Nine tourists from Patiala in Punjab drowned on Friday morning as their car fell into the Dhela river in Uttarakhand’s Ramnagar and was washed away by its strong current, police said.The accident occurred at 5.45 am when the tourists, all residents of Patiala, were on their way back to Punjab. While four bodies have been […]
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed during a speech in the city of Nara, in western Japan. Initial reports say he may have been injured. An NHK reporter on-site heard something that sounded like a gunshot and saw Abe bleeding, Japan’s NHK WORLD News reported. A sound like a gunshot was heard at the […]
Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday finally agreed to step down as the Conservative Party leader, triggering a leadership election for a new Tory leader who will go on to become the new premier, according to reports from Downing Street.Johnson, 58, will remain in charge at 10 Downing Street until the process of […]
The wedding festivities of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Dr Gurpreet Kaur began here on Thursday.The celebrations kicked off with Mann arriving under a ‘Phulkari’ dupatta in a golden groom’s attire. AAP MP Raghav Chadha and Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal were seen walking beside him.
A 62-year-old priest was allegedly beaten to death by a man in northeast Delhi’s Sonia Vihar area, police said on Thursday.Following the incident, the accused was assaulted by locals and is currently in hospital, they said. Police received information around 5.40am on Wednesday regarding a priest, identified as Soni Ram, being beaten near Pusta in […]
A new sub-lineage BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in countries like India and the World Health Organisation is following this, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “On covid-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 per cent over the past two weeks. Four out of six of the WHO sub-regions […]
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Bali with a focus on “specific outstanding issues”.The talks took place on the sidelines of a meeting of the foreign ministers of G20 countries. It is learnt that the eastern Ladakh border row figured in the discussions.”Began my day […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will get married on Thursday, July 7, at a private ceremony, highly places sources in the Aam Admi Party said here on Wednesday. Mann is getting married to Dr Gurpreet Kaur. It is his second marriage.Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would attend the ceremony, sources said.
At least four people are feared dead after a cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district, news agency PTI reported citing a disaster management agency official. The official also said emergency and rescue teams had been rushed to the spot, but were stuck due to landslides in the area. Further details on the cloudburst are awaited.
The brainwashed Islamist killers of the Udaipur tailor have only one fundamental question from their NIA interrogators: will we be hanged or given life imprisonment for our crime by the court? On June 28, Riyaz Attari and Ghous Mohammed enacted an ISIS-style killing on tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur for supporting Nupur Sharma. The internal […]