Islamabad, 20/6: Two teenage girls and a man were killed while a man’s nose and an ear were cut off “in the name of honour” in three separate incidents in Punjab province of Pakistan, police said on Tuesday. In the first incident in Sargodha district of Punjab, some 200 kilometres from Lahore, police said Naseer…
New Delhi, 20/6: The Centre on Tuesday appointed Swaminathan Janakiraman as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India for three years from the date of joining, according to an order seen by Reuters. Janakiraman, currently the managing director of State Bank of India, will succeed Mahesh Kumar Jain, whose tenure ends on June…
New Delhi, 20/6: Fresh from winning their maiden Super 1000 men’s doubles title, star Indian shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty achieved a career-best world number three in the latest BWF ranking issued on Tuesday. The Commonwealth Games gold medallists upstaged reigning world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia in straight games…
Singhbhum, 20/6:Five IEDs planted by members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) to target security personnel on the anti-Naxal operation were recovered from a forest in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said. In the course of combing operation, the security personnel detected the explosives in the forest near Tumbahaka village on Monday, Superintendent of Police, Ashutosh…
Washington DC, 19/6: The Joe Biden administration and the influential Indian-American community will roll out a red carpet welcome to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will arrive in the United States on Wednesday, for his first-ever state visit to the country after he assumed office in 2014. Modi, who will be in the…
Bhubaneswar, 19/6: As many as 269 officers today joined the state government in various departments. While 160 Odisha Education Service officers joined as Block Education Officers and Headmasters, 90 Social Security Service Officers joined as Head Masters and Block education Officers. 19 Odisha Information Service Officers joined the government as sub-Divisional information &…
New Delhi, 19/6: Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha was on Monday appointed as the new head of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), succeeding Samanth Goel who completes four years at the helm of the external spy agency this the month-end. According to the notice issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the…
Subarnapur, 19/6: There is a touching issue of losing one’s life because of a case of forcing a pregnant woman to go to a private nursing home just to increase her earnings. District Head Quarter Maternal and Child Hospital is newly built in a beautiful environment with all the modern medical equipments. Instead of providing…
J&K, 19/6: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has reportedly instructed Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) personnel to gather up to 2000-year-old history of villages along border areas manned by them. The instructions came during a ‘Chintan Shivir’ of IPS officers posted in CAPFs chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on June…
Washington DC, 19/6: After introducing the multi-device link feature, WhatsApp is planning to offer Virtual Reality (VR) experience on Meta’s Quest series VR headset in the near future. In the latest WhatsApp Android beta 2.23.13.6, the company has offered the Meta Quest option in the multi-device link feature, reported WABetaInfo, a WhatsApp community blog. …
