Day: February 9, 2021

Massage centre at Singhu to keep protesters going

11:39 pm February 9, 2021

New Delhi: The growing complaints of sore feet, stiff back or pain around the kneecap among the protesting farmers — especially the older ones — have led to opening of a makeshift massage centre at Singhu Border. Six plastic chairs, rugs and mats on the floor and a ”home-made” pain relief oil from Punjab are being used to help […]

Only Gujarat sent proposal to Centre under agri-market infra fund: Tomar

11:32 pm February 9, 2021

New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that only one state, Gujarat, has so far submitted a proposal for upgradation of agri-marketing infrastructure in 133 APMC mandis under the Rs 2,000-crore agri-market infrastructure fund. The government had in the Budget 2018-19 announced setting up of an Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund (AMIF) with a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore for developing […]

32-year-old woman stabbed to death in Delhi’s Kishangarh

11:29 pm February 9, 2021

New Delhi: A 32-year-old woman was stabbed to death in southwest Delhi’s Kishangarh area on Tuesday, police said here. The victim was identified as Tarannum, alias Heena, a resident of the area, they said. Information was received at Kishangarh police station from Fortis hospital at around 3 am that a woman having stab injury was declared brought dead, a senior police […]

UPSC declares results of civil services main exam

Civil service: SC takes note of Centre’s no to granting age relaxation

11:27 pm February 9, 2021

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday took note of Centre’s stand that it was against granting one-time relaxation on age limit to UPSC civil service aspirants including those who exhausted their last attempt in 2020 exam amid COVID-19 and asked a searching question on permitting lateral entry into bureaucracy from private sector. A bench headed by Justice A […]

Murder accused found hanging from tree

2:31 pm February 9, 2021

Sambhal (UP): The body of a murder accused was found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district on Tuesday morning, police said. Ramveer (45) was found hanging in Kel village in Gunnaur area, Superintendent of Police Chakresh Mishra said. Ramveer was named in an FIR at Islamnagar police station in Budaun for allegedly […]