Panaji, The Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a rare viral strain popularly known as ‘monkey fever‘, has claimed the life of a 60-year-old woman from Mauxi village in Goa, officials said on Monday. The victim from the village in North Goa, 50 km from Panaji, expired at the Goa Medical College Hospital located on the outskirts […]
New Delhi, Delhi Police on Monday arrested a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist from Mewat in Haryana and got his custody till February 1, officials said. Abdul Sami, a resident of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, was arrested from Nuh, the district headquarter of Mewat on the Delhi-Alwar highway, about 45 km from Gurgaon. “We arrested Abdul Sami […]
Kolkata/New Delhi, Stepping up its probe, a Kolkata Police team arrested a youth from Delhi in connection with the sensational hit-and-run case in which an IAF corporal was mowed down in the West Bengal capital. He was killed while supervising the Republic Day Parade rehearsal in the eastern metropolis last week. A Kolkata STF team […]
Hyderabad/New Delhi The protests over suicide of a Dalit research scholar rocked University of Hyderabad while police booked central minister Bandaru Dattatreya and three others for abetment of suicide and also for violations of the SC/ST act. A day after Rohith Vemula hanged himself in a university hostel room, protests broke out on the campus […]
Ahmedabad, After about four months in custody facing various charges, including that of sedition, Hardik Patel, the spearhead of the quota agitation by the Patel community in Gujarat, has expressed willingness to sit down for talks with the state government to break the logjam. In a quick response, the state government too agreed for talks […]
New Delhi, woman, alleging a “CNG scam” in the AAP government, threw ink at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday at a public gathering held here to mark the “success” of the odd-even traffic restriction scheme but missed him. Kejriwal, who was speaking at the Chhatrasal Stadium in north Delhi, remained unruffled. Police detained […]
Ramallah (Palestine), India was working for closer political interaction and deeper economic engagement with Palestine, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said here on Sunday “We have also started to put in motion the framework suggested by our president for the future of our partnership during his visit,” she said referring to President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit […]
Kolkata, The city police which issued a look-out notice against former RJD legislator Mohammad Sohrab and his two sons in connection with the hit-and-run case in which an Indian Air Force officer was killed, on Saturday claimed it was the younger son who was behind the wheels. While police had initially suspected Sohrab’s elder son […]
Washington, Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif as a “welcome sign” the US says it wants the two countries to continue to have a dialogue to fight terrorism. “We want them to continue to have a dialogue and to continue to look for ways to cooperate against a […]
Agartala, With a fresh outbreak of bird flu being reported in Tripura, the mass culling of more than 8,000 chicken and ducks began on Saturday in the western part of the state, officials said here. “We have started culling of chickens, ducks and other poultry birds today (Saturday) at the government-run animal farm at Gandhigram […]