on Friday, let go of around 300 trainees after they failed the internal assessments, according to internal company mails examined by DH. This is the third round of terminations in 2025 of entry-level hires by the Bengaluru-headquarter tech behemoth, totalling around 800 trainees. The trainees could not clear assessments after being hired…
New Delhi, 19/4: The National Testing Agency on Saturday announced that the results of 110 candidates found using unfair means, including forged documents, in JEE (Main) have been withheld. More than 9.92 lakh candidates had appeared for the second edition of the crucial exam. Meanwhile, twenty-four candidates scored a perfect 100 in the engineering entrance…
New Delhi: Manmohan Singh acted like Private Secretary to Sonia Gandhi when he was Prime Minister and was not even willing to take credit for positive work done by his own government, a new book on Prime Minister’s Office by a JNU professor has claimed in a book At the same time, the book PMO:…
Chennai, 18/4: In an all-out attack on Amit Shah, who stitched the BJP’s alliance with AIADMK for the 2026 polls, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday told the Union Home Minister that the DMK alliance will win the 2026 assembly elections hands downwhile asserting that Tamil Nadu will always be “out of control” for…
Chennai, 18/4: Chennai Super Kings sign Dewald Brevis as a replacement for the injured Gurjapneet Singh. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have signed South Africa’s Dewald Brevis as a replacement for the injured Gurjapneet Singh for the remainder of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Dewald Brevis has played 81 T20s and scored…
New Delhi, 18/4: India on Friday rejected remarks by Bangladeshi officials on violence in West Bengal and asked Dhaka to focus on protecting the rights of its minorities instead of indulging in “virtue signalling” “We reject the remarks made by the Bangladesh side with regard to the incidents in West Bengal,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson…
