New Delhi : Delhi’s air quality Saturday improved to ‘very poor’ category after local pollutants “reduced significantly” and the contribution from stubble burning remained “marginal” due to wind speed, authorities said. The overall air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 394 which falls in the ‘very poor’ category, according […]
Itanagar : A new species of freshwater crab has been found at the Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh, the renowned science journal ‘Zootaxa’ said. A three-member team of scientists of the Zoological Survey India (ZSI) spotted the species ‘Teretamon kem-pi’ in the park in Changlang district in April […]
Nagpur (Maha) : A woman farm labourer was mauled to death by a wild animal, suspected to be a tiger or leopard, at a forest in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, police said Saturday. Sakhubai Kasture, 55, a resident of Pendhri village in Chandrapur, located around 160 km from Nagpur, had […]
Dehradun : In a setback to the Congress ahead of the civic body polls in Uttarakhand, former president of the party’s city unit Prithviraj Chauhan has joined the BJP. Chauhan joined the ruling BJP along with a large number of supporters at its state office here Friday in the […]
Ghazipur (UP) : Two men were killed when their motorcycle was hit by a speeding car near Bhuapur Tirkaripur village under the Jangipur police station here, police said Saturday. Akash Kannaujia (20) was killed on the spot, while his friend Sagar Yadav (19) succumbed to injuries subsequently in a […]
Bareilly (UP) : A policeman was killed and three others were injured when their jeep dashed into a roadside tree in the wee hours Saturday, police said. Sub Inspector Srikant, posted in Aonla police station, was on night patrolling duty when the jeep driver lost control of the vehicle […]
Keonjhar (Odisha) : A married woman allegedly chopped off the genital of a man with whom she had an extra-marital affair at a village in Keonjhar district, the police said. The incident occurred in the house of the woman at Badauagaan village Wednesday night, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) […]
New Delhi: The Congress Saturday released its first list of candidates, 155 in total, for the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, and the nominees included Ajay Singh, the leader of opposition in the state, and former Union minister Suresh Pachouri. New Delhi/Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s […]
Kolkata : A 38-member Myanmar delegation led by Major General Myat Kyaw, Commandant of National Defence College, Myanmar visited Eastern Command headquarters at Fort William here Saturday, a Defence spokesman said. The delegation members were updated on various dimensions of operational environment of Eastern Command including aspects of multilateral […]
Raipur : The Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh had made the state “almost free” of Naxalism and developed it as a hub of power and cement production, BJP president Amit Shah said Saturday. Targeting the opposition Congress, he said a party that felt Naxalism was a medium for revolution […]
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