In a new twist to Dera follower Pradeep Sharma’s murder in Kotkapura, Sidhu Moosewala murder accused Canada –based gangster Goldy Brar has claimed responsibility for the murder.Punjab police official say they can neither deny nor confirm the claim at this juncture. Goldy Brar is hiding in Canada and is a close aide of Lawrence Bishnoi. […]
There are 2.49 lakh voters aged above 100 in India, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Wednesday.Besides, 1.8 crore voters are over 80 years of age, Kumar said after flagging off a bicycle rally in Maharashtra’s Pune city on Wednesday to create an awareness about voter registration as part of the national-level launch of […]
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of 10 per cent quota for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in government jobs and educational institutes.By a majority of 3:2 a five-judge Constitution Bench upheld the validity of the 103rd constitutional amendment under which the EWS quota was provided. The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the […]
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 […]