Day: January 17, 2021

Six-year-old girl rescued; kidnapper held in Noida

11:46 pm January 17, 2021

Noida: The police here on Sunday rescued a six-year-old girl who had gone missing two days back and arrested a woman who had allegedly kidnapped her, officials said. The accused had taken the girl to Delhi in order to push her into begging, they said. ”The girl lives with her family in Bhangel area. On Friday, they approached the […]

CBI arrests senior railway official, 2 others in bribery case

11:44 pm January 17, 2021

New Delhi: In its biggest bribe-trap case, the CBI arrested the chief administrative officer (construction) of the Northeast Frontier Railways on Sunday for allegedly receiving Rs one crore for granting favours in awarding lucrative contracts to a private company, officials said. Mahender Singh Chauhan, a 1985-batch Indian Railways Service of Engineer (IRSE) officer, was nabbed from Maligaon in Assam’s Guwahati, while two […]

Netanyahu's prospects bolstered amid Israel-Hamas fighting

Israel OKs hundreds of settlement homes in last-minute push

11:40 pm January 17, 2021

Jerusalem: Israeli authorities on Sunday advanced plans to build an additional 780 homes in West Bank settlements, an anti-settlement monitoring group said, in a last-minute surge of approvals before the friendly Trump administration leaves office later this week. Peace Now said that over 90 per cent of the homes lay deep inside the West Bank, which the Palestinians seek as the heartland […]

Farooq Abdullah says ‘can’t even kiss my wife’ because of pandemic , leaves audience in splits

11:38 pm January 17, 2021

Jammu: The audience at a book-release function here on Sunday burst into laughter when National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said he had not kissed his wife since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The octogenarian leader, who was candid and witty in his nearly-35-minute speech, said one is even afraid of a handshake or a hug in the current […]

Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dies at 81

11:32 pm January 17, 2021

Los Angeles: Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81. California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital. Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion […]

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