Day: February 5, 2020

Two mainstream political leaders released from detention in J-K

6:47 pm February 5, 2020

Srinagar: Senior politician and People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Lone and PDP leader Waheed Parra, close aide of detained former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, were released from preventive detention here on Wednesday, officials said. After the release of Lone and Parra, 13 political leaders now remain detained at the MLA hostel here which has been temporarily […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

PM pursuing agenda of ‘persecute and polarise” against Muslims: TMC in Lok Sabha

6:42 pm February 5, 2020

New Delhi: TMC member Saugata Roy on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of pursuing an agenda of “persecute and polarise” against Muslims as he attacked the Union government over its citizenship measures, including the CAA. Speaking in Lok Sabha during the debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, Roy also cited […]

Chinmayanand released on bail from Shahjahanpur jail

6:39 pm February 5, 2020

Shahjahanpur (UP): Former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand was released from Shahjahanpur prison on Wednesday, two days after being granted bail in the case of sexual abuse against a law student. Chinmayanand, 72, walked out of the district jail after the completion of legal formalities, prison superintendent Rakesh Kumar told PTI. The Allahabad High Court had […]

Tigress captured from defunct rubber factory in UP

‘Tigers must be punished for eating cows like humans’

6:27 pm February 5, 2020

Panaji: Even as the issue of tiger killings was discussed in the Assembly on Wednesday, NCP MLA Churchill Alemao said tigers should be “punished” for eating cows when humans are punished for the same. A tigress and three of her cubs were killed by five locals in Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary last month. The issue was […]

Two lakh jobs added in IT sector since 2019: Prasad

Convicts in Nirbhaya case to be hanged soon: Law Min

6:26 pm February 5, 2020

New Delhi: Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday assured Lok Sabha that convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case will be hanged soon. The culprits are trying to delay punishment which is not justified, he said. Several members especially women MPs across party lines raised the issue of attack on women in various parts of […]