NEW DELHI — A deputy labour commissioner in the Jammu and Kashmir administration was allegedly robbed by members of a ‘Thak Thak’ gang in south Delhi’s Khanpur area, police said on Saturday. The 47-year-old official is a resident of Vasant Kunj, they said. According to the police, 2-3 days ago, when the victim was going […]
NEW DELHI — A day after a 35-year-old man was brutally lynched and strung up at the farmers’ protest site at Singhu border, the police on Saturday said they have arrested a Nihang Sikh, Sarvjit Singh, in the case. Singh was taken into custody after he surrendered to the police on Friday night for his […]
AMRITSAR — Two former senior officers of Border Security Force (BSF) feel the extension of the jurisdiction of country’s first line of defence from earlier 15km to 50km in Punjab may not help in curbing crossborder smuggling and could lead to mistrust and misunderstanding between BSF and Punjab Police, unless the former delivers quick results […]
HYDERABAD — AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said Muslim population growth rate in the country has had the sharpest decline among all, dismissing RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s claim that it has increased. “As usual, RSS Mohan’s speech today was full of lies & half-truths. He called for a population policy & repeated the lie […]
NEW DELHI — Mridul Agarwal from the Delhi zone has topped the IIT entrance exam, JEE Advanced, the results of which were announced on Friday. Agarwal scored 348 out of 360 marks in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced. A total of 41,862 candidates have qualified in JEE Advanced this year, of whom 6,452 are […]
NEW DELHI — A 35-year-old man was brutally murdered at the Singhu border outside Delhi. His body was found hanging from a barricade near the main stage of protesting farmers on Friday morning, with a chopped-off hand. The incident has already caused a huge outrage among the farmers who were initially not allowing the police […]
AMBALA — Police on Thursday said it arrested an Army personnel for allegedly passing secret information to Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. Rohit Kumar was arrested on Wednesday evening on a tip-off, it said. Kumar is a resident of Kodwa Khurd village in the Naraingarh area in Ambala district. Currently, he is employed as Havaldar in […]
NEW DELHI — India has slipped to 101st position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 of 116 countries, from its 2020 position of 94th and is behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Eighteen countries, including China, Brazil and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI score of less than five, the website of […]
NEW DELHI — India’s nationwide Covid-19 vaccination coverage on Thursday reached 97 crores, informed the ministry of health and family welfare. Meanwhile, India reported 18,987 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, said Union health ministry on Thursday. With 19,808 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the cumulative recoveries climbed to 3,33,62,709. Currently, India […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Prisons Department has suspended 28 jail officials after they were found to be complicit with Unitech’s imprisoned ex-promoters Ajay Chandra and Sanjay Chandra, officials said on Thursday. According to a senior jail official, 28 officials of Tihar Jail number 7 have been suspended while the services of two contractual employees […]