Uttrakhand Government has issued guidelines regarding the inter-State movement of persons in view of ‘Unlock 4’. “District administration shall make arrangement for the thermal screening of all inbound persons at border check posts, airport, railway stations and border district bus stands,” the guidelines issued by Uttarakhand government on Saturday read. “If a […]
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DC vs KXIP: Ashwin picks 2 wickets in an over, then walks off injured
Veteran India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin suffered a serious injury during Delhi Capitals’ first game of the ongoing season of Indian Premier League against Kings XI Punjab in Dubai on Sunday. The off-spinner, who made a move from KXIP to DC last year, started off his stint with DC on a high, picking up two wickets […]
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NCB arrests IRS official’s son in Lucknow for sourcing curated marijuana from US
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Sunday said it seized 2.7 kilogram of curated (refined quality) marijuana, which was sourced from the US, from Delhi and arrested a 21-year-old son of a senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official from his residence Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar area in this connection on September […]
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PM Modi to lay foundation of 9 highway projects of over Rs 14,000 crore in Bihar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of nine highway projects in Bihar through video conference on Monday and also inaugurate optical fibre internet services through which the state’s all 45,945 villages will be connected, the PMO said on Saturday. These nine highway projects involve a road length […]
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NIA interrogates alleged al Qaeda terrorists for ten hours in Kolkata
Officers of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday interrogated the six alleged al-Qaeda terrorists, arrested the day before from Bengal’s Murshidabad district, for more than ten hours at the agency’s office at Salt Lake in the eastern outskirts of Kolkata. The agency has plans to fly the suspects to […]
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LAC standoff: Corps commander-level talks expected on Monday
India and China are scheduled to hold a Corps Commander-level talks at Moldo, on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on Monday, on the border standoff. This will be the sixth such talks on the issue. An official from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is […]
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Odisha police arrest man who sacrificed 7-year-old boy to become grandfather
Six days after the body of a 7-year-old boy in coastal Balasore district was found near his home, Odisha police on Sunday arrested a man who had allegedly sacrificed him in the hope that his daughter-in-law could become a mother. The son of the accused was also arrested for his […]
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Bike-borne killers shoot dead school principal in broad daylight in Gorakhpur
A school principal was shot dead in broad daylight in Gorakhpur on Sunday and her teenage daughter was injured when two motorcycle-borne assailants fired at them, police said. Forty-three-year-old Nivedita Major, principal of Ahirauli primary school in Kushinagar district,was brought dead to the BRD Medical College while the condition of […]
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Ruckus in RS taints image of Parliament: Rajnath Singh
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the ruckus which took place in the Rajya Sabha during the debate on farm bills has tainted the image of Parliament in front of the entire nation. He called the behaviour saddening, unfortunate and shameful. “As far as I know, this has […]
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Amid China’s actions across Indo-Pacific, 2nd Quad meeting slated to be held in Tokyo in Oct
The second ministerial meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad is expected to be held in Tokyo early next month, people familiar with developments said, with the meet coming against the backdrop of China’s aggressive actions across the Indo-Pacific. The meet will be held at a time when all […]
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Deepika on being a badminton player during school days: ‘That was my life’
Deepika Padukone recently opened up about the special treatment she received in her school for being the daughter of badminton legend Prakash Padukone and also about following him in the field of sports. The actor featured in Nat Geo’s Mega Icons which revolved around the story of her life from being […]
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Fresh plea in NCLT seeking liquidation of two closed paper mills in Assam
The liquidator for the state-run Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPCL) has submitted a fresh plea in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) seeking liquidation of the corporation’s two closed paper mills in Assam. The fresh application was filed by Kuldeep Verma, liquidator for HPCL, before NCLT’s Bench-II in New Delhi […]
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Hong Kong bans Air India flights, says one-third of 23 new cases recently travelled from India
The Hong Kong government on Sunday suspended flights from Air India after a surge in the number of coronavius disease cases, according to local media reports. Many local outlets quoted Hong Kong’s department of health as saying the flights of Air India and Cathay Dragon have been suspended till October […]
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Uttarakhand leader of Opposition Indira Hridayesh tests COVID-19 positive
Leader of Opposition in Uttarakhand Indira Hridayesh has tested positive for COVID-19. According to Hridayesh’s office, the Congress leader was taken to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram via helicopter from the Synergy hospital in Haldwani after she did not get a room in Dehradun’s Max hospital. Earlier last month, Union Home Minister Amit […]
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Banquet hall in Uttarakhand’s Rudrapur turned into Covid care centre for prisoners
Authorities in Uttarakhand’s Rudrapur area have converted a banquet hall into a temporary Covid care centre for prisoners to house 73 inmates who tested positive for Covid-19 in the central jail in Sitarganj on Thursday. Two elderly Covid-19 positive prisoners from Sitarganj Jail have also died at Susheela Tiwari Government […]