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Samaan Lateef Srinagar January 9 Kashmir’s renowned poet and Jnanpith awardee Professor Rehman Rahi passed away on Monday morning at his Vicharnag residence in Srinagar. He was 98. His funeral will be held at the shrine of Khwaja Habibullah Nowshehri (RA). People from different sections of society, especially the…

Mumbai, January 9 The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in a loan fraud case, noting their arrest was not done in conformity with provisions of law. The couple was arrested by the Central Bureau…

Ashok Kaura Phagwara, January 9 Kuldip Singh, a Punjab Police constable posted as gunman with the Phagwara (City) police station SHO, was shot dead in an exchange of firing between a police party and unidentified armed masked robbers near Kot Grewal village late Sunday night. Salute to martyr Constable…

Patna, January 9Amidst several incidents of drunk flyers coming to the fore recently, two drunk passengers caused havoc on a Patna-bound IndiGo flight from Delhi.Both passengers have been arrested at the airport police station for being in an inebriated state.Patna Airport SHO Robert Peter said that the police took action…

Sandeep Dikshit New Delhi, January 9 Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined several world leaders in expressing deep concern over defeated former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters storming the country’s Supreme Court, Congress and the Presidential palace against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva taking over after a narrow win. Portraying…

Ludhiana, January 9 The Punjab Civil Service officers went on a mass casual leave for five days starting Monday in protest against the “illegal” arrest of a colleague in Ludhiana by the state vigilance bureau. A decision in this regard had been taken by the Punjab Civil Services (PCS) Officers’…

Brasilia, January 9 Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed the country’s Supreme Court, Congress and the presidential palace against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva taking over the helm of the country after narrowly defeating his predecessor. Wearing shirts in the colours of Brazil’s flag — yellow and…

Houston, January 9 Indian-origin Manpreet Monica Singh has been sworn in as a Harris county judge, becoming the first female Sikh judge in the US. Singh was born and raised in Houston and now lives in Bellaire with her husband and two children. She was sworn in as a…

Beijing, January 8The demand for Indian generic drugs has shot up in China amid the massive COVID surge in the country, with Chinese experts cautioning that fake versions of these drugs are flooding the market.China’s National Health Security Administration said on Sunday that Pfizer’s Paxlovid oral medication, which is used…

New Delhi, January 8 Five people, including a Pakistani national, were chargesheeted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a case related to a bomb explosion in a Ludhiana court in December 2021 that left a suspected terrorist dead and six civilians injured, an official said on Sunday. The agency…

New Delhi, January 8 Central government agencies and experts are assisting Uttarakhand to prepare short, medium and long term plans to deal with the Joshimath situation, officials said on Sunday after the Prime Minister’s Office held a high-level review meeting. One team of the National Disaster Response Force and four…

New Delhi, January 8Putting a fresh shine on the old clicheacute; of ‘every contact leaves a trace’, the CBI used a “chance” thumb impression of a customs official, who was purportedly let off in four cases of alleged gold theft from the department vaults, on a non-precious metal he used…

New Delhi/Dehradun, January 8 Relief and rescue efforts were intensified in Joshimath after it was declared a landslide and subsidence-hit zone, with the Centre on Sunday stressing that the immediate priority is the safety of people and asking experts to prepare short and long term plans for conservation and rehabilitation….

Dehradun, January 8 Joshimath has been declared a landslide-subsidence zone and over 60 families living in uninhabitable houses in the sinking town have been evacuated to temporary relief centres, a senior official said on Sunday. At least 90 more families have to be evacuated. The local administration has set up…

Mumbai, January 8 Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran admitted on Sunday that Air India’s response to the incident of a drunk passenger allegedly urinating on a woman on one of its international flights last year should have been “much swifter”. In a statement, which came days after the aviation regulator…