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Chandigarh, June 5 A day after he joined the BJP in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the party has decided to field the former Barnala MLA for the Sangrur Lok Sabha byelection. Kewal Dhillon has been two time MLA from Barnala. In the past, he held several…

Chandigarh, June 5 Trust Twitterati to start off the most relatable yet hilarious meme-fests. The latest to jump on the bandwagon was none other than Shah Rukh Khan’s latest movie announcement. Khan took to Instagram and wrote: “An action-packed 2023. Bringing Jawan to you, an explosive entertainer in cinemas…

Naveen S Garewal Hyderabad, June 5 What started as a crime of sexual exploitation of a minor has snowballed into a major political fight between the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party and the BJP. This happened after M. Raghunandan Rao, one of the two BJP MLAs in the Telangana…

Chitrakoot, June 5 A 13-year-old Dalit girl, who was allegedly gang-raped here a few days ago, died to strangulation, her post-mortem report has confirmed. The police on Sunday said they received the autopsy report late on Saturday. Pahadi police station SHO Ajit Pandey confirmed that the girl had been raped…

Rabbi Shergill IDIDN’T listen to Sidhu Moosewala much. But it was hard to miss his mercurial rise, his near ubiquity. Amrik-Sukhdev dhaba at Murthal, our favourite pit-stop on the way to the hills and my window into the Punjabi unconscious, played him on a loop. My very first introduction to…

Dhaka, June 5 At least 43 people were killed and over 450 injured in a massive fire caused by an explosion that swept through a private chemical container depot in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday. On Saturday night, the fire broke out at BM Container Depot in the Kadamrasul…

Dhaka, June 5 A massive fire caused by an explosion at a private container depot in southeastern Bangladesh has killed at least 16 people and injured more than 450, officials said on Sunday. The blaze broke out on Saturday night at BM Container Depot in the Kadamrasul area in Sitakunda…

Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 5 US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were briefly evacuated from their vacation home on Saturday after a small private plane mistakenly entered the restricted airspace over Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, the White House said. The aircraft was immediately escorted out of the restricted…

Samaan LateefSrinagar, June 4A day after hundreds of Kashmiri Pandit families left the transit camps in the Valley after a spate of targeted killings, the migrant employees today said they won’t join their duty till the Jamp;K Administration revoked the bond, which makes their positing in the Valley mandatory.The fresh…

Arjun SharmaJammu, June 4Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandit employees who fled the Valley after a spate of targeted killings say this is another exodus being faced by the community members.”We are being killed one after another with no one there to protect us. We have lost all hope,” says Rajat Raina,…

Sanjeev Singh BarianaChandigarh, June 4With four former ministers, two ex-MLAs and a mayor joining the BJP today, the Congress in Punjab is a sinking ship. The new entrants were welcomed by Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat at the party’s office here.Ex-ministers Balbir Singh Sidhu, Raj Kumar Verka, Sunder Sham Arora…

New Delhi, June 4A PIL in the Supreme Court has challenged the Centre’s notification declaring Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains as minorities at the national level, saying it went against its 2002 ruling in the TMA Pai case that the unit for determining linguistic and religious minorities would…

Bathinda, June 4 Even as six days have gone by since singer Sidhu Moosewala was killed at Jawaharke village in Mansa, the police are still clueless about the identity of the assailants. 2 Bishnoi aides held Muktsar: The police have caught two alleged associates of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi…

New Delhi, June 4 The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on Saturday approved Hyderabad-based firm Biological E’s Corbevax as India’s first heterologous booster to individuals aged 18 years and above after six months of administration of primary vaccination (two doses) of Covaxin and Covishield. Different from primary doses…

Paris, June 4 World number one Iga Swiatek confirmed her dominance of women’s tennis by sweeping aside American teenager Coco Gauff 6-1 6-3 to claim her second French Open title in three years on Saturday. The 21-year-old Pole’s blend of power, poise and precision on the clay was too much…