NEW DELHI,Octo 4 : NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and HR head Amit Chakravarty, arrested in a case filed under the anti-terror law UAPA following allegations the portal received money for pro-China propaganda, were sent to seven days of police remand, officials said on Wednesday. Police on Tuesday searched for more than 30 locations, questioned several […]Continue Reading
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Sikkim ,Octo 4: A flash flood in the river Teesta in Sikkim’s Lachen valley on Tuesday night has left 23 Army personnel missing, officials said. The flood was caused by a sudden cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim, which led to a sudden increase in water levels in the Teesta. The release of water […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,Octo 3: Four earthquakes, the strongest being of magnitude 6.2, jolted Nepal in quick succession with tremors reverberating through parts of north India including Delhi-NCR, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said on Tuesday. An NCS official said the first quake of magnitude 4.6 struck west Nepal at a depth of 10 kilometre at […]Continue Reading
New delhi,Octo 3 : The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, announced Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023. The award has been given for their “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” The three joint […]Continue Reading
Maharashtra,Octo 3 : The death toll at a government hospital in Maharashtra’s Nanded district has gone up to 31 after the death of seven more patients. The patients who died at the hospital include 15 children and 16 adults. In a social media post, the Nanded District Information Office (DIO) said, “The facts related to […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 3 : Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Tuesday morning raided the office of news portal NewsClick and the residences of journalists associated with it. According to official sources, the Special Cell has booked the news organisation under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups) Continue Reading
Udaipur,Octo 2 : Vigilant locomotive pilots of the Udaipur-Jaipur Vande Bharat Express on Monday helped avert a disaster after noticing stones and other obstructions on the tracks. The locomotive pilots applied emergency brakes. A video, widely shared on social media, shows stones and two one-foot rods placed in the joggle plate of the track in […]Continue Reading
Karnataka,Octo 2 : A day after tension gripped Karnataka’s Shivamogga district as two communities clashed during the Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi processions near Ragigudda, 43 people involved in the unrest were arrested on Monday. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that the government will not tolerate people throwing stones at religious processions of other religions. The Continue Reading
STOCKHOLM,OCTO 2: Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines. The pair, who had been tipped as favourites, were honoured for “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 2 : A suspected Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist and two other terror suspects were arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell on Monday. The ISIS terrorist, Mohammad Shahnawaz alias Shafi Ujjama, was on the most wanted list of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and had a bounty of Rs 3 lakh on his […]Continue Reading
