Colombo: Renowned Hindi author Ganga Prasad Vimal and his two family members died in a road accident in southern Sri Lanka, the police said on Wednesday. The 80-year-old author was travelling along with his family in a van, which crashed into a container truck from behind on the Southern Expressway on Monday night, they said. […]
Read MoreGwalior: BJP leaders on Wednesday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his ancestral home here on his 95th birth anniversary. A group of Vajpayee’s admirers also paid tributes to him at his temple, located at Satyanarayan Ki Tekri here. Local BJP MP Vivek Shejwalkar and party workers reached Vajpayee’s ancestral home […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday took a quirky dig at the BJP, giving a spin on the Christmas song “jingle bells, jingle bells” with its own version — “Jumla bells, jumla bells”. The party also tweeted caricatures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Textiles Minister Smriti […]
Read MoreLucknow: Internet services, which had been suspended here last week amid widespread violent protest against the changes in citizenship law and the proposed creation of a National Register of Citizens, were restored on Wednesday, an official said. “Internet services have resumed in Lucknow,” District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash told PTI on Wednesday. Internet services in the […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Delhi witnessed a cold Christmas, with the minimum temperature settling at 6 degrees Celsius, the weather department said on Wednesday. The city witnessed moderate to dense fog in the morning. The maximum temperature settled at 12.7 degrees Celsius, nine notches below normal, officials said. They said a cold wave is likely to hit […]
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