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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Priyanka detained on way to Lakhimpur Kheri
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was detained early morning today by the Uttar Pradesh police as she headed to meet the families of four farmers killed in the wake of violence during an anti-farm laws protest in the state the previous day. The farmers, who had assembled...
Army Chief confirms increased Chinese deployment in eastern Ladakh
Ladakh/ New Delhi: India expects to hold a 13th round of talks with China on the Ladakh standoff and disengagement of military forces next week, Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane said this morning while he added in the same breath that “there has been an increase in...
RJD says Kanhaiya Kumar like Sidhu, will destroy Cong
Muzaffarpur (Bihar): Bihar’s main opposition party RJD today mocked Kanhaiya Kumar’s induction into the Congress, saying that the former JNU student is like “another Navjot Singh Sidhu” who would “destroy” the grand old party. Ridiculing the Congress by calling it a sinking ship, senior RJD leader Shivanand Tiwari...
1,000kg Khadi national flag unveiled in Leh, Ladakh
The national flag was inaugurated by Ladakh Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur. New Delhi: The world’s largest Khadi national flag was installed in Leh, Ladakh, today on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary. It was inaugurated by Ladakh Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur this morning. The tricolor, which...
Global Covid deaths hit 5 million, delta variant sweeps
It took almost over a year for the COVID-19 deaths to hit 2.5 million. Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant causes a surge in death, mainly among the unvaccinated. More than half of the world...
Supreme Court criticises farmers’ protest
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today lashed out at a farmers’ group protesting the three agricultural laws saying they have “strangulated the entire city (Delhi) and blocked highways”. The farmers’ body, Kisan Mahapanchayat, had sought permission from the Supreme Court to hold a ‘Satyagrah’ at Jantar Mantar, the...
Amarinder says not joining BJP, but leaving Congress
New Delhi: Amarinder Singh said today that he is not joining the BJP but quitting the Congress, confirming speculation that had been swirling since he was forced to quit as Punjab Chief Minister on September 18. “So far I am in the Congress but I will not...
Amarinder Singh meets Amit Shah
New Delhi: Punjab’s former Chief Minister and Congress veteran Amarinder Singh had an hour-long meeting the Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his home in Delhi amid the Congress’s crisis in Punjab and speculation about his joining the BJP days after he stepped down from the top...
Kapil Sibal’s car damaged after his criticism of Gandhis
New Delhi: Soon after Congress leader Kapil Sibal taunted the party leadership with his “G-23, not Ji Huzoor-23” comment, party workers protested outside his house with “Get well soon” placards and damaged his car. Workers of the Youth Congress also raised slogans of “Leave the party! Come to...
US bars flight with Americans from Kabul from landing
Washington: The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied U.S. landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and U.S. green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organizers of the flight said. “They will not allow a charter on an international flight into a U.S. port...
Court says Delhi riots were part of conspiracy
New Delhi: The Delhi riots of 2020 were planned and calculated to cause disruptions and were not triggered by any incident, the High Court said while refusing bail to one of the accused in the case on Monday. “The February 2020 riots were a conspiracy, planned and executed....
Welcome posters ahead of Kanhaiya’s Cong entry
New Delhi: Student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and Gujarat Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani are set to join the Congress today. Posters welcoming Kanhaiya Kumar to the party were put up outside the Congress office in Delhi this morning, hours ahead of the widely reported switch. Kanhaiya Kumar joined the...
