Day: December 17, 2019

15-yr-old girl abducted, raped by three youths in UP

‘Over 10,000 cases of rape in MP in almost two years’

10:47 pm December 17, 2019

Bhopal: More than 10,000 cases of rape have been reported in Madhya Pradesh between January 1, 2018 and November 20, 2019, the Legislative Assembly was told on Tuesday. In a written reply, Home Minister Bala Bachchan stated that the total 10,279 cases of rape have been reported (to the police) in Madhya Pradesh between January […]

Linking Citizenship bill with NRC most unfortunate

10:43 pm December 17, 2019

New Delhi: Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday termed the linking of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) with the NRC (National Register of Citizens) as the ‘most unfortunate’ which is aimed at creating fear among the people. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) seeks to provide citizenship on preferential basis to members of Hindu, Sikh, […]

Guj: 70-year-old bridge collapses, no casualties

9:32 pm December 17, 2019

Morbi: A 70-year-old bridge connecting Malia town of Gujarat’s Morbi district with Jamnagar district collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday but nobody was injured in the incident, an official said. There was no movement of traffic when the bridge, built over a rivulet near Amran village, collapsed, executive engineer of the state road and […]

Age-old rainwater harvesting tech improved to make lives better in arid Rajasthan

9:27 pm December 17, 2019

Jodhpur (Rajasthan): The lives of most of the 1.5 crore population of arid western Rajasthan have changed for the better after an age-old method of rainwater harvesting has been improved and employed there effectively, an official said here on Tuesday. The ‘tanka’ storage system – the method of collecting rainwater from a catchment area and […]

Emergency mock exercise at Guwahati Airport

Flight ops, railway services resume in Guwahati

9:15 pm December 17, 2019

Guwahati: Flight operations and railway services resumed in Guwahati on Tuesday, in a major relief to hundreds of stranded passengers, as the city limps back to normalcy after days of violent protests over the citizenship law. Flights to and from the Dibrugarh airport is also operating as per schedule, officials said. “Trains, including some intercity […]