Chandigarh, Jun 7 (PTI) Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini lashed out at the AAP government in Punjab on Saturday, alleging that it has not done any meaningful work for the welfare of people. Saini further claimed that the Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab "no longer enjoys any public support" and said in the June 19 Ludhiana West Assembly bypoll, people will decide in the right direction. Saini visited Sangrur on Saturday to condole the death of veteran Akali leader and former Union mi...Read More
Mumbai: Maharashtra on Saturday reported 86 new coronavirus positive cases, taking the total count since January to 1,362, the health department said. Of these new cases, 31 were detected in Pune city and two in its rural parts, 28 in Mumbai, seven in Pimpri Chinchwad township near Pune, six in Thane, four in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, three in Nagpur, two in Mira Bhayandar, one each in Satara, Kolhapur and Sangli, an official statement said. The health department has conducted 16,226 COVID-19...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday interacted with students at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), according to an official statement. The statement said the session highlighted India's robust economic trajectory, expanding investment opportunities, and the country's efforts to harmonise economic growth with ecological responsibility. The minister was joined by panel of faculty and maritime experts, including Brian Wessel, Di...Read More
Shillong, Jun 7 (PTI) A tourist guide on Saturday claimed that the honeymoon couple from Indore, Raja Raghuvanshi and his wife Sonam, was accompanied by three men on the day they went missing from Meghalaya's Sohra area. An official confirmed that the guide had provided this information to the police. While the couple went missing on May 23, Raja's body was found in a gorge on June 2 while a search for his wife was underway. Speaking to PTI, Albert Pde, a guide at Mawlakhiat, said he had seen...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) Virender Kanwar from Himachal Pradesh on Saturday became the president of Volleyball Federation of India after defeating Nagaland's Prem Singh Bajor by a mere two votes in the long-awaited polls that picked an interim panel, here on Saturday. Kanwar polled 33 votes, two more than his close rival Bajor. The third candidate in the fray -- Bihar's Anand Shankar -- did not get a single vote. Ramanand Choudhary from Rajasthan became the new general secretary after getting 33 ...Read More
Kolkata: Haragobindo Das and his son Chandan were dragged out of their home and killed with an axe in front of their family during the communal violence in Murshidabad, police said in its 900-page charge sheet. Thirteen people were named in the charge sheet, which was submitted before the Jangipur court on Friday, an officer said. Haragobindo and Chandan, of Betbona village in Zafarabad, were among three people killed in the communal violence that broke out during protests over the Waqf (Amend...Read More
New Delhi, June 7 (PTI) Strong surface winds during day time is likely in the national capital on Sunday, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Delhi on Saturday recorded a maximum temperature of 40 degree Celsius, 0.2 notches below the season's average, the IMD said. The minimum temperature was recorded at 26.3 degrees Celsius, 0.1 notch below the season's average, with a relative humidity of 43 per cent at 5.30 pm, it added. The weather office has predicted a generally clear sky ...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) Preventive detention is an extraordinary power in the hands of the state that must be used sparingly, said the Supreme Court as it set aside an order to detain a man indulging in money lending in Kerala. A bench of justices Sanjay Karol and Manmohan said the circumstances pointed out in the order by the detaining authority may be ground enough for the state to approach the competent courts for cancellation of bail in cases against him, but it cannot be said that the same ...Read More
Chandigarh, Jun 7 (PTI) Haryana Police had summoned Punjab-based YouTuber Jasbir Singh on June 6 in the Jyoti Malhotra espionage case but before he could join the investigation, he was arrested by Punjab Police, Singh's counsel claimed on Saturday. He also denied the charge that Singh was an agent of Pakistan's spy agency ISI. A Mohali court on Saturday extended for two days the police remand of Singh, who was arrested on espionage charges on June 4. Singh was produced before the court after ...Read More
Thrissur (Kerala), Jun 7 (PTI) CPI, the second-largest partner in the ruling LDF in Kerala, on Saturday hoisted the national flag and planted saplings as a mark of protest against the usage of the Bharat Mata portrait at an Environment Day event in the Raj Bhavan. State Agriculture Minister and CPI leader P Prasad had boycotted the event at the Raj Bhavan on June 5 over the use of the portrait, citing that it was the one used by the RSS. The Left party had announced that it would hoist the nat...Read More
Shimla: Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday taken to Indira Gandhi Medical College Hospital in Shimla after she complained of high blood pressure, a party official said. Gandhi (78), who was on a personal trip to Shimla along with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi, underwent some tests at the hospital and later left, the media advisor to Himachal Pradesh CM Naresh Chauhan told PTI. "Gandhi was taken to the hospital after she complained of high blood pressure. It was a routine checku...Read More
New Delhi, June 7 (PTI) In an effort to rejuvenate the Yamuna, the Delhi government is working on an action plan to improve the environmental flow of the river by increasing water discharge from various sources, officials said on Saturday. Treated water from the Coronation Pillar and Yamuna Vihar Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) will be discharged into the Yamuna downstream at Wazirbarad, for which the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will develop a conveyance system. The survey work was completed and a det...Read More
Bhopal, Jun 7 (PTI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Saturday requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order a CBI probe into the disappearance of an Indore-based woman in Meghalaya a fortnight back. The woman - Sonam Raghuvanshi (25) - went missing along with her husband Raja Raghuvanshi (29) on May 23, hours after they checked out of a homestay at Nongriat village in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district during their honeymoon. On June 2, Raja's body was found in a deep gorge n...Read More
Srinagar, June 7: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, on Saturday, congratulated the University of Kashmir for getting an A++ grade in the NAAC inspection. The Lt Governor extended his heartiest congratulations to the Vice Chancellor, faculty, staff, and students of the University of Kashmir for attaining the prestigious A++ Grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), and securing an outstanding Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.68 on a seven-point ...Read More
Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Saturday claimed that Maharashtra's democracy was "butchered" in the 2024 assembly polls. He was referring to an article in the Indian Express by Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, who alleged that the Maharashtra polls were a "blueprint for rigging democracy". In the article, Gandhi said this poll "match-fixing" would next happen in the Bihar elections and "anywhere the BJP is losing". "With irrefutable facts and u...Read More
Jaisalmer, Jun 7 (PTI) To honour the armed forces following Operation Sindoor, a special tribute is taking shape in the border state of Rajasthan - rare Great Indian Bustard (GIB) chicks born under a conservation project in Jaisalmer have been named after key officers and significant milestones linked to the operation. Names like 'Sindoor', 'Atom', 'Mishri', 'Vyom', and 'Sophia' now resonate through the conservation centres at Sudasari and Sam, where science, strategy and national pride are wor...Read More
Bengaluru, Jun 7 (PTI) Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Chief Commissioner directed officials on Saturday to identify and clear encroachments on pedestrian pathways to ensure citizen safety and walkability in the city. Rao called for a meeting with officials concerned after he inspected footpaths in parts of Bengaluru, from Sitarampally Metro Station in Mahadevapura Zone to BEML Layout Main Road in Brookefield, said a release issued by the BBMP. During the meeting, the Commissioner al...Read More
Bengaluru: Who authorised the RCB victory celebration event? When and how the decision was made? Whether the organisers had obtained the necessary permissions? were among the questions for which the Karnataka government will have to file its replies to the High Court by June 10, in connection with the June 4 stampede that killed 11 people. The High Court has directed the state government to submit detailed responses to nine critical questions. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice V...Read More
Rudraprayag, Jun 7 (PTI) Five pilgrims and a pilot onboard a helicopter had a narrow escape when the aircraft on its way to Kedarnath made an emergency landing on the highway in Rudraprayag district on Saturday after developing a technical snag during take-off, officials said. The pilot sustained minor injuries and was rushed to a hospital, they said. Videos on social media showed the Kestrel Aviation helicopter standing in the middle of the highway, dangerously close to populated buildings an...Read More
Mumbai, Jun 7 (PTI) In the wake of removal of its pro-Vice Chancellor for alleged financial misappropriation, city-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is now contemplating to appoint a Vice Chancellor in the next couple of months. On Friday night, TISS asked its pro-VC professor Shankar Das to step down with immediate effect amid allegations of financial misappropriation and irregularities against him. "Consequent upon approval of the Competent Authority, Prof Shankar Das, Pro Vice ...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) Little Caesars, a Detroit, Michigan-based world's third largest pizza chain, is entering the Indian market. India -- one of the fastest growing quick service restaurant markets -- will be the 30th market for Little Caesars, which is also the world's largest family-owned pizza chain, for which it has roped in Harnessing Harvest as its franchise partner. It has planned to open its first outlet in Delhi-NCR this month, with plans for additional locations to follow, accordin...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others are set to embark on the Axiom Space's fourth human spaceflight from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 10 and are likely to dock at the International Space Station on June 11 at about 10 PM IST, after a nearly 28-hour journey. Shukla, the mission pilot of the Axiom-4 (Ax4) commercial mission to the ISS, will be accompanied by mission commander Peggy Whitson and specialists Tibor Kapu from Hungary and Slawosz...Read More
Lucknow, Jun 7 (PTI) Eid-ul-Azha was celebrated across the state on Saturday with people offering namaaz amidst tight security. In the state capital, namaaz was offered at the Lucknow Eidgah under the Shahi Imam of Lucknow, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali. After offering namaaz, prayers were made for the safety of the jawans posted at the borders and safeguarding the country. In a video message, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali, on Saturday, reminded the Muslim community to follow ...Read More
Itanagar, Jun 7 (PTI) The flood situation in Arunachal Pradesh improved on Saturday with water levels of most rivers receding, even as 33,000 people in 24 districts remained affected, officials said. Twelve people lost their lives and one person went missing in rain-related incidents, including landslides, after the monsoon set in, they said. In its daily report, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) said 33,200 people in 215 villages remained affected due to floods and landslides in the...Read More
Mathura (UP), Jun 7 (PTI) Devotees visiting the Mathura-Vrindavan region for temple visits often get a taste of the antics of the large monkey population as the simians steal spectacles, caps and food from visitors. Aligarh-based diamond merchant Abhishek Agarwal and his family were left shell-shocked when a monkey snatched his handbag containing jewellery worth Rs 20 lakh during their visit to the Thakur Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan. However, providence smiled on the Agarwal family as aft...Read More
Raipur, Jun 7 (PTI) Veteran tribal leader from Chhattisgarh and former Union minister Arvind Netam on Saturday said the Congress should clarify its stance on religious conversion. Netam said he suspects that Chhattisgarh Congress chief Deepak Baij, a tribal leader from the Bastar region, has embraced Christianity. He was talking to reporters in Raipur, two days after attending the concluding ceremony of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's training camp 'Karyakarta Vikas Varg-Dwitiya' in Nagpur as th...Read More
Gopalganj (Bihar), Jun 7 (PTI) Police rescued 14 girls, who were subjected to exploitation and forced to dance in orchestra groups, following searches at different locations in Bihar's Gopalganj district, officials said. Most of the rescued girls are residents of Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, they said. The police have also arrested one Rakesh Singh, an orchestra operator, in connection with the incident. "Acting on a piece of specific information, the district police and members of an NGO joint...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) Congress leader Jairam Ramesh took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, describing him as "Swayam Udghoshit Vishwaguru", and asked whether during his meetings at the G7 Summit, he would update his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, on India being the third-largest economy. Carney had, while justifying his invite to India for the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, later this year, said some countries should be at the table for the discussions at the summit. ...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation rate between 2017 and 2021, a revised extreme poverty line of USD 3 would constitute a 15 per cent higher threshold than USD 2.15 expressed in 2021 prices and result in a 5.3 per cent poverty rate in 2022-23, the World Bank said in a report. In India, the repor...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) The Department of Post has sought participation of various stakeholders, including citizens, developers, and institutions, for refining its GPS-based address locator service DIGIPIN, according to an official statement. The postal department had announced the launch of 'Know Your DIGIPIN' and 'Know Your PIN Code' on May 27 in alignment with the National Geospatial Policy 2022, which envisions the development of an advanced geospatial infrastructure to support digital gover...Read More