As an effect of Cyclone Biparjoy, the districts of Barmer, Sirohi, Udaipur, Jalore and Jodhpur in western Rajasthan experienced heavy rain on Saturday morning, with winds blowing at 50 to 60 kph.In the last 24 hours, the maximum impact of the cyclone was seen in Jalore, Sirohi and Barmer as heavy rain was recorded in […]
Firing continued through the night in Manipur’s Kwakta area even as multiple attempts to mob various establishments in Imphal were reported through the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. According to security sources, automatic weapons were fired and firing continued till around 9.15 pm from Kwakta and Kangvai, which are at the border of Bishnupur […]
Union minister and BJP veteran Nitin Gadkari has said that a politician once advised him to join the Congress, to which he replied that he would rather die by jumping into a well than becoming a member of that party.The Minister of Road Transport and Highways also claimed that the BJP government carried out twice […]
Tamil Nadu BJP leader SG Suryah was arrested by the police from Chennai late on Friday, with the party’s state unit chief K Annamalai slamming the move as an attempt to “curtail free speech”.Police sources said the action was based on a CPI(M) complaint against a social media post by the BJP state secretary. Suryah […]
Two civilians were injured as mobs clashed with security forces overnight in Imphal town and attempts were made to torch the houses of BJP leaders, officials said on Saturday.In separate incidents, automatic gunfire was reported from Kwakta in Bishnupur district of Manipur and Kangvai in Churachandpur district through the night. Army, Assam Rifles and Manipur […]
The renaming of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library as PMs’ Museum and Society triggered a massive war of words between the Congress and the BJP on Friday, with both parties rushing to accuse each other of pettiness. Moments after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge questioned the move accusing the government of a “malicious attempt to erase […]
Making a strong case in favour of a Consulate of the United States of America (USA) at Chandigarh, against the background of growing demand of people from Punjab in India as well as in the US, Shri Banwari Lal Purohit, Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh has written a letter to the External Affairs […]
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) in the US has sued Twitter for $250 million over a massive copyright infringement.The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in the state of Tennessee on behalf of 17 music publishers, is seeking damages and injunctive relief for Twitter’s “wilful copyright infringement”. “Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing […]
Avtar Singh Khanda, handler of arrested Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh, has died in the UK, with top intelligence sources saying the cause of his death was blood cancer, according to an agency report.The UK-based head of Khalistan Liberation Force died at Birmingham City Hospital at around 12.45 am (IST) on Thursday, sources said. […]
The CBI on Wednesday registered an FIR against a candidate from Haryana and an exam centre in Punjab on the allegations of cheating in the Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test (NORCET), which was conducted on June 3, official sources said. The exam for the recruitment of Nursing Officer posts was conducted by the All […]