Day: July 18, 2019

Meat shop owner shot dead in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh

10:31 pm July 18, 2019

New Delhi: A 34-year-old man was shot dead allegedly by a person known to him in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh area, police said on Thursday. The victim was identified as Saleem Qureshi, a resident of Nangloi, they added. According to a senior police officer, Qureshi, who used to run a meat shop at Punjabi Bagh, […]

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BHU team unearths 4000-yr-old crafts village in Varanasi

TN to set up Tamil lab in Banaras Hindu University

10:29 pm July 18, 2019

Chennai: A language lab will be set up in the Banaras Hindu University to teach Tamil quickly and easily to speakers of other languages, Minister for Culture and Tamil Official Language K Pandiarajan announced in the Assembly. The minister said Rs 9.60 lakh will be allotted for the purpose. The government will provide for tuition […]

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ASI assaulted in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh

Main suspect in UP shootout arrested

10:26 pm July 18, 2019

Sonbhadra/Lucknow: The police Thursday arrested the village headman whose henchmen opened fire, killing 10 people when villagers in Sonbhadra district tried to stop them from taking possession of a disputed piece of land, police said. With main suspect Yagya Dutt’s arrest, the number of those held after Wednesday’s shootout in Ubha village has risen to […]

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Delhi man stabs himself with knife after argument with family

Man sets trap to avenge wife’s infidelity, three killed

10:21 pm July 18, 2019

Maheshtala (WB): Three persons were electrocuted to death and six others suffered burn injuries, when a man laid live electrical wire outside his neighbour’s house to take revenge against a man who had eloped with his wife, police said Thursday. The incident took place at Maheshtala in South 24 Parganas district on Wednesday night, the […]

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Team co-led by Indian scientists solve 100-year-old mystery of how malaria affects brain

Japanese Encephalitis toll in Assam rises to 97

10:17 pm July 18, 2019

Guwahati: The Japanese Encephalitis toll in Assam since the beginning of this month rose to 97, with three more deaths reported on Thursday, a National Health Mission (NHM) bulletin said here. The number of JE-positive cases increased to 426 as 20 new ones were registered, the NHM bulletin said. On Thursday, one death each was […]

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