INDIA

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Sarbananda Sonowal takes charge as AYUSH minister

10:24 pm July 11, 2021

New Delhi: Former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal took charge as the country’s new AYUSH minister on Sunday. Inducted into the Union Cabinet in a major revamp on Wednesday, Sonowal has also been given the charge of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways. “Interacted with officials of @moayush as we take on the responsibility […]

Mentally challenged woman ‘raped’ in Kerala, five held

10:17 pm July 11, 2021

Kozhikode(Ker): A 21-year-old mentally challenged woman here was allegedly sexually assaulted thrice in a span of one year by some people under the pretext of helping her, police said. Five people have been arrested so far in connection with three separate incidents of ‘rape’, they said. The first incident occurred around 5 months back and […]

Delhi resident shot dead in Ghaziabad

10:13 pm July 11, 2021

Ghaziabad (UP): A thirty-year-old man was allegedly shot dead by two motorcycle-borne persons here, police said on Sunday. Police were informed by a passerby that a man was lying in an injured condition on a road in Sahibabad area, Deputy Superintendent of Police Alok Dubey said. A police team reached the spot and took the […]

India’s first cryptogamic garden opens in Dehradun

10:10 pm July 11, 2021

Dehradun: India’s first cryptogamic garden housing nearly 50 species of lichens, ferns and fungi was inaugurated in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun district on Sunday. Located in the district’s Chakrata town, the garden was inaugurated by social activist Anoop Nautiyal. Around 50 species have been grown in the garden at Deoban in Chakrata at a commanding height of […]

Stan Swamy’s death in custody can’t be jusitified: Raut

10:06 pm July 11, 2021

Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the death of Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case accused Jesuit priest Stan Swamy in custody cannot be justified even if Maoists are “more dangerous than Kashmiri separatists”. In his weekly column Rokhthok in the party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut wondered whether India’s foundation was so weak that an […]