News
-
Woman inspector mowed down by cattle smugglers in Ranchi
Ranchi: Woman inspector Sandhya Topno was mowed down by a pick-up van during vehicle checking in the Tupudana police station area of Ranchi in the wee hours of Wednesday. She was taken…
-
UN slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan’s Taliban
Islamabad: Hundreds of people have been killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban overran the country nearly a year ago, even though security, on the whole, has improved since then, the United Nations…
-
Spat over smoking, not Nupur Sharma issue behind Sitamarhi stabbing: Police
Patna: A day after a youth was stabbed by four persons in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district, Superintendent of Police Hari Kishore Rai on Tuesday claimed that the incident was due to a spat…
-
Punjab govt’s non-payment of scholarship results in 2L SC students dropping out
New Delhi: Around two lakh students from the Scheduled Caste category dropped out of college due to non-payment of dues under a scholarship scheme worth around Rs 2,000 crore by the Punjab…
-
Encounter underway between Punjab Police, 2 suspected Moosewala killers
Chandigarh: An exchange of fire was underway in Amritsar on Wednesday between the Punjab Police and two gangsters, believed to be involved in the killing of singer Sidhu Moosewala, official sources said.…
-
1984 anti-Sikh riots: SIT arrests 5 more for setting building afire in Kanpur
Kanpur: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the mass killings during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on Wednesday arrested five more people accused of setting a building afire in which three persons were…
-
Tejashwi wanted to form govt in Bihar with BJP: Sanjay Jaiswal
Patna: A day after Tejashwi Yadav’s shocking disclosure on Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai, Sanjay Jaiswal, the chief of BJP’s Bihar unit, claimed that the RJD leader wanted to…
-
UN chief Guterres appoints new deputy special representative for Iraq
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of Ghulam Mohammad Isaczai of Afghanistan as his new deputy special representative for Iraq in the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq…
-
Maha crisis: Some issues require a larger constitutional bench, says SC
New Delhi: Eknath Shinde’s counsel on Wednesday submitted before the Supreme Court, “Are we in such a hopeless situation that a man who cannot even find 20 MLAs to support him has to…
-
Elgar Parishad: Can’t allow Navlakha to make calls, Maha govt tells HC
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that it could not allow activist Gautam Navlakha to make phone calls from prison since he was facing charges of terrorism.…
-
Rajya Sabha proceedings washed out completely, House adjourned for the day
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha proceeding washed out completely on Wednesday and was adjourned for the day amid continued protest by the Opposition parties led by the Congress over price rise and…
-
Interim bail for Zubair in UP cases; SC transfers all FIRs to Delhi
In a huge relief, the Supreme Court of India has granted interim bail to Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair in all FIRs filed by the Uttar Pradesh police concerning his…
-
Promise to construct ramp at Pahadi Shareef Dargah unfulfilled
Hyderabad: The ramp work undertaken by the government of Telangana for reaching the Dargah Hazrat Baba Sharfuddin Known as Pahadi Shareef is in limbo for many years and more than half the…
-
UP Dalit minister resigns alleging corruption, casteism in his dept
Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh minister of State for Jal Shakti department Dinesh Khatik sent his resignation to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday alleging corruption in the department. In the letter, he…
-
Naxal violence reduced by 77% in 2021, from all-time high in 2009: MHA
New Delhi: Incidents of Naxal violence reduced by 77 per cent from all-time high of 2,258 in 2009 to 509 in 2021, Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya…
