Pilibhit, 26/12: Unfazed by the presence of people gathered on nearby rooftops to watch the spectacle, a tiger sat on top of a wall yawning and basking in the winter sun on Tuesday, before being rescued by forest officials in a village outside the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve.Unlike usual man-animal encounters, this tiger – not older…
New Delhi, 26/12: Rattled by the attacks on two merchant vessels, India on Tuesday sent out a strong message, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserting that the perpetrators of the incidents would be hunted down from the depths of the sea. Singh said that the Centre has taken cognisance of the incidents involving the drone…
New Delhi, 26/12: With six more cases of Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1, the number of infections of the new variant reported in the country have risen to 69, official sources said on Tuesday. Most of these patients are currently in home isolation and there was no increase in hospitalisation rates, they said.
Gaja, 26/12: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed, defying global calls for a ceasefire amid concerns the conflict could spread with U.S. and Iran-aligned forces again attacking each other. Netanyahu, who visited Israeli troops in northern Gaza on Monday, told lawmakers from his Likud Party…
Kolkata 26/12: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda arrived here in the early hours of Tuesday, a party leader said The two senior BJP leaders will assess the organisational preparedness in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls next year, he said. Shah and Nadda reached Kolkata airport…
Sonitpur, 26/12: An Adivasi woman on Sunday was attacked with sharp weapons and burnt to death for allegedly practicing witchcraft in Assam’s Sonitpur. The victim was a mother of three and police have arrested five people over the matter. They are all residents of the same village.
Bengaluru, 25/12: Karnataka has reported three Covid deaths and 34 cases attributed to JN.1, a new subvariant of the novel coronavirus, the health department announced on Monday. These are the first confirmed cases and deaths caused by the new virus strain that’s spreading fast and has been described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as…
Kashmir, 25/12: Amid ongoing anti-terror operations and allegations of the custodial deaths of three civilians, Army chief General Manoj Pande arrived in Jammu on Monday to review the prevailing security situation in Jammu and Kashmir. General Pande reached Jammu and later left for the Rajouri-Poonch sector to review the operational preparedness of the force and…
New Delhi, 25/12: The three criminal bills to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and the Evidence Act were on Monday enacted into law after President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent. An image showing the three bills getting the presidential nod.Credit: Rashtrapati Bhavan The Bharatiya Sakshya Sanhita, 2023, The…
Bhubaneswar, 25/12: The world famous Shri Jagannath Temple has been envisioned and conceptualised to render full proof security, better facilitation of the devotees, and crowd management measures. The Jagannath temple, the centre of faith for Hindus, draws thousands of devotees every day. In the post covid period, the daily footfall of devotees…
