Category: India News

Aarey protest: Conditional bail for 29 protesters

Mumbai, Oct 6:A sessions court in Mumbai on Sunday granted bail to 29 protesters arrested over the last two days on charges of allegedly obstructing and assaulting police personnel on duty during protests against felling of trees at Aarey Colony. Additional sessions court judge H C Shende of […]

Cessna aircraft crash in Shirpur, DGCA to probe

New Delhi, Oct 6: A trainer aircraft crashed at a flying academy in Maharashtra’s Shirpur on Friday following which aviation regulator DGCA is probing the incident, a senior official said. While the student pilot is safe, the Cessna 172R was extensively damaged in the crash, the official said. The […]

51 Bru families return to Mizoram: officials

New Delhi, Oct 6: As many as 51 families belonging to displaced Bru tribals, who have been living in Tripura as refugees, have returned to Mizoram in fresh efforts for their repatriation, officials said on Sunday. A total of about 5,400 Bru families comprising nearly 40,000 people have been […]

Theme pujas dominate Agartala, rural Tripura prefers traditional

Agartala, Oct 6: Theme-based marquees have dominated the community Durga Pujas of the Tripura capital while the rural areas of the state prefer the traditional ones. The big-budget puja committees have themed their marquees on Uttarakhand’s Badrinath Temple and Rajasthan’s Seesh Mahal among others. Organisers said the theme-based pujas […]

Pleasant morning in Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 6 Delhiites woke up to clear skies on Sunday with the minimum temperature settling at 21.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. According to the MeT department, the humidity level recorded at 8.30 am was 82 per cent. The weatherman has predicted light rains […]

Three killed as bike catches fire

Banda (UP), Oct 6: Three persons, including a child, were burnt alive when a bike hit a truck and caught fire in Kabrai area in Mahoba district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday when Anil Prajapati (25), his friend Bijju (17) and a four-year-old boy […]

FinMin to kick-start budgetary exercise from Oct 14

New Delhi, Oct 6: The finance ministry will kick-start the exercise to prepare annual Budget for 2020-21 from October 14 which, among other thing, will have to address critical issues pertaining to slowdown in growth and subdued revenue collection. It will be the second Budget of both the Modi […]

Two coaches of Lucknow-Anand Vihar train derail in UP

New Delhi, Oct 6: Two coaches of the Lucknow-Anand Vihar train derailed near Moradabad station on Sunday, officials said. No injuries have been reported so far, Northern Railways PRO Deepak Kumar said. The fifth and eighth coach of the train derailed between Katghar and Moradabad stations at 10:15 am, […]

Maha: Man gets 3-yr RI for molesting teenaged girl

Thane, Oct 6: A court here in Maharashtra has awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment to a 40-year-old man for molesting a teenage girl in 2017, observing it is an “offence against society at large”. Special (POCSO) court judge R V Tamhanekar in his order last week, said leniency in such […]

Indian police arrest former MD Thomas of fraud-hit PMC Bank

NEW DELHI – Indian police on Monday arrested Joy Thomas, the former managing director of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC), which has been accused of creating fictitious accounts to hide loans, a spokesman for Mumbai Police said on Friday. The PMC case has sparked renewed concerns about […]

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