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Ludhiana, July 9 Sandeep Singh Kahlon, nephew of Akali leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon, whose name figured in the killing of Sidhu Moosewala, was arrested by the Punjab Police on Saturday. He is panchayat officer in Hargobindpur, Gurdaspur. A native of Gurdaspur district, Sandeep went into hiding in June when his…

Chandigarh, July 9 The female attendant of Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh, who had suffered head injury after a tree fell on the school campus during the recess time on Friday, is in a critical condition. The 40-year-old patient is admitted in ICU at PGIMER, as per the health update issued…

Jupinderjit Singh Chandigarh, July 9 The trimming of Sidhu Moosewala’s security has once again come to the fore as a major factor in the singer’s killing. Phone conversations between the shooters on the ground and the mastermind Goldy Brar, based in Canada, reveal that the killers moved swiftly into action…

Chandigarh, July 9 A large number of city residents as well as family and relatives bade a tearful adieu to Heerakshi, the class X student of Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh, who was killed when part of a tree split and fell on students during the recess time yesterday. She was…

New Delhi, July 9 The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said the deaths and destruction near the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir were due to a highly localised rain event and not due to a cloudburst. According to weather scientists, the shrine reported 31mm of rainfall between 4.30pm…

Colombo, July 9 Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the President’s official residence on Saturday in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year. Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the President’s residence,…

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New Delhi, July 9 Thousands of anti-government protesters stormed into the President’s House on Saturday forcing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee with his family for an unknown destination while Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s house was set on fire by the protesters as Sri Lanka slid further deeper…

Gaurav Kanthwal Mohali, July 9 Punjab Police on Saturday detained two to three youths at a housing society, Palms, in Kharar, during a special search operation. DGP Gaurav Yadav, along with a heavy police force, was present at the spot. Police said eight youths from other states had been…

Moga, July 9 A 32-year-old man at Khosa Pando village in this district attacked his wife, son and in-laws’ family with a sharp-edged weapon on Saturday before committing suicide, police said. Gurmukh Singh’s wife recently went to her parents’ house at Tatariewala village in this district following a dispute. He…

Sandeep Dikshit New Delhi, July 9 In a rare condolence joint statement by three countries, the leaders of Australia, India and the United States together expressed shock at the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. The joint statement signed by US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

San Francisco, July 9 Elon Musk announced on Friday that he would abandon his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter immediately fired back, saying it would sue the Tesla CEO to uphold the deal….

New Delhi/Srinagar, July 9 At least 15,000 pilgrims, who were stranded near the Amarnath holy cave in Jammu and Kashmir due to a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst, have been shifted to the lower base camp of Panjtarni, an ITBP spokesperson said on Saturday. The border-guarding force had also…

Srinagar, July 9 Six pilgrims were evacuated by Army’s helicopters on Saturday as rescue operations continued through the night near the holy cave shrine of Amarnath after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst swept away scores of people, killing at least 13, officials said. The cloudburst that occurred at…