Noida, Dec 26 (IANS) Two teenaged girls were found hanging from a tree in Noida, adjoining national capital Delhi, on Tuesday, police said. The bodies were spotted by people in Noida’s Barola village in Uttar Pradesh. The deceased have been identified as Laxmi, 18, and her sister Nisha, 14. Police said they were probing the […]
Srinagar, Dec 26 (IANS) A top commander of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit was killed in a gunfight with the security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. The police said the militant killed in Samboora village was identified. “The slain militant is Moor Muhammad Tantray alias Noor Trali, commander of JeM outfit. He belonged […]
Lucknow, Dec 25 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh’s ruling BJP unit on Monday urged the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) to give up its “rigid and archaic stand” about triple talaq and join the voice of thousands to give Muslim women equality, security and their honour. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state President Mahendra Nath Pandey […]
Jaipur, Dec 25 (IANS) Rajasthan BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja has courted controversy over his statement on cow smuggling, wherein he has warned those indulging in cow smuggling of imminent death. “I am saying it straight: If you indulge in cow smuggling, or indulge in cow slaughter, you will get killed (mera to sidha-sidha kehana […]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 25 (IANS) A three-year-old girl, who accidentally fell into a borewell in Odisha’s Angul district, was taken out alive on Monday, bringing cheer to the family and locals. The girl, identified as Radha Sahu, was immediately rushed to a hospital. The incident occurred at Gulasar village of Jamunali Gram Panchayat around 9 a.m. […]
Jaipur, Dec 25 (IANS) A farmer in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, has been struggling hard to free his daughter from the fortified walls of molestation-accused ‘godman’ Baba Virendra Dev Dixit’s Ashram in Delhi. The girl, named Tika, went missing from her house on November 9, 2017. The family alleges that one Anand who was from Pilani and […]
Shimla, Dec 25 (IANS) The new Himachal Pradesh cabinet, to be headed by new and ‘young’ Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, will be a blend of old and new faces. An indication in this regard was given by Thakur himself. “The cabinet will have both experienced and new faces,” he told reporters here in his […]
Noida, Dec 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the new 12.64 km section of Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line and along with Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took a ride in the train. The section connects Botanical Garden station in Noida to south Delhi’s Kalkaji Mandir station. The […]
Srinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) Srinagar city witnessed the season’s coldest night as the temperature dropped to a minus 4.2 degrees Celsius, the weather office said on Monday. “The night temperatures are likely to further drop in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 48 hours as cold, dry weather is expected to continue for another few […]
Published At 19:12 IST Chandigarh, Dec 24 (IANS) The SAD on Sunday accused the Punjab government of sacrilege over the ‘morphing’ of a picture of 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh by using one of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, a charge dismissed by the authorities as “ridiculous”. A computer-generated swapping of faces was done for the […]
