The Latest Breaking News from TOI

PUNE: April is likely to be a scorcher with days and nights likely to be much hotter than last month in parts of India, a temperature outlook by IMD has indicated.

CHANDIGARH: In a sudden development, the Haryana government has deleted Rule 134A that mandated the reservation of 10% seats for meritorious students belonging to the economic weaker section (EWS) in recognised private schools. A notification in this regard was issued by the Haryana government on March 28.

KOLKATA: The KMC has decided to remove all decorative lights from trees following protests from citizens and a section of environmentalists. The TOI had earlier reported on this menace, highlighting how owners of some restaurants and other commercial establishments illuminated trees to attract customers.

AGRA: The Allahabad high court on Wednesday granted bail to three Kashmiri students who have been in jail for the last five months after being charged for sedition for allegedly celebrating Pakistan cricket team’s victory after a T-20 World Cup match in October last year.

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government is keen to increase the crowd capacity in the ongoing IPL 2022 to 50% from the first week of April, but the BCCI is still in "two-minds" on the issue, a reliable source revealed to TOI.

NEW DELHI: Even as opposition parties have raised privacy and fundamental rights concerns over the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 that seeks to authorise law enforcement agencies to collect iris and retina scans and even biological samples, with some exceptions, from convicts and arrested persons, the law enforcement agencies are…

NEW DELHI: Legendary Australian Olympic champion shooter, Russell Mark, who had famously guided former union sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore to the double trap silver at the Athens Games in 2004, will join the Indian shooting as the new trap coach. The sports ministry has approved his appointment, TOI has…

TOI takes a look at where things went wrong for Mithali's team at the World Cup

NOIDA: Around 2,700 homebuyers, of whom less than 1,100 have received their flats, are scrambling to file their claims after the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) initiated insolvency proceedings against of Logix Blossom Zest, allowing a plea by operational creditor Colliers International (India) Property Services.

MUMBAI: In India, cricket rakes in money at the drop of a hat. Big corporates keep a blank cheque ready for top stars or telecast rights, but rarely does anyone bother about the people behind the show, for example the groundstaff (in India they are called maalis) who toils hard…

NEW DELHI: The controversy surrounding the impersonation by Indian riders who represented Nepal during the ITPF Tent Pegging World Cup Qualifiers has got a new twist, almost a year after the shocking incident was first reported by TOI.