Day: September 21, 2019

Farmers protest at Noida-Delhi border in UP

Farmers from UP march towards Delhi with demands

2:08 pm September 21, 2019

Noida/New Delhi: Hundreds of farmers from Uttar Pradesh were on their way to Kisan Ghat in Delhi demanding pending sugarcane dues, loan waivers and cheap electricity, among others. The farmers who had stayed put in Noida on Friday were at Delhi Gate, on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border, around noon, causing obstruction in traffic along the route. […]

100 booked for violating Covid guidelines in J-K's Samba

Day 48: Restrictions lifted in most parts of Kashmir

2:00 pm September 21, 2019

Srinagar: Restrictions were lifted from most parts of Kashmir on Saturday, but remained in force in the Handwara area of Kupwara district as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order, officials said. Fresh restrictions were imposed in many parts of the Valley on Friday in view of apprehensions that vested interests might exploit the […]

Kerala’s backward hamlet eyes country’s first ‘literate tribalblock’ tag

1:57 pm September 21, 2019

Thiruvananthapuram: Attappady, one of the most backward tribal hamlets in Kerala, which was in the limelight for long for the wrong reasons– infant mortality, malnutrition, poverty and under development, is now slowly turning a new leaf. The settlement, located on the foothills of Nilgiri hills of Western Ghats in Palakkad district, is now on its […]

Road accidents claim over 150 lives on Yamuna Expressway in 2019, highest ever: Data

1:47 pm September 21, 2019

Noida (UP): The Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh witnessed over 150 deaths in road accidents this year so far, the maximum ever since it got operational in 2012, according to official data. The 165-km-long road stretch that connects Delhi and Agra has seen 357 accidents, injuries to at least 822 people and death of 145 […]

Kiara Advani joins Kartik Aaryan in ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’

1:42 pm September 21, 2019

Mumbai: Actor Kiara Advani has signed on to star in Anees Bazmee’s horror comedy “Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2” opposite Kartik Aaryan. The actor, last seen in the blockbuster “Kabir Singh”, said Akshay Kumar-starrer “Bhool Bhulaiyaa” was the first ever horror film she had watched and is a huge fan of the movie. “It’s super exciting to […]