Day: January 25, 2021

16 white crocodiles spotted in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika

9:15 pm January 25, 2021

Kendrapara (Odisha): Sixteen white crocodiles have been sighted in the brackish water bodies of Odisha’s Bhitarkanika National Park, the country’s lone habitation for albino estuarine crocodiles, as per the latest census report released on Monday. The crocodile population in Bhitarkanika has swollen to 1,768 from 95 four decades ago, the report said. There were only […]

Farmers gear up for tractor parade on R-Day

9:08 pm January 25, 2021

New Delhi: Farmers at Delhi’s three protest sites — Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur border points — were busy with their last minute preparations on Monday ahead of their much-anticipated tractor parade on January 26. They said one of the major highlights of the parade on Tuesday will be the ‘jhankis’ (tableaux) that will be led […]

ED attaches over 3,800 acres of land in TN

8:55 pm January 25, 2021

New Delhi: The ED has attached 3,850 acres of land worth Rs 207 crore in various cities of Tamil Nadu as part of a money-laundering probe against a group of firms that allegedly cheated investors in the guise of land allotment, the central agency said on Monday. A total of 1,081 parcels of land, located […]

Maha CM inaugurates Patripool bridge in Kalyan

8:47 pm January 25, 2021

Thane: In a veiled attack on the BJP, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said several state-related projects were pending with Central agencies, as he inaugurated the reconstructed Patri Pool bridge, which connects Kalyan to Dombivli in Thane district, via video conferencing. Thackeray alleged the Opposition was putting spanner in development works and accusing […]

Schoolgirl found dead in Kolkata’s Bangur

4:50 pm January 25, 2021

Kolkata: The body of a schoolgirl was found in a pool of blood in northeast Kolkata’s Bangur area, police said on Monday. It is suspected that the teenaged girl, a resident of Lake Town, died by suicide after jumping off a multistoried building in Bangur Block A where the body was found on Sunday evening, […]