Day: February 22, 2021

R-Day violence: Man who climbed Red Fort tomb arrested

9:50 pm February 22, 2021

New Delhi: A29-year-old man who allegedly climbed one of the tombs of the Red Fort during the violence in Delhi on Republic day has been arrested, police said on Monday. Jaspreet Singh is one of the associates of Maninder Singh, who was arrested last Tuesday for allegedly swinging swords with the intent of ”motivating” and ”energising” the protesters at the historic monument. […]

IIT-Kharagpur researchers turn Odisha steel plant dumpsites into greenbelt

7:53 pm February 22, 2021

New Delhi: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have transformed Odisha’s steel plants’ dumpsites into greenbelts using traditional Indian organic components and Japanese afforestation techniques. According to the team, a drive through the Dhenkanal region of Odisha will give one the chance to witness the vast stretches of green canopy and vegetation developed by them on what was once industrial dumpsites. The transformation to a […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Suspect in California drive-by accused in Bay Area slaying

7:47 pm February 22, 2021

Antioch: The suspect in a drive-by shooting that wounded a firefighter and a paramedic in California is also accused in the slaying of a man found shot to death in a home. Now authorities are searching for the suspect’s child and the child’s mother, who they say could be in danger. Darryon Williams, 26, was arrested in Richmond after a […]

UP govt make provision of Rs 1,175 cr for metro rail projets

7:44 pm February 22, 2021

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has made a provision of Rs 1,175 crores in the state budget presented in the assembly on Monday for different metro rail projects. There is a provision of Rs 597 crore for the Kanpur metro rail project in the budget presented by Finance Minister Suresh Khanna. A target for starting the trial run of the first […]

Prime accused in sensational Odisha gang-rape case nabbed after over two decades

6:40 pm February 22, 2021

Bhubaneswar: The prime accused in the sensational gang-rape case involving the estranged wife of an IFS officer that led to the resignation of then Odisha chief minister JB Patnaik in 1999 was nabbed from Maharashtra, police said on Monday. Bibekananda Biswal alias Biban was held from Aamby Valley in Lonavala in Maharashtra, announced Bhubaneswar- Cuttack’s Commissioner of Police S Sarangi. Biban, the prime accused in the case, […]