Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 80s and 90s, has died following multiple health issues, a doctor treating him said on Wednesday. He was 69. Lahiri died on Tuesday night at the CritiCare Hospital in Juhu. “Lahiri had been admitted to the hospital for a month and was discharged on […]
Famous Punjabi film actor and social activist Deep Sidhu today died in a road accident on KMP highway (Kundli-Manesar highway) near Delhi. He was travelling in scorpio jeep on Kundli highway close to site of farmer agitration on Sidhu border, when his vehicle rammed into a stationary container parked on road side. Sources said that […]
The Union government on Tuesday described the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) remarks on the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka as ‘motivated and misleading,’ adding that the 57-member bloc is being ‘misused by vested interests’ for their anti-India agenda. “We have noted yet another motivated and misleading statement from the General Secretariat of the OIC […]
The official YouTube account of Sansad TV– the government TV channel that live streams Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings– was founded to be “terminated” by YouTube Tuesday morning for “for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines”. However, Sansad Television in an official statement has revealed the actual reason as to why the YouTube account got removed.In […]
A special CBI court on Tuesday convicted Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in the Rs 139.35 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case. Prasad has already been convicted in four other cases of the fodder scam.Earlier, the RJD supremo arrived in Ranchi on Sunday to be present in the court during […]
New COVID-19 cases in India were recorded below 30,000 after around 44 days, taking the virus tally to 4,26,92,943, while the active cases dipped to 4,23,127, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 5,09,358 with 347 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.The daily COVID-19 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that Punjab needed a stable government to protect national security. Modi, who was addressing a rally in Jalandhar—his first this election season—amid tight security arrangements, said Punjab needed a government that could protect it.”In Punjab, the NDA alliance will form a government. In Punjab, a new chapter of […]
Addressing his first rally in poll-bound Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, taking a swipe at the state’s Congress government over the January 5 breach in his security, said on Monday he wanted to offer prayers at a temple after today’s event, but was told by the police they won’t be able to make arrangements for […]
The Centre has banned 54 Chinese apps over privacy, security, and espionage concerns, saying they were clones of previously taken down applications and obtained critical permissions to collect sensitive user data. As many as 267 apps were earlier blocked in 2020 citing privacy and security threats amid border tensions between India and China. Ravi Shankar […]
The fate of 632 candidates for Uttarakhand assembly elections will be sealed today as the state votes in a single phase. Uttarakhand, which has seen 11 chief ministers in the last two decades, has voted out the incumbent government in every assembly election since the state’s formation in 2000. The Bharatiya Janata Party has the […]