Day: September 21, 2020

Python on Mumbai highway causes traffic jam, rescued

8:04 pm September 21, 2020

Mumbai: A 10-feet-long python slithering across the Eastern Express Highway here caused a traffic jam on Monday morning, a police official said. According to the official, the reptile was spotted by motorists on a stretch of the highway at suburban Chunabhatti. Car drivers and motorcyclists stopped to look at the nearly 10-feet-long snake’s attempt to […]

Rupee rises by 7 paise to 73.38 in line with Asian peers

8:01 pm September 21, 2020

Mumbai: The rupee strengthened by 7 paise to close at 73.38 against the US dollar on Monday, extending its gains for the second day on the back of firm Asian currencies and weak crude oil prices. Forex dealers said inflows into Indian equities and firming Asian currencies against the dollar lent support to the local […]

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

Drug case: dancer, aide in police custody

7:58 pm September 21, 2020

Mangaluru: Dancer-choreographer Kishore Aman Shetty and Aqeel Nausheel, who were arrested on charges of drug dealing and consumption, have been remanded to police custody for seven days, police sources said on Monday. The two were produced before the judge at his residence on Sunday who ordered for seven days custody as sought by the police. […]

MP: IMD issues orange alert for 4 places, yellow for 15

7:54 pm September 21, 2020

Bhopal: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday forecast very heavy rainfall for Seoni, Mandla, Balaghat and Dindori districts in Madhya Pradesh and issued an orange alert. It issued a yellow alert for seven districts, including Jabalpur, for torrential rains, and a similar alert for lightning and thunderstorms in eight places, including Bhopal and Indore. […]

More people in WB working for al-Qaeda : NIA

7:52 pm September 21, 2020

Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has arrested six al-Qaeda terrorists from Murshidabad district of West Bengal, has found that more people in the state are working for the terror outfit, an official of the investigating agency said. On interrogating the six arrested from Murshidabad on Saturday, the NIA sleuths have unearthed the identities […]