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Women's Reservation Bill To Remain A Post-Dated Cheque Forever: K Kavitha
- Apr 16, 2026 21:36 pm IST
- Reported by: Padmaja Joshi
With the Women's Reservation Bill, she alleged, the BJP intends to garner women's votes in poll-bound West Bengal.
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Competition Panel Rejects Complaint Against Adani Group, Azure Power In Solar Tender Case
- Apr 16, 2026 21:31 pm IST
- Press Trust India
Rejecting the complaint, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), in its order, observed that the country's power generation market comprises many significant public and private players, and that Adani Group, prima facie, does not appear to be a dominant player.
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Bhopal Woman, 64, Duped Of Rs 26 Lakh In Digital Arrest Fraud
- Apr 16, 2026 21:22 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
The accused contacted the elderly woman through a WhatsApp call, impersonating officials from the Internal Security Department and the Counter-Terrorism Department.
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Top Court Allows Last-Minute Inclusion Of 'Cleared' Voters In Bengal Rolls
- Apr 16, 2026 21:12 pm IST
- Reported by: Ashish Kumar Bhargava
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
"If the appeals are adjudicated by April 21 for the first phase and April 27 for the second phase then a supplementary revised electoral roll must be issued," the Supreme Court told the Election Commission.
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'Wore Rudraksha, Later Converted To Islam': More Claims In TCS Nashik Case
- Apr 16, 2026 21:03 pm IST
- Reported by: Sujata Kanhaiya Dwivedi
The claims describe a conversion syndicate and a sexual harassment network operating inside TCS, one of India's largest IT firms.
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Probe Agency Raids 32nd Avenue Group In Rs 500 Crore Scam, Seizes Cash, Gold
- Apr 16, 2026 20:51 pm IST
- Indo Asian Service News
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS In fresh action in a Rs 500 crore ponzi scheme fraud, the ED searched seven premises across Delhi-NCR, Goa, Jaipur and Mumbai linked to 32nd Avenue Group and seized Rs 1.05 crore cash and jewellery items worth Rs 1.5 crore,
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PM Modi Speaks To French President, Discusses Middle East, Starit Of Hormuz
- Apr 16, 2026 20:41 pm IST
- Press Trust India
In a post on X about his telephonic conversation with Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Modi said on Thursday, "We will continue our close cooperation to advance peace and stability in the region and beyond."
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2 Children Die, 3 Hospitalised After Inhaling Pesticide Fumes In Ujjain
- Apr 16, 2026 20:31 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
On Monday night, all the children and their mothers slept in a closed rear room of the house, where nearly four quintals of wheat had been stored.
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Woman Backs Out Of Divorce Settlement, Irked Top Court Dissolves Marriage
- Apr 16, 2026 20:31 pm IST
- Reported by: Ashish Kumar Bhargava
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
A woman who negotiated a divorce settlement and then changed her mind about the divorce, had her marriage dissolved by an irked Supreme Court, which said changing one's mind at that stage is unacceptable.
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AQI 'Poor', Pollution Curbs Under GRAP-1 Imposed In Delhi-NCR In April
- Apr 16, 2026 19:34 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
AQI 'Poor', Pollution Curbs Under GRAP-1 Imposed In Delhi-NCR In April
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"Rahul Gandhi Pushed For Women's Quota By 2019": Priyanka Gandhi's Counter
- Apr 16, 2026 19:19 pm IST
- Edited by: Ashutosh Tripathi
The Opposition argues that while the Bill was passed unanimously in parliament in 2023 with support from all parties, the government has failed to operationalise it.
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Uniform Civil Code A "Constitutional Ambition": Top Court On Shariat Plea
- Apr 16, 2026 19:15 pm IST
- Press Trust India
The court asked lawyer Prashant Bhushan to ensure that some aggrieved Muslim women are part of the proceedings.
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Plane Landing On Wrong Runway To Engine Sucking In Container: Close Calls At Delhi Airport
- Apr 16, 2026 18:57 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
A SpiceJet aircraft taxiing at Delhi airport collided with a stationary Akasa Air plane on Thursday afternoon, the latest in a series of safety incidents at one of India's busiest airports.
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Massive Fire Reduces 150 Homes To Ashes In Ghaziabad Slum
- Apr 16, 2026 18:51 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
The fire originated in a scrap warehouse located in Kanawani.
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Amit Shah Explains 850-Seat Lok Sabha Number After Opposition Criticism
- Apr 16, 2026 18:25 pm IST
- Reported by: Aishvarya Jain, Akhilesh Sharma
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
Amit Shah said Tamil Nadu will get 20 more seats, Kerala 10, Telangana 9 and Andhra Pradesh 13 seats. Maharashtra, which after Uttar Pradesh, has the second highest number of MPs in the Lok Sabha, will gain 24 more seats.
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Akasa Plane Was Stationary, SpiceJet Aircraft Made Contact At Delhi Airport: What We Know
- Apr 16, 2026 18:17 pm IST
- Reported by: Tanushka Dutta
- Edited by: Vaibhav Tiwari
Akasa Air released a statement on the incident, saying the SpiceJet plane hit their stationary aircraft.
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Time To Seal Border Like Assam And Tripura: Himanta Sarma's Poll Pitch In Bengal
- Apr 16, 2026 18:00 pm IST
- Reported by: Ratnadip Choudhury
Addressing another election rally in Coach Behar South, Himanta Sarma came down heavily on Mamata Banerjee government.
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BJP MP Tejasvi Surya Compares 2014 Andhra Split With Partition, Triggers Row
- Apr 16, 2026 17:45 pm IST
- Reported by: Ashish Kumar Pandey
In the ongoing special session of Parliament, Surya compared the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and the formation of Telangana to the "Partition" of India and Pakistan.
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Nitish Kumar's Big Imprint On New Bihar Government, Led By BJP Chief Minister
- Apr 16, 2026 17:42 pm IST
- Reported by: Manoranjan Bharti
- Edited by: Ashutosh Tripathi
The BJP had a roster of names for the Bihar top job, but Nitish Kumar vetoed all of them, say sources. Samrat Chaudhary prevailed.
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After Breach, Bomb Threats, Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta Gets Z Security
- Apr 16, 2026 16:47 pm IST
- Reported by: Ishika Verma
Security at the Assembly complex has been tightened, with stricter entry checks, reinforced barriers and deployment of a CRPF Quick Response Team, along with increased surveillance.