Category: India News

Cyclone ‘Bulbul’ disrupts normal life in Bengal; 4 killed

Kolkata, Nov 10: Cyclone ‘Bulbul’, which made landfall between Bengal and Bangladesh coasts, brought in its wake heavy rain coupled with strong winds till early Sunday, affecting normal life in several parts of the city and the coastal districts of the state. At least four people were killed in […]

Think deep, write simple is my mantra: Irshad Kamil

Bhopal, Nov 10: Rockstar’s soulful ‘Kun Faya Kun’, Tamasha’s breezy ‘Safarnama’ or the recent smashing hit ‘Bekhyali’, the new lovesick youth anthem from Kabir Singh, it is poet and lyricist Irshad Kamil’s mantra of “deep thoughts and simple words” that makes his songs stick with the audience. “Main halke […]

Thane senior citizen kills wife over property dispute

Thane, Nov 10: A 65-year-old man was arrested on Saturday night in Maharashtra’s Thane district for allegedly strangling his wife to death, police said. Somnath Shukla, a resident of Indira Nagar locality in the city, killed his wife Sharda (55) after a quarrel, a Srinagar police station official said. […]

Delhi has won battle against dengue: Kejriwal

New Delhi, Nov 10: Less than 1100 cases of dengue and no deaths due to the mosquito-borne disease have been reported so far this year in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. In a video message posted on Twitter, he said this was an achievement […]

Wild elephant kills man, injures woman

Coimbatore, Nov 10: A wild elephant killed a man and attacked a woman in a village near Pollachi in the district, police said. The farmer Rajendran was trampled to death at Arthanaripalayam on Saturday, the police said. The people in the village got panicky after the same elephant attacked […]

Zafaryab Jilani uhappy with SC verdict, welcomed by deity Ram Lalla’s lawyer

New Delhi, Nov 9: Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board’s Zafaryab Jilani on Saturday expressed dissatisfaction over the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict, saying it has a lot of contradictions and they will seek a review of it. The apex court on Saturday cleared the way for the construction of […]

Sena not in politics of trade, will declare stand once no one else forms govt: Raut

Mumbai, Nov 10: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said his party would declare its next strategy once no one else is able to form government in Maharashtra, and asserted that politics was not a trade for his party. Without taking name of any individual or party, he […]

Hundreds of Indian Sikhs make historic pilgrimage to Pakistan

Hundreds of Indian Sikhs made a historic pilgrimage to Pakistan on Saturday, crossing through a white gate to reach one of their religion’s holiest sites, after a landmark deal between the two countries separated by the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. Cheering Sikhs walked joyfully along the road […]

SC paves way for temple at disputed site at Ayodhya, alternative land for mosque

New Delhi, Nov 9: The Supreme Court on Saturday paved the way for the construction of a Ram Temple by a Trust at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot an alternative 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at […]

Mothers-to-be fear for their unborn in smog-choked Delhi

Heavily pregnant Rachel Gokavi spends most days shut away in her New Delhi home, desperate to shield her unborn child from the toxic air blamed for soaring miscarriage rates and infant deaths. At a recent pre-natal class in the Indian capital, Gokavi and other expectant mothers shared their […]

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