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Chandigarh, February 6 The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Monday arrested former minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot for amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the state VB said following investigations of a Vigilance Enquiry, a case under Sections 13(1) (b), 13(2)…

New Delhi, February 6 After three days of disruptions on the Adani issue, Parliament could begin a discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address from Tuesday as the government reached out to the opposition, sources said. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Minister of State for Parliamentary…

New Delhi, February 6Bangladesh has asked Pakistan to apologise for the atrocities committed by its armed forces in 1971 in order to enhance ties between the two countries.The issue was raised during a meeting between Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Pakistan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina…

Chandigarh, February 6 As a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday, a self-described researcher had a few days ago predicted that the region will be hit by a strong temblor. “Sooner or later there will be a Rs M 7.5 #earthquake in this…

New Delhi, February 6 A 22-year-old Indian based in Italy was arrested for allegedly posing as the Vice President of India by creating a fake WhatsApp account using Jagdeep Dhankhar’s picture as his profile display to dupe people and seek favours from senior bureaucrats, police said on Monday. The accused,…

Tumakuru (Karnataka), February 6 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s helicopter factory — the country’s largest chopper manufacturing facility — in Tumakuru district of Karnataka. Caption Bengaluru-headquartered HAL plans to produce more than 1,000 helicopters in the range of 3-15 tonne with…

Ankara, February 6 Turkey’s disaster management agency has reported that a new earthquake of magnitude 7.6 occurred close to the epicentre of Monday’s previous deadly quake, which also generated dozens of aftershocks. The US Geological Survey recorded the magnitude of the latest shock that occurred around 1024 GMT at 7.5…

New Delhi, February 6The Supreme Court on Monday reconsidered a plea for urgent hearing of a petition challenging the appointment of lawyer Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri as a judge of the Madras High Court, and advanced the date of hearing to February 7 from February 10.A bench comprising Chief Justice…

Ajay Banerjee New Delhi, February 6 In an important development, the naval variant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) made a maiden successful landing on the deck of sea-borne aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on Monday. LCA Navy Landing and Take Off #INSVikrant #AatmaNirbharBharat#IndianNavy #FutureProofForce@PMOIndia @DefenceMinIndia @DefProdnIndia @HALHQBLR https://t.co/t1AakOn2pi…

Karam Prakash New Delhi, February 6 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will do his best to avert a discussion on the Adani issue in Parliament, asserting that the country should know what power is behind the billionare businessman. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi talks…

Palghar, February 6A 60-year-old auto-rickshaw driver, presumed dead by his family and buried, has been found alive in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police said on Monday.The driver was on Sunday found staying at a destitute home here and a video clip of his chat with a friend went viral on social…

New Delhi, February 6 After the Delhi municipal House was adjourned for the third time in a month without electing a mayor, the AAP on Monday said it would move the Supreme Court so that the polls could be held in a “court-monitored manner”. The municipal House failed to elect…

Chandigarh, February 6 Patiala MP Preneet Kaur in her reply to the show-cause notice by the Congress has said that she was surprised to see that a person who left the party on the issue of Sonia Gandhi being a foreign national was questioning her. Kaur said she had always…

IANS Ghaziabad, February 6 A video of a group of six men in a luxury car, carrying guns, drinking alcohol and dancing in the middle of the elevated road in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad has gone viral. Two of the men filmed the videos of the entire act and uploaded…

New Delhi, February 6 The Trinamool Congress on Monday skipped a meeting of Opposition parties held in Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge’s chamber at the Parliament House to discuss the government’s silence on the charges made against the Adani Group in the Hindenburg report and formulate…