Day: August 20, 2020

Man beaten to death by neighbour in Muzaffarnagar

8:32 pm August 20, 2020

Muzaffarnagar : A 25-year-old man was beaten to death allegedly after he entered his neighbour’s house in an inebriated condition here on Thursday, police said. Sanjay was returning home in an inebriated condition but entered the house of his neighbour Mangeram in Antwada village under Khatoli police station limits, they said. When Mangeram saw Sanjay […]

Two lakh jobs added in IT sector since 2019: Prasad

Make India global powerhouse for software products: IT minister to industry

8:28 pm August 20, 2020

New Delhi: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday exhorted the IT industry to leverage existing policies and the enabling ecosystem to position the country as a global powerhouse for software products by building innovative Made-in-India offerings. Citing the “extraordinary response” to grand challenges including developing of indigenous video conference solutions and apps, Prasad said that even amid […]

Over 1,200 people without masks fined in Noida, Greater Noida

UP bus hijack mastermind held after encounter with police, NSA to be slapped

8:25 pm August 20, 2020

Agra/Firozabad: The alleged mastermind behind the hijacking of a bus with 34 passengers on board was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police following an encounter in Firozabad district on Thursday, officials said. Agra Senior Superintendent of Police Babloo Kumar said the police will invoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against Pradeep Gupta alias Gudda for the “sensational and audacious” act once the case is […]

Kamala Harris scripts history as she accepts Democratic Party’s nomination for US vice-president

8:24 pm August 20, 2020

Washington: Kamala Harris, who scripted history in US politics as she became the first Indian-American and Black woman to get a major party’s vice presidential nomination, has assailed President Donald Trump’s “failure of leadership” that has cost “lives and livelihoods.” Introducing herself as the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants at the virtual Democratic National Convention on […]

COVID-19: Antibodies found in 27.7 pc of people in Punjab’s containment zones

8:12 pm August 20, 2020

Chandigarh: Antibodies against the COVID-19 infection have been found in 27.7 per cent of people in Punjab’s containment zones, according to the findings of a sero-survey. This was Punjab’s first exclusive survey and was conducted in five containment zones from August 1 to 17 among a systematically selected random sample population of 1,250 people. There […]