NEW DELHI,DEC 27 : Several top leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence. Draped in tricolour, the body of the former prime Minister was placed in a flower-bedecked casket at his residence, where leaders cutting across party lines paid their last respects to […]Continue Reading
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NEW DELHI, DEC 27 : A seven-day national mourning will be announced by the central government in honour of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who died on Thursday night at the age of 92, sources said. All government programs scheduled for Friday will be cancelled, the sources added. The decision on the mourning is likely […]Continue Reading
JAMMU/KASMIR, DEC 24 : Five soldiers died and five others sustained injuries after an Army vehicle veered off the road and fell into a gorge in the Balnoi area of Mendhar, Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday, officials said. The vehicle reportedly plunged into a gorge, approximately 300-350 feet deep. According to reports, police […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, DEC 24 : The International Cricket Council announced the full schedule for the Champions Trophy on Tuesday, December 24. The board announced the schedule for all the teams, including the venues where the games will be played. The ICC announced that Pakistan will host the tournament alongside the United Arab Emirates since the […]Continue Reading
KOLKATA,DEC 24 : Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin accused the West Bengal government of stifling the voice of artistes and writers, claiming that the play ‘Lajja’ (Shame), adapted from her novel, was forced to be cancelled at two theatre festivals in the state. Nasrin alleged that the police intervened at the Gobardanga Natyoutsav in North […]Continue Reading
MUMBAI, DEC 23 : Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who heralded the Indian parallel cinema movement in the 1970s and 1980s with films such as “Ankur”, “Nishant” and “Manthan”, died on Monday, his daughter Pia said. He was 90. The filmmaker passed away at Mumbai’s Wockhardt Hospital due to chronic kidney disease, Pia Benegal told Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, DEC 23 : The Centre has scrapped the ‘no-detention policy’ for classes 5 and 8 in schools governed by it allowing them to fail students who do not clear the year-end exams, according to officials. Following the amendment to the Right to Education Act (RTE) in 2019, at least 16 states and two […]Continue Reading
PUNE, DEC 23 : Two children and a man were killed and six other persons injured after a truck ran over people sleeping on a footpath in Maharashtra’s Pune city in the wee hours of Monday, police said. The incident took place at around 12.30 am on the footpath in Wagholi area where several persons […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, DEC 23 : India and Kuwait on Sunday decided to elevate their bilateral relationship to a ‘strategic partnership’, under which both countries will explore ways to enhance cooperation in several sectors including education, information technology, pharmaceuticals, fintech, infrastructure, and security. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in the Gulf nation Continue Reading
PILIBHIT, DEC 23 : Three terror suspects allegedly involved in a grenade attack in Gurdaspur were were killed in an encounter with a joint team of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab police in Pilibhit early Monday, with Punjab’s Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav terming it as a major breakthrough against Pakistan-sponsored Khalistan Zindabad Force module. […]Continue Reading
