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PK Jaiswar Amritsar, February 16 Two armed men looted around Rs 22 lakh from the Punjab National Bank branch at Rani Masi Bagh here on Thursday. The incident took place at around noon. According to the police, an armed man with a covered face entered the bank and pointed a…

Mumbai, February 16 Mumbai Police have traced a 25-year-old man and saved him from ending his life, following an alert received from a US law-enforcement agency that a person was searching on Google about ‘how to commit suicide without pain’, an official said on Thursday. Based on vital information like…

New Delhi, February 16 The Income Tax department’s ‘survey’ at the BBC office here continued for the third straight day on Thursday as officials gathered financial data from select staffers and made copies of electronic and paper data of the news organisation. The operation that began at the British…

Agartala, February 16 Voting is under way for the 60-member Assembly in Tripura amid tight security, said Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Gitte Kirankumar Dinakarrao on Thursday. Polling began at 7am and will continue till 4pm. Altogether 28.13 lakh voters are scheduled to exercise their franchise during the day in 3,337…

Agartala, February 16 Over 32 per cent voter turnout was registered till 11 am on Thursday in the Tripura Assembly polls which are under way in all 60 constituencies amid tight security, election officials said. Except for some stray incidents, no major incident was reported from anywhere in the bordering…

Agartala, February 16 More than 51.42 per cent voters cast their vote till 1 pm on Thursday in the Tripura Assembly polls which is in progress in all 60 constituencies amid heavy security, election officials said. Several incidents of violence, attacks and counter-attacks were reported in the poll-bound northeastern state….

Agartala, February 16 Polling was largely peaceful amid sporadic incidents of violence in Tripura which went to single-phase Assembly elections on Thursday. A total of 69.96 per cent of 28.13 lakh voters exercised their franchise till 3 pm, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Gitte Kirankumar Dinakarrao said. At least three people,…

Ashok Kaura Phagwara, February 16 A village youth was murdered with sharp-edged weapons allegedly by his three friends at Buraj Hussan village near Phillaur on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Raman Kumar. Phillaur DSP Jagdish Raj said an altercation between the deceased and the accused over a mobile…

New York, February 15Members of the penal law enforcement agency in the US state of California are now required to shave their facial hair, regardless of any religious or medical reasons they may have for keeping it, media reports said, a move civil rights activists say was disproportionately targeting religious…

New Delhi, February 16Sahil Gehlot danced and enjoyed with his friends at his engagement ceremony on February 9 and later strangled his live-in partner and stuffed her body inside a refrigerator following an heated argument, police claimed on Wednesday.Also read: Live-in relationships lack dignity, respect, says psychologist as another Shraddha…

New Delhi, February 16 Sahil Gehlot danced and enjoyed with his friends at his engagement ceremony on February 9 and later strangled his live-in partner and stuffed her body inside a refrigerator following an heated argument, police claimed on Wednesday. Also read: Live-in relationships lack dignity, respect, says psychologist as…

New Delhi, February 15In a major push to counter Chinese manoeuvres on the border, the government today sanctioned a proposal to hire 9,400 personnel to raise seven new battalions for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a force that guards the Line of Actual Control (LAC).The Cabinet also approved a new…

New Delhi, February 15Seeking to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country, the Union Cabinet today approved setting up of 2 lakh primary agriculture credit societies (PACS) and dairy-fishery cooperatives in left-out villages and panchayats over the next five years.Briefing the media after a Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime…

Aditi TandonNew Delhi, February 15Terming the dumping of information as a new form of invasion, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said doctored narratives to run down India’s growth story could not be allowed.Editorial: BBC on I-T radarIn a veiled yet obvious reference to the BBC, which recently aired a series…

New Delhi, February 15Seven new battalions of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will be raised and a 4.1-km tunnel to provide all-weather connectivity to the border areas of Ladakh built with the government giving its approval on Wednesday, in a major move to bolster the country’s defence along the China…