INDIA

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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 […]

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 […]

Adityanath visits Kalyan Singh at hospital

11:59 pm July 18, 2021

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday visited the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) to enquire about the health of former minister Kalyan Singh, the hospital said in a statement. Singh, 89, was admitted to the ICU of the hospital on the evening of July 4 due to an […]

Death toll in Mumbai rain fury climbs to 30: BMC

11:58 pm July 18, 2021

Mumbai: The toll in rain-related incidents in Mumbai reached 30 as incessant heavy downpour overnight during a major thunderstorm pummeled the Maharashtra capital, causing severe water-logging and traffic disruptions in the city on Sunday, officials said. In the Mahul area in suburban Chembur, 19 people died when a compound wall came crashing down on some […]