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Kulwinder Sandhu Moga, January 13 In a shocking incident, a car driver tried to run a home guard jawan posted with the traffic police over in Moga town, police said. The incident took place on the Akalsar road when the cops asked the driver to remove his car parked on…

Dehradun, January 13 The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released satellite images of Joshimath and a preliminary report on land subsidence which shows that the entire town may sink. The pictures are taken from the Cartosat-2S satellite. Hyderabad-based NRSC has released the…

Ropar, January 13 Officials of the Ropar wildlife department have nabbed four people for allegedly hunting down a barking deer around 3 am near Anandpur Sahib. Balraj Ghumman and Angad Singh. Video grabs The suspects include Angad Singh, a resident of Sector 9, Chandigarh, and a hunter…

Mumbai, January 13 At least ten persons were killed and several injured after a speeding bus collided with a truck in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Friday morning, police officials said. The private luxury bus which had started from Ambernath in Thane district was heading for the temple town of…

Aditi TandonNew Delhi, January 12Indian villages continue to reel under an acute shortage of specialists with the latest round of rural health statistics revealing a whopping 79.5 per cent shortfall.Government data shows that while the overall shortage of specialists in community health centres (CHCs) of rural areas is 80 pc,…

New Delhi, January 12The CBI on Thursday lodged an FIR against former Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram and a UK-based company for alleged corruption in the supply of exclusive colour shift security thread for Indian currency notes.The agency alleged Mayaram, UK-based De La Rue International Ltd and unidentified officials of the…

New Delhi, January 12Union Commerce and Textile Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said the Punjab Government applied for the Centre’s mega textile park scheme but later withdrew the application citing unavailability of land.Answering questions during a press conference after the conclusion of the 13th India-US Trade Policy Forum in Washington…

Indervir GrewalRourkela, January 12″When we came, the starting days were a little warm and we felt it might be a little tough,” India captain Harmanpreet Singh, chasing glory at the Hockey World Cup that begins tomorrow, says. “But suddenly, now the weather is changing. We have practised accordingly, both in…

New Delhi, January 12Even as the three-day All-India Presiding Officers Conference (AIPOC) concluded today in Jaipur on a note of advice for the three organs of government to stick to their roles defined in the Constitution, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, in his address, cautioned lawmakers too, saying “pre-planned organised…

New Delhi, January 12Pointing out that developed countries today are the drivers of the global economy while most advanced economies are slowing down, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the Global South to work together, so as to set the global agenda.”The Voice of the Global South needs to…

New Delhi, January 12 Veteran politician and former JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav passed away at Fortis Gurugram on Thursday evening, hospital media chief said. He was 75. Yadav is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son. Former JD(U) chief’s daughter Subhashini Sharad Yadav also tweeted about his…

New Delhi, January 12A call was received regarding the presence of a bomb in a Delhi-Pune SpiceJet plane before its take off here on Thursday, police said.All the passengers and crew members are safe, they said, adding that the aircraft is being checked.Sources said the estimated departure time of the…

Colombo, January 12Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Thursday ordered ex-president Maithripala Sirisena and four top former officials to pay a total of 310 million rupees as compensation to the victims of the 2019 Easter attack for their negligence in preventing the country’s one of the worst terror strikes despite having credible…

ANI Canberra, January 12 BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in the Mill park area of Melbourne was allegedly vandalised by anti-India elements with anti-India slogans written on the walls of the temple, located in the suburb of Mill Park, The Australia Today reported. Patel, an onlooker who does not want to reveal…

New Delhi, January 12 In a double delight, retail inflation eased to a one-year low of 5.72 per cent – staying below the upper tolerance limit for two months in a row, while factory output rose sharply to 7.2 per cent on the back of healthy growth in manufacturing. The…