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Bathinda, June 16 After taking gangster Lawrence Bishnoi into seven-day custody, the Mansa police have taken three others — Monu Dagar, Pawan Bishnoi and Naseeb Khan — on seven-day remand in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case and are conducting their joint cross-examination. While Bishnoi has been kept at Kharar, the…

Chandigarh, June 16 A fuel receipt found in one of the vehicles used in the Sidhu Moosewala killing led the police to identify four of the shooters involved in the crime. This is the only breakthrough the Punjab Police have claimed so far, after nearly two days of intense…

New Delhi, June 16In an attempt to contain the adverse fallout from the “Agnipath” scheme, the government on Thursday summoned representatives of public sector financial sector behemoths to explore employment prospects after they quit active service.After an official of the Department of Military Affairs, which spearheaded the now-controversial proposal, had…

Dipender Manta Mandi, June 16 A mountaineer slipped into a deep gorge in tribal district of Lahaul and Spiti on Thursday during an expedition to CB-13 peak (5,300 metre). According to sources, a group of four people was on mountaineering expedition to CB-13 peak in Lahaul and Spiti. During…

Islamabad, June 16Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday made a strong pitch for re-engaging with India, saying cutting ties with New Delhi would not serve the country’s interests as Islamabad was already “internationally isolated and disengaged.”Addressing the Founding Day ceremony at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad, Bilawal…

New Delhi, June 16 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will appear before the Enforcement Directorate on Monday and not on Friday. Sources said Gandhi has verbally sought more time from the ED to appear. Yesterday, the agency had asked him to rejoin the alleged money laundering probe in the National…

Vibha SharmaNew Delhi, June 16As protests rage through various parts of the country, including Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, by job aspirants against the BJP-led Centre’s short-term recruitment scheme ‘Agnipath’, seeking its withdrawal/roll-back, sources said the Government is keeping a “close watch on the agitation”.The government “does not want…

Colombo, June 16A demonstration was held here in the Sri Lankan capital on Thursday against the proposed wind mill project to be undertaken by India’s Adani group in the northeastern region of Mannar.The protesters from the Gotagogama (President Gotabaya go home) gathered at the busy Bambalapitiya sector south of Colombo.They…

New Delhi, June 16 India’s apex vaccine strategy recommending body, the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in its meeting on Thursday recommended reducing the gap between the second dose of the Covid vaccine and the booster dose from the current nine to six months. The precaution dose uptake has…

Lahore, June 16Two teenage Hindu sisters were allegedly raped by two men in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Thursday.The two sisters, aged 16 and 17, left their house in Bahawalnagar, Fort Abbas, some 300 km from Lahore on the morning of June 5 to attend the nature’s call in…

Chandigarh, June 16 Punjab police on Thursday announced they have identified four shooters in singer Sidhu Moosewala’s killing case. The culprits have been identified as Priyawarat of Sonepat, his associate Ankit, Manu Kusa of Moga and Jagroop Roopa of Amritsar. However, the alleged assailants are yet to be arrested….

Chandigarh, June 16 Punjab police on Thursday announced they have identified four shooters in singer Sidhu Moosewala’s killing case. The culprits have been identified as Priyawarat of Sonepat, his associate Ankit, Manu Kusa of Moga and Jagroop Roopa of Amritsar. However, the alleged assailants are yet to be arrested….

Kanpur (UP), June 16The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the mass killings during the anti-Sikh riots in 1984, arrested four men accused of setting a building to fire in which three persons were burnt to death, a senior official said on Thursday.The arrests were made on Wednesday by the SIT,…

New Delhi, June 16 No change is being done to the Army’s regimental system under the ‘Agnipath’ scheme and the numbers of personnel to be recruited in the first year of its roll out would only make up three per cent of the armed forces, government sources said on Thursday…

Patna, June 16 Trains were set afire, window panes of buses smashed and passersby, including a ruling BJP MLA, pelted with stones on Thursday in Bihar by Army job aspirants whose protest against the Centre’s short-term recruitment scheme, ‘Agnipath’, continued for the second consecutive day. Police fired teargas shells and…