Month: May 2019

Mercury rises in Delhi, heat wave forecast for next one week

New Delhi :  The mercury rose by a few notches in the national capital on Thursday morning to settle at 26.8 degrees Celsius, with heat wave likely to sweep Delhi for the next one week. The maximum temperature is expected to hit 44 degrees Celsius later in the day, […]

Cong decides not to send spokespersons for TV debates

New Delhi : The Congress has decided not to send spokespersons for television debates for a month. The move comes after the party’s debacle in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. The Congress has often accused the media of being “biased” towards the Modi dispensation. “@INCIndia has decided to […]

Water crisis grips Chennai

Chennai : A row of vessels line a street corner where a water-tanker is parked; a gaggle of women quibble as they await their turn to get the pots filled– this has become a daily affair in several parts of Chennai with the city staring at an acute water […]

Ganga River water unfit for direct drinking, bathing:CPCB

open view news desk The Ganga River water is absolutely unfit for “direct drinking” and only seven spots from where it passes can be consumed after disinfection, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said. According to the latest data with the CPCB, most of the Ganga River […]

Man travelling atop truck mowed down

New Delhi : A 36-year-old man was allegedly mowed down by a truck in east Delhi’s Vinod Nagar area, police said Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Raqeeb, a resident of Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, they said. According to the police, Raqeeb was travelling on […]

Woman kills her two children, self over family dispute

Muzaffarnagar (UP) : A 36-year-old woman allegedly poisoned her two children to death before committing suicide over a family dispute at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, police said Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday at Gogvan Jamalpur village. The woman was identified as Rachna while her two […]

Two drug traffickers arrested with 20 kg doda post

Muzaffarnagar (UP) :  Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested and 20 kg of ‘doda post’ (a kind of opium) seized from them at Kairana town in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district, police said Thursday. The arrest was made Wednesday, they said. The arrested accused were identified as Irfan and Naushad. […]

Three die after consuming spurious liquor in Sitapur

Sitapur (UP) : Three people died and five others were taken ill in the district after drinking spurious liquor, the second such incident in Uttar Pradesh this week. Superintendent of Police, Sitapur, L R Kumar, said the deaths were reported from Paiteypur and Saidpur villages on Wednesday night. One […]

Zoramthanga not to attend Modi’s swearing-in ceremony

Aizawl : Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga will not attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday, an official at the Chief Minister’s Office said. Zoramthanga, who is also the president of the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), will not be present at the oath- […]

Man wanted in 15 house-breaking thefts arrested in Maha

Thane ; A 30-year-old man wanted in as many as 15 cases of house-breaking thefts has been arrested in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said Thursday Acting on several complaints, the police launched a probe and nabbed Dinesh Yadav, a resident of Nallasopara area in the neighbouring Palghar district, […]

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