Nov 16, 2025 06:05 PM IST
India News Live Updates | Central Railway to roll out modern LHB coaches on 16 trains – Full list
Indian Railways LHB upgrade, Indian Railways LHB coaches: Indian Railways (IR) is gradually phasing out older ICF (Integral Coach Factory) coaches and replacing them with modern LHB (Linke-Hofmann-Busch) coaches. The LHB coaches are modern, stainless steel passenger rail coach designed in Germany and manufactured in India. What is LHB coach in train The LHB coaches are equipped with enhanced safety features like anti-climbing devices and fire-retardant materials and have a higher operating speed of 160 kmph, with a design speed of up to 200 kmph, compared to the older 140 kmph ICF coaches. LHB coach in Indian Railways The LHB […]
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Nov 16, 2025 05:50 PM IST
India News Live Updates | BLO dies by suicide in Kerala, family blames SIR-related pressure
Assistant Electoral Registration Officer of Payyanur constituency, where the BLO was posted, said he had completed the distribution of most of the enumeration forms
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Nov 16, 2025 05:43 PM IST
Bangalore News Live Updates | Unsung Heroes | How a Bengaluru college backbencher went on to fight wars and build EVMs, armed drones for India
When Col (retd) H S Shankar was selected, his family members and friends did not want him to join the Army, but he went on to fight wars in the frontline.
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Nov 16, 2025 05:11 PM IST
Kolkata News Live Updates | IIT Kharagpur starts taking applications for 7th Young Innovators’ Program
The deadline for online submissions for the 7th YIP is November 30.
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Nov 16, 2025 04:43 PM IST
Mumbai News Live Updates | Uncertainty over alliances in Maharashtra civic polls looms large; ‘not a state assembly election,’ says CM Devendra Fadnavis
NCP (SP) working president and MP Supriya Sule said that a clear picture of the alliance will emerge after November 17.
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Nov 16, 2025 04:30 PM IST
Delhi News Live Updates | Study links higher emissions in two-wheelers to mileage, calls for scrappage policy overhaul
It analysed real-time exhaust data from 575 two-wheelers tested at Pollution Under Control Certification centres in Delhi. The vehicles examined were BS III and BS IV-compliant petrol-driven two-wheelers.
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Nov 16, 2025 04:14 PM IST
Mumbai News Live Updates | Maharashtra local body election 2025: Polling date, major parties, result day – All you need to know
Maharashtra local body polls 2025: The elections for 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats in Maharashtra are scheduled to be held next month. Check polling date, result date and more.
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Nov 16, 2025 03:53 PM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | Military Digest: Firing a gun at court martial and other naval traditions that transcend national boundaries
A sneak peek into some of the rich traditions of the Indian Navy, influenced by the Royal Navy, and comparisons with similar practices worldwide.
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Nov 16, 2025 03:46 PM IST
Kolkata News Live Updates | ‘What will happen to us now?’ ask untainted candidates who could not make it to WBSSC interview list
The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has released a list of over 20,000 candidates who will be called for interviews for assistant teachers (higher secondary) posts in government-aided schools.
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Nov 16, 2025 03:08 PM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | Sushant Rohilla suicide case: What Delhi High Court attendance ruling asks of students, varsities and teachers
By humanising attendance, the court frees students from coercion while deepening the moral responsibility of the classroom.
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Nov 16, 2025 02:39 PM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | Timeless Tales | Hundred years of Sathya Sai Baba
As Sathya Sai Baba’s centenary approaches, devotees look back at a legacy of service, love, and inner transformation.
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Nov 16, 2025 02:20 PM IST
India News Live Updates | IRCTC No Food option: Is water bottle still free in Rajdhani Express for passengers opting ‘No Meals’?
Is water bottle free in Rajdhani Express: Since meals have become optional, many travellers are unsure whether opting for the ‘No Meals’ option means they will no longer receive the free water bottle.
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Nov 16, 2025 02:01 PM IST
India News Live Updates | ‘Never, ever save you god-like father if …’: Rohini Acharya says ‘was cursed at’ for donating ‘dirty kidney’ to Lalu Prasad
May none of you ever make a mistake like mine, may no family ever have a daughter like Rohini," she wrote on X.
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Nov 16, 2025 01:56 PM IST
Lucknow News Live Updates | Shaheen and Parvez, doctor siblings now at centre of terror module probe
Express pieces together their lives from testimonies of family members, investigators and acquaintances
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Nov 16, 2025 01:52 PM IST
Pune News Live Updates | Against All Odds | ‘It was tough… but my teacher never gave up on me’: how Anandita Kumar redefined life with cerebral palsy with drums
Born with a rare congenital heart defect and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, Anandita Kumar is now a graduate of Pune University, plays two musical instruments, and is a certified clinical musician helping young adults like herself find their purpose.
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Nov 16, 2025 01:33 PM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | Protest in PU: FIR against unidentified students, outsiders for assaulting police
The protest on November 10 occurred due to ongoing dissatisfaction with the Union government’s notification on October 28 to restructure the governing bodies of PU: the Senate and the Syndicate.
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Nov 16, 2025 01:22 PM IST
India News Live Updates | Kerala local body polls 2025: Two-phase polling, timeline and election process — here’s all you need to know
Kerala local body polls 2025 date and time: Seven southern and central districts (Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Idukki and Ernakulam) will vote on December 9 while the seven others (Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasargod) will vote on December 11.
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Nov 16, 2025 12:54 PM IST
Kolkata News Live Updates | Bengal Raj Bhavan opens gates for scrutiny after TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee alleges Governor Ananda Bose shelters armed criminals
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee’s remarks came after Governor Ananda Bose said violence and corruption marred polls in West Bengal and that the SIR of voter lists was a necessary clean-up exercise.
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Nov 16, 2025 12:29 PM IST
Lucknow News Live Updates | 1 worker killed, 10 others feared trapped in stone quarry collapse in UP’s Sonbhadra
The stone quarry collapsed during drilling operations for blasting, and rescue operations are going on.
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Nov 16, 2025 12:10 PM IST
India News Live Updates | Nowgam police station blast: What we know so far
On the night of 14 November, the material exploded inside the station, killing nine people and injuring several others. Officers on duty described a sudden, deafening blast that tore through the structure and sent shockwaves across the area.
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Nov 16, 2025 12:08 PM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | RSS leader’s son shot dead by bike-borne assailants in Punjab’s Ferozepur; gangsters running parallel govt in Punjab, alleges BJP
The murder of RSS leader Baldev Raj Arora's son Naveen Arora triggered widespread anger among local traders and RSS workers.
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Nov 16, 2025 11:55 AM IST
India News Live Updates | ‘Save your family from falling apart’: BJP’s message to Lalu-Rabri after daughter Rohini Acharya’s exit
BJP Bihar president Dilip Jaiswal said: "Lalu ji and Rabri ji, save your family from falling apart. An outsider is breaking your family - protect it."
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Nov 16, 2025 11:12 AM IST
Pune News Live Updates | IMD issues cold wave alert for isolated pockets of Pune, several districts
On Saturday, Pune recorded a shivery night temperature of 11.2 degree C and the mercury is expected to stay at this level till Monday.
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Nov 16, 2025 10:38 AM IST
Ahmedabad News Live Updates | Bihar elections done, Surat’s textile mills wait for workforce to return but train ticket availability remains an issue
Surat’s textile mills are battling a labour shortage just when market demand is high due to the wedding season. Textile mill owners complain that special trains were run to send labourers back to their home states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh, but they are struggling to book return tickets. Consequently, the industry is operating with a nearly 30 per cent labour shortage, while the existing workforce is working double shifts, contractors and mill owners told The Indian Express. To meet the demand for a timely supply of finished fabrics, dyeing and printing mill owners are spending more to […]
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Nov 16, 2025 10:35 AM IST
World News Live Updates | UK govt set to reform asylum norms, refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently
The government has said that financial assistance to asylum seekers would become "discretionary", which implies that the administration would be able to deny the aid to those who are capable of working.
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Nov 16, 2025 10:23 AM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | Dera Bassi Collector asked to attach guarantor’s property after he fails to produce Rs 7.29-cr fraud accused
According to the prosecution, the case dates back to 2015, when the CBI had registered an FIR against eight persons, including four retired officials of Indian Overseas Bank, for allegedly causing around Rs 7.29 crore loss to the bank.
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Nov 16, 2025 09:48 AM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | Mohali: ESIC patient denied cashless treatment; hospital charged Rs 4.30 lakh
Hospital, accused of forcing signatures, issues discharge slip showing Rs 90,396 due
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Nov 16, 2025 09:44 AM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | How diversification, sustainability, & land-leasing helped a small farmer in building Rs 1-cr annual enterprise
Manpreet’s journey began in 2000 when he completed his 10+2 education.
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Nov 16, 2025 09:43 AM IST
World News Live Updates | Atmospheric river hits Southern California with risks of flash floods, deaths on stormy seas
The long plume of tropical moisture that formed over the Pacific Ocean began drenching the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday and unleashed widespread rain.
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Nov 16, 2025 09:19 AM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | Rajwanti Mann’s book unearths banned texts on Jallianwala Bagh
Written by Abhishek Goyat A book titled Jallianwala Bagh ki Karahein, which attempts to bring banned literature by local writers after the 1919 massacre into the public domain, was released in Chandigarh on Saturday. A former officer of the Haryana Archives Department, Rajwanti Mann, has authored the book. It was released by historian Harish Puri, former Chair of the B R Ambedkar Chair (Guru Nanak Dev University), at an event organised by the Readers and Writers Society of India. Drawing upon material acquired from India Office Records (British Library, London), Mann unearthed works that capture the era’s pain and anger. The […]
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Nov 16, 2025 09:04 AM IST
Pune News Live Updates | ‘Cruel, Impractical’: Pune citizens protest SC ruling on community dogs
The protest, titled “Pune Rises for the Animals,” began near Kayani Bakery which included a peace walk, slogans and speeches by activists and welfare groups.
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Nov 16, 2025 08:51 AM IST
World News Live Updates | Brazil President Lula’s former human rights minister formally accused of sexual misconduct
Prosecutors will now decide whether to press charges. If they do so, the Supreme Court will either throw them out or accept them, in which case Almeida would face a trial.
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Nov 16, 2025 08:37 AM IST
Lucknow News Live Updates | NDA’s Bihar victory reflects a growing trust in double-engine govts: Yogi Adityanath
The CM announced to set up ‘tribal pride museum’ in Sonbhadra to showcase tribal art and folk traditions.
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Nov 16, 2025 08:23 AM IST
Lucknow News Live Updates | UP’s electronics & IT exports rose manifold since 2017: Yogi Adityanath
Says exports in two sectors grew from Rs 3,862 crore and Rs 55,711 crore to Rs 44,744 crore and Rs 82,055 crore in 8 years
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Nov 16, 2025 08:19 AM IST
Lucknow News Live Updates | Female wolf shot dead in Bahraich; Forest Dept says was last from pack that killed eight
Cage traps, thermal drones, camera traps, nets and other equipment were deployed to track the animal, say officials
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Nov 16, 2025 08:13 AM IST
Chandigarh News Live Updates | ‘It’s Punjab’s fight’: SAD chief Badal reaches PU campus, calls for united front
Badal, who visited the university on Saturday evening, said that the protests in the campus are “a question of Punjab’s rights” and not an issue to be boxed into political camps.
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Nov 16, 2025 08:05 AM IST
India News Live Updates | Madhya Pradesh minister calls Raja Ram Mohan Roy ‘British agent’, BJP distances itself from remarks
Congress slammed Inder Singh Parmar’s comments as shameful
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Nov 16, 2025 08:03 AM IST
Pune News Live Updates | 93 killed in 76 accidents in five years: Bypass service roads in Pune remain undeveloped for 18 yrs
In the wake of a mishap near Navale Bridge which claimed the lives of eight people on Friday, even as officials of Pune Municipal Corporation, city traffic police, highway police and PMRDA have decided to implement a three-pronged strategy to ease the speed of vehicles and minimise accidents along the stretch — starting from New Katraj tunnel to the Navale and Vadgaon bridges — it has emerged that the service roads in the area have remained undeveloped for 18 years which could have helped ease the traffic nightmare. Highlighting the PMC’s intention to effectively ease commuting on the Katraj-Dehu Road […]
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Nov 16, 2025 07:45 AM IST
India News Live Updates | ‘Constant mental harassment by office seniors’ led 55-year-old J-K man to suicide, 3 govt officials held: Police
Puran Chand from R S Pura town near Jammu was found with severe burn injuries in a field, after which he was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries
Those arrested in the case were identified as Surjeet Kumar and Ram Murti, both in-charge ziladars, as well as Girdhari Lal, who worked as amin in the Irrigation Department.
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Nov 16, 2025 07:37 AM IST
Kolkata News Live Updates | Happening today in Bengal: Vidyasagar Setu to be shut till 9pm, monthly film screening & discussion on SIR and citizenship
Commuters who rely on the Setu are urged to leave earlier than usual, use alternative bridges where possible and expect heavy congestion, especially around Howrah Bridge and the Strand Road corridors.
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Nov 16, 2025 07:26 AM IST
Kolkata News Live Updates | Amid S.I.R. exercise in West Bengal, BLOs protest against digital data entry; cites ‘unreasonable’ workload, boycott training
Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal, several Booth Level Officers (BLOs) in many districts across the state on Saturday staged protests against data entry of enumeration forms and refused to take training on the same. The BLOs have alleged that the Election Commission of India (EC) was subjecting them to intense and unreasonable work pressure, including late-night instructions and sudden orders for digital data entry. The BLOs in Howrah, Barrackpore and Siliguri, claimed that the poll body had “suddenly” directed them to shift to digital data entry and undergo immediate training, which […]
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Nov 16, 2025 07:25 AM IST
India News Live Updates | India’s third-largest cricket stadium has never hosted a Test. That could change soon
Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur leased to state cricket association for 30 years. Chhattisgarh hopes this changes the stadium’s fate
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Nov 16, 2025 07:05 AM IST
India News Live Updates | Behind taxi turf wars that cast shadow on tourism in Goa
Long-running feud between traditional taxi operators and app-based taxis raised its head again this season, prompting Tourism Minister to warn against ‘dadagiri’
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Nov 15, 2025 09:40 PM IST
Pune News Live Updates | Rs 10,000 given to women voters helped NDA win Bihar poll: Sharad Pawar
The results of the Bihar elections were declared on Friday. The BJP-led NDA swept the polls bagging 206 seats while the Mahagathbandhan had to remain content with 35 seats.
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Nov 13, 2025 06:06 AM IST
Delhi News Live Updates | Delhi Metro to build projects in UK, Australia? Here are the details
Delhi Metro International Limited (DMIL) — the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) new subsidiary — was announced last week by Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Manohar Lal.
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