- India
Doctors’ team conducts health check-up of ex-Bengal minister in Kolkata jail
Kolkata: A team of doctors from the state-run SSKM Hospital on Saturday visited the Presidency Correctional Home and conducted a health check-up of jailed former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, a senior official…
- World
Salman Rushdie: The free speech champion whose ‘verses’ put his life at risk
New York: A Booker Prize that catapulted him to the pantheon of global literary stalwarts to a fatwa by Iran’s Supreme Leader that forced him into hiding and years of death threats,…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: Flood level steady in Godavari, falling in Krishna
Amaravati: Flood flow remained steady in river Godavari while it showed a declining trend in river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. The instant water discharge at Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage in…
- Delhi
Biz ideas from students can help country get rid of unemployment: Sisodia
New Delhi: Students of Delhi schools have been learning the concepts of entrepreneurship and also establishing start-ups at a young age, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Saturday. Sisodia, who visited…
- Delhi
Delhi: Man wanted in Jahangirpuri violence case arrested
New Delhi: A 38-year-old man wanted in the Jahangirpuri violence case was arrested in northwest Delhi on Saturday, police said. Sheikh Sikandar, a resident of Jahangirpuri, was absconding since the violence in…
- India
Attack on author Rushdie can’t be called correct: Muslim cleric
Lucknow: Senior member of All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali on Saturday said no one has the right to take the law into his hand and the…
- Chennai
Spending on health, education can’t be freebies: Tamil Nadu CM
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday said the expenditure incurred by the government on education and health cannot be construed as freebies and stated such measures were being…
- Sports
There are better fast bowlers in Indian T20 cricket than Shami: Ponting
Dubai: Australian legend Ricky Ponting feels Mohammed Shami’s strength lies in the longest format and there are better quick bowlers in India’s T20 set up, weighing in on his absence from the…
- 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…
