Day: August 9, 2020

Gehlot launches projects worth Rs 127.85 crore on World Tribal Day

10:39 pm August 9, 2020

Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday inaugurated and laid foundation stones of 41 projects worth Rs 127.85 crore, with a view to promote development in tribal areas of the state. Addressing people on ‘World Tribal Day’ via video conferencing from Jaisalmer, the chief minister said his government has taken every measure for the upliftment of the […]

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

DU online exams: Differently-abled students accuse university of being ‘discriminatory’

10:31 pm August 9, 2020

New Delhi : With the Delhi University (DU) all set to conduct online open-book exams for final-year students from Monday, differently-abled students said they will not be able to take the test and accused the university of being “exclusionary” and “discriminatory”. The Delhi High Court has given its nod to the DU to conduct the exams. Amid opposition from […]

UP: Missing man's body recovered from car found in canal

Ghaziabad: NDRF recovers bodies of two men from Ganga Canal

10:26 pm August 9, 2020

Ghaziabad: An NDRF team on Sunday recovered the bodies of two men from the Ganga Canal near here, two days after their vehicle fell into it and they drowned, police said. They have been identified as Ashish Dhyani and Vinod Kumar, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said. On Friday, the men, along with their friends Paramvir and […]

UN chief warns against criminal exploitation of COVID-19 recovery resources

6 Gulf Arab countries back extending UN arms embargo on Iran

10:18 pm August 9, 2020

Dubai: A six-nation bloc of Gulf Arab nations torn apart by internal strife endorsed on Sunday an extension of a United Nations arms embargo on Iran, just two months before it is set to expire. The Gulf Cooperation Council said it sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council backing an extension of an arms […]

11 members of Pak Hindu migrant family found dead in Jodhpur

9:00 pm August 9, 2020

Jodhpur: Eleven members of a family of Pakistan Hindu migrants were found dead at a farm in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur district on Sunday morning, police said. A member of the family, however, was found alive outside the hut they lived at Lodta village of the Dechu area, over 100 km away from Jodhpur city, an officer said. “But he claimed to have no idea about the […]