Day: June 30, 2019

Priyanka attacks Modi on lack of empathy for Assam

Priyanka accuses Yogi govt in UP of muzzling media

11:39 pm June 30, 2019

New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accused the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday of muzzling the media. “Journalists are being held captive, questions are being curtailed, problems are being ignored. The full majority BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is turning away from people’s questions. The public knows it all. It will ask questions […]

‘Article 15’ screening resumes in Kanpur

11:36 pm June 30, 2019

Kanpur (UP): The screening of Bollywood film ‘Article 15’, which was stopped by fringe groups here on Friday, have resumed, police said on Sunday. The screening of the movie, which is based on the Badaun gang-rape incident in Uttar Pradesh and deals with caste discrimination, has started from Saturday at every cinema hall and multiplexes, […]

Pvt sector firms join hands with govt to combat climate change, sign key declaration

‘Save water’, appeals Modi in Mann ki Baat address amid crisis

11:26 pm June 30, 2019

New Delhi: At a time when water levels in India’s major reservoirs and river basins have fallen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pitched for conservation of rain water, saying there is a pressing need to make it a mass movement on the lines of the cleanliness drive. In his first address in the second […]

Fire breaks out at plastic factory in Delhi

11:22 pm June 30, 2019

New Delhi: A fire broke out at a plastic factory in outer Delhi’s Narela area on Sunday, officials said. According to the fire department, the information about the blaze was received at 8.31 pm and 22 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The factory was closed since it was Sunday and no casualty has […]

Uttarakhand High Court stays denotification of Shivalik Elephant Reserve

Over 9000 arrested for wildlife poaching between 2012-2018: Env Min

11:18 pm June 30, 2019

New Delhi: Over 9,000 people have been arrested for wildlife poaching across the country during 2012-2018, the Environment Ministry informed the Lok Sabha recently. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar was responding to a query in the Lower House on the number of people apprehended in poaching cases. “As per available records of the Wildlife Crime Control […]