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Assam assembly passes bill to ban polygamy, tribals kept out

The Assam assembly on Thursday passed a bill to ban polygamy, making it an offence which may lead to a maximum of 10 years of imprisonment, barring some exceptions. IMAGE: Assam Chief Minister......

Assam to use 1950 Act for direct eviction of illegal foreigners: Sarma

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the state government would enforce a 1950 law to identify and evict illegal foreigners, which empowers district commissioners to carry out......

Misleading ads case: SC closes contempt proceedings against Ramdev

The Supreme Court on Tuesday closed the contempt proceedings against yoga guru Ramdev, his aide Balkrishna and Patanjali Ayurved Limited after accepting the apology tendered by them in the......

Calcutta HC stays order terminating jobs of 32,000 teachers

The Calcutta high court on Friday passed an interim stay on an earlier order terminating jobs of around 32,000 teachers in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided primary schools till the end......

Four killed as heavy rain, landslides hit Guwahati; 2 relief camps opened

At least four people were killed in a massive landslide in Guwahati amid heavy rain that flooded the city, officials said on Tuesday. IMAGE: National Disaster Response Force personnel rescue......

How India Spends: A Revealing Story

Nearly 7 out of every 10 P2M UPI transactions take place in high frequency categories like groceries, restaurants, pharmacies, fuel service stations, bakeries and utility services such as......

Google AI Bets Big On Indian Farms, Languages

Google says its AI models are being used across sectors in India, from improving maternal health programmes and streamlining patient-care to supporting agri-tech solutions and advancing the......

What fintechs must do to scale up presence of e

Non-banking entities such as fintech firms will have to tap into use cases beyond peer-to-peer (P2P) and peer-to-merchant (P2M) transactions to scale up the presence of the retail version of the......

Number of UPI apps grows in 2024, yet top two command maximum market share

In 2024, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) approved 20 third-party Unified Payments Interface (UPI) applications, a record since UPI’s launch in 2016. This surge reflects......

Back to basics: Paytm's focus is payments and distribution

Paytm, the country’s leading fintech player which had to shut its payment bank business following regulatory action, is revisiting its business strategy including partnership with lenders.......

Assam Mourns Zubeen Garg

According to Indian High Commissioner to Singapore Shilpak Ambule, Zubeen Garg had gone with 17 others on a yacht trip and died while 'swimming in the sea without a life jacket'. IMAGE: All Assam......

PIX: Kishwer Merchant's mehendi ceremony

Television's popular couple Kishwer Merchant and Suyyash Rai are all set to get married today. The celebrations have been going on for sometime now. It started with the bachelorette party in Goa,......

Historic! Ankita, Dhiraj shine! India sweep golds at Asian C'ships

IMAGE: Indian recurve men stun Korea in shoot-off to end 18-year wait for Asian gold. Photograph: World Archery Asia/Instagram The Indian men's recurve team produced its most stirring performance......

Archer Talukdar tests COVID positive, shifted to ICU

IMAGE: India's Olympian and World Cup gold medallist archer Jayanta Talukdar. Photograph: PTI Former Olympian and World Cup gold medallist Jayanta Talukdar was being treated in an Intensive Care......

Indian archers need psychologist: Talukdar

International archer Jayanta Talukdar on Tuesday rued the dismal performance of the country's archery team in the ongoing London Olympics and said it urgently needed a psychologist and a......

Jayanta Talukdar earns Olympic quota berth

Jayanta Talukdar earned an Olympic quota place from the men's individual recurve event of the Archery World Championship at Turin, in Italy in Kolkata. Seeded fifth in the elimination round,......

Talukdar in archery World Cup final

India's Jayanta Talukdar made it through five successive rounds to pit himself against Athens Olympics gold medallist Marco Galiazzo of Italy in the final of the recurve section of the Archery......