Day: July 19, 2021

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

Delhi based Ladli Foundation selected for ‘National Youth Award’

11:29 pm July 19, 2021

New Delhi: Ladli Foundation Trust, a grassroots nonprofit organization, has been selected for National Youth Award for year 2018-19 (organization category), conferred by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. The organization is broadly recognized for its innovative initiatives for empowering lakhs of underprivileged people, uneducated females and males as well as persons with disabilities (PWDs) […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Waterlogging, traffic jams across Delhi after rains; man drowns in flooded underpass

11:21 pm July 19, 2021

New Delhi: Incessant rainfall in the city on Monday morning led to waterlogging and traffic snarls on several road stretches, including ITO, Ring Road and Mathura Road, while a person drowned in a waterlogged rail underpass in Pul Prahladpur while clicking selfies. The 27-year-old victim, Ravi Chautala, had gone in the flooded underpass apparently to […]

Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens

UP infant dies in Valley; family refuses autopsy

11:16 pm July 19, 2021

Aditya Vikram Singh/ALLAHABAD: A tourist family from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh declined the request of police to go for a postmortem after an 11-months old baby died in Pahalgam hotel, they were staying in, in the Kashmir valley, the other day. Police sources told Democratic Accent that a 15-member family from Prayagraj had arrived in […]

HM’s remark against custodial torture, a welcome move

11:11 pm July 19, 2021

Aditya Vikram Singh/New Delhi: The Union home minister Amit Shah’s recent pronouncement that the days of third-degree torture are gone is extraordinarily welcome. His announcement is as much a signal to the security forces to lay off this practice as it is an acknowledgment about something that everyone from the Supreme Court to the subaltern […]