Day: July 3, 2020

21 Pakistani Sikh pilgrims among 22 killed in train-bus collision

11:18 pm July 3, 2020

Lahore: At least 21 Pakistani Sikh pilgrims returning from Nankana Sahib were killed on Friday when the driver of the mini-bus they were travelling in reportedly tried to take a shortcut to avoid a railway crossing and rammed the vehicle into a passenger train in the country’s Punjab province, officials said. According to the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), which looks after the minority […]

‘Super spreader’ family infects 87 people in Odisha village

11:13 pm July 3, 2020

Bhubaneshwar: A family of three is being termed a COVID-19 “super spreader” in Odisha’s Rayagada district as it is being said to be the source of infection to 87 people in a village, a senior official said Friday. The family — a man, his wife and their daughter – had returned to their village, called […]

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

Man, his daughter killed by wife’s lover in Ghaziabad

11:11 pm July 3, 2020

Ghaziabad: A man has been arrested in Ghaziabad’s Sahibabad area for allegedly killing the husband and the nine-year-old daughter of a woman he had an affair with, police said on Friday. The incident happened on the intervening night of Thursday-Friday and the accused, Safeer, has been arrested, they said. The deceased man, Abdullah (38), was the maternal brother […]

SAD leader claims four Sikh women were forcibly converted to Islam in J&K

2 women, man held for honey-trapping businessman to extort money from him

11:04 pm July 3, 2020

New Delhi: Two women and a 26-year-old man have been arrested from east Delhi‘s Krishna Nagar area for allegedly honey-trapping a businessman to extort money from him, police said on Friday. The man has been identified as Afroz. All the three were residents of Delhi’s Rohtash Nagar, they said. On Thursday, a woman filed a […]

Influential US senator says America supports India against Chinese aggression

10:58 pm July 3, 2020

Washington DC: An influential American Senator on Friday said that the US stands with India against the Chinese aggression in eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control, commending the Indian government for the continued efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the boundary issue. Republican Senator Rick Scott, in a letter dated July 2 to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressed his condolences on the loss of lives […]