Maharashtra: Major accident leads to fire, disrupts highway traffic
Jun 14, 2021, at 10:25 pm
Palghar/UNI: An oil tanker and a container were totally destroyed in a fire that broke out on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in the early hours of Monday.
Sikkim: 9 arrested for burning effigy of former Indian captain Bhaichung Bhutia
Jun 14, 2021, at 08:28 pm
Gangtok/IBNS: Nine people were arrested on Sunday for burning effigy of former Indian football captain Bhaichung Bhutia in Sikkim, media reports said.
Sitalkuchi firing: Bengal CID summons then Cooch Behar SP Debasish Dhar
Jun 14, 2021, at 07:21 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has summoned suspended IPS officer Debasish Dhar in connection with its ongoing probe into the Sitalkuchi firing incident, officials said on Monday.
Tamil Nadu: Week-long extended COVID-19 lockdown begins with more relaxations
Jun 14, 2021, at 07:01 pm
Chennai/UNI: As the COVID-19 daily caseload graph continued to dip in several districts, yet another week-long extended lockdown began on Monday with more relaxations that included re-opening of state-owned Tasmac liquor outlets after a gap of more than a month.
Two crores to 18 crores in minutes: SP, AAP accuse Ram Temple Trust of land scam
Jun 14, 2021, at 06:18 pm
Lucknow/IBNS: Two opposition political parties of Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party (SP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), have accused the Ram Temple Trust, which was set up by the Centre last year, of being involved in a land scam, media reports said.
Is Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee joining TMC? Speculations gain pace
Jun 14, 2021, at 04:45 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Suspense grows over political alignment of former President late Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress leader Abhijit Mukherjee over his recent tweet which has now been deleted.
Jun 14, 2021, at 04:24 pm
New Delhi: Indian PM Narendra Modi on Monday tweeted to wish new Israeli PM Naftali Bennett and said he is looking forward to meeting and deepening the strategic partnership between our two countries.
Jun 14, 2021, at 02:45 pm
New Delhi: On the second day of the Outreach Sessions of the G7 Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in two sessions titled ‘Building Back Together—Open Societies and Economies’ and ‘Building Back Greener: Climate and Nature’ where he said the cyberspace should remain an avenue for advancing democratic values.
Tamil Nadu: 'Socialism' and 'Mamata Banerjee' get married; vow to be together forever
Jun 14, 2021, at 02:13 pm
Salem/IBNS: A woman, who is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's namesake, married a man named Socialism in Tamil Nadu's Salem on Sunday.
Shiv Sena MLA forces contractor to sit on waterlogged road, dumps garbage on him
Jun 14, 2021, at 07:23 am
Mumbai/IBNS: A Shiv Sena lawmaker made a contractor sit on a waterlogged road and asked people to dump trash on him as a punishment for allegedly not getting the drains cleaned properly.
Mumbai bakery making marijuana cakes raided, three arrested
Jun 14, 2021, at 04:24 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested three persons, including a woman, for allegedly running a bakery that used marijuana as an ingredient in the cakes, media reports said.
Jammu and Kashmir: Justice Sindhu Sharma visits Court Complex Budgam
Jun 14, 2021, at 02:39 am
Budgam: Justice Sindhu Sharma, Judge High Court of Union Territory of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, who is also Administrative Judge of District Budgam, today inspected District Court Complex Budgam.
Jun 14, 2021, at 02:32 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid speculations over Rajib Banerjee's 'homecoming', the BJP leader on Sunday late evening visited TMC leader and Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee at his Kolkata residence to offer condolences on his mother's demise, reports said.
Collective efforts can help to end child labour, says Sub-Judge Srinagar
Jun 14, 2021, at 02:19 am
Srinagar: Secretary District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) Srinagar and Sub-Judge Srinagar Court Noor Mohammad Saturday said that child labour exploitation is spreading day by day and collective efforts are needed to end this menace.
Jun 14, 2021, at 01:34 am
Srinagar/UNI: Jammu and Kashmir administration on Sunday announced further ease in the COVID restrictions in eight districts in the Union Territory in view of significant decline in the number of fresh Coronavirus positive cases.
Jammu and Kashmir: CEO ERA inspects ongoing works on Parimpora–Soibugh road
Jun 14, 2021, at 01:31 am
Srinagar: Chief Executive Officer, JKERA/JTFRP, Dr. Syed Abid Rasheed Shah today conducted an extensive inspection of the ongoing Parimpora–Soibugh road sub-project being executed by JKERA under the World Bank-funded Jhelum Tawi Flood Recovery Project.
Man from Mizoram with 38 wives and 89 children dies at 76
Jun 14, 2021, at 01:29 am
Aizawl: Ziona Chana, who is believed to be the head of the world’s largest family with 38 wives, 89 children and 33 grandchildren from Mizoram, died at a private hospital in Mizoram’s capital city Aizawl on Sunday. He was 76.
Jammu and Kashmir prepares capacity expansion plan to tackle a possible 3rd wave of COVID
Jun 14, 2021, at 01:19 am
Srinagar: Chief Secretary Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta today chaired a meeting to oversee the preparation of an action plan for tackling a possible third wave of COVID in Jammu and Kashmir based on the recommendations of an expert Advisory Committee headed by Prof. Mohammad Sultan Khuroo.
Lt Gen Manoj Pande visits Shillong
Jun 14, 2021, at 12:29 am
Shillong: Lt Gen Manoj Pande, GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, visited HQ EAC at Shillong on Sunday and discussed defence preparedness with Air Marshal Amit Dev, AOC-in-C EAC.
Assam: Man beaten to death by mob on suspicion of being cow thief
Jun 14, 2021, at 12:27 am
Guwahati: A 28-year-old man was beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of being a cow thief in a village in Assam’s Tinsukia district.
Nagaland : Kohima launches ‘Litter free city’ campaign
Jun 14, 2021, at 12:17 am
Kohima: In an effort towards making Nagaland’s capital city Kohima as a “Litter Free City”, the Kohima Smart City Development Limited (KSCDL) and Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) have started intensive cleaning of the main highway.
Mumbai: Car disappears as part of ground caves in, video goes viral
Jun 13, 2021, at 11:33 pm
Mumbai: A bizarre incident was caught on camera where a parked car suddenly disappeared within seconds into a sinkhole at a residential complex in Mumbai.
Infiltration, terrorism controlled in J&K: G K Reddy
Jun 13, 2021, at 09:41 pm
Jammu/UNI: Asserting that not more than a couple of violence related incidents were reported in the country in the past two years, Union MoS Home G K Reddy on Sunday said that the government has successfully laid curb on infiltration and controlled the terrorism in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
COVID-19 graph declines in New Delhi: CM Arvind Kejriwal announces further lockdown relaxations
Jun 13, 2021, at 09:09 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced further relaxations in the National Capital from June 14 onward as the COVID-19 graph continued to show a declining trend.
World View: The Real Iranian Elections
Jun 13, 2021, at 07:29 pm
Forget about the Iranian presidential elections on 18 June. Actually don’t completely dismiss them. They do have some importance. The key one being how many actually turn out to vote. If the figure is low—as expected—then the regime knows that it is in trouble.
Rajnath Singh approves Rs 498.8 crore budgetary support for Defence innovation
Jun 13, 2021, at 05:25 pm
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the budgetary support of Rs 498.8 crore to Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) - Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO) for the next five years.
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Chouhan pays tribute to Maharana Pratap
Jun 13, 2021, at 05:15 pm
Bhopal/UNI: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan offered glowing tributes to Maharana Pratap on the latter’s birth anniversary on Sunday.
COVID: India logs 71-day-lowest 80,834 new cases, 3,303 deaths in one day
Jun 13, 2021, at 04:48 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: India has reported 80,834 fresh Covid-19 cases, lowest after 71 days, and 3,303 fatalities in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.
G7 Summit: PM Modi calls for united approach to fight Covid19, future pandemics at outreach session
Jun 13, 2021, at 07:30 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to the G7 States to take a united approach to fight the coronavirus pandemic and similar health emergencies in future with the mantra "One Earth, One Health" as India saw support for its proposal for a waiver of patent protection for Covid-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 reverses progress made to eliminate child labour, CRY calls for immediate action
Jun 13, 2021, at 04:53 am
New Delhi: As the world observed the World Day against Child Labour (WDACL) on Saturday, little of the celebratory uproar reached Lakshmior Babua (names changed to protect identity).