Day: March 23, 2021

Lathmar Holi celebrated with fervour in Mathura

10:57 pm March 23, 2021

Mathura: Traditional Lathmar Holi was celebrated with fevour in Mathura’s Barsana on Tuesday amid splash of colours and festival songs. Celebrated a few days before Holi, Lathamar means playing with sticks. In the festival, menfolk try to smear women with colour, who traditionally protect themselves with lathis or sticks. Singing traditional songs like Faag Khelan […]

Woman among three held with drugs in J&K’s Reasi

10:42 pm March 23, 2021

Jammu: Three persons, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly possessing narcotic substance from Katra township of Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, police said on Tuesday. Radha, a widow who resides in the slums along a railway line in Katra, was arrested after nearly one kilogram of ganja was recovered from her possession, a police […]

Lovers found hanging from tree in Odisha

8:16 pm March 23, 2021

Phulbani: Police on Tuesday recovered bodies of a young man and a woman, suspected to be lovers, hanging in a tree in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, an officer said. The police was called after local people found the bodies hanging in the tree in Marshapadar forest near Bandhagarh under Phiringia Police Station limit, Shyam Sunder Rao, […]

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

Three IPS officer prematurely retired in UP

8:12 pm March 23, 2021

Lucknow: Three IPS officers have been prematurely retired in Uttar Pradesh, including the one who has been at loggerheads with the state government. An officer of the 1992 batch, Inspector General Amitabh Thakur, on Tuesday disclosed his retirement on Twitter, attaching a copy of the orders issued by the Union government. He was currently posted […]

Gusty winds bring mercury down in Delhi

8:10 pm March 23, 2021

New Delhi: Cloudy skies and gusty winds brought Delhi‘s maximum temperature down by a few notches on Tuesday, even as the minimum temperature rose to 21.5 degrees Celsius, highest this year so far. The maximum temperature settled at 29.6 degrees Celsius, a notch below the normal, the India Meteorological Department said. It was 33.6 degrees […]