Third body retrieved by Navy divers from coal pit in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills
Jun 26, 2021, at 03:51 pm
Guwahati: The Indian Navy divers on Friday evening retrieved the third body from a coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where at least five labourers were trapped since May 30.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma reviews Covid-19 situation, vaccination status through video conference
Jun 26, 2021, at 05:23 am
Guwahati/IBNS: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma reviewed the Civod-19 situation and vaccination status in the state through a video conference with the DCs, SPs and district health officials from his office at Janata Bhawan on Friday.
Shashi Tharoor too faces Twitter lockout after he posts for Ravi Shankar Prasad
Jun 26, 2021, at 05:14 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday said his Twitter account too was briefly locked out after he posted an explainer on why Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was blocked from posting from his handle.
Man shot inside bank by security guard for not wearing face mask in UP's Bareilly
Jun 26, 2021, at 05:09 am
Lucknow/IBNS: A customer was shot and injured by a security guard inside a bank after an argument over not wearing a face mask escalated in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district.
Can't leave Congress out of alternative front to fight BJP: Sharad Pawar
Jun 26, 2021, at 04:37 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said the Congress cannot be left out of any alternative front to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Jun 26, 2021, at 02:59 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Leaders of West Bengal's opposition parties demanded a proper investigation into the recently unearthed 'fake' Covid-19 vaccination drive in Kolkata by an independent probe agency after several images of ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders and lawmakers with the alleged vaccination fraudster Debanjan Deb, who had impersonated as an IAS officer, were found in social networking sites.
Indian consulate in Toronto urges diaspora to register in Global Pravasi Rishta portal
Jun 26, 2021, at 02:24 am
Toronto: The Indian consulate in Toronto is urging the Indian diaspora in Canada to register at the portal launched by the Indian External Affairs ministry last December for connecting Indians scattered across the globe.
Assam CM directs police to deal sternly with minor girl rape and murder incident in Morigaon
Jun 26, 2021, at 01:51 am
Guwahati/IBNS: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday visited Bhuragaon in Morigaon district and took stock of the investigation into the incident where a nine-year-old girl belonging to a religious minority was molested and murdered on 20 June.
Major infiltration bid foiled; heroin, arms recovered at LoC in north Kashmir
Jun 26, 2021, at 01:40 am
Srinagar/UNI: Security forces foiled a major infiltration bid by militants from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the Tangdhar sector of the frontier district known as Kupwara, a police spokesman said Friday afternoon.
Jun 25, 2021, at 10:32 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Union Minister for Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said Twitter blocked his account for nearly an hour over complaints that he violated copyright laws by posting video clips of himself from television programmes.
Jammu and Kashmir: Militant killed in encounter with SFs in Shopian
Jun 25, 2021, at 09:44 pm
Srinagar/UNI: A militant was killed in an encounter which ensued after security forces launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in south Kashmir district of Shopian on Friday.
Mumbai Police arrests 8 people for holding fake coronavirus vaccination camps
Jun 25, 2021, at 09:43 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Police have arrested eight people in connection with organising fake Covid19 vaccination camps where at least 2,000 people fell prey.
Assam: Police seized 150 cartoons of illegal liquor from a truck in Karimganj
Jun 25, 2021, at 09:42 pm
Guwahati: Police seized huge quantity of illegal liquor from a truck in Assam’s Karimganj district along Assam-Tripura border on Thursday.
S Jaishankar assures passport service will be more citizen-friendly
Jun 25, 2021, at 09:39 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Passport rules and processes will be simplified further by minimising the compliance burden on the citizens.
Man injected with empty syringe in Bihar's Chhapra; video goes viral
Jun 25, 2021, at 08:35 pm
Chhapra/IBNS: A man was injected with an empty syringe by a nurse at a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Bihar's Chhapra.
Kashmir: Encounter starts between militants, security forces in Shopian
Jun 25, 2021, at 08:19 pm
Srinagar/UNI: An encounter ensued between militants and security forces in south Kashmir district of Shopian on Friday.
BJP demands CBI probe into fake vaccination incident in Kolkata
Jun 25, 2021, at 08:11 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the fake anti-COVID-19 vaccination incident which was busted in Kolkata.
Tripura minister calls meeting of BJP legislatures amid crisis
Jun 25, 2021, at 07:18 pm
Agartala/UNI: In a sudden move, parliamentary affairs minister and senior legislator of ruling BJP in Tripura Ratan Lal Nath has convened a meeting of his party legislators in the assembly hall in the late afternoon but didn’t divulge the agenda for discussion.
Jun 25, 2021, at 06:26 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has raised questions about the existence of a Supreme Court panel report which has reportedly claimed the oxygen requirement in the peak of COVID-19 in the national capital was manipulated.
Dark days of Emergency can't be forgotten: PM Modi trains guns at Congress' Indira Gandhi regime
Jun 25, 2021, at 04:38 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Training guns at the Congress regime, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the "dark days" of the "Emergency" called in 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi can't be forgotten, accusing the grand old party of decimating democracy through the controversial step taken on this day 46 years ago.
Delhi govt exaggerated oxygen requirement by 4 times, says SC panel
Jun 25, 2021, at 04:01 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi government had exaggerated the oxygen requirement by four times at the peak of COVID-19 crisis, a Supreme Court panel said.
Doctor booked for allegedly raping his colleague in Assam’s Dibrugarh
Jun 25, 2021, at 03:12 pm
Guwahati: A doctor was arrested on charge of raping his colleague in Assam’s Dibrugarh district.
Jun 25, 2021, at 08:18 am
New Delhi: BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Thursday asked Twitter to show the legal notice it said it had been served from "Indian law enforcement" against violations by his account on the microbogging site.
Israel Embassy blast case: Delhi Police's special cell arrests four men from Kargil
Jun 25, 2021, at 07:18 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Four men from Kargil have been arrested by Delhi Police's special cell in connection with a blast outside Israel Embassy in January last.
Centre's responsibility to restore J&K's full statehood: Omar Abdullah after meeting PM Modi
Jun 25, 2021, at 05:39 am
New Delhi/IBNS: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, who attended the crucial meeting hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday evening, said it was the duty of the Centre to restore the broken trust of the people.
Delimitation has to happen at quick pace so that polls can be conducted in J&K: PM Modi
Jun 25, 2021, at 04:55 am
New Delhi/INS: After concluding the crucial meeting with political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said delimitation has to happen at a 'quick pace so that polls can happen'.
Hyderabad: Speeding Mercedes runs over eight pedestrians, hits autorickshaw, one killed
Jun 25, 2021, at 03:44 am
Hyderabad/IBNS: A 70-year-old woman was killed and at least seven others were injured in a hit-and-run case involving a Mercedes Benz SUV reported from the Shahalibanda area in Hyderabad's Old City in the wee hours of Wednesday.
CBI files FIR on conspiracy in ISRO espionage case
Jun 25, 2021, at 02:14 am
Thiruvananthapuram/UNI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team, probing the conspiracy in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) espionage case, has filed an FIR before the Chief Magistrate Court here.
Centre signs $32 million loan with World Bank for improving healthcare services in Mizoram
Jun 25, 2021, at 01:48 am
Aizawl/IBNS: The Government of India, Government of Mizoram and the World Bank have signed a $32 million Mizoram Health Systems Strengthening Project to improve management capacity and quality of health services in Mizoram, particularly for the benefit of under-served areas and vulnerable groups.
Jun 25, 2021, at 01:46 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with the Kashmir leaders, which was called two years after the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, ended on a positive note as majority of the regional players expressed confidence in the PM who assured them of early restoration of statehood and elections.