Locals in Joshimath on Tuesday protested against National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) seeking their withdrawal from the state. The protesters held banners of Mahila Mangal Dal and Panchayat Selang and protested across the streets. The protesters demonstrated against the NTPC’s Tapovan Vishnugad Hydroelectric Project which was being constructed in the area. The construction […]
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Punjab: BSF recovers drugs near India-Pakistan border in Tarn Taran
Border Security Force (BSF) recovered narcotics substances suspected to be heroin near the India-Pakistan border in Tarn Taran district of Punjab. On the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, BSF troops on border patrol duty heard the sound of something thrown over the border fence towards the Indian side of the fencing in the area falling near Wan […]
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India reported 121 cases of Covid-19 in last 24 hours
India has recorded 121 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday morning. According to the Health Ministry, India’s active caseload stands at 2,319. In an official statement, the Ministry further said that the total number of recoveries from […]
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Karnataka: Woman, toddler killed after under-construction metro pillar collapses in Bengaluru
A woman and her toddler son were killed after an under-construction metro pillar collapsed near Nagavara on the outer ring road in Bengaluru on Tuesday morning, police said. While the woman and her two-and-a-half-old son succumbed to their injuries in hospital, her husband and daughter have been hospitalised with injuries. The four […]
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NASA’s retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting, massive object likely formed from the collision of two neutron stars. “We looked for these signals in […]
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Assam: 450 hectares of land freed from encroachers, says Lakhimpur SP B.M. Rajkhowa
After the administration in Assam’s Lakhimpur on Tuesday began a massive eviction drive to clear around 500 hectares of forest land, Lakhimpur SP B.M. Rajkhowa said that around 450 hectares of land would be freed from the encroachers. The Superintendent of Police of Lakhimpur district B.M. Rajkhowa said that the eviction drive is underway and going on peacefully. […]
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Piyush Goyal highlights India’s remarkable economic transformation, huge potential at Nasdaq
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, who is on a four-day visit to New York, New Jersey and Washington on Monday (local time) highlighted India’s remarkable economic transformation and huge potential at the business roundtable organized by US-India Business Council at Nasdaq, New York. “At the business roundtable […]
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DGCA seeks report on incident of Go First flight ‘leaving behind 50 passengers’
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Tuesday ordered a detailed report on an alleged incident in which a Go First Airways flight took off from Bengaluru, leaving behind more than 50 passengers at Bangalore Airport. “We have sought a report and shall take stringent action against those responsible,” a senior DGCA official told. He […]
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J-K: CRPF provides training to VDG in Rajouri in wake of recent attack on civilians
In view of the terror attacks on civilians in the district on January 1, the central reserve police force (CRPF) along with the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday morning provided weapons training to the village defence guards (VDG) at the Kandi area of Rajouri district. The CRPF and Jammu […]
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Joint security team destroys large-scale opium cultivation in Manipur’s Noney
A joint team of Assam Rifles, state police and forest department have destroyed four lakh Opium Poppy plants which were planted in four hectares of forest land in Manipur’s Noney district, the forces said on Tuesday. Srikona Battalion of Headquarter 21 Sector Assam Rifles, under the aegis of Headquarter Inspector General Assam Rifles(East), […]
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Delhi: Bus rams pavemenrt dwellers, five injured
As many as five people, including three women, living on a pavement were injured by a cluster bus that lost control, officials informed on Tuesday. The cluster bus went out of gear near Delhi’s Rohtak Road Sarai Rohilla railway station, an official said. The injured were identified as Kela devi, Sunita, Aarti and Aryan. […]
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President Droupadi Murmu arrives in Indore for Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday arrived in Indore on Tuesday to attend the valedictory session of the 17th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention. Governor of Madhya Pradesh Mangubhai Patel and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan received President Murmu at the Indore airport. The convention was inaugurated on Tuesday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who also released a commemorative […]
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Indian flier from Addis Ababa held at Mumbai airport with 2.8 kg cocaine
Mumbai Airport Customs said on Tuesday that it arrested an Indian passenger, who was allegedly honey-trapped into smuggling 2.8 kg cocaine, valued at Rs 28.10 crores. The 49-year-old passenger was arrested on January 6 and the cocaine was concealed in cloth samples that he was carrying to Delhi, the Mumbai […]
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Uttarakhand: MoS Ajay Bhatt reaches Joshimath, holds discussions with officials
Minister of State (MoS) for Defence Ajay Bhatt on Tuesday reached Uttarakhand’s Joshimath town, where cracks have developed in buildings, roads among others in the wake of land subsidence and planned demolition is scheduled later in the day. Bhatt held discussions with the administrative officials at the army base and […]
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Assam: Eviction drive to clear 500 hectares of forest land in Lakhimpur
The administration in Assam’s Lakhimpur on Tuesday began a massive eviction drive to clear around 500 hectares of forest land in the Pabho reserve forest in the district. Heavy security has been deployed in the area and the district administration seen to be using excavators and tractors for the operation. Meanwhile, many families who encroached on the forest […]