Day: September 21, 2019

Doha bound flight returns to Chennai after smoke warning

6:17 pm September 21, 2019

Chennai: A Doha bound Indigo flight carrying 121 passengers on Saturday returned to the airport here, about 40 minutes after its departure due to technical issues, officials said. As soon as the cargo smoke warning trigger was activated, the pilot got the nod of authorities to return and safely landed the aircraft at the airport […]

CBI teams continue operations to locate Rajeev Kumar

6:14 pm September 21, 2019

Kolkata: CBI sleuths kept up their efforts Saturday to locate top West Bengal police officer Rajeev Kumar who has been skipping summons of the probe agency in connection with the multi-crore Saradha deposit default scam. Teams of the special crime branch of CBI visited the office of the CID at Bhabani Bhavan as well as […]

Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh reaches out to locals in south Kashmir

Army commander reaches out to locals in south Kashmir

4:09 pm September 21, 2019

Jammu: Northern Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh has reached out to the locals in south Kashmir, considered to be the hotbed of militancy, with a message that the army and the government are working towards restoring peace and ensuring overall development of the region. During the interaction with a select group of community leaders […]

Demonstrators march in Hong Kong in new weekend of protest

3:58 pm September 21, 2019

Hong Kong: Protesters marched through an outlying district of Hong Kong on Saturday in a renewed outpouring of grievances against the Chinese territory’s government. The march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun on Hong Kong’s northwest was relatively small compared with previous weekends. There was no violence, in contrast to previous protests that included […]

Grief in Uttarakhand slum after hooch tragedy

3:39 pm September 21, 2019

Dehradun: Pathariya Peer basti in the city is cloaked in an uneasy silence, a day after six persons died in the slum colony after consuming illicit liquor. The silence is broken at times only by loud wails of the relatives and acquaintances who mourn those killed in the tragedy. The slum residents are visiting the […]