- India
UP: Three booked for raping 14-year-old Dalit girl in Amethi
Amethi: Three youths have been booked for allegedly raping a 14-year-old Dalit girl in a village in the Gauriganj police station area here, police said on Saturday. According to the police, the…
- India
Ex-NCB officer Sameer Wankhede not Muslim: Caste panel gives him clean chit
Mumbai: Former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Sameer Wankhede, who was being probed for allegedly submitting a fake caste certificate for getting a government job, was given a…
- India
Mathura Bar Association president, secretary suspended from practising in court for 1 year
Mathura: The Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh has suspended the president and the secretary of the Bar Association of Mathura from practising in court for one year for professional misconduct. According to…
- India
HC upholds conviction of journalists in criminal defamation case filed by bureaucrat
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court has upheld the conviction of two journalists and a newspaper publisher in a criminal defamation case filed by bureaucrat Anant Kumar Singh over an interview published in…
- News
India reports nearly 16,000 new COVID-19 cases, 68 deaths
New Delhi: India reported nearly 16,000 new COVID-19 cases and 68 fatalities, including 24 reconciled by Kerala, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The 8-am data also showed…
- India
CM Yogi’s picture defaced in ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ hoardings; cases filed
Firozabad: The police here Saturday registered two cases against unknown people after pictures of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath were found defaced in several hoardings of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, officials said. District Magistrate…
- India
J&K: Govt sacks son of Hizb chief Syed Salahuddin, 3 others
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration Saturday sacked its four employees including son of Syed Salahuddin, the chief of banned Hizbul Mujahideen, and the wife of terror-funding accused Bitta Karate, officials said. All…
- India
TMC raises question over probe by central agencies; opposition says more arrests on cards
Kolkata: Rallies and counter rallies over the arrest of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal in a cattle smuggling case kept West Bengal’s political cauldron on the boil on Friday with the state’s ruling…
- World
Salman Rushdie alive after attack: New York governor
New York: New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday said author Salman Rushdie, who has spent decades speaking truth to power is alive after being attacked onstage at an event here…
- Mumbai
Tenth person arrested in Amravati pharmacist murder
Mumbai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested a tenth accused in connection with the murder of pharmacist Umesh Kolhe in eastern Maharashtra’s Amravati city in June. Shaikh Shakeel (28), the…
- Telangana
Telangana: Centre raises serious irregularities in MGNREGS; demands thorough inquiry
New Delhi: The Union Rural Development Ministry has apprised the TRS government in Telangana about “serious irregularities” in the implementation of the rural employment programme MGNREGS in the state and suggested to…
- India
Yati Narsinghanand under police scanner for calling for boycott of tricolour campaign
Ghaziabad: Yati Narsinghanand, a priest no stranger to controversies, has come under police scanner owing to the surfacing of a video in which he is seen boycotting the Union government’s tricolour campaign…
- Delhi
Delhi logs 2,136 new Covid cases, 10 fatalities in a day
New Delhi: Delhi on Friday reported 10 deaths due to COVID-19, the highest in six months, and 2,136 cases with a positivity rate of 15.02 percent, according to data shared by the…
- India
Lumpy skin disease: Punjab to procure 3.3 lakh more doses of goat pox vaccine
Chandigarh: The Punjab government on Friday said it will procure 3.3 lakh more doses of goat pox vaccine to prevent the spread of lumpy skin disease among cattle. The decision was taken…
- Telangana
Telangana reports 476 new COVID-19 cases
Hyderabad: Telangana on Friday recorded 476 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the tally to 8,28,471. The highest number of cases was reported in Hyderabad district with 239. A health department bulletin said 984…
