Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday inspected the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train accident site in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district and said that there was some issue with the equipment of the locomotive. Nine people were killed and 36 injured after 12 coaches of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train derailed, and some of them capsized near Domohani in […]
The acquittal of Roman Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal of charges of raping a nun in a Kerala convent by a court here triggered emotional reactions on Friday as nuns who support the survivor expressed shock and dismay over the verdict and said they would continue the fight till justice is prevailed while the jubilant bishop […]
In a major development, the Amritsar Special Task Force (STF) recovered 5 kg of RDX from near the international border in Attari’s Dhanoa Kala village on Friday. The explosive was defused by the bomb squad present on the spot. Besides the RDX, the STF has also recovered six AK 47 rifle rounds, two grenades, three […]
The government has decided to hold the budget session of Parliament from January 31 to April 8 subject to exigencies of business. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs has recommended the session schedule with the first half of the session proposed from January 31 to February 11. The session will resume from March 14 to […]
An improvised explosive device (IED) stuffed with RDX and ammonium nitrate was found inside an unattended bag at the Ghazipur flower market here on Friday morning but it was later defused, officials said. The explosive was kept in an iron box and concealed in the black coloured backpack.The incident comes ahead of Republic Day celebrations […]
After Tirupati deputy mayor Abhinaya Reddy, son of Andhra Pradesh MLA B Karunakar Reddy, allegedly cut off the water supply to Tirupati airport and staff residential quarters, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia said necessary action would be taken. On Twitter, the Union minister wrote that the issue would be examined and the […]
The Congress on Thursday released its party’s first list of 125 candidates, including 50 women, for the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, fielding the Unnao rape victim’s mother Asha Singh from the Unnao assembly seat. Anti-CAA activist and party spokesperson in Uttar Pradesh, Sadaf Jafar is the Congress candidate from the Lucknow central seat.Asha […]
Enforcement teams have seized liquor, psychotropic substances and unaccounted cash after the model code of conduct came into force in Punjab following the announcement of the Assembly elections, a poll official said on Thursday. The estimated value of the confiscated items is worth Rs 23.8 crore, he said.The seizure was made till January 12, he […]
A BSF deputy commandant and his sister, working as a bank manager, were arrested here for allegedly duping five builders of around Rs 125 crore on the pretext of giving them construction work in the National Security Guard campus here. Besides his sister Rituraj Yadav, BSF Deputy Commandant Praveen Yadav’s wife Mamata Yadav and associate […]
Rishabh Pant scored one of his finest hundreds in the most adverse of circumstance but another shoddy batting show left India with only 211 runs to defend on the third day of the third and final cricket Test against South Africa, here Thursday. Pant’s (100 not out off 139 balls) fourth Test hundred constituted for […]