No flight operations from Kolkata Airport on revised lockdown days
Aug 04, 2020, at 10:54 pm
Kolkata: Flight operations in Kolkata Airport will remain suspended on the revised dates of state-wide lockdown announced by the West Bengal government on Monday.
JKWP President Mir Junaid wishes country on first anniversary of abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A
Aug 04, 2020, at 10:37 pm
Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir Workers Party President Mir Junaid extended his wishes to the whole nation on the first anniversary of the constitutional amendments that were made on Aug 5 last year which led to the scrapping of Article 370 that granted special status to the region.
UP: Road mishap claims two lives
Aug 04, 2020, at 10:24 pm
Rai Bareli/UNI: A man and his son were killed when a speeding vehicle rammed into them in the Harchandpur area of this Uttar Pradesh district on Tuesday.
Puduchery Crime: Man stabs house owner to death
Aug 04, 2020, at 10:01 pm
Puducherry, Aug 4 (UNI)A man allegedly stabbed his house owner to death in a dispute over the payment of house rent at Airport road here, police said on Tuesday.
Two Indian nationals, released from captivity in Afghanistan, return home
Aug 04, 2020, at 09:54 pm
New Delhi: Two Indian nationals, who were released from captivity in Afghanistan on July 31, returned to India on Tuesday, officials said.
Aug 04, 2020, at 09:01 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Budget carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday said it has secured slots at the London Heathrow airport to operate flights under the bubble arrangement between India and UK, the airline said in a filing with Bombay Stock Exchange.
Karnataka: BJP MLA tests positive for Covid-19
Aug 04, 2020, at 08:45 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Former minister and senior BJP MLA, Haratal Halappa, representing Sagar Assembly seat in Shivamogga district, tested positive for the Covid-19 on Tuesday.
Kashmir: High-level meeting reviews security situation ahead of anniversary of Art 370 abrogation
Aug 04, 2020, at 08:37 pm
Srinagar/UNI: A high-level core group meeting reviewed overall security situation and coordinated measures for the month of August ahead of the one-year anniversary of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, official sources said on Tuesday.
SC defers hearing of plea to bring back stranded Indians from Kuwait
Aug 04, 2020, at 08:35 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred, till next week, the hearing of a petition to bring back Indians stranded in Kuwait.
Bihar Govt orders CBI probe in Sushant Singh Rajput's death case
Aug 04, 2020, at 07:40 pm
Patna/IBNS: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered a CBI probe into the death of Sushant Singh Rajput on Tuesday, soon after his father demanded for it over a phone call, said media reports.
Ram Mandir's 'Bhoomi Pujan' should become occasion for national unity: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Aug 04, 2020, at 07:01 pm
New Delhi/Ayodhya/IBNS: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said the much-awaited "Bhoomi Pujan" of Ram Mandir (Ram Temple) in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya must become an occasion for "national unity, friendship and cultural congregation", prompting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to take a jibe at the grand old party.
Aug 04, 2020, at 05:23 pm
Srinagar: It seems that Kashmir is shining following the Aug 5 move by the Centre in 2019 to scrap Article 370 as it has benefited people who are attempting to prosper in self-employment.
Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces defuse IED on Srinagar-Baramulla highway
Aug 04, 2020, at 03:30 pm
Srinagar/UNI: A major tragedy was averted after security forces detected and defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Srinagar-Baramulla highway in north Kashmir on Tuesday.
Karnataka: Former CM Siddaramaiah tests COVID-19 positive
Aug 04, 2020, at 03:16 pm
Bangalore: After Karnataka CM Yediyurappa testing Covid-19 positive, former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Tuesday confirmed he has tested positive for the contagion.
Aug 04, 2020, at 02:38 pm
Kasaragod/UNI: Four members in a family in Bayar near Manjeswaram near here has been hacked to death late on Monday.
Aug 04, 2020, at 06:09 am
Srinagar/IBNS: Curfew has been imposed in Kashmir on Tuesday and Wednesday as the county's newest Union Territory is all set to mark its first anniversary after being formed on Aug 5, which also saw the scrapping of Article 370 in the valley.
Approached Mumbai Police in Feb warning my son's life was in danger: Sushant's father
Aug 04, 2020, at 05:31 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's father KK Singh has dropped a new bomb in media with allegations that he had approached the Mumbai Police in February stating that his son's life was in danger.
Punjab hooch tragedy: Two Congress MPs attack Amarinder Singh govt over deaths
Aug 04, 2020, at 04:58 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Two senior leaders of Punjab-Pratap Singh Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo-have written to the governor attacking their own government over the spurious liquor tragedy in the state that left 108 dead.
India should be provided another chance to appoint lawyer for Kulbhushan Jadhav: Pak court
Aug 04, 2020, at 04:23 am
Islamabad/IBNS: The Islamabad High Court on Monday said Indian officials should be provided with another chance to appoint a lawyer for Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is in the prison of the neighbouring country on charges of terrorism and spying.
Kolkata: CPI-M Politburo member, former Lok Sabha MP Md. Salim tests Covid-19 positive, hospitalized
Aug 04, 2020, at 03:36 am
Kolkata/IBNS: CPI-M Politburo member and former MP from West Bengal's Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency, Md. Salim, on Monday tested positive for novel coronavirus.
West Bengal Govt further changes its bi-weekly lockdown calendar
Aug 04, 2020, at 02:25 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal government on Monday changed the dates of its bi-weekly lockdown for the third time to contain the spread of Covid-19, officials said.
Soldier goes missing in J&K, army suspects abduction by terrorists
Aug 04, 2020, at 02:03 am
Srinagar/IBNS: The Indian Army on Monday said a soldier, who had gone to Jammu and Kashmir to celebrate Eid, has been missing since Sunday evening.
Assam’s indigenous Muslims' body to donate Rs 5 lakh for Ram Mandir construction
Aug 04, 2020, at 01:08 am
Guwahati/IBNS As preparations are in full swing for the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, the indigenous Muslims of Assam have announced to donate Rs 5 lakh for construction of Ram Mandir.
Explosion in ONGC pipeline at Nazira in Upper Assam
Aug 04, 2020, at 12:09 am
Guwahati/UNI: Nearly months after Baghjan Oil Well fire in Assam which is yet to be doused, an explosion occurred in a gas pipeline of ONGC at Nazira in upper Assam’s Sivasagar district today.
Doors of Baba Baidyanath opened for devotees on last Somvari of Shravan month
Aug 03, 2020, at 10:59 pm
Deoghar/UNI: On the last Somvari of the auspicious month of Shravan which also coincided with Shravan Poornima the doors of Baba Baidyanath Dham Temple were opened for the devotees.
Demand for CBI inquiry into mysterious suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput raised in Bihar Assembly
Aug 03, 2020, at 10:21 pm
Patna/UNI Amid chorus for CBI inquiry into suicide by Hindi film actor Sushant Singh Rajput under mysterious circumstances, the issue was also raised in Bihar Assembly as several members demanded for investigation of the case by premier agency, in the House in its single day Monsoon Session which began today.
West Bengal: Nabanna closed on Monday and Tuesday for intense sanitisation
Aug 03, 2020, at 10:04 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Nabanna, the State Secretariat and the official seat of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and her Cabinet colleagues and top bureaucrats, remained closed on Monday and Tuesday, August 3 and 4, for "intense cleaning and sanitisation" as the toll in Covid-19 was on high graph in Bengal with toll touching 1678 till Sunday.
Aug 03, 2020, at 09:24 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Sushant Singh Rajput was suffering from bipolar disorder and was under medication, doctors have said, according to Mumbai police.
Ravi Shankar Prasad goes into self-isolation, met COVID-19 Amit Shah on Saturday
Aug 03, 2020, at 09:21 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Union Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that he was absolutely fine and has isolated himself at home for few days as he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah a day before the former BJP president tested Corona positive.
Congress MP Karti Chidambram tests positive for Covid-19
Aug 03, 2020, at 07:13 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP and the son of former Union Finance Minister Karti Chidambaram has tested positive for novel coronavirus.