Day: August 7, 2020

Sushant case: BJP MLA wants action against top cop

10:39 pm August 7, 2020

Mumbai: A BJP MLA on Friday demanded that Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singhbe sent on leave over the city police’s handling of the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case. In a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Atul Bhatkalkar, a local MLA, claimed that even 50 days after the actor’s alleged suicide on June […]

CSIT-IITR Lucknow inks pact with KIET to promote research & innovation

10:19 pm August 7, 2020

New Delhi: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Indian Institute of Toxicology and Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow signed the historic Memorandum of Understanding with KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad at its Lucknow office. This MoU has been signed to promote Electronics, Information Technology, Electronics Instrumentation and Pharmacy based Research & Development, thereby enabling eco system […]

Puducherry, Karnataka CMs express shock over plane crash

At least 3 killed after Air India plane skids during landing at Kozhikode airport

9:41 pm August 7, 2020

Kozhikode: An Air India Express plane carrying 184 passengers including 10 infants, which was coming from Dubai, skidded while landing at Karipur Airport in Kozhikode on Friday evening. Kondotty Police said that the Dubai-Kozhokode flight X1344, a Boeing 737, skidded during landing at Karipur airport at around 7.45 pm today. New Agency Reuters cited a […]

SC extends protection to TV anchor from coercive action in defamation cases

8:58 pm August 7, 2020

New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday extended the protection from any coercive action till August 31 to TV news anchor Amish Devgan in connection with the cases lodged over his alleged defamatory remark against Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti during a show telecast on June 15. A bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari […]

Three killed, two hurt as car rams into truck in Odisha

8:45 pm August 7, 2020

Jajpur: Three people were killed and two others suffered serious injuries after a car carrying five members of a family rammed into a stationary truck in Odisha’s Jajpur district early on Friday, a senior police officer said. All five were on their way to Medinipur in neighbouring West Bengal from Bhubaneswar, when the car, being […]