Kashmir, 27/8: Just a day after a teacher in Uttar Pradesh was seen making her students beat a fellow Muslim kid, two teachers in the Kathua district of Jammu were booked for allegedly administering corporal punishment to a student for writing “Jai Shri Ram” on the blackboard. The incident was reported from the government higher…
Florida, 27/8: A man armed with a high-powered rifle and handgun killed three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday, before shooting himself, in what local law enforcement described as a racially motivated crime. “He hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told a press conference. The suspect, whom Waters described…
London, 27/8: Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries savaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in an excoriating resignation letter, as she finally quit her parliamentary seat weeks after first saying she would do so. Dorries, an ally of ex-premier Boris Johnson who who blames Sunak for his ouster last year, lashed out at the prime minister in…
Madrid, 26/8: FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee said on Saturday it has provisionally suspended Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish soccer federation, amid uproar after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup. The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee… has decided today to provisionally suspend Mr Luis Rubiales…
UP,26/8: Taking cognisance of the incident where a teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar was caught on camera asking her students to slap a Muslim classmate, the NCPCR has issued notice to the district Collector and SSP. The video, which had gone viral on the social media platforms, purportedly showed the teacher, identified as Tripta Tyagi,…
Kolkata, 26/8: An alleged Pakistan spy, who is a resident of Bihar, was arrested from Kolkata and sensitive documents were seized from his possession, a senior police officer said on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, Kolkata Police personnel nabbed the man from his residence in Howrah on Friday. Also Read:School jobs scam: CBI starts questioning…
Jaipur, 26/8: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday demanded the resignation of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over a ‘red diary’ which, he alleged, contained details of corruption and black deeds of the state government. Addressing a ‘Sahakar Kisan Sammelan’ in Gangapur City in the poll-bound state, Shah said the BJP-led central government raised…
Bhubaneswar, 26/8: Secretary to CM (5T) Sh V K Pandian, who is on a surprise visit to Gajapati, today reviewed the progress of the grievance petitions received during his last visit. The Collector apprised that total 789 grievance petitions were received during the visit of CMO in the month of May. Out of which…
New Delhi, 26/8: The touchdown point of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon would be named ‘Shiv Shakti’, and that of Chandrayaan-2 would be named ‘Tiranga’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his speech at ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru on Saturday. Shiv’ exemplifies the welfare of humanity, and ‘shakti’ enables us to achieve this,” Modi said. He…
Mumbai, 26/8: Veteran lyricist Dev Kohli passed away on Saturday, according to reports. He was 82 years old. He has written songs for more than 100 hit films including, ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’, ‘Bazigar’, ‘Judwa 2’, ‘Musafir’, ‘Shoot Out At Lokhandwala
