Shyam Saran Negi, the first voter of independent India passed away on Saturday at the age of 106 at his native place in Kinnaur. He had cast his vote for the 34th time on November 2 for the Himachal assembly polls. Deputy Commissioner, Kinnaur Abid Hussain said Negi would be cremated with full honours at […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a review petition filed by Pakistani national Mohammad Arif, a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, against a 2014 Supreme Court order upholding the death sentence awarded to him in the December 2000 Red Fort attack case.Arif was arrested along with wife Rehmana Yousuf Farooqui four days after the attack. He was convicted […]
Former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president and senior Akali leader Bibi Jagir Kaur has been suspended from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Senior SAD leader Sikander Singh Maluka informed about the development at a press conference. The decision regarding Bibi’s suspension was taken by the party’s disciplinary committee.Recently, SAD leaders Dr Daljit Singh Cheema […]
Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed her shock and pain at the bridge collapse incident in Gujarat’s Morbi that claimed over 130 lives. She said she would not indulge in “politics” over the issue as “people’s lives were more important”. Banerjee, who was speaking to reporters at the Kolkata […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the tragedy-struck Morbi in Gujarat on Tuesday to take stock of the mishap that has so far killed 134 people, and counting.A Gujarat CMO statement said PM Modi will visit Morbi on the afternoon of November 1. The PM earlier on Monday morning said he had never felt the […]
A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the […]
A layer of pungent haze lingered over Delhi on Saturday morning as the city’s air quality neared the “severe” zone amid adverse meteorological conditions — low temperatures and calm winds — and an increase in incidents of stubble burning in Punjab.The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi stood at 396 at 10 am, worsening […]
Billionaire Elon Musk has completed his USD 44 billion takeover of Twitter and fired the social media company’s four top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde.The New York Times said that Musk, the world’s richest man, closed the deal to buy Twitter. Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report […]
In a historic move, BCCI on Thursday announced equal pay for all centrally contracted men and women Team India cricketers. BCCI secretary Jay Shah took to Twitter to announce the development. “I’m pleased to announce BCCI’s first step towards tackling discrimination. We are implementing a pay equity policy for our contracted women cricketers. The match […]
Three Punjabi men were among six people who have been charged in the Peel municipality in Toronto, in connection with an international drug trafficking enterprise, which led to the seizure of USD 25 million worth of illegal narcotics.Jaspreet Singh, 28, from Brampton; Ravinder Boparai, 27, from Mississauga; Gurdeep Gakhal, 38, from Caledon, were among the […]