Haryana: Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar’s visit to a village near Karnal in the state and his meeting with a gathering of farmers got cancelled after a group of farmers protesting against GoI’s agri-sector laws ransacked the venue. Earlier, amid preparations for the event, Haryana police had started the crackdown on the protesting farmers, […]
Aligarh (UP): A student of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been shot dead, police said on Sunday. The deceased Atif, a second-year BA student, was returning home on a two-wheeler with his friend late on Saturday night in the Quarsi police circle area, when the assailants opened fire. Atif fell down at the spot […]
New Delhi: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has strongly objected the new WhatsApp privacy policy through which all kinds of personal data, payment transactions, contacts, location and other vital information of a person who is using WhatsApp will be acquired by it and can be used for any purpose by WhatsApp. In a […]
New Delhi: India will launch its Covid-19 vaccination drive on January 16 and priority will be given to nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers, the government said on Saturday. The decision was taken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the status of Covid-19 situation and vaccine preparedness. “After the detailed review, it was decided that in […]
Amritsar: Within 24 hours of their arrest, the Border Security Force (BSF) handed over six Pakistani nationals to the Pakistan Rangers on Saturday evening. They had inadvertently crossed over to India from the International Border (IB) near Moran village on Friday evening. For the first time in years, that so many Pakistani nationals strayed into […]
Mumbai: Ten newborn babies died after fire broke out in the Special Newborn Care Unit of a hospital in Maharashtra in the wee hours on Saturday, doctors said. All the infants were between a month and three months old, a doctor said. Fire broke out in the Bhandara district hospital at around 2 am, he said. […]
New Delhi: The Border Security Force on Friday apprehended six Pakistani youths from the area along the India-Pakistan international border in Punjab, official sources said. All those nabbed are aged between 20 and 21 years. They were apprehended from the border area in Amritsar around 5 PM, they said. The six youths, the sources said, […]
New Delhi: The Indian Army has been losing more personnel every year in suicides, fratricides and untoward incidents than in any enemy action and over half of its soldiers seem to be under severe stress presently, said a study by think tank United Service Institution of India (USI). “Prolonged exposure of Indian Army personnel to […]
New Delhi: India suffered the longest Internet shutdowns in 2020 for the second year running globally, bearing the biggest economic impact of $2.8 billion and 8,927 hours lost, affecting 10.3 million users in total, a new report from the UK-based privacy and security research firm Top10VPN has revealed. As in previous years, India continued to […]
