Day: December 23, 2019

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu honours winners at 66th National Film Awards

7:49 pm December 23, 2019

New Delhi: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Monday presented the National Film Awards to this year’s winners with actors Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana and Keerthy Suresh receiving top honours. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was supposed to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the ceremony, skipped the event citing ill health. The 77-year-old actor will now […]

Soren rides a bicycle at home to celebrate JMM victory

7:41 pm December 23, 2019

Ranchi: A jubilant JMM working president Hemant Soren on Monday celebrated his party’s winning spree in the Jharkhand assembly polls by riding a bicycle at his home here. The counting of votes, has thrown up a clear mandate for the tribal party and its pre-poll allies – the Congress and RJD. Soren even gave a […]

Anti-CAA protests in Nizamabad

7:38 pm December 23, 2019

Hyderabad: Various organisations in Nizamabad district of Telangana on Monday staged protest meetings against the CAA and the proposed NRC, even as police foiled an attempt to hold a protest near Charminar in the city by taking 12 people into preventive custody. In Nizamabad, a protest meeting was organised under the aegis of different organisations […]

West Bengal governor shown black flags by JU students protesting CAA, NRC

7:34 pm December 23, 2019

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was shown black flags on Monday by a section of students at the Jadavpur University where he went to attend a meeting as its chancellor. The students, protesting against the governor’s stand on the proposed nationwide NRC and the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA, surrounded his car and shouted […]

Delhi Police receives over 2,000 PCR calls about bursting of crackers on Diwali night

Maharashtra teen injured after firecracker bursts inside mouth

7:26 pm December 23, 2019

Beed: A 19-year-old man was injured on Monday after a firecracker burst in his mouth on board a train in Parli in Maharashtra’s Parbhani district, 150 kilometres from here, railway police said. Sayyad Akram, a resident of Pathri in Parbhani, was in the train’s toilet when the firecracker went off, and he was found bleeding […]