New Delhi: Six Supreme Court judges are down with swine flu and a meeting had been held with the Chief Justice to explore remedial measures, a senior judge said today in court. Hearings in two constitution bench cases, including a ...
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9,261 cattle died in UP shelters in 2019, Uttar Pradesh govt says death due to natural causes
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday said 9,261 cattle died in various cattle shelters in the state in 2019 but no action was taken against officials concerned as the death was due to natural causes. Replying to a question ...
Read More »India rolls out cultural extravaganza to welcome Trump
Ahmedabad: US President Donald Trump landed here on Monday for his first visit to India to a grand welcome by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and thousands of people who lined the streets and packed into the Motera stadium to say ...
Read More »UP Police gives clean chit to Bhadohi BJP MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi in gangrape case, arrests his nephew
Bhadohi: The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday (February 22, 2020) gave a clean chit to Bhadohi BJP MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi who was accused in gang-rape case as there was “no evidence” found against him. Meanwhile, the police arrested his ...
Read More »Veerappan’s Daughter Vidya Rani Joins BJP
Krishnagiri: Daughter of dead sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, Vidya Rani, joined the BJP on Saturday at an event organised in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri. Party general secretary Muralidhar Rao and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan were present at the event. “I want to ...
Read More »Ahead of hanging, Delhi rape convicts asked about ‘last meeting’ with family
Officials of Tihar Jail in Delhi have written to all the four death row convicts in the December 2012 gang-rape and murder case about their last meeting with families ahead of their March 3 hanging, news agency ANI reported on ...
Read More »Taj Mahal to be shut for public on Monday in view of Donald Trump’s Agra visit
Agra: The Taj Mahal will be shut for visitors from 12 noon on February 24 (Monday) in view of US President Donald Trump’s maiden two-day visit, said the Archaeological Survey of India on Friday. Vasant Kumar Swarnkar, Superintendent Agra Division, ...
Read More »India ranks 77th on sustainability, 131st in child flourishing index rankings: UN report
Geneva: India ranked 77th on a sustainability index that takes into account per capita carbon emissions and the ability of children in a nation to live healthy lives and was placed 131st on a ranking that measures the best chance at ...
Read More »Bengaluru-Kochi KSRTC bus meets with accident in TN, 19 people dead
A Volvo bus of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (Kerala RTC), which was heading from Bengaluru to Ernakulam in Kerala, met with an accident in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur district in the early hours of Thursday. Nineteen people, including the ...
Read More »Shaheen Bagh in Chennai: Anti-CAA protesters take to streets near Chepauk
A large number of anti-CAA protesters, majority of them Muslims, held a massive protest against the amended Citizenship Act at Chepauk here, even as agitations were held across Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. The protest call here was given by a ...
Read More »Sena hails SC order on women in Army, slams Centre’s stand
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday hailed as “historic” the Supreme Court’s judgment directing the government to grant permanent commission to women officers in the Army, and said the Centre’s stand of opposing command postings for women was “regressive” and an ...
Read More »127 ‘illegal immigrants’ in Hyd served notices, UIDAI clarifies it’s got nothing to do with citizenship
Hyderabad: The Unique Identification Authority of India faced public wrath after it came to light that three Hyderabad residents from the minority community were “asked to prove their citizenship”, prompting the Aadhaar issuing authority to issue a clarification. According to ...
Read More »‘Coronavirus a punishment for eating meat’: Hindu Mahasabha chief’s bizarre take
Coronavirus may have wrecked a havoc across the world prompting the scientific community to hard pressed finding an antidote to it, but Hindu Mahasabha sees it as an ‘avatar’ to punish non-vegetarians. “Corona is not a virus, but avatar for ...
Read More »Asaduddin Owaisi tweets to PMO over berth for Lord Shiva in Kashi-Mahakal Express
A row has erupted over the Kashi Mahakal Express reserving a seat for a Lord Shiva with AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi questioning the move to allot berth for a mini-temple in the train. Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday tweeted a photo ...
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