The central government on Sunday announced the approval of the continuation of the umbrella scheme for modernization and improvement of police forces in states and Union territories. The ministry of home affairs said in a statement that the umbrella scheme of Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) has been approved for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26. […]
Rescuers retrieved the body of a second woman from under the debris of a partially collapsed 18-floor apartment block late on Saturday night, more than 60 hours after the incident. The body of Sunita Shrivastava, which was spotted under the debris on Friday, was pulled out at 11:30 pm by the rescue team, a senior […]
India registered 44,877 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in last 24 hours, taking the daily positivity rate marginally down to 3.17 per cent, the Union health ministry bulletin showed on Sunday morning. A total of 684 people succumbed to the viral infection in the span of one day, taking the death toll to […]
In its biggest bank fraud case, the CBI has booked ABG Shipyard Ltd and its then Chairman and Managing Director Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal along with others for allegedly cheating a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India of over Rs 22,842 crore, officials said Saturday. Besides Agarwal, the agency has also named the […]
Ishan Kishan is the most expensive buy so far this auction as Mumbai India break the bank and secure him for INR 15.25 crore. The IPL 2022 Auction has resumed with Charu Sharma taking over the duties for the day from an unwell Hugh Edmeades collapsed mid-event earlier today. And it didn’t take a long […]
The Biden administration warned that President Vladimir V. Putin could mount a major assault on Ukraine at any time, having built up formidable land, sea and air forces on three sides of its smaller neighbor. US intelligence officials had initially thought Putin was prepared to wait until the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing […]
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged illegal sand mining case, has been sent to a 14-day judicial custody, on Friday. Earlier on two occasions, the court had granted ED the custody of Honey. ED sources are saying this time they […]
The Supreme Court on Friday said that it will hear the case about the hijab ban in Karnataka at an “appropriate time”. A student from Karnataka had filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court challenging the interim observations by the state’s High Court telling students not to wear “religious clothes” in colleges during […]
An appeal has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the direction of the Karnataka High Court that has asked students not to insist on wearing any cloth on campuses of educational institutes which can instigate people, till the matter is resolved. The plea filed by a student has sought a stay on the direction […]
Over 60 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the first phase of polling held on Thursday across 58 assembly constituencies in 11 districts of Uttar Pradesh.Polling closed at 6 pm following a one-hour extension because of COVID-19 protocols. The day passed off peacefully with minor technical snags in EVMs at some places, election officials […]