Day: June 16, 2021

Mithun Chakraborty questioned by Kolkata Police over “inciteful speech”

10:58 pm June 16, 2021

Kolkata: Actor-turned-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty was on Wednesday questioned by the Kolkata Police in connection with a complaint accusing him of inciting post- poll violence in West Bengal through his speeches. The interrogation, which was held virtually, began at 10.20 am and lasted for 45 minutes, a senior police officer said. Officers of the Manicktala police station in the […]

Estonia says Russian planes violate its airspace, again

10:55 pm June 16, 2021

Helsinki: NATO member Estonia said Wednesday that two Russian fighter jets have violated its airspace, in what it claimed was the fourth such incident this year. Two Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighters entered the Baltic country’s airspace in the vicinity of Hiiumaa, a Baltic Sea island belonging to Estonia, without permission and spent less than one minute there Tuesday morning, Estonia’s military said in a statement. It added that […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

China, Russia release roadmap for building lunar space station as Biden, Putin meet in Geneva

10:42 pm June 16, 2021

Beijing: As US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held their first face-to-face summit in Geneva on Wednesday, China and Russia reaffirmed their close ties by releasing a roadmap for building a lunar space station. President Biden and his Russian counterpart Putin shook hands after arriving for the crucial summit on Wednesday, as relations between the two nations have plummeted to post-Cold War lows. The Biden-Putin summit is being viewed in Beijing […]

UP: Live-in partner arrested under anti-conversion law, rape charge

10:39 pm June 16, 2021

Noida: The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida on Wednesday arrested a 30-year-old woman’s live-in partner over allegations of rape and coercing her into changing her religion for marriage, officials said. The accused, who has been arrested by officials of the Bisrakh police station, has been booked under the Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, among others, they said. ”Accused Murtaza alias […]

Delhi riots: Court defers order on ‘immediate release’ of student activists for Thursday

10:32 pm June 16, 2021

New Delhi : A court here on Wednesday deferred its order on the immediate release of JNU students Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, who have been granted bail by the high court in the riots ‘conspiracy’ case, for Thursday. “Order could not be passed due to the heavy board of bail applications listed before the […]

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