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Delhi reviews terror-attack preparedness ahead of festivals
New Delhi: The Delhi Police Commissioner on Saturday held a meeting with other officials to review security preparedness ahead of the festival season. Petrol pump and petrol tankers could be targeted to spread terror, said sources. The police personnel have been asked to increase anti-terror measures to fight off...
Parliament panels reconstituted, Cong leaders retained as chairmen
New Delhi: Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Anand Sharma and Jairam Ramesh were on Saturday retained as the head of parliamentary standing committees on information-technology, home affairs and science and environment, respectively. BJP’s Sushil Kumar Modi, a former deputy chief minister of Bihar, replaced Bhupender Yadav as the chairman of...
Power minister says blackout fears unnecessarily created
Power Minister RK Singh today said that “unnecessarily panic” of an impending blackout is being created in the country. This is a breaking news story. Details will be added soon. Please refresh the page for latest version. With inputs from NDTV
Congress, Trinamool in Twitter war over Prashant Kishor tweet
Kolkata: The relationship between the Congress and the TMC Friday touched a new low with Mamata Banerjee’s party taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi’s defeat in Amethi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, wondering whether the Congress can erase the loss through a Twitter trend. The Twitter war between...
Army repels Chinese intrusion in Arunachal
Indian soldiers engaged in a tense standoff with Chinese troops who transgressed in Arunachal Pradesh last week across the Line of Actual Control, sources told NDTV. According to reports, some of the Chinese soldiers may have been detained following the development. “There is a difference in perception of the...
Minister’s son summoned, 2 arrested for farmers’ death
Union minister’s son Ashish Mishra – accused of murder in the farmer deaths at Lakhimpur Kheri – has been summoned for questioning, the UP police said. Two people who were at the location of the incident have been arrested, the police said. This is the first time the...
Yes Bank founder’s wife, daughters get Supreme Court relief
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today granted interim bail to YES Bank founder Rana Kapoor’s wife and their two daughters in connection with the Rs 4,000 crore money laundering case. A Bench of Justices SK Kaul and MM Sundresh granted bail to Bindu Kapoor and her two daughters Radha...
US judge recommends dismissing rape case against Ronaldo
Los Angeles: A US judge has recommended dismissing the civil rape case against Cristiano Ronaldo over an incident in Las Vegas more than a decade ago. Kathryn Mayorga, a former model, alleges Ronaldo attacked her in a hotel room in 2009. The Portuguese international has always denied allegations of...
No quarantine for fully-vaccinated Indians in UK from Monday
New Delhi: Indians who are fully vaccinated with Covishield or any other UK-approved vaccine will not be quarantined when they arrive in Britain from October 11, the High Commissioner to India said today, ending a row over what was perceived as unfair imposition of COVId-19 quarantine rules. “No...
Supreme Court queries UP Govt on the number of arrests
New Delhi: Four days after a group of farmers were run over by a Union Minister’s car in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, the Supreme Court demanded to know today “how many have been arrested” and asked for a status report tomorrow from the state government. The court asked...
Priyanka demands minister’s resignation for unbiased probe
Lakhimpur Kheri: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stuck to her demand for the resignation of Union Minister Ajay Mishra whose son allegedly ran over an SUV on protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. Ms Gandhi Vadra, who along with her brother Rahul Gandhi, met two families whose...
Rahul Gandhi leaves Lucknow airport after row with security
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today argued with security staff at the Lucknow airport, where he was surrounded when he refused to be driven to Lakhimpur Kheri in an official car. “Who are you to arrange my transport? I want to leave in my car,” the Congress leader, accompanied by...
Union minister Ajay Mishra meets Amit Shah
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah met with his Minister of State Ajay Mishra today amid opposition calls for his sacking over allegations that his son ran over farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. Eight persons, including four farmers were killed in Lakhimpur Kheri during a protest against...
Viral video appears to show farmers being run over
Lucknow: A video of an SUV ramming the sloganeering farmers marching in a line in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri over the weekend has surfaced on social media. Eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the incident. The video, being shared widely on social media, is yet to...
Report says China amassed test kits months before 1st Covid case
The Chinese province that was the initial epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak made significant purchases of equipment used to test for infectious diseases months before Beijing notified international authorities of the emergence of a new coronavirus, according to research by a cybersecurity company. The province’s purchase of polymerase chain...
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down globally
New Delhi: WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have gone down in several parts for the world, users reported on Monday evening. All three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure. “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we...
Tension outside Akhilesh home as he sits in protest
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is on a sit-in outside his home in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow after he was not allowed to leave home to visit Lakhimpur Kheri district, where eight including four farmers were killed in violence on Sunday. Police forces have been deployed outside his home...
UP Police files case against Union minister’s son
Lucknow: A murder case has been filed against Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son for allegedly running a car over protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. Several other people have also been named in the First Information Report (FIR). Four farmers were...
