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Another 8-year-old girl raped and killed in UP village

An eight-year-old girl was strangled to death in a village in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Her body was found in a sugarcane field late at night in the Kheri district, about 130 km from Lucknow, hours after she went missing. In the murder case, the police have now also...

Jun 22 · >

Prashant Kishor distances himself from Third Front

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor has ruled out any association with an opposition front to take on the BJP in the next general election.  “I don’t believe a Third or Fourth Front could emerge as a successfully challenge to the current dispensation,” he told NDTV. Kishor believes that the ‘tried...

Jun 22 · >

Thieves drill hole in Delhi bank’s wall, decamp with Rs 55 lakh

An incident of theft was reported at a branch of Union Bank of India in Delhi’s Shahdara area on Sunday when a few men decamped with Rs 55 lakh in cash, the police said Monday. The thieves entered the bank by breaking through the walls of an under-construction building...

Jun 22 · >

Scribe booked for raising Ram temple land scam

The Uttar Pradesh police have invoked a massive 15 sections of the Indian Penal Code and three sections of the IT Act against a journalist and two others in Bijnor district over an alleged land grab case. The case was filed on a complaint by the brother of Champat...

Jun 21 · >

Modi govt blames UPA oil bonds for fuel woes

A “financial fraud” played by the UPA government (2004-2014) using the instrument of oil bonds is responsible for India’s consumers suffering today, government have sources. They also accused “non-politicians” of that day’s administration of dereliction of duty by not stopping the politicians in this matter. The Congress, however, brushed...

Jun 21 · >

Move to sell public sector oil companies to foreign investors

  IPA Webdesk The government has initiated a move to sell state-owned oil companies to foreign investors.  The Commerce and Industry Ministry has floated a draft cabinet note seeking inter-ministerial views on a proposal to allow up to 100 per cent foreign investment under automatic route in oil and...

Jun 20 · >

Sarbananda in Delhi ahead of cabinet rejig

Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal headed for Delhi amid speculation that he might get a ministerial berth in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet expansion. Sonowal had served as a Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs from 2014 to 2016 during the first term of the Narendra...

Jun 19 · >

Tharoor panel tells Twitter to ‘abide by Indian laws’

  IPA Webdesk Twitter was grilled by MPs across parties and told bluntly that “Indian laws are supreme and the company has to abide by the laws of India in India,” sources said after a meeting of the parliamentary panel on IT led by Congress’s Shashi Tharoor. During a...

Jun 19 · >

Third wave ‘inevitable’, says AIIMS chief

  A third Covid wave in India is “inevitable”, and it may hit the country in the next six-eight weeks, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV. “As we have started unlocking, there is again a lack of Covid-appropriate behaviour. We don’t seem to have learnt from what happened...

Jun 19 · >

UP police notice to Twitter MD for provoking ‘communal hatred’

IPA Webdesk The Uttar Pradesh Police has sent a legal notice to Twitter India’s Managing Editor for “provoking communal unrest” on the assault on a Muslim man in Ghaziabad earlier this month. Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter in India, has been asked to come to the Police Station...

Jun 18 · >
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