The Indian Railways on Monday flagged off the country's first air-conditioned suburban local train for Mumbai commuters, 150 years after the first suburban local was hauled by a steam engine in 1867, officials said.


Mumbai commuters get AC local trains


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A Rajasthan farmer on Sunday said he had failed to get his missing daughter freed who, he claimed, had been hypnotised and confined to a Delhi 'ashram'.


Freeing daughter from Delhi ashram proving tough for Rajasthan man


Amid the Christmas celebrations, don't be surprised to see very many Santa Clauses handing out road safety tips to commuters on Gurugram roads on Sunday and a day after.


This festive season, Santa Clauses to teach road safety in Gurugram


Can you gobble down three paranthas weighing two kg each in 50 minutes flat? If you think you can, head for the Tapasya Parantha Junction on the Rohtak-Delhi bypass, about 70 km from the national capital -- and if you can fulfil the challenge you not only stand to win Rs 1 lakh but also free paranthas for life.


Welcome to Haryana's big fat parantha challenge


Unicef Global Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra on Saturday said she is a just an "instrument of change" and the real job of empowering women is supposed to be done by the government and society.


I am just an instrument of change: Priyanka Chopra


India's first low-cost carrier Air Deccan took to the skies again on Saturday after nearly a decade, connecting Mumbai with Jalgaon in northern Maharashtra under the 'Udan' regional connectivity scheme.


Air Deccan flies to Maharashtra towns under Udan


A former police commissioner, an NRI businessman from London and the famed Dabbawalas joined hands here on Saturday to "wage a fight against hunger" through the "Mumbai Roti Bank" platform.


Ex-top cop, UK NRI, Dabbawalas set up 'Mumbai Roti Bank'


Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a segment of the newly-built Magenta Line of Delhi Metro on Monday which will connect Botanical Garden in Noida to South Delhi's Kalkaji Mandir, the government said on Saturday.


Modi to inaugurate new Metro line in Delhi, Kejriwal not invited


An FIR was lodged against Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty Kundra on Saturday at Andheri Police station, for allegedly using the word "bhangi" on a public platform that hurt the sentiments of the Scheduled Caste community.


FIR lodged against Salman, Shilpa for hurting caste sentiment


A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Karachi to Gwadar on Friday was delayed after a pilot informed the control tower about "possible danger" - which turned out to be a cat in the cockpit, airport officials said.


Cat delays flight in Pakistan


Rajasthan saw massive protests against another Bollywood film, with members of the Valmiki community disrupting the morning shows of "Tiger Zinda Hai", a Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer, in many cinema halls across the state on Friday in protest against the alleged use of a pejorative word by Salman during a promotional event.


Valmiki community protests screening of Salman's 'Tiger Zinda Hai' in Rajasthan


Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbot 'Ruuh' that has begun changing the lives of handloom weavers in India is something that will shape the future of technology, the company's Indian-born CEO Satya Nadella has emphasised.


AI chatbot 'Ruuh' changing handloom weavers' lives in India: Nadella


Sixteen-year-old Anjali Kumaris determination to study and fulfil her dream of becoming a school teacher has given her the strength and confidence to stand up against child marriage. She is one of the dozens of girls who are a part of a unique initiative to create awareness against the scourge in rural Bihar.


Putting education over marriage: Hope-filled story from Bihar (Societal Feature)


Ganga and Jamuna, conjoined girl twins of Odisha's Nayagarh district who shared a single heart and liver, died at Sishu Bhawan in Cuttack on Wednesday night, the hospital authorities said on Thursday.


Conjoined girl twins pass away in Odisha


In a horrific incident, a man burnt his two wives to death in a car after an argument broke out between the women while travelling together in Rajasthan's Jalore district, police said on Wednesday.


Man in Rajasthan burns two wives to death in car, held


At least 50 near extinct indigenous collections of paddy, 21 varieties of raggi, two types of foxtail millet and 41 varieties of plant parts used for medicinal purposes were on display at the second edition of the 'Khadyotsav' in Odisha's Jajpur district.


Traditional tribal foods on display at Khadyotsav in Odisha


Less than a fortnight after its licence was cancelled for declaring a live newborn as dead, the Shalimar Bagh branch of Max Hospital on Wednesday resumed services after an appellate court put on hold the Delhi government's cancellation order, triggering a fresh war between the ruling AAP and Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal.


Max Hospital resumes service, triggers fresh AAP-LG war (Roundup)


A group of prominent Leftists under the banner of 'Govind Pansare Abhivadan Samiti' has demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not be invited for the annual Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (ABMSS) in Vadodara in February.


Don't invite Modi for Marathi literary meet, urge Leftists


Over six lakh people are expected to attend a 11-day Gita Mela organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) at its spiritual hub in Mayapur in West Bengal's Nadia district from Saturday, the religious order said.


ISKCON to organise Gita Mela


Ileana D'Cruz, who has been acting in films since 2006, says she doesn't consider herself to be a "so-called personality or a star".


Don't look at myself as a celebrity: Ileana


Over 10,000 twinkling colourful fairy lights, cherubic angels and fairies, reindeer and snowmen, bells, streamers and festoons, tiny crosses, and a beaming paunchy Santa Claus waving from the "cotton snow" adorn this famous and majestic Christmas tree -- said to be the tallest in India.

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