Day: January 29, 2020

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Patole calls for ending malnutrition, empowering women

7:30 pm January 29, 2020

Mumbai: Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Nana Patole on Wednesday made a pitch for bringing down malnutrition, infant and maternal mortality, and called for empowering women. He was speaking at the inauguration of a workshop organised to mark the silver jubilee of the United Nation’s World Conference of Women held in Beijing, China in 1995. “There […]

Shaheen Bagh protest: Occupation of public ways not acceptable, says SC

Thousands take part in anti-CAA protest at Jantar Mantar

7:28 pm January 29, 2020

New Delhi: Thousands of people from northern states, including many who have been part of a sit-in at Shaheen Bagh, and student groups on Wednesday held a protest at Jantar Mantar here against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). “We want the government to roll back the alliance of CAA, NRC and NPR,” said Nadeem Khan, […]

Spot inspection with Mangaluru airport bomb case suspect continues

7:25 pm January 29, 2020

Mangaluru: The police team investigating the case of bomb planting at the international airport here on January 20, took suspect Aditya Rao to several places in the city where he had frequented in the past few months, police said on Wednesday. Police had earlier recovered a box from his bank locker at Udupi that contained […]

Low intensity earthquake hits J&K

7:22 pm January 29, 2020

Jammu: A low intensity earthquake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale, struck Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, the meteorological department said. Sonam Lotus, director of meteorological department, said the tremor was felt at 11.40 am and lasted for a few seconds. The epicentre of the quake was 10 km below the earth’s surface at latitutde […]

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

Two girls abducted, gang-raped in UP

7:12 pm January 29, 2020

Ballia: Two girls were allegedly abducted and gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, police said on Wednesday. The girls, aged 16 and 17, were allegedly abducted by Asif and Chunnu Qureshi of the same village on Saturday. Another accused, identified as Suraj Chauhan, helped them in confining the girls to an unknown place where they […]