Lucknow | Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav said that Uttar Pradesh has topped the “ease of committing crime” graph. Referring to the Shahjahanpur incident in which a lawyer was shot dead in a court on Monday, the SP chief attacked the ruling BJP and said the murder has exposed the “encounter” government’s tall claims of […]
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T20 World Cup: Ireland’s Curtis Campher claims four wickets in four balls against Netherlands
Abu Dhabi | Curtis Campher claimed four wickets off four consecutive deliveries to inspire Ireland to a seven wickets victory against the Netherlands in a first-round match of the T20 World Cup here on Monday. Campher became only the third bowler to achieve this feat this historic feat in white-ball cricket as he destroyed the Netherlands’ […]
Lawyer shot dead inside court campus in UP
Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh) | In a frightening replay of the Delhi court incident, a lawyer was shot dead inside the Shahjahanpur civil court on Monday. The incident took place on the third floor of the court and the lawyer, Bhupendra Pratap Singh, was shot dead by a country-made firearm. The Sadar police that reached the spot […]
Kerala: Couple braves flood, travels on a cooking vessel to reach temple for solemnizing marriage
Thiruvananthapuram | Nothing could deter a young couple in Kerala as they braved the floods to reach in time for their marriage, travelling nearly 500 metres on a traditional copper cooking vessel for their wedding held in a local temple at Thakazhi near Alappuzha on Monday morning. Since torrential rains hit the state on Friday afternoon […]
Man potraying role of ‘Dashrath’ dies on stage, audience claps for ‘great’ act
Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) | Life, at times, is stranger than fiction. When Rajendra Kashyap, a former village pradhan who was playing the role of King Dashrath, collapsed on stage after pronouncing 14-year-old exile for his son Ram, people clapped and cheered him for his excellent ‘acting’. When Kashyap, 62, did not get up even after the […]
Another non-local carpenter shot dead in J&K’s Pulwama
Srinagar | After killing a non-local street vendor in Jammu and Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar on Saturday, militants shot dead another non-local carpenter in Pulwama district. Police sources said militants fired at a non-local carpenter, identified as Sageer Ahmad from Saharanpur, U.P. in Litter village of Pulwama district. “He was shifted to hospital for treatment where […]
Manmohan Singh diagnosed with dengue, gradually improving: AIIMS
New Delhi | Former Prime Minister Manamohan Singh has been diagnosed with dengue, but his health condition is gradually improving and is out of danger, an AIIMS official said on Saturday. The official said that the former Prime Minister’s “platelets are increasing and is out of danger now”. The veteran Congress leader was admitted to the […]
British MP stabbed to death at church, suspect held
London | British Conservative MP, Sir David Amess, was on Friday repeatedly stabbed by a knife-wielding man at his constituency in Essex, and succumbed to his injuries later, media reports said. Sir David, who has been an MP since 1983, was stabbed as he was going to hold his “constituency surgery” — a public meet where […]
2 soldiers killed in ongoing operation in J&K’s Poonch
Jammu | Two soldiers were killed on Friday in an ongoing counter terrorism operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Lt Colonel Devender Anand, defence ministry spokesman said, “A counter terrorist operation by the army is in progress in the area of Nar Khas Forest in Mendhar, District Poonch since the evening of October 14, 2021. […]
Peon in Military Chief Engineer Jodhpur Zone honeytrapped by Pak spy, arrested
Jaipur | The Rajasthan police’ intelligence team has arrested a peon of Military Chief Engineer Jodhpur Zone for sharing crucial information with a Pakistan based woman handler. According to the Director General of Police Intelligence Umesh Mishra, “The fourth class employee Ram Singh, son of Gajendra Singh, aged 30-35 years, working under the Chief Engineer Jodhpur […]