Kolkata, Aug 8: The city dwellers woke up to a Thursday rainy morning with a continuous downpour affecting normal life. The eastern metropolis received 50 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours till 8.30 am on Thursday owing to a low pressure area over the north Bay of Bengal, […]
Ajmer, Aug 8: A 60-year-old caretaker at the Ajmer Dargah has been booked for allegedly harassing and pronouncing triple talaq on his 26-year-old wife, police said on Thursday. The case was registered against Salimuddin on the basis of a complaint filed by his wife at the Dargah police […]
New Delhi, Aug 8: A 33-year-old woman constable of Delhi Police allegedly committed suicide in Dwarka’s Chhawla area, officials said on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Lalitha, a resident of Durga Vihar in Chhawla, they said. She took the extreme step at her rented accommodation, a senior […]
Kolkata, Aug 8: The World Archery on Thursday suspended the Archery Association of India for defying its guidelines by electing two parallel bodies, asking the federation to put its house in order by the end of this month. The decision is effective from Monday and the last event in […]
Pratapgarh (UP), Aug 8: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenager in a village here, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on July 29 and the FIR was lodged on Wednesday evening, they said. The girl was at her house along with her grandmother when […]
Twenty years ago on Friday, Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, then a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics. The departing Yeltsin was casting around for a successor and few could have predicted that […]
India on Thursday hit back at nuclear rival Pakistan’s downgrading of diplomatic ties over its clampdown on Kashmir, saying its decision to strip the restive region of its autonomy was an “internal affair”. India stripped Kashmir of its special status in the constitution on Monday and brought the […]
NEW DELHI — India’s surprise move to carve out sparsely populated Ladakh from the state of Jammu and Kashmir to make it a territory directly controlled by New Delhi has been met with protests in Kargil, a Muslim-majority border city in Ladakh that identifies culturally with Kashmir, suggesting […]
NEW DELHI — A petition was filed Thursday in India’s top court challenging the communications blackout and security clampdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where people remained holed up in their homes for a fourth day. State-run All India Radio said security agencies have arrested more than 500 people in […]
New Delhi, Aug 8: Reacting to the pictures and videos of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s interaction with locals in Kahsmir’s Shopian district, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said “anyone can be brought along with money”. NSA Doval on Wednesday undertook a whirlwind visit to the militancy-infested […]
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