Uttarakhand, 3/2: There were no potholes on the road where cricketer Rishabh Pant’s car met with a near-fatal accident, a National Highways Authority of India official said on Monday. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, after meeting the cricketer at a hospital in Dehradun on Sunday, had said Pant told him that his…
Chandigarh, 2/1: A bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot after an unexploded bomb was found a few hundred metres away from the helipad used by Punjab and Haryana chief ministers here on Monday, officials said. The bomb was found in a mango garden on the Nayagaon-Kansal T-point, which is about a kilometre away…
Kyiv, 2/1: Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve attack on their quarters in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk province. Footage posted online showed a building purported to be a vocational college in the town of Makiivka, twin city of the regional…
Mumbai, 2/1: Circulation of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in the country continues to pose a challenge even after the 2016 demonetisation, whose one of the key objectives was to eradicate counterfeiting of notes. According to report of the National Crime Control Bureau (NCRB), FICN with the face value of Rs 245.33 crore has been…
New Delhi, 2/1: Justice B V Nagarathna of the Supreme Court, who gave a dissenting verdict on demonetisation on Monday, said the scrapping of the whole series of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes had to be done through a legislation and not through a gazette notification as Parliament cannot be left aloof in…
New Delhi, 2/1: The Delhi government on Monday sought the immediate dismissal of Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V K Saxena in view of the brutal death of a 20-year-old woman, who was killed after being dragged by a car for several kilometres in Sultanpuri’s Kanjhawala area. “I could not sleep in the night thinking…
Sao Paulo, 2/1: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office Sunday for a third term as Brazil’s president, in a ceremony snubbed by outgoing leader Jair Bolsonaro, underlining the deep divisions the veteran leftist inherits. The 77-year-old ex-metalworker, who previously led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, took the oath of office before Congress, vowing to…
AP, 2/1: Three women were killed and several others were injured on Sunday near here when people rushed to receive gifts leading to a stampede at a Telugu Desam Party programme following a public meeting, the government said. The incident comes just three days after the death of eight people during a similar…
Rajouri, 1/1: Two civilians were killed and four others injured in a suspected terrorist attack in a village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir Sunday evening, officials said. Additional Director General of Police, Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh said two “armed men” opened fire on civilians at upper Dangri village, about eight kilometres…
Dubai, 1/1: Dubai ended its 30 per cent tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom on Sunday and made its required liquor licenses free to obtain, ending a long-standing source of revenue for its ruling family to apparently further boost its tourism to the emirate. The sudden New Year’s Day announcement, made by Dubai’s two…
