Day: February 8, 2021

Five arrested for extorting Rs 6.4 lakh from herb seller

11:49 pm February 8, 2021

Mumbai : Police have arrested five people,one of them facing more than 40 criminal cases, for allegedly extorting Rs 6.4 lakh from a herb seller in suburban Bandra, an official said on Monday. The Mumbai police crime branch Unit 3 in coordination with Unit 12 personnel made the arrests on Sunday, he said. The police […]

UN chief urges immediate cease-fire in Gaza

UN chief: Polluters must join ”net zero” club for climate

11:44 pm February 8, 2021

Berlin : Polluters must step up their commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a crucial climate summit in November, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday. Guterres said the global body’s ”central objective” this year is to get countries and companies responsible for 90 per cent of the world’s man-made emissions to set credible deadlines by when they […]

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

Punjab SC commission seeks intervention in labour rights activist case

11:41 pm February 8, 2021

Chandigarh: The Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes on Monday asked a state additional chief secretary to intervene in the case pertaining to labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, who was arrested on January 12 for allegedly gherao an industrial unit with others in Haryana’s Sonipat. Kaur, whose bail was denied by the Sonipat court early this month, […]

Uttarakhand disaster: Engineer from Srinagar missing

11:37 pm February 8, 2021

Srinagar: An engineer from Kashmir is among those missing following a glacier burst in Uttarakhand, officials said on Monday. Basharat Ahmad Zargar, a resident of Soura area of Srinagar and working as a private company civil engineer at the Rishi Ganga power project in Uttarakhand, went missing after the glacier burst on Sunday morning, the officials said. They said Zargar was still untraceable. ”We have taken up the […]

Additional police force withdrawn from Delhi borders

11:34 pm February 8, 2021

New Delhi: Police withdrew on Monday its additional force who were deployed across the borders in Delhi during the farmers’ tractor parade. According to an order issued by Special Commissioner of Police (Operation and Licensing) Muktesh Chander, as desired by the police commissioner, the entire staff will go back to their respective districts or units with effect from […]

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