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 […]
BEIJING — China on Wednesday objected to the recent visit of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu to Arunachal Pradesh, saying that it is firmly opposed to the Indian leader’s visit to the state as it has never recognised it. Naidu visited Arunachal Pradesh on October 9 and addressed a special session of the state assembly during […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah Wednesday said that a storm has engulfed the entire Indian where communities are being divided and if the same won’t stop forthwith, the country won’t exist anymore. Talking to reporters after visiting the slain school principal Supinder Kour at Aloochibagh here, Dr Farooq said that it’s a […]
NEW DELHI — The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Tuesday said PhD was not mandatory for direct recruitment of Assistant Professors till July 2023. The commission said it has extended the date of applicability of PhD as a mandatory qualification for recruitment of Assistant Professors in Departments of Universities from 1st July 2021 to 1st […]
LUCKNOW — Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday attended the ‘antim ardas’ (final prayers) of the farmers who were killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence a few days back even as the farmer leaders continued to press for the dismissal of union minister Ajay Mishra, whose son Ashish Mishra was accused of running […]
NEW DELHI — A Pakistani national has been arrested from east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar area and arms and ammunition recovered from him, officials said on Tuesday. Mohammad Ashraf alias Ali, a resident of Pakistan’s Punjab province, had obtained Indian identity cards through forged documents, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwaha said. He […]