New Delhi, 16/6: Delhi Water Minister Atishi on Monday wrote a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora, addressing water shortage issue in the national capital. In the letter, she requested deployment of police personnel to patrol and protect major pipelines
Bhubaneswar, 15/6: In a major development, the much-awaited allotment of portfolios of ministers was approved by governor. As per the release from Raj Bhawan, the CM has retained Finance, Home, General Deputy Chief Minister, Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo has been allotted Agriculture & Energy; while Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida has been allocated Women &…
Narayanpur, 15/6: Eight Naxalites and a jawan of the Special Task Force (STF) were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Saturday, police said. Two other STF personnel sustained injuries in the incident, they said. A huge cache of weapons and other materials belonging to Naxalites were recovered from the encounter site, they…
Rome, 15/6: Narendra Modi seized a window to end his diplomatic purgatory with the US and Canada. The Indian prime minister arrived at the Group of Seven meetings bruised by disappointing election results and facing an outcry over a pair of assassination plots allegedly by its government. Yet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the host…
Bhubaneswar, 15/6: Over suspected cases of deaths in Manuspadar village of Kashipur, Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi has directed the State Health Department and Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) to enquire and find out the reasons for such cases and take all possible steps to bring the situation to normal. The Chief Minister…
Florida, 15/6: Partly made up of men moonlighting as cricketers when not doing their primary jobs, the USA team cleared the group stage of T20 World Cup in its very first attempt after its match against Ireland was called off here on Friday. Thanks to their wins over neighbours Canada and heavyweights Pakistan in their…
Bengaluru, 15/6: Bengaluru Police are likely to produce Darshan and the other arrested in the murder of 33-year-old Renukaswamy before the magistrate on Saturday. The six-day police custody of the arrested suspects will end on Sunday. Sources told DH that a decision on producing the suspects was yet to be taken. “Since the court would…
Bengaluru, 14/6: One person from Aland Taluk from Kalaburagi is one among the 45 Indians who lost their life in the Kuwait fire tragedy. The deceased has been identified as Vijay Kumar Prasanna (43) and his body is expected to reach Kalaburagi tomorrow. “We are coordinating with the Kochi Airport authorities. Once all the bodies…
Kashmir, 14/6: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of several terror incidents there, including an attack on a bus ferrying pilgrims, sources said. He also called a high-level meeting on June 16, to be attended by NSA Ajit Doval, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu…
New Delhi, 14/6: Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has accorded sanction to prosecute author Arundhati Roy and a former professor in Kashmir under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly making provocative speeches at an event here in 2010. The FIR against Roy and former Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain…
