INDIA

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Sensational Mirabai Chanu snatches silver at Tokyo Olympics

10:49 pm July 24, 2021

Tokyo: Mirabai Chanu ended India’s 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49kg category to open the country’s account here on Saturday. The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202kg (87kg+115kg) to better Karnam Malleswari’s bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. With this, she exorcised the ghosts […]

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

12:11 am July 24, 2021

New Delhi: Some Delhi-based Kashmiri journalists and over 25 people from the Kashmir Valley were selected as potential targets for surveillance between 2017 and mid-2019 by an yet unidentified government agency that is also believed to be a client of the Israeli company NSO Group, The Wire reported on Friday. The leaked list that has […]

Water enters Bhimashankar temple

12:08 am July 24, 2021

Pune: The `garbha gruha’ (sanctum) of the Bhimashankar temple in the district was flooded following incessant rain, local police said on Friday. Besides heavy rains, ongoing work by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) nearby also caused water-logging on Thursday morning but now the situation was normal, said inspector Satishkumar Gurav. The origin of the Bhima river, a tributary […]

Couple working as bonded labourer in Amritsar rescued

12:04 am July 24, 2021

Amritsar: A couple working as bonded labourers at a dairy shop in the district was rescued along with their three children by the district administration and the Bachpan Bachao Andolan NGO, police said Friday. During the raid Thursday at the Fatehpur village by the NGO and the district administration, 23-year-old Jasveer Singh’s hands were found tied with chains, the […]

Man kills alcoholic brother by pushing him into well

11:56 pm July 23, 2021

Nagpur: An alcoholic died after his elder brother and a kin allegedly pushed him into a well after tying a boulder around his waist in New Kamptee area of Nagpur, police said on Friday. The body of Ravi Kadu (38), a resident of Ghorpad village, was discovered on Friday morning, a New Kamptee police station official said. ”Ravi was an alcoholic whose wife […]