Day: May 15, 2020

Sahitya Akademi winner Debesh Roy no more

1:35 am May 15, 2020

Kolkata: Veteran Bengali author Debesh Roy, who was conferred the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel ‘Teesta Parer Brittanto’, died at a private hospital here on Thursday, his family members said. Roy was 84 and he is survived by his son. His wife had died earlier. He was admitted to the hospital near his residence […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Illegal distillery raided in Patiala

1:26 am May 15, 2020

Patiala: An illegal distillery-cum-liquor bottling plant was raided by a team of excise and police officials at Ghanaur in Patiala, police said on Thursday. It conducted the raid at an abandoned cold store near Rajpura on Wednesday, police said. Police said illicit liquor of different brands was being manufactured there. During the raid, the team […]

Man dies while saving buffalo from electric wire

1:20 am May 15, 2020

Noida (UP): A man out in the fields with his buffalo and its calf in Greater Noida died allegedly after coming in contact with an electric wire that fell on the bovine amid a dust storm, police said on Thursday. Hasan Mohammad was a resident of Atta Fatehpur and the incident took place in the […]

Freedom fighter Bhabani Charan Pattnaik dies at 98

1:16 am May 15, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Freedom fighter Bhabani Charan Pattnaik died here on Thursday at the age of 98, family sources said. Pattnaik was rushed to the Capital Hospital after he fainted at his Ashok Nagar residence and breathed his last during treatment. He is survived by two sons and three daughters, while his wife passed away long ago. […]

8-year-old girl donates savings to lockdown-hit poor

1:07 am May 15, 2020

Puducherry: An eight-year-old girl here has donated about Rs 25,000 of her savings to the poor who are struggling due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Dhiya, who dreams of becoming an IAS officer, has been saving up money to purchase a laptop, apparently to prepare for civil services exam, officials in the Collectorate here said. On […]

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