A 26-year-old software engineer was allegedly raped by around 10 men in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said on Saturday.The woman, who is here as she is working from home, was out with her boyfriend on a two-wheeler on Thursday evening when the incident took place near the old aerodrome in Chaibasa, they said. A […]
A private hospital here has been sealed for allegedly transfusing fruit juice instead of blood platelets to a dengue patient who later died, police said. After a video of the alleged incident went viral on social media, the district administration swung into action and the hospital was sealed on Thursday on the direction of Uttar […]
India’s Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Anurag Thakur, reacted to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) strongly-worded letter in response to BCCI secretary Jay Shah’s announcement of India’s unwillingness to travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup there in 2023. PCB said cricketing ties with India may suffer if the Asia Cup is shifted to […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of a new airbase coming up in north Gujarat near India-Pakistan border and said it will emerge as an effective centre for the country’s security.Speaking after inaugurating the Defence Expo 2022 in Gujarat capital Gandhinagar, Modi also said that defence forces will release a list […]
India’s first case of Omicron subvariant BQ.1 has been detected during genome sequencing of a Pune resident’s sample, the Maharashtra health department said on Monday amid a spike in infections in the state. State surveillance officer said Pradeep Awate cited the detection and added that high-risk patients should follow precautions. BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are the […]
The Congress began voting today to elect the first non-Gandhi president in 24 years, as the party gears for the fifth major election in its 137-year-old history and only the first such election in the past 20 years.The election is a direct contest between 80-year-old Karnataka veteran Mallikarjun Kharge and 66-year-old former UN diplomat-turned-politician Shashi […]
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested former state Industries Minister Sunder Sham Arora for allegedly offering a bribe of Rs 50 lakh to an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of the Bureau for influencing a case, officials said.The Vigilance Bureau (VB) is learnt to have recovered the bribe money that he had allegedly offered to vigilance […]
At least 200 rotting corpses were found on the roof of a hospital in Pakistan’s Multan city on Saturday. As per social media, hundreds of human body parts have been recovered from the roof of Nishtar Hospital’s mortuary in Multan after which the government decided to probe the incident, reported Geo News. According to sources, […]
The Election Commission is set to hold a press briefing on Friday afternoon where it’s expected to announce the schedule for the assembly polls for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. The briefing is set to be held at 3 pm at New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan. Political temperatures are already running high in the states in the […]
Aadhaar holders who were issued the unique ID more than 10 years back but have not updated their details since are being urged to update identification and residence proof documents, UIDAI said.In a statement, UIDAI — the government agency that issues Aadhaar numbers — said the updation can be done online as well as at […]