Doctored narratives to run down India can’t be allowed: Vice President Dhankhar amid BBC row

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, February 15 Terming 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 no longer be allowed. In a veiled but evident reference to the British Broadcasting Corporation which…

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Bought for $30 million, Internet’s most expensive domain gets just 88,000 monthly visitors

IANS New Delhi, February 15 Call it bizarre but the most expensive domain ever on Web, that was bought for $30 million, receives only 88,800 visitors per month while the third costliest Internet domain name has no registered monthly traffic, a report showed on Wednesday. The voice.com website describes Voice…

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All flights diverted from Frankfurt amid Lufthansa tech glitch

Berlin, February 15 Germany’s air traffic control agency said Wednesday that it is diverting all flights away from the country’s busiest airport, Frankfurt, after a problem with Lufthansa’s computer systems caused major disruption at the German airline. Agency spokesman Robert Ertler said all plane parking spots in Frankfurt were full…

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NIA announces reward of Rs 15 lakh for info leading to arrest of Canada-based gangster Lakhbir ‘Landa’

New Delhi, Feb 15 The anti-terror federal probe agency NIA today announced a cash reward of Rs 15 lakh for information leading to the arrest of Canada-based gangster-turned-terrorist Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias ‘Landa’, who is wanted in connection with a terror case in Punjab. Sharing the reward notice…

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Govt approves setting up of 2 lakh agri credit societies, fishery and dairy cooperatives in next 5 years

New Delhi, February 15The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of 2 lakh new Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) and dairy-fishery cooperatives in uncovered villages and panchayats over the next five years to strengthen cooperative movement in the country.At present, there are around 63,000 functional PACS out of nearly…

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Government sanctions 7 new ITBP battalions for deployment along Sino-India LAC

New Delhi, February 15 The government on Wednesday gave sanctions to create seven new battalions and an operational border base with a fresh strength of 9,400 personnel for the India-China LAC guarding force Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Union Minister for Information amp; Broadcasting (Iamp;B) Anurag Thakur said. The Minister, while…

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Government sanctions 7 new ITBP battalions with a fresh strength of 9,400 personnel for deployment along Sino-India LAC

New Delhi, February 15 The government on Wednesday gave sanctions to create seven new battalions and an operational border base with a fresh strength of 9,400 personnel for the India-China LAC guarding force Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Union Minister for Information amp; Broadcasting (Iamp;B) Anurag Thakur said. The Minister, while…

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CCTV footage shows last hours of Delhi woman Nikki Yadav before she was murdered

New Delhi, February 15 Police on Wednesday retrieved footage from a CCTV camera installed at Nikki Yadav’s Uttam Nagar house and it shows the 23-year-old performing menial tasks, hours before she was killed allegedly by her boyfriend. The footage are from February 9, the day of her boyfriend Sahil Gehlot’s…

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ICC rankings: Team India become No.1 in the world across all formats

IANS Dubai, February 15 India’s massive victory in the first Test against Australia in Nagpur took them to the top in the latest ICC’s Test rankings on Wednesday, making them the No. 1 ranked team in all three formats. India became the top-ranked ODI team after beating New Zealand 3-0…

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Explainer: Will the El Nino factor affect India monsoon rain prospects?

Chandigarh, February 15 The La Nina phase is about to pass and with it the anomalies of cool temperatures in the Pacific waters. According to the latest forecast by NOAA, a transition from La Nintilde;a to ENSO-neutral will occur mostly during the February-April 2023 season. By February-April 2023, most models…

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Explainer: Will El Nino factor affect India monsoon rain prospects?

Chandigarh, February 15 The La Nina phase is about to pass and with it the anomalies of cool temperatures in the Pacific waters. According to the latest forecast by NOAA, a transition from La Nintilde;a to ENSO-neutral will occur mostly during the February-April 2023 season. By February-April 2023, most models…

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Jalandhar, Ambala among 8 places to have dedicated hospitals for defence veterans

Vijay Mohan Chandigarh, February 15 Jalandhar in Punjab and Ambala in Haryana are among eight cities across the country where dedicated hospitals for defence veterans are proposed to be established under the aegis of the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS). Both the states have a large population…

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Minor boy dies as home gutted in blaze in Shimla’s Rohru village

Shimla, February 15 A minor boy died and seven people suffered burn injuries as a fire engulfed a two-storey building in the district’s Rohru subdivision, officials said on Wednesday.The fire broke out in the two-storey home of Sohan Lal in the subdivision’s Todsa village on the intervening night of Tuesday…

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Live-in relationships lack dignity, respect, says psychologist as another Shraddha Walker-type killing is reported in Delhi

Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, February 15 Two heinous crimes by live-in partners with eerie similarities to the heinous Shraddha Walker case were reported on Tuesday. In Delhi, a man allegedly killed his live-in partner, Nikki Yadav, stored her body in a freezer at a dhaba in Baba Haridas Nagar and married…

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