Peshawar : A mentally retarded person shot dead five male family members, including his father, uncle and three brothers, over a domestic dispute and later committed suicide in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said. The incident occurred in Tehkal area University Road Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Abdullah, […]
Sabarimala : Amid high security, the ceremonial procession carrying the sacred ‘Thanka Anki’ (golden attire), to be worn by Lord Ayyappa, the presiding deity of the Sabarimala temple,reached here Wednesday evening. The procession, which had set off four days ago from the Sree Parthasarthy temple at Aranmula, reached the […]
Jaipur : Five people including four women were killed and seven others injured in separate accidents in the state, police said Wednesday. In Rajsamand district, a women and her daughter were killed and five others were injured when the car they were travelling in collided with a container truck […]
New Delhi : Union minister Kiren Rijiju Wednesday asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi not to do politics over the “tragedy” of 15 labourers trapped in a Meghalaya coal mine, saying the Centre has been helping the state government in its rescue efforts. Rijiju also blamed the previous Congress government […]
Lucknow : Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Wednesday lauded TRS supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for “striving hard” to form a federal front of regional parties ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He also accused the BJP’s Central and state governments of failing to fulfil […]
New Delhi : The Delhi Police has arrested three men for allegedly running a fake education board in the national capital and other parts of the country, officials said Wednesday. The accused have been identified as Altaf Raja (23), Shambhu Nath Mishra (46) and Manoj Kumar (32), they said. […]
New Delhi : A 50-year-old man was shot dead Wednesday allegedly by unidentified persons in northwest Delhi’s Keshav Puram area, police said. The deceased was identified as Vinod Garg, a resident of Rohini Sector-6, they said. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Aslam Khan, police received two calls […]
AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Iraq — In an unannounced trip to Iraq on Wednesday, President Donald Trump staunchly defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from neighboring Syria despite a drumbeat of criticism from military officials and allies who don’t think the job fighting Islamic State militants there is over. […]
Nagpur : RSS-backed Marathi daily ‘Tarun Bharat’ came down heavily upon the Shiv Sena Wednesday for using the slogan ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking why the Uddhav Thackeray-led party did not quit the coalition government if that was the case. It said the Sena […]
Noida (UP) : Five notorious gangsters, carrying cash rewards on their arrests, were held after a gun-fight with police here late Wednesday night, officials said. Acting on a tip-off, officials from Sector 20 police station held the Bawaria gang members near Sector 14A in the heart of the city […]
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